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I am a hobbyist graphic designer, looking to recreate part of this image, specifically the top half with the sun:
Right now, I made a crude copy using line segments, and filled them in with live paint bucket. However, I liked the look of the waves at the top, and was wondering how to get those with my image. So if any... |
Say a portrait is in color, and you duplicate it but in black-and-white. How to create an animation as .png using Gimp that cycles between the two images by gradually morphing them together in a loop back-and-forth? Online morphing editor doesn't have an option to save the output.
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I am making a figure which includes several subfigures with adobe illustrator. Some of the subfigures are copied & pasted from .pdf files, which include a figrue, respectively. However, after saving the combined figure and closing AI, sometimes when I reopen the figure, AI prompts "can't find the linked figure...", the... |
Gimp is not only free but is also lightweight and resources compared to Photoshop it feels like. Photoshop's long splash screen makes it feel resource heavy with alot of overhead. Is there technical proof of this?
Finally, why would anyone use Photoshop that's resource-heavy when Gimp can do about every post-processing... |
So I traced a series of shapes to give the impression of grocceries in a trolley. I first used the pen tool making intersecting lines and then using the shapebuilder tool filled with colour and removed overlapping paths.
I have encountered a problem however if I do want to tweak any shapes afterwards there are gaps. I ... |
I am about to embark on recreating a supermarket aisle. There is perspective involved and I am wondering whether using the perspective grid is the best tool I have never used it before. I am also wondering whether to use the 3D and Materials e.g extrude and bevel to create a 3 dimensional effect for the products on the... |
For some reason the perspective grid is not appearing when I click on the tool. I have even created a new document and selected the tool again and it still does not appear.
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I am editing a font in Font Forge but it seems there is no variable or property for word spacing. Applications all render this font with far too wide word spacing which led me to assume this was a variable in the font file itself, but I can't see it.
So, where is word spacing determined and how do I edit it?
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When exporting an animated gif in Gimp (each layer is a frame of the animation), you can set the speed between each frame (layer) as a fixed number, by default 100 milliseconds. How do you instead specify:
100 ms between layers 1 and 2
200 ms between layers 3 and 4
500 ms between layers 4 and 5
and so on? If not .gif... |
So I just want to fill that path with color but this happens. When it is not filled or in 0% opacity, it looks really normal, no doubled edges or things. I don't know how to fix that.
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I'm trying to space out these diagonal rows evenly, but I have failed to accomplish this, since they seem to take random positions every time I use either Horizontal Distribute Space or Horizontal Distribute Center. Below is an image of what I want evenly spaced.
...and below is my issue, and what keeps happening when... |
Just wondering if there is an illustrator cc equivalent of the gap tool in InDesign? I find myself constantly tweaking the gaps between objects and its a bit fiddly. My method is usually to duplicate and command+D to create more copies the same spacing but it would be good to have a tool I can drag spacing in and out t... |
When using the pen-tool in Adobe Illustrator, I often wish that to keep the same angle on the handle but adjust the the length, or vice versa and keep the same length while adjusting the angle. This becomes especially useful when working with short handles—relative to the length of its pair—as very small and often acci... |
Whenever I copy text from within Photoshop, I can only paste it onto a second text layer or into a layer's name. The text, however, cannot be pasted anywhere else, such as in a text document or another Adobe program. It's like Photoshop stores copied text inside an internal clipboard rather than using the Windows clipb... |
How do I know which optical size to use accordingly to pt/px size?
For example, Newsreader goes as low as "1" in the "optical size" axis in it's variable alternative. Does that mean I can use that version in a 1pt size? Or how does it works?
EDIT:
To elaborate further, I'm copying and pasting my comment because I belie... |
If i make transparent layer and inside draw circle with feathering then click Ctrl+Click on layer icon it then cut the pixels i will see that some feathered pixels are left on the layer.
Why Photoshop cannot select all pixels its been issue since as long as i remember prior CS6 and until now.
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In Illustrator 2019 CMD+G does not work to select all the colors.
I need to select all the separate colors and make them groups.
Does anyone have a script that would do this please?
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I created the image shown below by shooting ten-second long exposures of drifting clouds (contrail) and stacking them. (They are false color because I isolated them from the daylight sky to separate my concerns to the cloud drifting alone.)
Since each frame stacks using the brightest pixels per frame, we are left with... |
I'm currently digging into color calculations/ conversions and also work with DeltaE.
Although the mathematical way might be correct, how can I get a better "human accepted" difference?
Sounds weird, but check out these three examples:
Test one:
Color one:
L 92.05
A -7.57
B 65.76
Color two:
L 85.66
A -6.07
B 65.95
del... |
I would like to save some gradient fills to my (Adobe-)Library in Illustrator for use in other projects. When I select a graphic with a gradient fill I can only save the graphic to my Library, not the gradient fill as a swatch itself. I use Illustrator CC (26.0.3)
What do I do wrong or is there a work-around? Thanks
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Need shortcut or menu option to split document putting layers as separate documents?
I know for channels tab if you click on tab properties there's option "split channels" that does it for channels.
Also to combine back what's the shortcut?
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Designing a font is a cumbersome task as each glyph should be drawn. However, finding the right kerning is something that puzzles me.
A font can have thousands of kerning, and there are even more possibilities.
I am curious how a designer finds the right kerning?
Does a designer check thousands of pairs to find the bes... |
Is there a font where all the letters follow something like a fixed grid? Like a monospaced font, but even more equality between the letters. Everything should be in one line.
I marked in the picture what bothers me.
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I have a few white PNG icons that I'm trying to convert to a raw SVG path.
Tried several converters, including InkScape, which returned some XML formatted document, but no data path.
Any pointers on how to obtain such a plain data path from the source image?
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I am using adobe xd. And there are some image that needs to be updated,
but the only problem is the image is already in PNG so every time there are any changes needed I will have to do it in Photoshop by erasing the layers and doing which is not perfectly a suitable idea.
Is there any way I can convert a PNG image in S... |
In Fusion 360, I tried some add-ons, like the "Equation driven curve", but the distance between each revolution is a constant. To achieve a constant-angle-of-attack spiral, the revolution distance shouldn't be a constant value. Is it manageable in this way? I also tried it in Blender, but after 3 turns, its angle of at... |
while creating a circle in inkscape, 2 dots appeared in the figure and they turned my circle into Pac-Man. How can I delete these dots?
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Can someone please tell me if I need to adjust how can I deal with opacity without going in the properties section in adobe illustrator?
I am familiar with Adobe Photoshop and Figma, and we can simply do this by clicking the number pad numbers. But I don't know why adobe illustrator does not have this feature.
For your... |
I have a .svg file containing a vector image of WhatsApp logo.
The file is available here in Wikimedia Commons and from what I can tell it's free to use.
I want to paste it as text in my website as a comfortable way to combine in HTML documents without storing an image file and without referencing to it and maintaining... |
I am working on many designs and the job i have been given is to change the colours but all designs have lots of colours so i need to select all the colours and group them.
After 100 designs and 35 colours in each design - i hope to find a quicker way.
Does anyone know any quicker way please?
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Say image A is a static portrait drawing of someone. You'd like to make an animation that has no movement of the artwork, but just alternating re-colorations of the portrait in such a way that it changes the hue of the image with the same smoothness of pulling the Hue slider in an image editor back and forth between, s... |
You draw the black ink outline of an object as an enclosed ellipsoid shape, and therefore want the next layer, which you'll use to color-in the ellipsoid, to be bounded to that previous ink layer, to avoid excess coloring outside of that bounded ink outline. How (in Gimp)?
Edit: Not asking for a perfect vector-friendly... |
I'm a bit new to Photoshop. This is the picture I'm working with:
https://ibb.co/Dt9VvRr
I want to extend the bottom to make a more square image. This means extending the wooden-board floor downwards, but I'm not sure what's the best way to do this. So far I've tried clone-stamping and pattern-stamping. Clone-stamping ... |
Needs help on whether this design is completely hand-drawn or multiple images ran through filter gallery and tweaked with brush tool
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This is something I have wondered about for a while, and although it's the sort of thing we're conditioned to accept unquestioningly, I finally have to question it. This may come across as a bit rant-ish, but I feel it's based on valid concerns.
Why are em dashes (this—that) used instead of space-hyphen-space (this - t... |
I am very new to adobe illustrator and I am trying to fill some colors on my drawn shapes.
But the only problem I am facing is whenever I am trying to fill color to any object using the eyedropper (I) tool
the stroke disappears automatically.
Please see the video attached below.
Is there any way to deal with it?
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In Illustrator, I have multiple objects. All have the same colours as their gradient but they have different locations and opacities with different rotations. When I select the entire group my gradient panel greys itself out.
Is it possible to replace a single colour in every gradient without needing to sit through cli... |
Last year, I've heard, that the Action manager won't be supported in newer versions of Photoshop (like q3 2022 or something like that).
Since then, I didn't keep up with the scripting side whatsoever, and now I'd like to ask: is this still true? Will Action manager not be supported? Are there good alternatives now, or ... |
Can someone explain if / how I can reduce the (seemingly huge) file size of the Cat2 SVG?
I've tried optimising CAT2 in Inkscape (simplifying (to reduce nodes), smoothing, optimising) & even using compressed SVG I can only get it to 1600kb. It doesn't seem THAT much more complicated than Cat1? Am I doing something wron... |
I am experienced with the Creative suite but I think there's several ways to achieve this. A part of me thinks that this is a 3D model with added render effects/extra processing to make it look ever so slightly bitmapped if you can see but otherwise, any manual guidance would be very very helpful. Thanks!
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How do I go about getting this slightly pixelated look in the image below (the circles being little squares rather than smooth curves).
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Our marketing department decided they want to use Avant Garde in promotional items for the library. i.e., Newsletters, brochures, etc. Apart from marketing, who use macs and/or have Adobe fonts, no one else has access to Avant Garde.
I thought about copying the font files from one of the macs and installing them on all... |
I have an application which requires 64 distinct colors that need to look good together.
I've found some resources online that use a color wheel. They allow you enter a color and then they show a list of colors that are complimentary. For instance, I can choose "tetradic colors" and I now have 4 colors that look good t... |
I have like 270 files each file have 4 artboards, So I want to duplicate the ArtB(3) and ArtB(4) For 80 times, but I need a script to select the artboards that i need then duplicate them in action to let it work as a bath automatically, So can you help me pleas.
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I would like to make an online 3d virtual exhibition stand (visitors of the website should be able to "go" through the 3D stand-model and by chance click on the items or watch the videos on the screens, like in a real booth). I can do the 3D model by myself (in Blender),but I'm not sure if there is a software, which "t... |
When I use the Export frames to PDF, I cannot find the way to order the frames as wanted. They seem to be exported in the order they were created. Any idea on how to change that?
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I have created an AI file that contains images that have portions hidden by clipping masks. When I save this AI file as a PDF file, the PDF file contains the full images. Is there a way to save to PDF that will not include the portion of an image that is hidden by clipping masks.
As a corollary to this. If clipping mas... |
Looking for help identifying this sans serif font. I tried WhatTheFont but no luck. Thanks.
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I'm an artist who is inexperienced to the world of art licensing. I have 136 artworks in a similar art style, all of which are food.png graphics, and I can see them being useful to a game developer with cooking mechanics (I have raw ingredients, fruits, desserts, you name it).
I'd want to sell them to a business rather... |
If I use the fill or bucket tool in Krita I end up with these white outlines. so What I am wondering is how can I get rid of the white outlines that appear after using the fill tool in Krita. it becomes frustrating to haft to paint over them every time I use the fill tool which makes my artwork look sloppy. as a side n... |
Such a question, need to make pixel art 2D 64x64 from 3D models/photo as a need to process pictures so they were as similar to the drawings. With a thick black outline, saw that it is necessary to make a vector image with flat colors, but still looks too blurry =(
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after writing a hand written letter with calligraphy brush when i want to add some details with pencil tool it does not add the detail on same brush and it automatically turns into basic brush instead of 30pt flat. what could be the reason? I am using a tablet.
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I have just discovered that InDesign hypenation is both very smart and somewhat weird.
Test text:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur communications.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur bundespräsidenten.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur электрофикация.
If I set the language of the Basic Paragraph sty... |
Is there a way to prevent a text frame (more specifically, the primary frame) from moving (by accident), apart from locking it?
Yes, I can simply lock it, but this affects search and replace, this is why I look for another solution.
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Does anyone have any idea what visual effect this is?
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Here is a simple test:
Create a new document and a text frame
Type
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Change the alignment of the second line to the right, so that now you have
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A good ordinary book or body-text font should come with smallcaps. How high should the smallcaps be? I suppose this would be expressed as either relative to the x-height (i don't think all smallcap designs make them exactly the x-height), or relative to the cap-height.
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So we have this image and we have added a flamingo over it. The problem is we can't identify the direction of light currectly and it makes the shadow we made for the flamingo so bad. Can you please tell us in which direction should our lighting be?
Update: This is the image without any manipulation:
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It's been loading for 5 minutes at the same mark, but it's not even clear to me what it's loading, I haven't exported anything yet.
And I get this error if I try to click on Save As.
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The option "Snap to Document Grid", although it trying to help you to aling an object/frame correctly, doesn't prevent it to be aligned somewhat off, e.g. with X=13p6.462 instead of 13p6.
Is it possible to make it work in a more strict way, so that the object that you are trying to align (with mouse, of course) will ne... |
can you please help me identify this font? the red one
couldn't find any font detector...
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I am working on a publication in InDesign, working on a 2019 Macbook Pro display, in which there are around 300 links to images. Some images are in RGB, and some in CMYK. Here is an example of an image on-screen:
I would like to prepare the file for printing, by making sure all images are converted to CMYK. I have tri... |
I made an action, inside this action, there is a script (about set Artboard 4 Active) when I play it as a batch I get an error
The object "Script" is not currently available.
so the script doesn't work.
Is there any solution for that?
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I want to do this in Adobe Xd, can someone please tell me is there any way or any plugin to achieve this in adobe xd.
Note: The current image is from Figma.
Although I know we can do this by using the Boolean Groups.
But it is time-consuming when you are working with more than 100 screens on a page right??
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Can anyone tell me how I can get my circle outer stroke to look glittery like the outer square frame which I purchased, been trying so hard to work it out for myself but its driving me crazy now Hoping someone can point me in the right direction - I'm using Photoshop CC
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I am working with vector graphics designing mugs, but whenever I place an object on top of the mug, the object is changing color. I am noticing it is also happening to all my objects. The top object looks like it is under another object that would have its opacity down. I can't figure out why it is doing this to me. Th... |
I'm wondering why majority of the mockups available online utilize Smart Object layer for containing a placeholder image rather than a Frame?
It just feels like frames are easier to work with, am I missing something?
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I am currently learning color theory in depth, and I have trouble figuring out how to balance a color palette and how chroma plays a role in it.
I have read an article that the following image (the one on the bottom) looks balanced because the colors have the same chroma. I tried desaturating the colors and turning the... |
What are the precise parameters of the ellipse that results when a circle of diameter 1 is projected from an orthonormal grid onto an isometric grid?
Working on isometric transformation of my TTRPG art assets into isometric space. Thank you!
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Relatively new to graphic design; I wanted to ask how to go about creating a 3D contour map reminiscent of this hand-cut art piece. Is it something that requires 3D software like Dimension or Blender, or can this be done in photoshop/illustrator?
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I need to transform a layer specifically to resize the image or make the layer smaller but when I go to the edit on the tool bar I am unable to click on the transform tab to
resize it, is there another way to resize it? How can I make it so I can click on the transform tab?
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I am on a 5k iMac and creating thumbnails from screen shots for use in a website. In case it matters, my display resolution is set to 3200x1800 (less than the number of physical pixels of the display itself).
In Photoshop I have a layer that is 488x268 pixels. As I understand things, Photoshop is using physical display... |
We're trying to connect a Riso MZ7U to a computer running Ubuntu.
The link to download official drivers from Riso is https://www.riso.com/download/
They only have drivers available for Windows and Mac.
Has anyone ever successfully connected a Riso to a computer running Linux? Are there any unofficial or third party dri... |
Here is a simple test:
Create a new document with a primary text frame option enabled.
Type there:
line 1
<empty line 1>
<empty line 2>
<empty line 3>
line 2
By using the Type tool, create a new, small text frame. Type there:
line a
line b
and paste this frame on the second empty line to make it inline.
Put the ... |
How do I fix this? Pieces of the design are getting cut off (right and bottom side of the yellow, top and left side of the green).
Any help would be appreciated!
(to answer a reply that was deleted - there is no background, it is a clean vector, fully transparent)
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Newbie to InDesign here, I was given two files for my work: a path version and a non-path version file, as shown in the picture. Here's the problem:
For the non-path file, I can only edit the text but not the icons/graphics.
For the path file, I can only edit the icons/graphics, but not the text.
How do I go about ... |
I make a graphical R package which includes scatterplots as heatmaps. These plots show the data points of two variables on the x and y axis while colouring them with the values of a third variable. What colour scales are best for this purpose? The plot background is white.
What I've tried
For R there is an omnipresent ... |
I need to create a document with many images that should move up-and-down with text.
The images are between paragraphs. Paragraphs are currently separated with empty lines.
I cannot simply make these images inline, because they should have captions, and captions should be generated from file metadata and should be upd... |
When I cut the second of two threaded frames and then paste it back, it retains its text but loses the connection to the first frame. That is, there are two independent frames then. Is there a way to cut-and-paste a frame in such a way that the connection to the previous frame will be preserved?
By the word "connection... |
I am working on a packaging design project. I have already delivered the print ready files to the client and to the vendor hired by the client for the printing. However the client is promising me to pay only when he receives the sample prints from the vendor. The vendor is taking more time than what he had estimated to... |
I have used GIMP for ages, and I've NEVER seen this before...
When I try to make a freehand line, it comes out all jaggy, since somehow horizontal/vertical/45 degree lines are preferred apparently:
What is this and how can I get it deactivated?
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My goal is to Image Trace an image and recolor it with specific sets of color by the AI.
The problem are:
I don't know how to edit the Document library.
I need to compare between 3 artboards (4/8/12 color).
The solution that I know:
Click the Expand button and manually change the color one by one
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I am using GIMP to create altitude profiles for the stages of a planned bicycle tour. Playing around on my first attempt, I created the profile below. (Note the smooth edge between the land and sky.)
After putting the project down for a day or so, I had forgotten my steps, but went ahead and tried to repeat the proces... |
I am trying to recreate this design. I have the shapes already needed for it, but I can't think of a way to make the design digitally. Is there some process of doing this or am I stuck just manually adjusting the shapes to size?
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My goal is to output image that has been Image Trace in outline without clicking the Expand button and set the fill to none.
The problem are:
Exporting the layer with View box set to Outlines will only export blank image.
I need to compare 3 artboards (4/8/12 colour) and the outlines are different between the artboard... |
i saved a symbol on adobe illustrator to work on later, but when I open a new file I cant find the symbol anymore on library. I realized this happened when i tried to save graphic styles as well. What could the reason be?
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How can I select a rectangle and crop to it in gimp?
I opened an image. The rectangle selection tool is apparently selected. The mouse cursor consisted of a cross-hairs, a no-entry sign, and a double-lined square. I could not select anything.
The status bar says "Click-drag to subtract from the current selection". S... |
Is there a way to create this style of halftone dot patterns in illustrator manually? Using the color halftone effect breaks it down into simple black and white dots and turns it into a raster image, which I'm trying to avoid.
Edit: @user287001- Thank you very much for your informative answer. I noticed in your exampl... |
Example to explain above question:
If my company sells a product to a client that includes a font found and used through fonts.adobe.com and the creative cloud subscription,
would they still be usable, if used on a website, after cancelling the creative cloud at some point?
Would it still be legal to use them? (no red... |
I'm trying to figure out how to get the loop in the B to have an overlapping stroke. As you can see because the inside stroke is so thick you can't see the black outside stroke. I could make the loop a bit bigger bit it would distort the form of the letter.
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I know that it is possible to export individual artboards all as separate PDFs in Illustrator, but I need to group some of the artboards together and I can't find a good solution.
At the moment, I'm exporting all of them and then manually combining each one using Preview (mac) which takes forever.
An example of what I ... |
I'm having trouble with Photoshop correctly displaying Bangla characters.
Here is an example.
The correct original text is this: বিক্রি
But in Photoshop, it shows up like this:
I have no idea why this is happening. I couldn't find anything useful from a Google search.
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Currently I'm creating this by hand (attached picture). Is there any way I could automate this process, so when I resize the circle, the boxes stay the same height.
Right now, when I resize and keep the font size the same, this happens:
Suggestions for other tools beside illustrator where this could be done are also ... |
Hello, When I try to blend the front and last words, the middle words get a box around them. Does anyone know why this happens and what to do? I used Effect > 3D and Materials > Rotate...
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I am very interested in linen postcards and would love to be able to create images in the same style with photos I take.
I have been trying to figure out how but with no luck. I've tried working with a variety of filters. Oil paint filter is not the right direction. A combination of the dry brush and cutout filters sta... |
Am using coreldraw X7, so can I use RGB color mode for print fliers, CMYK is actually producing dull colors which I don't like and also what is the standard size (in inch) for print fliers...
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Disclaimer: I'm very new to Inkscape and have almost no experience in graphic design, I'm just getting started.
I'm trying to create an object with certain areas be either transparent or always filled with white. I've used squares, lines, and circles to make the following:
The top-right circle is transparent and does ... |
I’m looking to track down this specific font, I’ve tried multiple Find Font websites. the slanted crossbar on the lowercase e and the y and g seperate it from any font i’ve seen.
I believe the websites I tried are WhatTheFont and WhatFontIs. The source is a Squishmallow plushie bio tag specifically, Janet!
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My primary language is Russian, but most of my documents are a mix of Russian and English paragraphs and sometimes even sentences/words in the same paragraph.
(I use InDesign for my own personal needs. I don't need to send these documents to a "boss" or publisher, and so I'm OK if they look somewhat chaotic, as long as... |
Is there a way to create an overlapping and integrated dot pattern like this in illustrator without it looking amateurish, like one layer stacked on top of another?
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