BLine5 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 In Affinity Designer, how do you convert a vector brush stroke to a curve. Yes, the stroke itself is a curve, but with the brush applied it has texture (width, scratches, drop-outs, etc.) in the stroke. I'd like to take the "rendered" vector stroke and convert it to an outline curve (kind of like converting a text letter to a curve). How is this done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 At present it can't be done (easily) in Affinity - because it is just a bitmap image stretched along the path, not a true vector shape. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLine5 Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 Ahhh! That makes sense. So, workaround: Export the brush stroke as a PNG. Use Vectorizer (http://www.purgatorydesign.com/Vectorize/) to convert the PNG to an SVG file. Bring the resultant SVG back into Desiger. Thanks Aammppaa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Yup - That would work Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLine5 Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 Worked like a charm ! Aammppaa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrumpton Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 So I guess there is no equivalent to Adobe Illustrator's vector brushes that put vector shapes along a path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 2 hours ago, macrumpton said: So I guess there is no equivalent to Adobe Illustrator's vector brushes that put vector shapes along a path. Correct, Affinity's vector brushes are a raster image along a vector path so not pure vector, more a hybrid brush. 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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