gleeb Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Hello, I've bought AD but am surprised not to find any fill patterns (crosshatch, diagonal lines, trees, etc.) that are rather essential in making map legends. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 20, 2015 Staff Share Posted September 20, 2015 Hello gleeb, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Currently there's no vector patterns in Affinity Designer, but you can fill a shape with a bitmap pattern going to the Gradient Tool and selecting Bitmap from the Type dropdown in the context toolbar. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prograham Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 Hi, Sorry if this super obvious but I've been trying to experiment with a bitmap gradient and it's not working out for me. Maybe I'm too tired. 1- How do you export from AP as a bitmap? 2- I tried googling this as well but... well I'm just going to ask now that I've spent so long trying to do this with no luck... I'm trying to create "radial" hearts. I made it this far by duplicating layers and then increasing size. I'm sure there's a better way as you can see I really don't want to do this 100 more times. Thank you! https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=217B506ECD6BAC9E!120&authkey=!AOSMBMVLO_tkv5M&v=3&ithint=photo%2cjpg This is my failed attempt at bitmap gradient.. which was actually a TIFF. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=217B506ECD6BAC9E!121&authkey=!AOymtFUfzynQ2jE&v=3&ithint=photo%2cjpg Thanks again for anyone kind enough to offer help :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 21, 2015 Staff Share Posted September 21, 2015 Hi prograham, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) You can do this type of effect easily using shapes. 1) Go to the Shapes Tool ( blue square icon), press and hold the icon until a list of shapes appear and select the Heart Tool (it's on the bottom of the shapes list). Click and drag on canvas to draw the heart. The small red dot on the centre (on top) lets you adjust the inner corner. 2) Give it a stroke colour and line width using the context toolbar (right above the work area). 3) When you are happy with the heart, press ⌘ (cmd) + J to (power) duplicate it. You now have a copy above the original heart. Press and hold ⇧ (shift) + ⌘ (cmd) to scale the copy from the centre until you are happy with it. Any transformations you apply at this point will be replicated to the next duplicate. So for example if you rotate the heart a little the duplicates will be scaled up and rotated too. Now press continuously ⌘ (cmd) + J to create more copies of the heart already scaled up until you get the design you want. Although this video about Power Duplicate was created for Affinity Designer it works exactly the same for Photo. Take a look as it may help a little too. Since those shapes are vector objects, you can then move, scale, change whatever properties you want independently from each other. Let me know if you still have trouble. prograham 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gleeb Posted September 27, 2015 Author Share Posted September 27, 2015 Hello gleeb, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Currently there's no vector patterns in Affinity Designer, but you can fill a shape with a bitmap pattern going to the Gradient Tool and selecting Bitmap from the Type dropdown in the context toolbar. Thank you for the advice. There is also a YouTube tutorial I belatedly found that addresses the problem: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prograham Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Thank you so much for your help MEB. I love Affinity and tell everyone I know how awesome it is!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philipt18 Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Is there an update on vector patterns? Is it available, or in the works? Thanks. On 9/20/2015 at 9:26 PM, MEB said: Currently there's no vector patterns in Affinity Designer, but you can fill a shape with a bitmap pattern going to the Gradient Tool and selecting Bitmap from the Type dropdown in the context toolbar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 30, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 30, 2018 Hi philipt18, No, there's no direct support for vector patterns however you can use Symbols and/or Power Duplicate features to work around these limitations. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenogre Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Do you plan vector patterns ? I work with picture patterns (pixels) but it's not the perfect workflow. I would be able to work only with vectors to be more accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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