BrightBold Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 I have a png image and have tried to insert a pattern into it. But when I drag the pattern slightly below the png image to insert it, as demonstrated in a video I saw with a bell image from assets and a photo, it will not work. I upgraded to 1.8.3 hoping this problem would be resolved but it still does not insert it. In the previous verson of Affinity Designer it was always a hit and miss with other images I tried. Getting tired of attempting to make this work. When I drag the pattern into the unicorn it creates a mask which not what I want. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarKeegan Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Are you using Photo or Designer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 You’re dealing with raster images not vector objects. To nest the pattern inside the unicorn shape you will need to convert the unicorn to a vector object, unfortunately affinity doesn’t do tracing so a third party app or service is required such as Inkscape or https://www.vectorizer.io/ Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted July 7, 2020 Staff Share Posted July 7, 2020 Hi @BrightBold, Apologies for the delayed response! This can be achieved in Designer by Inverting the unicorn layer, then rasterise this to mask. Now clip the mask to your pattern layer - please see my below screen recording showing this 2020-07-07_16-00-40.mp4 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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