mallard3000 Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 I could use some help. I would like to make a halftone pattern and apply it to my design on Affinty Designer 2. I have no idea where to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @mallard3000. Photo has a Halftone filter, but there's nothing like that in Designer as far as I know. Paul Mc 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Maybe not the solution you want, but try the following as a workaround. Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.1742) Affinity Suite V 2.5.5 & Beta 2.(latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Before you ask! No! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 Good suggestion, @Komatös. That will provide a set of Halftone Brushes (raster/pixel format) that can be used in the Pixel Persona of Designer. They won't be vector, but might be useful for the OP's purposes. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Rieger Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 4 hours ago, mallard3000 said: I could use some help. I would like to make a halftone pattern and apply it to my design on Affinty Designer 2. I have no idea where to start. If you're looking for vector halftones and are on macOS, my work arounds are to use Vectoraster and Drawbot. The former enables you to create halftones sheets at various sizes, gradients, etc and export to SVG which can then be used in Designer. Drawbot on the other hand is a Python script based tool which enables you to create halftone patterns (along with other things) that can be exported to SVG, PDF, etc. If you're looking for raster halftones the suggestions above are great. If it's complex vector halftones (sampled from images, CMYK, etc) I unfortunately always have jump back to that other industry standard illustration tool and use an astute plugin. Hopefully this will make it into Designer at some point in the not-too-distant future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted June 15, 2023 Share Posted June 15, 2023 For generating vector halftones & halftonings I often too use Python scripts and tools and then save the generated results as SVG. SVG_Digital_Halftoning Or just generate some via NodeBox ans save those as SVG for reusage in ADe ... Vector Halftone Patterns With NodeBox: Initial Setup NodeBox 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...
Scungio Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Yeah, I recommend Vectoraster as well. You can't go wrong adding both Vectoraster and Patternodes from Lost Minds to your toolset. They are Mac only. While it would be great to have the Astute plugins for Designer, I find that Vectoraster, Patternodes and VectorStyler work well as companion apps to Designer. They are essentially my plugins for Designer that fill the gaps until Serif develops those tools and functions. If I need to do halftones, I reach for Vectoraster. If I want to do complex repeating patterns, I reach for Patternodes. If I want to do a blend of two lines to get a quick flowing flag type of object, I reach for VectorStyler. VectorStyler also has an Image Trace feature and I am still grappling to learn it. While some may say, hey, that is additional cost in buying those apps, yeah, but if we had Astute Graphics plugins, they have gone subscription, so it would cost you a whole lot more money to the tune of $149 per year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mc Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 I've recently had to do some halftone work and the workflow involved using Affinity Photo to prepare the image which included setting the levels and conversion to B&W with the addition of a Halftone filer. This is then brought into Affinity Designer for the other elements of the design o be added. Although there's no Halftone filter in AD, the filter from AP is preserved and is non-destructive until you export, at which point it is converted to a bitmap. Your document settings will define how that looks and there might be quite a difference from the vector image seen while editing so make sure you preview exports before going to print (assuming that's what you want to do). This is in AD: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mordi Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 I needed a halftone gradient, and found this thread. After some googling I came across this gem of a web tool: https://halftone.xoihazard.com/ In my case, I uploaded a black and white gradient, and went from there. It lets you adjust point sizes and patterns. Saves either a PNG or an SVG for you. Super neat. Edit: Another solution would be to use Inkscape, and then export an SVG from there. https://logosbynick.com/halftones-inkscape/ thomaso 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 On 6/15/2023 at 9:17 PM, v_kyr said: For generating vector halftones & halftonings I often too use Python scripts and tools v_kyr, you might also like a solution with "Processing": http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/2/ –> https://editor.p5js.org/generative-design/sketches/P_4_3_1_01 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdobbs Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 On 6/16/2023 at 3:11 AM, walt.farrell said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @mallard3000. Photo has a Halftone filter, but there's nothing like that in Designer as far as I know. Where is the halftone filter in Photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 The Live Halftone Filter can be found via the menu “Layer → New Live Filter Layer → Colours → Halftone…”, or via the Live Filters button on the Layers Panel – see attached image. The non-live Halftone Filter can be found via the menu “Filters → Colours → Halftone…”. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 19 minutes ago, bobdobbs said: Where is the halftone filter in Photo? Look in the 'Layers' menu under 'New Live Filter Layer'. d. walt.farrell 1 Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michalmj Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 Hi there, first time here so don't shoot please 🙂 Hard to say what you need the halftone for, but in case you don't want to spend money I suggest create free Figma account -> make a project -> run a plugin "Halftones" or "HLFTN" or other (Figma has a plugin search engine that works like a charm) -> make a halftone as required -> export to svg -> import to AD. Faster to do than to describe here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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