Zucca Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Nice to meet you. How can I make the characters look like they are melted as shown in the attachment? FYI: This image says that Gaussian blur and level correction should be done in Japanese. However, this is another software operation method, and I couldn't do it well with affinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Three questions: 1. Do you start off with an image of the characters or are you creating them with a font? 2. Do you need the result to be vector or raster? 3. Which Affinity application(s) do you have? The possibilities and techniques are dependant on your answers. Zucca 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy05 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Unfortunately, the probably easiest solution doesn't work in Affinity apps as it lacks tracing features. In software which has those, I'd just export the images in a very low resolution and trace the pixelated image. That'd give exactly the result you're looking for. Zucca 1 Quote »A designer's job is to improve the general quality of life. In fact, it's the only reason for our existence.«Paul Rand (1914-1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zucca Posted May 12, 2021 Author Share Posted May 12, 2021 2 hours ago, GarryP said: 2 hours ago, GarryP said: Three questions: 1. Do you start off with an image of the characters or are you creating them with a font? 2. Do you need the result to be vector or raster? 3. Which Affinity application(s) do you have? The possibilities and techniques are dependant on your answers. Thank you for confirming. 1. I created them with a font 2. Raster is enough 3. I think I have all (publisher, designer, photo). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatGuy Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 A quick way would be a negative offset via contour tool and a tiny bit of gaussian blur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 7 minutes ago, thatGuy said: A quick way would be a negative offset via contour tool and a tiny bit of gaussian blur That makes the characters thinner. If you examine the first image in the original post, you should see that the characters in the second row are ‘melted’ versions of the ones in the first row, and as such they’re slightly thicker. Given that a raster version is sufficient here, the suggestion from @Andy05 will probably produce a usable result: Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 I would be tempted to try one of the Liquify Filters in Photo. Might take a while but you have full control. See my attached image where I quickly ‘melted’ the only the ‘bottoms’ of the letter shapes – a good job will need more time, effort and experimentation. Zucca 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedee Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 An additional method using Affinity Photo. Zucca 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatGuy Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 51 minutes ago, Alfred said: If you examine the first image in the original post, you should see ... indeed. In this case using the contour tool to create a positive offset, bake, then apply a negative offset of not quite the first amount might be worth a try 2021-05-12 14-34-57.mp4 Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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