jemmalee Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 Hi everyone, Someone please please please help me. I am creating a Polynesian pattern for a wedding invitation. The invitation is to be hot foil stamped so the file needs to be vector based not bitmap/image based. The areas that are black are the only things to be foiled gold, the background will be black cardstock. SEE PHOTO. I want to create white see-through boxes (that aren’t foiled) in the middle of the fat line. Can someone please explain how to do this? I tried putting it the mode as erase but when I export and set the rasterise option to nothing, the boxes aren’t showing up (as I have them set to 100% black (CMYK) plus the erase function). Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 32 minutes ago, jemmalee said: I want to create white see-through boxes (that aren’t foiled) in the middle of the fat line White or see-through? One way to create see through boxes in a curved line would be to use pen tool and draw a curve. Set the stroke thickness to suit and use expand stroke command on the curve. Draw squares and position on curve (with curve layer on bottom). Select all layers and tap the Geometry subtract command. You will be left with a black line with square see-through areas. Sorry if I have misunderstood what you are attempting to achieve.🙂 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jemmalee Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 1 hour ago, DM1 said: White or see-through? One way to create see through boxes in a curved line would be to use pen tool and draw a curve. Set the stroke thickness to suit and use expand stroke command on the curve. Draw squares and position on curve (with curve layer on bottom). Select all layers and tap the Geometry subtract command. You will be left with a black line with square see-through areas. Sorry if I have misunderstood what you are attempting to achieve.🙂 Hiya! Thanks for your suggestion. I tried that. This is what happened - see the screen recording. Thoughts? IMG_1443.MP4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 Did you expand the bottom stroke first? It look like the stroke is around the new shape after the division, just modifying it can solve this, or expanding first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 It looks like the curved line was not expanded first? 4 hours ago, jemmalee said: I tried that. This is what happened - see the screen recording. Thoughts? 5 hours ago, DM1 said: and use expand stroke command on the curve Expand the curved line shape before subtracting the squares. jemmalee 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jemmalee Posted September 21, 2021 Author Share Posted September 21, 2021 OHHHHH I GOT IT!!!!! Thankyou so much, you have SAVED my sanity!!!!!! 😄 DM1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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