midiankai Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 I love to jump from illustrator to affinity designer even if it currently lacks "select same color" feature, but what confuses me more is how to prepare color separated files for screen printing? In illustrator i would just go select all shapes, merge them in pathfinder and then using "select same color" just pick them all and separate to different layers. How to do similar stuff in affinity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted August 7, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 7, 2018 Hi @midiankai, Welcome to the forums. You can work with spot and global colours. Select the objects you want to colour, assign a global spot colour to it. When you export, make sure you click on "more" and tick "honour spot colours". Global, Spot and Overprint Colours Thanks, Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midiankai Posted August 7, 2018 Author Share Posted August 7, 2018 6 hours ago, GabrielM said: Hi @midiankai, Welcome to the forums. You can work with spot and global colours. Select the objects you want to colour, assign a global spot colour to it. When you export, make sure you click on "more" and tick "honour spot colours". Global, Spot and Overprint Colours Thanks, Gabe. But how does this answer the color separation question? I mean yes i can assign the spot colors ok, but how dow i separate each color to separate layers to make screens? i need to make somehow stencils with each color without having the other colors underneath it. here's example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 7, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 7, 2018 Hi midiankai, Welcome to Affinity Forums Currently Affinity apps don't support colour separation. AffinityAppMan 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midiankai Posted August 7, 2018 Author Share Posted August 7, 2018 thank you for a reply, is this feature planned? Addition of "merge" bolean command and "select same color" features would solve this completely without any additional specific innovations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 14 hours ago, midiankai said: But how does this answer the color separation question? I mean yes i can assign the spot colors ok, but how dow i separate each color to separate layers to make screens? i need to make somehow stencils with each color without having the other colors underneath it. here's example If you created the White, the Blue, the Grey and the Red as Spot colours, they would output exactly as you show above, each one on a separate film (which would be black) or plate. As long as you tick honour spot colours when you output. Do you need to see them as separate black images in Designer first? Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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