cluelessn00b Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 I'm very green when it comes to artistic design. I need some guidance/high-level steps/approaches. I can then go off and try to do them. I'm willing to put effort but I don't even know where to start. Right now I'm really clueless. I have Affinity Designer on my mac and I also have Affinity Photo on iPad. I'd prefer to do what I want on Designer. Here's what I want to do: I want to create a metallic/grungy text using one of the existing fonts like Garamond etc. Basically, the text would look like a nice movie poster font or a book cover font. I'm not looking to create a new font - I just want to use any existing font but make the text look awesome. I've purchased some nice high-res metallic and grunge backgrounds. So what I need to know is how do I type text, apply those textures to the text-fill, so the text looks like rusty, metallic. If I could put some cracks on the side that would be even more awesome but let me not get ahead of myself considering I'm struggling to even explain what I want, let alone having the talent to do it. I want the text to be vector so I can scale. Some examples of what I mean https://ltheme.com/words-of-lord-psd-text-effect/ http://freephotoshop.org/2011/01/grunge-layer-styles-fx/ I hope I explained it OK... Thank you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 See for example Rust Styles. - You can make your own styles, though you will fill vector text with bitmaps here, thus not all will be kept as vector. Also using FX effects aren't kept all as vector when exported. 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...
cluelessn00b Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 1 23 minutes ago, v_kyr said: See for example Rust Styles. - You can make your own styles, though you will fill vector text with bitmaps here, thus not all will be kept as vector. Also using FX effects aren't kept all as vector when exported. Hi v_kyr, Thank you for responding. How do I fill vector text with bitmaps? Is there a tutorial or an article I can refer to? Please treat me as a completely clueless, untalented beginner - I have a need but need a step or two to get started and explore. Should I look for "how to create text styles" or "how to fill text with bitmaps" or something like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 There are different ways for filling text or shapes/curves with a bitmap/image. - Here are some tutorials ... How to Add an Image into Text using Affinity Designer How to put images inside text in Affinity Designer | Photo Text Effect AD - Create text with images inside ... Styles ... Affinity Designer - Tutorial 17 - Effects and Styles Paletes Tutorial Styles, Affinity Designer + Affinity Photo Making Glitter and Metallic Styles pt 01 (same procedure in AD) Affinity Photo and Designer - Add Extra Styles 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...
cluelessn00b Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 You are awesome! Thank you so much. There goes many hours of my life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 There are some more tutorial and help resources you can get valuable informations from ... Official Affinity Designer Video Tutorials (70+) Official Affinity Photo (Desktop) Tutorials Official Affinity Photo (iPad) Tutorials Access Photo & Designer Online Help here: https://affinity.help Affinity Quick Reference 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...
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