INKFANATICS Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 How can i in a simple way outline a graphic object? When i do a text and what it outlined i just chose the "view as lines button" but that dosen´t seam to work with images ( single coloured ones) the image just seams to disappear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 28, 2015 Staff Share Posted April 28, 2015 Hi INKFANATICS, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) That's because the text is a vector object (what you see in Outline view mode is it's geometry) and the image is just a bunch of pixels (you only see the rectangle corresponding to its boundaries in Outline view mode). Those are different types of data. Affinity is able to work with both at the same time. The process to create lines and shapes (geometry) from images is called tracing. You can do it manually, drawing over the image with the Pen Tool, or use an automatic tracing function (not available in Affinity Designer). There's third party software able to do this automatically (transform an image - pixels - into vector data) that you can then import into Affinity. Here's a thread with more information where this is already being discussed. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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