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How would I put one object behind another then another behind that one and so forth in Affinity Designer?


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22 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

Layer Arrange can be used to change z-order.

Or simply dragging them up or down in the Layers panel, making sure to "drop" with the mouse pointer to the left of the target layer's thumbnail.

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37 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

Mmmh - I don´t get the picture honestly. Do you know how to draw circles? and how to move objects? Layer Arrange can be used to change z-order.

I duplicated the first church and moved it next to the first one, overlapping it.  I moved the second one back one.

I still see part of the 2nd one behind or overlapping the first one.

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The church image needs either a color fill inside or (more flexible) a color filled drawn shape behind (grouped for easier movement). Makes sense?

Or in a destructive way go in Pixel Persona and erase the overlapping part from the underlying image. There are more possibilities like masking eg.

Or draw a few vector lines for scalability.

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14 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

The church image needs either a color fill inside or (more flexible) a color filled drawn shape behind (grouped for easier movement). Makes sense?

Or in a destructive way go in Pixel Persona and erase the overlapping part from the underlying image. There are more possibilities like masking eg.

Or draw a few vector lines for scalability.

Got it!  That explains why I could do what I want with the default circles filled in!

Thanks!

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10 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

I have no use for it - you might get the idea:

 

2Churches.afdesign 952.92 kB · 0 downloads

Thanks!  Very, very helpful!  Honestly, I was going to get around to redrawing it!  Really!  So what you did is great!

The darn pen tool.  I really need to take that AD pen course that I bought on Udemy a long time ago!

-paulw

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