[Designer: Merging layers leads to only one color]

10 hours ago, haakoo said:

Duplicate the distress layer three times(ctrl+j)

Hide one of them (keep it from losing it  )

Select one distress layer and BarTop>geo>substract

Select one distress layer and BarBottom>geo>substract

Select one distress layer and Text>geo>substract

Now you have three separate layers>group  them

Hoj Hans! I was dreaming about exactly this solution tonite in my bed :-) Cheers! *g

This should also work when GEO->ADD all objects of the same color (in this case the 2 red bars).

 

[Designer: Merging layers leads to only one color]

Hi Hans,

masking does use the non-white curves and leads to this strange result:

 

And it's still not really subtracted so the (t-shirt) printer can't use it.

But my main problem is: It's not possible to Geo->Add objects with different colors right?

So have to GEO->ADD objects of the same color and "distress" them manually?

[Designer: Merging layers leads to only one color]

Hi,

i would like to merge the text and the 2 red bars (with geo->add) to put an all-over distress-effect (geo->substract) on it:

But everytime i try to merge the bars and the text it results in one curved vector (correct so far) but with the text in color red!

Any ideas?

Thanks!

test.afdesign

[Sort/order assets]

Hi,

is there a way to sort/order assets by name?

At the moment it's in the order i've added the assets:

Thanks!

NBG

[Designer: Distressed look]

12 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi NBG,

If you drag the SVG file to the canvas it will be placed as an embedded document (as you can see from the label between parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel) which cannot be "merged" through a boolean operation with the letters because you don't have direct access to the contents of the embedded file (in this case the texture).

First you need to convert  all the texture elements into a single object:

...

Great, this is really *the* solution! Many many thanks! Send me your address and i'll send you some beer!

Is there a way to save and "import" such objects?

Or do i have to create my own collection (in every layer a different texture vector layer saved in an single .afdesign-file) and drag them into another window with the letters?

[Designer: Distressed look]

Ok this exports non-rastered as PDF... but it's still not "glued" together:

So how can i cut out the white lines out of the curved letters?

diss.afdesign

[Designer: Distressed look]

On 17.1.2018 at 0:39 PM, MEB said:

... you can use a vector based distressed "texture" to achieve what you want. Just place it over the text , select both objects and perform a subtract boolean operation. Depending on the complexity (nodes) of the texture the operation may take some time.

But what is the difference between an imported vector texture AND a "converted to curves"-image?

Where do i "perfom a substact op"?

What worked for me is:

1) Vectorize an texture to 2 colors, only export the white color (lines) and the black ones are transparent

2) Put this .svg-file on top of the curved letters.

3). Export as PDF (no rasterizing)

 

[Designer: Distressed look]

23 hours ago, firstdefence said:

• The text you turned into curves, select all of the letters and then under Operations choose Add this makes handles all those layers much easier
• Next duplicate the Added together text curves layer and drag it above the image used for distressing.
• Right click on the Added together text curves layer and choose Mask To Below

What you end up with is the file below, I added the orange rectangle to highlight what is happening with the white distressed layer in the shape of the lettering.

Hi firstdefence,

yes your way works also but the export as PDF faces "rasterising" too

[Designer: How to check if all elements are "thick" enough to print]

16 minutes ago, DWright said:

1.98 points

Is it really 1.98 points?

If i convert 7 mm to points i get 19.8 points...

[Designer: Distressed look]

Really? I don't want to draw the lines by hand! There must be an other solution. Can't believe that AD is that limited...

[Designer: Distressed look]

Yeah but i don't want a new printer I just want to export a PDF as usual.

Also the logo(s) will be used for stickers etc. so i need it there as PDF too.

[Designer: How to check if all elements are "thick" enough to print]

Hi,

maybe you have read my other post regarding the distressed logo.

My printer only guarantees lines and details down to 0.7 mm in size (narrower lines and smaller details may still be visible).

Is there a way to easily check if all elements are "thick" enough?

I saw such a tool on an other design tool... moving over the lines showed the "thickness" in pixels/cm/inch.

Thanks,

NBG

[Designer: Distressed look]

My printer only accepts PDFs with curved elements. I'm fine with that because it doesn't lead to any mistakes etc.

So is it really so hard to cut it out?

[Designer: Distressed look]

Hi toltec,

yes this works also but there is still an image in top of the curved letters.

Is there no way to *real* cut out the "erasing bits" out of the letters?

What about not-rasterizing the image but converting it to curves and the "merge" it with the letters to make a real cut out? Not just an temp effect on top of the letters?

Thanks,

NBG

 

[Designer: Distressed look]

Hi,

i made a logo with that common "distressed" style:

What it i did already:

1) Converted text to curves (grouped)

2) Put that distressed bitmap on top (rasterized)

3) Set the mixing of the source to zero

Ok looks nice so far... but this image must be screen printed (everthing converted to curves and deliverd as PDF file).

So how can i "cut of" the (now) white spaces out of the letters?

So the printer should not get the curved letters and a image on top, he should get only the curved (distressed) letters.

Any ideas? Maybe masks?

Thanks!

NBG

diss.afdesign

[Need 2 outlines for a text]

Hi MikeW,

 

i'm sure AD is good enough to solve this job.

 

What i need is to create a logo and use it as a "template logo" (so i can later change the colour of the chars/outlines).

 

Let's take these 2 t-shirts for example:

 

 

Black shirt: Grey chars, black (transparent) spacing, white outline -> the printing house uses only pantone grey + white.

White shirt: Red chars, white (transparent) spacing, black outline -> the printing house uses only pantone red + black.

 

So it would be nice to put the logos on a transparent background and make the spacings also transparent.

 

Of course the printing house don't care if the spacings are not transparent...

 

So in the end i just need the following options:

 

- the colour of the chars must be editable

- the colour and thickness of the spacing must be changeable

- the colour and thickness of the outline must be changeable

- the original text must not be editable anymore (so can be transformed to curves or be grouped)

 

In your example i can't set the colour of the chars or the outline?! :( Also the thickness of the spacing is always equal to the outline.

[Need 2 outlines for a text]

@MikeW:

 

This is great! Didn't know that i can change the settings of each effect with the gear symbol.

 

And a last question (this time it's allowed to convert the text to curves/grouping, not further editing of the single chars necessary):

 

How can create a text like above and add two outlines which i can edit later (colour/transparency AND thickness of each outline, also the colour of the text)?

[Need 2 outlines for a text]

Hi armadillo,

 

yes this works... but how to make the first outline transparent for example?

[Need 2 outlines for a text]

Hi,

 

i've added a red outline via Effects->Outline and now need another one around.

 

How can i do that? Convert the text (incl. red outline) to curves and add another outline?

 

Any other way to keep the text and do no convert?

 

Thanks!

[Warped logo in the style of the brand Everlast]

And there is no workaround or something? :(

[Warped logo in the style of the brand Everlast]

Hi,

 

i would like to create a logo like the well-known one from "Everlast":

I tried with an eclipse and text to path:

 

As you can see it doesn't look like the original and i'm not sure if it's even possivle to recreate the in this way.

 

Maybe create TWO eclipes, overlay them, do an invert or something? Do i really just need a shape like the Everlast-logo? Or does the "text to path" only apply on the bottom line of a shape and not also on top?

 

Thanks!

NBG