Alan O Neemas
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Just now, StuartRc said:
remember of can save the changes you make as a style
Thanks for that tip, I would not have remembered or thought of doing it!
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23 minutes ago, StuartRc said:
You could also try some of these vector brushes (probably need to reduce the size though)
Thank you Stuart, I will try those. Fingers crossed, because the "brush" approach would be by far the easiest if I can pull it off 🔥
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PS - this is the sort of graphics I had in mind when I said "Balsamiq": https://balsamiq.com/learn/articles/what-are-wireframes/
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29 minutes ago, StuartRc said:
That is a difficult one!.. There are no line distortion tools for this yet But there are a few things you could try. I tend to draw these by hand
1. Manually draw the shape (If you have fill and stroke when expanded you should get 2 objects to edit when expand stroke is applied!)
2. Create a complex pressure shape in the Pressure graph to create an irregular line.
3. You could try (Tablet) tuning on the Pressure on context toolbar, create a line and then save the recorded results in the pressure graph
4. Use a vector brush that has distorted edge.. This will work If you are happy with raster | vector brushes
5. Use on of the rounded shape tools to create a circular shape with a large number of nodes.. Bake it then edit
6. Quickly rough out the shape and add nodes. adjust position (Do this with the line | sharp edge nodes)...then convert to round (it is much quicker!)
7. I also use the pencil tool with sculpt selected to distort a shape (This is probably you best method!)...and use the appearance panel to create multiple shapes or the Contour tool to add strokes and distortion
8. Or you could simply use a raster bush!Thank you so much for the thorough breakdown, this is awesome.
Here's the source of the original icon: https://www.freeagent.com/features/accounting-software/
This UK company has one of the best SAAS website I've come across, and a lot of it comes from their single-style, organic support graphics. It's not the first time I've seen graphics like that (think Balsamiq), but they've done a great job.
From all of your expert answers, I'm guessing that this is a feature available in Illustrator (?) but not yet in Affinity. I'm saying this because I would be surprised if their designers went through so much trouble.
Either way, you've given me a few ways I can try to achieve a similar effect, so thank you once more to all of you
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31 minutes ago, JimmyJack said:
You could make a brush.
This one is set to stretch.(caveat: stroke output will be raster)
Another good idea, thank you 😊
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58 minutes ago, v_kyr said:
Not sure if you meant something else here, but I would for the yellow part ...
- create a filled circle shape no stroke yet and convert it's shape to curves
- ... then add some more node points on the outer circle curve and slightly replace these on the circle, thus giving it a wobbling view the way I like
- ... now adding a black stroke which should then follow the main wobbling yellow curve
- Also doing the same for the clock face.
This is a clever approach, thank you. But it would be SOOO tedious. I'll definitely keep it in mind for "important" graphics (vs. support icons and stuff)
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Hello,
How can I do this sort of stroke in Designer, please? (Desktop, Windows)
The Pressure profile doesn't do exactly that.
Thank you for any pointer
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On 2/15/2022 at 11:14 PM, carl123 said:
Thank you Carl. This does not work. If I do what you suggest, I lose all layers. I just want to select something, and crop based on selection. There's got to be a better way that that workaround. If not, please Affinity, enable this - it has got to be trivial if Paint implemented it 20+ years ago. I could literally write that functionality in JS with the Canvas API in under an hour or two. Please, please, add this basic functionality to your three (desktop) apps.
(I'm posting this a second time because last time the "Quote" no longer worked after I used it to reply to John)
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Thank you Carl. This does not work. If I do what you suggest, I lose all layers. I just want to select something, and crop based on selection. There's got to be a better way that that workaround. If not, please Affinity, enable this - it has got to be trivial if Paint implemented it 20+ years ago. I could literally write that functionality in JS with the Canvas API in under an hour or two. Please, please, add this basic functionality to your three (desktop) apps.
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On 2/15/2022 at 12:32 PM, John Rostron said:
After copying to the clipboard, then enter File > New from clipboard. This gives you a new image on a new, snug-fitting canvas.
John
Thank you John, this is exactly what I was looking for in part 1!
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The two main reasons I can't use Aff. Photo for work on either Mac or Windows (I purchased all three products for both platforms) are the inability (AFAIK, hopefully I'm wrong) to do these two simple things.
1) When I've copied a bitmap graphic to the clipboard, I should at least have an option to make the canvas the same size as the clipboard, ESPECIALLY because...
2)... There doesn't seem to be an option to crop to selection, something that MS Paint has had since before most of us were born.
I hope I'm wrong and that you support both of these, but I cannot find how to do either.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
Organic variable-width strokes
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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I only mentioned Balsamiq for their deliberate organic illustration style, but wow, thanks for these two resources. It seems like UX prototyping would be faster in Affinity Designer than in Balsamiq.