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How can I crop everything outside of an art board in Illustrator?
The clipping mask will not remove the paths and points that are off the artboard — it will simply hide them.
I would use the Crop pathfinder.
Create your artboard sized rectangle on top of the ...
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How can I draw seamless texture and have GIMP mirror the edges on texture sides?
In Gimp 2.10, you don't need to do this, you just use the Symmetry painting feature.
Create an image which is 3x3 the size of your intended tile (in theory, 2x2 is enough but the effect is easier to ...
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How can I reproduce this linen print texture?
There's a lot of different tricks to achieve this.
I usually do it something like this:
Base material layer first, then all designs and on the top a copy of the material.
In the layer style panel ...
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Illustrator: How to create realistic reflective gold surface?
I am naming these chapters starting with V as the second part of this post.
The first part has renders of 3D models, the second half of the post has vector based images.
Chapter V. Illustration
One ...
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How was this texture effect achieved?
To me, it looks like a few stacked layers.
A base greyscale or possibly minimal color layer. Then a diffusion layer on top of everything.
You can achieve the diffusion (stipple) effect easily by ...
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How can I reproduce this linen print texture?
The Campcraft image has plenty of low resolution imaging and JPG artifacts, but it looks like a photo of real fabric could do the job. You seem to know that.
There are whole bunch of other tricks ...
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How to apply a texture to an image, making it look like it's carved into the background's texture? (Example given)
Check out my quick demo using Bevel & Emboss in the layer styles. Assuming you have larger assets, you can break up your shapes into multiple layers and apply the layer style to each of them for ...
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What tools can I use to create Fractal Art?
Here's a comprehensive list of the best software/online tools available right now
Incendia Fractals - Donationware
The application includes multiple 3D editors for design and process Fractals as ...
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How to recolor a vector pattern swatch in Illustrator?
Apply your pattern swatch to your artwork and with it selected hit the Recolor Artwork button (or go to Edit → Edit Colors → Recolor Artwork...):
Select the "New" swatch next to the color ...
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Create Distressed Opaque Texture in Photoshop
Find a nice grunge texture... I'll use this for an example:
Image from: https://freestocktextures.com/texture/grunge-scratched-wall,592.html
You want a nice contrasting image to use as a mask.
I ...
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Replicate alpha channel in Photoshop
Yes it's possible, but the alpha channel will not be high resolution - it will be a bit blurry if you rescaled the image.
In your PSD, CTRL+Click (Command+Click on Mac) on the layer with alpha ...
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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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How to create pastel-like noise texture in adobe illustrator
You want to switch to photoshop for this one.
And then either use the brushes to paint the forms or find a suitable texture. Mostly grunge textures are good for this sort of stuff.
https://texturelabs....
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In GIMP, how can I change one solid colors to multiple color variations?
The following seems to work:
Create a blank 3 x 3 image (make bigger if you need more tones).
Put your color as foreground and paint the new image with Bucket Fill.
Filters > Noise > RGB Noise or ...
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Business card with textured paper?
This example that you show is 100% real paper.
So you need to talk with printing house what paper you can use and prepare design for this paper.
You can print some paper texture on normal paper, but ...
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Making dark areas lighter on a wood texture
You can use the Dodge Tool, set at a low exposure - like 10% (located on the Control bar) - to brush over the dark areas lightly. Do this a few times until you bring them up to around the same value ...
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Replace a texture by another
I'd say it's probably a waste of time and not worth the effort. The top image is such poor quality that it's unusable anyway.
Instead, just find a white painted wood panel (or take a photo of one), ...
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How to mockup a realistic cloth tag with a custom shape?
An answer with several parts:
The truth is that if you want real flexibility in making mockups you need to learn a 3D program.
Use Blender https://www.blender.org/ that is free, very powerful.
If ...
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What is the name of this grainy shading technique in traditional? Can we reproduce it in digital?
The core of the digital version has already been said in a comment. Here's only an attempt to do it. This is in legacy Photoshop, but it doesn't use anything which is not available in freebies like ...
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Critique: Color and texture use in gymnastics club poster
Design is in many ways about solving the visual problems that you posed for yourself.
Here I find it difficult to point to a single element and say "Don't do that!" There are some "I would never do ...
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How to make all layers seamless in a same way?
If you want to apply the same pattern-making process to a number of similar images then all you need to do is make your edits non-destructively to smart objects; you can then swap out the smart object'...
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Recreate water texture in Gimp
You can download the Horizon2 gradient here - put it in your GIMP gradients folder - on Windows it's located at C:\Users\Your User Name\.gimp-2.8\gradients folder, then restart GIMP.
Running the ...
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