akshtray Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Hi guys, I recently (last week) purchased both Designer and Photo. I am more of a general hobbyist who plans on using these a few times a year to do some simple Game Day Thread boards for my Hockey and Football forums. I have used Photoshop for these in the past and given my scarce usage I moved to Affinity. Back to the topic at hand, I am trying to create a simple chalkboard in Designer so that I can use it as a background for displaying some simple player statistics. Does anyone have steps on how to create a chalkboard background/gradient in Designer? It would help me out a lot if someone could provide me with this information. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Welcome to the forum! Some longer time ago I was using some chalk like brushes for little artworks and used as backgrounds some chalkboard images, since those mostly look more realistic here in this regard. However there are also a bunch of vector based drawn chalkboards available on the net, which you can take a look on as a starting point how those are drawn (take a look through their layers etc.). - Below is such a vector based one you can take a look on. chalkboard.afdesign akshtray and Wosven 1 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshtray Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 Just now, v_kyr said: Welcome to the forum! Some longer time ago I was using some chalk like brushes for little artworks and used as backgrounds some chalkboard images, since those mostly look more realistic here in this regard. However there are also a bunch of vector based drawn chalkboards available on the net, which you can take a look on as a starting point how those are drawn (take a look through their layers etc.). - Below is such a vector based one you can take a look on. chalkboard.afdesign Thanks @v_kyr I will check them out. I just did spend some money at the Creative Market store and also purchased a chalk font package that comes with vector based backgrounds but it would be nice to learn how to create such backgrounds .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Hello akshtray, You can draw a black rectangle and cross it out with thick white lines, reduced opacity and playing with the blend to simulate sponge or eraser cloth strokes. The whole thing therefore remains vectorial. I just did a quick test, the wooden frame is not really vectorial since I used a style, but the rest is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akshtray Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 8 minutes ago, reglico said: Hello akshtray, You can draw a black rectangle and cross it out with thick white lines, reduced opacity and playing with the blend to simulate sponge or eraser cloth strokes. The whole thing therefore remains vectorial. I just did a quick test, the wooden frame is not really vectorial since I used a style, but the rest is. Excellent. And thanks! Will give this a go as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Thanks for your feedback! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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