deergod Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 I have designed myself into a corner that I can't figure out how to escape. I made a candle shape with thick lines that overlap in such a way that they obscure underlying shapes. It looks great with a white background, but I actually want the white lines to be transparent in the final export. I have tried expand stroke, but that just separates the white lines from the underlying shapes and using those as "cookie cutters" still doesn't yield what I want. Conceptually, a "flatten all to new curve" would do what I want (assuming I could specify to ignore white). I tried some fx masking, but still couldn't get there. Any thoughts on how to leave only the visible blue shapes in a new object? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Hello @deergod In Windows, I would select all layers with the blue objects and in the export settings, in the Area option, select Selection only. So it may be different on iPad or Mac. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.2715) Affinity Suite V 2.2.1 & Beta 2.3.0.2096 Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Need a system wide color picker? Try Microsoft's (New) Power Toys If you see a light at the end of the tunnel, it may be an oncoming train! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 It could be more complicated as the white curves actually covers some parts of underlying blue curves. Exporting blue only could expose unwanted areas. Assuming you want to keep everything as vector (so blend mode erase is not an option) sort the curve layers from top to bottom (currently candle is bottom) Use Layer>Geometry>Subtract to remove white curves from blue one. May need an iterative approach from bottom to top (and add blue curves step by step, too) Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deergod Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 @Komatös That still exports the white borders, which need to be transparent. @NotMyFault I did try your process, but kept getting lost in my stack. I would want it to remain vector, but it doesn't have to remain separate shapes. How would I do the Blend/Erase? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 (edited) Select all white shapes select blend mode erase in layers panel (instead of normal) Never the less, it was faster for me to create the candle from scratch. See attached file, saved with history so you can undo/replay. candle.afdesign Edited August 30, 2021 by NotMyFault deergod 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deergod Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 I was just thinking that. With these primitive shapes, I might as well just redraw them. They are part of a larger design where I still kind of need a technique for blending out the white as transparent. I'll try that layer blend. Thank you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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