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What can be done to preserve the history of digital design?
I tend to keep everything digital.
When floppys died I moved everything to Zip disks.
When Zip disks died I moved everything to a hard drive. (considered moving to Jaz drives but was wary of yet ...
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Gummy Bear Digital Drawing Critique
You did well in creating the dimensionality of the gummi bear, but one aspect that I feel did not come through as well is the transparency. It might have been the specific lightning you were copying, ...
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What can be done to preserve the history of digital design?
You have a few things that you need to be concerned about preserving. When we talk about digital preservation, we typically are concerned with:
The physical media. This is handled through what's ...
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How do I use the Duplicate Brush in Krita? (on a tablet)
It's called the Clone Brush in the newest version of Krita. To use it, do the following:
Click on the Brush Tool, then in the tool options along the top click on the brush icon, then open the ...
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What can be done to preserve the history of digital design?
You can't easily preserve digital files for a few reasons:
physical media becomes outdated
software becomes out dated
systems to run said outdated software becomes outdated
Not that you shouldn't ...
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How to create nice shadows in krita?
I don't think that this really has anything to do with software you are using, but rather the way that the drawing has been created. There are several problems to address.
For an object to have ...
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Drawing lines come out jagged
I will try to point you "whys", and possible fixes in terms of Krita, that is the tool I use.
Your machine is too slow to correctly process strokes, dropping information.
Try playing with:
distance
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How to change a flat 2D png image into an image with more depth, similar to the animated Disney images?
The method I would use to create such shading and highlights is to use gradient meshes in Adobe Illustrator. Here's an example showing the kind of effects you can get.
This technique isn't quick or ...
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Color consistency across different monitors
You could use calibration to get the views on both your monitors to line up, colour-wise. The quality of the calibration depends on how much you'll spend on calibration soft- and hardware. This can ...
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PDF Printing protection
Files simply do not work like this. Even if all PDF readers had implemented such a file-destruction mechanism, it could easily be circumvented by copying the file before printing or recompiling any ...
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How can improve this picture in photoshop?
It's not clear what you mean by "make it look like a real wallpaper." In any event, I see 2 issues with the image:
The bunny is overexposed and that's causing the highlights to be blown out. If you ...
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What can be done to preserve the history of digital design?
Digital archiving is hard. You have to plan to overcome the technical barriers. So the media needs to be refreshed periodically to avoid becoming obsolete you also need multiple copies to avoid bit ...
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Difference in Applying of brush strokes between the real world and the digital art world
I use Krita, not Photoshop so I can't point you a solution specifically in Photoshop. I will first point a quick possible big "why" for your problem and latter point other possible problems ...
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How can I paint over a picture or a 3D model in Photoshop?
Imagine doing this with an actual painting – you would not be able to look under the new layer at all, so don't feel discouraged by the confusion. Work with it just as if you were painting without ...
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How do I prevent the white outline around the inside of the blue circle not happen?
This is caused by the black stroke using anti-aliasing to make the edges appear smoother. Anti-aliasing is the smoothing of jagged edges in digital images by averaging the colors of the pixels at a ...
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What can be done to preserve the history of digital design?
Clearly digital technologies introduced ipso facto some very interesting concerns in terms of preservation. Without entering the old paper vs digital debate, it's true that we are still able to read ...
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On dynamic identities
This looks suspiciously like the branding form of the dreaded marquee and blink tags. The human eye is naturally drawn to movement so in that sense it seems like it would be desirable for capturing ...
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How to lighten color without ruining texture and line in photoshop?
Yes you can achieve that with blending modes.
I'll show you a quick example by adding some extra lit areas around the window...
First, on a new layer, I block in some color in the areas I want lit. I ...
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How to I make this more realistic/add more depth
Depens a lot on what program are you using. But lets get to that later.
In general:
Try to texture a bit the objects. Even Paint wich is the most basic program ever, has a spray that can give you a ...
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Choosing a Graphic Tablet
You can view specifications at Wacom's web site. Look at pressure levels, active area, and those sorts of things.
No need to repeat them here. The ones with "touch" in their name also have touch ...
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What (Hebrew) font styles are more legible in a digital reading?
I found when printing a book for a biblical scholar there are Hebrew fonts for Hebrew text and we had to use a TrueType font named SBL Hebrew:
It worked well in both digital and printed formats. If ...
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How to paint this bottle glossy?
I will cheat and give you some links for you to study.
Inkscape: realistic lighting and shading
How can I make a shape look like it is made of glass?
Prototype Visualization: How can I learn to ...
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I want to know what effects were used on these digital drawings I saw on Twitter
I can't tell you exactly how this was made. To me it looks like it was digitally painted somehow. Especially if I compare it to other images from the same artist.
Here are some tips on how to achieve ...
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What kind of digital brush was used to create this?
It looks to me like the that the splatter pattern is only on the top and bottom (and extreme right side) of the graphic.
That effect might be easier to create and control with an grunge pattern ...
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Adobe Xd: placing linked objects
To update a linked component, the way I know is to save it in your CC library and import it inside your XD project, and when you need to edit the component you edit the CC library object, and then you ...
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Minoring in Digital Design
Any kind of training related to anything design related and especially digital design is going to be beneficial in the immediate future. Even with a coding job, you'll have an edge with some basic ...
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