Affinity-Inspiration Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 Just wondering if the option for Stroke Path is being implemented at some point in Photo. It could be a handy tool. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS @Affinity-Inspiration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 I'm not sure what you mean. Can you give an example or more description? R C-R 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: Can you give an example or more description? Like what kind of path you mean, what tool you would use to make it, & so on. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affinity-Inspiration Posted December 20, 2023 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 As in: Learn how to use Stroke Path in Photoshop. This feature is very useful for creating different text effects. To see an application of Stroke Pathcheck out my tutorial on how to make outline text in Photoshop. example at: https://www.psd-dude.com/tutorials/stroke-path-in-photoshop.aspx#google_vignette Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS @Affinity-Inspiration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 Isn't what you're asking for already available in Designer? If so, are you just saying that you want it in Photo as well? Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclast Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 I think what he means is the option to align pixel brushes in Photo to a vector curve. I miss that option too. It would e.G. allow to trace the contours of letters with every pixel brush you want. GIMP has such an option. As far as I remember, Photoshop has it too. And because there is this brush icon in the stroke options, I think Photo should have it too, but by some reason it still doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 1 hour ago, iconoclast said: but by some reason it still doesn't work. By Design, basically. It is usable only for vector brushes, and it's probably available in the UI in Photo in case you open a file there that used that function in Designer. loukash 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclast Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 8 hours ago, walt.farrell said: By Design, basically. It is usable only for vector brushes, and it's probably available in the UI in Photo in case you open a file there that used that function in Designer. Hi Walt! OK, I will check that out. Interesting hint. But it would be nice to have that option in Photo too, because there are so many nice brushes that can't be used for tracing strokes. Designer's "Vector"-brushes are a little bit limited compared to the pixel brushes in Photo. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 1 hour ago, iconoclast said: it would be nice to have that option in Photo too Create a custom vector brush and a corresponding style in ADe and then apply the style in APh. Or instead of a style – which often have only poor preview thumbnails in the Styles panel – you can also save a stroke snippet as a global asset, then use the asset in APh as a "template object" to paste its style onto any vector objects of your choice. That's the Affinity "Stroke Path" workflow. Unlike in Schmotophop, you can apply such a style to live text as well. (Disclaimer: That's all "in theory" off the top of my head. I haven't tested it. Have fun! ) Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclast Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 5 hours ago, loukash said: Create a custom vector brush and a corresponding style in ADe and then apply the style in APh. Or instead of a style – which often have only poor preview thumbnails in the Styles panel – you can also save a stroke snippet as a global asset, then use the asset in APh as a "template object" to paste its style onto any vector objects of your choice. That's the Affinity "Stroke Path" workflow. Unlike in Schmotophop, you can apply such a style to live text as well. (Disclaimer: That's all "in theory" off the top of my head. I haven't tested it. Have fun! ) I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. If I want to trace a vector curve with one of Photos pixel brushes, why should I create a style or asset in Designer with a vector brush? If your workflow would work (haven't tested it), would there be a difference between it and to draw the traced curve in Designer, without using Photo? To say it again, what I want to do is to trace a vector curve with one of Photo's pixel brushes. Not with Designer's "vector" brushes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 2 hours ago, iconoclast said: would there be a difference between it and to draw the traced curve in Designer, without using Photo? Not really. But the style/asset workflow is useful if you want to work mainly in APh without having to shuffle your open document between the apps back and forth. 2 hours ago, iconoclast said: what I want to do is to trace a vector curve with one of Photo's pixel brushes. Not with Designer's "vector" brushes. Kind of a "magnetic brush"? Yeah, that might be useful. Feel free to post a feature request. But to get the same or similar effect right now, vector brushes are the way to go. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debraspicher Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Was this on the original roadmap? I would be shocked if they're not aiming to add something like this... it's up there with Blend, imo. Quote Microsoft Windows 10 Home (Build 19045) AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8Ghz (-30 all core +200mhz PBO); Mobo: Asus X470 Prime Pro 32GB DDR4 (3600Mhz); EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 3080 X3C Ultra 12GB Monitor 1 4K @ 125% due to a bug Monitor 2 4K @ 150% Monitor 3 (as needed) 1080p @ 100% WACOM Intuos4 Large; X-rite i1Display Pro; NIKON D5600 DSLR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclast Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 53 minutes ago, loukash said: Not really. But the style/asset workflow is useful if you want to work mainly in APh without having to shuffle your open document between the apps back and forth. Kind of a "magnetic brush"? Yeah, that might be useful. Feel free to post a feature request. But to get the same or similar effect right now, vector brushes are the way to go. I don't know if "Magnetic Brush" is the right term. GIMP has this feature since at least fifteen years or even longer, as far as I remember. And I suppose Photoshop too. You can let every brush trace vector curves there. That's e.G. nice to give text brush stroke outlines, but even for very clean and smooth drawing with every brush you want. And even with other tools than the paintbrush: Dodge and Burn, Blur and Sharpen... It does basically the same as the most brushes in Designer do. But, as you certainly know too, the brushes in Photo have much more settings and can do much more than the Designer brushes. It is certainly not the most important feature for Photo to have, but I had several opportunities in the past, when I missed it. In that cases I had to change to GIMP, that does that very well and supports Photoshop Brushes too. Yes, maybe I should write a feature request. Even I would suppose that there already must be one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 13 minutes ago, iconoclast said: maybe I should write a feature request. The functionality has been requested many times in the past 7 or 8 years. iconoclast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclast Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 15 minutes ago, lepr said: The functionality has been requested many times in the past 7 or 8 years. Too late, I recently requested it again. lepr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 26 minutes ago, iconoclast said: Too late, I recently requested it again. That's cool. I wasn't trying to be the forum police. Was just letting you know. I've given your request a 'like' iconoclast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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