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Hello I’m trying to find the font used in the logo for Pokemon Pikachu / Evee. I’ve attempted to find the font using likefont, whatisfont and my font to no avail. All that I’m sure of is that the logo use a uses a commercially available font, that nintendo then made slight modifications to, just like the rest of the En...
I’m trying to use the Reflect Tool to create symmetry. By the look of it, it seems as if the path on the left has an outside stroke alignment and the path on the left has an inside stroke alignment. However, when I open the stroke settings panel both are displayed to be aligned to the centre. On top of that the “Align...
If not is there maby some with a similar feeling or vibe as this one? Ive tried myfonts.com and whatfontis.com but neither worked.
I use Inkscape to extract images and identify fonts from PDF files. I recall in an older version of Inkscape I could click on a piece of text in Inkscape and it would tell me the font name used for that text. At the moment, using the most recent stable Inkscape 1.3, when I click on different texts it only tells me "san...
A while ago I turned that automatic import menu for pdfs off, because it was quite annoying and I was opening lots of pdfs. Now I'm trying to open an A4 template, saved from Silhouette studio, with registration marks for a cutting machine into Photoshop, but it opens automatically in the wrong size. I need to open the ...
I have one SVG created in Inkscape. It has a layer* containing rectangles which define clipping boundaries. It has multiple other layers containing the elements that I want to end up rendered into images. The output that I'm looking for is one image (probably png) for each combination of (a clipping rectangle in the fi...
Wanting to add bleed to this image. I've so far made a cut line in illustrator and am wondering if there is a way like content aware in which I can create more image but only around the outline? I was thinking of using the silouhette enlarging it and then making a selection from that and filling in with content aware o...
Dumb question, but how do I set my profile to use Dark Mode theme? I managed to do it for StackOverflow, but can't recall how I did it and can't find where to set it for this profile.
Edit: I posted this question on the Computer Graphics site here per suggestion I have a bunch of scanned document images and in each image there is a variance in background colour (sometimes a wide variance). I want to adjust all image pixels such that they are 'normalized' towards the pixel colour mean. To put it anot...
That's it. Select with magic wand, hit mac Backspace or Fn+Backspace for delete does nothing. Also cut is greyed out on the contextual menu after opening it from the selection. The correct layer is selected in the layer menu. The settings cannot register fn+delete as the shortcut for layer-deletion and it says disa...
I'm trying to understand how luminosity blend mode works in graphic design. Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_modes#Hue.2C_saturation_and_luminosity The Luminosity blend mode preserves the hue and chroma of the bottom layer, while adopting the luma of the top layer. https://www.photoshopessentials.c...
Been trying to achieve this hexagon pattern, but luck so far. I have tried to use blending modes and also making a brush out of the pattern but keeps coming out very irregular. How can i approach to create this hexagon pattern with the rotation and size offset?
I'm making a website for my software company. Originally, I made the "visited" colour for links a darker version of the primary link colour. Looking back, I decided that the dark blue colour was too hard to read, so I changed it to a light grey colour instead. I feel that the light grey is too similar to the text colou...
Context: Im trying to make some shapes, icons in a glitter texture looking realistic as possible. For this, a large group of objects are placed and way larger object is on top. How is it possible to select all the objects behind this object if this object is not a square (shape of the selector). I'm not interested in t...
How would I go about making the lines on the clock face? I am rather inexperienced and have absolutely no idea as to how to do this. Assistance would be much appreciated.
I'm doing Illustrator artwork of a DeLorean. The DeLorean has two different tire sizes (1" larger diameter rears). The rims have more contour on the rear because of that difference. These are from a model. I was trying to use "3D and Materials", and I tried messing with the "Perspective" option because when I had outl...
So i'm trying this text effect on adobe illustrator wherein it creates like a hole text appearance. The first time I did it, it worked but then the following tries it creates a problem like this. I tried again for a few times with the tutorial I saw and it's always like this. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
I have the following shape, which I made by creating an ellipse and scaling the top and bottom handles at the same time with the s shortcut. On this shape, I want to place four spaced out lines that follow the perimeter. I have roughly drawn what I want to create: This is similar to the "square four corners" structur...
Hello, I'm a beginner in design, and I'm having trouble with applying the data variable function in Adobe Illustrator. I've searched extensively but couldn't find a solution. When I try to apply it to multiple boxes with different text in the same sheet, I get an "filter cannot complete because of an unknown error." I...
I am trying to achieve a text effect like this using Photoshop: See how it has borders that can reflect light: How do you do those edges? How do I make the edges reflect light as per the top right of the letter o and bottom left of the letter t? Thanks
Is there a term of art in typesetting to designate the practice of interrupting an underline where it intersects a descender? It's called "skip ink" in CSS, but how do printers and typesetters refer to it? Also, out of curiosity, how was this done before the days of computer typesetting? Seems like something that might...
So I have four images that line up together each image is slightly rotated to varying degrees. If they all had the same rotation then I could just employ the techniques described at Merge a folder of images that don't have overlapping elements but do align at edges or, if they had some overlap I could make use of image...
I have problem very similar to GIMP - export to PNG changes the color completely (from RGB to GRAY). i.e. colors in exported images are changed to gray. What I am doing wrong? here https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/7ehp7ny8yosnocy4l6bp1/h?rlkey=5dmp0ps2coga6spshqzecicmw&dl=0 are example files these "-1." are indexed while...
I'm in the process of creating my brand colours and I want to achieve a bright Cyan but any bright colours just appear dull in CMYK. There are 3 big brands I know of that use very bright colours in their branding and I'm wondering how this can be acheived as these colours do not exist in CMYK. The 3 brands are: TheFork...
I have a text field that I would like to rotate around a point 1 inch to the left of the text field, around a point that is aligned exactly to the vertical center of the text field. However, when I open the rotation tool, I am not given the option of aligning the rotation point target to anything except for the anchor ...
Can I export a file from Affinity Designer as a legacy eps (Illustrator 8) so I can use with Roland CutStudio?
I have a problem with the many color changes. I encountered this problem while trying to do a multicolored project. As you can see on the first screenshot it has way too many color changes which seem unnecessary. Isn't there a way where I can set it up so it I can decide which color it should begin to stitch? I found ...
Example: This is the original image: I then use Effects > Distort & Transform > Transform and set it to reflect. and this is what I see. If I put my cursor over it, it shows that it is still there and I can click on it to highlight it again. This is driving me crazy. What am I doing or what setting is wrong?
I plan to make a bilingual book (Polish/English, Polish/Russian) for my thesis, so I'm looking for theoretical materials (books, articles, textbooks), where it is written about the design and layout features of bilingual books, what are the page design options in such books, oh how to stack text in different languages ...
photos are much bigger than the pixels artboard and need the finale saved jpeg to be 1MB. When setting up illustrator file for a huge digital billboard what the best way to save and export the file?
I have a photo that I am trying to use to template a DXF file for laser cutting. The photo has a square rule for use as a scale bar, however it is somewhat off angle such that the right angle is slightly off and the vertical and horizontal scale bars are also not quite correct. Is there a way transform this image in In...
I googled whether HEIC images are lossless or lossy, and whereas some articles and forum threads insist HEIC images are lossy, other insist that HEIC supports both lossy and lossless compression, but don't provide any details about how to use the latter. I use the latest Ventura, and when I edit HEIC images in Preview ...
I created a map using R and wanted to edit it in Adobe Illustrator. However, I found that some countries' colors were missing when I imported the generated PDF file into Illustrator. The first image is the one I generated in R, and the second image is after editing in AI. As you can see, the color blocks for Canada are...
A physical device has a certain amount of input and output pins in a block formation. Depending on which pins are active at any point in time, the device is in a certain action mode. Currently, the information about which pins activates which action mode is shown in several (larger) tables similar to this: Action m...
I'm trying to make PDF with a transparent background. It's just a PAID stamp: i'm using PDFTK to make a receipt from an invoice by overlaying the PDF which just has the stamp graphic over the PDF of the invoice. The problem i'm having is that the "PAID" PDF keeps either losing the transparency, so it's all white and ...
Using Inkscape v1.0.2-2, I now experience a problem with strokes for any shape tool. I try to make a rectangle with a black stroke color, a .3 thickness, and no fill color. It was working and then changed when I went back to the file. The problem stays no matter what document I open, even after closing/restarting Inksc...
Shown is a prototype from a hybrid board game/RPG featuring poker chip-like tokens that are spun to receive numeric results. Different tokens may have different ranges of values on them, and I may have to change these in response to playtests. So, what I need in design capabilities: Subdivide a circle into a specific...
display mode is normal. i didnt change anything about my computer or inkscape before the error started happening. this opens: when its supposed to look like this:
Here is what I have: image with an object and a background behind it. same background without an object. Example bellow: I want to get the difference between image 1 and image 2, which in this case is: Since I have quite a lot of different pictures that I work with, in my case tools like "Magic Wand" or similar don...
I have this PDF and want to select a particular text and find out what font it is in. Is it possible in PDF-XChange Editor, or Foxit PDF reader? I have tried to look up different advices on Internet like this one but they don't work.
What is the font used for the "細胞" on the Normal Cell's shirt from "Cells at Work"? It's recognizably some sort of regular script-styled font, probably one meant for Japanese because of the open "胞". In a font meant for Chinese, that is closed off. A search in Fontworks suggests it could be one of: Utrillo Greco Not t...
before our designer gave image [.webp ] with below details : We felt image clarity is bad, so we told to give higher dimension images because we thought it will improve clarity. designer gave new image, but still the clarity is same. is anything we can do for improving clarity ? above is .jpg image
I tried to achieve this below simple effect in Adobe Illustrator. ...but my result is a not exactly that I expect and it's a little different from the original image. I've tried Zigzag effect and applied it to both selected lines but the below line waves should be more tighter in high points of the waves (mentioned by...
We are now on Photoshop 2024, and I'm curious if we can add a Stroke (layer style), with sharp corners (not rounded) and adjust the stroke opacity. My answer will be NO, but I wanted to reach out to the community to confirm if this is still the case. I hope I'm wrong. ;) Thanks.
I have several projects that need 15-20 artboards in one file with multiple unique sizes. Right now, I create each artboard individually working of a long list of typed out measurements . Is there a script or something that would allow me to copy and paste in the measurements for each artboard and then have illustrator...
As I am preparing my photos to be printed for the first time I wanted to ask for your advice. Let me explain what I did and what I am not sure of. at first I changed profiles from RGB to CMYK FOGRA39 ( didn't see any difference though ). then I double checked that all photos are at least 300dpi for the sizes I want to...
So I have 2 images. One would be the normal image and the other has a vignette added to it. How can I subtract all the color values from the vignette version using the normal version creating an alpha png photo only from the vignette? Normal version: With vignette: So I want results like this. (I did this with color ...
Hello I’m trying to find the font used in the logo for Pokemon Sword. I’ve attempted to find the font using likefont, whatisfont and my font to no avail. All that I’m sure of is that the logo use a uses a commercially available font, that nintendo then made slight modifications to. Just like the Pokémon Shield logo whi...
There's a feature in FontLab that allows you to turn a corner into "Looped corner": I'm looking for a way to do that in Illustrator. What I do now, is to add an anchor point besides an existing corner. Then, I extend both anchor points in the path direction to create a loop. This method doesn't perform well when there...
I am getting a partially filled section when exporting svg icon from figma to react-native app. In figma In the app As you can see the pictures icon displays as expected. But the camera icon has this weird partial overlay. Camer svg: <svg width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org...
I drew a 3D wedge shape in Inkscape (see below). I want to create a stack of total 6 wedges. The top one is depicted in the picture. The second one is below it and turns 15 degrees clockwise about the red axis, the third one 30 degrees clockwise, and so on. The bottom wedge will have the pointy head away from viewers a...
How can I create a random layout, like the one in this garden plan, in Illustrator, Photoshop, or any other app? The average size of a patch is around 1-2 meters. I would like to add different plants for the random patches, but I don't want to deal with drawing or constructing the patches myself.
How can I calculate the necessary transformations to construct circular path and maintain the pattern? Can anyone provide me with or reference to relevant resources? Thanks!
In the README for WebPShop (a Photoshop plugin for saving WebP files) there is mention of a method for creating animated WebP files, but the method for producing such files is not described in detail. The only information given is as follows: The Timeline data is not used; thus animations rely on layers for defining f...
Say I have a simple SVG file, as an example, this: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="400" height="400" viewBox="0 0 100 100" fill="none"> <g> <rect x="0" y="50" width="100" height="50" fill="orange"/> </g> </svg> Visually: I want to flip this vertically, but without the use of CSS or SVG code. E...
This is a design I'm working on: I'm okay with the logo but the only problem is that it is very inconvenient. It needs to have the path colour frequently changed, and this works well, apart from the highlighted circles. Only the stroke around these circles changes, and it is very tedious, making one have to manually di...
I'm new to Inkscape and I'm trying to create some figures related to maths. One of them is a curved 3d grid, like the images below: I know for a fact these images were done in Inkscape. Is there a practical and replicable way to make these, without having to resort to manual tracing?
Is there a way to increase and decrease saturation/value on the color wheel with shortcuts in photoshop? For instance, when I press "W" the slider goes up towards the white
Im looking for an alternative similar to the font Visigoth by Arthur Baker, but with smother and less rough. Similar to the Sonic and the Secret rings in how smoothness. and the Secret rings logo
My designer colleague just brought to my attention that he has different results for contrast from different tools. How is that possible? He did the comparison for a ~Portage color #9E83F5 with white with the following, proven, tools: Stark Accessibility Tools for Figma TPGi’s Color Contrast Analyser The tools return...
I need to create an pie chart from an image. I know how to create an pie chart and how to 3D it but how in the hell can I make this image: I'm really lost here. Hope someone knows P.S. I have this image to work with
I am making artboards using the schematic drawings I have our our LARGE TWO story church and school. I am making separate artboards for all of the church campuses essentials like: Mechanicals, electricals, security, safety, plumbing etc. I have the various (separate) artboards made up. Now I would like to 'stack them' ...
I wanna make a grid like the black hole one but with bigger size and more subdivisions. I tried using the Envelope Distort tool and dragging the anchor point but the result is pretty pointy, is there any other way to do it in illustrator? Or any other software can help me do it faster?
I have an issue with Image processor (Photoshop 2024). My action does two things: Grayscale Duotone When I run Image processor (although inside Photoshop images are correctly modified), they are NOT saved and I get error popup with message Sorry, I could not process the following files. If I do Image processor with s...
I'm a complete beginner in Adobe Illustrator. I've drawn a clean lineart of a drawing with the pen tool and I'm now filling it with colours. However, I would like to give the drawing a hand-painted appearance with imperfect edges. I'm basically trying to achieve the shame appearance as the flower pot in this image: Of...
Is it possible to take an existing object and turn it into a clone of another object? Of course, the right way is to do things in the correct order by creating the original object first and then make clones. But sometimes I realize later in the workflow that I would like certain objects to be modifiable all at once. I ...
Is there any way in illustrator to convert text into curves/ paths automatically when exporting as PDF? I couldn't find any preset option in the PDF export dialog. Are there "Actions" like in photoshop that could automate that for me? I know that Acrobat does something like this in the preflight, but I would need multi...
This is my first time asking something here so I hope I can get the help I need. I seem to be stuck with a pathfinder problem. I made this detailed vectorized image of my dog and I need to merge it as it is (with all the details) into one piece for a different software (laser engraving) open cuts get filled in which I ...
What software can you use to make artistic render of plasma with the cross section of the nuclear fusion reactors? Here are some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNfP3iywvI (Helion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiNxgdMNGdU (Zap Energy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3zcmPmW6dE (General Fusion) https://ww...
adobe discontinued fonts I used extensively in a brochure. how can I replace the fonts without reformatting? I need to match the fonts as closely to original as possible.
In older versions of Inkscape, when you selected a shape in the document's shape library, there were fields for description, title and label you could set. I can't find these in Inkscape 1.3 (but data I entered in older versions appear in 1.3). I have tried double-clicking, right-clicking, Object properties (but then t...
I have a word repeated four times with a star over the middle of the text. Is there a way to eliminate just the letters behind the star?
I have only started using photoshop yesterday, so I have virtually no experience and no idea what I’m doing. What I want to do is: 1- overlay a map of river paths on top of the desert map, and change the color and opacity of some of these rivers. 2- change the colors of the desert to green (realistic looking green land...
I'd like to easily create clippings that aren't simply bitmap screenshots (i.e., I don't want to use the snapshot tool.) The only way I know how to do this is to open the "pages" view, extract the current page to a new file, and then crop the page down to the desired clipping in the new file. Ideally instead I would si...
Here is the image I want to make into a normal map: I've tried multiple tools for converting this image into a normal map, but they all seem to interpret the image wrong. The normal map is always rendered with weird ridges rather than studs with proper lighting. How do I turn this image into a normal map with the same...
Say I have an action with M (many) adjustments/filters. And I run Image processor on N images. How would I dynamically change one of the properties of the action (e.g. duotone monochrome color from Red -> Blue proportionally over the N images to process)?
[UPDATE] I revised the design based on your feedback, which was really helpful, thank you! I'm a student and have to gather feedback for my assignment on my brand design. Any feedback is helpful, especially because I've never done graphic design before. The design is for a mockup brand which helps empower women throu...
I have been working as a Graphic designer for the past 2 years. But some how I face little difficulty in choosing the right font and color for my designer work. So need ideas on improvising my work.
I want circles with DIFFERENT stroke sizes to have similar border distances / align them evenly. How can I do that in Illustrator? The blend tool works only if border sizes are identical. Thank you for your appreciated support! Kind regards Silvan
"Systemspace", or The Tsuki Project, was an alternate reality game (ARG) which ran from 2017-2020. The history of the site, along with archive, is currently maintained at https://www.systemspace.network/ for art preservation reasons. See the main site for reference. Although it was eventually shut down, the background ...
Can you tell me what this typeface is? Thanks! You can see more of it here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/101146789/POVEMENT
Love this retro style font, does anyone know what it is? Or anything similar? Thanks so much
Some examples are below (source: https://www.etsy.com/shop/JazzberryBlue). How do I achieve gradients like this in Gimp? Or if not Gimp, what is the general process for creating gradients that blend with this kind of "spray paint"/ink texture? Is there a name for it?
What is the industry standard format for animated elements on web pages? I know these can be videos and GIFs, but it doesn’t seem as if these formats are providing high enough quality, and video files get too big that slows down the loading speed of the page. Are vector animations created in Adobe Animate able to be us...
I have image1 and image2. Image1 is screenshot from the display 3800x1900 with a device scale factor 2.25. The second image2 is a screenshot from the display 1800x900 with a device scale factor 1. When checked dimensions (resolution), it's almost the same. Yet the first image is twice as big as the second one at 100% w...
i have a question. Is there an option to save multiple layers but first image need to apply do all layers below. I know there is option for that in photoshop but it's not working for me. Im creating t-shirt mockups and i will leave screenshot so you can better understand what i need if possible. So as you can see on im...
PowerPoint has an amazing "remove background" tool where the program guesses the user's selection while the user marks areas they do or don't want. Its a time and number of clicks efficient way to select complex things. Is there any graphic design program with a similar selection scheme? (user marking areas as "in" or ...
I have an auto layout that I'm trying to "fix" to the right. So when the items within the layout become wider and make the auto layout itself wider, I want it to expand to the left not to the right. Currently its expanding to the right. How can I fix this?
What is the difference between ∞ and ♾️? Both are described as infinity in MacOS character viewer, though in the first case it is INFINITY and in the second case infinity
Is there a way to create an automated action or way of duplicating multiple layers so that each layer is duplicated into its own new document. Right now I have to manually right click, and click Duplicate Layer into New Document for each layer. Is there an Action that can be created to do this? Thank you.
There is a technique in book design that creates a very wide outer (or sometimes inner) margin to the body text, allowing the lay-outer to put parts of the content in there. Think of annotations, comments, or having an image edge into the 'spare column'. I've seen this design regularly in magazine design, and sometimes...
I've created a simple disk model with a chamfer and fillet. I'm using an Adobe substance for texturing. I'm using Adobe Substance 3D Stager (though I had this same issue Adobe Dimension, which is basically an earlier version of Stager, and also in Blender when I used the Adobe Substance importer). It seems that the tex...
I have been using this Android program - no longer in the Google store (implying: support discontinued) - and I have noticed it uses (what looks to me like) two distinct types of fonts, respectively, for the edit view and for the saved view. (There are no direct font settings, beyond the size and the color.) Do you rec...
I'm working on a website that'll have fractions in it, and I'd like to use the OpenType frac feature to format them well. CSS provides the font-variant-numeric:diagonal-fractions property to turn this on, but fonts vary greatly in their support for this property, and it's hard to search for ones that do a good job. As ...
When I say "classes of font", I'm referring to categories and styles such as geometric, gothic, grotesk, handwriting, humanist, etc. Out of all of these, which would be the most readable - by most people, at a modest size, with good/contrasting colours, at a glance - in most situations?
I have a problem that actually annoyed me for quite a while in text editing software, only now I have a case where it's hard to ignore it: Maybe it's some simple general feature but I never knew how to fix this: The problem is that the distance of lines of text that switched to the new line automatically is different f...
I have a logo that is in a png format (black lettering, transparent background). I want to convert this to a white logo lettering with a transparent background. How can I do this in Lightroom or Photoshop?
I have two lists of timestamps. Each of the lists look like this: ... 26/Nov/2023:21:19:57 +0000 26/Nov/2023:21:20:02 +0000 26/Nov/2023:21:20:23 +0000 26/Nov/2023:21:26:32 +0000 26/Nov/2023:21:46:17 +0000 26/Nov/2023:21:49:43 +0000 26/Nov/2023:21:50:01 +0000 26/Nov/2023:21:51:54 +0000 26/Nov/2023:21:52:08 +0000 ... Ea...
InDesign does not properly important Word paragraphs that are 3pt, it converts them all to 10 or 12 point. Why is this?
Can anyone help identify a jap font,pls...tia