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I would like to extend an image like this
to the left and to the top with GIMP. I just do not seem to find quite the fitting gradient.
This image is an example as a background. In the original there are further elements in the picture.
Is there a step by step walkthrough to accomplish this?
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I do make a simple video like WatchData video by using Powerpoint. The problem that I occurs is that the video that I render is lagging even in 60fps. There are two ways I do render Powerpoint;
Just Export to Video. I do find that if you Export to Video in 4k, it will automatically convert into 60 fps
I do use macros... |
All typography sites seem to be in agreement about most typefaces:
The lower-case letters b, d, f, h, k, l, and t usually have ascenders.
The lower-case letters i and j usually have a dot on top, called tittle if one really needs a name for them.
But are tittles ascenders? A few sites boldly assert this. For example,... |
I'd like to draw some closed paths with offsets on their internal edges, and I want the internal edges of the offset bands to be feathered. The external edge would be hard, not feathered. Below is an example of the effect I want, from a National Geographic map. Each colored band is transparent, but also feathered. Is t... |
How can I create a horizontal curly brace in Adobe Illustrator like the image below?
I actually typed { and converted it to be able to rotate and resize it however the effect wasn't beautiful.
I have made the below image using Paint just to show you what I am looking for.
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I have a reference image to design my animation according to, here it is:
Now my graphic is much simpler and this is how it is,
The reference animation is described as "Open hand makes a small twist in front of body.". Can someone tell me how I would go by to animate my graphic similar to how the reference graphic des... |
I just wanted to know if it was at all possible, via Acrobat's built-in Action Wizard or otherwise, to replace the underlying URL of some textual links in multiple PDFs?
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Is it possible to import an Excel file into Photoshop such that each item on a list has its own individual layer, with each layer located in the exact same place? E.g. there is a document with a blank for a name, a list of names in the Excel file, and the list is imported so that the names fill the blank when the layer... |
Here is a Kufi-like Arabic script font, and here are most of the main glyphs:
Notice how some of them are extremely similar, only differing by height. Also you'll note that some are similar but differ slightly because they appear at the beginning/middle/end. I am not concerned with the latter, but I am not sure what t... |
When updating the Displace settings applied to a smart object, it prompts to reselect the displacement map. Is there a way to change these settings without needing to select a displacement map every time?
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I have logged in with another Adobe account on Ai and now when I try to move one single anchor point, I can't move it very precise, moving steps are too big/large. Is this a setting I have to adjust?
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It looks like an "x" but not quite. I am using Adobe Illustrator 2023 on a Mac, if that matters.
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Following this, I run this command to generate the SVGs:
fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export("svg"); endloop;' font.ttf
My font is this. When I open the font and scroll into view some of the glyphs (in FontForge), it looks like this:
Some of the glyphs are cut off, as you can see... |
I've made a shape in Illustrator by taking a square and a circle, selecting both and choosing the Unite option in Pathfinder.
So I now have this shape:
However, I want to extend some of the lines on the square edges so it will look like this, and still be one single shape (path):
But if I simply draw the extensions i... |
Hi,
I am looking for any tips on how this person made this image. It seems like a filter of some kind used with a pixel image of a cat. The trick is each "stitch" is different so it is not just a single overlay applied to each pixel.
Any suggestions are helpful.
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I need to identify the font that is printed on this keyboard. It's an Acer Chromebook 11 C723 & 733
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Does anyone know of a typeface where the Capital "B" has a concave curve to the stem? (Where the vertical line dips curves inward to the right.)
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I am trying to learn more about the pen tool in photoshop. I understand its basic usage for paths/selection/shapes. The thing that I dont understand is the following:
When i start to draw path, i complete it in several points, then if I hold ctr and press on the path I move the entire selection. Later if I deselect and... |
I am working on a project where I am engraving some pixel artwork onto an acrylic sheet using laser cutting. This process requires a vector file for the laser, but whenever I try to vectorize my artwork all the hard pixel edges (which are intentional artistic choices in this case, the image is meant to look pixelated),... |
I have a project that has a color. I want to use that color in a different project.
How do I copy a color from one project to another?
From what I've looked up, it seems like one has to do something that involves creating, managing, and importing custom color palettes between multiple projects. This seems way over th... |
I'm trying to import a PDF (actually hundreds of PDFs) into Inkscape Command Line for export into PDF again. This is in an attempt to clean up a PDF with some compatibility issues with another piece of software I'm using.
The Inkscape Command Line documentation does not make it clear if this is even possible, but it is... |
I'm working with the opacity and random() expression. I want a text to appear like randomly pixel by pixel.
For example the text "WEEKEND" I've tried making every single letter their own layer and then use the expression random() on opacity, the problem is it includes the whole letter.
My goal is to randomly fade in th... |
I've been searching for a way to do a halftone like this:
As you can see this is not a simple halftone effect, with circles or anything. It uses the Turing Pattern as the filler element, but it also fades away as gradient loses intensity. I've been trying to achieve this result using Photoshop's custom dither pattern ... |
I need to find the rbg values and opacity of a colour that is translucent. I have the RGB values of the background colour and the fused colour.
As you can hopefully see in the image above, I'm looking for the RBG values and opacity of a reddish-orange colour. Is this possible?
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My desired outcome is to have a textbox that grows (width-wise) with the first line of text, if/when the text is long enough to wrap I would like it to stop growing width-wise and wrap onto the next line.
Is this possible in Adobe XD?
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I have a PNG image which is supposed to have a scale unit. Apparently there is an option in the png format to define a ppi or some similar concept. The goal is to be able to make physical measurement on the png image.
Does anyone know a tool where I extract/read/draw line to measures using such a png file ?
I tried pai... |
I'm a bit at a loss with this.
I have an indesign file that is made for print purposes, but for the pdf-ebook we export it via other joboptions/settings with RGB as it's color destination applied.
But as I see it, the joboptions can't change the transparency blend space, so if transparencies are applied in a document, ... |
I’m looking to write a book. It will include graphics to the edge.
I am unsure on the Adobe InDesign Settings to use (page size, trim, bleed + slug, margins etc).
Most sites seem to state A5 trim size as 21cm x 14.8cm. Measuring other authors books in my bookshelf, this seems to match reality (in the UK)
However, Amazo... |
I'm using Inkscape and K40 Whisper together. When creating geometry in Inkscape it does not stay red after opening in K40 Whisper.
Why is it changed to gray?
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I am a first year graphic design who is still relatively new to the field. I have no idea how to even start with a portfolio. Do I create a website? Is it something physical? Can it just be a Google Drive folder? I'm sorry if I sound dumb, I've tried Googling, but I don't really have a clear answer. What should I inclu... |
Hello everyone I am new to Adobe illustrator and I am trying to create a brush that allows me to draw a path with double parallel lines. I have created an art brush and everything works correctly, the problem is that when I modify the thickness of my path, I would like my 2 lines to remain thick and what would be modif... |
In the Unicode Standard document, v. 13, it says on p. 877 (bold-facing mine):
Squared Katakana words are Katakana-spelled words that fill a single display cell (em-square) when intermixed with CJK ideographs. Likewise, the square Latin abbreviation symbols are designed to fill a single character position when mixed w... |
Scenario:
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... |
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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.)
... |
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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