Giggly Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 I created an ellipse and then changed the stroke to a brush stroke as shown in the attached image. How can I make the stroke ends closer together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Somewhat counterintuitively, you need to open the curve to make the stroke look closed. Select the ellipse, convert to curves and then select a node with the Node Tool and choose the ‘Break Curve’ command. 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...
Pšenda Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 Or modify Brush (Head and Tail Offset). Unfortunately, the rendering of closed curves is not resolved correctly. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giggly Posted June 8, 2019 Author Share Posted June 8, 2019 Hi Alfred, That helped bring the ends a bit closer together. How can I make a complete circle with a brush stroke? Does Psenda's reply mean that it can't currently be done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giggly Posted June 8, 2019 Author Share Posted June 8, 2019 Why does changing Miter from 1.5 to 1 create repeating empty spaces around the outside of the circle in the attached image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giggly Posted June 8, 2019 Author Share Posted June 8, 2019 Can a brush stroke be applied to a dashed line? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 18 minutes ago, Giggly said: Can a brush stroke be applied to a dashed line? Short answer: No. A stroke can either be solid, dashed, have a pressure profile, or a brush stroke. Long answer: Yes. With the addition in 1.7 of the appearance panel it is now possible to do some interesting things, though these sometimes result in a raster image (on export) rather than a pure vector image. To dash a textured brush stroke… Apply Textured stroke. Add a 2nd stroke. Make 2nd stroke dashed, wider than the 1st stroke, above the 1st stroke, with blend mode Erase. Adjust as you see fit. gdenby 1 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...
Giggly Posted June 8, 2019 Author Share Posted June 8, 2019 Thanks for your detailed instructions Aammppaa. I wonder why there isn't a way to create dashed or small repeating brush strokes? Aammppaa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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