so I am using Figma for now because Adobe XD will no more free. I am curious if there is a configuration to show distance among guide lines in Figma like Adobe XD has?
Above is the illustration. Thanks in advance
You can Press Alt and hover over any element with your mouse.
Works in both XD and Figma.
For easy steps, just make a frame or a slice, then fit the height of your frame/slice until it's cover all of the distance among guidelines.
The second option is to make a copy of the guidelines, or you can make a straight line then copy it using the alt+click on the line. Figma will show the distance among the copied line to the real line/guidelines.
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I want to remove the regular strips of the image as shown as follow. I try many methods, and they do not work, such as image media filter and FFT filter.
Could you tell me how to remove the strips?
All that black is removing a ton of information from the image. You have two options available - either re-capture that missing information in a new shot, or attempt to invent / synthesize / extrapolate the missing information with software.
If you can re-shoot, get your camera as close to the mesh fence as you can, use the largest aperture your lens supports to have the shallowest possible depth of field, and set your focus point as deep as possible - this will minimize the appearance of the mesh.
If that is the only still you have to work with, you've got a few dozen hours of playing with the clone and blur tools in front of you in just about any image editing software package you like.
Photoshop would be my go to tool of choice for this. In Photoshop CS5 they introduced something called content aware fill. I'm not sure if it will help you in this specific case because there is SO MUCH black that Adobe's algorithm may think other parts of the mesh are valid sources for filling in the mesh you're trying to clear out.
live2d can animate a picture and make small movements, just as they show in this video.
1 Does anyone know how it works?
2 Is there any paper describe the mechanism behind it? I tried google scholar search but find few.
3 Is there any open source work on this field?
The fundamental algorithm is like control points in Adobe Illustrator. Control points are like anchors for the image. You can shrink, stretch and bend the image by moving the control points.
Unfortunately, NO. Live2D is all developed in the company.
For now it is all closed project.
I'm not sure whether it is the right place to ask a PowerPoint question. So, if it isn't, don't be too harsh with me, please.
I have two rectangles created using the drawing tools on a ppt slide. These both rectangles are connected using an arrow with magnetic connectors.
Now I want to move first one of the rectangles using an animation and in a second step the other one.
That's easy so far.
But now I also want that the magentic connectors stay tied to the rectangles during the animation.
Is this possible somehow?
(I'm unfortunately not sure whether I always use the correct ppt terms above, since I only have a German installation of ppt.)
Thanks!
I don't think there is an easy solution as the connector won't move with an animation of the connecting shape.
However, if the required movement isn't to complex you could try to replicate the behavior with a set of animations:
Move rectangle using motion path
Grow connector shape horizontally or vertically
Move connector in the required direction using another motion path which must be adjusted to growth rate of the grow animation
All animations need to start simultaneously ("start with previous") and smooth start/end need to be set to 0 sec for the motion paths. A sample of the stretch effect (2.+3.) can be found here: http://pptheaven.mvps.org/experimental.html ("Zoom Test").
Is there any option to tell gs to convert strokes to fills? Something similar to the "Expand" feature of the Adobe Illustrator? Thanks in advance.
You can't convert strokes to fills, no.
You can use the strokepath PostScript operator, this will replace the current path with a path which encloses the shape that would be drawn if 'stroke' was applied to that path.
The result of strokepath can be used for fill, clip and pathbbox operations, but is not itself suitable for stroking.
Its completely unclear to me why you would want to replace a stroke with a fill, since the two will cover exactly the same area. I'm not at all familiar with Adobe Illustrator so using it as an example doesn't help me. Perhaps you could explain what it is you really want to do, and why you can't do it in the application producing the PostScript, which is almost always a better solution.
I know this is leaning more in the direction of a designer question, but as I am faced with developing something which requires me to crop an image, I thought I would give the question a shot.
This seems like a ridiculous question to ask, but I've look all over the IDE (Expression Blend 2) to try and find a way to crop my image, but I can't figure it out.
This seems to be very much in line with Joel's question and is discussed in Podcast 58 in the sense that I'm a complete noob when it comes to designing in Expression Blend. I am adamantly interested in figuring out the most efficient way to do this. I found an article that describes a work flow you can go through that will produce a crop, which I added as an answer below, but I'm really hoping someone else will know of a quicker (less clicks) way to do something as trivial as this.
Does anyone know how this can be done?
As far as I know, there's no way to crop an image directly in expression Blend. Blend is not an image editing application. You need another tool for that.
What you can do though, is clipping an image if you only want to show a portion of it. Just add a rectangle on top of it right-click it, go to path -> make clipping path.
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Now select the System.Windows.Controls.Image entry from the list you want to apply the clipping on and hit Ok
You can even use rounded rectangles, circles and custom paths to clip, but in most cases a rectangle will do the trick.
Just ran into another way.
Have a look at this question. It uses a CroppedBitmapClass as the source of an image. It's not actual drawing in Blend, but you can add it by hand editing Xaml. From your question it's not clear if you are creating a Silverlight or a WPF application in Expression Blend. The CroppedBitmapClass is available in WPF only.
With the new Silverlight 3 you can use the WritableBitmap to do image cropping:
I found an article that has steps to do an image crop, but it's very drawn out to do such a simple operation. You would think something that MS Paint can do in a couple button clicks would be similarly easy in Blend.
Here's the link.
I'm still wondering if there's an easier way to do this, however.
The other problem with this approach is that afterwards, I can't change the size of the rectangle that I'm cropping the image with, which I need to be able to do, because I have to have the image be an exact number of pixels in width and height.