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How to quickly generate rectangles in place of text

If you intend to use InDesign, you can set up a Character Style that uses a thick underline to cover the entire wording. Then you can create a Paragraph Style and under that, a Grep Style, that ...
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How to quickly generate rectangles in place of text

The visual effect that you refer to is called "Greeking". Greeking obscures portions of a work for the purpose of either emphasizing form over details or displaying placeholders for ...
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How to quickly generate rectangles in place of text

Illustrator... Draw strokes.. then erase...
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What is the color space behind the color blend mode in photoshop, HSB or HSL

Adobe gives no exact numerical info of the blend modes. You find easily only more or less vague qualitative explanations from Adobe's own guides and 3rd party tutorials. One source for better info ...
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What is the color space behind the color blend mode in photoshop, HSB or HSL

Let me write and answer for you, although this belongs more to computer graphics.se than here. This is not the answer you want its the answer you need. The mathematics behind color are very ...
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Why is my PNG being imported with a black background in After Effects?

If you are exporting the .png from Photoshop or Illustrator, try not to use "Save for Web" the CRNT/CM+ALT+SHIFT+S. Instead use the "normal" save / export settings, set at 150ppp ...
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Photoshop - Can't Automate Filter > Pixelate > Crystallization with Script

Event IDs are used in Action Manager code (JSX) or BatchPlay (newer Photoshops, UXP Framework). Here's the Action Manager snippet. 10 is the Cell Size value for the filter. var desc = new ...
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What are the terms for the different types of image editors?

Pixel-based and non-destructive? Pixel-based editors, like Photoshop, Affinity Photo, and Pixelmator, allow you to work with individual pixels in an image, giving you a high degree of control over the ...
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Is it possible to edit a smart object while viewing other layers?

No, it's not possible. That's the downside of Smart Objects in Photoshop. It allows applying destructive filters without destructing the original, but the pixels of the original can only be edited ...
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Transform a smart object in photoshop dragged from illustrator - Illustrator CC

In Photoshop, if you wish to distort, warp, or use perspective distort, on a linked/embedded vector smart object (dragged in from Illustrator).... First... convert the existing Vector Smart Object ...
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How can I erase content outside the canvas in Photoshop?

0 I think I found just the perfect way to go around it, you press ctrl+A, this makes a selection of everything on the convas, then you click image,and now in the drop down menu click trim and you will ...
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How to remove everything except numbers and texts from chart images?

I don't think this is a graphic design question because PS (or any other graphic software) doesn't really have enough tools to analyse data and in-app scripting here wouldn't help. I was able to get ...
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How to export layers to pages of a pdf file in Photoshop CS5

@0xFK - yes, in newer Creative Cloud programs, I agree that Export > Layers to Files from Photoshop is a great option. That command will provide you with many image files. If you have Adobe Acrobat,...
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How to remove everything except numbers and texts from chart images?

First of all I need to say that I think this workflow is terribly flawed. Someone has the numbers, they turn them into pixels and send them to you to extract the numbers again. Why not just get the ...
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How to make that custom shape-soft edge gradient in PhotoShop

well i think you will to select the border first select / modify / border give it a 20 px ( in my opinion ) and then choose gradient from the to color involve if the pic is green and the backgroud is ...
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What should be standard size of QR code on business card so that it can get scan easily?

Value: I agree with what Scott said above about if a qr code actually adds value, but I would also argue that time is valuable as well. Consider the qr code leads to a homepage. Back in 2021 a lot of ...
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Is This SVG Code Correct?

To add to your list: renders as you expect in Inkscape (v0.92) and Firefox. Renders as a Blue-Black-Blue vertical gradient in Gimp and Gwenview. ImageMagick converts it without problem to TIFF or PNG: ...
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Is This SVG Code Correct?

Not sure what's up there, but your SVG fails to render properly in Illustrator, Inkscape, GIMP and Photoshop. I messed around with it a little in Inkscape, ungrouping and rearranging a bit. Try this ...
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How to remove everything except numbers and texts from chart images?

I have created photoshop action and acomplished these results with two of your images. It consists of lot of alternating steps of surface blur, gaussian blur, unsharp mask and levels adjustments. Idea ...
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Printing multiple pictures

This depends on what software you currently have. If you are using Adobe photoshop, this is very easy. You would create an action that resizes the image to 4.5. Then saves a copy and closes the image. ...
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Draw lines with rough edges in Photoshop

There are brushes in Photoshop which can be used to stroke a path -- Draw a path (not a shape, a path). Grab the Brush Tool Select a brush Hold the Shift key down and hit the Return key. Or... It's ...
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How to give vintage art more modern look?

It could be argued that there is a yellow colour cast on the image due to it's age, although I quite like it the way it is, and I would agree with Scott's comment, that it gives a pleasant warm hue to ...
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Photoshop properties does not appear

This just happened to me. In my case it was because I used ctrl + right click to modify the shape. In that moment the properties' appearance panel disappeared and then only mask is shown. When I tried ...

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