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I have an xcf file that is comprised of a series of layers The first layer, called "background" holds an image that will be manipulated by the script. The other layers named 1,2,3,4 etc all hold masks that will be used to manipulate the background. The first step is to duplicate the "background" layer and rename the co...
I do not know if this is the right platform to ask this or not. When we upload our original work on a platform like Behance or Dribble should we use a watermark on those works? In past, I have been a victim of being robbed, my original ideas and works were snatched by Ethicless humans :@, So I need to know this. I spen...
Is it technically possible to make an SVG image of shapes with a shared border, or is there some technical limitation? I have this image of tessellations where a border is shared, and I'm wondering if it is actually possible to represent it with SVG? I have created this image with Inkscape bezier curve tool and "joine...
Can anybody help me with a macro? I want to save as PDF a multiple page facing page booklet from Corel draw but CorelDraw 2020 not save as Printer's spread mode. I want a macro what can arrange the pages in Printers spreads order. Thank you.
When drawing vector art in Illustrator, it is often the case that I wish to add highlights to a filled and stroked shape via a path with opacity. However, when I try to do this, the highlight bleeds into the outline of the shape, like this: Notice how the white stroke is on top of the outline of the circle. I want it ...
I'm talking about the background of this picture. For sure It's not a simple solid blue color. Is there any specific name for it?
Sometimes I want to test out new colours using online sources like https://coolors.co/palette/a41623-f85e00-ffb563-ffd29d-918450. Is there a way to quickly exchange the colours in my document? I already found swatches. But there you have to manually change each color individually. Is there such a feature like in Powerp...
I'm opening a client file that was created through a design agency in Indesign but the Tables are not formatting corectly - rather, just text boxes and nothing like the PDF the designers also sent over. Would be grateful if anyone could help with this! How it's looking: What it should be looking like:
I am trying to use the 3D effect on a path. However, adding the effect does not change the path visually and returns the message: '3D and Materials' effect currently works only on some object types and cannot apply as multiple instances. I assumed it was due to the path having the fill be a gradient, so I have tried ...
I wonder if this kind of cartoon style has a specific name. They were acquired from a specific artist, but I can't find similar assets that integrate well with them, and I even tried adjusting in Photoshop other images to fit this style, with no success. I noticed they use bright colors (but few of them to highlight th...
I am trying to draw some hair. But the shape layer acts weird in photoshop. Why does it become so pointy? How can I make it look natural Like I can adjust the limit in AI, is there any way I can do that in PS? Thank you.
I'd like to recreate one of these examples. Is it possible to do this with Adobe Illustrator? Another software?
On this answer on Stack Overflow I see this image, with portions of it blurred out for privacy/security reasons: How do I do this in GIMP?
Like this: I think this created with a specific program, because I've seen this 3d model at 10+ different site. I did research for 6 hours, but I can't find it.
I am following one tutorial. There the tutor draws a rollercoaster in Ai. I try to draw the same. my understanding is she used a pattern brush to draw the rollercoaster. (She didn't show tho how did she draw it) But my brush pattern shows a gap. I changed the setting and applied it to stroke but it does not go away. H...
First off, I'm not sure if this is even possible but considering how long Photoshop has been around and how "powerful" it is, I don't see why I can't. I'm trying to edit sprite sheets with graphics that have lots of transparency on them. I want to move a selection without having the marquee crop itself around image. So...
In Adobe Illustrator, I create a mesh grid, transform it to obtain an isometric perspective, and then apply an Envelope Distort from a mesh to obtain a bulge that resembles a bivariate (3D) Gaussian distribution (a.k.a. bell curve). Question: How can I remove or hide the "hidden lines", i.e., those that would be hidde...
Working with a small business that has recently migrated from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365. Their current font choice is Montserrat but this is a Google Font. Can anyone recommend a native Microsoft 365 font that is most similar to Montserrat? The desired outcome is to be able to create documents within Microsoft ...
So I created one banner in photoshop. I exported it as photoshop PDF last year. when I open that in acrobat it is perfect. but recently I have had to export it again but when I open it in acrobat the font is pixelated. PSD settings: 1754px X 2480px (300ppi) My export setting: Save as copy -> Adobe PDF -> Adobe PDF sett...
want to make a work with distortion in photoshop or illustrator.
I follow this tutorial, when I follow his steps, I get this result Meanwhile, here is his result I don't know what making this wrong, I am sure I follow his step by step to this point. Why can this be happening? Here is my file https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ncgBV8tIlI1O-FTxmqwnPgauUqte7U-/view?usp=sharing
I can't believe I have to post such stuff! I saw a lot of tutorials on how to drag layers from the main layer, after applying release to layer sequence! But no way I can do that! I tried several times! and I did this many times :@ Why do AI Layers doing such misbehavior to me? :@
I have downloaded Lato from Google Fonts, which is the original version. Lato was later extended to include more characters, and this version can be found at latofonts.com (among other locations). I've tried both of them in my website but they have completely different proportions. I prefer the original proportions but...
I have multiple layers (images of a playing card set) that are in different resolution and sizes. I would like to scale all these layers to have the same size. How can I do that? What I have tried: Using the link tool will scale them all proportinaly but I want them to be the same size. Scaling a layer and then using ...
I'm new to gimp and need to create many diagrams in gimp. I would like a quick way to draw a line that looks like a hose/pipe between pieces of equipment. It doesn't have to be perfect but quick to do and recognizable as a pipe/hose. The method I used to draw this was in QGIS, but it is very time consuming and memor...
The font here is the one I'm looking for, it looks similar to Chilopod, but not as round.
I was trying to create a data visualization with this style in illustrator by using these shapes from a chart data Obviously you can create this using blend tools and path, however, if it's from a chart or data, it should be as close as possible. I can manually adjust the shape but if its like 100-200 lines, it's goi...
I have been working on svg based design and I am having a problem with objects having infinitely small spaces between them after division by another object. This also gets rendered this way. I have always been solving it by increasing size of that object by moving it slightly, but this is far from an optimal solution. ...
I have an SVG file made by someone else, which I'd like to insert into Powerpoint such that its background (the white pixels in the image below) appears transparent and reveals the content in the layer below. Exporting the SVG as PNG in Inkscape 1.2.1 doesn't result in an image with transparent background. Likewise if ...
For instance lets say that I create a wallpaper featuring the names of the heroes from the video games Dota 2 or Smite and sell it. Is this a IP violation/infringement? Or it can be done without license from the IP holders?
I'm looking for the font for "Los Koopalings Han Raptado a la Princesa... Esto es obra de Bowser." Can you help me identify this font as well Update I know what one of them is now the second font shown is Pixel Arial 11.
I've just updated my Adobe Illustrator version to the 2023 version. Unfortunately by doing so I lost all my customized presets from the previous version a) can I restore them? b) what do I have to do to keep all presets when I am updating Illustrator next time? Can I save presets somewhere and import them later on? Man...
How can I get a straight line that starts thin and gets thicker? Of course I can achieve something with the width profiles -> see image above. It must also be possible to change the thickness of the line afterwards. it must be possible for the line to be even thicker at the beginning. I want it to increase in thicknes...
I am trying to prepare some vector drawings for publication, of which the outlet in question require the images to be submitted as TIFFs. I have been doing the images in Adobe Illustrator, but I've noticed that when I do this it tends to flatten the vector artwork into a single layer, but not completely flatten the art...
I'm trying to design a book (my own book) and I want edge to edge images. I added bleed to the design and when I convert it to PDF it looks like this: That's the corner between 4 pages (2 spreads) and a ribbon of image got moved to the previous page. Why is that? how do I avoid it? I imagine because of how print works...
Resizing Ellipse Select Tool using Ctrl+Shift or just using Shift have suddenly stopped working. Resize with Ctrl still works but is useless since I cannot get a perfect circle anymore. When I resize and then press Shift, it all of a sudden turns into a small selection area that does not move at all with the cursor mar...
I followed this tutorial on how to dock the toolbar options but it doesn't work for me on Windows 7. I'm using 2.10.32. Nothing happens when I drag the Tool Options into the Toolbox. I also cannot dock the Toobox on the left side. They all float around. How do I get them all docked automatically?
I have guides in Adobe Illustrator that I can't move. They look like this: I can't even select them. Any ideas why would that be? How do I move them? Guides are not locked:
I'm trying to learn perspective from a book and it says that 1 point perspective can only have 1 vanishing point, so I'm assuming that 2 points can have more than 2 vanishing points.
I have two images: One with a white background and one with a black background How can I remove the difference and replace it with transparency using GIMP?
In scientific publications, one often finds data plots. They are usually shown individually or in groups (two or three side by side, or in multi-row panels). Imagine one has full flexibility to design the plots for a specific publication to any horizontal/vertical size. What are good principles to decide on the followi...
I am trying to create a pie chart in which I am having two separate values. The bigger number The smaller number I am representing the bigger number as an outer circle radius, but the problem is I want to create the exact amount of it.
What is the best way to achieve this effect in Photoshop?
So, I'm a grad student trying to submit a scientific paper for publication. One requirement is that all graphs need to be .tiff with CMYK colors. Graphs were made in R and Inkscape, and that's pretty much everything I've ever used. Googled around a bit, but everyone just talks about photoshop. There's no way my univers...
I have no problem using the XML editor of Inkscape 1.2, since it's well-explained, but when I rename the pattern, the image I've imported goes blank, and also the list of patterns goes blank screenshot before screenshot after I'm using Windows 7 Can someone correct what I've done wrong...
I'm attempting to recreate these paintings digitally, but having a very difficult time achieving a similar gradient. I'm pretty new to illustrator, so I'm not sure if it's meant to be a gradient stretched across a grid, or if there are opacity masks involved. I know it's not possible to completely replicate the touches...
Is this possible? it seems I can only get a word count when specifically highlighting text. Is it possible to get the total word count for all of the text in an ID document?
I am trying to create a selection from a pattern. I created the pattern, then a fill layer, now I have this: What I am actually trying to achieve is to delete lines from a picture. The solution I imagined to do this is to create such a pattern, then create a selection from this pattern, and use the selection to delete...
What bevel and Emboss settings do I have to change to make the metal wings in the first image look like the wings in the second image. First Image Second Image
I'm trying to export 3 differently-sized images as PNGs in Figma. I'd like each image to be contained in the same sized box when exported. Some things I've tried: Adding a transparent rectangle with the size I want behind them. Adding a frame to each with the size I want. Using a group with the dimensions I want. Swit...
Is it okay for me to have artwork that has already been sold in my portfolio? Or does all of the work I put in my portfolio need to be for sale?
Is there any possibility to be able to write using alt + [] to make diactric marks (Polish), while having Adobe Illustrator in English language? Using for example alt + e only results in starting export command. After choosing Polish language in Characters options, shortcuts still not working. After choosing Polish in ...
My Photoshop is unable to open MP4 / video files. It either is stuck on Reading Media Forma or says: “Connecting to Dynamic Link server failed”. This issue occurs despite trying things like uninstalling all Adobe apps, then renaming the Adobe folders, and running the Creative Cloud Cleaner tool. Disabling GPU accelera...
Being completely new to Gimp, I can't seem to create something like this: Any direction on how to proceed? I started out with creating a circle with ellipse select tool, then filling it with brush stroke, and then proceeded to manually create those radial spikes using a brush with basic dynamics, with a fade. Spent ne...
I'm looking for the correct printing terms to describe the attached image of an early trading card. It seems to be some form of chromolithography. Does this sound correct? Are there more specific terms to describe the color stippled style? Thx.
I wish to create a watch index picture with Inkscape. I know I can use LPE's Rotate copies function, but somehow I can't find the correct values. I wish to rotate this little red rectangle at 30 degree: Facts: Image is in pixel unit everywhere. This bar is roughly 4*10px This bar's center point is exactly at x=225, y...
There are 9 characters are found with Left Half Circle in Unicode: Left Half Circle Left Half Circle With Dot Left Half Circle With Four Dots Left Half Circle With Three Dots Left Half Circle With Two Dots ◖ Left Half Black Circle ⨭ Plus Sign In Left Half Circle ⨴ Multiplication Sign In Left Half Circle ◐ Circle w...
I tried to search online for these texts (with all font ID sites recommended), but couldn't find the correct one, please help me. I don't have characters, only numbers, that's the hard part: , , Closer look: , , I think this is some basic font, but couldn't figured it out (yet).
Seems like a simple thing. If the answer exists elsewhere please help me with the link. There exists a possibility to scale an object or a group to a specific percentage. For this one can use e.g. Command/Ctrl+Shift+M to get transformation dialog and set scale there for X and Y dimensions. How to do the same thing for ...
I'm able to Shift+LMB on the eye icon of a layer to make it the only visible layer. The problem is that after I finish editing, there is no way to return to the individual visibility setting of each layer. Everything gets visible again when I do Shift+LMB including the layers that were previously not visible. The thing...
I'm using Gimp. I have a new layer with a cropped-to-content square image overlapping the original image and I would like to crop to selection. When I press Ctrl+A on the top layer and then choose Crop To Selection, it doesn't crop the whole canvass to square. I assume Ctrl+A does a select around the whole canvass inst...
I have InDesign 2022, v. 17.2 and it randomly started giving me this issue where my apostrophes are unretrievable, instead always displaying as ">" no matter what font I'm using. Help?
As a programmer, I was doing some Unicode testing and I figured out that the -character gives an awesome testing candidate. Now, 2 weeks later, I was wondering how these Unicode symbols would be used in practice. To me it seems that you can't write a music piece in a text editor that way, since you can't overlap the ch...
I have an irregular shape that is going to be printed. The printing requires a 0.125" bleed. The shape is created through a clipping mask to isolate the object from a background. How do I add a bleed around this shape so the design is not cut off?
Suppose I'm viewing some PDF, which contains math problems, in fullscreen mode. I'd like to create a textbox, or something similar, to write down my solutions. How would I go about doing so?
I wish to wrap text onto a circle. I know I could select first the circle, then the text, but I wish to put multiple text on the same circle, and align them evenly, to reach something similar like this: If I select multiple texts and the circle, Text/Put on Path doesn't do anything. Tried putting them one-by-one to th...
Inkscape has a function "Make a bitmap copy" that converts a selection of items in a document into a raster image, in place. Is there an equivalent function available in Adobe InDesign? What I am trying to achieve is to replace a complex vector image, which takes a long time to render in an exported PDF, by a rasterize...
I have a set of objects that are placed a certain way and now I want to rotate the whole arrangement. However, if I use the transform-handles it changes the orientation of the objects as well: How can I rotate the placement, while keeping the individual objects the right way up? (This question and answer was inspired ...
can anyone please identify the font name below
For a simple game design, I find myself needing numbers in a consistent style, all of them single point text objects. Importing a text file creates a single text frame, and that's not what I want. Is there a way to create a set amount of point text objects, with numerals increasing?
Again an SVG rendering bug, so here we go. What I did I wanted to combined (or add) an arrow at the bottom of the Mastodon brand/icon and kept everything else, basically. (Switching the letter was easy, e.g., and can be ignored here) However, this lead to some rendering bugs in some software. What I did in Inkscape was...
I am new to doing vector art with Photoshop and am encountering a weird problem. I've been using paths to define my shapes, and using free transform to mirror them and drag them over to look reflected across the middle of the canvas. This was working until recently; I dragged the duplicated path over and it somehow doe...
I have been abusing Photoshop and Layer Comps for DTP purposes for some years now, and it has been working remarkably well for me. I setup a Layer Comp per page and then export to PDF. Every now and then though, Photoshop does not agree, and exports jagged text. The root cause is not always clear. Sometimes it seems re...
Duplicate of this question since society of retro-computing closed it and recommended it to be moved here. In the good ol'days many computers limit their palettes to 4 to 6 colors instead of 8/16/256/4096 or more, thus dithering was applied to offer a larger collection of choices. While 8 or 16 colors can offer a relat...
I am designing the layout/look-and-feel of a website in Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 16) on Windows 10. The website I am designing will have a horizontal toolbar at the top that will allow the user to click on menus and select menu items (just like StackExchange has a horizontal toolbar at the top that allows to click ...
I have been having problems to getting rid of that outer blue border because it keeps on hiding other objects when inserting text, images, and shapes... please send help
I've always known the DPI (or PPI) value and the image size to have an inverse relationship, as the name implies. For instance, if I have a 500px wide image at 144 DPI, changing it to 72 DPI will increase its dimensions to 1000px wide. I can't recall exactly, but I believe this was my experience with Photoshop in the p...
I made this design for practice, a simple popup warning someone of something: Immediately, I could tell there was something wrong with it, but I couldn't quite place my finger on what. I shared this dilemma on another forum, where someone designed this: As soon as I saw it, I could tell this was a better design, but ...
When Image Tracing an image, I like to control the amount of colours exactly. As far as I know, older versions allowed this with the 'Colors' slider, enabling me to pick exactly the amount of colours I want in the tracing result. The newest version of Illustrator CC has significantly changed this behaviour. pIcking any...
Need to darken the lines on this drawing. I know nothing about editing or graphics. Eventually I need to make an svg of this drawing to make an acrylic embosser to use on fondant
Arabic fonts tend to appear smaller than Latin fonts because of the vertical space taken up by diacratics. This is especially noticeable when typesetting the Quran, which has much more of these than Standard Arabic. My question is, should I scale up the font, by say, about 1.2 or 1.4, in order to account for this? Or i...
I work on an automated embroidery pattern generator which processes the input image into a series of PDFs showing the color of each pixel mapped to a specific type of yarn. Processing the original "real-life" image works good, however I've noticed that significantly better results are obtained if the original image loo...
I can try to fill the empty space left manually after doing "reset with mesh" but I want this to be automatic. If I only use text, it will get extended without leaving empty space.
How can I add light to the star on the right hand side (2B) in order to achieve the desired result (2A - picture on the left)? How would you do that in Photoshop / Illustrator? Do you know good tutorials I can find about this topic on the internet? Thank you and kind regards, Silvan
I've got this image: Grayscale: https://www.bungie.net/common/destiny2_content/icons/d514846e22682a17cea973e666a80277.png Color: https://www.bungie.net/common/destiny2_content/icons/5fc6477c6e7f302b27819a276c13d72a.png I'd like to go from this rendered PNG into something black and white. For example, imagine that the "...
Is it actually possible to apply kerning between a greek letter, say delta, and a 'normal' letter, say 'A'? I can apply kerning between normal letters etc but can't manage to get a space between delta and 'A'. I created a new lookup table and subtable and added a delta and 'A' and added a value for the kerning. I selec...
I'm using Photoshop CS6. I want to create a grid layout template (something like this: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/683684779/collage-template-photoshop-square). I want the area for the content to be smart objects. How do I do that? Thanks in advance!
I have two images which I want to skew with the same amount. Is there a way I could 'copy' the skew from one image to the other one? I could do this by eye but this would not be an ideal solution. I want to go from this: to this, but with the exact same amount of skew.
I'm stuck with a task I initially thought should be very simple to complete. I would like to add some Christmassy clipart to a photo in GIMP and then print the photo or use it with an online card portal to send Christmas wishes. The reason I'm using GIMP is because it's truly free and Windows Paint can't seem to do on ...
I'm trying to add a custom glyph to a font. I've opened the font in FontForge. I go to Encoding > Add Encoding Slots > then press OK for adding 1 new slot. Then I add the glyph to the new slot. Unfortunately, when I try to write the glyph in my html, by say, 𐏱, or က, and open that html in the browser, the...
there are some answers here but it's not helping me, I have massive excessive white space. I am using Adobe Illustrator CS4. I think I have all the coordinates set properly but I'm a beginner. Here is the file: https://chordsandguitar.com/glossary-3.svg Any help is definitely appreciated. Thanks, Jacques
I'm working in the US and so always am using SWOP in my color settings in InDesign. The current project I've got will be printed in the EU and the printer wants Fogra for the PDF I deliver for print. My question is: in InDesign, should I change the Working Spaces color setting to Fogra from SWOP? Or is it better to jus...
How would I go about inserting a node on my current path at the projected intersection between an edge and a line segment continuation? To more fully explain what I'm after, I actually want to be able to separate that bottom horizontal segment from the vertical section. I'm wanting to create two paths that fully make t...
Is there a Photoshop keyboard shortcut for last brush used? The internet is tellig me that "Shift + ‘,’ or ‘.’ moves to the first/last brush in the list" but when I do this it changes the mode from 'Normal' to 'Luminosity'. EDIT - What seems to be happening is that after learning about using the comma and period keys f...
In order to print a lot of photos at scale, I create a huge canvas in GIMP and drag the images, then organize by hand. The result looks like this. I feel like GIMP could do its own organization of the layers by size better than I can by hand but maybe not. It could even rotate the images 90' if it were more efficient ...
I often see color themes using names of companies or products and wonder if there are potential legal issues. For example, there are blog themes out there which replicate the look of Edward Tufte’s books and website. They may even call it “tufte-light” or “tufte-dark.” I’ve seen charting packages use the color schemes ...
I have this infographic: As you (hopefully) can see, this is about traffic increase versus shifting in different modes of transportation. Now although the projection of car use in 2050 is decreased with 68% vs. 73%, the total traffic increases 111%. So in reallity there will be more cars on the road in 2050 Do you kno...
Right now, I am drawing realistic detailed human cartoon characters for my video game (For example, like XCOM Chimera’s character portraits, but full-body pictures), but am unhappy with how many hours it takes to create each character. I’ve looked up how to draw faster, and learned that to get faster, I need to practic...
I just wanted some advice. Basically I got given a brief at work requesting 3d mock-ups to be made of a trade show display for a building construction retailer. I was asked to provide 3 different 'activation' options these being oversized jenga, a cash grab booth and a whackamole game. The difficulty however is that I ...
I work in ARCHICAD, and the projects I'm working on can be transferred to another computer. Despite the fact that I seem to be saving everything correctly, when I open the project on another computer, it appears there without furniture. What could be the problem and how to solve it. I tried using both the same versions...

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