Questions about visual images produced by computer processing, including graphical design, image editing, etc. For questions about graphics cards, use [graphics-card] instead.
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Vertically scaling part of an image using Photoshop/Fireworks
This is an image of a blackboard:
I would like to reduce its height while its width, and all its four wooden borders (top, bottom, left, right) should stay unchanged.
Could anyone kindly suggest ...
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Transforming multiple filled shapes into transparent outlines in Photoshop
I'm trying to create a filled plus sign and an empty transparent plus sign in Photoshop. I've been able to create the filled sign with ease, by creating a green vertical rectangle, duplicating it, and ...
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Inkscape: how to connect several lines and arcs into one continuous path?
I have a SVG document that is made of several lines and arcs that should form a continuous outline of some figure. How can I join all of those pieces into one path?
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How can I set a minimum thumbnail size with ImageMagick?
I'm trying to create thumbnails of JPG photos using ImageMagick's convert tool.
The thumbnails need to have a defined size (210x159), no blank areas, and the image can be cropped if necessary.
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software creating top view maps
Please suggest a good software that lets you create top view maps like this:
I know photoshop and illustrator. But It would make my life easier if there are software that already does this. If I ...
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How do I know which of my laptop GPUs are running games?
My laptop has 2 GPUs, one of them is the default Intel HD Graphics 3000, and the other the Nvidia Geforce GT 630M. Obviously I want to use the 630M to play my games. How can I assure this is ...
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Thinkpad T530 with Intel HD 4000 and Nvidia NVS 5400M Gamma adjust not working
Some process seems to have a deathgrip on my laptop's color settings, specifically the gamma adjust. I'm trying to adjust the gamma on my laptop because my outboard monitor is too dark for my taste, ...
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Graphics-related “Slow motion” in Windows 7 64-bit OS, Persistant [Resolved]
What seems to be a DirectX problem in Windows popped up a few hours ago after a blue screen that was too fast to read the error code from. Its effect is that minimizing/loading windows are now slow. ...
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Tree Graph Generator
Is there any program that generates file from for example .csv file?
I have a tree structure that has 8 levels and about 3500 nodes.
Can you please help me by recommending me a tool that can help me ...
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Windows 8 screen glitches after upgrading NVIDIA GPU
In the beginning, I had a NVIDIA 9600GT graphics card, and Windows 8 was smoothly running on it.
Then, I bought a GTX 650 Ti, and inserted it into my computer instead of the 9600gt. When I booted up ...
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Graphics card failing - black screen w/ sound
I recently had to do a warranty return on a Gigabyte video card, and they have sent me a replacement. I've installed the replacement, done a complete re-install of Windows 7 x64, installed the latest ...
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Grey screen of death?
I built my computer in July of this year and have had no problems with it until about a month ago. Generally I leave my pc on overnight. (It goes to "sleep"). But sometimes I'll wake up in the morning ...
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OpenGL on Linux, Accumulation Buffer doesn't do anything
I have an OpenGL graphics project, a particle system to be exact, and I'm using such effects like an accumulation buffer implemented motion blur, and also using the standard smooth to anti-alias (I ...
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What image scaling/interpolation algorithm does OS X use? [closed]
All of Apple's software uses a distinctive image scaling algorithm built into the OS. Both OS X and iOS use it. It might seem like a silly question, but does anybody know what it's called and/or how ...
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Layer/Shape Effect Inheritance in Photoshop
Imagine you have lots of icon layers duplicated from same shape layers.
Is there any technique for apply the same changes of shape/layer effect to duplicated layers at the same time with the original ...
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Intel HD 3000 driver update dropped windows 7 rating
I have HP dv6 i7 2670qm with HD 3000.Yesterday I installed updates for HD 3000 from Intel site after uninstalling previous drivers.After installing updated drivers I got message that the drivers are ...
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How can I batch-process (crop) these images?
I would like to know how to (as fast as possible) mass edit (means everything at once - around 100 images): What I want to do is remove both (upper and downer one) big black lines as well as remove ...
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Catalyst Control Center removal
I've recently tested a graphics card on a machine that required different drivers than my onboard integrated graphics, so I had catalyst control center installed.
After I pulled out the graphics card ...
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is there any relation between dpi setting and display resolution?
I was wondering what happens when i change display resolution(i.e. 1280x1024 pixel) in my os(windows xp) does it affect the dpi(ppi) setting of my os too?
or
when i change the dpi(ppi) setting of my ...
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Vector graphics formats: SVG , EPS or PDF [closed]
How does the vector graphics formats svg , eps and pdf compare against each other(Quality, filesize etc)?
If I can generate(eg matplotlib) plot in any of the above formats, which format should I ...
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Does Visio allow to plot a mathematical function?
Does Visio allow to plot a function such as y=(1/sin(x)).
I am keen on being able to specify the function directly, rather than having to fiddle with some stencils dimensions. Is there a specific ...
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Graphic Drivers
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Beta on an Acer Aspire One ZG5 net book.
Card: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chip-set Family card
I installed Ubuntu 11.04 last year, two days before the release of 11.10. ...
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How can I add a coloured, random, ragged brush stroke to a black and white graphic in Paint.net?
I have a black and white photo and I want to add a sweeping brush stroke wash in colour across it so that you can see the B&W information through the colour.
A second possibility is to do a ...
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Which program to use for making infographics?
Question may be not really specific, but I really would like to know what programms there are to make different types of infographics easily. Photoshop sometimes looks like overkill and working with ...
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Change splash screen on GRUB 0.97
I'm running a Linux from SuseStudio. I would like to change the background image at the GRUB screen. menu.lst contains the line gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message. When I strings the file, I see the line ...
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Linux: Display output only goes to one graphics card after it starts udev
I've got two graphics cards in a system, both of which have all of the monitors enabled up until it gets to
:: Starting udevd...
done.
in the boot process. After it gets past there, the 2 monitors ...
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merging brightfield and fluorescence images in Photoshop
I have fluorescence images from a microscope -- they are in TIF format. I simply want to merge these together, I.e. overlay them. I have images in red, green and blue channels. My typical method of ...
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Dell XPS M1730 flashing red green blue white black over and over
When I turn on my power button on my Dell laptop, the screen just flashes red green blue white black and then repeats that.
This happens as soon as the computer turns on. What can I do to fix this?
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Photoshop automatically add numbers suffixes _02, _03 to my slices filenames - how to get rid of them?
SO they look like slice_02.jpg slice_03.jpg
Any idea?
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EXCEL: Creating graphics controllable by events in spreadsheet?
I am wondering if there is way to create or import graphics in MS Office Excel, and then control its properties by script.
For example imagine a map of world on the right hand side and a spreadsheet ...
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Simple visual/virtual presence chat client
I'm looking for a strongly visual but still simple alternative to text-based chat. The important feature I'm looking for is a friendly visual representation of user state/emotion ...
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Gantt chart drawing tool
I need a Gantt chart drawing tool but on timeline I need my custom units (e.q. from 0 to 3000), not days or years. What tool alows to do that?
Edit:
Finally I have found no such tools. I had to make ...
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Is Paint-Shop Pro any good for “heavy-weight” web-design nowadays? [closed]
This is a somewhat "legacy" question.
I know that Photoshop is now the de-facto industry standard for web-design.
I remember that when I was a kid, no one has even heard of Photoshop, and Paint-Shop ...
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Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L drivers for CentOS
Recently installed CentOS on Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L motherboard everything works well except the graphics are a bit laggy, so I'm wondering if it hasn't got the drivers in place.
Where do I locate the ...
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Augmented reality — How small can a marker be? [closed]
Does anyone know if it is possible to have a small marker for augmented reality? I need to wrap the marker around a metal cylinder but because of the way the bar is engineered it can only be 3-5mm ...
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Tool to create unscaled call-out from a thumbnail image?
I'm creating an online tutorial for some software and need to include screenshots. In particular, I want to highlight the position and appearance of a given control in a large screen. Given that I ...
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Dynamically sizing a rectangle to the width of the containing text in Illustrator CS4
Hello Experts!
How do I create a rectangle with a text object inside,
so that the width of the rectangle elastically reshapes
to the width of the text (rahter than the regular
text-wrap in shape ...
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Do I need to connect my graphics card to my monitor?
So I just built a computer and installed the Nvidia Geforce GTX 660. I already connect my computer to the monitor via VGA, but the install manual says that I have to connect my graphics card to my ...
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My graphic card memory is higher than my RAM memory
So,I got this HD4650 which is got 1gb memory, but my ram is only 512mb, another 512mb is on shipment, so will there be any problem? I'm running on the 1gb graphic and 512mb ram right now. will this ...
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Problem adding RAM
I've got four DIMM slots in my motherboard (MSI MS-7236 Version 2.2, 945P Neo3).
As I understand it the board supports up to 4GB, I've been running it with 2x1GB.
I've tried adding 2x1GB more RAM ...
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How to Upgrade/Utilise an HP Proliant Server
I have an HP Proliant ML115 (quadcore Opteron 1216 2.4GH/2.5GB RAM) gathering dust in my study. It runs Windows 2008 pretty well - I used to use it as an environment for playing with new software and ...
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How do I create an image with “instructions” in it?
How do I create an image with "instructions" in it?
Ok I want to be able to create images like these:
I'm no graphics expert (and i've got no idea how i can achieve that effects in that page)
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Why gpu alone cannot take the load of graphics; why there is need for cpu performance? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are we still using CPUs instead of GPUs?
Even though having high-end GPU there is always a requirement of similar high end CPU to play high end games.
Without a ...
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Free graphics tools? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for a good free image editor
I am building android app and need some graphics tool for the background and to developer pixel character. Any good free graphics ...
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How can this notebook's 3D polarizer glasses filter 2D images to 3D?
This Acer notebook has the ability to filter 2D images to 3D.
Is this some bullshit or is there any scientific background? How can you make 3D from a photo?
Something stinks here. I understand that ...
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Are free stock imagery usable in books and websites?
I see a lot of "free" stock imagery and vector graphics available on the Internet, but when I recommend such things for use on publications or websites, my clients ask me for printable licenses or any ...
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OpenCL on ATI Radeon HD 4650
From some time I have an Radeon HD 4650 AGP graphic card.
I wanted to start minig on my GPU, as it brings more BTC,
but miners are not able to find my card. I've checked it with
GPU Caps Viewer, and ...
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tools for drawing this graph
what is the best tool for drawing this kind of graph . I tried in Msword but they were not as good as this.
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Good free tool for making Icons
I am putting finishing touches on my app and want to make a custom icon for it.
What is the best free tool to make icons with?
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Windows 8 won't run two NVIDIA cards simultaneously
I had a NVIDIA GeForce 6500 graphics card that was working great (I had one screen using the DVI and one using the S-Video), I just installed a new NVIDIA GeForce G210. The new card seems to work but ...
