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Which fella from Time Team gave this to you?
Can someone help an Illustrator noob real quick? All I want to do is convert this PNG file into a shape in illustrator. Google is not helping. I’ve managed to create a path around the inside and outside but that’s all I’ve figured out.
You could either use the image trace feature, or the better option, draw two rectangles that match, select both then use the pathfinder tool to cut one out of the other. The use the eye dropper to match the colour and recolour it
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I managed to create the paths with image trace, but I can’t work out how to make them into a shape. I’d rather not redraw them as this shape is the simplest of quite a few that I need to do this with
There should be a button on the top bar after you trace it which says expand. That will turn it into a vector shape
Did that too that’s how I created the two paths 
it didn’t create a shape
Sorry, only just seen this…
If you have paths, you should have the shape, it’s kind of the same thing in Illustrator.
After live tracing it should automatically have a fill, but if it doesn’t it would just look like empty paths. Have you tried adding a fill colour?
@wayout Here you go. If you open this in Illustrator and it’s looking for a Linked File, just point to where that image you uploaded lives on your hard drive.
Thanks all. Think I figured it out, adding a fill seemed to be the key. No doubt more questions to come
I’m doing a lot of 3D rendering in AFX and foolishly splashed out on a graphics card to improve rendering times, turns out it makes pretty much no difference. Going to resell it and I want to invest that into something that actually will help.
Any advice on what to be looking out for specifically to work with 3D in AFX? Am I right that the CPU is the most important thing? Currently have an i5-9660k
I think it’s GPU rather than CPU that will make a difference, but that’s about all I know…
Aren’t graphics card supposed to be crashing in price because of all the people getting out of crypto mining? as far as I know it is the GPU that’s the most important
I went from a GTX560ti to an RTX2070, 500% effective speed rating increase, and it made effectively zero difference.
Does anyone know if you can use those small NAS devices(synology disk station or similar) to run a plex setup or do you still need to have a spare computer as an interface? Does the nas have its own OS?
Plex Media Server is separate software to Plex and is what you install on the device that holds your media. You can install PMS on the NAS and then install Plex wherever you’re watching stuff
Edit - you probably already know that. Think I misunderstood your question
Yep had that bit - I’ve been skiving off someone else’s but he’s packed it in as he’s moving country. Just looked up the prices of the hardware and it’s really more affordable than expected so looking to set up my own little thing.
That does answer it though- was just wondering if the nas was simply storage or if you could interface with it. Also unsure of how downloads are automated for it.
Yes @Load I have a Synology NAS and it has Plex media server available as a plugin, though not played with it. For downloads do you mean torrents? As there’s a torrent client on there as well, I’m sure it can all be integrated together.
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Awesome thanks. Pop 4 streaming services into one then!
Help.
On sites you control/build, do you fire google analytics tracking before a user accepts cookies from your cookie consent bar?
I just can’t find a straight answer as to whether you can or can’t do this.
