Questions tagged [path]
Questions about paths; in graphic design they are polylines and polycurves used in vector graphic software, such as Illustrator and Inkscape. Ask anything related to manipulating paths in graphic design software.
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Using Inkscape 1.3, I cannot find where to apply a "Simplify" path effect
Using Inkscape 1.3, I cannot find where to apply a "Simplify" path effect. Nothing comes down on "Add Live Path Effect" menu, nor is there any Apply button. See attached screenshot....
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Creating a convex hull object that covers disjoint objects in Illustrator
I am trying to freeform gradient fill this implied curved teardrop. However, when I compound path the objects freeform gradient doesn't work (see image below). My next idea was to create an object ...
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Illustrator: Merging lines that run parallel within a given distance
The circle shows an intersection with several lines representing a main road that I would like to be just one line. I'm attempting to find a way to merge all main roads in this manner, as efficiently ...
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Sharpen Corners of Path
A while ago I stumbled upon a webpage that demonstrated how to sharpen the round corners of a rectangular path. Basically you would just pull the nodes of the corners across till they intersected and ...
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Exporting to svg leaving ghost path lines
I'm exporting out my filled paths(made using the arc tool) to svg using illustrator cs6. I get these shows lines where the path lines are; they appear even if I outline stroke the paths. In my export ...
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How to make a looped corner (like in FontLab) in Illustrator?
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 ...
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Text on a path with Pixelmator
Is it possible to have text follow a path? Similar to this: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-type-path.html
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How do I place four "evenly" spaced lines along the perimeter of a shape in Illustrator?
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 ...
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What is the best way to go about designing a sqaurish clock face?
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.
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How to trim multiple paths within a clipping mask?
the image below was created from a clipping mask; is there a way to trim what is outside of the mask? I want to keep the paths separate and preserve their individual stroke colours. I have tried using ...
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Relative coordinates in animateMotion path
I cannot figure out why the blue ball1 in the following example does not "move to" the point on the path specified in #wire from its starting positions to mimic the path animation of the pink ball2. ...
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Work and Clipping Paths in Photoshop to InDesign
I am trying to export a clean mask of an image I created in photoshop to indesign. Whenever I utilize the work path, the wp does not adhere to the selections I've made, but rather creates jagged nasty ...
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Make a path from a cut out path in Sketch
I have a sketch file with an icon where the icon shape is cut out from the surrounding box. I want to make this cut out bit into a real path so I can fill it with a color, but am unable to do so. I've ...
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Make shapes or objects follow a path symmetrical in illustrator with no overlapping?
I'm on Illustrator 2021, and try to follow the same results as in How to make Objects follow a path (illustrator) (like on the las vegas sign)
but can't make it work.
My case is that I want to make ...
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Creating a geometric path
Edit: I did not want to conflate the question with unnecessary details, but from the extended comments, it seems some additional info is in order.
I would like to create a path that ultimately can be ...
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How to change outline color with eyedropper in Adobe illustrator
I am trying to work on a big project and i need to change lines color just with one click, the is so much shapes, every time i pick i dropper it changes the shapes color not only the outline
Any ...
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How can I combine and fill these lines In Sketch?
I have a few orange lines that I have drawn in sketch. I would like to combine them into one shape and use something like a "paint bucket" tool to fill the whole object with the light sand color.
I ...
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Merging two anchor points of the same path in Illustrator
Assume the following situation in Adobe Illustrator, where I have two neighbouring anchor points on the same path. For the left anchor point, only the left bezier-handle is important and for the right ...
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How to extend lines for a shape in Illustrator
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 ...
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Can anyone describe to me what is happening in this AI file? Jagged edges, non vector?
I'm not exactly sure of how to even describe this, but have attached screenshots from the Illustrator file a friend sent me, so that I could quickly change the colors of a logo for her. This file came ...
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Deleting points on width tool not working illustrator CS6
I'm having trouble with selecting points using the width tool. Sometimes I want to click and delete a point I don't want but sometimes it doesn't work and sometimes it adds a new point its very ...
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Trim Extraneous Lines in Illustrator
I've got this woodgrain texture that I'd like to trim down to just what's in the box. I've tried all different combinations of the options in the pathfinder panel, but nothing is working for me. So, ...
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Bake texture of particles cinema4d
What i want is to have particles coming into the screen by rolling down the screen under the influence of gravity and Filling up the screen t,some particles have red color while others are grey the ...
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Convert dashed stroke to a regular path using Inkscape
For example i want to convert the following shape :
to a group of paths so i get path points in all edges.
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Illustrator: I need an 'Average points by distance' script
I'm currently working on a path that was once a pattern with multiple loose ends. I'm unable to pathfinder>unite it since it's a "lines only" shape.
As you can see, it's a very complex ...
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Long path break apart fills gaps unnecessarily in Inkscape
I have a long SVG path that I want to split/ break-apart. both options fills white gaps between nodes unnecessarily. please I want to keep white spaces as is before and after splitting the path.
I am ...
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How to create an inverse pattern with black and white in Inkscape?
I've a path which I want to overlay with a watermark pattern.
Since my path is filled only with white and the background is dark I want to make the watermark overlay pattern to switch color only if it'...
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Separately Animating Multiple Segments That Belong to One Layer: Adobe Illustrator and After Effects
I am using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects.
I want to animate an SVG triangle. I want the Hypotenuse to "swing out" from the bottom leg (go from 0 deg to 45deg). I can do this by 1)...
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Manipulate group/union of objects with corner path nodes in Inkscape
I'm attempting to create an isometric view of a laptop with a code block on its screen (left picture). Each section is its own separate object that I can either group or form together as a union (I ...
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How do i snap 2 path points together in Photoshop?
I simply want to combine the 2 selected points shown below.
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Inkscape: Symmetric angles for two bezier handles
Can I align the angles of the bezier handles of two different points, such that their angle to a given line is the same? Consider the following picture:
I want to make a perfectly symmetrical line, ...
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Shape Stroke Disappears When Modifying
So, let's say I have a shape and I use the shape/path stroke. I set it to 5 and there's a stroke now. Cool. I modify some things in the shape path and the stroke disappears. If I set the stroke level ...
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Is it possible to draw coloured lines in Photoshop (CS6) with the pen tool?
I'd like to draw over a photo in a new layer with the pen tool.
When I do this, the path created has no colour.
Do I need to use the Pixels option with the path tool?
Deselecting that path, then using ...
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How to cut path segments to fit the mask exactly [FIGMA]?
I've got a path under a circular mask. It has a colour fill. When I try to simply remove the parts of the path outside the mask, the path is no longer closed, and I lose the fill. How to cut the path ...
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Illustrator - Create straight line from multiple points
This is typically a problem I encounter when expanding and uniting a blend in Illustrator, but I can think of other times when this would be helpful. I've deleted the inside points and reconnected the ...
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Is there way to get or convert characters into svg path?
In this picture is cursive Chinese character. There are lot of stroke order for normal Chinese characters.
Is there way to create this characters into individual stroke with path data like following.
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How do I interpolate curves in Illustrator?
Imagine a vectorialized typographic "C" which stroke width varies along the curve, as it often happens in typography.
I'd like to draw a curve between those two boundary curves in such a way ...
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Combine large numbers of shapes while maintaining lines?
How do you convert a complex design of shapes into a single path?
I have this design made from individual overlapping paths:
that I want to etch using a CNC machine. The machine can read an SVG file, ...
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How can one consistently box select vertices in Illustrator?
I want to draw a box around a group of vertices and then have them be selected. The "Direct Selection" tool can do this, but only if you start your click outside of a object. If you start ...
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Reduce "boldness" of text-converted shape
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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Change color of all lines on a design
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 ...
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Pasting Paths from Illustrator to InDesign gives strange bounding box
When I copy a path-object from Illustrator (I use CC 3.0.8.310) to InDesign, the bounding box of the object is totally screwed up in InDesign. It's always much bigger than the original object, but in ...
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How to crop an object in Inkscape and update the object's node paths to reflect the new shape?
I created a circle in Inkscape that I want to crop a smaller circle out of, and then use the Corners (Fillet/Chamfer) Path Effect to round the edges of the cropped out area, creating the shape of a ...
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Illustrator: how to align different elements of a layer without them collapsing together
I'm quite new to illustrator, but I'm having hard time trying to align the whole layer to the center of the artboard without its element collapsing all together, would you have any suggestions how to ...
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Photoshop CC: how to break up subpaths?
I can't figure out how to break a path's subpaths into separate, individual paths in Photoshop CC. Everything I find online suggests there is an Object menu (?) but I'm either too stupid to locate it,...
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Compound path - Fill doesn't match shape
This is a really simple file. Just a outlined text, made into a compound path. It's weird that the fill doesn't match the outline (in blue) does anyone know what's happening here?
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Why Can't I merge two curved paths in InDesign CS5?
I'm using InDesign CS5 at work and I'm trying to create a "U", "Horseshoe", or "shield" curved path for text to follow.
I already know how to copy+paste text on a path. That is not the issue. The ...
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Illustrator SVG export tossing around path locations / rotations
I'm trying to export a pretty simple icon I made in illustrator to svg for use on a webpage, but when I export it, two of the thick curved lines in my graphic are tossed off to the side and rotated ...
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Illustrator - Select an anchor point that is directly beneath another anchor point on the same path?
Because these anchor points are on the same path, I cannot separate into different layers then lock one.
Even at full zoom, I cannot discern one point from the other and so only the "top" point gets ...
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Selective cutout effect to give depth to overlapping lines
I'm looking for a good (i.e., efficient and flexible) Inkscape technique to achieve a selective "cutout" effect for indicating depth of and visualize separation between overlapping paths (...
