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George Moulos

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  1. 2 hours ago, lepr said:

    George, I gave you non-Erase solutions which will allow vector export in a PDF.

    Here is one using a Compound: sweet compound.afdesign

    (It uses a less detailed donut silhouette than the one you have created, but you'll get the idea.)

    sweetcompoundscreenshot.thumb.png.cde62623e05ec15307a6561ae8b75950.png

    Thanks for your help @lepr & @GarryP – I really appreciate it! (Would have replied sooner but I got a block message for having posted too many times? 🤷‍♂️)

  2. 3 minutes ago, George Moulos said:

    Amazing! This is exactly what I wanted! I need to have text layers editable so that clients can request changes so really didn't want to have to rasterise the text layer each time, or have to create a bunch of unnecessary layers. Just a shame it's not possible to use vectors for masking because I often need to re-edit masks and having to paint them back in is a bit of a pain.

    But so it goes 🤷‍♂️

    Thanks so much for this, Garry!

    Oh! It IS possible with a vector – you have to set the blend mode to Erase! 🕺 

     

     

     

  3. 2 minutes ago, GarryP said:

    George Moulos: Is the thing I show in my attached video (basically) what you want to do?
    It is essentially a demonstration of some of what lepr said in the above post but with more details of the steps required.

    Note: When you are moving the text, make sure that Lock Children is ON so that the black pixel ‘masking’ layer stay where it is in relation to the background rather than moving with the 'parent' text.

    Amazing! This is exactly what I wanted! I need to have text layers editable so that clients can request changes so really didn't want to have to rasterise the text layer each time, or have to create a bunch of unnecessary layers. Just a shame it's not possible to use vectors for masking because I often need to re-edit masks and having to paint them back in is a bit of a pain.

    But so it goes 🤷‍♂️

    Thanks so much for this, Garry!

  4. Hi there,

    I've been trying to mask a text layer so that a portion of an image underneath shows through the text (i.e., the portion of text gets 'hidden'/masked).

    Here's my original thread – I've managed to get the end result I wanted but in a way that's quite a bad workflow – especially for more complex projects.

    It seems that vectors can only clip while masks can only be pixels, would it be possible to add a feature for masking using vector shapes? It seems that a vector mask would just be an inverted clip (i.e., "show everything other than this vector shape") so I'm surprised it's not already a feature (unless it is and I'm missing something 😅).

    In Adobe Illustrator, you can easily create Opacity Masks, drop vector objects into them, and then move the vector objects around at will and non-destructively.

    Thanks,
    George

  5. Just now, Komatös said:

    Hi @George Moulos and welcome to the forums.

    No, because there are no vector masks.
    Since your donat is a pixel image, the easiest approach is to crop the donat and place it in front of a text layer.

    I have made an example.

    NewSweet.png.6a3acaf124d7786bfe126699474ca5b5.png

     

    New Sweet (V2).afdesign approx. 33MB

     

    Vector masks should be easy considering vector clips and pixel masks already exist, don't you think?

    A vector mask is just an inverted vector clip, so this seems odd!

    Is there anywhere I can suggest this as a feature for an update? 🙂

  6. So it seems that this is possible, but only with a pixel-based mask in Pixel persona! You create a layer mask for the text layer, hop into pixel persona, and paint in black over the parts you want to hide.

    Is there a way to do this with vectors? Being able to paint is grand, but vectors often work a lot better for my workflow and I usually need to be able to easily re-edit them 😄

    Thanks,
    George

    image.thumb.png.edcc28fa3a9ccd1fcee899a5f548dfe4.png

  7. 16 minutes ago, Oidyuk said:

     

     

    Maybe I misunderstand what you are trying to do , but can you not just place the text below the image in the layer stack ?

     

     

    image.thumb.png.18c7bb2f9fdc76fa4c559f127fc37cb9.png

    Ah, yeah the blue background is part of the image with the doughnut!

    So I'd then need to cut the doughnut out of the background image, and then put it above the text layer. Resulting in three layers when, as far as I understand it, I should only need two: a background image, and a text layer with a part hidden by a clipping mask.

    I've made a vector shape in the shape of the doughnut, and all I want to do is use that shape to hide part of the text layer:

    image.png.073c92aa23ab6ab543e4b31eb4d5813a.png

     

    But when I try to do so:

    image.png.b3936c5f48d0eff037e18bb6172e0afe.png

     

    I end up with this:

    image.png.7caea1421c437888f8e7b96ed4ab1ff2.png

     

    So it seems to me that I must be creating a mask wrong somehow 🤷‍♂️

  8. Hi there,

    I've just moved to Affinity from Illustrator and I'm trying to get used to how clipping masks are created in AD. I'm not sure if I'm getting the right terminology.

    I have a picture and I want to mask a section of text around an object in the picture: 

    image.png.dc295d954dfe875d3360d8653b4c8fef.png

     

    In Illustrator, you can create a vector object and then use that object to hide a certain part of something else. When I do so in AD, I get this:

    image.thumb.png.7810ba8f4c8b1b2ebd05c2ccfb7d9b61.png

     

    It's doing what I want, but for some reason is still showing the fill colour of the object that's supposed to be masking.

    Masking in Illustrator is quite intuitive (or, at least, I've become really accustomed to it) — You make a clipping mask, black objects within that mask hide and white objects reveal. So I can't really get my head around how this is working.

    I've also managed to actually do what I want to do by:
    – Creating a rectangle
    – Subtracting the doughnut vector from the rectangle
    – Using that as a clipping mask for the text layer

    image.png.16127b07c471bbac3a2e6c9208501af9.png

    But this is such a roundabout way that I must be missing something.

    Can anyone please advise?

     

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