Daniel Finch Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Please watch. See below. 1234.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 I think you're doing it back to front. Draw the shape, and make sure you close it ( Press A to get the Node Tool) and drag the first node onto the last node, it should snap and if you move the node the line should not break but bend and distort, With the shape closed you can now drag the UK group to be a child of the shape. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Finch Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 I've got myself really confused. Probably because I haven't played with Affinity Designer for a while. In the example below you can see that the "A" shape is snapped onto the map. The map itself is one image. In the video, as I explained the map is not one image but in three separate parts. What I want to do is make those 3 separate parts one so that I can snap shapes to the map as shown below. Hope that makes more sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Could you not just select all 3 separate parts and use export (Selection without background) or (With Background) to suit, as a PNG file and import that in back into the document. then overlay whatever shapes you need to. You could use the blend modes to colour just the white areas Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 How about grouping all of the shapes? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Finch Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: How about grouping all of the shapes? That doesn't work if I draw a shape over all three separate map parts as only one of them will be covered by the shape I draw. 5 minutes ago, firstdefence said: Could you not just select all 3 separate parts and use export (Selection without background) or (With Background) to suit, as a PNG file and import that in back into the document. then overlay whatever shapes you need to. You could use the blend modes to colour just the white areas I'm not sure you understand what I'm trying to do, despite my best efforts to explain it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 I think my brain has gone to mush to be honest lol, long day at work lol! Daniel Finch 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 12 minutes ago, Mark Clifford said: I'm not sure you understand what I'm trying to do, despite my best efforts to explain it Perhaps you could clarify something that you wrote in your earlier post, Mark: Quote The map itself is one image. In the video, as I explained the map is not one image So is the map one image or not? If you want to crop or clip one shape to three other shapes, don’t group the three shapes: Boolean ‘Add’ them instead. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Finch Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 Second time lucky? ScreenFlow.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Finch Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 4 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said: Boolean ‘Add’ them instead. What does that mean? The map is made up of loads of different parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 15 minutes ago, Mark Clifford said: What does that mean? The map is made up of loads of different parts. Well, yes, that’s the point: the map is made up of multiple objects, but you can only clip to a single object. If you select several Curve objects and ‘Add’ them, the result will be a single Curves object which allows you to do the clipping that you want. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJack Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 @Mark Clifford if the background is a true black, maybe it's easiest just to give your color areas a blend like multiply or add or ... whatever works best (there are a couple more options in there). (the squares below don't necessarily need to be grouped. Nor does the color shape need to be closed. No boolean needed) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 A solution is to use 2 maps: one with strokes for the details, and a white one below with big areas on which you can clip colored parts. royaumeuni23.afdesign Daniel Finch and Alfred 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Finch Posted August 29, 2018 Author Share Posted August 29, 2018 @Wosven Thank you so much for the attachment. It helps A LOT! Wosven 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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