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Save artboards as separate files in Illustrator
How To Save Artboards As Separate Files In Illustrator
 How To Save Artboards As Separate Files In Illustrator 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Unlike many other design applications, Adobe Illustrator affords you the luxury of creating multiple documents — known as artboards — within a single document, known as an Illustrator file — or an “.ai” file. Saving your Illustrator file will preserve all of those individual artboards within one master file that you can work with later…

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How to fit text to a shape in Affinity Designer
Fit Text To A Shape In Affinity Designer Using The Frame Text Tool
 Fit Text To A Shape In Affinity Designer Using The Frame Text Tool 800 470 Nick Saporito
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Working with text and shapes can sometimes be messy and complicated depending on the software you’re using. However, you can fit text to a shape with Affinity Designer with a single click by using the Frame Text Tool. In this tutorial we’ll be going over just how simple it is. Flowing text into a shape…

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How To Make A Heart In Illustrator
How To Make A Heart In Illustrator | 3 Quick Steps
 How To Make A Heart In Illustrator | 3 Quick Steps 800 470 Nick Saporito
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One of the benefits of working with Adobe Illustrator is all of the dedicated tools it has for creating common shapes that would otherwise have to be drawn manually. Unfortunately though, there’s no dedicated tool for generating heart shapes. However, you can make a heart in Illustrator by simply combining two rectangles with rounded edges,…

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Remove a white background with Inkscape
How To Easily Remove A White Background with Inkscape
 How To Easily Remove A White Background with Inkscape 800 470 Nick Saporito
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As we’ve gone over in previous tutorials, there’s various different ways to remove the background of an image with Inkscape. However, these methods often require tedious manual tracing. If you want to remove a white background with Inkscape though, there’s a handy little trick you can deploy to extract your subject from its white background…

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Make a #D pie chart with Illustrator
How To Make A 3D Pie Chart In Illustrator
 How To Make A 3D Pie Chart In Illustrator 800 470 Nick Saporito
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In today’s tutorial we’ll be going over a handy tool in Illustrator that allows you to make various kinds of charts and graphs — like a pie chart, for example. Then, we’ll be going over how to make that pie chart 3D. Making a 3D pie chart in Illustrator is simply a matter of using…

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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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