Kevin Maguire Posted June 13, 2020 Posted June 13, 2020 Hello, I'm try to subtract an image from an ellipse and it's not working. It takes the whole area of the png and subtracts a rectangle, not the palm trees I was hoping for. I tried converting the png to a curve, didn't work. Thanks. Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 13, 2020 Posted June 13, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Check the Layers studio panel, and make sure your PNG shows as a (Pixel) layer. If it shows as an (Image) layer you'll need to Rasterize it before you can work with its pixels. You can do that by right-clicking on it in the Layers Panel and choosing Rasterize, or using Layer > Rasterize while that layer is selected. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.2.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
firstdefence Posted June 13, 2020 Posted June 13, 2020 What you are trying to do is subtract a pixel image from a vector curve (ellipse) you will have to convert one to the others format. So the ellipse converted to raster or the image converted to a vector. You cannot convert a png file (pixel) to curves (vector) inside of affinity, you would need a third party tracing app for pixel to vector conversion. Does your png have transparency? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
Kevin Maguire Posted June 13, 2020 Author Posted June 13, 2020 Awesome, thanks. I had to create my own palm tree, using rectangles, triangles, and the pen tool. It came out ok. I converted them all to curves and joined them with the Add tool. Now it cuts out of the shape I need it to. It's not going to be as fancy, but it will work for what I'm doing. Oh, yes. It was a transparent png. Quote
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