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How do I add an outline around the whole design?


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Dear all,

 

so I have finished a design that will be printed on grey T-shirts.

I would love to add another small white outline around everything, but everything I try adds outlines to each and every single element so (for example) the blue lighting effect gets lost and the red and the black swoosh get an outline each, but I need one around everything. :-).

 

I bet this is pretty easy to be done, but I don't know how...

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Photo or Designer ?

 

In Photo there is an option to Outline a selection by a given amount. Select > Outline.

 

Obviously, in this case, you would have to select the white background and invert the selection. Select > Invert Pixel Selection

 

I don't know what options are in Designer

Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions.

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I'm assuming the art is all vector work. If so, it is easy. Select all, and make a copy. Group the originals, and lock them. Paste the copies in, and while they ar highlighted, use the boolean add. Change the fill to none, and change the stroke to a white line of whatever size you might need, and have the stroke set to "align stroke to outside" in the stroke dialogue.

 

 

Outline.afdesign

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I'm assuming the art is all vector work. If so, it is easy. Select all, and make a copy. Group the originals, and lock them. Paste the copies in, and while they ar highlighted, use the boolean add. Change the fill to none, and change the stroke to a white line of whatever size you might need, and have the stroke set to "align stroke to outside" in the stroke dialogue.

 

I am so happy for your comment and your help; and the example you provided is exactly what I want to achieve. But what ever I do, when I add a stroke it adds it to each element. As sson as I use the boolean add function, the whole design becomes black :-(

Oh man, I am in trouble, I have to order the t-shirts and these will take 10 working days to be printed... :-o

 

 

Nooooohooo! It was me! I forgott to remove the filling! - Works perfect! Thank you soooo much, gdenby!!!!! :-D

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Glad you got it done. Sometimes its the smallest thing that messes up. I had a program that absolutely had to work for a mass mailing fund raiser. Took me 2 frantic days to realize that I'd used the wrong kind of brackets around one of the expressions.

iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb,  AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb

iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil

Huion WH1409 tablet

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