Diane Window 10 Desktop AD Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 I just saw a video on how to do this in Illustrator and was wondering if we on AD can do it. I know there is an expand stroke but that will not make it bigger all the way around not that I know anyway. If there is could you point me in the right direction of video or help please. Thank Quote Windows 10 desktop ram 8g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 There are probably a few ways to do this. One is to use the appearance panel and add multiple strokes to the text in different colours and sizes making sure the larger sizes are sat at the bottom of the stack in the appearance panel. Or you can do as you said convert text to curves with a stroke. Then expand stroke, then select the stroke and put a new stroke on that, then repeat. (see below for proof!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 @Diane Window 10 Desktop AD I think I've just realised that you may have mis-understood what 'expand stroke' does in Affinity. It's the equivalent of Path->Outline Stroke in illustrator. It takes the stroke and makes it a shape in it's own right. With that shape you can then add another stroke (thereby making the shape bigger - which is how you expand outwards, not with the expand stroke as you might be thinking). You can alter the stroke thicknesses to gain the thinner black lines if you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Also, to keep things clean it's probably best to 'Divide' the outline once you've expanded it (using the geometry tools at the top, or Layer > Geometry > Divide), then delete off the layers containing the inner parts (letter holes etc and inner edges of the outline), just leaving the extremities of the outline. This will get rid of the internal stuff which isn't necessary for the outlines once you've gone beyond the initial few stages and filled the internals of the letters with coloured outlines. It will make the file size smaller too. Diane Window 10 Desktop AD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 See this Spotlight article https://affinityspotlight.com/article/multi-strokes-fills-and-thrills/ Diane Window 10 Desktop AD 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diane Window 10 Desktop AD Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 Thank you both so much. Yeah I never use Illustrator just this program was watching a how to on youtube and loved the look. But they were doing it on photoshop so different and since I never used it I got lost. Thanks again. Quote Windows 10 desktop ram 8g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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