creativevision Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Hey all I have an orange doughnut shape. On top of it, I have placed curved text using the path method. I need to provide a file to a t-shirt printing company so that the text comes our as transparent (rather than white) ... so whatever colour t-shirt this is printed on to, will show through for the text. When I make the text in Affinity Photo 2.0 transparent, it understandably shows as orange (ie the doughnut underneath). How can I achieve it? In summary, I think what I want to do is 'cut out' the text from within the doughnut but I need that to be very precise as will be printed on t-shirts. Thank you for any pointers! test-t-shirt-logo.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markw Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 If you set the Blend mode of the text to Erase that should give you what you want. creativevision 1 Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creativevision Posted September 28, 2023 Author Share Posted September 28, 2023 Oh wow @markw - thank you, would never have imagined such a simple solution! Thank you markw 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creativevision Posted September 28, 2023 Author Share Posted September 28, 2023 I have a slight follow up question, if anyone can help ... I'm kind of hoping there's an equally elegant and simple solution to the one @markw provided above! Is there an easy way to smooth the edges of the attached hand to a quality level that I could provide to the printing company to print off at 15cm on a t-shirt design? I've tried selecting and then using the Refine / Smooth function but that doesn't seem to be achieving much sadly hand.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markw Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Not a one button solution but I would just use the Pen tool and trace the hand to make a smooth vector version of it. Somewhat hurriedly done... Hand.svg creativevision and Callum 1 1 Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creativevision Posted September 28, 2023 Author Share Posted September 28, 2023 Thank you @markw you clearly know your stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 An alternative to the technique supplied by markw above, the one about the Erase Blend Mode, would be to use the Geometry Subtract functionality to ‘cut’ the text from the donut. See attached video where I keep Alt pressed down while pressing the Subtract button to make a Compound which means that I can easily change the shape or text as necessary. This also keeps the text and shape as vectors whereas the Erase Blend Mode will always produce a raster output on export. 2023-09-28 13-23-42.mp4 creativevision and markw 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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