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Designing clock ticks
With InkScape, it's rather easy by using "Path Effects" of "Rotate copies":
Result:
Now, I wish some of these ticks to be thicker and shorter (at mins 5, 10, 15...).
So, I can ...
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(Illustrator) Warp text inside and around a ring/circle, maintaining its shape
A sketched example of what I'd like to achieve:
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Set text to white automatically on dark spreads
I'm working on an illustrated book with artwork throughout. Every so often, I have a spread that has a dark background. I've created a Master page with headers and folios set in white but I can't see ...
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Can an object style inherit width and height in InDesign?
I'm making a a bunch of object styles for specifically sized rounded rectangles. I created the first style, set the width, height, the stroke style, corners and the fill transparency.
Then created ...
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Difference between health, wellness, and fitness color palettes?
If I google "color palette health", I get something different than if I google "color palette wellness". And "color palette fitness" gives even different results. I ...
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What could be causing this overprint?
I have just received prints from a company and saw that an image was missing from one of the pages. I asked the company about this and they investigated to find out that the file contains and ...
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How to add an overlay of CSS rgba(1, 1, 1, 0.7) to an image in GIMP?
I am not a graphic desginer but I have a colorful image which I use in HTML as a background image, to which I want to add an overlay in GIMP.
In HTML-CSS I would do this:
<div style="...
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Pros and cons of threading text frames over columns in InDesign?
I've recently learnt about threading text as frames and started using it - but when would it be better than a text column or table?
I understand you'd use columns for something like newspaper ...
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Clip layer Style effects (drop shadow) to pixels on layer below
Is there a way to clip a layer style to the layer below it, just like you can clip an adjustment layer to the layer below it? thanks. Layer one has a bottle image (with alpha transparency, so it's ...
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Distribute lists (equally) separated by a character
I would like to add a paragraph to my document containing names separated by bullet points. Since the names are in different lengths the distribution is not balanced on every line.
When I set the text ...
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Extract specific Portion from logo
Link to the CDR file is here
I have this logo and I just want the complete rings from its background. Is it possible? I tried but the rings are broken midway.
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Can I automatically convert an outer stroke into an "inner" stroke in SVGs?
I know the title is sort of confusing but I really don't know how to describe it better. I will first visualize what I want to achieve, because it becomes really clear then.
The following image is a ...
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Will I lose colours saving a 16-bit picture as 8-bit?
Let's say that I have a 16-bit photo and want to edit it using Photoshop. 8-bit graphics can display 256 colours per channel and 16-bit graphics can display 65,536 colours per channel, a significant ...
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Photoshop layers converting to background layer
Everytime I open a new layer in Photoshop and add an image, it reverts back to a background layer with that image in the thumbnail: (1)I have unlocked the layer and renamed it, clicked to confirm ...
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How to link variable font axes to characters position?
I need to build an algorithm that will automatically interpolate a variable font in the layout based on the positions of the characters in space. It doesn't matter in which software it will be ...
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What is the complementary color of yellow (Purple or blue)? Which model color for digital (RGB or RYB)?
I don't understand:
Using Adobe color wheel, the complementary of yellow (#ffff00) is
purple (#7D00FF).
Using Material Design, the complementary is blue(#0000ff).
I understood that it depended on ...
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Clipping mask inverse?
I have a fairly simple image:
I wish the middle transparent area to be a bit bigger:
What shall be my next step to cut all the white "clipping mask" from the underneath layer?
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How to apply this kind of spot gradient on live text in photoshop
I just got stucked how to apply partical gradient effect on this texts.
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Is there a way to move guides with a layer in gimp?
While creating tile sets or similar sprites I end up having multiple guides as measurements in a layer. Is there a way to collectively move a group of guides with the layer when I am arranging and ...
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How can I break a path into two in Inkscape?
I selected a node, and then clicked "break path at selected nodes."
Then I selected a node and hit ctrl-a to select all other nodes attached to it. It jumped the gap I had just made.
I also ...
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InDesign GREP code for find words between a full stop (.) and a colon (:)
What is the GREP code for finding all words between a full stop (.) and a colon (:) and then selecting those words and the colon (but not the fullstop)? For example: '. Tone:' or '. Final result:') in ...
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How to set the initial color of fill/stroke in the Illustrator?
Although I saw this question and followed the process step-by-step, I have trouble setting the default color of fill/stroke.
I want to set the fill with white(#ffffff) and stroke with black(#000000) ...
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How to quickly remove all duplicate paths created during the use of the Shapebuilder tool in Adobe Illustrator?
The Shapebuilder tool always gives me quite a few duplicate paths stacked on top of each other, which can sometimes cause problems when using other tools later and selecting the paths thinking I’m ...
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Is there a good way to work with this powerpoint file in illustrater
I have quite a complex powerpoint. I made it in powerpoint in the first place, because I knew how to make it like this so far. But now the next part will be easier in illustrator. It has to be ...
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inkscape: split paths obtained from path-effects
Using Inkscape 1.3, I generated a path and made copies using the rotate copies path effect (c.f.: picture). Now I would like to make individual changes to those copies like changing the color of one ...
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How to convert an ascii art block to a solid block?
There are many programs to convert an image to ascii art, but I want to opposite. Let's say I have a simple ascii art with only one character #. How can I wrap around all the outer nodes like this?
I ...
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Help with interpreting an SVG file
I have an SVG file that was opened in an app called EazyDraw. When I 'Select All' I can right-click and choose 'Convert to Bezier.' I need to know how to interpret the results of the conversion. Can ...
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Are there any good third party tools for making accurate shape layer from vector object?
I tried using photoshop's "Color Range","Make Work Path", and "New Fill layer" tools to make a a shape layer that accurately recreae this vector image I want to recreate.
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Trying to flip selection on GIMP
I am having trouble flipping a selection on GIMP. I use the lasso tool to select the part of the image I want to select. I then click tools > transform tools > flip but only the outline of my ...
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Why do axis lines disappear when opened outside of Inkscape?
I made an svg graph using R (ggplot2) and it displays fine in Firefox.
I then edited it in Inkscape to improve the legend. In order to do this, I had to ungroup a group that contained both the legend ...
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Epson Printer Prints weird Yellow Magenta Cyan ending [closed]
Based on this thread they recommended I post my printer problem here. My Epson L4260 prints this weird output at the end of only glossy photo paper print from Microsoft Word. I tried using the laptop ...
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1960s Technical Diagrams fonts used by NASA
It's 1960, and technical diagrams are of top design quality, despite the limited technical means available at the time.
Which font would likely be used for the main text in such a diagram?
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I want to know the type of effect usedin this type of animation.?
What is this style called where the object drops in comes close to the camera and flys back to a position in the background.please refer to 0:29 time in which the pillows first drops in and than goes ...
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Rotate a character from the character map in word and excel
I'm not sure where to post this question, but I am looking for a "pulled in reverse" character set of the runic alphabet and cannot find one, or how to rotate just a single item. Does anyone ...
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Inkscape - how to change double lines font inside the rectangle box?
I am new to inkscape. I'm primarily using it for make flow diagrams. I've put landscape orientation of the page.
When I add text inside rectangles created they come to be of double lines. I've font ...
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batch processing markdown into a template
I have an existing PSD template for a print design, though I can change that to anything else for the purposes of this project.
I want to use GPT to batch create a set of markdown files that I am ...
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Decent aligned printing on a laser printer? Recommendations?
I like to do everything possible at home as I make art prints in small batches. I was really wanting to do full color prints in my inkjet (canon pro 100) and then add foil details by sending them ...
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How was this illustrated? How could I learn to do the same?
This is a recent shirt on instagram, who I love so much. How did they design this beautiful icon of a carrot skinner? I would love to learn how to make such a beautiful image of a simple object.
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Workflow for making stroke animations for any script out of existing fonts?
I am looking to make this Hanzi stroke animator, which has JSON data such as this, work for any language (as of now, Tibetan, Devanagari, and Tamil). Basically I want to show an animation of how to ...
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Gimp copy and paste in text editor
Hi I'm trying to add lots of names to a design that are repeated. for instance.
first last. first last . first last . Etc.
I only have about 20 names but need to fill a large area so was hoping to ...
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Photoshop, How to replace colors overlapping over other colors and maintain the Levels without manually swapping the RGB Channels in Channels?
I am trying to figure out how one can select an area and get a grayscale as a result. But I don't even know what to do with the grayscale.
I have created a simple gradient, to create an example for ...
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Can you please help identify these fonts? I need to find them for a project
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What font is used in these graphics? I tried putting them through different font identifiers but I couldn't find it. probably wasn't in their catalogue. One of ...
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Scanned a Pdf with Washed Out Colors
I scanned a book into a pdf, but the room light I used to illuminate the pages caused the scans to have a washed out effect
The black text at the top of the page is light in the scans. The lack of ...
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How to expand a simple palette?
I grabbed a fun little neon palette from Paletton (below), and I want to try editing a photo (that I've reduced to a 256-color indexed colormap) to be in the neon palette. I'd like to get more nuanced ...
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Gaps between overlapping letters
I am using Inkscape 1.3. Trying to use the "Milkshake" font, I see weird gaps between the overlapping letters, as can be seen below:
What is going wrong?
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Creating a geometric path
Edit: I did not want to conflate the question with unnecessary details, but from the extended comments, it seems some additional info is in order.
I would like to create a path that ultimately can be ...
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SVG animate accordion two letter word into longer word?
Using a plain-text editor, preferably, or Inkscape, are there any good tutorials on taking two letters and inserting more letters between them, and animating it so that the two letters expand outward ...
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Adobe Illustrator 2023 URLEncoding "fi" in hyperlinks
I'm trying to create a PDF document with clickable hyperlinks using Abode Illustrator 2023, however I've noticed a weird issue - if the URL contains the characters "fi" they will be replaced ...
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Why does this happen to my out of bounds shape?
I'm importing a PSD file into Illustrator and I've noticed there's sort of a "clipping shape" the size of the artboard mixed with the shapes that happen to be "out of bounds" (in ...
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My shadow layer vanishes when I blur 1 using field blur
I have an object layer to which I want to add a realistic shadow.
I found a tutorial on youtube (https://youtu.be/5TuhBcN9k8w) and am following it to create the shadow.
I have created a dropshadow, ...
