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How to efficiently draw bent or curved lines or arrows with Photoshop?
Use the Line Tool:
Select the Line Tool from the tool bar and make sure your layer is set to Shape Layer. Before you make the shape on the artboard, click the gear icon and choose which side of the ...
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How to generate a two-circumference curve?
Rotate each circle 45° (causing them to have an overlapping anchor point)
Use the Direct Selection Tool (White arrow) to click anchors and delete them, leaving appropriate segments.
Select the middle ...
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Inkscape: A proper way to align arrows heads with a given curve
Here's one approach, there may be others.
Draw two straight lines, select them both, then create a bunch of lines in between using Extensions > Generate from Path > Interpolate, ungroup them, then do ...
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Regular Curve on Parallel Lines in Illustrator
Draw 1 stroke.. a centerline, if you will.
Expand the stroke.. and you then have a shape. Use Shape Builder to combine portions, then swap the fill and stroke...
I would also merely draw 1 corner this ...
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Smoothing edges from jagged to a beautiful curve
If you are only using Photoshop, These are the steps I took..
First I Changed the image resolution to 300 dpi
Then I went to Menu item Image/Adjust/Invert
Then using my magic wand I selected all of ...
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Set order (start) of nodes in a closed shape/path?
A curve can't have a starting point in the middle. It has to be one or other of the end nodes. In Inskcape you can reverse the path direction using Path > Reverse. Path direction affects the entire ...
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How to bend a gradient with Illustrator
Simply use a thick stroke as opposed to a shape, and apply a gradient to the stroke.
You can expand the gradient stroke afterwards, resulting in a gradient mesh object.
You can also stack multiple ...
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Smoothing edges from jagged to a beautiful curve
Can you redo the logo using the original font, which is called Blowbrush?
https://www.dafont.com/blowbrush.font
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Illustrator: I have lost a single bezier handle for a point, need it back without losing curve
There are a couple of different ways to alter the curve of paths in Illustrator. You can manipulate the bezier handles on the points to make the path go where you want it to or you can directly ...
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Mass-remove Bezier Curves in Illustrator
Don't use a brush here.
Draw a circle
Choose Effect > Distort & Transform > Zig Zag and adjust settings to your likingUnder the "Points" area, be certain Corner is selected. Then click OKAY....
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How to continue an unfinished curved path in InkScape
As I was writing and editing the question, I figured I would post my work-around/hack to help illustrate the issue. I started trying to figure out what subpaths are, (per a similar question posted on ...
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What's the most effective way to create a curved rectangle in inkscape
Here's one method
Draw a rectangle with a thick stroke and no fill, click and drag the radius control to round the ends to a semi-circle
Do Path > Object to path, to convert the rectangle to a ...
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how to draw a quadratic/cubic bezier curve in inkscape?
Pretty much all curves in Inkscape are basically cubic Bezier curves. For your example with the four points, first make sure your Bezier tool is set to 'Create regular Bezier path' () and add a line ...
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Partially increase width of the curve
One simple, but rather manual method, is to use Path > Stroke to Path, to expand the stroke to a shape, then simply edit the nodes and curves as required.
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Continue a curve from pre-built shape
Here's one method that might work for you if you have Illustrator CC.
Use the Curvature Tool.
The result looks pretty smooth, and done without the need to mess with Bezier curve handles!
The ...
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Inverse round corners with Inkscape
Use the Bézier tool Shift+F6 to draw a closed path as in the example shown below
You can hold down CTRL as you use the tool to constrain the angles at the corners to 45 degrees, and for right angles ...
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Possible Way to Create Cartoon Tree Effect in Illustrator? A Circle with Ridges / Small Curves Around It?
@joojaa has it exactly correct - roughen and pucker and bloat and tweak are all your friends here, and the appearance palette most of all.
I've spent more time than I care to admit developing tree ...
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What's beneficial about temporal auto Bezier keyframes over continuous Bezier keyframes?
Difference is quite low :) Auto bezier will generate constrains automatically and continous bezier will allow that constrains to be streched in the axes (same line of auto generated constrains) and ...
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How to make an open bezier curve?
I agree with others that vector drawing quickly gets too limited in Photoshop and that Illustrator is a better alternative.
But I can't reproduce the problem. In Photoshop 2020 I can draw Bezier ...
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Illustator - Scale bezier anchor point handle on every anchor point for an object
You can scale the handles.
But, yes, you must do them one by one. That really shouldn't matter if you use numbers rather than trying to drag anything.
Select one anchor using the Direct Selection ...
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How can you create paths with precise curvatures in Inkscape?
There is no numerical input for the curvature in the Inkscape GUI. This isn't something you will typically find in vector software anyway, not just in Inkscape. I mean you could technically edit the ...
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Regular Curve on Parallel Lines in Illustrator
Nearly the same is already shown, but here's a variation which uses numbers:
Image 1: The dashed circle has the same diameter (=D) as the 3/4 circle in the bottom left corner. The green line is ...
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Regular Curve on Parallel Lines in Illustrator
You could use the Corner Widgets for this.
Draw everything as straight lines with a thick stroke like as shown below, and add an extra anchor in the long vertical stroke, and cut it here using the ...
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