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kufloyd

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  1. Actually, I opened the jpg from the screenshot in Designer, set its layer opacity to about 50%, locked it, & started tracing over the black outline with the pen tool set to 1 px thickness & no fill. As I completed each vector shape, I filled it with the appropriate color sampled from the jpg layer, & then sent it to the bottom of the layer stack. Because the jpg layer was 50% transparent, I could always see it & use it as a reference for where to place nodes in the next shape I drew.

    thanks for clarifying that...very helpful.

  2. I don't have Inkscape, a tablet, or appreciable freehand drawing skills, so I did a manual tracing of the screenshot with the Pen tool. I started by tracing the black outline, duplicated it, & adjusted the nodes of the duplicate to create the light blue shape. The darker blue shapes were down with 'insert inside selection' active for the light blue shape so I didn't have to trace the outer edges.

     

    The whole thing took about 30 minutes. It isn't as accurate as using an auto-tracing app but, at least in my experience with low end auto-tracers like Super Vectorizer, it produces far fewer nodes.

    wow..that's pretty amazing considering it took you 30 minutes. so you traced the black outline just by switching between looking at the .jpg and using the pen tool to draw the shape?

  3. As part of my learning process, I'm trying to make this: 

    https://www.google.com/search?q=ojai+valley+defense+fund+logo&espv=2&biw=1536&bih=759&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIrN-6rfrRAhXFhlQKHYinCK4Q_AUIBigB#imgrc=yhXvvzbE3qDMzM:

     

    I have a question about aligning the text: I drew a shape using the pen tool and tried to match it to the contours of the circle as best as I could (and then used artistic text tool to insert the text). I think I could improve upon the shape though. Short of trying to redraw it with the pen tool, what other options are there to get a curve that matches the contours of the circle?

     

    thanks.

    ovdf.afdesign

  4. The inside of a donut is the ring, the filled area between its inner & outer edges. Like with a real baker's donut, the 'donut hole' is not part of the donut itself; it is part of the space where there is no donut.  ;)  

     

    To do what you want, you could just add a circle beneath the donut. As long as it is centered on the donut & smaller than its outer edge & larger than its inner one, you don't have to be precise about it. Color it however you want & if desired group the two shapes together to make skewing, stretching or shrinking, etc. easier to do.

    thanks for reminding me about donut topology :)

  5. There are different techniques of masking. That technique he used is a cropping technique. To better explain this, first try using the Crop Tool on an object. See how it crops objects only and not the actual document like most other programs.

     

    Now that you understand that, click on the mask's "thumbnail" in the Layer studio and delete it. The Crop Tool can only make square shaped masks, so MEB made three different shapes manually by making three different objects. Think of them as being a cropping border. He dragged each of those objects to the right of the layer's thumbnail. Those objects then became cropping masks. Finally, he selected each of those mask thumbnails and applied the Transparency Tool. Very clever I may add.

    that is a helpful explanation. I was able to apply transparency using your suggestion.

     

    Here's what I'm trying to do though: I'm trying to have the center of flowers be a little diffused (by putting another object that has transparency applied to it) towards the center of each petal...sort of like this: 

    https://www.google.com/search?q=bridging+portland+to+the+world&espv=2&biw=1536&bih=759&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_ntri-_LRAhXLrVQKHVQJAPwQ_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=bridging+portland+to+the+world+coffee+cup&imgrc=Is9qIFwHF0wCpM:

     

    When I do that using masks, what happens is that the cropped object covers the whole flower. What I would like to do instead is have 5 small transparency objects placed in the center of each petal so that they create a nice diffused feel to it...what's the best way to do it?

     

    thanks.

    coffeecup.afdesign

  6. I'm trying to create a compound which is made of an ellipse and a rounded rectangle. The ellipse has a white-colored stroke while the rectangle doesn't have any stroke. When I make a compound of the two shapes (selecting both shapes, Alt and then Add), it either adds the stroke to the entire compound (if rectangle is on top layer) or it doesn't add any stroke at all (if ellipse is top layer).

     

    How do I get it so that in the compound, the rectangle doesn't have a stroke while the ellipse maintains its stroke?

     

    thanks.

     

    sandwich.afdesign

  7. thanks all for your replies. It seems like I need to create 3 different objects for it to have different colors. I tried it and it works.

     

    One question though - how do you get the objects to line up perfectly next to each other? I can adjust the edges using node tool to have it be right next to each other and move it around so it lines up, but are there more efficient ways to do this? I attached an example to show how curve2 overlaps with curve3 a little bit in the pizza4 layer.

     

    thanks.

     

     

    kombucha.afdesign

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