William Overington Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 In around 2002 I produced Quest text, my first full alphabet font, using the Softy program. In 2005, by then using FontCreator, I started a new font using FontCreator and copied the artwork from the font that I had generated using the Softy program into the new font that I had generated using FontCreatoir. The font was last updated in 2008. The font is available on the web. https://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/QUESTTXT.TTF In the Private Use Area of the font, at U+E701 through to U+E704 are four pictures that I produced, probably around 2002. They are each monochrome, and are influenced by the novel Don Quixote. The font has an indication to display them as white on a red background at 340 point. Here is a link to a PDF document that I produced long ago. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/quest.PDF So today I decided to use one of those pictures, the one at U+E704 in the font, and keep the original picture, yet try to use Affinity Designer to produce a colourful A3 size print by colouring various parts of the picture and perhaps adding a background colour. So the picture above is as far as I have got. I started a Text Frame, inserted the picture from the font using the Glyph Browser, sized it at 288 point, then converted to curves, then with the Aspect ratio locked, I made the image 4000 pixels wide. The picture above is a one-seventh size png file of that result. Alas, I do not now how to go any further with this, as I am not able to change the colour of individual parts. I went to ungroup but it is greyed out. Is it possible to colour the various parts of the picture please? Readers who want to have a go are welcome to gather a copy of the font and use it. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 33 minutes ago, William Overington said: Alas, I do not now how to go any further with this, as I am not able to change the colour of individual parts. I went to ungroup but it is greyed out. Is it possible to colour the various parts of the picture please? This is clearly a work in progress, and as such it’s perhaps not quite ready for the ‘Share your work’ section. Your question about separating and colouring the various elements belongs firmly in the ‘Questions’ section, not here. William Overington and PaulEC 1 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 I think that I may have worked out a way to do it, so I will try to have a go and report back. Though it might not be the best way or the most efficient way. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/203275-quest-art-question William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 I managed to produce the colourful version. I had open three documents, from left to right. Quest art 005.addesign Quest art 006.addesign Quest art 007.addesign Into Quest art 005.afdesign I copied just the picture from Quest art 004.afdesign, thereby not having the remnants of the original text frame in Quest art 005.afdesign. I added a filled black square 300 by 300 with no border at (300, 300), so at the top left corner, to ensure correct register, though in fact this might not have been necessary, though it did give provenance that all was correct. Select All, and group. Quest art 006.afdesign was a workspace. Quest art 007.afdesign to build the colourful picture. Then four times, one time for the sun, one time for the walls, one time for the roof, one time for the non-roof parts of the building, in that order, starting each time with a blank canvas in Quest art 006.afdesign, I copied the whole picture from Quest art 005.afdesign to Quest art 006.afdesign. In Quest art 006.afdesign I then used the Node Tool to show all the nodes, then deleted all parts of the picture except the current chosen part. I then was able to colour what was left on the canvas. In fact I used the RGB sliders as I like setting things by entering numbers. I then copied everything then pasted into Quest art 007.afdesign, ungrouped, checked that the alignment square was in the right place using the Transform panel and then deleted it. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 1 hour ago, William Overington said: I managed to produce the colourful version. I had open three documents, from left to right. Quest art 005.addesign Quest art 006.addesign Quest art 007.addesign Congratulations, William! I'm sure I would have rapidly ended up in a muddle if I tried to keep three separate documents in sync for a project like this. If I really needed separate iterations of the picture, I would use a 'Layer' layer (i.e. a container layer) for each one. In this particular case you only need five discrete blocks of solid colour: one orange, one purple, one green, and two red. The two red blocks can be Boolean added to create a single 'Curves' object, bringing the number of coloured layers down to four, and you can then apply those coloured layers to the U+E704 glyph by clip-nesting them to the text layer that contains it. Quest-text-E704_coloured.afdesign William Overington 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 15 hours ago, Alfred said: Congratulations, William! I'm sure I would have rapidly ended up in a muddle if I tried to keep three separate documents in sync for a project like this It depends on one's viewpoint I suppose. I generated an A3 landscape document with Document units as Pixels rather than the default Millimetres. So one untitled document open, a blank document. I then used File Save As... and saved it as Quest art 005.afdesign I then used File Save As.. and saved as Quest art 006.afdesign I then used Fle Save As.. and saved as Quest art 007.afdesign So now I have one file open, with a blank canvas. But, I want the files open across teh page in the order from left to right of 5, 6, 7 So I close Quest art 007.afdesign I then open the files in the ordr 5, 6, 7 and so I have access to the three documents, and I work from left to right four times. Quest art 005.afdesign is loaded with the picture at the start and that picture is unchanged but is copied four times. Quest art 007.afdesign, over at the right, is blank at first and the final picture is gradually built up there. Quest art 006.afdesign, in the centre, is the workspace. For each of the four colours it is cleared to start, a copy of the whole image in black is copied from Quest art 005.afdesign, parts of the picture not to be in the current colour deleted, then the remainder coloured to the desired colour, then copied and pasted into Quest art 007.afdesign. So by closing Quest art 007.afdesign after it had been generated and then opening the three files in the order 5, 6, 7 a convenient workflow order from left to right is produced. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 6 hours ago, William Overington said: So by closing Quest art 007.afdesign after it had been generated and then opening the three files in the order 5, 6, 7 a convenient workflow order from left to right is produced. If you had created 007 first, followed by 006 and then 005, you would have had the first file all ready for the desired left-to-right sequence. William Overington 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 1 minute ago, Alfred said: If you had created 007 first, followed by 006 and then 005, you would have had the first file all ready for the desired left-to-right sequence. Yes, indeed I would have. That had not occurred to me. William Alfred 1 Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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