I'm trying to create the "Ed, Edd, and Eddy" art style. Here's an example image:
Specifically, I'm trying to capture the effect of having accent lines with varying stroke values within the same line.
I have access to the Adobe suite. Spent a couple hours trying to see if I could do something in Photoshop or Illustrator to no avail. Any help?
You'll need to use Illustrator, here's a quick tutorial on how it's done in Illustrator CC.
Draw your starting shape:
Choose the width tool from the toolbox
click anywhere on the path and drag it out to the desired width
Repeat this (you can widen and thin the stroke) until you have the desired result.
In Photoshop, simply create a brush that is pressure sensitive (= change brush diameter with pressure) with your tablet.
That should give you the desired effect.
#user3488148 you are looking for a free form drawing strokes and for that you can use a brush that provides accents while you draw and can respond to pressure (if a tablet stylus is used) as well. Check out for inbuilt brushes and modify their diameter, length, pressure, etc.
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There is this site http://game-icons.net/ that offers huge number of open source icons. That is 1345 SVG files to this day. I would love to use them with a web project I am working on right now. The logical step is to transform them into an icon font. Normally, I would just upload them to https://icomoon.io/app/#/select/font and voila ... but!
The icons are inverse, white symbols on a black rectangle. I can invert colors in Illustrator, but some of the icons have overlaping shapes and this breaks them when icomoon tries to make them Black-transparent.
Example: http://game-icons.net/lorc/originals/archery-target.html
The circles are white, not transparent.
How to flatten a Black-White SVG file with overlaping shapes into an icomoon friendly Black-transparent SVG?
My wish is to make the font open source as well and send it back to the site admins for everybody to enjoy.
At the moment the icons have layers of black and white paths. You are going to need to use the "merge paths" feature of Illustrator or Inkscape to make the white (or black) paths into holes where appropriate. I think this is pretty much going to be a manual task. You could write a script to help with some of the work, but I suspect you would end up needing to fix a large number of the icons afterward anyway.
I downloaded a icon, and now i want to reset the color of it, but i'm not good at photoshop, i've set the color of it to be red, but there are to many edges and corners, please tell me how to remove those edges by using photoshop step by step, thanks a lot.
here is the icon i downloaded:
and this is my ugly one:
The best way to alter a single color like this on a simple image such as this is to alter the Hue and Saturation [CTRL / CMD + U]...
This allows you greater color control and keeps the anti-aliased edges of the image intact.
Most beginners alter colors like this by simply selecting the color with the wand, or using the paint bucket on the color. Unfortunately this usually does one of 2 things:
Makes the ragged edges that you saw.
Leaves a halo of the old color as an orphan.
I did this in a few seconds with that tool:
is it possible to create a stroke with a dynamic width with SVG? I want to achieve a Calligraphy look like here, here or here.
Is this even possible? It seems customization of strokes in SVG is fairly limited. Even gradients in strokes seem to be non-trivial (see here).
There is a proposal to add into SVG standard a mechanism, that does exactly what you want:
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Proposals/Variable_width_stroke
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2013May/0041.html
There's even an example implementation available here:
https://rawgit.com/birtles/curvy/master/index.html
It is, however, by no means official and we cannot be even sure it'll ever be.
Until then you'll need to stick to Bezier curves and object filling:
You can also use calligraphic fonts, for example - Tangerine available on Google CDN:
This approach requires less work since you don't need to draw everything from scratch, but then again, using third party fonts leaves you with little control over the final result.
You can't dynamically adjust the stroke of a path element. However you could draw a path, use a fill color on it instead of stroke, then double back upon the letters at a slight distance away from the original line.
Also, if you are using the SVG on the web then you can use css fonts on text elements. There are some pretty good cursive fonts that you can use for free... just check google web fonts.
I have a multiviewport OpenGL modeler application. It has three different viewports : perspective, front and top. Now I want to paint a label for each viewport and not succeeding in doing it.
What is the best way to print a label for each different perspective?
EDITED : The result
Here is the result of my attempt:
I don't understand why the perspective viewport label got scrambled like that. And, Actually I want to draw it in the upper left corner. How do I accomplished this, because I think it want 3D coordinate... is that right? Here is my code of drawing the label
glColor3f(1,0,0);
glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glDepthMask(GL_FALSE);
glRasterPos2f(0,0);
glPushAttrib(GL_LIST_BIT); // Pushes The Display List Bits
glListBase(base - 32); // Sets The Base Character to 32
glCallLists(strlen("Perspective"), GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, "Perspective"); // Draws The Display List Textstrlen(label)
glPopAttrib();
I use the code from here http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=13
thanks
For each viewport switch into a projection that allows you to supply "viewport space" coordinates, disable depth testing (glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST)) and depth writes (glDepthMask(GL_FALSE)) and draw the text using one of the methods used to draw text in OpenGL (texture mapped fonts, rendering the full text into a texture drawing that one, draw glyphs as actual geometry).
Along with #datenwolf's excellent answer, I'd add just one bit of advice: rather than drawing the label in the viewport, it's usually easier (and often looks better) to draw the label just outside the viewport. This avoids the label covering anything in the viewport, and makes it easy to get nice, cleanly anti-aliased text (which you can normally do in OpenGL as well, but it's more difficult).
If you decide you need to draw the text inside the viewport anyway, I'll add just one minor detail to what #datenwolf said: since you generally do want your text anti-aliased (even if the rest of the picture isn't) you generally want to draw the label after all the other geometry of the picture itself. If you haven't turned on anti-aliasing otherwise, you generally will want to turn it on for drawing the text.
Is there any program that can convert a file into an animated gif by taking the bytes (whatever I see on an editor is seen) and producing them on frames? Im trying to change a large script I wrote into an image so that if I run it, it looks like as if the code is scrolling. I would use photoshop, if I knew how to use it. Even then, the code is really big, so I dont want to be doing it frame by frame.
Whatever you see on the editor screen is ... a screenfull, so why not a screen capture program like http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
However, I suspect that you want to convert the entire file to a gif, since you talk of scrolling. Is that so?
If so, be aware that animated GIFs are limited to 8 frames, so you might want to convert to another movie format.
You could, for instance, Google for "text to MPEG". If nothing does it directly, get something that adds subtitles & make your video a solid white background *or match your webpage).
Maybe simpler is something like this ...
A Scrolling Text Applet - Now Free. - Provide an animated look and feel to your web pages. Scrolling Text is a Java applet that will automatically size itself to the available area given to it by the HTML form via the WIDTH and HEIGHT properties of the APPLET tag. There are many configurable features of this applet including title, colors, font size and style, border width and color, graphics, background images etc.
Configurable parameters including;
Background Color - Define your desired background color
Title - If you want a stationary title then include this parameter
Font Size and Style - All text can have it's own Font size and style
Text Color - Specify the color of the text with this one
Border Width and Color - If you require a border then define it with these 2 parameters
Scroll Speed - Customise the Scroll Speed
Display Time - Vary the Display time of each page
This applet is easy to implement and configure and along with the example and help files you should have no trouble implementing your own customised Scrolling Text in your web pages. No understanding of java programming is required, everything is adjusted by parameters in the HTML tags.
Now FREE.
+1 for an interesting question.