I'm trying to cut a svg image into a perfect circle in Affinity Designer 2

[nullpointer]

I'm unclear how to extract a perfect circle of the dragon, water and mountains. I've tried creating a solid circle placing it over the dragon image and using boolean subtract but it's not going well. I know there is a trick to achieve this and I'm hoping someone can correct my defunct brain and help me solve this mystery.

I appreciate any and all help!

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[firstdefence]

So you want to crop the SVG to circle bounds instead of having all the black surrounding it?

[v_kyr]

6 hours ago, nullpointer said:

I'm unclear how to extract a perfect circle of the dragon, water and mountains. I've tried creating a solid circle placing it over the dragon image and using boolean subtract but it's not going well. I know there is a trick to achieve this and I'm hoping someone can correct my defunct brain and help me solve this mystery.

I appreciate any and all help!

Well you have all that's needed already there, just hide one layer so the black rectangular background without the circled drawing portion isn't shown and gets transparent.

 

Next if you want just have the remaining circled area, select all the remaining curves in the layers panel and group them together (Circled Dragon Group shown below) ...

... either keep or hide (on your demand) the bottom Layer. - Now if you select copy/paste the selected group layer you get the circled area. When saving/exporting, choose save selection only, in order to save/export just the selected circled group.

• circled_dragon.afdesign

 

 

[firstdefence]

Technically, Affinity cannot do a "perfect circle" there are posts on that in the forum but within that remit, a perfect circle can be approximated to be the same height as width.

The shape of the logo minus the black background is not a perfect circle, it's an oval, so if you want a perfect circle you need to know it's height and width and choose the smaller of the two to make your perfect same height as width circle that the graphic will fit into, else change the height or width of the existing logo to match. Yes the latter method will distort the image but It's going to be better than using a perfect circle that will clip the logo edges and make it look odd.

  

So by example, your logo is 665.3 wide by 644.43 high, to get it circular alter the height to match the width, or visa versa.

Alternative is to use a clipping mask which makes a mess of the logos edge