Sorry, Trying to reply to u/conrad_C. but it carried it over to you twice. idk. But Shaper seems pretty close, Ill play with it. Thanks ... View more

Ive been doing my sketching in Procreate and then mainly doing my Inking in Fresco. It is a FANTASTIC app. I love that you can cross two strokes, and the clipp off the excess to create sharp points. Wish they had Fresco PC or at lest have some of its dynamic features in PS or Illustrator. ... View more

Thank you. With regards to Illustrator, is this a feature you have to activate? If I do a  full arch, and hold it there, nothing happens. When I let go, it very very very subtlely corrects wiggle/shakey imperfections to smooth, but by no means allows correction of curve, arch, square, etc , as Procreate does. And I have adjusted fidelity between Accurate, all the way to smooth, and I don't get the results Im going for. ... View more

Win 11 22H2 Regarding "Hardware", Problem persisted across two different computers - Xbook X2 G4: NVIDIA Quadro M620 - Alienware x17 R2 (Current): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 [Laptop GPU] No other plugins   ... View more

Can't say...  Recreating the calculator for an Adobe based program would be amazing and exactly what I'm looking for, and id give you every bit of info i could, but I don't remember anything about with regards to dialogue box, calculator fields, or anything like that. I just know you create a plane/square resembling height and width of the material and then input the density of the pattern/lines you need. The density is usually determined based on the users measurements of the curve and the thickness of the material needing to be cut. Those two factors were NOT part of the inkscape living hinge generator. Just height, width, and then density determined by lines per mm/in.  ... View more

Im sorry for not replying sooner. I appreciate the approach with regards to the visual/graphic aspect of it. But the thing with live hinge is the distance/math raio. How many lines, how long the lines are, and how wide the gaps are make a huge impact on how flexible it is. In some situations, like the one Im needing it for, it needs to be extremely flexible since it's going to be the spine of a greeting card type project, but still not too flimsy. I know its picky, but the Inkspace extension calculated everything and generated based on the needs. So, ya... unfortunately, as much as I appreciate it, this wasn't a solution to my needs. I have no expectations... it probably was just an unrealistic thought that anyone would have made one for Illustrator, but at the same time, I keep thinking how could it not exist. Laser engraving/cutting is 100% vector. Illustrator is a prime program for designing Laser cut/engrave project. It just surprises me is all. ... View more

I admittedly have no clue about the design/scripting behind most scripts or extensions. For whatever reason, Ive never ever been able to get a real handle on understanding them, no matter YouTube vids or how simple they might be. Its the principles that elude me. If someone says "type this:..." I can do it to that extent, but editing, managing, and even reviewing (in a lot of cases) are just beyond me for whatever reason. Calculations mainly. This carries over to everything, including games like StarCraft. My buddy is usuually the one that has to take care of that. ... View more

Ill try this approach asap. ... View more

I apologize for my assumptions. And no, I havent had the opportunity yet. ... View more

I don't think it's fair to say that "apparently no one else knows of such a thing..." just because you don't, or because this thread is still relatively new and no ones posted... yet. If you could please keep the thread opened and unsolved for a reasonable amount of time, it'd be appreciated. Please do not select either of my replies as "correct", or yours since no conclusive answer has been reached. Maybe with a little time "no one" might turn into the possible someone ... View more

How was my own explainaition of a living hinge used as the correct answer? It was merely a reply to Monikas question. I did not confirm with myself whether an extention for illustrator is existence or not, when Im the one seeking such extention lol. ... View more

Sry, ya youre right. My bad. So, this is what a living hinge is for. Its a pattern engraved/cut into matering like wood, allowing it to become bendable. This can be apply to wood or even acrylic. These are examples of what the patterns look like in digital software, like inkscape and Illustrator, in the form of paths to be exported to a program like lightburn for comunicating with a laser cutter. Inkscape used to support an extention that allowed for custom generated hings. More along the likes of the calculations generating lines only. Not really "patterns". But from that I was able to make my own. I even made one that was Zelda themed having swords and shields at the endcaps. Was awesome! ... View more

Smart!! Worked great. Thank you! ... View more

Thank you! Definitely been saving presets. I appreciate the advice. I started noticing pretty early on that Illustrator can only produce certain result based on the source material, so I've obsessively beeen going back and forth between Photoshop and Illustrator, finding that goldielocks "perfect" balance. That was half of the 3.5hrs lol. I love love love that you can save presets. Helps make comparing between result between source a lot easier. I kind of wish I knew how actual "grunge" images are made initally. What do the use to get it on paper/canvas (hypothetical question). I made some really cool High Res textures using paint, brushes and roller, then scan. Ive been having a blast using those too since you taught me the ways of Image Trace. Also did a bunch of paint splotches, spatters, sprays, and drops. Can look like paint or blood. Thank you so much for helping. Its been great. ... View more

"Complaing"? *sniffle* that hurts 😞  All joking aside, Im sorry. I really am. To me, "complaining" is an extention of self centerdness and not respecting or appreciating. Im very sorry for being like that (no sarcasm, no snideness). I have nothing but deep appreciation for you Monika, as well as Kevin, Doug, and other pros here. Youve helped me on many occassions, and I never bring anything to the table.  My inquiries were just ment as adendems to my initial goal. To fine tune, not to dismiss or undermine the help given. You ever lose your car keys, or something that should be in a very scpecific place? You search and search and search, Pockets of other clothes, retracing steps, refrigerator, toaster, everywhere. You go your a family member and ask for help, and in 10 seconds they say "you mean these?", pointing to them on the dresser... 2 inches from where they are supposed to be. Thats me. I struggle to find the right answer and somehow I frequently overlook them when they were right in front of me the whole time. As you say, Grunge is chaotic. Usually "grunge" is meant to reflect a passage of time, by decay. Its fluid and organic. A memory. The accumilation of rust, dirt, and moisture. The specific "grunge" I am looking to acheive is the image I posted above, which to me is more of a moisture and grime type. These do not generally have sharp edges as they are more of a bleed than anything else. And for this we are not talking about scrapes or scratches. Given how Illustrator doen't covert shades (bleeds) it doesn't do greate about naturually translating shades into either black or white. In most cases, this results in sharp corners. The pink image is an example of how the corners I have been getting are much more sharp, where the second image is an improvement in making the corners more curved, round, and organic.   Tweaking the settings took a while, but I have seen a lot of improvement. It was also a matter of playing with the original image, its contrast and such. Spent 3 and a half hours playing with it, and still not exactly how I want it. But as you can see, its making decent progess in improving the corners, making them more rounded.  ... View more

Heres another video. I know that some work places don't allow the viewing of Youtube videos. Im not in any hurry though. Edit: Is there a big difference between Live Trace and Image Trace? Is Live Trace part of Illustrator 2023? I can't find it under "Object" drop-down. Ultimately, even after expanding all the compound shapes and then uniting, there are weird inverted artifacts in the shapes. Since there are hundreds, if not thousands of shapes, theres no way I can go through and delete/correct them all. Even with some of the super small shapes, they arn't independant shapes, but rather paths that are part of a larger shape, just twisting and intersecting. Releasing coumpound and uniting doesn't fix this.     I recognize that I may be having far too much in the way of expectations, or even hopes... Maybe Illustrator just isn't capable of these things, but an additional issue is the sharp edges of the shapes. These are meant primarily for Laser engraving projects, so the incredibly small details probably wouldn't be noticeable, but the bigger ones definitely will. Even just graphically speaking, I feel like it'd be important to address this.  I need them to be a bit rounder, more fluid/organic. I own Astute Graphics, and some of their powerful tools have saved me big time, but there doesn't seem to be a tool for this particular issue, on a mass level. Just adressing inividual paths.  Wondering if both or either of this issues can be adress during or post image trace.   https://youtu.be/i2uIOEUjKus ... View more

So sorry, I did have one more question. It actually is an issue Ive run into manyy timeswhen doing Image Trace. Is there a way to avoid this issue where shapes that intersect do almost an "Exclude" effect (referring to Pathfinder) when expanding? Is there any way to avoid or correct this?   ... View more

Wow! not only was I able to easily remove the white by choosing black and white, Making the adjustments you suggested, the quality was so much better. Reducing corners made a huge difference! Thank you! ... View more

Im definitely newish to image trace, which is why I figured Imight be overlooking something obvious. But I feel pretty confident I experimented with all the settings. ... View more

I had done this too (sorry for not listing it. My bad), but it resulted in very blotchy  shapes. A lot of the imge, even the black portions were left out. I posted the image Im working with in the reply to @Doug A Roberts if that helps. ... View more

>_> ... <_< ... >_>... T_T  I did do this. . . but.... i guess I hadn't chosen Transparent Background (Picard face palm). Wow... Well, I did say I remember it being easy. Ugh, Thank you so so much! I really appreciate it! ... View more