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Remove conflicting polygons and restore original
I'm a newbie to Maya and downloaded a model to play with. I think the surface I have is a Mesh that I performed a bunch of operations on and messed up. Is there anyway I can restore this to a simple ...
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Free software suggestion use with drawing tablet
I recently purchased a Wacom to do some basic drawing on the computer (caricatures, etc.). This is primarily to save paper.
But I am overwhelmed with the number of software available. Any kind of ...
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How to change color reflected from clothing onto skin tones
The scarf in this photo used to be a very intense red. To change it, in Photoshop, i selected it and colorized and fine-tuned final color in Hue/Saturation/Brightness.
As you can see, there are ...
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Lump Objects together in Illustrator
I Have around 1000 objects from a scatter plot.
Is there a possibility to lump these objects together without going insane?
These are the raw circle objects.
Now I want to push them together like ...
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How do I combine paths in Inkscape while preserving overlap?
I'd like to CNC draw an image. The image is composed of many, many shapes that overlap with each other.
Say I'd like to draw this image:
Visually I can see the outline of the star, but part of the ...
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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 do I adjust my jig so that it can accept larger diameter wire?
I am trying to build Malt Whiskey's LED cube and have a jig to solder the leds together.
This jig was setup to accept .65 mm wire but for stability I am using .8 mm. In the jig there are vertical and ...
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In Illustrator, when I reflect a shape the original shape can't be seen but it is still there
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 ...
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How to select the Shape to use as Mask in XD?
I have 2 rectangles, a big one and a small one. The big one has round edges.
If I select both of them and click to "Mask with Shape", Adobe XD will always use the small rectangle as the mask, but I ...
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When exporting artboards from Adobe XD, the designs appear blurry and not great quality as a jpg or png?
If I create a website design in Adobe XD (artboard size: 960px x 1000px), which contains text, vector shapes and images. When I export it to send to the client as either a JPG or PNG, it doen't show ...
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What colors should be used for representing opposites?
For example 2 opposing Teams in a Video Game
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Grid and bucketfill are just off center/ have offset
When I apply a pattern with the render option or the bucketfill it doesn't completely fill the selection without being off center/ having a offset (I'm not good with GIMP terminology ☹️)
I DID NOT ...
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from greyscale to RGB
I am very new to photoshop. Absolutely I know nothing. I am following one tutorial to learn coloring.
I dnt understand two things-
1- why did he color everythng in greyscale first? Is this the same ...
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pdf font corruption in Inkscape and Illustrator
I'm trying to edit a PDF plot exported from Mathematica, using specific font Times using the plot option BaseStyle -> {FontFamily -> "Times", FontSize -> 10}, to match with the LaTeX ...
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Using Anchored Objects within a text frame
I am creating a text frame that consists of multiple elements that need to dynamically move according to what is filled in and whats not.
The text frame has a title, an image, a subtitle and a ...
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Issues using selection tool
I'm trying to use the selection tool to cut a logo from a image, without success. The darker parts in the bottom of the logo is a big problem because of the main background color. In addition, the ...
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How to remove characters from auto-numbering in InDesign cross referencing?
my document has autonumbered headings styled as following:
1) Numbered Heading level 1
1.1) Numbered Heading level 2
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The auto-numbering is set as ^#)^> for heading 1 and ^1.^#)^> for heading ...
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Can we make a circle or any shape with the center at an anchor of another shape?
As the picture shows, I wish to add a circle, and align its center with the anchor point of this curve. I tried to snap a circle to it but it does not work.
Thank you!
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Photoshop action: how to make a crop (menu item) in an action without deleting pixels? Editing the atn file?
I am working on a workflow to make an auto crop. I have an action set up with an automatic selection (magic wand), a little expansion of this selection and a crop to this selection. To make a crop ...
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How to write Japanese in GIMP text layer?
I am using mac 10.10. My keyboard input source is set to Hiragana, but when I type into a Gimp text layer, the regular latin characters appear and not the Japanese that I expected. How do I get this ...
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Unlock page item InDesign without breaking thread
I have tried to override page items in InDesign page. In master page the text frames are threaded while I try to override master page items in the first page of the InDesign document the frame thread ...
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Converting populated map SVGs/PNGs to clean SVGs
I am working on this hobby project of mine, where I intend to convert a populated map SVG/PNG to clean SVG.
For example consider this :
to a clean SVG with only outlines of the different ...
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How do I compare the widths of two different fonts?
I would like to see numerical values of how different the character widths of strings taken from two different fonts MS Gothic and Liberation Mono are.
So I used FontForge's metrics, which worked ...
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Trying to make a solid shape out of this, but can't figure out how! (Adobe Illustrator 27.7)
I'm trying to figure out how to make the red lines (selection, not drawn) into a single form. Does anybody have any idea how to do that in Adobe Illustrator? Because right now, as the tree said to the ...
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Dithering with GIMP python-fu
I'm using GIMP 2.10.6 on Ubuntu 18.10.
I'm trying to script an automatic image manipulation, and for part of the workflow I need to dither a layer in my image.
I can't find anything in the script-fu/...
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Why is InkScape's Shape-Builder tool ignoring some paths and not others?
I'm struggling to cut some simple shapes out of my logo, using the shape-builder tool. I have a bunch of paths on the same layer (no groups) and the shape-builder tool will respect most of them, but ...
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Indesign: can't get rid of padding on Auto Resized text boxed
I auto resized a text box to "height only", but is still has a little white space between the bottom of the text and the bottom of the box. The inset spacing is all set to zero. Any ideas as ...
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3ds Max Strap / bandage animation problem
Below is the image of what I am trying to achieve. My client wants me to create animations of character applying multiple straps or bandage in various ways.
I've tried Normal rigging / spline IK / ...
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How to crop a JPEG without recompressing?
Is it possible to crop a JPEG image without losing quality or recompressing the remaining part of the image?
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How do I add starry reflections/highlights as depicted in the examples?
See pictures above. I don't have that much experience in Photoshop at all. I tried to mess with some contrast increase on layers but I can't come up with the same result. How do I create similar ...
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Pasted vector from Illustrator into Fontlab not true to Key Dimensions despite being set in both programs?
I'm trying to learn basic font design using Photoshop 2018 to design the font, Illustrator 2018 to convert the raster into a vector and then size my font accordingly, and then copy and paste into ...
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Illustrator - Offset Path Outlines thicker after export
I'm new to Adobe Illustrator. How do I fix the exported svg file from looking different than the original adobe AI preview window? Specifically lines in the SVG being thicker than AI
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Minor GIMP help
I'm making a custom poster for a Plex film collection in Gimp by loosy following this tutorial:
How to make retro 80's chrome text in GIMP?
...but he said to do something that doesn't exist in ...
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Photoshop convert to video timeline creates layers for every frame
So, this was working before.
I drag&drop a gif into photoshop and it would open as a video timeline (not per frames)
I don't know what i did but: now it opens a gif as a frame animation like ...
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Align (distribute) object at center of margin in Inkscape?
Using Inkscape 1.2.2 (1:1.2.2+202212051550+b0a8486541), let's say I have this situation:
I have a "physical" page which is 100x100 mm; and then "actual" page represented by the ...
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Why is Figma not exporting all my pages?
I have two pages in my Figma project.
I then hit the menu > File > Export Pages as PDF.
The resulting PDF only has a single page added to it, and the other is missing. What gives?
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how do I stretch a letter S of an already existing font as smoothly as possible across a large page?
The font is called Anton and the S needs to be stretched to a large page, I already tried illustrator and indesign but can't figured it out...
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Batch Process to cut same shape and location from screen capture image
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During my online D&D session I grab period screen captures of the active window which is showing a 2D map or the area my token can see. As a result, all the images are the exact same ...
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Change gradient annotation size in graphic style instance without breaking graphic style link in Illustrator
I would like to be able to extend the size of a gradient which has a fill that is an instance of a shared graphic style. I want to be able to extend/shorten the length of this gradient without ...
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Change white gold to Yellow gold and vica verca, picture all black and white except jewelry and green and brown
First thing I guess I should say is I don't do graphics much at all... I've done a few decent little things (like my profile picture), but I'm still very well a beginner... I'm super duper broke so I ...
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Inkscape font size: what is its meaning / how is it related to text height?
I had always known that font size is related to height of the text: What is Font Size?
A font is often measured in pt (points). Points dictate the height of the lettering.
(In my mind, I always it ...
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How to separate lines in my design?
I have this skull design that I made by drawing a line in the middle, then drawing objects on the left side and then copy-pasting them to the right side.
For some reason, lots of lines collided into ...
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Sketch convert all symbols to the same color
In Sketch, is there a way to do a batch convert process on symbols? Is that the right approach to take for something like this -
How do you convert all symbol colors to the same color - such as ...
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Aligning Nonlinear bend to grid (MAYA)
I've been stuck on this problem for a while. I'm trying to make a road piece. Initial size is a plane of 7 x 7. That is the road piece template. Following that I wanted to make a corner piece but it ...
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What may be some effective dynamic qr code generators for digital or printing projects?
What may be some effective dynamic QR code generators for digital or printing projects? I learned there may be two types of QR codes: static or dynamic to help understand the audience that is viewing ...
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AI - Save as PDF with clickable image
I am new to Adobe Illustrator graphics design.
I want to know how to save a designed artwork as PDF with objects that are clickable.
For example, i create a rectangle, fill it with some style and i ...
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Find corresponding points along a path
I'm working on a simple SVG animation: a rectangle with rounded corners. The SVG contains two paths, one with a smooth line and one with a zigzag line. The animation is a simple transition between the ...
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Is vectorizing an image copyright infringement if the image is not CC/Public domain?
Is it okay to vectorize this image to make a poster out of it even though the image is not Creative Commons or anything like that? I'm not using any part of the image directly and only going to use it ...
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