Bryce Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 I saw this PDF recently of a logo that is brought into Corel Draw and it turned it into a screen. Not only that but it made it vector (earth isn't vector) when the original wasn't. Anyhow, I was wondering how you could make something like this effect in Designer. Any ideas? Thanks!Corel Draw 2018 Pointillizer Tool.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Looks like a halftone to me. 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...
Bryce Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 Essecntially that's what it is but how do you do that in Affinity Designer and keep it vector? What you are showing is quite a bit different than what I included. You have black dots inside subway mask. The one I posted was the color was all the dots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 You could make a grid of dots using power duplicate (Cmd + J) and make that grid a child of each letter or word. 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...
Guest Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Hello Bryce, I made a square full of blackheads that I recorded in the Assets. simply change the color for each use with a different color. The whole thing remains vectorial and can be resized without any problem. Then just proceed as @firstdefence said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Just make a pattern of circles the style you want, single fill color, gradient, glow etc. Arrange them in the way you want and use that pattern for filling later. 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...
firstdefence Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 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...
PixelPest Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Close but still not 100% of what the pointilizer does - not sure if it´s vector based or an image filter though: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 I use a similar method for vector pattern generation, its called Patternodes awesome app. The pointiliser tool/extension is a vector based pattern generator as far as I am aware. 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...
gdenby Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 My try. More than a few short comings w. the image approximation. Way back in the 90's, I wrote lots of routines using Corel's scripting language, but that was switched to VBA around 2000, and I really didn't want to re-code a few thousand lines, so I stopped. My recollection is that it would have been rather trivial to draw a series of rectangles as selections. At the time, I don't recall an average pixel filter. Also, I don't think the vectorizer could change the selected area to a color, only a grey scale. Assuming those are now available to call, no big deal. I don't use A-Photo enough to know if there is a way to automate an area selection to make a series of averaged dots. Those would still not be vectorized, but a bitmap derived from such an image image would be a start. My apologies to whoever made the photo of the baby tortise. I don't have any reference, so I can't give credit. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 AP doesn't create dots (it's difficult to have round ones, and the result won't be regular after creating halftones in AP and vectorising in Inkscape). But there's online tools or apps: Rasterbator (online or as a Windows app) HalftonePro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 4 hours ago, Wosven said: AP doesn't create dots (it's difficult to have round ones, and the result won't be regular after creating halftones in AP and vectorising in Inkscape). But it offers shapes (convert to curves) too, which can be arranged to vector patterns. 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...
Wosven Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 3 hours ago, v_kyr said: But it offers shapes (convert to curves) too Yes, but the interesting point, that make it a special effect instead of a dots mask is the smaller dots we can see with the logo (strangely not with the earth). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 @Wosven The smaller dots will be because a small amount of blurring was added. Screenshot fro Vectoraster (Mac) Vectoraster.pdf 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...
Bryce Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 Vectoraster seems to be doing just what I was thinking. Can you change the LPI and the angle? Also, I don't see a website for it other than download sites (which some are less than reputable). Do you know what the website is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 6 minutes ago, Bryce said: Vectoraster seems to be doing just what I was thinking. Can you change the LPI and the angle? Also, I don't see a website for it other than download sites (which some are less than reputable). Do you know what the website is? It´s from here afaik: https://www.lostminds.com/products/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 1 hour ago, PixelPest said: It´s from here afaik: https://www.lostminds.com/products/ @Bryce Yes that's the creators website: https://www.lostminds.com they also do Patternodes another app I have that is pretty cool. There is no specific LPI input but you can adjust the spacing which will increase the density of the pattern. I've done a quick screen grab composite to show you the menu's 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...
Bryce Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 It got it and it looks pretty good! How do you keep the color in the logo? I can see this will be very helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Under Point Fill check "Use Source" 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...
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