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Given 2D vector art of a cylinder with heavy bark texture, or a cube with very strong coarse gravel texture... I would like to be able to show each in different scenes but at different times of the day. However, I would like to do this without having to completely redraw the core shapes and their textures. I ... |
Student here. What size artboards do people use? If I'm designing a business card, is the idea that you make the artboard the exact same size as the card. Or do you leave a bit of room on the edge.
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I was working on a project and all of a sudden out of nowhere, all of my lines on the project turned black from white and I have had no success in changing them back to white again.
how do you change all the lines on a project to white?
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em space, Geviert: u+2003
en space, Halbgeviert: u+2002
⅓ em space, Drittelgeviert: u+2004
1/4 em space, Viertelgeviert: u+2005
1/5 em space, Fünftelgeviert: u+2009
1/6 em space, Sechstelgeviert: u+2006
1/8 em space, Achtelgeviert: u+200a
Or should I change 1/8 em space to u+2009, thin space, and use u+200a, hair spa... |
I would change the shape of this lasso selected arbitrary shape to rectangle. My garden is 24 x 42 m rectangle.
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Say, I've drawn an angled line segment in Inkscape, using Bezier Pen tool with Ctrl to snap angles, like this (where I have a 30 degree angle):
Here is an animated gif from How to snap line segments to specific angles in Inkscape? showing the technique:
So, then, let's say I've decided that the second/angled line seg... |
I’ve tried dafont, whatthefont and similar searches with no luck. This is for a decal across the front of a service truck for a local repair shop. I added a second image. I know it’s not the ideal images of the font, but it’s all I have to go on and I don’t have a lot of experience with locating fonts. I’m trying to he... |
I'm having trouble exporting a file to PDF. These bubbles are vectors, and when I print them directly from Illustrator, they are fine. However, when I convert them to a print-ready PDF, they end up being filled with white. Do you happen to know what the issue might be? I'm really at a loss.
enter image description here... |
where can i get a swatch panel in Photoshop similar to this old Macromedia color picker?
It is pretty similar to web safe color, but the order is some different.
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I'm new to printing illustrations from Illustrator. I have a project that needs to be printed to a large canvas (about 10ft x 8ft). I've got a lot of blur and grain effects, and I'd like these to print clearly.
Is it recommended to set the artboard dimensions to the actual print size in this case? The .ai file is hu... |
I have two objects, a rectangle and a flower pattern. They are overlapping. One is a group, the other is a rectangle. I would like to crop the flower pattern using the overlap of the two.
I'm getting the error: "The filter produced no results. Please select two overlapping paths"
They are clearly overlapped, so per... |
I am trying to make a 3D graphic using Illustrator. The graphic is supposed to consist of a cuboidal structure that is bent in some regions. I have been able to make the graphic by first making the 2D version using a rectangle (empty fill, 2 pt stroke, and then used the direct selection tool to use the rounded corner f... |
I'm trying to draw a Samtaegeuk symbol, which is essentially a yin-yang symbol with three swirls, each one a different colour.
I found the guide below for drawing the two-swirl Korean taegeuk, but I need something similar for the three-swirl one.
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I have a slide with many rectangles, and I'd like to paste a certain text in each of them, without individually pasting it in each one. If possible, formatted text.
I'd like to be able to select all of the rectangles and then simply click paste, but what happens is that instead it creates a new text box and pastes the ... |
I hate it when the paragraph ends with one word on the the last line. It's just not right for it to hang there by itself like that. Is there a way to force the last line to have at least 2 words?
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I've exported a GIF from photoshop but when I uploaded it to my behance platform the background isn't smooth? I use save for web but am not sure what preset I need to set it to so this doesn't happen. I just went with the default option which was provided.
*NOTE: This is for an animated GIF that flicks through pictures... |
I've been at this for nearly two days now, so it's time to ask for help.
Following the instructions on this Stack Overflow answer, How to convert TTF to FNT with Fontforge, I've tried saving my font as .fon instead of .fnt as instructed in the answer, but the file is always corrupt.
Windows doesn't understand .fnt file... |
I have this character I want to remove.
The interior of the character was generated using a known gradient map.
I can remove the character using content aware fill, but that does not take into account the information from the interior of the text. How can I reconstruct the background? Can the gradient map information... |
on illustrator
I would like to have only one outline that would be outside, I cannot merge otherwise the colors will not be different and I tried to create an outline by duplicating the shape behind but the problem is that it works behind the other shape which is on the right
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I'm frustrated by the fact that attempting to draw a marquee around objects while editing a component exits component editing mode, and thus you end up selecting the whole component, not the child elements you wanted to drag a marquee around.
Use case: you have created a component with multiple objects in it. Now you w... |
I have a design where I'd like to make:
the white rectangle layer makes all layers beneath it transparent (you can see the pink)
the stroke around the letters makes all layers beneath it transparent (see pink)
The extruded 3D portion of the letters makes all layers beneath it transparent (see pink)
Is there a type of... |
I am making a logo for my site. The site generator, Material for MkDocs, uses Material Design v1, so I want to use this design for consistency.
The idea of the logo is a cube, representing objects (think of object icon in object-oriented programing). If it can contain a sphere inside then it even illustrates the idea b... |
I am following a tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_BWN03vzsQ&list=PLG3dw9wUfgXN0D4aLjnsw40v3wECrruym&index=1&t=1128s
I have two sketches perpendicular to each other and am trying to create a loft but am getting the following error message: 'The loft would intersect itself.
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I would like to use the Shape Designer Tool, after deforming my shape, but this is what it shows me, it's possible? Convert or I don't know, after shape distort. THANKS.
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The comments of How does material design handles 3D object? have a consensus that one can design a logo in any style I want, regardless of the design of the UI, and the two will still play along with each other. Is that correct?
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The above model was originally a closed surface, but I removed its upper face. The red lines selected are its boundary. They are in the same plane.
Now I want to cap this hole. When I select its boundray edge and click 'Cap', I get 5 separate faces: One rectangle and four circles.
But what I want is one face with fou... |
Is it possible to have InDesign automatically move a title (with associated paragraph style) to the next page/column if it would otherwise appear on the last line of a page/column?
Many of my titles in a book I am working on end up being on the last line of the column/page. I want to have them automatically shifted to ... |
Now I am finished with my magazine for sighted people and want to get it ready to Braille for the blind. In the process, I need to change the footnotes to inline notes.
Is there a way to use GREP to select the footnote text and insert it as an inline note directly after the footnote reference? (See images below.)
There... |
So my screen background is white and the ruler is pixelated, but only for this one document. It also doesn't do it for other people in my team?
What could be the causes for these artifacts I am seeing?
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The colours in Adobe Illustrator have suddenly turned horrible, blue looks purple. I've been trying to search for help on the topic but everyone is able to click "Edit > Assign Profile" and change the settings in "Color Settings" but I can't.
I tried looking for someone else's Color Settings File (.csf) but couldn't fi... |
I'm designing a brochure to be printed, so I'm using CMYK color system to design the brochure.
I bring all the colors from this website: https://mixam.co.uk/support/cmykchart
So I don't pick colors randomly I only pick colors from the website I mentioned, because to my understanding the colors will look better when pri... |
I'm having this issue where I have a Photoshop Action work on one machine, but when I port it to another machine, it errors out halfway through because one of the layers are empty, or some other issue. I've reset preferences on both Photoshop instances. I've exported all brushes, patterns and actions from one machine, ... |
I want to add a outline, so I select the object and apply a stroke. But I want be able to stroke only the outer path not the internal (marked yellow). Is this even possible? tried using scissors and it makes the shape go haywire. Newbie here.
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I have hundreds of pictures that I simply drag and drop from my filesystem to gimp, when it adds them each as a separate layer. I then manually drag each one to a place I want it on a page, then what I want to do is just to take the blur tool and blur everything such that everything is one big blob / tapestry toget... |
I have added thee custom bullets to the Style Master Text placeholder, however I would like to have a choice to choose one of those three bullets on the fly. These come through a custom font.
This will be a template sent out across 50 employees and I don't want them to have to go the extra steps in selecting a custom b... |
This question asks about bulk changing a font in Inkscape: How to change font of all the text in an SVG image at once using inkscape?
That works, but only on text with a font selected. Text with the default "sans-serif" font is not changed by the Replace Font extension.
Is there a way to replace all use of the sans-ser... |
I am not an ophthalmologist and not very familiar with color cognitive biases or blindnesses, so there might be a false premise in the following question or in possible discussions.
I also don't ask the following question only about partially color blind people but about general audience. For example, I assume that Yel... |
I am trying to create an RGB approximation of the CIELAB color space wheel for a* and b*. I know that effectively the there needs to be an angular/conical gradient from a central point with Yellow (top Y-axis), Red (right X-axis), Blue (bottom Y-axis), and green (left X-axis), and neutral gray at the origin.
I have str... |
As a newbie to Illustrator, I'm struggling to find a way to reduce the "boldness" of the shape converted from text (see image). Is there a way to reduce the line thickness of this shape?
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I'm just moving from Blender to Maya, and have spent the last few hours trying to find a Maya equivalent to the blender fill tool. The fill tool works in the blender by selecting at least two vertices and pressing the F key to make an edge connecting the two vertices, or if you have three or more vertices it will creat... |
Irfanview is one of the most useful tools in my arsenal. Today, suddenly, its behavior changed, and I cannot figure out what happened.
Problem 1, In a batch file that I have been using for more than ten years, I have the line.
"C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view64" *.tif /info="irfanview_info.txt" /fullinfo
This comma... |
Hi everyone this is my first post so im just gonna tell the problem here :
Everytime i export this image either in PNG or Jpeg Format theres always a Line on the box i dont know where it come from but when i open the file at my illustrator there's no line in my pattern, i tried searching it on google but found no solu... |
I'm trying to make a document where on each page there is some text (e.g. name) that is updated based on a text file that contains the list of the desired text for each page. (Imagine a document with business cards and a text file with the names for the employees)
How can I make this in InDesign? I was trying to use a ... |
I am trying to identify the font below, It was something I made like 25 years ago, but I neither have the font nor remember what the font was that was used.
The G is quite unique. I tried "What the font" but while it came up with fonts, none of them were right.
Was hoping someone would be able to identify it for me.
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I have a project where I have a design on a checkered background. To create this, I have a layer for the design and a layer for the checker. However, when I remove part of the design to show the background behind it, I get some light-colored pixels along the border that I do not want.
I would like to make these light-c... |
I have a curvy shape- it is supposed to represent a river flowing from the distance.
I want there to be a border to the shape, but I want that border to thin into the distance. How can I accomplish this?
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I’m setting up some quick actions to improve my workflow, one is that I export a jpg of the artboard to a certain folder for each job I do.
ie. every job I do has a 3 folder directory, and my working file is in folder 2, but I export the jpg into folder 1. Is there a way (I believe might need to be scripted?) to tell t... |
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Matisse ITC is the Scream Queen of fonts, everything says "horror", and you can even pinpoint the source: ragged, slanted letters. So you can induce emotion with fonts.
I was wondering if I count find a "funny" font, the equivalent of canned laughter in sitcoms, and for starter just googled "funny" on a free fo... |
I select these two objects with the perspective selection took, then I go to the align menu and center them horizontally. The result is that the objects are no longer in perspective. You can see the top on is messed up. How do I center these two objects?
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I have the problem, that our indesign-templates for books which we created and improved since around 2016 have some settings in them that messes with the hyphenation (it is definitely not because of the paragraph styles because when I copy/paste a textframe including the styles in a new file, it hyphenates just fine.)
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I just took a Udemy crash course in ChatGPT and Midjourney. ChatGPT has this great ability to have an iterative conversation, like "Write a product description for a condenser microphone". Then after it generates some text, I can say, "Remove the nonsense about automatic background noise removal and make it more compel... |
I've changed the hotkey for "apply italics" to selected text to F2. For some reason, on some documents, that just stops working, even if I revert the shortcut to the default Shift+Control+I. I use the same fonts, same styles, same everything. Even if I create a new text box with basic paragraph and no character styles,... |
I'm working with a graphic with a relatively dark background. I've got some white text in the foreground, and I set the blend mode of the text layer to Soft Light to make it semi-transparent. I then duplicated that text layer a few times to create a little extra contrast and help the text stand out, and it looks great.... |
I have a 530 cm (=208 inches) document in illustrator and want to save it as PDF. Due to limitation of saving as PDF (maximum 200 inches=508 cm), is there any trick to do it for larger than 200 inches documents?
Thank you very much for your attention.
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Using photoshop pen tool to draw freehand shapes I cannot get the paint bucket to fill up to the boundary line what am I missing?
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I have several lines and arcs with different Strokes and want to scale down all objects similarly. When I select and Shift+Drag, all objects scaled down but lines Strokes. How can I change scale of the strokes?
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I have a 350-page document in which the text is formatted as [Basic Paragraph] and for which the justification is overridden. I need to remove paragraph overrides for [Basic Paragraph] leaving the character styles alone and leaving other paragraph styles alone.
I know I can click in each paragraph, then click [Basic Pa... |
I opened an svg in illustrator. My swatches panel was empty. I want it to have all the colors used in the svg. How do I do that?
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I made this in Medibang Paint on my iPhone, then used MediaConvert to send this over to my laptop, then edited it in krita, saved it as a PSD file, but when I opened it in Adobe Animate, I get this error:
"The import did not finish because an unknown error occurred"
So I sent the edited image back to my phone using Dis... |
As their names imply, an em dash should be 1 em wide and an en dash should be 1 en wide (1/2 em). But a lot of typefaces have the em dash not exactly 1 em wide and the en dash not exactly 1/2 wide. For example, these are the exact measurements I made of the EB Garamond typeface:
Dash
Width (em)
en
0.55
em
0.9... |
I made an action that create a new channel for masking purposes.
When I inspect the action, the "Make" command has an Opacity: property set to 50.
Image:
I want to know why this happens and if it will affect anything. Everything seems to work fine, but this just leaves me scratching my head.
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I teach an introductory graphic design course (PS, Illustrator, InDesign) for Media Arts students. I try hard to re-evaluate the material and grading criteria regularly so that I'm focusing on aspects they'll realistically run into doing the work and not just dogmatic repetition. Suffice it to say that I have historica... |
I am making display ads in InDesign.
The sizes are rather small (300x600, 300x250, 336x280, 720x900.
The images I placed and the text get pixelated on the PNG export.
When I export at 600 DPI and then scale down in Photoshop, the sharpness of the images is much better (but the process is incredibly more cumbersome).
Ca... |
In chroma.js, there are named color palletes or 'scales' such as Viridis, Spectral, RdYlBu (Red, Yellow, Blue), Reds, Greys, etc. I know some of these are based on Color Brewer. However, I do not see a look up table in the docs for these names with their colors. How can I know that such acronym would work such as "RdYl... |
Is there a truly-handrwriting monospaced font? Does it exist at all?
I know there is a Marista by Zephyris, but it is not what I really looking for. It still looks as a font produced by a typewriter, whereas I look for something produced by longhand, for example, something like The Girl Next Door or Gaegu.
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I'm trying to use an auto layout frame to contain a hamburger menu. The lines of the hamburger menu should be entirely contained within the auto layout frame.
I applied the following settings to the containing frame called "hamburger", which I thought would do what I want:
Spacing mode: space between
Strokes: included... |
Is it possible to align the arrowhead to the width of the stroke, rather than the vector point of the stroke when scaling the arrowhead? Like this example in use:
The first being the original arrowhead, at 100% scale.
The second one is scaled at 60%. It aligns to the stroke vector point.
The third one is what I'm won... |
What is the fastest way to make a new image out of the selection or selected layer?
I thought I remembered it was as easy as dragging it to the top where the tabs for different images is but can't remember.
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I've been re-learning InDesign (currently on MacOS Ventura 13.3.1) and created a test publication at 203 mm x 280mm using a real-life publication of that size as a guideline.
I'm using InDesign 17.4.
So far I've got two headers:
Parent Page A - "YOUR LOCAL NEWS MAGAZINE" "TO ADVERTISE PHONE 555-000-0000"
Parent Page B ... |
I have a photo I am trying to restore and it's badly faded, but also has splotchy stains on it, like it got wet in streaks while up against the glass of a frame. The faded part I can handle (more or less), but the splotchy stains, yuck. When I restore color to the image the stains turn purple (kind of cool... but not r... |
I have been looking for a way to make object ends sharp but can't find a decent method. So far I have discovered that I can make sharp ends on lines with strokes.
This is the object I want to use it on
This is what I want to apply on those circles
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I have a series of gifs with a delay of 0.02 secs, I want to change the delay to 2-2-1:
0.02
0.02
0.01
where every 3rd frame is 0.01 secs
I know I can edit specific frames
gifsicle -b original.gif -d50 "#0" "#1" -d100 "#2" "#3"
But not sure how to step through every 3rd frame to make it 0.01 secs
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Import to Blender .svg file created by Inkscape 1.22 for Macintosh Ventura OS -> Blender says it’s empty.
I've followed all the guidance given so far, namely, within Inkscape drag the .png source file into a blank Inkscape window, followed by:
Path -> Trace Bitmap
Then, Save As which produces a .svg file on my desktop
... |
I am working with a UV printer which requires my white colour on Photoshop to be on a spot channel. What is the correct way to convert a text layer into a spot channel? It seems that to make it spot, it becomes a selection which means I can no longer change the text.
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I need to join two lines but not by the ends but by the middle or by a middle and the end. I was looking around but I don't find how to do this
Somebody can help me?
Thanks
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In the new photoshop (May 2023) desktop app, in quick mask mode, drawing a gradient just ads a new gradient in the layers panel. How do I get a gradient on the quick mask channel?
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Looking to create a interactive PDF with Indesign making parent tabs and sub tabs while going to their page on the Indesign document. I have found different burger menu or navigation tab examples, but they only show one row/column.
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In InDesign: I originally have 3 documents that uses the same image references and have the same layout, but now the images are updated with different file names and locations.
I have updated one of the 3 documents.
Is there a hack/process/trick to apply the links from the updated document to the other two?
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I have a rasterized icon. As you can see, portions of it are blue. I also have an svg of this same icon but it is a compound shape and those individual pieces are not isolated; it is all black. So if i change the color, it changes the entire icon to that color. Is there an easy way to go about separating those pieces s... |
I'm trying to format a keyword(s) that comes after specific string. For example, I want to bold the words, "happy", "sad", and "angry", but only if they are preceded by "be" or "become". This is an example of what I expect to be bolded:
I am happy, but I will be angry soon. Though she is sad now, she will become happy... |
I've drawn a square, and I've use the "Round Corners" effect to give that square... well, round corners. Thing like a modern day app icon.
The problem is, I want to now manipulate this shape. But I can't because it's technically still a square with an applied effect. I want to render the round corners so it's actual po... |
I wanted to get a sanity check on the topic of logo design. I am a product designer and have done some client work in the past including the creation of some logos. I don't specialize in logo design but need your opinion on a certain matter.
Some background:
I am working at a startup and I am the only designer. Before ... |
I am trying to make minor edits to an existing PDF that I have imported into Inkscape, but am having issues with the rendering of the text from the PDF.
Letters that are combined in certain, such as 'i' disappear so 'fi' becomes 'f '.
Certain sections of text become random cases. This I can correct manually by changin... |
We have an old corporate PowerPoint template that we would like to innovate. The old template includes colors (the theme terminology calls these "Accents") that we are changing as well.
The old template has been in use for over a decade and there are countless slides built using it. When I would simply paste old slides... |
I have an image that's an application icon for a webapp. It's a pretty simple layout. The background is a rounded rectangle with a light grey to grey gradient.
When I export this image as an .svg, everything looks right EXCEPT the gradient looks like it's rotated 180°. It also looks a little darker. Any ideas what's go... |
I need to create an image in a format that can be burned on wood with a heat-pen. I was wondering if anyone is familiar with some functionality (free preferably online or in a own software) which can convert an image into a dotted image, where each dot is proportional in size to its position in the depth of the image. ... |
I am learning to create fonts in Kannada language. I made a image in "fontstruct" and exported to further modify in inkscape, as fontstruct does not support Kannada language.
I need to connect a thin line between two thick vertical lines (see image), like in "O" in the Times New Roman font or the font here - https://ww... |
How can I keep the width of a line the same when I resize it from the textbox in toolbar to a number that I need?
the lock icon does nothing in this case. This is very annoying :(
So I got this line with W = 15
As soon as I change the W, the H or width changes too (W from 15 to 100 in this case):
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I use photoshop 24.30 release . I cannot finf anywhere how to show last brushes used in photoshop . There is no preset panel any more `//
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I've been searching (on mobile) for a good user guide / tutorial on using XTags, I've got the manuals provided by Em Software but I was hoping for something more up-to-date and with visuals as well.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
(I'm absolutely new to indesign / xtags )
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Im trying to make a BMW logo. I have a white text label with 'BMW' as the text value and Im creating a 3D layer from "New 3D excrusion from selected layer"
Everything seems to function in 3D panel except for the spot lights and point lights. Specifically, I shine these lights on my BMW text and it is not lighting up at... |
I'm setting up an InDesign workflow that relies on dynamic import (links) of XML files. Say I will have many repeated <item> tags, each containing a substructure of text and tags for styling. All this content will flow in a main text frame, but I want to be able to extract some item or other and place it in a specific ... |
I've noticed that different SVG icon sets use different aspect ratios for the canvas (the viewBox on SVG).
Font Awesome seems to use: 7:8. (source)
Entypo use 5:4. (source)
Typicons and Bootstrap use 1:1. (source and source)
Is there any good reason to chose one over the other? What impact will it have when using it ... |
I want to draw a box around a group of vertices and then have them be selected. The "Direct Selection" tool can do this, but only if you start your click outside of a object. If you start your click inside of an object, it acts like the "Selection" tool and drags the clicked object.
I've tried searching for a hotkey ... |
I see this nowadays a lot. It's not just the picture being sharpened, but they added shadows too. In this NBA example, I am sure there couldn't be just one light bulb in the entire arena casting one shadow for each object. What software do people usually use to create this effect, Premiere Pro, Photoshop or something e... |
I am exporting articles from InDesign to XML to import it on our website.
Now I want to import the images. I put it in a tag in InDesign called "IMG". The standard output without XSL looks like this:
<Artikelbild href="file:///K:/customer/flyer/banana.jpg"></Artikelbild>
I need it like this:
<Artikelbild>banana.jpg</A... |
My website gives a user their IP address. It is very common for a user to copy their IP so they can paste it into an email or game or who knows what. On the mobile version, I want to make it so you can just touch the IP and it will prompt you to copy it. This seems like a good idea so I'll probably do it to the desktop... |
My goal is to batch process multiple PSD wall art mockups, replacing the smart objects within each mockup with several image files.
I modified someone’s script for my wall art mockup. My aims to automate this process by iterating through a list of image files and replacing the smart objects in the mockups accordingly. ... |
UPDATE: This issue has been resolved. The culprit was Acrobat DC Pro. I started noticing other issues when using the program. Did an uninstall/reinstall, and the colors are now printing perfectly.
Thank you to all who offered assistance.
When creating a design in Photoshop and saving as a PNG, the colors print as disp... |
I'm working on a low poly face in Inkscape 1.2.2.
But when I use the Voronoi diagram (Delaunay triangulation) I got this ugly result :
There are no duplicate dots.
How can I make this cleaner ?
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