kufloyd
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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.
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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?
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I'm curious how you would attempt to draw this flower in AD:
1) Draw with pen tool
2) Draw using a graphic tablet and then trace using pen tool
3) Draw using pre-defined shapes like crescent etc
4) other options?
I realize that this depends on your level of expertise, but I'm just trying to understand different approaches that people might have...thanks.
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I would like to erase half of an ellipse. I tried this by creating an ellipse and adding a rectangle with no fill/stroke lines over half of it - that does the trick but the line of the rectangle is still visible in center of the ellipse. Is it possible for the line to not be visible?
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thanks for this great resource!
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From sketch to vector
Slowly getting there with the art and AD
pretty nice design! if you wouldn't mind posting the AD file, I'm curious to learn how you applied the gradients/transparency to the shapes...thanks.
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Yes it does so you can either select the line in the layers panel and give it a weight, and the select the text to give it a positive baseline offset to move it away, or you can just draw another ellipse.
that works..thanks.
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thanks for the reply. I tried that (in my case, the inner circle is the Ellipse under Layer 1) and I can type around its edges but it makes the ellipse disappear.
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As part of my learning process, I'm trying to make this:
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.
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Copy the donut. Leave it in the clipboard for the moment. Divide the donut and the blue shape. Delete everything except the segment in the now broken donut. Paste the donut back into the canvas.
this is a great idea too...thanks for the suggestion.
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Why the donut when two circles are exactly what you need? Don´t get it. :D
Cheers
P.
was just trying to learn alternative ways to do it...two circles did the job great too :)
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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 :)
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thanks...actually what I'm trying to do is fill inside the donut, not in its ring. I could create two circles instead of a donut and color the interior circle but thought there might be an easier way to do it with the donut...
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Is this what you're trying to do?
Don't see an file attachment button here on this forum. So that link will have to suffice for now.
thanks for your reply but I can't access that link. To upload files while replying, click on "more reply options" and then you'll see the Choose Files button.
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I'd like to fill a donut shape so that the top part of it has a blue fill (with a wavy-shape to the fill). I created a blue shape, did Cut on it, and tried to do paste-inside the donut, but it pastes the whole shape over the donut, as opposed to fill it inside a part of the donut.
Is there a better way to do this? thanks.
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Thanks for your examples and sorry for the confusion. I meant to say center of each petal, but what you've shown in both examples is better than the idea I had :).
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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:
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.
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thanks for creating the design MEB. Question - how did you create vector masks? I created a rectangle, applied transparency to it, but not sure how to make it a vector mask?
bringing this up again as I would find it helpful. thanks.
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thanks..that works.
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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?
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thanks for both your replies. I tried your suggestions and they work.
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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.
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it's one vector object drawn with the pen tool. here's the file. there are other objects in it, but my question is regarding curve1 in pizza3 layer. thanks!
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Drawing a flower
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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thanks everyone for all your replies. this is a great forum and I appreciate your advice!