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That’s a river? It looks like a big blue skipping rope!
Possibly.
I simply used the names that Bing Chat AI stated in the SVG text.
William
Come now, dear sir! When did you last see a river with a portion of it hanging in mid-air?
The lower image is after I edited it, only swapping the order of the grass and the river.
That’s a river? It looks like a big blue skipping rope!
That’s OK, Stevie! I strongly suspected that your ‘latest updates’ comment referred to Win11, not PhPX5, which is why I said that a Windows update could well have broken something. However, I’ll leave it to a Win11 expert to help you sort this one out.
I see. Thanks for the clarification!
I'm running Windows 11, have the latest updates finally stopped photoplus working ?
There haven’t been any ‘latest updates’ to PhotoPlus X8, never mind PhotoPlus X5, in several years, but it’s entirely possible that a Windows 11 update has broken something. Since I’m a Windows 10 user, not a Windows 11 user, I’m hardly well placed to advise you further!
For a reason I do not know the $ signs all changed to # but the SVG file seems to work alright in Affinity Designer.
The octothorp is standard for #rrggbb triplets. Where does the dollar sign come into it?
Copilot wrote:Here’s an example of an SVG file for an original portrait orientation painting. This SVG depicts a simple abstract painting with a few shapes and colors:
<svg width="400" height="600" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<!-- Background -->
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="#f0f0f0" />
<!-- Abstract shapes -->
<circle cx="200" cy="150" r="80" fill="#ff6347" />
<rect x="100" y="300" width="200" height="100" fill="#4682b4" />
<ellipse cx="200" cy="500" rx="150" ry="50" fill="#32cd32" />
<!-- Text -->
<text x="200" y="50" font-family="Verdana" font-size="24" fill="black" text-anchor="middle">
Abstract Portrait
</text>
</svg>
Are you pleased with the result, William?
Is there anything specific you’d like to add or change in this SVG?
Well, is there (and if so, what)?
I have now produced an edited version of the first SVG file and the picture has been produced.
I compared the two SVG files and the difference was that in some places the first one stated 100% of the height or 100% of the width rather than an absolute value.
So in the edited version I replaced each 100% with the numerical value, and it then worked fine.
William
Good sleuthing! There do seem to be some SVG things that the Affinity apps have trouble interpreting correctly, such as CSS colour definitions, or percentages instead of numerical values for dimensions.
I then want to try to make a copy, discard one half of the copy, by slicing away per pale and changing the colour, then placing the copy on top of the original so as to try to give the effect of the lower part of stoneware jar having half in light and half in shadow
You may find it useful to look into the possibilities afforded by gradient fills.
Thanks Alfred for your kind words, although not sure if I entirely believe you, but
welcome nonetheless.
I can’t speak for others, obviously, but I genuinely haven’t ever seen a video of yours that I didn’t enjoy.
Another article about Pantone Validated, including an interesting observation about the flags of Romania and Chad:
And here’s a more general article about flag colour similarities:
Another article about Pantone Validated, including an interesting observation about the flags of Romania and Chad:
I asked
Is Pantone validation about all colours?
I did not ask
Is Pantone validation all about colours?
My question was because the initial post only refers to skin tones.
William
My apologies, I clearly failed to notice the difference in word order! The Motorola description seems to refer to Pantone SkinTone™ Validated, although it doesn’t explicitly say so (unless I missed it). Pantone Validated is a few years old now, so presumably the SkinTone™ variant is being highlighted as the result of recent developments.
regarding it being (I think) Smart
Why only ‘I think’? The node will be displayed as a square if it’s Sharp, a circle if it’s Smooth, or a circle with a dot inside it if it’s Smart.
I have found that, by working in units of pixels, and using numbers in the Transform panel, I can add an extra point to the closed curve, adding at a point away from the left point of the lower curve, and above that left point, setting it as Sharp, then moving it one pixel above the left point that is Smart. It seems possible, with care, to do this without distorting the lower curve
Wherever possible you should avoid adding extra nodes.
Is Pantone validation about all colours?
When is anything to do with Pantone about anything other than colours?
I hope you enjoy what I did manage to shoot
Fear not, Albert, I’ve never known you to disappoint with your videos!
I wish that people would write out the meaning of an abbreviation the first time that they use it.
I usually do, William, but I had hoped it would be clear from the context (someone trying to sell us something) that it means ‘Unique Selling Point’ here.
How about this as an interesting USP for a smartphone?
The spheres are intended to be oranges.
Alfred wrote:William wrote:
I spy with my little eye something beginning with … ImpactPlus!!
Well, that is very nice of you, because, for the benefit of those readers who do not already know, ImpactPlus is/was a 3D image generating program made by Serif.
Yet actually I produced the image using Affinity Designer.
An excellent result, if I may say so! The spheres don’t look 3D, but that’s to be expected under the circumstances.
I would consider any community largely dependent on an adjacent larger community to be a suburb.
So would I!
I have no knowledge of Penrith, NSW, but maybe it is primarily a residential area, with little industry of its own, housing folk who commute to their employment in Sydney.
Indeed. A commuter town, it seems to me, is pretty much the very definition of a suburb.
I spy with my little eye something beginning with … ImpactPlus!!
But I would not end my statement of wondering with a verb.
Really? How interesting! So you wouldn’t say, for example, “Not all angles are acute, of course. Some aren’t and some are.”?
I’m inevitably reminded of this old favourite: “You should never use a preposition to end a sentence with!”
Perhaps Australia, like USA, considers any community with an elected council to be a city.
Perhaps, Geoff, but the main thing I was questioning is the notion that one city can be a suburb of another city. Why would a mere suburb need its own elected council?
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