awakenedbyowls
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4 minutes ago, DWright said:
Can you please confirm the operating system that you are running.
Windows 10 Home - Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045
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Never know what's a bug or just me pressing the wrong button
Every time I go back to edit transparency gradients it's suddenly for some reason turned into a rectangle - is it because I'm adjusting the rotation of the parent layer that this is happening ?
If it is that then it still shouldn't - besides it still says it's linear in the context toolbar
This causes me to reset the whole gradient and start again - which is luckily what I'm wanting to do anyway
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Such as if I select a layer and adjust the opacity for example, then I go to select a different layer and it doesn't select it on the first click and I keep having to go back and reselect the layer because whatever it is I wanted to do isn't working !
Small things like this are starting to get irritating and in the way of work flow - like I don't know why for some reason hitting Z doesn't always take me to zoom in and out mode and I find myself having to click several times and muck about until I can the zoom function to become operational - why or when ISN'T the Z key taking me straight in or out of zoom mode ?
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On Designer
If I save then they show up - otherwise some or all are just blank squares and unless I've labelled each layer I can't see what layer is what
Maybe just affects more complex files - but I'm packing 32GB of RAM so..
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Yes it looks like something folk probably made with paper cut outs in the old days
They're also not "back" in the sense the band have reformed for this tour - they reformed in 2004 and have been touring and writing new 2.0 albums for some years now - the current line up also is minus Kim Deal who is featured on the poster and it will instead be Paz Lenchantin playing with them on this tour ( very talented and suitable replacement ) so it's also not factually correct in several different ways - it is more a piece of art than specifically an info-poster
I thought about adding something on there that said "Featuring new Kim Deal 2.0" or something like that too
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1 hour ago, GarryP said:
I like it, especially the UFOs, people and lighting/tractor-beam effects.
It certainly tells a story even though I don’t know the references.5. Have you thought about using some ‘paper cut-out shadows’ in the design? (Might not work because of the existing lighting.)
Cheers - appreciate the feedback and suggestions - I have paid a lot of consideration to the arrangement and I found this to be the best - I wanted to go for something quirky and humorous and 3 Nights Only had more impact that 15 Nights and it can be altered to display each venue
Most important thing is the design - I think shadows would make the design too messy - I've had to make this choice before to sacrifice realism a little for overall composition
I guess I'm not the most experienced illustrator but nonetheless I find keeping things simple is a good rule of thumb to go by - let the brushes do the work and don't add too many strokes
As it is I like the way the foreground is really bright like there is also a spaceship in front of them or just behind or above the viewpoint bearing some bright alien space craft light down on to them also - so in that respect it's better not to have shadows I think ?
It also isn't snow - the caricatures of the band are based on the video Velouria which is a slow motion shot of them jumping over some rocks at a quarry and initially I was going for sand and blue sky - but then I added these brush strokes and the design of that part was sealed - it's salt and the blue dots are some unspecific farm beast's eyeballs as per the cover of the album Trompe Le Monde
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This was my Retro Sci-fi poster I was looking for fonts for - a Fan Art Tour Poster for the Pixies upcoming tour where they're going to play the last two full albums they released before splitting up in the early 90's
As someone who only saw three songs by them in their hey day because the gig got stopped half way through and who have only so far heard them play 3 songs in total from these albums despite seeing them live 4 times so far I'm totally stoked to be going to see them on the 20th at Paradiso
If you're a Pixies fan then you should spot a few song references to those two albums
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Is there a way to just turn this spell checker off altogether ?
I'm not using AD2 to write articles for Substack !
It's bad enough that the only way to stop it adding red lines to words is to right click on each word individually but this software seems to completely ignore spelling errors (which aren't even spelling errors ) and then randomly putting red lines under the words out of nowhere - even on text that's been there for weeks and no red lines - all of a sudden it just plonks a red line under the text 🤦♂️
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Just now, walt.farrell said:
And I wonder if you are still (or again) having an issue with your Brushes panel, as you posted about yesterday.
No more issues so far - not used the iPad much since though
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Yes that was it
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Do things no longer embed automatically on this site now ?
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The bit at the end where nothing seems to happen is me trying to run over the dots with my pencil
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Same file on Windows - Same operation and it works
iPad - not working
Was working earlier but not now
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Dunno and dunno as I say it crashed and then I solved it by deleting a massive pixel layer - I'll look into it further if it happens again
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All the brushes just went blank - something to do with making sure file not too big or something probably - I'll keep an eye on it
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So I'm trying to create this effect but applying a Perspective Mesh to some text and then CTRL+J ing a 3D effect
How do I get a good symmetry clicking and dragging the top middle and bottom middle of the box so everything that is vertically parallel remains parallel and I create a bulge in the middle that is dead centre and vertically symmetric ?
I tried holding shift or ctrl etc but they didn't do anything when dragging
Maybe there are some settings I can tweak on the Fisheye Warp ? otherwise the default transformation was useless in this instance
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Yeah the Brushes Panel - see all the missing Brush Preview Thumbnails 👍
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I think it was a large pixel layer - the file size was only 101MB but the pixel layer was large in terms of area
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Should have put this in the bug section
Here is a picture of it doing it again now
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No worries - the app crashed before I could do a screen shot and now the brushes are showing again
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Another useful bug to help the work flow
Nothing more to say - they're just not showing
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This was the previous thread I created - I just re-read it - the solution is to apply a group to the pixel layer and then the transparency gradient will work on the group - even if it's one layer just wrap a group round and Hey Presto !
A workaround but seriously something that should have been fixed !
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I see the Windows version adds a little brush icon to the layer which you can click on and it shows you what brush it is - very handy 👍
But it doesn't do this on the iPad - not very handy 👎
Why are there so many inconsistencies between the Windows and iPad version - how hard can it be to just apply the same features to both
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I've had problems doing this in the past and I think I've achieved this or found a workaround but here I am again coming back to the software and scratching my head over this
I just want to apply a transparency gradient to a pixel layer
If I apply a transparency gradient to an object constraining pixel layers it only applies the gradient to the top layer !
Solution: Group the Pixel Layers 👍
Thumbnails Not Showing on Layers Panel
in V2 Bugs found on Windows
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I'm waiting for it to do it again
Wondering if it might be something to do with new 32GB Dual RAM cards I replaced the original 8GB RAM with recently - I noticed the clock speed going down after and apparently I have to go into the BIOS and tinker about which I'm reticent to do because it might mean stressing out my graphics card possibly - I think only this should improve performance for gaming really anyway and I would have thought more RAM shouldn't present any issues like missing thumbnails but I'm not an expert on PC builds