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Is it possible to create a GREP function that will automatically change the first letter to capital letter in a word? For example: "moonlight" and GREP changes it to "Moonlight". Don't want to use Find/replace, because I want to embedded in alinea style. Thanks for the help!
I have used the masking tool from camera raw: Now when I open that thing in PS the layer masks are not there. It is a single layer: How do I transfer the layer masks from Camera Raw over to Photoshop?
I'm making a PDF/X-1a, from a CS6 indesign file, for a print magazine that will be illustrated with images of everyday objects. The images are made from scans and photographs. There is no line art and it will be printed by a commercial offset printer. What is the exact sequence I should use in PS (don't laugh, I use CS...
What is the name of the shape called that looks like a 3x5 card with rounded top corners and header with background color? Two examples: Update: As someone mentioned it’s sort of a shape with shapes and there might not be a name for it. A user interface object. A composite component. It has been used as a container, ...
I copy pasted one image icon from Adobe XD to create a vector of it in adobe illustrator. But my Ai is behaving differently, it is having the icon in the background everywhere. Seems like the hidden background or something. Can anyone please tell me what is this behaviour here? It never happened before.
I am trying to merge EmojiOne into a regular OTF font to give the basic OTF font Emoji support: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/emojione-color Typically I would open the regular OTF font, then go Element > Merge and select Emoji One. Then I could Generate Font and select SVG font for output. However, when I try to even ...
Whenever I make a selection it automatically inverts the selection. How do I correct it?
I'm trying to use PNG files for creating and I have the next problem: As you can see, when I import or paste the IMG, the background of PNG 'is not actually a background'. Is like background has the squares of transparency but actually is like white. I'm not sure if I'm explaining well because I find it a little bit w...
I have a bunch of 1800x1800 pictures. I need to individually put each image onto a 2200x2200 canvas and then save/export it. Is there a way I can batch this? To further explain, I need to add a 400 pixel white trim to each side of each picture. Right now I'm using gimp and I'm making a new canvas that's 2200x2200 and a...
Particularly in students papers, I often see the that they start a paragraph, which may be quite lengthy, with a specific term followed by a colon. I believe this is just very comfortable for the writer to introduce a few terms or similar; however, to some degree, it enables the writer to not really think about the con...
Is there a Photoshop Alt+Drag equivalent in GIMP, where you copy a selected object and drag it in a layer? All I can find is this, but it's under a paywall.
I have this issue where when I made a circle and give it a dashed appearance and make it circular. I get this duplicated circle: Here are the details: How can I fix this?
When drawing a rectangle or square, if drawn randomly it shows the units in a small box displayed in cm. If drawn by specifying the dimensions from the top ribbon, the unit is pixels instead of cm.
I would like the footer's background color to be a different color than the rest of the website. Is there a proper way of doing this or do I just create a rectangle element, stretch it out onto the footer area and change its background color?
My question is basically this one, except the Illustrator version. I can think of some hackish ways to do it, but I'm thinking maybe there's a proper way to do it, so I figured I'd ask. Chapter 1 1-1. The table of contents should have dotted lines like this..................4. 1-2. Ideally the dotted lines will resize ...
I'm trying to use envelope distort in illustrator to render this graphic onto a photo of a wall, but I can't seem to get the perspective on the text looking right. Can anyone help me figure out how to fix this? This is what the flat graphic looks like:
I am not a programmer/coder at all, just someone that can google (poorly), so I have no real idea what I'm doing. I have a bunch of pictures that I need to split in half and keep both halves. Someone told me that IM could automate that, and gave me: magick convert .\input.jpg -crop 50%x100% output%02d.jpg After mess...
Is there a way to add stroke on clipped objects? Steps: create a picture and a shape move the shape onto the picture select both and set clip It is a way to do this? (stroke around the clipped object) (I've tried adding stroke directly by selecting the picture and applied stroke paint, but it didn't work)
Can anyone identify the font in the image below. Finding a Serif font with a round a has proven difficult for me. thanks
I'm working with a bedsheet/bedcover mockup that I downloaded from freepik.com I'm new in the photoshop world and I am trying to learn Photopea on my phone (android). What I know about mockup is that, the user has to double click on the "mockup-layer", then a new tab opens up and he just has to put his own design into ...
I'm starting to learn pixel art and I have a problem when I try to use sprite sheet for reference. I have this sprite sheet in Photoshop, and I select the pointed area: Problem is when I paste it in Illustrator. I create a file with pixel proportions of selected image (32x34 in this case). I create a layer and I put a...
I followed the line where the sea meets the sky for the horizon line but it just doesn't quite line up with the boat? I'm extremely lost, I would really appreciate someone to crack this one for me by drawing the lines on top...! A man on a boat holding a freshly caught fish that's as large as he is; his pants and the d...
I came across a few technical architecture designs on websites like these: (Above image doesn't have a background so please open it in a new tab as an image) Can you guys give me any idea on which software/website can I build such technical architecture designs on?
I got a logo from a design agency: In my website there is only room for a logo image in the size of 160px X 160px, so after I have uploaded the logo image to my website, I got: How to solve that unproportionality problem? How to resize a broad image correctly?
I've been trying to place or drag something from photoshop into illustrator but whatever way I do it it comes in as really small. The artboard sizes are both 1080 x 1080 px I took screenshots of all the details of both illustrator and photoshop windows and dimensions. I don't think I've usually encountered problems as ...
I have an image imported in the .png format to the Inkscape. I want to use the selection within this imported image and apply some filters in the given area only. As you can see above, I would just like to edit the window within the image shown. Unfortunately, it looks like Inkscape allows us to select the imported im...
It's a 2014 TV drama title. I've searched this for a long time but got nothing, since online font identification websites usually cannot recognize Japanese words. So if anyone knows the detail about this font, please let me know and I'd really appreciate your help!
Programmatic Solution for Emboldening Glyphs In other words I want a tool that helps me convert glyphs to heavier/lighter weights. I have been using Inkscape v1.2 to create glyphs, but now I want to italicize them & embolden them. Skewing the font to make it italic is easy enough, but the only way I have figured out ...
I used mask to create a shape I want. Now I want to apply minus front (I will put a new shape on top of the masked shape), but it's not working properly. How to fix this problem?
I'm a mechanical engineer about to invest in a new A3 laser printer but won't have the chance to try it out before buying. It's main function will be to print technical drawings for checking. The largest drawing size I come across is A0, and the minimum font size on said drawing would be 1.8mm. As I'm scaling A0 to fit...
I have some artboards that I want to rearrange in order to even out the spacing between them. The trouble is, when I Rearrange All Artboards Illustrator completely ignores my guides, leaving the guides in their original positions and rendering them useless, as they are no longer positioned relative to the artwork. ↑ ...
Basically, is there a way to do this in Illustrator using a single stroke (or shape)? I could replicate it using two strokes, and the result was almost the same, but is there some command or technique I'm missing that allows to do it with a single stroke? I guess not, because of the overlapping.
Question: How can I split a document so I can view one full page of the document on the left and a different page on the right? Background: I have a document with portrait-oriented pages, and want to view two full non-consecutive pages at a time. Attempt and Current Behavior: Window -> Split (splits the document horizo...
I'm looking for fonts suggestions for a tech blog. Should the font be serif or sans-serif? Thanks for any help.
I'm trying to use the type on a path tool, and I've never had this problem before. I'm using the rainbow option as usual, but it is typing within the path not on top of it, and sideways. The other settings are working the same, but those are not what I'm looking for. Is there a weird setting that I changed by accident?...
I have a grouping of vectors I am trying to export as an SVG. The problem is Illustrator keeps resizing the export. What starts as a width of ~18.5 inches in illustrator, is now ~13.6 inches when I open the SVG in any other program. Why would it be doing this? and How can I preserve the original vector size? This occur...
I have a publication with many light gray boxes (K-100%, tint 10%). I'm trying to design a Code style that will work both in the white-background normal text and in those shaded boxes. We liked the idea of shading them and thought a 5% gray background looked good on screen. However, I'm a little worried the grays are t...
I created an animation in the following way: sketched some basic shapes in Figma, animated it using Jitter, exported the animation json and importing it to Lottie then downloading the Gif. I wanted to use all the free options hence the struggle with the different mediums. My shapes include a rectangle with a background...
I want to make code teaching video animations. Something similar to this https://youtu.be/UF9Iqmg94tk?t=195 I want to know what software/app should I use for making professional looking animation video. Don't mind buying a subscription.
I got my logo from an AI-logo-generating site. It made a decent logo, but the svg is severely borked, to varying degrees depending on what viewer is used... The specific issue I am having is that the size specified in the svg (i assume) is drastically different from the size of the content, leading to the actual image ...
The hypotenuse of a right-angle triangle (diagonal) is longer than its sides and would contain fewer pixels than an inch measured horizontally or vertically.
this one here and this one as well The shading on the building, especially the squiggly liny texture got me confused. I don't see it that often. Does it have a name? How could one recreate it? Credit: godmonkey illustrator on behance
I have read that there are a number of issues with the MS designed and default font Calibri. For instance, what is a Calibri replacement that will not change size when opened in say Pages, Docs, or Adobe. Or simply what is a solid sans-serif font that is more universal across apps. Does this make sense?
Suppose I have a certain shade of violet, like #6727AE. How do I quickly find a different hue (say, greenish) but with the same perceived luminosity (or "weight")? The goal is to have 2 equiluminant colors. The way I measure perceived luminosity (in Affinity Designer) is with an adjustment layer with a neutral gray sol...
It's nice to be able to use background colors to highlight sections of text (my case is monospace, in a terminal emulator), but a sharp transition between background colors doesn't always look great. Full height half rounded shapes, flush right (for the left hand side) and flush left (for the right side) could be used ...
I'm trying to outline a stroke I created as a separate effect on some text in Illustrator but it isn't working. I wanted the stroke outside of the text so I had to create it as a separate effect and offset the path. Now I need to create outlines from the stroke so I can send it for vinyl plotting but that isn't working...
In Adobe Illustrator there is the OpenType panel Alt+Shift+Ctrl+T which lets us set OpenType features for fonts that support them. For example with Montserrat I can set Figure: Tabular Oldstyle to have alternate glyphs for numbers that are kerned to line up in tables. Is there a way to get Tabular Oldstyle figures in ...
I want to put an offset/stroke like outline/border around this kitty (which will be same in width, like stickers). First I wanna remove this box around this PNG. how can I do it? Second how can I convert it into an shape? and put stroke around in it? I want to do it in Illustrator. Thank you.
I want to rotate an object with a live transform/array effect applied to it. The object is grouped to a path, which I need as a guide for the rotation. When I rotate this, instead of rotating the group with the path, every individual object is being rotated. How can I rotate the path and all of the objects rotate as a ...
I use GIMP 2.10.32 and I have a large broad image of about 1600px width X 1000px height and I need to resize it to about 160px width X 100px height. How to resize a broad image with GIMP? I think there is a function for that named "best fit" but I am not sure.
I have multiple objects on my canvas that all have the same dimension. Is there a way to bind the dimension of all objects to a variable, so I can change the dimension of all objects by simply changing one variable?
I've purchased an AI file of UK postcodes; pictured are the layers it uses with each area named "Path" I want these to be assigned an ID when I export as an SVG, so that I can apply database-driven data to the map. I understand that it uses the layer name to apply ID, but even when I change the name from to a layer na...
I'm reading Robert Bringhurst's excellent book The Elements of Typographic Style. He says that when Times New Roman is all you've got you should make the most of its limited virtues but that adding small caps and text figures will help immensely. What typefaces have small caps and text figures that will look good (mean...
How do I distribute objects evenly horizontally in Inkscape, such that the spacing between the objects equals that of the left (right) object to the left (right) edge of the page? Similar to this question; cf. this comment
I'm saving a vector graphic with text in Adobe Illustrator CC (File > Export > Export as ; format .svg ; Styling: Internal CSS ; Font: SVG ; Images: Embed ; Object IDs: Layer Names ; Decimal: 3 and both Minify & Responsive are checked. On my iMac 27" 5K Retina Monteray (updated), the svg renders CORRECTLY in Chrome (s...
I'm trying to make this rectangle with the cut off corner. I'm only managing to create a rectangle at the moment.. how do I cut off the corner? The white in the screenshot is the shape I'm trying to make.
Im new to layout and I Need to do some elevations for a design. Im bringing an elevation drawing into Layout and I just want to be able to dictate the dimensions.
My interest is on animating characters on Cinema4D to then export into Unreal. I'm trying to jump into the domain of animation after 8 years purely modelling and texturing. What is the best way to organise your animations on the project so you can treat them all as part of the same rig? Appreciate any help, I would loo...
If you open up your favorite drawing package and start a new image, you'll likely be asked to input the dimensions of the frame (width and height). For example, Pinta shows this: However, I recently noticed the MyPaint has infinite canvas size by default. It seems like using an infinite canvas would be advantageou...
Imagine a transparent canvas with different layers, like this: I want to fill the whole background with a color, so the result would be like: The workflow I use for this is: add new layer select all fill with background-color moving the layer to the very bottom Is there a way to accomplish this faster/easier?
How, I can import css or scss style in to Figma? I use figma plagin fromCSS. But it doesn't work for linear or radial grdient like this: background: radial-gradient(circle at 75% 30%, #fff 10%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17) 30%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.57) 55%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.57) 100%); background: linear-gradient(120deg, rgba(133, 143...
I have a graphics card with 256 MB internal and not dedicated. I want to buy a dedicated 1 GB graphics card. Is it good enough for a big Figma design? Like: This. This design, when I add an image to it, works very slowly. Is a 1 GB graphics card good enough?
Created a shape over text, Opacity 30%. I'm trying to subtract the shape from text, so that the shape is only on the font. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
...so I've been noticing that all the Fire Department signs in the Phoenix, Arizona area seem to be the same "Star Trek TNG"-ish font, which I looked up and identified as Handel Gothic, and lo and behold, the 2018 International Fire Code as Amended by the City of Phoenix specifies that the signs are to be lettered in H...
Want to draw fake shapes from multiple stroke lines like the image below. As far as I know, it can be done by manually dragging the lines, but it's a hard job on complex shapes, and it's slow and not accurate. Wonder if there is a plugin, extension or path effect can do this in a faster way? Illustrator or Inkscape can...
I have got the following icons in the Figma file and I want to extract them as a whole as SVG, but when I click or control-click the border as well as the play icon, and choose copy as SVG, I only get the border (as shown below). How can I make copy the whole icon as an SVG or if it is even possible?
I have the next project: I want that the rectangle with lines shape gets the form of the background image floor lines. I mean, the idea is that these rectangle takes an 3d effect. I try to select anchor points and I cannot do it. Any idea? Thanks.
I am trying to cut out all white stripes from black shape, but Object -> Path -> Divide object below doesn't work. Stripes and shape are on different layers. It is a way to casually erase all stripes, but I'm looking for smth another... I was not able to find any detailed documentation or up-to-date answers, so... Ple...
Example photo is attached. Been trying on my own with the pen tool all day and having no luck...
In Photoshop, the pattern preview mode in Photoshop displays both the horizontal and vertical axes, but I only want it to be horizontal only. Is there any way to achieve this? Offset is just too cumbersome for me and doesn't work as intuitively as pattern preview. Right now, the pattern preview looks like this: I want...
I'm trying to make an illustration as SNES pixel art and I think it takes a lot of time. I'm not sure if I could do it for myself or is an idea too hard for a particular creator. Idea is that this illustration : Become like this one (of Megaman X SNES): So, maybe I'm thinking too much complicated for a particular job...
I'm realizing I must have missed something in design school. I work for a huge family of car dealerships- I make the business cards in Illustrator. They are a double sided folded design- the inside featuring 25 brand logos. I make a new file for each employee and keep them in a file. Whenever I work on them-- everythin...
I am using MS PowerPoint 2019 with the default settings and with these, my slide looks like this: It by default uses Calibri Light 44 for the slide caption, and Calibri for the rest of the text (except math formulas). But it looks ridiculous to me - why should the slide caption look "less bold" and be from a thinner f...
Good Morning! I am a teacher, trying to save on paper and ink. I have a design I need to print which is perfectly fine sized at half a standard 8.5x11, I just want to print and then cut them in half. I used to have to copy+paste a second page in word in order to have it actually print two of them on one page, which was...
I'm working in gimp. I want to put two letters on a chevron shaped shield. I want the letters to squish together at the ends and stay larger in the middle where they meet. Here's where I am. I've messed around with the distorts, but can't figure out how to do this. I thought this wouldn't be hard, but it is evading me...
I'm on Photoshop 2021. (Not Elements. Not Lightroom.) I have a .webp drawing with an object, parts of which are in a particular color (at the moment, a blue). (The image started out as a .PDF; I thought maybe my problem was the PDF being messed up so I saved it as a .webp. It doesn't seem to make any difference.) At th...
I need some software that "breaks" an image into multiple layers without needing to do selection. Krita has something similar, but the division is done by colors and I want something random. I could do it manually but I need almost 1000 layers it would take almost 1 hour doing. Look like this:
In the next composition: I don't know why fill is not working. Is an illustration imported from Illustrator and there object is showed properly, with shape color filled. But when I import in AfterEffects, whether using as a AI archive or converted form layers, the fill in this part of the guitar is like invisible. Wha...
No idea if this is the right place to ask this, if not, please point me in a better direction. I am trying to convert sRGB values R:100 G:78 B:94 to XYZ using this site: https://www.nixsensor.com/free-color-converter/ and get the result: 0.1009 0.0898 0.0891. These are my settings However when I use this site to plot t...
It seems like it should be pretty easy to get rounded tips on this football shape, but I have been trying for an hour now with no luck. I must be overlooking something. This is the shape: This is a rounded edge, which I can not achieve:
I draft sewing patterns in CorelDraw 2021 and I'm attempting to create an 8.5" x 11" paper size tiled PDF that has some overlap with the pages to the right and underneath...for those who don't know, this is done in the sewing pattern world to assemble a sewing pattern without having to cut anything off of each page. In...
We are a publisher. Customers often send us advertisements ready for printing. Sometimes when these advertisements are in PDF file format the whole advertisement or parts of it are partitioned in boxes, so you see e.g. lines inside images or a „border“ around text. Here are two different examples: These are screenshot...
I am trying to typeset a dictionary, and at the end of many of the word entries, there are additional references the reader can consult. ...definition here. For further reference, apple; fruit; tree I am trying to create a GREP that allows me to select all letter characters only (not the semicolons) between "For furt...
We just purchased a Multicam flatbed cutter about 6 months ago. It uses Coreo software and I am the graphic designer. I create our files in Illustrator, then I send the .ai file to the machinist to open in Coreo for cutting. It has worked most of the time and we have found some solutions for issues here and there, but ...
I saw this brewery the other day and have never seen a letter 'w' like it (in the word 'brewing'). Why does the left half of the letter not resemble the 'u' of which this letter is a double?
Most fonts produce a pretty poor looking lambda, i.e., λ. I want one that has a more "serif" feel as shown in the image below. The Wikipedia page for lambda also has this image alongside the less appealing lambda. What's interesting is that there appears to be a unicode lambda that looks very similar to what I'm after,...
Has anyone seen this optical illusion of sharp corners appearing to be rounded when scaling the graphic down? Is there a way to compensate for it, like there is for the "bone effect"? In this example, the top right corner of the logo is perfectly sharp, yet when it's scaled down it appears rounded. Also, the rest of th...
I draw an illustration from a source Image. Exported that as PSD file did coloring there. Suddenly my Client asked me to make the stroke width bigger. He was okay with initial stroke width. I am dumbfounded. Is there anyway to do that in photoshop? Without starting from scratch? Thank you. Please help. I am in deep tro...
I have a good image of planet with shadow on it (at center just under bottom line) which I want to make darker. And also I have another image with big exposure where the moons is visible. I want to make it lighter and add to the first image. How can I do it in GIMP? Good image: Overexposed image: There is photo that ...
I started learning how to draw on a tablet the other day. I drew a kitty in Krita: (Adapted from this image by David Revoy, 2018; CC BY 4.0) However, if you look carefully enough, you can see poorly drawn lines (I'm just a newbie), like these in the tail: Now I could fix them by manually editing them on my tabl...
Can someone please help me identify this japanese font? Need it for a little project I'm doing. Thank you in advance
I am an absolute beginner in Illustrator. I am following an udemy tutorial. I have the following two project windows - Now, I am unable to follow the tutorial and open the project windows side by side. This is my options bar - In the region marked with a question mark, the author of the lecture has an option for the...
Absolutely no idea if this is the best place to ask, if not, please point me in a better direction. Basically, I have been using this software to determine if the pixel colours of an image (the pixel colours being in the sRGB gamut) are within the pointers gamut: https://pyco.gumroad.com/l/pgtool The pointers gamut is ...
This should perhaps be obvious, but I can't find a way to do it in Illustrator. I want Illustrator to paste an object to the location of the selected object (and to replace it in one go, if it can). For example, in an ID card design, I want to replace one photo with another from the clipboard. The choices are Paste (Ct...
I was drawing in Adobe Animate. I clicked "select all" so I could move the entire image over a little. I did that, and when I deselected, it randomly colored parts of the drawing black. Why? And it doesn't do this to just one particular color. It seems to be arbitrary which parts it changes to black. Anyway, does this ...
I am very afraid of photoshop; I don't know why. So I started from the basics, like digital coloring, coloring children art, etc, where the basics of Photoshop are discussed and also demonstrated. I was following one tutorial I found useful. There the tutor says 'I use lock transparent pixel for shading'. This was a ti...
I know the photos look weird, But are they considered graphic design or not?
Both objects have 100% opacity. The text is definitely in front of the rectangle. What is happening here?
I currently have this result: Here are my Appearance window settings: I created it by putting the Round Corners on the clipping mask. As you can see, in addition to the Round Corners there is also supposed to be a navy blue Stroke, but it's not showing up. I have tried dragging the Stroke up and down, changing its or...
I often have the problem in Inkscape that text has an inconsistent line height. Example below: The gif below shows my problem while I'm adding [enter] to the text: What am I doing wrong?

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