Affinity Designer: Optimising puzzle creation

[Pyanepsion]

Hello everyone,

I’m looking to optimize the time it takes to create a puzzle.

I currently proceed as follows:

First piece:

1. Select a piece of the puzzle.
2. Go to the Layer | Insert | Inside menu (I’ve created a shortcut: ‘Insert key’).
3. Insert the image.
4. Shift the image to positions 0, 0, width, height.
5. Copy this image with Ctrl C.

For the following pieces:

1. Select another piece of the jigsaw.
2. Use the ‘Insert key’.
3. Paste the image with Ctrl V.

While this method is manageable with a small number of pieces, it becomes very time-consuming for a jigsaw of 1,000 pieces or more.

So I’m looking for a faster, more efficient method. If you have any suggestions or alternatives, I would be extremely grateful if you could share them.

Thank you for your time and assistance.

Pyanepsion

Ressources :

https://quintettenympheas.com/

puzzle. afdesign

Best regards,
 

[Return]

Hope this helps:
 

 

[Pyanepsion]

I thank you, @Return, for this method. It works very well from Stock.

But how do you proceed from an image on the computer?

[Return]

Select all>fill/gradienttool>on the toolbar there's a dropdown>choose bitmap instead of the normal gradient settings.
 

 

 

[DWright]

If you add the photo to the Assets then you can use the same steps as with a stock image.

[thomaso]

5 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:

I’m looking for a faster, more efficient method. If you have any suggestions or alternatives, I would be extremely grateful if you could share them.

Weren't they mentioned in your recent thread, too? For instance in this first reply:

[Pyanepsion]

@thomaso, I didn't understand this method at the time.

After checking, I find that there is an offset which apparently renders this method unusable.

 

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Pyanepsion said:

After checking, I find that there is an offset which apparently renders this method unusable.

Check once more: Set the Extend mode to "Zero" and just click or move the centre handle slightly. To me it corrects this way:

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Then it also works if moved, rotated and scaled:

[Pyanepsion]

Thanks @Return, @DWright, and @Tomasso.

That’s a big job solved. The initial puzzle took me around 4 hours to complete, with a high risk of error. The new version, with the shortcuts, took 2 hours. The new method does it in a few minutes … provided, of course, that all the pieces are in the same settings for rotation, tilt, etc.

[GarryP]

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