Setting a Layer to Knockout

[Cabra]

Good afternoon all,

Can anyone point me in the direction where I can set a layer to knockout the layer below.

I am trying to create a circle with a painted edge. I have a circle on a layer and a stroke on a higher layer with the desired brush stroke.

I set it to white and just sits there as white. I want it gone and just leave the coloured layed below.

Many thanks in advance.

Kind regards, Steve Warren Australia.

 

Colour Circle.tiff

[firstdefence]

Do you mean like this...

If so just set the brush stroke layer to Erase in the layer blend dropdown list.

If you don't want the erase layer blend mode to affect layers below nest it under the shape.

[Cabra]

Yes that is what I meant. Thank you I did find that erase option I am still getting use to the different naming from Adobe where it is refered to as Knockout. 

 

Also I want to convert this to outlines so it is cleaner and not a rasterfile. Any clues how to achieve this?

[GarryP]

2 hours ago, Cabra said:

Also I want to convert this to outlines so it is cleaner and not a rasterfile.

I don’t think you can.
The brush you used to create the circle looks like a raster brush and you cannot currently convert rasters to vectors in the Affinity applications.

[Cabra]

Good morning Gary,

Correct, I had stoked the circle with a Brush and then raserised that layer in the hope I could create outlines and then Knockout/erase the background. I didn't

want it as a raster, I wanted it as a vector so I could easily change the colour and more impportantly get a cleaner edge finish, rasters no mate how high are not as clean and

sharp or as editable. Thank you for yuor time.

 

Kind regards, Steve Warren - Australia

[firstdefence]

Maybe find something on here, import and do a Boolean subtract: https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/circle-border

Shapes Here: https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/109958-messy-hand-drawn-circle-shape-set

 

Prior to the above, you will also need to Merge the curves using Layer > Geometry > Merge Curves

 

[Cabra]

Fab, I’ll give it a go.  

Kind regards, Steve.