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Nick Saporito

Outline text with Affinity Designer
Outline Text with Affinity Designer Using The New Contour Tool
 Outline Text with Affinity Designer Using The New Contour Tool 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Placing an outline around your text is a rather simple task, and there’s various ways of going about doing so. Thanks to a recent update to Affinity Designer though, it’s now easier than ever. The new Contour Tool allows you to outline text with Affinity Designer with a single click of the mouse, and in…

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Delete the background from glass with GIMP
Remove The Background From Glass with GIMP
 Remove The Background From Glass with GIMP 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Sometimes deleting a background to transparency isn’t as simple as it seems. A good example of this would be glass. I’ve gone over various ways to delete backgrounds to transparent with GIMP in the past, but what about for more complicated imagery, like glass? In this instance, it’s not simply a matter of creating a…

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How To Distort Perspective In Illustrator Using The Free Transform Tool
 How To Distort Perspective In Illustrator Using The Free Transform Tool 800 470 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to distort perspective in Illustrator so that you can transform a single object in a freeform way. For this, we’ll be using the Free Transform Tool rather than the Perspective Tool. By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to distort the perspective of a single object…

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Create isometric text with Affinity Designer
Create Isometric Text with Affinity Designer Using The Isometric Tool
 Create Isometric Text with Affinity Designer Using The Isometric Tool 800 470 Nick Saporito
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A really neat feature Affinity Designer has that I haven’t yet seen anywhere else is the isometric tool, which allows you to take flat, 2D objects and place them on one of three isometric planes. In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to create isometric text with Affinity Designer using that handy isometric tool. Typically,…

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Make a rainbow gradient in Inkscape
How To Make A Rainbow Gradient In Inkscape | Beginner Tutorial
 How To Make A Rainbow Gradient In Inkscape | Beginner Tutorial 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Today’s tutorial will be an exercise in working with gradients in Inkscape. In this lesson we’ll be going over how to make a rainbow gradient in Inkscape. This process involves working with the Gradient tool and using it to add multiple stops (or colors) to your gradient. After completing this lesson you will be equipped…

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Merge layers with Affinity Designer
Why Merging Layers In Affinity Designer Is So Complicated
 Why Merging Layers In Affinity Designer Is So Complicated 800 470 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial I’ll be addressing a rather confusing and frustrating aspect of working with Affinity Designer — merging layers. I’ll be going over how to merge vector layers and how to merge pixel layers as well. Unfortunately, this isn’t as simple as it sounds, and will require some workarounds based on exactly what it…

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Create and save swatches in Illustrator
Create and Save Swatches In Illustrator For Use Any Time
 Create and Save Swatches In Illustrator For Use Any Time 800 470 Nick Saporito
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If you have a series of colors — or swatches — that you regularly work with, then it would be beneficial to have them saved in such a way that you can access them easily when needed. In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can save swatches in Illustrator that you’ve created yourself, so…

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Repeat a shape along a path with Illustrator
Repeat A Shape Along A Path with Illustrator Using Pattern Brushes
 Repeat A Shape Along A Path with Illustrator Using Pattern Brushes 800 470 Nick Saporito
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One of Adobe Illustrator’s many useful features includes having the ability to create pattern brushes. Pattern brushes allow you to repeat a shape along a path with Illustrator, but there’s a few things you need to be mindful of first, which I’ll be covering in this lesson. In a tutorial from last year I demonstrated…

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Opacity mask with Inkscape
Create An Opacity Mask with Inkscape | Partial Transparency for Groups
 Create An Opacity Mask with Inkscape | Partial Transparency for Groups 800 470 Nick Saporito
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If you’re familiar with how gradients work in Inkscape then you probably already know that they can be used to give individual objects partial transparency where it transitions from opaque to transparent. However, this doesn’t work for groups of objects. In this instance we’ll need to use opacity masks. Creating an opacity mask with Inkscape…

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Vector image tracing with Affinity Designer
Vector Image Tracing with Affinity Designer | 3 Solutions
 Vector Image Tracing with Affinity Designer | 3 Solutions 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Having the ability to trace vector copies of your images is a standard feature of any vectors graphics software. For Affinity Designer users though, we’re out of luck. Designer, for whatever reason, does not possess the ability to do this. Although there’s no auto image trace feature built in, you can still do vector image…

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