littlegrasper Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Hello community, so I wanted to subtract the eyes and mouth from this little ghost to make them "see through". I selected the eyes/mouth and the body, clicked subtract and then this happened (see image below). Affinity subtracted the body instead of the eyes and mouth. It should be the other way around or am I doing something wrong? Every line there is vector drawn by myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Add the pieces you want to subtract from, to make a ‘Curves’ object. Add the pieces to want to subtract, making another ‘Curves’ object. Select both objects and choose the ‘Subject’ command to subtract the top one from the bottom one. firstdefence 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Did you tried to select the other way around in opposite order and then perform a subtract operation? ghost.mp4 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...
littlegrasper Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 8 minutes ago, Eℓƒяє∂ said: Add the pieces you want to subtract from, to make a ‘Curves’ object. Add the pieces to want to subtract, making another ‘Curves’ object. Select both objects and choose the ‘Subject’ command to subtract the top one from the bottom one. Uhm I am afraid I don't follow what do you mean by curves object? 4 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Did you tried to select the other way around in opposite order and then perform a subtract operation? ghost.mp4 Yes I tried it in every possible order. Aber es hilft trotzdem nicht I am beginning to think that theres something wrong with the ghost body, since I cannot subtract anything from the body at all - no matter what shape I am trying to subtract from it. If I create new shapes to test subtraction, it works perfectly fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Check if it's path is closed (if not, node tool and close path), further check the fill mode of that ghost (Ebene -> Füllmodus -> Alternierend/Gewunden) and if appropriate toggle there if necessary. 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...
Alfred Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 1 hour ago, littlegrasper said: Uhm I am afraid I don't follow what do you mean by curves object? A curve (closed or not) is denoted as ‘(Curve)’ in the Layers panel. When you Boolean add two or more non-overlapping ‘Curve’ objects, you get a layer denoted as a ‘(Curves)’ object, the important point being that it’s a single layer which can be subtracted from another layer to yield an object with multiple holes. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 What Elfred, "The Elf that can" means is... Make a ghost face.mp4 Alfred 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.4.1, 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...
firstdefence Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 You might have issues if you have an open curve upload the file and one the Affinity Elves will take a look. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.4.1, 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...
littlegrasper Posted December 26, 2018 Author Share Posted December 26, 2018 so sorry for the late reply guys. i havent had proper internet here in a few days (living in the philippines currently) as far as i can tell, the ghost body is closed. i have uploaded the file, if any of you wonderful elves can take a look i'd deeply appreciate it =) GHOST logo naked.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Sorted it. you had two points where the paths crossed over. Before After Before After Paths cross at arrowed points Tada lol! GHOST logo naked.afphoto Saved with history so you can jog back and forth in the history panel. Its the last part that I clicked what was going off with the path/curve Alfred 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.4.1, 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...
APRusticCreations Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 I hope you can help me! I'm brand new to this forum and to Affinity Designer, but I have made few logos and other designs in past using AI. The problem i'm running into is not being able to "hollow" out the text i'm using in my design (for a t-shirt). I created the vector image and want the text to lay over top, but hollowed out so that it's transparent and i'm able to see base color of the t-shirt through the text. When I try following steps for the subtract feature, it's ghosted out. Here's what i'm doing: selecting the text > layers > convert curves > select the base layer I want to cut through, then go up and click subtract. However, subtract is ghosted out as previously mentioned. Can someone help me? I may have missed a step, but I was working on this last night, so if I did miss a step in this post, that step didn't work either. lol. Thank you in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Like this? - Artistic Text with no fill color and just an applied contour color ... 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...
APRusticCreations Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 no help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 When you subtract the text from the background you’re punching a set of text-shaped holes. Each hole is an entire letter, not just its outline, so before you perform the subtraction you need to duplicate the text in order to be able to see the white outline afterwards. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APRusticCreations Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Thank you!!!! Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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