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I'm trying to convert an image to a pixel art vector. I want the output to be Only with horizontal and vertical segments "―" "|" (no "╱"). I tried to use several online tools and the best solution for the moment is potrace.
Here is my progress :
Does someone know how can I achieve that ?
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I have a dynamic symbol and I want to change its fill color. Tutorials online show it being very easy: select the symbol, select a fill.
I found another question here where it wasn't working for the person, and the answer was to use a very specific black: dynamic symbols color change
I tried using the correct black, b... |
thanks in advance for any assistance regarding this issue
i am not scripting guy
i copied this script from somewhere i don't remember
var document = app.activeDocument;
var TextFrame = activeDocument.selection;
TextFrames = activeDocument.selection;
TextFrame.contents = "Hello friends, how are you.";
problem is
i need ... |
Occasionally, I see the initialism CRF used in the context of creating animated GIFs. Within the context of computer graphics and image compression, how do people define the term CRF?
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I'm trying to use emojis in Inkskape, but struggling to export them as their intended colorized objects. Inkscape shows them as black/white outlines, but the SVGs view correctly in a browser. Likely because the browser is showing the rendered font emoji.
Is there a way to get Inkscape to to properly export the emoji as... |
I believe it is a known best practice when working on small Figma files to have all Master components on a separate page or frame. There are a number of benefits to this, which I won't go into here, and if you don't want to go to the trouble of publishing a Library (for smaller, one-off projects), it's a good practice,... |
I'm building a e-commerce site as part of a project and to make it more catchy, wanted to add a dark mode to my site. And, also I'm open to suggestions on the colors used for light theme built currently.
Here are my site's screenshots loaded onto imgur as there are multiple images. (Note: SMH, Imgur says that you shoul... |
Whenever I try to implement an image change, I see the effect in preview but then the appearance of the image goes back to what it was. The change doesn't take effect. For example, I may increase the contrast with the curve adjustment tool but the change doesn't take effect.
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It's from a Casio electronic toy from the mid-nineties and I've been searching everywhere without any luck. If anyone has an idea of the name or why I can find it I'd be very grateful! Thanks in advance
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I'm working on creating an action with line extensions in a project, where I need to extend both ends of a line by a predetermined length. However, I'm encountering an issue where recording the action while extending the line does not produce the desired result.
Here's the step-by-step process I'm following:
Select th... |
Does there exist a font for all 149,186 characters in Unicode such that every character, or symbol, in the font has the same width as any other character?
It is very difficult to write python scripts in a mixture of English and georgian script without using a font where every letter has the same width as all other lett... |
So I've built this wonderful neon glow, and the best way to make it look realistic is to build up a bunch of layers like this as shown in my appearance tab. At least every video and tutorial that I've watched on making neon lines show it using this method. Either way, it look absolutely beautiful. The problem is I need... |
I have a PNG with transparent background. I want to draw a rectangle over it (the dashed rectangle) and then fill it with some color because for my text, I need to add a rectangle over some areas to show that they are part of a module.
I first tried to fill the rectangle and adjust the alpha, but as you can see it cove... |
Running Adobe InDesign 18.3 via Creative Cloud 5.10.0 in MacOS Ventura 13.4.
Once a file is closed in InDesign a new window opens with a 'welcome' salutation and displaying links to recent files, templates, etc. How can this 'welcome' screen be disabled or turned off? I have looked in preferences for a checkbox to togg... |
In Photoshop, I would like to have text within a shape, which displays the dimensions of the shape in mm.
I would like it to automatically adjust itself when I change the size of the shape.
Is this even possible? I don't know much about macros, and google doesn't understand my question (it thinks i want the size of the... |
Please provide me with a solution if someone has about why this is happening in Photoshop 2022.
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I am new to Photoshop and was trying to make an image cutout. I used a pen tool to make the selection around the image.
What I did is I gave a feather of 2px after making the selection.
Now that the image cutout is not looking that much good.
So I want to remove the feather I gave.
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I understand its gonna be a longshot in what im asking, however, is there any method that is going to remove the product background + add a banner overlay in an extremely easy method? It doesnt have to look good. Thank you!
*The banner is always the same and wont change
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Suppose I have these control points in Inkscape
I want to draw two curves, one is a quadratic bezier curve, the other is a cubic bezier curve.
We know they are:
q=(1-t)^2 * p0 + 2 * t * (1-t) * p1 + t^2 * p2
c=(1-t)^3 * p0 + 3 * t * (1-t)^2 * p1 + 3 * (1-t) * t^2 * p2 + t^3 p3
I used the Inkscape bezier tool, but the ... |
I want my documents to be able to be printed on A4 (210×297 mm) as well on Letter (8.5×11 inches) paper. (The "documents" are TIFF files with raster text on them. This is important to me. Being in Europe, I can send such a file to my friend in US, and he would be able to print it on Letter instead of A4, without any tr... |
What may be some effective dynamic QR code generators for digital or printing projects? I learned there may be two types of QR codes: static or dynamic to help understand the audience that is viewing the work.
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I want to color a picture realisticly but, since i am quite new to photoshop, i have no clue how i cloud achive this.
The goal is to paint the given sculpture in a realistic way but only to a certain amount beginning at the tip of its trunk.
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I’m trying to split up pie slices that I've cut from a circle to have a sort of stacked version similar to what you'd get from stacked bar graph, but each slice is a separate stack.
I can't figure out how to get accurate sizes of the stacks. For example, in the image provided, I’m looking to get a 60%,18%,13%,9% mix of... |
I'm looking forward to make this exact textured glass effect over any image, in Photoshop and Affinity both. My search returned different type of textured glass effects made by distortion filter. But I need exactly this one in example and this should be achievable in both Photoshop and Affinity.
The effect basically di... |
I am using Command + Shift + Alt + D to get Transform each on some items I want rotated by 180 degrees.
When the dialog is open, the items move away for some reason, though they have not been moved yet by me. See before & after:
If I hit OK to close the dialog box, they remain rotated but moved away (which I don't n... |
I have these low-fi prototypes, which I've drawn with pen on computer paper. After scanning them, though, the computer paper is not quite #FFFFFF
Is there a quick way to make the background as close to white as possible in Photoshop? Without selecting each individual area around the pen lines and brightening them 1 by... |
I'm looking for the correct terms to use when I'm going to request the printing of a poster for a white wall and I just want to have enough information for communicate to the designer/lithography company1.
Image
Links
source and original link
source
source
In my own words, these posters looks like vi... |
I have a layer that uses Addition mode since it made the nicest desired effect. When I duplicate it, it makes it even nicer. But when I merge the layers, it looks different as if the Addition mode disappears. I would basically want to flatten only those 2 layers to give me that final same effect on top of the other lay... |
https://vistria.com/
this site has the effect I am talking about
It's a watercolor illustration image and has a white dotted pattern on its ending and fewer dots on the center
I want to know how to make this effect.
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I have made several dozen very intricate original India ink drawings on heavy draft quality paper. On scanning, for refinement in Photoshop, a multitude of artifacts and pixellation show when zooming in along most boundaries. Also, not all curves are uniform, and require some slight correction.
Goals:
1st: To smooth a... |
I want to keep the cell size locked in my indesign table so I don't accidentally select the lines when trying to select an individual cell. The cells are so small that I have to zoom in very tight for the mouse courser to change to the type tool to select the cell for filling.
The reason why I need such small cells is ... |
I have to design a business card for my company.
The logos are in PNG format, the business card is going to be 90mm by 50mm and the logos are about 400px × 400px. I'm using cmyk colors to print the business card.
Would these logos cause a problem in terms of them getting blurried out and pixelated when printed? Or mayb... |
How To Pin Two Object in Cinema 4D r19 version, in cinema 4d r19 the pin material tag is not available. How to pin a object and texture without using pin material tag.
Thanks.
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I would like to add the drop shadow filter to my toolbar for quick access.
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I am not sure whether this post would be better suited for the Home Improvement stack exchange.
I am looking for sequences of info graphics for how to fold clothes, illustrating both of the following:
all the different steps required in folding, including configurations of the body positions during folding and presenc... |
In Gimp, I frequently fall into this trap where I've already done a very complicated selection and then realize that the Feather edges Radius was not set to the desired value yet and then I end up needing to do the complex selection again after adjusting the radius. In this simple example, I had the Feather edges Radiu... |
I'd like to know if there is a way to delete or modify the color swatches that show up under character style options > character color. Even better would be if I could connect these swatches to a CC Library.
Thank you.
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I'm working on a report in InDesign that's going to be printed. The brand's guidelines has an off-white (0,0,0,4) as one of their main colours and a greyish black as another one of their colours (0,0,0,90).
I've designed one page which has their black (0,0,0,90) background with white body copy on top. Am I right in thi... |
I'm in love with this pattern. Multiple gradients with a sort of CRT monitor-come-print control strip pattern, that also works in gradient.
https://www.hingston.net/work/soph-x-hingston-studio/
Can anyone suggest ways this sort of effect can be recreated – I'm less interested in the text and crosshair layers but would ... |
I want to reset the zoom tool, I don't want the rectangle to show.
I press Ctrl+space bar for the shortcut but instead of just dragging, the rectangle is showing up. How to fix this?
Before the tool was working correct.
Thanks
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I sometimes manually introduce a hyphen in a long word to split it across two lines. I do this when I justify a paragraph to keep the automatic spacing between words small.
Example without hyphen:
Example with hyphen:
In the last example the spacing of the first line is much smaller than in the first example and look... |
I see illustrations like this and wonder how to create something like this (see the example below). What tool should I use? Is there a lesson on how to create one?
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Hello I'm creating a business card
Size 90mm by 50mm
It's going to be printed by offset printing
And I am using CMYK color system for the colors, the color of the icons for example the values are like this:
C 93%
M 28%
Y 65%
K 11%
But I downloaded a vector file as shown in image, format EPS, what should I do to it befo... |
I'm using mac OS.
First I saved the svg to pdf. I got a single page pdf which is needed form me.
But later I edited it a bit, added somthing, the convertied pdf became 2 pages.
Does anyone know how to prevent multiple pages, and why this happens?
How can I get a singel page pdf?
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I tryed exposing for 10 minutes and my design doesn’t wash out. I used Emulsion for beginners. And I used a uv light and stand from Amazon.
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I'm currently a UX designer doing a favor for a loved one. They have a logo, I'll attach below, but I'm having trouble with the steps to convert this drawn image into a vector in illustator.
I haven't used illustrator since college (I work mostly in Figma), so what would seem simple enough is turning out to be much har... |
What is the 60 30 10 color rule for website?
How to choose the best color scheme for your website?
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Hi I am trying an image for website and mobile banner, for website it is going good but for mobile the image seems little incomplete.
I want to make the baby face complete for mobile view (portrait view)
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I want to match the rotation degree of the grey box to the angle of the black shape so it's neatly aligned. Both are vectors, but the black part is part of an (flattened) icon.
How do I achieve this in Figma (through plugins or natively)?
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I discovered that there are tracking dots printed on my paper called Machine Identification Code (MIC), also known as printer steganography, yellow dots, tracking dots or secret dots. These dots are interfering with my Minc Foil Applicator which foils everything that is toner printed. And since these dots get included ... |
In this multi-leveled hypaethral building model there is a problem that the columns of the second floor aren't directly situated on the columns of the first floor.
How to support the columns of the second floor while preserving the reduction in floor vicinity apparent in this model (the third floor is smaller than the... |
Lets say I have a texture that I want to make tillable/seamless:
What I normally do is cut it in half, move the halves to opposite sides, overlap them a fair bit so that the repeating but irregular pattern somewhat matches a few times. It leaves a seam:
But then I can use Photoshop’s Edit → Auto Blend Layers function... |
Photoshop
How to mirror a layer with a given shape e.g. a little cloud
about a diagonal path or like?
there is a path, that consists of a simple line, it is tilted 5 degree from vertical and I'd like use this path as mirroring axis
but the point is the mirroring with a tilted axis so if the path should be replaced with... |
I use a Linux machine as my daily driver for web development, and I would like to create Lottie animations.
I need to draw my shapes and use timeline / keyframing / tween tools. It can be using a full-fledged tool for the purpose, or by exporting from another graphics program such as Inkscape.
I have done some research... |
I want to draw a voltage spike and ringing. It normally looks like this (the red path):
I know I would most likely need to start by drawing a base line and then use the nodes to adjust it.
So I selected some nodes in the line and used the " make selected nodes smooth"... but it is utterly difficult to adjust it to lo... |
"New Swatch" is greyed out in Illustrator, but I'd like to use a color. Why is it greyed out?
My document color settings are RGB. Those are the only color settings I know about that might explain this feature.
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I'm drawing a shape in Illustrator with multiple sides. I'm trying to make side of the shape 10px wide.
How can I force each side of the shape to be 10px thick? Do I have to use a 10px wide shape as a guide?
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So, i have black and white graphics like this. I want to select everything within drawn square border precisely. In general border can be any shape, it's just a single color closed line loop. So, how can i achieve this?
I tried:
Square selection. I cant aim at the corners of the rectangle with my mouse precisely enou... |
I have following script that split image contents to specific layer:
// photoshopscripts.wordpress.com
////////////////////////////////////
// Split to Layers 1.0 //
// 2012, David Jensen //
// //
// With help from //
// pfaffenbichler and xbytor... |
I have no programming knowledge of JavaScript and following script created by ActionToJavascript:
Main Script
(i can't put here because my script is very long)
Now i want to put following subscripts to above script.
line 82: color_range_2_rectangular_selectionn.jsx
line 391: spl2lay.jsx
line 466: remv_color_range_selec... |
My question is can I refer and learn AutoCAD such that I can teach it to some engineering students, while I'm not a Engineering graduate?
I mean, I'm a Mathematics graduate, who has a good knowledge in computer science though. So, I feel that I can easily learn AutoCAD. But I'm not sure whether I'll be able to give goo... |
I tried to figure these things myself, but with no luck yet. Maybe because I'm a foreigner and a complexity of terminology mixes with a complexity of English.
And so the question. It consists of four parts.
What is the difference between typography (I know what typography is) and editorial design?
and between editori... |
I'm doing some QA work on the LibreOffice free software office suite w.r.t. vertical alignment behavior in some scenarios.
To illustrate a point, and perhaps to test a theory, I need to use two fonts which are identical, or very close to identical, and specifically with the same basic metrics (median, x-height etc.) - ... |
I wanted to use the Unicode characters:
U+2229 Intersection
U+222A Union
They are next to each other in the Unicode table.
Here's how they look on Stack Exchange:
∩∪
And here's what they look like in Arial 48pt in Microsoft Word (with 230% zoom):
It gets different, but not better IMHO, when I switch to Calibri:
Eve... |
Tldr; Help me identify elements/qualities in "I" that makes it seem belonged to this set
Greetings
I am a design enthusiast, and to understand typefaces, I started 36 days of type.
Objective
The theme/objective is to create a bulky font, (heavy shapes with consistent thin flourishes.)
Process / Problem
While early... |
How do you convert a complex design of shapes into a single path?
I have this design made from individual overlapping paths:
that I want to etch using a CNC machine. The machine can read an SVG file, but it doesn't do any complex boolean CSG logic. It simply follows the paths in the file. So if I give it the file gene... |
This began as a simple question but got confusing the more I thought about it. I hope somebody here can help me get it sorted.
I was preparing an image texture that was to serve a purpose similar to an albedo map, in that I wanted to preserve the hue but not the luminosity values. Each of the RGB channels was to be rep... |
Hi I wanna plot a curve in inkscape:
I need to add measures of the axis,
for x axis, [0, 0.5, 1]
for y axix, [0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1]
But I didn' find any place to add them.
Anyone knows how to do that?
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I was wondering if it is possible to replace the violet city skyline that appears om the background of this nice TV Studio Virtual Set as shown in this picture:
with the one I wanted:
Thank you for your feedback!
I use Gimp 2.10.30
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How would I go about blending straight lines into a curved object like this? I basically want to make a geometric feather with the lines beginning at the bottom vertex growing outwards towards the arc.
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I'm in the process of literally giving my old CV a new coat of paint. My old, working export settings for getting a clean pdf have been lost with the last re-installing of Windows.
It should not be as complicated as it seems, though and it looks like I am overlooking something basic.
The background is a linked and plac... |
I've moved to a new computer (mac to mac) and from a pervious version of InDesign. The file I've opened from the previous version opens fine.
But, even if the links are all in the same directory, they show up as blurry and pixelated.
InDesign does not show that they are missing, in the links panel, it shows as if they ... |
Is the size difference just too much? I am resizing on Photoshop and it is not working. My client says that makes no sense and I need to just "do it". I know you can lose quality when making something bigger but I have not heard of losing quality making something smaller.
To be more clear
-12"X12" needed to be sized do... |
Just wondering if you are able to add a hyperlink to a gif through photoshop? I created an email signature in photoshop and there is a website the client wants set up as a hyperlink if you click on it in their email signature.
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I created a pattern which is 4in x 1in.
I added it as a pattern.
In another layer, I draw a big rectangle and fill with the pattern.
Unfortunately, the fill in pattern was not the same position with pattern.
How to prevent the position running out.
Updated process of filling pattern issue
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What does this fill color mean? How did it come up? What is the use of it? There is no explanation in both The Fill and Stroke Dialog — Inkscape Beginners' Guide 1.0 documentation and Inkscape tutorial: Basic | Inkscape.
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I am a children's book designer writer. I am trying to format my first picture book for printing. I have worked the images in RGB, but thought I should convert in Affinity before sending to printing. I sent of for test print in RGB and they are super bright. I realize that was a photobook and won't be the same qual... |
It's my first attempt to making a staircase with a 3' curved knee wall as a railing. I am trying to remove a portion of the curved wall along a staircase to do this. I tried to use the solid tools subtract tool but nothing happens when I try to subtract the highlighted portion. Going to keep trying, and see if maybe th... |
For laser cutting, the stroke width of shapes must be very very thin. This makes it hard to see those lines in Illustrator.
I know that in Inkscape there is a setting for "visible hairlines" which thickens these lines when zoomed out so they are always visible.
Does Illustrator have a feature like this? If so, where ... |
I had worked on a series of designs for my friend's birthday. After giving them to him he asked about the legal consequences of using them. I hadn't thought about it and don't intend to want anything in return, but I was wondering what would happen in this case?
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I am trying to freeform gradient fill this implied curved teardrop. However, when I compound path the objects freeform gradient doesn't work (see image below). My next idea was to create an object that encompasses all these objects, freeform gradient that, and then use these objects as a clipping mask. While this works... |
This question is a rebirth of How do you animate SVG for the web? with little additions to modern realities.
My question is this - how to create complex animation for the web? By complex animation, I mean literally cartoon-level animation. I would like to make such an animation that would be tied to mouse scrolling, cl... |
I created a symbol in Inkscape, but I can't figure out how to modify it. I found a forum post where the answer was "it's not possible," but I don't believe this to be true. It would defeat the purpose of symbols.
How can one modify a symbol in Inkscape?
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I have been using AI for 25 years, and this problem only recently presented itself: when numerically scaling an object that has a stroke, the object ends up distorted.
I’ve found that the object’s size is measured to the outside edge of the stroke, not the center of it, which is perhaps causing the problem, but I canno... |
When I enable snapping I am unable to snap to the edges of the brush. For example:
Is There something that I am missing?
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I am new to PS and I have no experience with Graphic Design whatsoever.
Here is what I did:
I started with a white background layer. Created a new layer (1) and made a rectangle with the selection tool. I filled it with a gray color. Made a second layer (2) and drew another selection with the lasso tool. I filled it ag... |
I have a question about the "add to..." and "subtract from..." button options when using selection tools in Photoshop.
I understand a few things:
PS will make a new selection by default
Holding Shift or Alt/Opt will add to or remove from selection temporarily (as long as the modifier is held down)
One can click on the... |
I drew a shape using Bezier tool. Then selected all parts of the shape
and grouped them.
Then I selected fill. But the shape did not get filled properly.
What did I do wrong?
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I am facing a weird problem with Inkscape. It is a bit vague so please bear with me.
I created a drawing and exported it as PNG. I am not sure what I did next but a few lines disappeared. Of course the first thing I did was undo. Didn't work. As you can see clearly below the nodes are still there but lines are not visi... |
Let's say I have a JPG file 500x500px. I want to display it at 100x100px on my website.
Is there a point of reducing the file image resolution to 100x100px from a file size perspective, rather than just using CSS?
Is it just that it would not reduce if you kept the resolution the same, but you can get away with reducin... |
Saw this texture on a book in Amazon. Also twitter used this kinda texture on their designes. Wonder if there is specific name for it?
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Say I have one image A, and another B that is similar of the same perspective. I want to pick corresponding points on each image, so that it can scale, rotate, and skew image B so that those points are at the same coordinates as the ones in image A.
I know that in video editing, there are features to tag corresponding... |
Image in question
I am working on a book, and I've considered using AI art as I've used it a lot for my D&D campaign to display certain aspects, though I decided to use a real artist, but now I am unsure that I'm looking at real art. I have reason to believe it isn't AI, as the person I've commissioned seems legit, bu... |
I was asked to create a logo like this, in the image below:
I guess it's called a sign logo.
I was only requested to do the design.
I created logos for digital use before, but I didn't create a logo of this type before.
So my question is, is the whole process of creating a sign logo the same as the digital?
Only
you h... |
We are looking for a JSX script that can save a copy of the INDB as an IDML after save. The .indb is the main book document in Adobe InDesign CS5/6. The code would be roughly similar to the one below for INDD to IDML but in our case specific for the .indb book document itself. Other persons have asked this same questio... |
Background
I've designed a circuit board using Kicad and would like to put a texture onto all unused copper areas, simply for aesthetics.
So, instead of flooding the unused areas with a solid "copper pour" as usual I want to put a regular pattern on it.
In its newer versions (I'm using version 6) Kicad has the feature ... |
My illustrator is changing my cmyk colors and even swatches to random numbers, I was changing CMYK red to 98% yellow 97% magenta, and now worse, it changes cmyk black to 70%c, 67%m, 64%y, 74%k. Mind you, the swatch name is even "c=0 m=0 y=0 k=100", it's the very base swatch that comes with the default swatch pallete. I... |
I am totally new to javascript and extended script. I made a lot of tutorial to try to learn the right method and syntax but for several weeks I can't create the script I want.
The script is quite simple, it is a script which displays a GUI window (see attached image) and which asks to choose between two types of docum... |
It was a tie between SuperUser SE or this one - I feel like I would get better results here. My question is regarding the use of baselines, but keep in mind that I have a copy of MSOffice 2016 Home & Student.
I'm attempting to write VBA to perform individual character adjustment within my entire document:
Sub Randomize... |
This is possibly Adobe's most annoying idea yet.
(Photoshop version 24.5.0)
I don't know what to call it, but just look at this thing constantly encroaching on my space:
Essentially, these two large buttons that perform functions specific only to the recently introduced generative AI features... will follow you around... |
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