Complete newbie but wanting to see if anyone could help me?

[Gippaloo]

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Hi everyone! I am currently a complete newbie to any and all vector design programs and I am wanting to make a sticker design to use in my cricut. I was given a tutorial on how to do it but it was recommended I use a vector program to first design the sticker and then send over to cricut to print and cut. I have tried to recreate the below picture in Affinity and I am so lost  I get to the part where I select and fill in the objects and I can't seem to find how to weld them together (step 3). I don't actually know what to do after step 3 either, I am so lost. I've watched a couple of videos on beginner tutorials for Affinity as well and its made me even more confused Would anyone be able to help me out on how to achieve the below picture in Affinity? Thank you so very much to anyone who can help!! I really appreciate it!

 

 

[cgidesign]

While waiting for something, I had a little time.

Result:

One way to do this:

 

 

 

 

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[GarryP]

An alternative method, if you have all three Affinity applications, can be seen in my attached video.

The essential actions are:

1. Open the image in Publisher;
2. Go to the Photo Persona;
3. Make a pixel selection of the area you are interested in;
4. Go to the Publisher Persona;
5. Make sure that the pixel layer is selected and Copy;
6. Paste to get a new Pixel layer;
7. Use Edit Wrap Outline;
8. Copy;
9. Paste to get a new Curve layer;
10. Set the Fill to White (or whatever you want the background to be);
11. Go to the Designer Persona;
12. Use the Contour Tool to expand the curve;
13. Drag the copied Pixel layer into the Curve layer (in the Layers panel, drag the Pixel layer onto the name of the Curve layer);
14. De-select as necessary.

It takes longer to describe the steps than it takes to actually do them.

(Part of the above is the technique described here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/179630-unexpected-feature-vectorize-a-bitmap-image-directly-in-publisher/ )

[user_0815]

12 hours ago, Gippaloo said:

 I hope this is the right area for this question.  If not please feel free to delete! 

 

Hi everyone! I am currently a complete newbie to any and all vector design programs and I am wanting to make a sticker design to use in my cricut. I was given a tutorial on how to do it but it was recommended I use a vector program to first design the sticker and then send over to cricut to print and cut. I have tried to recreate the below picture in Affinity and I am so lost  I get to the part where I select and fill in the objects and I can't seem to find how to weld them together (step 3). I don't actually know what to do after step 3 either, I am so lost. I've watched a couple of videos on beginner tutorials for Affinity as well and its made me even more confused Would anyone be able to help me out on how to achieve the below picture in Affinity? Thank you so very much to anyone who can help!! I really appreciate it!

 

 

Welcome!

Clip the image to the shape. To do this, drag Ariel on to the shape layer (on the text).

For the white outline I would add a contour.

I don't know what WELD means.

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, cgidesign said:

Result

Step 14 - try Appearance panel.
https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/CurvesShapes/multiStrokesAndFills.html

[cgidesign]

4 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Step 14 - try Appearance panel

Yep, that makes it easier in this case.

[cgidesign]

Another one in APhoto: