ashf Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 What's the best way to import a path from Gimp? Affinity does not import paths from PSD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 See: gimp export svg pdf How To Create SVG Paths Easily Using The GIMP ... etc. do a Google search! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted October 19, 2022 Author Share Posted October 19, 2022 Gimp does not export paths in PDF and does not support SVG export. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, ashf said: Gimp ... does not support SVG export. Strange. That second link above seems to show it exporting one. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Did you looked and read through any of the above Google intenet references about exporting as SVg/PDF from GIMP? See related also: How can I export a PDF from GIMP with each layer on a new page? Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted October 19, 2022 Author Share Posted October 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Strange. That second link above seems to show it exporting one. I mean it's not possible to export to SVG all together with pixel layers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 See also the replies given there how to overcome/workaround things: Export image as SVG in GIMP Other than that try to exchange via PDF then! - Further if it's either way a bitmap/pixel/raster image you are going to export from GIMP why the hell then in a vector format for exchange? Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted October 19, 2022 Author Share Posted October 19, 2022 5 minutes ago, v_kyr said: See also the replies given there how to overcome/workaround things: Export image as SVG in GIMP Other than that try to exchange via PDF then! Yes I've read that and I know Inkscape can trace bitmap. But Gimp can create a path from the marquee. sometime it's more convenient than Inscape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 6 minutes ago, ashf said: Yes I've read that and I know Inkscape can trace bitmap. But Gimp can create a path from the marquee. sometime it's more convenient than Inscape. What are you finally trying to do at all here via GIMP, getting a traced bitmap image as vectors or what? - Your Q's and answers so far are too vague for me, in order to give you then some more concrete advices and help here. Meaning you have to better explain/describe what you are overall trying to do! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted October 19, 2022 Author Share Posted October 19, 2022 I was finding a way to replace a task uses Photoshop with something. Creating a complex clipping path from an image that has fuzzy or difficult borderline on the target such as scenery, portraits or products by using with marquee/alphas/masks. Gimp does all Photoshop does except the export. Also I can outsource this task to somebody who doesn't have Photoshop and Affinity by using Gimp. I was hoping Gimp has a way to export something that can replace PSD created by Photoshop to hand off the work to Affinity. Though going back and force between apps including Inkscape with extra tasks can achieve this, I'd like to seek a way that's fewer steps/apps and is simpler method. If it does not exit, I'll give up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 18 minutes ago, ashf said: Gimp does all Photoshop does except the export. Then try out Photopea which is very PS compatible (PSD is also it's native file format) and can export to SVG & PDF. ashf 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Gimp can generate Path from every pixel selection and export to SVG - but not pixel-layers + paths in a single document file. On Mac it allows to copy&paste to Inkscape and VectorStyler for instance - but not into AD documents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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