Convert selection to curves

[BIRDWAVES]

Hi, I've got some Line artwork i knocked out the background in affinity photo  I brought it into designer so I can convert to curves and continue to work on it  how do I convert it to curves? In photoshop . I used to select the art and then convert to paths and export to illustrator  how do I do that? 

Thanks

 

[Alfred]

9 minutes ago, DM1 said:

Select the layers you want converted. 
Edit menu, Convert to Curves

I think the OP is looking for a way to convert raster line art to vectors, which can’t be done in any of the Affinity apps.

[DM1]

37 minutes ago, Alfred said:

I think the OP is looking for a way to convert raster line art to vectors, which can’t be done in any of the Affinity apps.

You’re right Alfred. Would imaengine work for this?

[DM1]

5 hours ago, BIRDWAVES said:

Line artwork i knocked out the background in affinity photo

Designer lacks an auto trace. You could do it manually with pen tool but first try these. Do you have the Vectornator iPad app? It now has an auto trace function to converts raster images to vector. If not, you could try imaengine for iPad. It has a free version you can try and it can also convert raster to vector pretty well. You can export as svg and import back to Designer to edit further. 🙂

[Alfred]

7 hours ago, DM1 said:

Do you have the Vectornator iPad app? It now has an auto trace function to converts raster images to vector. If not, you could try imaengine for iPad. It has a free version you can try and it can also convert raster to vector pretty well.

 

[BIRDWAVES]

8 hours ago, Alfred said:

 

I just need to clarify your answer.

I've already knocked out the background using the Erase White Paper command in Affinity Photo Desktop. (which is a great feature!) 

There is no way to select the remaining line work and convert that selection to paths/curves either in Photo or Designer?

That seems like it should be an easy thing to do, as there is no "tracing" involved.

Thanks

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, BIRDWAVES said:

There is no way to select the remaining line work and convert that selection to paths/curves either in Photo or Designer?

That’s correct.

2 minutes ago, BIRDWAVES said:

That seems like it should be an easy thing to do, as there is no "tracing" involved.

We might think so, but there is currently no way to ‘stroke’ (or otherwise create a path from) a selection.

[BIRDWAVES]

And that holds true for either iPad or Desktop versions?

I hope they are working on it, seems like a huge feature gap!

 

 

[Minus44]

On 12/7/2020 at 2:05 PM, Alfred said:

We might think so, but there is currently no way to ‘stroke’ (or otherwise create a path from) a selection.

@Alfred, do you know if this is true for Ad@&e Illustrator as well? 

[Alfred]

8 hours ago, Ulysses said:

@Alfred, do you know if this is true for Ad@&e Illustrator as well? 

I’ve never used Illy, so I don’t know for certain, but if you can create pixel selections in the program I’d be surprised if it doesn’t have the ability to create paths from them.

[BIRDWAVES]

13 hours ago, Ulysses said:

@Alfred, do you know if this is true for Ad@&e Illustrator as well? 

You can do it in Photoshop, then export paths to Illustrator. Been doing that for years. 

[Minus44]

5 hours ago, BIRDWAVES said:

You can do it in Photoshop, then export paths to Illustrator. Been doing that for years. 

Hmm... I didn't think of that approach. Thank you. Something similar isn't yet possible with the Affinity Suite?

(I don't have need for it at this time, but I'm always interested in knowing what's possible with my favorite imaging suite. 🙂 )

[Mike Swartzbeck]

While I wait patiently for Affinity to fill the yawning feature gap, I've found Inkscape to be just the ticket for autotracing my traditional graphite stick/ink line drawings into vector objects for cleanup and "final" layout and color in AF Designer.

Mind you, I've been singularly unimpressed with Inkscape otherwise, but for line-art autotracing, it's really sweet. I'm keeping a copy around just for that.

For B/W line art, use the "Brightness Cutoff" setting in Inkscape; out of long-time habit I export to EPS, but Plain SVG works just as well.