kheffernan1 Posted February 25, 2020 Posted February 25, 2020 Hello there! I've been using affinity designer to create cookie cutters with my 3d printer. I usually just trace whatever it is, and expand stroke and carry on my design. But i was wondering if there was an easier way to automatically outline the picture and then expand stroke? Its a picture of a logo with text that i have removed the background. I tried going through Effects -> Outline. This will highlight the outside, but i cannot expand stroke from here. I assume its because its not an object? I'm a novice to this so sorry if my terminology is off! Thank you for your help. Quote
Dan C Posted February 25, 2020 Posted February 25, 2020 Hi kheffernan1, Welcome to the forums It sounds as though you're looking for a Vector Trace functionality - unfortunately this isn't a feature of Affinity Designer currently, although we do hope to add this in a future update. In the meantime, you can find workarounds at the below post - 5 hours ago, kheffernan1 said: I tried going through Effects -> Outline. This will highlight the outside, but i cannot expand stroke from here. I assume its because its not an object? That's correct, all fx in Affinity apps are Pixel and not Vector, meaning you can't expand this stroke, apologies! Quote
kheffernan1 Posted February 25, 2020 Author Posted February 25, 2020 Thank you! I will go through that and try to find a solution. Quote
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