UncleMonkey Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 In Affinity Photo, the Filters > Detect > Detect Edges commands finds exactly the paths I want to use to create vector art — but I can't find any way to work with them in Affinity Designer. I'm probably missing something obvious, but I've poked around for the better part of an hour and I'm still where I began. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 8, 2016 Staff Share Posted January 8, 2016 Hi UncleMonkey, Those filters are only available in Affinity Photo. Since you appear to have both programs, you can do this: open the image in Affinity Photo and apply the Detect Edges filter, then go to menu File ▸ Edit in Designer..., to continue your work in Designer. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleMonkey Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 Hi UncleMonkey, Those filters are only available in Affinity Photo. Since you appear to have both programs, you can do this: open the image in Affinity Photo and apply the Detect Edges filter, then go to menu File ▸ Edit in Designer..., to continue your work in Designer. Thanks, MEB, and sorry! I didn't make my problem clear. I got the file to Designer the way you describe, but once it's there it behaves like any other raster image: I can't find a way to select or manipulate the edges Affiinity Photo detected. I was hoping there was a command I'd missed that would convert them to vector art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 9, 2016 Staff Share Posted January 9, 2016 Hi UncleMonkey, What you are looking for is an automated tracing tool, that is, something to automatically convert a bitmap into vectors for further manipulation. Affinity Designer does not have one at this point. This is something that was requested several times and is being considered for inclusion in a future version, but since it's not trivial to create (at least a good one) it may still take a while until it becomes available. So you either have to trace the image manually or use a third party application like Vector Magic, Image Vectorizer or Super Vectorizer. Check this thread for more info about this. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernie Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Image Vectorizer is based on the free utility potrace. It is a command line tool, but there are front ends for it. http://potrace.sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/projects/potrace/ Super Vectorize can also export up to 32 colours in the vector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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