Questions tagged [technique]
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How was this digital painting/illustration created?
I was wondering if anyone can explain what tech or application as well as technique I can use to re-create the style of the background in the image below.
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How did Tove Jansson work with the illustrations for her book "Who Will Comfort Toffle"?
I'm very fascinated by the illustrations by Tove Jansson in her book Who Will Comfort Toffle? You can see some examples of the printed images in this search.
In short, the images are printed in 7 spot ...
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How to achieve such grunge texture?
I just came across the works of Forthcoming Studio ( https://forthcoming.studio/) and I was really wondering how it's possible to achieve such texture effect and what is the source for it ? Are those ...
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Is there a name for the style clash of moving objects from the background in cartoons?
You know how you could always tell which elements in a scene of Road Runner was part of the Coyote's trap?
Or how characters have a much simpler art style from the rest of the background?
I ...
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What is the technique / method to create this photo?
I can program in Python (Opencv) a little bit and would like to know which steps can be automated, if any, in the creation of this image, as I would like to do similar images for friends.
Does anyone ...
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What techniques or tools are used to create this kind of line art?
I like this style of line art:
It looks fairly straightforward to make in Illustrator, but I notice that the lines have a subtle imperfection that makes it look more natural. They aren't uniform in ...
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How can I design a wormhole in illustrator?
How can I design this wormhole using adobe illustrator ?
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Adobe Illustrator arced text gets distorted after rotating
Whenever I try effect->warp->arc... I can arc my text, but when I try to rotate it (say by -30 degrees) the text gets very distorted -- especially at the end point. Matters are worse if I try to ...
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Adobe illustrator - how to achieve "dissolving" icon effect?
I have this simple icon:
And I would like to apply a kind of "dissolve" aesthetic to it, for reference:
However I cannot think of any way to achieve this in a human time-frame. I hope there is some ...
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Can someone please help me do a visual analysis of this advertisement [closed]
** Not a homework question
I recently stumbled upon a very interesting advertisement by an organization called "World for all" . I was thinking of writing an analytical paper on analyzing the ...
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What is this 3D text effect called?
I need some help defining the technique used in this image.
I call it a 3d drop shadow but that isn't the best or correct term to use for this graphic.
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How do you invert the colors in a stencil drawing so that the result looks otherwise identical to the original?
I have a stencil image of Karl Marx. The subject is mostly white on a black background. However, I would like to create another version of it where the subject is black on a white background. I ...
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Any tips or ideas on how to design this optical art that only uses orthogonal lines?
I am just experimenting on new techniques and op art was something that always pique my interest. Any idea on where to start or how to even get the lines to aligned like this?
Source: H.P. Lovecraft, ...
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Is there a specific technique graphic artists use for this illustration?
I've always wondered if there was a specific method/technique that graphic artists use to create the patterning in this croc?
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How is this type of grain/noise effect made?
I've spent the morning playing with noise in both illustrator and photoshop, blending layers and testing various grain textures - trying to get close to this type of superbly fine but crisp noise but ...
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Illustrator: How to make the arrow keys move in smaller increments?
Here's me trying to fine tune something in Illustrator with the arrow keys.
That's a single increment.
Trying to click & drag is futile, because the object won't actually start to move until you ...
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Pencil effect over photo
I am wondering how can I achieve this pencil effect on an image using Photoshop or other software.
Is it some kind of painting? Or is there some converter tools? What I want is to convert a simple ...
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Changing symbol's instance
I have a sidebar in my project with 5 icons and I want to active only one of them in every page.
I defined the sidebar as a symbol. Is there a way to select the active icon in every page? I mean, is ...
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How to override color on illustrations/icons that can't be flattened in Sketch App?
I'm trying to create a styleguide according to atomic design. For this I'm trying to create a set of icons where I can override the color so I can use them in different sets.
I made an icon of a ...
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Need to understand the technique used in the artwork of sites like Slack, Hioscar, Avocode, etc
So there is this sort of a pastel/raster artwork used in some sites that I want to learn to make and possibly replicate it. Please help my identify this these techniques
Eg1:The pastel/paint marks on ...
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How to change InkScape path opacity with shortcuts?
Closely Related: What is the shortcut key for object opacity in Illustrator?
When tracing, I would like to be able to quickly change the opacity of the path I am editing with a keyboard or mouse ...
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Painting on linked layers, on a mask
Can you link one layer with the mask of another layer and have your paint strokes affect both layers at the same time?
What I want to do is to paint on the first layer which has a blend mode set to ...
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How do I draw the inside of a torus?
I'm trying to make a drawing of the interior of a Stanford Torus, similar to this:
Is there a way to draw the perspective of the torus accurately without using a 3D model?
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What are some classic decorative typography techniques?
I'm working on a website, and I'm using a drop cap/initial letter for the text body. I find this technique to be very eye-catching and beautiful to look at. Does anyone know any similar simple, ...
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Angled Curve in Illustrator?
I've been going slightly crazy on trying to create even, curved lines
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The images I linked: 2nd top right angle curve is what I'm trying to achieve. The other two screenshots ...
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Is there an easy way to see whether an image needs "amount" or "radius" values adjusted, in Photoshop's "Unsharpen Mask"?
I'm touching up photos for analysis, so they need to be as true to the original as possible (including when zoomed), but sharpened (anything from slightly to greatly) to bring out whatever textures, ...
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What techniques does Jesse Kanda (+++) use?
I'm in love with the aesthetics Jesse Kanda (among others) use in their works. I've been trying to figure out what techniques these artists are using – it almost looks like photos of sculptures. I don'...
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How can I add grain or noise to a picture like this one?
Can anyone tell me about the process behind the effect in this picture.
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Photoshop equivalent to Illustrator offset command [duplicate]
I have the following image...
...that I'm trying to get a vector outline for in a similar way to the Illustrator Offset command.
I'm looking to have a finished vector look similar to this...
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How to achieve this "Neo Noir" kind effect with Photoshop?
I'm a big fan of John Lumio's work, a great photographer. I noticed that all his images has a special filter / edition. I would like to know if someone has some clue of how to achieve this effect.
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What's the meaning behind adding an underline to letters such as 'N', 'U', 'O', etc, in a logotype?
I have seen many minimal logotypes like the one below that include an underline in one of its letters. I did lots of web searching, but didn't find anything explaining it. I'm curious to know the ...
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What is this pseudo 3D technique called?
Usually the animation contains a few moving 2D layers that make pseudo 3D effect. I'm looking for the name of this technique and any tools/services/frameworks/tutorials that may help me to make such ...
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Is it true that stroked open path in Photoshop is impossible?
I need to use a Pen tool for drawing connected lines, like in Illustrator. But Photoshop always closes the path. Are there certain settings to avoid this?
Why 'What You See' is not What You Get' in ...
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Why are there no animated album covers?
Throughout Graphic Design I'd say few realms have been as forward thinking as Album Cover Art. It's commercially viable but often without the constraints of the typical corporate design job allowing ...
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How did Escher make his tesselations?
Question for the: Topic Challenge #1 – Famous Designers
I remember as a kid my favourite book in the whole house wasn't a book of fairy tales or colourful illustrations. It was The complete works of ...
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The concept of frequency seperation
I've been trying to understand the concept of frequency seperation, and so far have been able to deduce very less of how the technique works.
This page, says that an image can be broken into low ...
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Learning the technical side of graphic design
So far the skill of design has only been intuitive to me, but just learning from tutorials doesn't give you the full view of the many technical issues, which I'm very eager to learn. What can I do to ...
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Creating Vector Graphics from Low-Res Logos
Basically, I want to be able to convert low-quality (or any quality, for that matter) raster images, like this one; into basic, clean-cut, vector shapes.
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Technique: "Carved" 3D-Letter
Below you'll see a picture of a design done by Chae
Byung-rok, a graphic designer based in Seoul. Can anyone help me figure out how this was done/what technique is behind it?
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Please help to identify this map-printing technique
Most old maps in my home (ranging from a school atlas to professionally made large maps from the National Atlas of India) use a peculiar technology. Instead of colored 'dots', they use 'strokes' of ...
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How to create perfectly curved shapes in vector art?
One of my weak spots are the smooth and curved shapes. Normally, i use various tools to do that:
Pen
Oval with angulated corners, and processed with effect-warp or manually
3d revolve with some ...
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Making multiple / nested clipping masks in Adobe Illustrator
I'm trying to turn this:
into this:
Put into words, I want the map to be the clipping mask of the lines. And then, I want the circle to be the clipping mask of that other clipping mask. I want to ...
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What are the pros and cons of using Lab color?
I often see suggestions of converting an image to the Lab color model when editing images in, for example, Photoshop. What are the pros and cons of doing this?
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Positioning vertical watch dial numeric markers in Illustrator?
I never use Adobe Illustrator much so this might be a fairly easy question, but I can't seem to find any answers in my searching.
I am designing a watch dial which has numeric hour markers. It is ...
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What is the biomechanical motion to draw a straight vertical line?
To draw a straight horizontal line I basically pin my elbow and then move across the page from left to right. Easy. I can hit my marks consistently and everything is good.
Vertical lines however I ...
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How are these swirly, line frames made?
I love and have always been mystified by this kind of swirly design.
After +10yrs working as a graphic designer, I still can't wrap my head around how those are done. Geometric curved design in ...
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What's more expensive: hot foil or blind emboss?
Give a shared specification, which technique (blind emboss or hot foil) is more expensive?
identical graphics
same size of let's say 5 x 5 cm
As far as I know, hot foils aren't that expensive, so I'...
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How to properly place control points on bézier curves and tame those curves?
After roughly ten years working as a graphic designer, Bézier curves still elude me. I normally just place control points as I go and then retouch the less natural looking curves, which works well ...
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What is the idea behind using multi pass rendering ? [closed]
I do not know what multi pass rendering is, all I know is random sheets showing the same outline of an object but differently coloured while each own unique way of filling has a name like for instance ...
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Mapping a 2d image to a pseudo 3d
Hi I am unsure what to call this technique that Live2D uses and I wanted get some more information about it.
Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW6Yrxnn5dM
You can see how they add the ...
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