An Affinity Designer image cutout workflow?

[Wobbley]

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie to Affinity Designer and have been able to make the transition without too many problems.... except for now.

I have attached an image to visually describe what I'm trying to do - How do I cutout each individual shape to be replaced with an individual image?????? (see uploaded visual)

I appreciate anyone's insights so as I can move forward and learn some more :)

Cheers

Wobbley

 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Wobbley

Just to try and make things clearer, do you want each of your small shapes to be replaced with an individual image which is sized, shaped and rotated the same as the original shape? In other words, do you want your hundreds of shapes to be replaced with hundreds of images?
And, if so, does each individual image need to be distinct from the others?
And, if so, how would you expect to be able to tell the software which image goes in which shape?
And, if so, how would the software decide how to crop/resize each image to fit in the differently-sized shapes?

[Wobbley]

Thanks for replying Gary

Sorry to sound confusing - trying to master the Affinity Designer UI and got a little lost.

The clipping mask in Affinity Designer doesn’t work with vector shapes like it does in Illustrator - found that the Designer intersect tool did the trick........

And yes it took ages using the intersect tool as a 'cookie cutter' but its done.  PHEW!

Cheers

Wobbley

 

 

 

[GarryP]

Good to know you’re sorted. Thanks for letting us know – not everyone does.

[Joachim_L]

6 minutes ago, Wobbley said:

And yes it took ages using the intersect tool as a 'cookie cutter' but its done.  PHEW!

What about selecting the shape, ticking Insert inside the selection from the top toolbar, use Place and click the shape? Only irritating thing is, that when you use the Place command, the handles of the beforehand selected shape vanish, but in the end the image is inserted into the shape, where you can rotate and scale the image.

[Wobbley]

Thanks Joachim  I have a smaller section to do tomoz, will give your advice a go - I love learning additional ways of approaching things..... I think they call it experience HA!

@Garry - Will always thank those that offer their time..... Im normally the guy handing out advice in my field - its a thankless job! HA!