creativevision

Thank you @markw you clearly know your stuff!

I have a slight follow up question, if anyone can help ... I'm kind of hoping there's an equally elegant and simple solution to the one @markw provided above! Is there an easy way to smooth the edges of the attached hand to a quality level that I could provide to the printing company to print off at 15cm on a t-shirt design? I've tried selecting and then using the Refine / Smooth function but that doesn't seem to be achieving much sadly hand.afphoto

Oh wow @markw - thank you, would never have imagined such a simple solution! Thank you

Hey all I have an orange doughnut shape. On top of it, I have placed curved text using the path method. I need to provide a file to a t-shirt printing company so that the text comes our as transparent (rather than white) ... so whatever colour t-shirt this is printed on to, will show through for the text. When I make the text in Affinity Photo 2.0 transparent, it understandably shows as orange (ie the doughnut underneath). How can I achieve it? In summary, I think what I want to do is 'cut out' the text from within the doughnut but I need that to be very precise as will be printed on t-shirts. Thank you for any pointers! test-t-shirt-logo.afphoto

OMG I came on here expecting / hoping for some graphic design advice and I've found a content marketing expert. Your post completely cracked me up and I genuinely genuinely wish I'd seen it before sending our much more boring newsletter! Brilliant!!

I'm not sure on how to create a mask and add a gradient 😞

Thanks all ... actually maybe the two suggestions from @Pšenda and @DWright together would work well ... basically a thought bubble being added to @DWright's merged composition? Hi @carl123 - sorry, it's a newsletter to busy/stressed/hectic/lonely central London customers of a therapeutic treatments business to try to entice them into booking again. I say lonely in the sense that is often quoted "big cities are the loneliest places to be"

Actually I want to add something I've just thought about ... There are probably lots of designers on this forum ... and perhaps some may be thinking that's not a very nice idea let alone the technical bits of how to achieve it 😁 I kind of agree and so if anyone has a completely different idea for a more suitable header image (this is for an email newsletter) given the subject matter, any thoughts much appreciated!

Hi - I've seen online lots of questions and answers about how to merge two images together so that they appear as one cohesive original image but I've got a slightly different question which I hope people can help me with! I have two very different images (crowded underground train scene and peaceful beach in Bali). I want to create one image 1000 x 500 which as a header image about how people suffer loneliness in big crowded cities (represented by the crowded underground train scene) and how relaxing your mind with some peaceful professional therapy (represented by the Bali beach scene) can help. So I was thinking transitioning from the train image on the left to the peaceful beach on the right but not sure how to do it other than a basic side by side with an arrow (very ugly) lol

Thank you both @GarryP and @thomaso ... I ended up using the Vector file (that GarryP gave me confidence to use LOL) and also applying thomaso's idea ... and I'm happy with it!

I like the one on the right, is it easy to do?!

I like the idea of B&Wing (is that even a word?!) the irrelevant areas ... let me try and see how it looks, thank you!

We've been using images at 600px x 600px and they seem to fit the template design quite well. Agree it's a bit big for a mobile, but the template makes it look ok. On a mobile (in portrait orientation) it basically shows the website menu bar, followed by the square image (full width) and then has about 2/5 of the screen left (above the fold as it were) to show some intro text for the page

Actually, yes I have the vector! Attached but as mentioned I have no idea on how to work with vector files 🤔 map-of-london-boroughs.eps

Great questions! Unfortunately I only have that version, but am looking into whether I can get a vector version (never know how to use those so don't download them even when presented as an option ;0) End results will go on a website so end one should be optimised WebP at around 100Kb max. Will be viewed on Desktops and Mobiles ... basically they'll form the header image for 5 different webpages, each dealing with North, South, East, West and Central London coverage zones So when user visits the page for North London, they'd see a version of the above image but with something that clearly shows the North London areas (as roughly marked by the ellipse in my other image) highlighted somehow. The most ideal would perhaps be an animated WebP that repeatedly magnifies that elliptical area ... but no idea if that's OTT or even whether it could be done within 100Kb per image