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Glad to have crossed this thread. Did not know I could use my keyboard w. AD iPad. Will make many things easier.

MEB, In my case, I was using brush defaults and the rope. I'd tried pressure, but that was w. longer strokes.

Looks like it might be a bug. I didn't get any lagging, but just now when I started making small vector brush dabs, instead of long strokes, the app froze. The stabilizer handle and the dab were about the same length. It was the 4th or 5th I did. All changes lost upon restart.

Hi, Bob - Murder, See attached file, and review the history steps. Top row is separated. Start w. a layer w. Shape. Create a bunch of rectangles to whatever aspect you need that form a a mass of tiles that cover the shape. Duplicate the shape, and intersect w. one of the rectangles. Repeat till all the rectangles have intersected the base shape. Tedious, but works. IntersectShape.afdesign

Hi, Dorian, There are large numbers of bitmap tracers available, some free, most others very inexpensive. I would hope far more for a blend tool, and a mesh warp. A vector halftone would be fine. But Adobe has very deep pockets, and they didn't bother w. it, but left it to someone else.

Hey! Polygonius, Doomed, you are. Does w. iPencil, pencil an' vector brush in Designer it can :

Hi, justmaggie, You have a mis-conception many people seem to have at the start. If you select any of the lines, you will see that each one has a black stroke, and no fill. A curve in AD can be closed or unclosed. Both types can have 2 attributes, a fill and a stroke. In your work, you have all unclosed curves w. only a stroke attribute.It you click on any of them, and assign a fill, you will see a solid color that extends between the 1st and last nodes of the unclosed curve. There is a way to remedy this, tho' it may seem a little complex. Select all the curves at once. Use the layer/expand stroke command. This will turn all the stroke attributes into individual black filled curves. With them still all selected, use the geometry Add operation. This will create a layer called "curves." The spaces between the lines are empty, and not defined as vectors. Next, use the geometry Divide operation. You will end up w.what appears to be a solid black silhouette. But note that there are now many curves, all black showing in the layer panel. You now have lines that can be colored, and shapes also. There will be some miniscule fragments left from the divide operation, which probably can all be discarded. Attatched, my attempt at this, took less time than typing the post. jellypins ram filled.afdesign

Hi, Darita, I used Sketch-up extensively for years as part of my job. For what it did, it was remarkably easy to use. Not long ago, I d-loaded the free personal version so I could open some of my own files. I was surprised at how much I had forgotten. I suppose you need to get a handle on the camera views, and perspective settings. It is basically a 3D app, and so the perspective needs to be off. Otherwise there will be a depth projection instead of plan/view/elevation. To date, I haven’t come across anything easier to use, tho’ w. bloat, its more complex now than a few years ago. Does Sketch-up support .svg now? You could bring it AD files for dimensioning. don’t have access to my desktop just now, House is being re-wired, and I running off iPad

Thanks, I dug into the tutorials, and found where to fine the brush editing button. Another step toward coming up to speed.

Usually,thick ends means the pressure curve isn’t all the way to the bottom. On thin lines, it won’t be noticeable, but on thicker ones apparent.

Hi, Andy Lin, I haven't figured out how to edit brushes yet on the iPad version, but in the desktop version, the position of the brush stroke ends is determined by the head and tail offset. Brushes can be made so that the texture does not go the whole length of the vector stroke. Typically, those are "wash" type brushes which are intended to look like separate brush or reed pen strokes.

You are welcome.

Hi, Claus, From my very fuzzy recollection, Designer seems to be where Illustrator was maybe 25 years ago. Lots of stuff is just not there yet, or fairly tedious work arounds. As far as I can tell from hanging out on the forum, development is focussed on implementing really basic things. Most every one would love to have arrow line ends built in. But for myself, a decent blend tool would be about 1000% more useful.

Umm, just delete it? But seriously.... Basically it appears that even when separate curves have nodes at the same co-ordinates, the combine and add functions do not destroy any nodes, they are joined by a length of zero. It appears to me that it allows the shape of the line from the original curves to stay the same when combined w. the others. I'm going to guess that what you show was from a combine where the nodes were not on top of each other, and so you can see both.

Hi, elephant999, There was an earlier post to the same Adobe demonstration some time ago. What MEB shows will allow you to get inflected strokes. One can make many variations, and save the profiles, and assign them to various lines for variety. My recollection of the tutorial was that it was also intended to create fills after the "sketchy" lines were made. Designer does not work at all like what is shown there. Try this. Manually trace over an area, set the stroke to none, and the fill to whatever color seems right. Duplicate that, and get rid of the fill. Assign a pressure stroke. Then, moving around the perimeter, start breaking the line up. Each section will have the pressure stroke. The end result will be rather sketchy.

Hi Johan Crous, Certainly AD can rescale images by percents or by units. But I'm uncertain about what you are asking. Can you post an URL to the Adobe method? I suppose you need a specific piece of printed paper or digital file with cut lines for some specific cutting/plotter application, which is something I know little about. But creating the vectors should be pretty easy.

The style is fairly new, so I don't know that she has had anyone come back for a refresh, but she has refreshed other colored works. I have no idea about what pigments are used for color, but even dense solid patches appear faded after 5 years. At a recent family meal, I heard her and her younger brother talking about maintenance on an all color work she did on him about 6 years ago. I don't think either my daughter or son-in-law are yet doing all their work straight from computer, tho' I know my daughter is working on it. So providing the original paper work is probably a good idea.

Looks nice to me. My daughter does tattoos, as well as traditional arts, and has been doing the "watercolor" style tattoos for a couple of years. They are currently fairly popular, but she does advise her clients that they tend to fade away faster than traditional line art. I just spent some time looking at pics of my daughter's work, and her husband's, and it appears that while very fine lines can be made, they never finish quite as sharp as what you did w. some of the line art. Also, I think they both sometimes put their designs on a kind of paper that transfers the image to the clients skin. Hopefully the chosen artist has sufficient skill, and equipment to pull it off.

Hi, leminhthahn, Good to see your 1st AD drawing. 1 The pencil tool line must have a stroke width greater than zero. 2 Use the node tool, and click close path. 3 There is no vector eraser at this time, only manually breaking the vector at node points, dividing the curves, and discarding the unwanted portions. 4 Use the eye dropper tool, available from either tool bar or within the color studio. 5 Use the navigator studio 6 Edit menu, select insert inside 7 Objects/ groups, etc. can be flipped from within the transform studio. 8 Open the brush studio, and move thru the categories till you find the one you want. If you have other problems, try posting to the questions section of the forum.

A knife tool for cutting thru vectors is on the 1.X roadmap, which might help what you are trying to do. At this point, there isn't an automatic method. I suppose its because of the way Affinity handles vector paths. The stroke attribute does not exist as a vector item, only the underlying path, which has no width. What you can do takes a few steps. Draw the curve shape over the vector object. Set a stroke width that is appropriate. Use the expand stroke command. Then subtract the expanded stroke, which now has a periphery vector, from the vector shape. Example screen shot. 1 cut from a pen line, no pressure, another form a pencil line w. pressure sense turn on.

Thanks, Dazmondo77, I hope that the technical aspects are worth knowing. One of my favorite pieces of music if a song called "Boogie Chil'un" by John Lee Hooker. There's a line in it, "Its in him, and its got to come out." So, no commercial motivation, just the feeling of old age coming.

I don't have enough experience w. the iPad version yet, but in the desktop version this typically happens when there are many layers of fx being rendered. On the desktop version, I see this when I have a maybe a couple of hundred layers with various raster fx applied. For my purposes, the second or two for complete rendering haven't been a problem. Have not experienced this yet w. the iPad version, but most of my work has been rather simple.

Cool. My daughter and SIL do tattoos, and use Procreate. Been hinting they should look at Affinity. I'll have to point this out to them.

Hi. All, Something I've been messing w. for a few weeks. Lots and lots of pencil and pen strokes, w. various pressure profiles applied. Many other misc stroke treatments. Etc. The work is quite uneven. Lots of odds and ends that I tried. Offering it to you all for what you might gather from it. Started as an attempt to replicate the "head cuts" journalistic illu' method, but ended up going off in my own direction. BASE-D-3.afdesign Mostly done just w. a mouse, some w. my tablet, a bit w. the iPad, but the pencil response there can be hard for me to control.

Hi, bartl, The Affinity team is still working hard on more basic features. They have said that if they can come up w. something better than what is already available, they will implement it. This question comes up a lot. Some people use free online tracing sites. Myself, I sometimes use Inkscape, which is quite good, but complex. (Note, the engine behind Inkscape and other apps is the open source potrace, which took 16 years to reach its current capability.) I also use a purchase utility that cost $6, which is remarkably easy to use.