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Create gradient blurred background
I want to create a blurred gradient background effect similar to the designs below. How can I do this using Inkscape or Photoshop/Illustrator?
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Why changing font size only changes height?
I exported an image (from R) to SVG and want to modify it with Inkscape. My problem is that when I change the font size, it only changes it vertically, the width is not changing at all, which ...
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Transfer Layer Alpha/Transparency
I have a color image detailing a humanoid skin texture. On this texture I have transparent sections where clothing would be. The edges of these transparent cutouts are smoothed/feathered into the ...
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ELLE Logo Designer
Does anyone know who designed the ELLE magazine logo?
I have tried researching the original designer but can’t find the designer / artist who created the logo.
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How can I make GIMP export colours as I see them in my workspace?
I'm making a texture of a simple glowing orb on a transparent background. When I have everything looking good in the initial window exporting it to .png format leads to a loss of colour and detail, ...
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Creating dieline for inkjet printing
I have a dieline for a 3D cube which I will print my own design onto on my inkjet printer.
How is best to print the fold / cutting marks without them interfering with the design? Would I just print ...
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Custom symbol saved have different thickness when I import them
I would like to create my own library of symbols in inkscape.
I managed, thanks to this answer, to do it.
Unfortunately, when I save the symbol, and I import it, the thickness of the lines are ...
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Trying to differentiate white of roads, from the white of mountain tops. Need help tuning out the white of mountain tops
I have a roadmap that I generated from ARCGIS using slope, the problem is some tops of mountains are also flat, so they are being classified as roads (white). Therefore when using the image as a mask ...
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Stacking gradients and blend-modes
Desired result
I'm trying to stack some CSS gradients together to replicate a fill pattern from Excel.
Problem
I have something that almost works, but it requires additional HTML elements and I'm not ...
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Synfig: masking independently moving objects
I use Synfig studio.
I have groupA with several layers including ObjA. This group has its own transformations and moves.
Then I have groupB with other layers including a mask MaskB. GroupB also has ...
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Unsure about bleeds with die cut
I have this design (viewed here at 600%) that is going to be cut to the shape of the red outline (cut line only - not part of the design)
I'm pretty sure my bleeds are good everywhere EXCEPT where ...
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Create image library
I would like to save some symbols that I have drawn in inkscape in some "homemade" library so that I can drag and drop these image later.
Is there a simple way to do it?
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How to create a star-trail effect in Inkscape?
What method can be followed to accomplish a star trail effect in Inkscape?
This is what one sees when looking at night-time photographs with long exposure times, if you point the camera towards ...
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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 (...
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Software for drawing interactively via voice commands or command line interface
I'm not sure if my post is better suited for the Software Recommendations Stack Exchange. If so, then perhaps migrate it there.
How hard would it be to design a computer program where you could use ...
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Help me identifying this japanese font
Can someone help me identifying this japanese font?
I have tried font identification site like likefont but still haven't found the exact same one.
This image is from a T-Shirt image, and this is the ...
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Search and replace artboard name with incremental number
In case we have a prototype let's say with 10 steps (artboards):
d/0001 - Lorem ipsum 1
d/0002 - Lorem ipsum 2
d/0003 - Lorem ipsum 3
d/0004 - Lorem ipsum 4
d/0005 - Lorem ipsum 5
d/0006 - Lorem ...
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Photoshop - Text to stone engraving effect
I have a oil painting style monastery wall to start with. I would like to add a customizable text onto it, line by line, starting with something like "the following is an epic tale". I'm ...
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Trying to use railroad diagram to show the recursive nature of algorithm and how it backs up
I want to use a railroad diagram to show the sequence of steps an algorithm takes:
I want to say we start with "SCC scheduling". It then repeatedly calls "chunk scheduling". Then &...
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Inkscape Showing all Fonts as Thick Bubble Letters
Inkscape 1.2.2 is displaying all the default fonts as unreadable and very big undefined letters similar to bubble letters. This happened on my original install of inkscape on Win 11, then I ...
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What do Affinity Designer’s four stroke dash values mean?
In Affinity Designer 1.10.6, Stroke studio, I can choose Dash Line Style, and then four numbers for Dash. But the four numbers aren’t labeled, and no tooltip shows upon hover. The online documentation ...
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How to fill an L path with a reflected gradient?
I'm trying to make an L shape where the gradient would go from the edge of the path to the center. In the image currently, I have 5 squares (ignoring the white squares) with a reflected gradient. The ...
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Retail Product Catalog Solution Up-to-date for 2023
I'm looking for a good solution to create a product catalog to feature many products with photos. The end result should be a professional print-ready document, but would also like to have the ...
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Illustrator changes the page-information text during saving file as pdf
I need to create PDF-Files for print and add page information to it (there is an option during the exporting pdf).
Whenever I save it as PDF there is something like: "ai165599074342" added ...
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Adding a title before several paragraphs of a certain paragraph style
In Indesign, I need to insert a fixed title (something like - "law") before each group of paragraphs of a certain paragraph style, and another title right after it (something like - "...
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Do my components have enough white space?
I've been working on a project but the more I see my components, the more I think they don't have enough white space.
The two components with which I have more doubt are a dropdown and a group of ...
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Identify gooey, wavy lava-lamp style illustration effect
What is the name of the flat design illustration style where edges have a gooey, wavy 'lava-lamp' style effect?
I'd like to find a tutorial to create this effect in Adobe Illustrator but without ...
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Editing fonts in emf file within PowerPoint
I have a bunch of emf files that were converted from svg files with Inkscape commandline. The SVG files were autogenerated and have text objects. Within an SVG file, the text is nicely editable. For ...
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Photoshop - what's the difference between "Rasterize Layer" and "Convert to Layers"
I've recently come across a new menu command for smart objects - "Convert to Layers", I don't really understand its purpose as all it seems to do is reverting a smart object back to a raster ...
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UI Design: I can't understand the concept of design tokens
I have created a few design systems in Figma for different companies. Some are simple, and some are complex. But till now I can't understand the concept of design tokens. Every article or video I ...
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How to calculate colors which perfectly fits together rgb/ryb/cmyk/?
For my project (game) im trying to create a simple color palette of ~12 100% saturation colors and use those colors aswell with different saturation-shades-tints for less important elements. (goal: ...
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Customizing CMYK Halftone Screens in PDF Files
I am looking for a way to adjust the halftone screens of each color channel in CMYK PDF files using Python. I would like to enhance the perceived print resolution of the files using techniques such as ...
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Looking for font similar to futura bold and this logo
Found a font that looks similar to the Persona 5 Royal logo call Futura STD Bold but the ‘5’ is not the same.
Does anyone know of a font that looks almost identical to Futura but has the right ‘5’?
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Round Up SVG Path
I am new to drawing vectors using svg and I am trying to create a custom tab bar for my app's navigations. I was able to create a bar that looks like this:
And the svg code looks like this:
const ...
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UI design: How to match the movement of the hue with the movement of saturation and brightness?
I'm currently learning UI design, right now I'm focusing on color. I make good progress, but now I have hit a roadblock I can't wrap my head around.
I understood that it's possible to design an ...
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create proper warp on semi-cylinder like paint bucket Photoshop
I has made bucket render image before and want to add smart object on my label. Since this model perspective doesn't same like can or bottle where it has pure cylinder shape, i cant use cylinder warp ...
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Photoshop - Perspective floor that has depth
I'm trying to create an image that is emulating a renaissance oil painting style. The scene involves a wall, a fountain and a floor. I have been given the wall and the fountain, and need to make the ...
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InDesign XML : styling nested elements
In InDesign, I'm making a document from an imported XML film structured like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/...
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Cross-culture Bad-to-Good scale colouring
I need to produce a scale going from "bad to good". Usually red stands for bad and green for good. However, the target audience is global and in some cultures, red is actually good (e.g. ...
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What is the name for this kind of vertical separator?
What is the name of this kind of vertical separator between sections? I've seen it somewhere but can't remember where or what it's called. It's likely a specific type of printer's ornament, however I ...
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Why is Adobe Illustrator not letting me position anchor points?
I'm using Adobe Illustrator 2020.
I just can't make points align. Notice I don't want to merge the lines. I want to make an anchor point of one line match/align with the another point of another line.
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How to erase by luminosity/brightness?
I would like to erase by hand with a brush or eraser tool, but I only want darker colors to be erased. For example, if a pixel under the brush is 100% black (luminosity=0), it would get 100% erased (...
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Font where if an 8 is rotated 180 degrees it is unchanged
In most fonts the “8” is asymmetric - for example, with the upper circle being smaller than the lower one. I need a font where if you flip the 8 upside down by rotating it 180 degrees what you get ...
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synfig: animate a key going into a lock
I would like to animate a key going into a lock, so that as it goes in it hides the part already inside the lock.
How can I do it in synfig?
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Leading space/padding in sans-serif fonts
Notice the small space before the letter L in the first two lines in the following image.
It's more notable the larger the font size, but it's there in the second line too. The fonts in this example ...
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How can you create paths with precise curvatures in Inkscape?
I want to curve the line between points of a path using a specific value. Instead of dragging the line to curve it, I want to type a specific curvature value. Otherwise, it is impossible to get two ...
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Unable to rotate guides in Adobe Illustrator
I am following this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywnMo2ZNQGM
but my guides retain horizontal or vertical and don't rotate. When I activate Rotate tool I can only move cyan rotation center, ...
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How to remove the shadow (outline) of text in inkscape?
After much trying tutorials and googling how to remove the black outlines of text in Inkscape (I think it's the "stroke"), I have no luck. I would just like to make a few designs for ...
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Using right image for creating hope for the user to take action
I am developing educations app where i need to use an image for the first time users which create hope that they will catch up withe their alumni friends. So for this i am using this image.
with some ...
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Finding non shiny dark color
I am developing a star chart. As of now, I am using pure black color (HTML #000000) for the background to display the stars on. I have a sample that was printed by Posterbrain, and that was laminated....
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