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How to cutout and keep only the contents of a circle of vectors with Inkscape?
I have a document of 75+ vector graphics laid out in a grid fashion that fills the entire page.
I would like to create a "circular crop" of the grid, leaving only the vector objects and ...
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Should a small business change their logo after 15 years in business?
I am currently in the process of handing over my business that is a Waxing spa located in Portland, Oregon to my 18 year old daughter.
However, she has decided that our logo needs to change, for the ...
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Affinity Designer - Resize curve without transforming it
I have a curve that is orignally 240x240 in a file that has as much size.
I want to resize the path to 140x140.
I tried to create a 140x140 file and decreased the width and heigh of the curve to 140. ...
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Copy a (text) layer and paste in place in Gimp?
I have seen Copy/Paste Layers from one Project to another? on the GIMP forum:
Yes, you make the layer active, and Select>all + Edit>Copy and then in the target image do Edit>Paste as>New ...
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Inkscape circle/ellipse : marker for center?
I am moving very large circles in Inkscape, snapping the centers to nodes on another shape (see links below). I have to fish around with the circle to get the snap guide to appear. I have marked the ...
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Inkscape scripting and automation: nodes?
How does Inkscape handle nodes in scripting? Or can the nodes be written out in some way? Or perhaps there is a better place to ask about this:
I have a simple manual clicking routine that seems a ...
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How to make my animated SVG CLI-like typewriter effect work as intended? (SMIL)
I am just starting to learn to do SVG Animations, and I'm trying to make a command-line style 'typewriter' effect, typing out several different lines of text, one after the other.
I would like the ...
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Recolor artwork (Illustrator): Colors don't match up
I'm currently working in Illustrator (CMYK, Fogra39) and the colors on my artwork are nice and deep, but when I want to recolor them via "recolor artwork", the colors displayed are a lot ...
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Restore photoshop file with layers after crashing
last night, i'was working on a project and I didn't see that my laptop's battery was going to dead,
. After a while it became dead and went on hibernate mode, still i didn't plug the charger to it.
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divider or compass tool - or equivalent way - in Inkscape or Gimp?
Is there a divider or compass tool in Inkscape or Gimp?
What I mean is the drafting tool called a divider is a way to scribe an arc a fixed distance from a point. The compass does this also. I ...
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How to scale points to pixels in different resolutions
I have brandbrook provided, where only information is to use 1,5 pt stroke weight in my illustrations. How to correctly pick my lines stroke weight in pixels in 1920x1080 resolution?
Does it mean that ...
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Inkscape: wrap text and objects on a label around a bottle
How can I progressively decrease the width of a group of objects or texts in inkscape 1.2? (From top to bottom in image below).
I tried various path effects and build-in extensions, but none of them ...
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Photoshop Batch Optimise & Overwrite
I have a website that contains an /image folder. This folder contains many sub folders. Over the years, non-optimised images have been uploaded here and the size of the folder is taking up a lot of ...
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Text with no spaces breaking line at 150 characters
Given a text with no spaces, how can we flow it without any line breaks.
It seems indesign only allows the line to be 150 characters long.
Can this be changed?
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Need help scaling in perspective
I'm having what feels like a very dumb problem when it comes to scaling.
I'm trying to draw the interior of an apartment while also drawing a city view in the background. I'm struggling to properly ...
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What is this "circled G" glyph alongside Greek text in an English book from 1765?
From Thomas Edwards' The Canons of Criticism, printed by C. Bathurst (1765) in London, in a font that (as you can see) has long-S and c-t ligatures:
The text centered in this image says:
of Nat. ...
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How can I change the style of an image to fit it to a reference image?
I try to Photoshop the head of a person I have taken into a generated poster image that has a more drawn stylistic style... and although I assume it is a pretty simple task, I have no idea how to ...
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How to smooth out selections with Free Select tool in Gimp 2.10.32?
I made a selection with the Free Select tool in Gimp 2.10.32 in Windows 7 (which seems to be the latest version for my windows version) but I can't perfectly move the mouse to make smooth curves. Is ...
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Dynamic updates on related(anchored?) objects [duplicate]
I want to create a brainstorming graph shining outwards. I create a couple of rectangles and text boxes and connect them with a line. These lines become fixed on the drawing board, when I move ...
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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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Preserving Transparent Background with Gaussian Blur in Illustrator
Is there a method for preserving a transparent background with Gaussian blur in Adobe Illustrator?
When I use the Gaussian Blur effect on a stroke in illustrator (as instructed in this tutorial), when ...
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Thin, white lines around gradients in PDF [duplicate]
I opened this vector
https://br.freepik.com/vetores-gratis/conjunto-transparente-de-papelao-realista_26761958.htm
in Adobe Illustrator and saved it as PDF. Then, some thin, white, circular lines ...
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On Mac, how to disable the black floating bar in Adobe Acrobat under Read Mode?
On Mac Adobe Acrobat, every time after entering read mode and sliding the cursor down the page a bit, there will be a black floating bar appearing:
How do I disable this back bar under read mode (...
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InDesign: Anchored text frame in book layout with border styles relative to the spine?
I'm working on a book layout and I need a way to create an anchored text box that has a thicker border on the page edge, sort of like this:
I've looked at the border options and there doesn't seem to ...
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Illustrator divide and create new shape
I am new to illustrator and I can't work this out. I am trying to draw a missile and I need to create a new nose cone section. I have made a path in blue here where I want to divide and create a new ...
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Is there a way to emulate Add/Linear Dodge Blend mode in Adobe Illustrator?
It does not matter if it requires additional work or layers to achieve it, I would appreciate it if anyone can let me know if there is a way. Perhaps a third party plug-in would also help if there is ...
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Is this approach to website design adequate or am i making a mistake?
I'm not conversant with this topic, therefore i watched a tutorial about a one-page dynamic PHP website (quite educational in my opinion) in which the creator designed the following pages.
For each ...
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Why can't I select objects in Figma?
Many times it appears impossible to select an object by clicking on it in the main screen, even though it is not locked. What can cause the issue?
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Given a png monochrome line drawing, how to darken only lines that are a certain distance away from other lines?
I have a png image that I generated from a cad drawing using edge-detection. Only problem is all the lines have the same thickness. The lines that mark the main edges I need to be thicker and more ...
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Inkscape circle/ellipse/arc tool : reset shape?
The circle/ellipse/arc tool works well, however, I am finding the tool is copying the last used circle somehow. I have previously tried editing the nodes, and fiddling until e.g. a circle looks ...
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how to put a 3d scan as a simple circulating object on a website?
i'm new to 3d scans and just downloaded POLYCAM yesterday.
what programs are needed for simple editing those files? making it more complex, adding text or atmospheric things, another object.
or: i ...
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Keeping text vertical alignement between two columns
I have a main text spread across two columns. In this text I have a quotation block, with a different paragraph style (lower font size, indentation). This quotation block starts at the bottom of the ...
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Why does Figma automatically flatten my text?
Figma keeps flattening all my text boxes! I have no idea why, I do not do anything with these text boxes except moving them around.
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Combining Images in GIMP loses resolution
I am relatively new to GIMP. My apologies in advance if my query is too naïve.
I have to create a web advert of 300x250px and max 50kb.
I have three images that I want to add to this advert:
A png ...
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Optical Illusion with status indicators
I'm currently setting up a small html front end for the result of our automatic software build. We develop on three platforms ( windows, macos and linux ), so I thought of just displaying the icon of ...
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Image in ai. file changes colors to other elements
To put it short the situation is like this:
I have ai. file with graphic vector elements and an image in it. When I export the file to PDF everything is ok. When I delete the image from the ai. file ...
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Can't change font color in Fireworks CS6
I've downloaded Poppins from Google Fonts.
Set some text to use Poppins.
Text can't be changed away from black now.
Same for text using a different font in the same file.
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Joining Paths in Vectr
Is there any way to join to distinct paths in www.vectr.com? I'd like to choose the points of the two paths to be joined.
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Inkscape : simultaneously adjust multiple Bezier handles on rectangles?
I need to create an C-shaped outline. Essentially, I hope that more than one Bezier handle can move simultaneously. I do not mean the two handles associated with one node, but the Bezier handles from ...
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Ensuring that a resizing keeps the border to width/height ratio constant
In a document I want to create some symbols which ratio of contour over width/height are kept constant when I resize. See the picture below to understand what is the issue:
Big size:
After resizing:
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What's the most effective way to create a curved rectangle in inkscape
Hi, I'm trying to create that figure in a fast and symmetrical way, I've tried several methods but all of them are either too complicated or not symmetrical. I know there should be a way to make that ...
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How to export selected items from Inkscape 1.2 a user-supplied background into PNG file automatically?
If I set a Desk background as indicated in the Where is the white inkscape background? answer, I see it in Inkscape. But, when I select all objects, and then export it like this:
I still end up with ...
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Looking for info on obscure font used in video game
I'm currently looking for the font used in the "Nocturne" of the SMT Nocturne logo and someone told me to look into a font called Mael by Utopia fonts (aka Dale Harris, formerly known as: ...
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How to recreate this Emboss effect on a letter?
How can I recreate this exact emboss effect on Photoshop? I tried this a couple of times, my attempt is on the second attachment. I have issues with separating the bevel shadows. Thanks!
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How to create this shape in Adobe Xd?
I need a shape with curved lines. How to create the below shape with curved lines in xd.
The result I need is like this.
Thank you for any help.
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Switching color range into another using Gimp and specifying hex values
I want to change the color of an object which has different shades of green into different colors and specifying hex as target colors. I want to change the object from green to any hex color I specify ...
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I need to turn this flat pattern into a series of gradients - how can I do that?
I have this pattern of contentric shapes I created in Illustrator. In either Illustrator or Photoshop, I'm lookin for a method to turn this into a series of conentric gradients, rather than flat black ...
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Incorporating 3D (Blender) into poster / print design
I want to start designing posters that have 3D elements on them... like the below example where the glass objects interact with the design of the poster.
I'm under the impression that the only way to ...
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How to do these pattern borders on Inkscape?
I've been pondering how to make the specific border style like in this patch in Inkscape since I'm already quite confused at this point.
How to do the patch border on Inkscape like in this image? I'm ...
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Adobe Photoshop hardware acceleration
When i've trying to use Face Tool in Liquify tool, i get an error: The Face Tool requires hardware acceleration. Check the Perfomance Preferences and verify that "Use Graphics Processor" is ...
