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Google Web Designer distorting image sharpness

I'm using Google Web Designer to create an animation. The program is awesome for the most part. The one area where it's a bit befuddling is with image quality. Original images are usually quite ...
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Draw hemispheres on top of area?

It's a completely new area for me to generate 3D structures out of 2D image. I'd like to generate spherical hemispheres on top of every white blops. How could this be possible and with what tool? I ...
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Recreate digitally an ink smudge/bleeding/watercolor-y thrashed out image?

I've seen these recently on Instagram and was wondering if it would be possible to recreate such digitally? (because I suspect they did it digitally, even though that could also have be done ...
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Recommendations - OpenSeaDragon / PureRef hybrid

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any open source projects that have an infinitely zoomable/panable canvas (like PureRef), but allows for a "tiled" image source. That is, the images would be ingested ...
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What is type of design (Youtube music background and thumbnail) called?

I have found some examples where the thumbnails and the background of the following YouTube videos has these characteristics: Cover album at the background of the video. The cover is also in higher ...
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Principles of composition: how to lay out images in text?

What are some guiding design principles for laying out images in several paragraphs of text on a webpage? In my particular case, there are two columns of text, and the images are proportioned and ...
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Images Have Different Vertical & Horizontal Resolutions in PDF

I recently got a PDF from a client that includes several images. For some strange reason, the vertical and horizontal resolution of each individual image differs. Some of them differ by a huge degree. ...
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Shrinking Clipart to 1/12 of its normal size

Can anyone recommend a good way to reduce clipart without it getting too blurry? I'm currently using Photoshop Elements (but am not opposed to using something else) to reduce purchased clipart. I am ...
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How to create an image that is black on one side, and white on the other side, using Gimp?

I need a way to create a new image in Gimp which is completely black on one side, and completely white on the other. I've tried color to alpha but that did not seem to yield the correct results. I'm ...
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Removing links - Pintrest & Adobe Spark

I know Spark is an online tool so I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so I apologize in advance if I'm in the wrong place. I'm sure there's a way I create a mood board on AdobeSpark ...
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Illustrator: how to crop image without losing quality

I'm trying to use Illustrator to edit .eps images. I want to crop an image. But it always decreases the resolution of the image after whatever way I crop it. I tried setting the cropping ...
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Remove all colors but one

In Inkscape is there any way to remove from a photo all color, except one, and to instead either use shades of that color or that color and shades of black?? Though I'm not entirely sure, I think ...
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Image for yearbook cover too big to upload

I'm using a new yearbook design software this year which is all web-based. I'm trying to upload a vector image for the cover but it's too big. I saved it as a jpg and tif with a transparent ...
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How to open .tif in color (not black and white)

I have scanned book. Each page of the book consists of two files: one .tif file and one .frf file. (By the way, are they somehow compatible?) If I open .tif file in viewer like Irfanview, GIMP, Paint ...
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Is there way to preload all images in PDF document

I've prepared a quite image heavy presentation in InDesign, just to occur a bit annoying problem. After exporting interactive PDF, and opening the file, some of the images and elements load on the run ...
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Indesign - Paste Inline Image Resized to Frame Width

I'm inserting large inline images into my text flow, which it then breaks the flow and disappears. Is there a way to have it automatically resize to fit the text frame's boundaries?
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How to arrange images by their dominant color?

I want to arrange a stack of images by their primary color/s - or another, aesthetic way by involving an algorithm, rather than my own poor judgement. Is there a tool for doing so? These are ...
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Rearrange an image into random tiles?

I want to rearrange an image so that it becomes 4 tiles, but not one of the tiles is in its original place. Which software does that automatically? I don't need the separate tiles files, I just want ...
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My images got layers even when it has not been edited it in an imaging software. why ? possible explanations

im having trouble with my unedited images opening as layers. im working with a scientific image. i have never edited this image on photoshop. i have opened this image on inkscape and have once tried ...
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Why two images of similar size (width and height) have different dimensions in the viewer

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. ...
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I have a greyscale drawing with lighting built in, how do I turn it into a normal map?

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 ...
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Turning desert map green in photoshop

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 ...
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Inkscape, how to set a white stroke around the image and wrap text around a circle

Inkscape on Debian. I'm trying to set white stroke around an image (external border only) but didn't find the way to achieve that. Also I need wrap text around a circle, on the top and bottom: how to ...
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InDesign. Apply updated links from one doc to others?

In InDesign: I originally have 3 documents that uses the same image references and have the same layout, but now the images are updated with different file names and locations. I have updated one of ...
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How to perfectly blend together two images?

I have two mosaic images that I wish to blend together, one in blue and one in magenta. [\1] The first approach is to add a mask of gradient opacity onto one of them, and then simply put the gradient ...
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Software to randomly combine graphic parts into a large graphic image

First, from the other questions in this forum, I'm not sure if this is the right place for my question. But I couldn't find a better one on StackExchange, so please apologize, and help me by ...
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Design an interactive template with image upload option

I'm assuming this is impossible but worth asking - I'm trying to create a template for HR - a digital employee card - with form fields to fill in the employee's name/title/etc. as well as an image ...
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Does the way we bring images to PS change the resolution?

I noticed sharpness of image is different depends on how we bring it to photoshop. For e.g. via import, drag and drop, placed, open or load to PS. Is it just me or it is how it supposed to be?
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Exported photoshop image is 'darker/ stronger' when viewed on mobile

I noticed that the colors of the exported image from photoshop, when viewed from mobile, is 'stronger' or 'darker' but are retained when viewed on a computer/ laptop. I'm unable to send a screenshot ...
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Easy Image Hosting

Sorry for the most basic question. I'm looking at the code for my first website right now. I'm just creating a portfolio page for my Illustration works, as an excuse to learn. I want someone else to ...
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How to pixelate like this

How do I create natural (for lack of a better word) pixelation like this from a high resolution image? (image needs to be downloaded to see what i mean) For example, can I downsize it, allow the small ...
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How do I convert a series of PNGs to an OBJ or other 3D format?

I have a couple thousand (~13,000) images (named frame0.png, frame1.png, etc.) that I need to convert to a 3D format. The X and Y of the images will stay on the X and Y of the 3D object file, but the ...
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Photo has bright and darker on an aerial photo question

I am not very familiar how to manipulate with the photo i have has a bright and a darker in the same photos. I do not know if this is a common or not . I got this from a contractor that scanned many ...
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A color gradient app replicating Microsoft Office's features

I'm fascinated by how you can choose which direction the gradient follows in Microsoft Office apps. For example, in the image I've attached, the one in the middle grows in an outward direction.
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Powerpoint 2007 full of linked images that don't display in Impress

I recently installed LibreOffice. I have a large Powerpoint 2007 slide deck that contains a lot of linked images. None of the show up as pictures in Impress, be it in full screen slide show view or ...
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Image fitting in minimal space

Is there any way to orgazine certain images to fit in a document occupying the minimal space possible? Like this: The images would be in a PNG format, to count transparent areas as free space to ...
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Where to find stock images (portraits) with transparent background

I'm looking for a place to find stock images, specifically portraits, that come with a pre-masked background, so I can easily replace it. Does anyone know a source, or a way to filter for that type of ...
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Adobe Illustrator importing large PNG image results in black square

I'm trying to import a very large PNG image (12k) into Adobe Illustrator for tracing, but when I either drag it on or place it, the image is not imported. Instead there is just a black rectangle with ...
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Does Facebook’s 20% rule apply to sharing images on posts?

I'm the social media designer for the company I work at, and most of our images are just used for posts. I've been asked to follow the 20% rule and have even been asked once or twice to make the text ...
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Pixelated/Blurry Banner image

I'm having an issue with a banner image I'm trying to create for my website. When I upload the image to my website, the icons I added to the banner in Photoshop look blurry. Any advice on how I can ...
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Creating Smooth and Clean Graphics

I'm interested in creating graphics on a computer rather than drawing them out. I draw out things by hand, copy them onto the computer, and then trace over them with tools in a program called Gimp. ...
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Hide a typo letter in an image in a pdf file

I have a typo legend in an image in my pdf file. There is an extra "t" at the end of the legend. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the correct image. How can I remove that "t" in my pdf?
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Are there any noticeable differences if a grey scale image is converted to RGB?

Browsing through the archives I didn't see this question asked before after reviewing the tags color-profile, rgb, grayscale but I am wondering if there are any visual differences if an image that was ...
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Invision's Craft doesn't place high definition images in Sketch

I'm using Sketch and Invision's "Craft" plugin. If I want to place an image as a fill inside a rectangle I use Craft (which takes the images from Unsplash). My issue is that these images are being ...
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Image appears blank in Windows

I have the following image This image can be seen properly only on OSX, but can not be seen in Windows. I need to edit this image in Photoshop or illustrator, but I am not able to find the issue. I ...
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How to draw curved lines inside a badge in PhotoShop

I have a badge and I want to draw dash line inwards. So far I have tried some methods like using Pen to draw and "Convert Point Tool", but I cannot make it right, and it's hard to explain, please take ...
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What kind of blur filter is this?

I have the original image and filtered image. Original: Filtered: Difference: These images are from pixiv WHICH IS NOT AT ALL SAFE FOR WORK: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&...
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Upsampling - The Basics and Guidelines

Photoshop and other image editing applications possess sophisticated engines and algorithms which allow one to increase the resolution of an image via interpolation. Are there any hard and fast rules ...
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Photoshop - Difference between two images

I will try to explain my problem in few words. I have an image representing a person. Thanks to my code I manage to compute the background subtraction and have the resulting shape of the person in HSV ...
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How do I crop an image with just one or a few layers with Pixelmator?

The task I'm trying to achieve with Pixelmator is opening up a PSD and quickly (because I generally have to do it a lot) crop a piece of the image but also removing layers that I don't want in the ...
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