Gradient Mesh Tool

[RainerH]

Hello,

is there a Designer equivalent to Illustrator's Gradient Mesh Tool? I've searched the Help, studied the ttorials on the Affinity site and searched the web but I haven't found one.

Thank you for your help.

Rainer

[Pšenda]

 

10 hours ago, RainerH said:

but I haven't found one.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Gradient+Mesh+Tool+site%3Aforum.affinity.serif.com

[ashf]

DrawPlus which is predecessor of Affinity Designer had mesh fill tool, but it hasn't been implemented in AD.

[RainerH]

Hello,

please can anybody show me how to crate a gradient like in the Instagram logo? I couldn not figure out how to solve this problem. There is no gradient with different colours in three directions:

red ........... blue
.
yellow

Thank you for your help.

Rainer

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, RainerH said:

Instagram logo

I don't know exactly which logo you mean (I've seen several types), but I think it's either a regular Linear or an Elliptical gradient.

[Old Bruce]

10 hours ago, RainerH said:

Hello,

please can anybody show me how to crate a gradient like in the Instagram logo? I couldn not figure out how to solve this problem. There is no gradient with different colours in three directions:

red ........... blue
.
yellow

Thank you for your help.

Rainer

You could try two gradients 

1: Red to Blue.

2: Transparent to Yellow, on top of the red/blue.

[RainerH]

How can i give a Object two gradients?

[Old Bruce]

55 minutes ago, RainerH said:

How can i give a Object two gradients?

Use different blending mode on the second gradient.

[RainerH]

That means I have to copy the Object give the copy another gradient and then work with blend modes?

[thomaso]

No, you simply use the Appearance Panel to assign 2 gradients to 1 object:

[firstdefence]

had a go at this and came up with this convoluted arrangement lol!

instagram.afdesign

[RainerH]

Wow. There's a lot of left I've to learn. Thank you.

[lepr]

Here's an alternative without gradients:

instagram-like.afdesign

 

Edited April 25, 2020 by anon2
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[PixelPest]

Pretty much the same idea:

[Jowday]

4 hours ago, anon2 said:

Here's an alternative without gradients:

instagram-like.afdesign

 

But this will not export as vector - it (effects) will get rasterized:

[Jowday]

7 hours ago, RainerH said:

Wow. There's a lot of left I've to learn. Thank you.

Yep - but pay attention to rasterisation if vector output matters.

Mesh gradients has been requested for years.

[lepr]

27 minutes ago, Jowday said:

But this will not export as vector - it (effects) will get rasterized:

I was aware of that, thanks. Nobody said it had to be exportable without rasterisation.

By the way, the other posted solutions will be at least partially rasterised.

[Jowday]

7 minutes ago, anon2 said:

I was aware of that, thanks. Nobody said it had to be exportable without rasterisation.

By the way, the other posted solutions will be at least partially rasterised.

Correct, no one did. But if someone should expect it as vector from this vector based drawing software it is nice to know.

[lepr]

Here is another solution - it will export as rasterised blurs clipped by vector paths.

instagram-like2.afdesign

Edit: Just realised that this is like PixelPest's.

[lepr]

1 hour ago, Jowday said:

Correct, no one did. But if someone should expect it as vector from this vector based drawing software it is nice to know.

Good point.

 

[Jowday]

On 4/24/2020 at 6:50 AM, RainerH said:

please can anybody show me how to crate a gradient like in the Instagram logo? I couldn not figure out how to solve this problem. There is no gradient with different colours in three directions:

Keep it simple. This is just a proof of concept I quickly made with the use of three gradient fills in the appearance studio. Colours and look is not identical to the original logo. One can monkey around forever with this workaround. This is the work around hell you are stuck with without vector tools in Affinity Designer. Not the professionals choice..

@anon2 This method exports as vector to SVG and PDF (print).

 

instagram_jowday.afdesign

[lepr]

5 hours ago, Jowday said:

@anon2 This method exports as vector to SVG and PDF (print).

Yes, that's a good method. An SVG export is all vector, but a PDF export with vector gradients uses raster masks for transparency in the gradients.

[thomaso]

3 hours ago, anon2 said:

but a PDF export with vector gradients uses raster masks for transparency in the gradients.

The gradients of Jowday do contain transparency – but I don't see rasterization in its PDF exports, neither with X-4, nor (for print) or (for export) preset.

instagram_jowday_X-4.pdf
instagram_jowday_1.7print.pdf
instagram_jowday_1.7exp.pdf

[lepr]

4 minutes ago, thomaso said:

The gradients of Jowday do contain transparency – but I don't see rasterization in its PDF exports, neither with X-4, nor (for print) or (for export) preset.

instagram_jowday_X-4.pdf 380.06 kB · 0 downloads
instagram_jowday_1.7print.pdf 7.57 kB · 0 downloads
instagram_jowday_1.7exp.pdf 68.78 kB · 0 downloads

 

The PDFs all contain rasterisation.

The X-4 one contains Image objects, and each Image object is a raster image.

The other two contain raster masks to give transparency to vector gradients.

 

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, anon2 said:

The X-4 one contains Image objects, and each Image object is a raster image.

Where do you read the info of "Image object"? – To me Acrobat preflight doesn't report images but gradients & transparency only, even for the X-4 pdf:

 

Also a visual comparison (macOS Preview.app) of PDF vs. exported PNG doesn't show pixels for the PDF while they are obvious in the PNG.
(If you can't recognize the difference in my screenshot increase the contrast for the entire image to make the difference between top and bottom more obvious.)