codyf23 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Hey everyone! I'm trying to figure out how to take the text that I have on my image, and instead, cut those words out from the image to expose the background. I'm making a logo with a transparent background, and I want the text to expose the color of whatever the backdrop is at the time. I'm new to this, and so I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Thanks! DrainBead and empresita 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 OK, I think I know what you mean. You want the letters to act like pastry cutters, and leave letter shaped holes. If this is the case, then is sounds like Bolean operation, using the subtract function. This is something I have yet to master myself. If you ask one of these for help then you should get the desired results: cartoonmike, MEB, MattP. There is also a video at vimeo that shows how to do something similar to this. HTH. https://app.box.com/...7u2wscuxxra1e1y is well recommended: the pumpkin tutorial. Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 15, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 15, 2015 There's several ways to achieve this. Here's the easiest: 1 - put your text above your image 2 - change the blend mode of the text to erase (the drop down on the top of the layers panel). The text is still editable. Optionally you can select both the image and the text and group them (to make it easier to move as a single object). APPLIOrg, TenStrikes and photogeek 3 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codyf23 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Awesome! Thank you both!! I really appreciate both of your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Dierolf Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 There's several ways to achieve this. Here's the easiest: 1 - put your text above your image 2 - change the blend mode of the text to erase (the drop down on the top of the layers panel). The text is still editable. Optionally you can select both the image and the text and group them (to make it easier to move as a single object). Without grouping it doesn't work for me in the latest beta, but grouped it is perfect. Thanks! :) Quote iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), i7 4.2, Radeon 580 Pro 8 GB, 40 GB DDR4-RAM, 1 TB Flash, macOS 10.14.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 16, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 16, 2015 It does work without grouping too. Just make sure both objects are inside their own layer, so that the erase blend effect is only applied to the image below the text. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom999777 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 After applying this method I am able on a transparent background I am able to see the patches applied in blending (erase) mode. Can you please explain how to leave 100% transparent background after applying your method. May be it is a bug? Thank you for your help. Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 7, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 7, 2016 Hi Alex, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) I'm not sure i understood your question. If you change the Blend mode of a layer to Erase it should leave you with a 100% transparent background (displayed as a checkerboard pattern) - unless the layer is inside a group. In that case it will affect only the other layers inside the group. If you then export your document to a format that supports transparency (like PNG for example), those parts should appear transparent. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom999777 Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Thank you for your quick response. I do see a checkerboard pattern background, the problem starts when I export in svg format for web. On a light grey background I can see "blend mode erase patches" which are not visible in Affinity Designer. They they are white on a light grey background. - [EDIT ] link removed -. This site is under construction. Please do not make it public. The other problem is that the right side patch is displaced. Letter T should have cut under 45 degrees top corner, on exported psd it is shifted to the right side and does not cover end of the letter T and red parallelogram in the top left corner is out of proportions(much bigger) in relation to the text. Thank you. Alex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I do see a checkerboard pattern background, the problem starts when I export in svg format for web. On a light grey background I can see "blend mode erase patches" which are not visible in Affinity Designer. They they are white on a light grey background. Without a screen shot as a reference, it is hard to understand what you mean but is this something other than the web page background color or pattern showing through? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 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...
JimmyJack Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Yeah, seems like Erase isn't being respected by svg export. It's defaulting to white. Log it as a bug. If you need that kind of effect, use one of the other methods :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 8, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hi Alex, Regarding the SVG export: this is expected. Currently it doesn't support other Blend mode other than Normal. Can you provide us the original afdesign file used to export the SVG so we can check the rermaining issues? You can use this link to upload the files to my Dropbox account. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom999777 Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Thank you. It would be really good if you could support it. I use Affinity Designer only to make .svg with a clear backgrounds for websites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom999777 Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I have sent to you two psd, I think with 'w' for web has a displaced patch at the very end. All of them are shown in different font in Chrome and Firefox browsers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom999777 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Do you think that it can be fixed? Waiting a response from you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 11, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 11, 2016 Hi zoom999777, Sorry the delay. Yes it can. I already checked your files and will send you a PM with a sample file in a few moments. [EDIT] PM sent. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom999777 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Thank you. The other big problem I found is that the same .svg containing text is shown in a different font family in Firefox compared to Chrome. I am referring to the same .svg that you were inspecting. As a result of changing font family and style all my efforts of masking part of the first letter failed. Orange background is partially exposed, "dot" is shown, and masking is moved up a bit eating the top part of letter D. Can you please have a look at this problem as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 12, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 12, 2016 Hi Alex, It shows the same font for me in all browsers (see screenshot). But if you want to make sure it will look absolutely the same independent of the font used you can convert the text to curves when exporting the SVG (so all text is converted to paths, no fonts are used). To do this go to File ▸ Export, select SVG (for web) then click on the More button on the bottom of the dialog and check Export text as curves. Then export the file. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom999777 Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Thank you a lot. Now it works as per your instructions!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 13, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 13, 2016 You're welcome ^_^ Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyrtomberlin Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 2 - change the blend mode of the text to erase (the drop down on the top of the layers panel). I assume im just being super stupid, but with the description you left for step 2 i cant understand what drop down you're referring to. When i click the drop down in the layers panel i get one option which is AUTO-SCROLL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyrtomberlin Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Well damn my bad i think i found it, but i doesn't seem to do anything. I'm trying to have the text be the color(s) of the background, is that possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 14, 2018 Staff Share Posted January 14, 2018 Hi caseyrtomberlin, Welcome to Affinity Forums I'm referring to the Blend Mode dropdown (the one you have opened in your screenshot in the Layers panel). If you set it to Erase (you have to scroll the list down to see the Erase Blend mode) the letters will erase everything below them letting you see the background of the document (unless they are placed with the image inside a group - in that case the letters will only delete the image/contents inside that group) Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyrtomberlin Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 1/14/2018 at 5:29 AM, MEB said: Hi caseyrtomberlin, Welcome to Affinity Forums I'm referring to the Blend Mode dropdown (the one you have opened in your screenshot in the Layers panel). If you set it to Erase (you have to scroll the list down to see the Erase Blend mode) the letters will erase everything below them letting you see the background of the document (unless they are placed with the image inside a group - in that case the letters will only delete the image/contents inside that group) My man, thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenStrikes Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 On 1/15/2015 at 1:54 PM, MEB said: There's several ways to achieve this. Here's the easiest: 1 - put your text above your image 2 - change the blend mode of the text to erase (the drop down on the top of the layers panel). The text is still editable. Optionally you can select both the image and the text and group them (to make it easier to move as a single object). This helped me immensely. On the iPad in the layers drop down, if you hit the left arrow next to the word “normal” it immediately negates the text while also allowing further text manipulation. See image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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