Llaver Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Hi, I'm mostly working with flat single color icons and images. I want to be able to convert these images to curves so I have more ability to manipulate them in Affinity Designer. What I'm doing is opening the the image as a new file in AD. Going to Pixel persona, Select > Select Sampled Color > Invert Pixel Selection. At this point the Icon is completely selected. All of the curves and outlines are selected exactly as I need them to be. How can I convert this from Pixel to Curve form? Atm if I want to be able to change the color I either have to open in another document and do the process over then fill with a color or actually trace it out with the pen tool. Both are incredibly time consuming for such a simple task. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 it is not possible to convert a pixel selection to curves. Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Hi @Llaver & welcome to the forums. The feature you are asking about is sometimes called "autotrace." If you use the search box at the top of the page to search the forums on that word, you will get several results (42 when I just tried it) that among other things suggest alternatives for this feature missing from AD like tools that use the Potrace backend for this or VectorMagic. The Affinity developers have said they may add this feature to Affinity Designer in the future, but only if they can implement it in a way that produces very high quality results. They have not elaborated on what they mean by that other than to say they have some ideas about how to do it. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & 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...
toltec Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 2 hours ago, Llaver said: Hi, I'm mostly working with flat single color icons and images. Atm if I want to be able to change the color I either have to open in another document and do the process over then fill with a color or actually trace it out with the pen tool. If all you want to do is change the colour, depending on the image, you can do that quite easily. e.g. A black and white bitmap. Colour 1 colour 2 Would that help? If so, post an example or two of the sort of things you need to change. Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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