davidlower8 Posted December 29, 2019 Posted December 29, 2019 Hi, I am wondering how I can make swirls and swooshes in affinity designer like in this video attached. Is it possible? Most interested in the way he can make the edges thicker or tapper off. Thanks. Quote
AlanPickup Posted December 29, 2019 Posted December 29, 2019 I asked this same question almost two years ago, albeit with Inkscape not Adobe. This can be done but it is not as easy as with out the spiral tool in the other programs as you can set the thickness variation either as triangle in or triangle out, or even the middle. For widened the stroke the secret is to convert the line to shape so the nodes are on the outside of the line / object and you can then easily get the leaf effect. my posting is below and you can see the mods answers. If I want to create the swirls I go to inkscape and then save them as a svg and bring them in to designer. We may one day get a similar tool in Affinity davidlower8 1 Quote Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each.
davidlower8 Posted January 5, 2020 Author Posted January 5, 2020 Thanks for the responses guys @AlanPickup @ErrkaPetti Quote
crayons Posted August 26, 2020 Posted August 26, 2020 I think a Spiral tool in Affinity Designer would be a great addition. I really hate to download and learn another vector program, while also learning AD. If anyone has any Flourishes/Swirls assets to share that would be AWESOME! Quote
Alfred Posted August 26, 2020 Posted August 26, 2020 10 minutes ago, crayons said: If anyone has any Flourishes/Swirls assets to share that would be AWESOME! Many typefaces (including some free ones) feature flourishes, swirls and/or swashes. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
crayons Posted August 26, 2020 Posted August 26, 2020 2 minutes ago, Alfred said: Many typefaces (including some free ones) feature flourishes, swirls and/or swashes. I did not know that. Would you happen to know which (free )typefaces? Quote
Alfred Posted August 26, 2020 Posted August 26, 2020 Here’s one place to look: https://www.fontspace.com/category/swirls Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
jmwellborn Posted August 26, 2020 Posted August 26, 2020 @davidlower8 Here is a beautiful asset file which, if I remember correctly, was created and kindly offered to us by @firstdefence. You should be able to make some very nice swirls with these, for starters. Fleur parts.afassets crayons, jer, EmmaW and 1 other 4 Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.5.5. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards.
jmwellborn Posted August 26, 2020 Posted August 26, 2020 @davidlower8 Two possible free font sources are "Cornucopia of Ornaments" and "Rough Fleurons" - both available from 1001freefonts.com in their "Decorative" category. Their website is a bit of a hassle to work through, but if you input the font name up at the top in the Search box, you should get right there. I have attached samples. The top one is from Cornucopia of Ornaments. Both fonts are accessed through the Glyph Browser. Alfred, carl123, jer and 1 other 3 1 Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.5.5. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards.
crayons Posted August 26, 2020 Posted August 26, 2020 7 hours ago, Alfred said: Here’s one place to look: https://www.fontspace.com/category/swirls Thanks found a few nice ones. Alfred 1 Quote
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