BLine5 Posted April 14, 2019 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
Aammppaa Posted April 14, 2019 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
BLine5 Posted April 14, 2019 Author 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
Aammppaa Posted April 14, 2019 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
macrumpton Posted March 2, 2021 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
firstdefence Posted March 2, 2021 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
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