Timber Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Hi, looking to create a style, or a couple of styles, to simulate roofing textures in Affinity Designer. Starting with how to create a style at all seems like a good start. Getting specific about creating say a slate roof look, a cedar shake roof, or a tin roof style would be most helpful. Note, the Dream Organic styles posted in Resources are terrific. Thanks in advance - Timber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted February 24, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 24, 2016 Hi Timber, To save a style select the with the style you wish to save, then click Panel Preferences > Add Style from Selection. You can also right click an object and select Create Style. You may want to create a new category for your styles first, to do this click the Panel Preferences icon > Add Styles Category. Just in case, the Panel Preferences icon is on the right hand side of the Styles tab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timber Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 I think what I'm unclear on is how to create a repeating pattern to simulate texture, i.e. shingles. I can create a basic style like a color, embossed, line specs, etc. but to emulate say the wood, or leather as in Dream Styles Organics, how is that done? Also, I don't see a "remove any/all applied Styles" to remove styles if in trying them you don't find one that works. One's only recourse seems to back-step with multiple undos. It'd be nice to have a "remove styles". – Timber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted February 24, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 24, 2016 If you've created a style you aren't happy with, simply right click the style on the Styles tab and select Delete Style, no need to undo everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timber Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 Hi Lee, I'm not talking about deleting a style, but removing a style applied to an object. Removing all styles applied to an object. Hence the undo's to get back to before the style was applied. I did see the delete style in the menus, but thanks for pointing that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Timber, if you don't mind having pixels in it the easiest way I know of would be to use a Gradient and select bitmap. In the attached I used a drawing of a leaf I'd made. I cropped it tightly, exported it as a jpg then used the gradient and adjusted it for the size, aspect ratio and angle. With shingles the trick is to crop it so that exactly one segment is in the picture. Leafsheet.afdesign Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madame Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Regarding remove style from an object, you can go to Fill (top left) and open the dialog by clicking on the bar. Choose "None" and you get a clean object with no fill. Chul and Timber 2 Quote - Affinity Photo 2.3.0 - Affinity Designer 2.3.0 -Affinity Publisher 2.3.0 MacBook Pro 16 GB MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timber Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Madame, setting fill to None, this is a good thing to know to remove styles, thank you! Timber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madame Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 You are welcome, Timber! Glad I could help! :) Quote - Affinity Photo 2.3.0 - Affinity Designer 2.3.0 -Affinity Publisher 2.3.0 MacBook Pro 16 GB MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmca62 Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 I have tried to create styles by using 'create style' while indicating what it is I would like to make a style of but nothing ever happens. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. izaacmp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Hi, jmca62 Have you looked at the styles panel after using the command "Edit/Create Style." I've alway had a new style from the selected object. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izaacmp Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 On 2/15/2018 at 9:11 AM, jmca62 said: I have tried to create styles by using 'create style' while indicating what it is I would like to make a style of but nothing ever happens. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've had a similar thing happen. 25% of the time I can create a new style, and 75% of the time nothing happens. I've noticed that if my styles are too similar (such as same color stroke and fill but different stroke widths) it fails to create a new style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INKmagine Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 From what little I’ve picked up so far, make certain you have the specific layer you are trying to create a style from selected. I was grabbing PS styles and kept either not getting a style or repeated ones, because of the layer I was, or wasn’t, on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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