AD v1.5: Vector curve to outline

[DNA1977]

Hi,

 

I'm total noob to illustrator and learning things through forums and youtube until last week I stubble upon Affinity Designer. It's awesome as it doesn't have subscription, but I don't know how good it is as compared to Adobe Illustrator.

 

Anyhow, I'm trying to make a 3D-effect text logo. I couldn't find the font that would emulate the text design I'm looking for. So, I chose to use Pen tool to "write" the logo (not making the outline of the text). Once I wrote the logo I increased the size of "outline" and it looked exactly the way I wanted.

 

The problem now is that this logo is in "line" so I can't fill it with colours or make 3D effect. I thought that if I'd change the logo to "Rasterise" and then convert it back to "curve", I'd then get an outlined logo which I could manipulate. But when I did that there was no option of turning rasterised layer back to curve. :(

 

Other thing I was thinking that make a new rectangle and "subtract" that text logo. Afterwards either I could use another rectangle and then again "subtract" to get a "curve" text logo OR if there is an option to "invert" the selection to get a "curve" logo.

 

Please feel free to give any suggestion.

Thanks

[gdenby]

When you rasterize a vector, the form just becomes dots on the canvas, a bunch of pixels. What you should have tried is the "expand stroke" command. That will create a new set of vector lines at the edge of the stroke. Note that if the stroke is complex, the expanded stroke may have large numbers of points.

[DNA1977]

When you rasterize a vector, the form just becomes dots on the canvas, a bunch of pixels. What you should have tried is the "expand stroke" command. That will create a new set of vector lines at the edge of the stroke. Note that if the stroke is complex, the expanded stroke may have large numbers of points.

 

Brilliant!

 

Thank you gdenby! It worked exactly the way I wanted it :) I have a long way to go learning vector art  :P