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Nick Saporito

Blend colors in Procreate
How To Blend Colors In Procreate To Make New Colors
 How To Blend Colors In Procreate To Make New Colors 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Mobile design apps such as Procreate for the iPad give artists a digital canvas for painting and drawing. One of the most common things you might do with paint is mix it with other colors of paint to form new colors. However, Procreate doesn’t necessarily behave this way. That’s okay though because there are workaround,…

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Add bullet points in Illustrator
Adding Bullet Points In Illustrator? Just Use This Keyboard Shortcut…
 Adding Bullet Points In Illustrator? Just Use This Keyboard Shortcut… 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Adobe Illustrator probably isn’t the best application to use if you plan to do any kind of desktop publishing, such as writing whitepapers, ebooks, and guides. This is because basic word processing tasks — such as adding bulleted lists — are an absent feature. However, there are workarounds for those of you who insist on…

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Make a color palette from an image in Procreate
How To Make A Color Palette From An Image In Procreate For The iPad
 How To Make A Color Palette From An Image In Procreate For The iPad 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Those who love to paint, sketch and draw may be delighted to know that the Procreate app lets you sample colors from an image and add them to a custom color palette that you can use whenever you want. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how you can make a color palette from an…

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Replace a color in GIMP
How To Replace A Color In GIMP | The Correct Way
 How To Replace A Color In GIMP | The Correct Way 800 470 Nick Saporito
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GIMP makes it possible for you to edit photos in virtually any way that you’d like. This includes color replacement, or selecting a color (or range of colors) in your image and replace it with another. In this tutorial we’ll be going over a simple workflow that will allow you to replace a color in…

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Join curves in Affinity Designer
How To Join Curves In Affinity Designer
 How To Join Curves In Affinity Designer 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Let’s say you’re working with a couple of objects in Affinity Designer. Both of them are paths with defined stroke properties, and you want to combine them together. This is a pretty common task when working with vectors, and Affinity Designer makes it as easy as any other application. In this lesson we’ll be going…

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Make a pattern in Photoshop
How To Quickly Make A Pattern In Photoshop
 How To Quickly Make A Pattern In Photoshop 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Photoshop comes packed with tons of stock patterns that you can use as a fill property. There’s also no shortage of pattern designs available for download throughout the internet. What if you want to make your own pattern though? In today’s tutorial we’ll be going over how to make a pattern in Photoshop using your…

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How to mirror in Inkscape
How To Mirror In Inkscape | Drawing With Symmetry
 How To Mirror In Inkscape | Drawing With Symmetry 800 470 Nick Saporito
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In today’s tutorial we’ll be going over a more obscure feature in Inkscape, which is the ability to draw in “symmetry mode”, where transformations made to one object are mirrored and copied on the other side of the axis. In order to mirror in Inkscape we will need to use a designated path effect. Upon…

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Import an image with Affinity Photo
How To Import An Image With Affinity Photo
 How To Import An Image With Affinity Photo 800 470 Nick Saporito
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When working in Affinity Photo, you may find yourself wanting to import an outside image onto your current workspace so that you can work with it further. This process is very straightforward if you’re already familiar with the Affinity suite, but not so much if you aren’t. Do not fret, however, because in this tutorial…

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Resize an image in GIMP
2 Ways To Resize An Image In GIMP – Manually And Numerically
 2 Ways To Resize An Image In GIMP – Manually And Numerically 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Resizing an image is probably the most basic and common transformation you can make in a photo editing application like GIMP. Fortunately, GIMP couldn’t make this process easier if they tried. In this tutorial we’ll be going over two different ways to resize an image in GIMP. One method allows for manual scaling, whereas the…

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Resize an image in Inkscape
The Easiest Way To Resize An Image In Inkscape
 The Easiest Way To Resize An Image In Inkscape 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Inkscape isn’t just a vector design tool. As we’ve gone over in previous lessons, it also allows you to make common transformation to images as well, such as scaling and resizing. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to resize an image in Inkscape by manually scaling it or by inputting numerical values. In…

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