Questions tagged [stroke]
Questions about objects' outline. Mostly applies to vector programs, where the stroke is editable separately from the object's fill.
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Illustrator stroke sets to default when I ungroup
For the past month, I've been having a lot of trouble converting my lines to strokes in Adobe Illustrator. I've attached screenshots to illustrate my issue.
I have a snowflake design made of lines, to ...
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Not being able to change the width of a stroke [duplicate]
Today when I opened inkscape I found that when I make a stroke, the width does not change even if I go to properties and change the value
And when I try to open shape files I made, they look totally ...
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How can I convert a stroke to an outlined object in Inkscape?
I have an SVG file with some stroked paths in it (exported from a Cairo program), which I'm editing in Inkscape.
I want to import it into FontForge, but for that, I need these to be filled paths—that ...
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Draw two concentric circles without any change in stroke in Adobe Illustrator
I need to draw two concentric circles and I followed this procedure -
Ellipse tool →shift+drag→select→
(Ctrl+C+F)→shift+alt+drag any node(outward for bigger circle and inward for smaller).
But the ...
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Preserving original shape in stroke to path
I'd like to produce an outline of a leaf shape to make a cookie cutter. I would like a thin section (cutter) and a thick section (handle) and I'm going to make the 3D shape starting with an SVG I ...
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Ps: How to get Appearance params for a path created using the Pen Tool?
I want to create shapes using Photoshop's Pen Tool, and then adjust their fill and stroke colors... possibly even their stroke widths.
(I know, my demands are outlandish. "What do you think this ...
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Preapply Multiple Strokes to the Pen and Brush Tool in Illustrator consistently
I'm trying to accelerate a certain workflow when drawing with the Pen and Brush Tools in Illustrator.
Lately I've been using multiple strokes on paths drawn with the pen tool and it works wonders, so ...
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How to make perfectly sharp angles to this figure in Illustrator?
So time to time I face this problem when creating twinkling star: I draw an ellipse, then go to "Effect" > "Distort & Transform" > "Pucker & Bloat" > ...
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Apply stroke to a filled shape in Adobe Illustrator
I'm a complete beginner in Adobe Illustrator. I've drawn a clean lineart of a drawing with the pen tool and I'm now filling it with colours. However, I would like to give the drawing a hand-painted ...
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How do I make a spacetime curvature grid like this (the black hole one)?
I wanna make a grid like the black hole one but with bigger size and more subdivisions. I tried using the Envelope Distort tool and dragging the anchor point but the result is pretty pointy, is there ...
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Inkscape: strokes show as gray or semi-transparent when should be black
Using Inkscape v1.0.2-2, I now experience a problem with strokes for any shape tool. I try to make a rectangle with a black stroke color, a .3 thickness, and no fill color. It was working and then ...
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How do I maintain equal distance between the 2 paths in adobe illustrator?
I am trying to keep the distance uniform between these 2 black lines. It is difficult to do manually.
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Inkscape stroke affecting the letters' width
When I increase the stroke width in Inkscape for some words, It decreases each letters' width.
Is there a way to make the stroke only add to the size, instead of taking from it?
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Illustrator: can I change the edge of a stroke to give the shape i wanted to it
So im currently creating a font but i cant figure out how to allign the edge of my stroke with my guidline. As you can see in the image, I'm creating open path so i can change the width later (for ...
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Indesign - Why does the stroke imported from Photoshop (left) look fine while ID's stroke (right) looks jagged and horrible?
I tried changing my Display Performance, and also exported a PDF to make sure it rendered that way and sure enough it does.
Same font, same stroke, two Adobe apps with wildly different results. Can't ...
