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Nick Saporito

Kerning in Illustrator
Kerning In Illustrator Tutorial | Manually and Automatically
 Kerning In Illustrator Tutorial | Manually and Automatically 1000 587 Nick Saporito
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In typography, kerning refers to the spacing between letters. Sometimes that spacing needs to be adjusted to accommodate the spacing gaps created by the contours of various letters. Fortunately, this is a simple task for Adobe Illustrator users. In this tutorial we’ll be going over kerning in Illustrator and the various ways that it can…

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How to join paths in Inkscape
How To Join Paths In Inkscape
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In this tutorial we’ll be going over how you can join paths together in Inkscape so that they become a single path. This is accomplished by merging nodes together using a tool setting for the Edit Paths By Nodes tool. Knowing how to join paths can be useful for a variety of reasons. Maybe you…

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Create a glow effect in Illustrator
Create A Glow Effect In Adobe Illustrator | Tutorial
 Create A Glow Effect In Adobe Illustrator | Tutorial 1000 587 Nick Saporito
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In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to create a simple glow effect in Illustrator. The example we’ll be using is a single line of text. The glow effect will make it appear as if the object is emitting soft light from behind it. In short, there’s various workflows for creating a glow effect…

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How to invert colors in Inkscape
How To Invert Colors with Inkscape
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Color inversion is typically a quick process that only requires a few clicks, but Inkscape provides a variety of settings that can be adjusted to fine-tune every color to your liking. In this tutorial we’ll be going over all of those settings and everything else having to do with inverting colors of vector objects in…

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Move part of an image in Affinity Designer
How To Move Part Of An Image In Affinity Designer
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When working with photos in Affinity Designer you may find yourself needing to move part of an image for any number of reasons. Thankfully there is the Pixel Persona, which provides tools that let you create selections over areas of an image. In this tutorial we’ll be going over how to use those selections to…

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Round the corners of an image in Affinity Designer
How To Round The Corners Of An Image In Affinity Designer
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Affinity Designer allows you to make various types of edits to pixel-based images. One of the more common edits we’ll be focusing on in this lesson is rounding the corners of an image. In this tutorial we’ll be having a look at how you can do just that using clipping masks. As it turns out,…

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Why brushes are missing in Affinity Designer
SOLVED: Why Your Brushes Are Missing In Affinity Designer
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In this tutorial we’ll be addressing a common problem many new users of Affinity Designer may experience– missing brushes. You may already know how to import brushes, but what if you’ve imported them and they’re not populating in the Brushes menu? This can be confusing and frustrating. As you may already know, the way to…

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Align key objects in Illustrator
How To Align Key Objects In Illustrator
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In this tutorial we’ll be having a look at a convenient feature built into Illustrator’s Alignment Tool that allows you to align objects while keeping one of them anchored in place on the artboard. To do this we will have to designate what is known as a key object. The problem with aligning objects in…

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How to edit text in Procreate
SOLVED: How To Edit Text In Procreate
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In this tutorial we’ll be addressing a common problem new users may encounter when working with text in Procreate for the iPad. There will often be times where you want to edit the style of your text after it’s been created, but don’t know how to get back into text-editing mode. Let’s have a look…

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Change image colors in Affinity Designer
How To Change Image Colors In Affinity Designer
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Although Affinity Designer is mostly used as a vector design tool, it also has lots of powerful image-editing features built in. One such feature would be the ability to change the color of an object in a photo, which can be accomplished with a simple adjustment layer. This tutorial will demonstrate how to do just…

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