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  1. GarryP
    If I've understood your requirements correctly, you could have done this more easily by using compound objects. Draw a rectangle - or whatever shape you want to cut out of the triangle - and place it over the triangle. Then select both shapes and use the Subtract function. If you hold down Alt while subtracting you can later move the rectangle around (and edit it) without needing to edit the nodes - see attached video.
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    Some quick notes on rotation: * You can reset the Rotation Centre of an object by double-clicking the rotation centre marker. * You can reset the Rotation of an object by double-clicking any corner handle when the cursor changes to the rotation cursor. * There's a "Reset Rotation" menu item in the contextual menu but that relates to the Artboard and not the item that was right-clicked (that can be a little confusing at first).
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    In this case, if the small triangle is just a reduced-size version of the large one, you can try this little "trick": * Drag the ST (smaller triangle) so that its bottom corner snaps to the bottom corner of the LT (larger triangle); * Hold down SHIFT and drag the top corner of the ST that lies on the hypotenuse of the LT up to the position you want it; * Keeping SHIFT held down, drag the bottom corner of the ST along the hypotenuse until it's where you want it. The attached video might make it clearer. Does this help?
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    Five hours is an impressively short amount of time for this, from my non-artist/illustrator perspective anyway. I hope it inspires people to try something similar for themselves. P.S. I didn't see the hidden message but that's fine, I'm not too good with subtleties.
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    Agreed. If I could only have the choice of one of the two, I would choose patience and then I could - perhaps - learn the skill. Having the skill but not the patience to use it properly might be very frustrating. Having said that, if I did had a wish that would come true, I might wish for something more important than being able to create great illustrations (not that there's anything wrong with that of course). But I'd probably make a mess of things, so it's best if I don't get one.
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    Lovely work. The style works really well for the content. I imagine a text balloon being added saying "FOOL! You will NEVER defeat ME!" (or something like that). As with so many other works of art being posted here, it must have taken a heck of a long time to make. Great stuff.
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    Wonderful. So much detail. I wish I had your skill, and patience.
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    After a little bit of messing about, here's the updated title still. I think I've managed to lose (most of) the banding on the background by easing the gradient stops, similar to how this article suggests: https://css-tricks.com/easing-linear-gradients/ (I still need to do some experimenting with the suggestions above. Something I need to work through properly when I get more time.) The logotype has been made more "burning liquid gold-y" by using various GIMP/G'MIC functions. I like this version better but I don't think I'll be doing any more work on it (it was just a silly experiment).
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    This is fantastic work. Thanks for sharing. Very inspirational.
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    Many thanks for the advice @Stuart_R Layering - with transparency - is an interesting idea that I will have to experiment with. Blend smoothing isn't something that I've come across so that's more for me to look at. (I need to properly understand what blend modes actually do rather than just randomly picking something that looks a bit like what I want.) I've never been able to get satisfactory gradients across a wide colour range - with any software - so this is something that I really should try and figure out how to do properly. I'm not in the illustration business but this is one of those "foundational" things that anyone wanting to do this sort of thing should learn how to do well. I'll play about with various techniques and see what I can come up with. If I get a good effect I'll post the result. Thanks again.
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    Today I thought I'd have a bash at trying to recreate a still from the opening title sequence of "Wynonna Earp". (No spoilers please, I'm still plodding on through the second series.) It was entirely done in AD. I'm sort of happy with it but there are a few things that don't look quite right to me. A. The logotype isn't perfect but I'm not too bothered about that. B. I can't quite get the background right. I've tried all kinds of gradients and transparencies but I just can't make it look like I want it to. I tried to get a better fade from red to dark red but I keep getting bands where the colour seems to jump. C. The logotype isn't as "liquidy" as I wanted it. It's okay, but I wanted it to be a bit more like "dirty liquid gold". Does anyone have any tips for the background or "liquid" text? (They have to be usable in AD, I don't have APh.)
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    I had to use lots of circles because the software I was using didn't have a radial fill but offsetting those circles also gave the effect a bit of extra "motion". I like the idea of using your technique for the button/rivet. As you say, the non-uniformity gives it extra realism.
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    Here's something I did a while back - with other software - that only uses circles, blend modes and a little bit of blurring. (Someone affiliated with the software project didn't think it was capable of it until I showed them the original file.) Not practical for most things, and certainly not planned, but quite interesting all the same.
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    Very nice work.
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    I really like seeing experimental stuff like this. Messing around with the software can give you all kinds of weird - but sometimes also useful - things. You never know when this sort of strangeness is exactly what you need for a project. @peter Starfox: Nice.
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    I don't know the details but the pictures that are shown in the forum threads look different to those that are shown when you click on them. I don't know if the software the forum uses - in general - is the same as that used when displaying an image when it's been clicked on. Maybe it's a plug-in that allows for a wider range of colourspaces than the main site. It's a shame as the site doesn't show off the images as well as it could and that could potentially make the software look worse than it is. Until there's a change it looks like - as you suggest - some kind of conversion process may indeed be needed if you want the image in the main thread to look as good as it does in AF.
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    @VFXTobias Regarding the colours, have a look at the reply here https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/52599-bombs-away/#comment-283465 to a comment I gave about another forum post. Maybe something could be added to the forum posting guidelines about this.
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    Welcome to the forum Dingdong. It would be nice to see the image in the forum itself, rather than having to download it and open the software, although it might not look as good in the forum as it would in the application. Maybe you could give some information about equipment used - telescope, mount, camera, etc. - and how you modified the image.
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    Thanks for adding that information Alfred. It's good to have that sort of thing documented somewhere. Another option, if you have a copy of Windows, is running it in a bootable partition via Boot Camp Assistant, but the version of Windows you can run depends on the version of OS X you have.
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    Yeah, I agree, it doesn't look very promising but they were all tested using pretty old versions of Wine. If the OP can get hold of a trial version of PagePlus - from who knows where - they could give it a try without spending any money. Another solution would be to find an old copy of Windows and run it in a VM. (Windows XP will probably be fine but I couldn't find any minimum requirements on the Serif website.)
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    There's a chance that PagePlus might run on OS X under Wine - https://www.winehq.org/ - but I've never tried it. It looks like some versions work and some don't: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=999
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    Really lovely stuff. Weird and dark. I'm imagining him on a book cover, poster, or trading card. A versatile image made with a versatile tool.
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    Design

    GarryP replied to Idowu's topic in Share your work

    Welcome to the forum Idowu. A very eye-catching and dynamic poster. There are three things that slightly spoil it for me (but only in very tiny ways): 1. There's a tiny bit of yellow curve at the bottom-right of the top-left "cutaway" that seems out-of-place. 2. The shadow on "Presents CSR WEEK" doesn't seem quite right. (I don't know what objections I have specifically though.) 3. The text at the bottom looks a bit "lost" and isn't centred vertically in the space. Maybe make the names bigger? Those small issues aside, it should really get people's attention for what's obviously a good cause. Nice work.
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    @owenr Thanks for the explanation.
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    Don't forget about using a camera to read facial gestures. When I frown or look confused I want it to automatically process the undo function. Actually, no, scratch that; it would undo pretty much everything I create.
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