Category: Tutorials
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Adding custom 3D objects in Blender – Buttons for Sims 4
There are three ways to create “buttons” on your Mesh. MAKING THE BUTTON First, make sure you don’t have any layers selected. Then at the bottom of the menu, go to Add>Mesh>Cylinder. It will appear as a vast cylinder but don’t worry; you will scale it down. To scale down everything, click “S” and then…
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Intermediate SIMS 4 CC clothing Tutorial – LODs & Minifying meshes
LODs You may have noticed in Sims4Studio that “Meshes> Level of Detail” is in this drop-down menu, and you wondered what that means. Well, it stands for Levels of Distance. As we mentioned before, clothing is made of meshes, which are made of polygons, the shapes (called faces in 3D terms) that make up your…
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How To Create Interactive Pop-ups in your PDF in Adobe InDesign
First create the content that you want to pop up. Here I just did a green box with text. If you have multiple items you want to pop up simultaneously, you have to group them together. To do this, select all the items and then right-click and choose group. Then open up the Buttons and…
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How to recolor default patterns in Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator offers an array of default patterns to use in your work. However, it isn’t straight forward to recolor it. To so, open the pattern and DOUBLE CLICK on the pattern you want to change. The following should show up. The Pattern Options Panel and the pattern becoming isolated. There should be a square…
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How to add tracking to your Interactive PDF in InDesign
I must note, that tracking stats on your PDF is only possible if it is online. If a user choses to download and send it via email to others, you will not be able to track it. With that said, some stats are better than no stats. *You must already have an Google Analytics Account…
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How to use clipping mask in Adobe Illustrator
The clipping mask in Adobe Illustrator is a bit finicky. Here’s how to do it: I’m starting with two shapes. Select both objects. Then go to Object > Clipping Mask > Make or hold Ctrl+7 on your keyboard. This is the result, the object on front is the shape it will take. The one beneath…
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How to curve text in Adobe Illustrator
First, ensure the fill and line colors is transparent. This can be found at the bottom of the tool panel or at the top. You have to select this square cross out with a red line. Then select the pen tool, and create the curve that you want. If you want to do it on…
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How to create scannable tickets online
There are a lot of online sites where you can create scannable tickets, but often it is “freemium”. Meaning there are features that are free and there are other features that will cost money. Here are some sites: https://ticket-generator.com/ https://www.guestmanager.com/event-ticket-design-and-scan-studio/ https://placid.app/tools/free-event-ticket-generator To make a scannable ticket yourself and manage it would require some knowledge of…
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How to use and get Adobe’s New Generative AI Tool
How to get it You may have downloaded and update Adobe Photoshop but haven’t seen the new AI tool. That’s because you have to download an entirely different program: Adobe Photoshop (Beta). You will have two Adobe photoshop on your computer, one that’s the latest and another that’s experimental. The Beta version is where they…
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How to take your PDF to the next level
Upgrade your PDF and wow your clients. Ideally, you will have Adobe Indesign and Adobe Acrobat to make most of the suggestions here, but I have some alternative ways to do them too. Here are five ways to make your PDF more professional without further ado. Make your PDF fillable. If your PDF has fields…
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How to hide static titles for CMS items in Webflow
Let’s say. For example, you have a CMS of products. There might be some empty fields. However, when you start building the product page, and you have an empty field instead of it hiding, you’ll get a line that says, “This field is empty.” That doesn’t look good. Well, you can hide it! It takes…
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What to do when working with an International Photographer
*Note: This is my anonymous interview with a friend. Here are some top things I wish I had known before working with an International Vendor. We hired a wedding photographer in another country, which is our experience. Define the terms of the contract clearly – Especially the Currency What happened to me was that I…