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Truly-handrwriting monospaced font
Is there a truly-handrwriting monospaced font? Does it exist at all?
I know there is a Marista by Zephyris, but it is not what I really looking for. It still looks as a font produced by a typewriter, ...
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Why can't I chose my User Defined swatches when recoloring an artwork?
I usually select my user-defined swatches when recoloring an artwork in Illustrator (Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor With Preset).
My .ase files are in the Illustrator Application folder, inside ...
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How to draw Samtaegeuk (yin-yang symbol but with three swirls, each a different colour)?
I'm trying to draw a Samtaegeuk symbol, which is essentially a yin-yang symbol with three swirls, each one a different colour.
I found the guide below for drawing the two-swirl Korean taegeuk, but I ...
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How to have repeating headers in sequence per page?
I've been re-learning InDesign (currently on MacOS Ventura 13.3.1) and created a test publication at 203 mm x 280mm using a real-life publication of that size as a guideline.
I'm using InDesign 17.4.
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How do I create a smart object grid?
I'm using Photoshop CS6. I want to create a grid layout template (something like this: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/683684779/collage-template-photoshop-square). I want the area for the content to ...
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Printing a poster from pdf results in wrong colors
I have A0 poster with 2 science images that were taken by a spacecraft. On top of it I have graphs and some text. When I print it as A4 pdf on my office small printer - the colors are fine. When I ...
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Why does Photoshop's Zoom Tool disengage randomly?
This happens all the time and it's driving me crazy... I press Z to switch to the Zoom Tool. Then I click-drag somewhere to zoom in, but instead Ps has switched back to the Grab Tool, so I end up ...
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Can I set a fill color opacity in Illustrator?
I found this question last asked in 2011: Make fill translucent but keep stroke opaque in Illustrator
My question is roughly the same. I'd like to have a solid/opaque stroke line with a translucent ...
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Why is my vector file pixelated after printing it on big glass surfaces?
I'm working for a company making glass walls with prints on it. It works fine with images but when I send them something with vector it becomes pixelated after printing, they also reported that on big ...
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Why can't the GIMP align tool select some layers?
When I try to align various layers in GIMP 2.8, sometimes the align tool selects the entire image, not the layer I clicked on.
It doesn't matter how many times I try, and closing/reopening doesn't ...
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Window>arrange>tile not creating separate windows - illustrator CS6
I have created a new window so I have 2 versions of my file to look at at the same time. I am wanting to have the windows appear like below.
However when I go to window>arrange>tile it doesn't ...
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Inside of a "Make: New channel" action step, the Opacity reads "50". Why? (Photoshop CS5)
I made an action that create a new channel for masking purposes.
When I inspect the action, the "Make" command has an Opacity: property set to 50.
Image:
I want to know why this happens and ...
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How to create vector graphics In Photoshop?
I know people prefer using CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator, but I want to know if there is a technique I can follow to use Adobe Photoshop to make vector Images.
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Why does the Hue blend mode change saturation and brightness?
My understanding is that the Hue blend mode is supposed to use the hue from the top layer, and the saturation and brightness from the bottom layer.
I placed a red in the bottom layer. RGB = (255, 0, ...
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Procreate brush overlap
I have tried everything to change the brush in Procreate so that when I color on the same stroke the texture won't overlap but nothing works. What should I do?
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Exporting an object as svg from inkscape
I know that Inkscape does not have the ability to export selected objects as svg, but is there a workaround that people have found that works?
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Corner widgets in Adobe Illustrator
I recently started designing, and I saw these smooth corners people make. My problem is that I can't find a way to enable this tool and these corner widgets don't appear on my works.
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Why aren't there printers that use red-green-blue ink cartridges?
Why aren't there printers red-green-blue ink cartridges?
I would like some well-documented articles on this because I haven't found anything comprehensive. The best I've found are this and this on ...
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how to make a color transparent in GIMP
I realize there are a ton of questions like this, but they are all way overcomplicated for what I am trying to do.
What I want to do is very simple. I want the background of my image completely ...
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Trying to identify this old font
I am trying to identify the font below, It was something I made like 25 years ago, but I neither have the font nor remember what the font was that was used.
The G is quite unique. I tried "What ...
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Critique request: Vtuber logo
Was searching for a site/forum where I can get some design critique about a logo I am creating for my brand, for the vtubing industry, and found this forum by chance! :D I am not a professional ...
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Custom arrowhead not aligning to the bottom of the stroke when scaled
Is it possible to align the arrowhead to the width of the stroke, rather than the vector point of the stroke when scaling the arrowhead? Like this example in use:
The first being the original ...
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Adobe Illustrator CS6: Selecting an individual segment of an illustration
I am making an illustration of a hot air balloon in Adobe Illustrator CS6. I am following this online tutorial.
I have the following:
To get to this stage I have followed these steps in the ...
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Figma: how to make auto layout frame contain a stroke's width
I'm trying to use an auto layout frame to contain a hamburger menu. The lines of the hamburger menu should be entirely contained within the auto layout frame.
I applied the following settings to the ...
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Scribus: InDesign like book object
I have been using Adobe InDesign to create books. I am considering shifting to Scribus. I usually make each chapter in my book into a separate document and then add all the documents to a InDesign ...
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jaged edges and text in inkscape design, print on demand
I am stuck into a problem several days, i can't figure out how to get clean edges, even if i used a high resolution 600 dpi (when exporting to png) but the edges seems jagged when i view the design in ...
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Why is my grid not aligning properly?
I'm using Photoshop CS6 and for some reason the grid is not aligned 1 pixel by 1 pixel on my 20 pixel by 20 pixel image. I've tried everything and it still doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated. ...
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How to isolate layer effects into their own layer
I've put some nice effects on a layer in Photoshop, and the effect is repeated across several layers. Now, I have to cut it up for the web, and I want to be efficient with how I display the effect.
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How to import adobe Xd file to Axure?
I have an adobe xd file that I would like to import into axure if there's any way to do please help me
Thank you guys!
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multilanguage font for editable pdf
I want to create a single PDF file with an editable text field/form that supports as many languages as possible.
I thought that using the Noto Sans font would be the solution, but I noticed that it ...
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Color pallete names lookup for chroma.js
In chroma.js, there are named color palletes or 'scales' such as Viridis, Spectral, RdYlBu (Red, Yellow, Blue), Reds, Greys, etc. I know some of these are based on Color Brewer. However, I do not see ...
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Pixelated PNG exports from InDesign
I am making display ads in InDesign.
The sizes are rather small (300x600, 300x250, 336x280, 720x900.
The images I placed and the text get pixelated on the PNG export.
When I export at 600 DPI and then ...
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Why do some fonts have em dash not equal to 1 em and an en dash not equal to 1 en
As their names imply, an em dash should be 1 em wide and an en dash should be 1 en wide (1/2 em). But a lot of typefaces have the em dash not exactly 1 em wide and the en dash not exactly 1/2 wide. ...
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Making my windows desktop app controls looking like a web app
Please, how can I make my windows desktop application look smart and techy like this picture? I am using Visual Studio 2019, C#, Ajax controls.
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When I draw a freehand shape in Photoshop with Pen tool and fill with Paint bucket I get a 1px clear boundary between the fill and my line?
Using photoshop pen tool to draw freehand shapes I cannot get the paint bucket to fill up to the boundary line what am I missing?
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adding a code snippet to a design in figma
I'm creating a design using Figma (not FigJam) and I want to add a code snippet in C#. However, all the plugins I've seen don't support this language. How can I add a code snippet in C# to my Figma ...
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Pantone or CMYK for Product Label
We have redesigned our product labels for our supplement brand and want to know from professional graphic designers and print savvy individuals if most product labels you see in retail stores use ...
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a way to Tone down/ fix an image to prevent darkening/ bluring if shrinked
I am trying to make a customized keychain using shrink plastic (anyone familiar with shrinky dinks? )
I use an inkjet printer to print directly on the shrink plastic
I noticed that after baking, ...
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Why can't you get one-off stickers/vinyls printed?
I am trying to find sites that can create one(or two)-off stickers/vinyls that are transparent. From what I am getting is that it may not be profitable enough to make it worth the company's time but ...
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figma union selection
I'm trying to joint all the rectangles that I use to create this so I use the union selection but I have this
Is there a way to union all these rectangles but with keeping there color ?
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InDesign: Remove all overrides for one paragraph style
I have a 350-page document in which the text is formatted as [Basic Paragraph] and for which the justification is overridden. I need to remove paragraph overrides for [Basic Paragraph] leaving the ...
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Keeping white areas of transparent png in path tracing
I have a PNG logo on a transparent background which has areas of pure white (#ffffff) and also pure black in addition to a wide assortment of other colors (logo includes a topo map). Am trying to ...
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Why is my PSD file corrupted?
I made this in Medibang Paint on my iPhone, then used MediaConvert to send this over to my laptop, then edited it in krita, saved it as a PSD file, but when I opened it in Adobe Animate, I get this ...
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Area outline feathered on internal edge in Illustrator
I'd like to draw some closed paths with offsets on their internal edges, and I want the internal edges of the offset bands to be feathered. The external edge would be hard, not feathered. Below is an ...
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Illustrator: after opening an svg, how do I make all used colors into swatches?
I opened an svg in illustrator. My swatches panel was empty. I want it to have all the colors used in the svg. How do I do that?
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How to convert a WOFF2 webfont into a TTF desktop font?
Googling leads me to everythingfonts . com which is down, at least for the last two days but it may have been down for a while.
Googling "woff2 to ttf" -everythingfonts has very few results ...
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How to import data and create a symbol using scripting with Illustrator?
I would like to automate a series of actions in Illustrator, creating a complex symbol from vector images imported, or from simple symbols.
The actions are:
Importing files or choosing symbols from ...
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How to use Midjourney iteratively
I just took a Udemy crash course in ChatGPT and Midjourney. ChatGPT has this great ability to have an iterative conversation, like "Write a product description for a condenser microphone". ...
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GIMP Image in selection
Okay, so let's give a example of what I want.
We got a white ball with black lines. I want for example a flag in it.
When I drag or paste the image of that flag in it, it goes up to the whole page and ...
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Scaling down Stroked lines
I have several lines and arcs with different Strokes and want to scale down all objects similarly. When I select and Shift+Drag, all objects scaled down but lines Strokes. How can I change scale of ...
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