Questions tagged [effects]
Questions regarding illusions or visual tricks in the design process, whether it be from software (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP) or through technique.
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Create hatching in Inkscape?
How can I create hatching in Inkscape? I want to create plain hatching like you would find in an engineering drawing. (I am not interested in "artistic" hatching like the "rough" hatching Inkscape has ...
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What causes the effect in the Sonos logo?
Below is the new Sonos logo.
When you scroll up and down with the image on screen, it looks like sound waves are pulsing outward.
What causes this effect to occur?
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How to re-create this iOS7 blur effect
Tried a lot but I just can't quite get it, how do I achieve a translucent tab bar like this:
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Turn image into geometric array of colours
Is there a tool like Poly (iPad app) available for Android or Windows systems? I'd like to turn images into polygones/triangles like shown on the app site.
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How can I make a hollow effect as seen in the back side of a VW bus?
I'm working on this illustration project. It is a VW samba bus from the 50'slike the image below.
The part I'm struggling the most with are the air ventilation grills seen in the backside of the bus.
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Preventing reverse search engines from finding the origin of your image?
I am planning to make a game, where I give the user an anime related image and they have to guess where its from.
However, most of the images, specially from popular anime are easy to use on Google ...
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In GIMP, how can I identify and match the saturation of an image
I have various album covers which are low resolution, but the colours come out really pretty.
I have higher resolution images of the same covers, but the colours are very different, much duller and ...
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What are some good tips on how to extrude text in Adobe Illustrator?
I'm bit of a newbie in Adobe Illustrator and have been learning the application by trying to follow some tutorials and recreating some cool stuff I come across on the web.
That being said, I'm having ...
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How to create an artistically posterized monotone portrait?
Can anyone please tell me what this greyscale vector style is called and how can I achieve it?
Source
I was informed I should put my image in Photoshop and adjust the levels and run the cutout ...
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What is this style, a grid of varying dots, called?
What is this style called? I want to recreate this effect on a photo myself. Also, does anyone have tips on how to accomplish this?
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How was this image designed?
I've just came across a image with a peculiar effect. I'm not sure how they have hidden the original image in the lines(or layer perhaps?)
There has been no visible changes in color nor in the pattern ...
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How do I manipulate a field grid in Illustrator to resemble spacetime so that the center of the grid dips below a sphere?
Think of a bowling ball that has rolled to the center of a trampoline. I would like to depict that in Illustrator, except the trampoline would be a grid that conforms to the weight of the bowling ball ...
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How to make a lens with zoomed effect in Photoshop
How do I go about creating this effect in Photoshop cs6?
Don't forget to mark this question as useful :)
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How to create a grain / noise effect in Adobe Illustrator
I want to create a noise effect using Adobe Illustrator.
Inside the hexagonal shape there is some kind of texture effect, I don't know what the name of this effect is:
How can I create such an ...
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How are patterns that look like they're moving created?
Every time I see a pattern that looks like it's moving, but really isn't, I wonder what the principles are for creating such images.
I suppose this is the best place on the web to get a good answer ...
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How do you achieve this colorful chrome effect?
I've been trying to figure out how to get this shaped chrome effect, it’s really clean and I’d love to play with it in Photoshop.
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What are the traditional rules for drop shadow direction / light source?
When creating a drop shadow for objects, what is the traditional / classic "rule" for the offset direction? I see so many that are down and right, which results in the light source coming from the top ...
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Fisheye Effect in Inkscape?
Is anyone aware of a way to create a fisheye effect with elements in InkScape? Freehand used to have an xtra tool that did just that.
The specific effect I'm trying to achieve is applying horizontal ...
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Set a stroke to knockout a fill behind it with live text in Illustrator
I'd like to be able to set the stroke of some live text to knockout a fill that is offset so it appears as a shadow with negative space between the top fill and the "shadow" fill. I can't seem to find ...
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Photoshop vs. Illustrator for Icon Development
My client is requesting SVG files (saving as an SVG would require me to build the icon in Illustrator), but I have always designed icons in Photoshop (importing vector art from Illustrator, and ...
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How to create fake reflections?
How can I create fake reflections easily like the one here:
Any online or easy open source tools out there?
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Frosted glass effect/texture/filter/pattern in Adobe Fireworks?
Is there a way to do this with Adobe Fireworks?
I know its possible using Photoshop with this tutorial.
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GIMP: the closest thing to Photoshop's smart object?
I've been learning GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop, which I haven't been using for design purposes for more than 5 years now. I discovered that there is a new interesting thing called the smart ...
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Why are some SVG Filters automatically converted to PNG when creating an SVG in Adobe Illustrator?
I was wondering why some of the SVG Filters found in Illustrator are automatically converted to PNG when I export the entire file to SVG. I don't want any hidden PNG files because of scalability.
To ...
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Name and possibly a tutorial for this inset rounded rectangle technique
I am speaking about the drop-in effect around the round edges. I like the fact that the actual theme seems to be a bit further back and the border is closer to the viewer.
I can gather that a portion ...
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How do I make a drop shadow with a halftone effect?
I have already tried doing with Drop Shadow settings and i could only produce a black smudged shadow, not the spotted one. Look at this text. Can you see that spotted shadow behind the text? I want to ...
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advise on "copying" text effect from existing logo
I'm trying to copy the text effect on an existing logo to no avail.
I have been using Illustrator to work on the logo but cannot seem to get it workout the way I want.
It's not that I want to copy ...
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How can I make complex gradient images like these in Illustrator?
How can I create these types of gradient images in Illustrator?
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How to apply grain texture effect in GIMP
I am trying to follow https://medium.com/google-design/salt-pepper-the-art-of-illustrating-texture-c962dc67cc35 to add material design effect to my project in GIMP.
But the tutorial is specifically ...
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How do I make objects created with transform effect into an actual object?
Say, you apply transform as an effect and make a bunch of rotated copies of an object. Now those copies are an effect and if you center the object it will only center the original object and not the ...
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Edit multiple layers in Gimp
Is it possible to apply things like brightness/contrast or hue saturation or even filters to more than one layer at a time in Gimp?
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Export vector design from Illustrator to photoshop and back
How do I take a gradient vector design into photoshop, add noise to it, and then return it back into Illustrator without the white background?
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Is there a natural way to indicate directional motion in a still image?
I have made the following render of a DNA molecule being pulled through a hole in a membrane using Blender. Since this process can go in either direction, I need a way to indicate whether the DNA is ...
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Illustrator: Border effect for a path
I'd like to surround a path with a border (see the third illustration below). However, I cannot get it done without using Path -> Outline stroke. This is very inconvenient, as Outline stroke ...
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Is this an effect or a type of font?
I have seen a lot this type of fonts (the ones in the bar). It is a relief effect or the font is just like that?
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Why empty adjustment layer with blend mode multiply darken images?
I know blend mode "Multiply" means multiplying the colour (0 to 255) of its layer, with the visible underneath (0 to 255), then divided by 255, forms the resulting colour (0 to 255).
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Transparent stroke overlap in Illustrator
I'm trying to do a semi-transparent stroke on a path. When 2 different paths overlap (right) the area where they cross is darker, as expected. But if it a single path there is no such area (left). Any ...
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How can I create this pixel effect in Illustrator?
I need to create this pixel square effect in Illustrator:
I tried to make perspective grid, put squares and blend them.
My problem includes two main points:
I can't make distance from smallest to ...
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How to create a decreasing stippling or halftone effect? [duplicate]
For lack of a better name, I'm trying to create a decreasing stippling effect like this:
My first inclination was that this could be created in Photoshop with some sort of filter effect. I was ...
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Warping vector graphic
What is the best alternative to Adobe Illustrator which allows for the same feature as Puppet Warp tool? Please suggest any simple tool which allow warping vector graphics. Preferably app for iPad or ...
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Default "Preview On" - Illustrator plugins and effects
Every time I use an effect or a modifying function ("Extrude and Bevel" or "Split into grid" for example) I have to check "Preview". I always want preview to be enabled.
Is there a way to get ...
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How do I remove the alpha channel from the air spray filter in Inkscape?
I'm trying to simulate a cloud of data points around a graph and I found that the air spray filter applied to a copy of that graph will give me almost what I want, especially when changing the ...
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Making a solid color more realistic/natural
I often come across elements of color which look very natural and realistic despite there being only one solid color (not in a pixel-exact way, but rather in the perceived sense).
When I try to ...
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Technically, what are the prime gotchas that could affect your logo further down the road, if it incorporates justified* fx & blend mode treatments?
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(*Justified meaning they favorably add to the identity and aesthetics; i.e. we're assuming that they make perfect sense in a structural meaning.)
I'm looking for technically specific ...
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What is the best way to acheive this "geometric triangles" effect?
I'm currently playing around in Illustrator and I would like to know the best way to recreate this pattern from a Samsung wallpaper (or similar) so that I can colour it how I like.
The main problem I'...
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How to remove part of an image in the shape of a font without affecting the background?
I am entirely new to graphic design. I have a background image and a "foreground" image. I want to modify the foreground image by omitting parts of it (so that the background takes its place)...
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How to create a realistic bevel effect on text in Photoshop?
I found this image on google and was fascinated by the realism of the bevel effect and wanted to learn how to do it myself.
I tried some stuffs but they were not close enough. I want to replicate ...
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Can I round the corners of a shape that has curves in Illustrator?
I have a simple shape in Illustrator that has two curved edges, two straight edges, and four sharp corners:
I want to round off the sharp corners a bit like so (kinda sorta approximated by the ...
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How to create the effect in this animated GIF of morphing faces?
I saw an amazing animated gif
And I thought I should give it a go.
I tried laying out several friends' pictures in movie maker and power director and though I sort of have a video where it is ...
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How to Make Letters Like This?
I'd like to know how to make these in photoshop or fireworks, but with a slight preference for fireworks. If I can find a tutorial in photoshop, I can probably get it to work in fireworks.
What is ...
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