Sarahreneee Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 I’m bummed I keep getting on here to ask for help with seemingly easy tasks lol, however the easy things are the ones I seem to have the most trouble with. All I wanna do is subtract the rope shape from the text underneath, so it’s like a cutout of the shape from the letters. I tried converting the text to curves and it wouldn’t let me use the subtract tool after that. Untitled.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted October 10, 2020 Staff Share Posted October 10, 2020 Hi Sarahreneee, Have you tried setting the blend mode of the curves to erase? Thanks Callum Sarahreneee, Alfred and DM1 3 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 7 hours ago, Sarahreneee said: I tried converting the text to curves and it wouldn’t let me use the subtract tool after that. That alone wouldn’t have worked (erase blend does) but for the future if you want to access subtract menu from an object that converts to multiple curves I have found you need to select the individual curve layers and then use Merge Curves, not select the folder the curves are placed into. Selecting the curve layers (not the folder) reveals the subtract option. I'm not sure if this is by design. To use the Subtract method: Convert the text to curves and merge the resulting curve layers using Merge Curves. Now select both the text (merged) layer and the shape layer above it and tap Expand Stroke. Now use Geometry Subtract to remove top layer (shape) from text layer. As you can see... it’s much easier to set blend mode of shape layer to Erase! 😀 Alfred and Sarahreneee 2 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarahreneee Posted October 10, 2020 Author Share Posted October 10, 2020 11 hours ago, DM1 said: That alone wouldn’t have worked (erase blend does) but for the future if you want to access subtract menu from an object that converts to multiple curves I have found you need to select the individual curve layers and then use Merge Curves, not select the folder the curves are placed into. Selecting the curve layers (not the folder) reveals the subtract option. I'm not sure if this is by design. To use the Subtract method: Convert the text to curves and merge the resulting curve layers using Merge Curves. Now select both the text (merged) layer and the shape layer above it and tap Expand Stroke. Now use Geometry Subtract to remove top layer (shape) from text layer. As you can see... it’s much easier to set blend mode of shape layer to Erase! 😀 The more you know!! Thank you very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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