photoadele Posted June 28, 2019 Posted June 28, 2019 Hello again! I was given a hand-drawn logo to make into a digital EPS. I used the pen tool to create a black outline. Now I want to fill in with colour and some gradients, but I won't let me. I searched but couldn't find a solution. I've included screenshots to show you the layers(a few of them). Thanks so much! Quote
Staff stokerg Posted July 1, 2019 Staff Posted July 1, 2019 Hi photoadele, How are you trying to apply the fill? I was able to grab the Gradient Fill tool and apply a Gradient fill directly the letter F by dragging over the letter. Same with the letter A. If you want to do this to all the letter, you can try selecting all the letters and then using Layer>Geometry>Xor and this should create one large curve from all the letter and if you click and drag the Fill Tool over these the colour will be applied to everything. If none of that works, can you attach the .afdesign file and i'll take a look at why it might not be working Quote
gdenby Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 From the screen grabs, it looks like the letters are individual objects, and I'd expect to be able to select each or all, and, using the fill pop-out, assign color of gradient. The wall, however is just a collection of lines. Affinity doesn't work like a paint program. To fill an area, it must have a surrounding vector. You might try selecting the outer boundary of the wall, and join the curves w. the node tool. Then that can have a fill, and the brick lines and letters can be on a layer above. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet
PixelPest Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 What works here is to draw each line with the pen tool and a thinner border width stroke than for the end result. After this select all and go Geometrie->Merge. Double that curve element and set back the original stroke width. Select the thinner one below in Layers panel and go context-click: Rasterize... With that layer active go into Pixel Persona mode - grab the Flood Fill tool and fill each element with colours or gradient or whatever. When done export to EPS and the result will be a mix of editable SVG paths with raster image fills - when you can live with that. Cheers photoadele 1 Quote
photoadele Posted July 1, 2019 Author Posted July 1, 2019 Thanks so much! I'm going to try these! Quote
photoadele Posted July 9, 2019 Author Posted July 9, 2019 I don't see the Bucket or Flood Fill tool in this latest version... Quote
photoadele Posted July 9, 2019 Author Posted July 9, 2019 I created a video from my screen to show you what's happening. I'm about to tear my hair out on this...thanks! Screen_Capture_2019-07-09_14_40_37.mov Quote
craiigman Posted July 9, 2019 Posted July 9, 2019 33 minutes ago, photoadele said: I created a video from my screen to show you what's happening. I'm about to tear my hair out on this...thanks! Screen_Capture_2019-07-09_14_40_37.mov Do you have the file? Quote
photoadele Posted July 9, 2019 Author Posted July 9, 2019 3 minutes ago, craiigman said: Do you have the file? I do, would love to see how it's done, because I'm going mad LOL Thanks. Untitled.afdesign Quote
PixelPest Posted July 9, 2019 Posted July 9, 2019 For the first "F"; select and go Layer->Geometry->Divide. Seems you were Expanding Strokes at some point. Cheers Alfred and photoadele 2 Quote
craiigman Posted July 9, 2019 Posted July 9, 2019 36 minutes ago, PixelPest said: For the first "F"; select and go Layer->Geometry->Divide. Seems you were Expanding Strokes at some point. Cheers Good stuff. Out of curiosity, how would you undo expanded strokes or is this the only way? Also what are expanded strokes lol photoadele 1 Quote
PixelPest Posted July 9, 2019 Posted July 9, 2019 Call->Divide then Boolean Add right after - the smaller shape will be swallowed by the larger one. Expanding Stroke is e.g. important when exporting dynamic paths (pressure sensitive). photoadele 1 Quote
photoadele Posted July 10, 2019 Author Posted July 10, 2019 5 hours ago, PixelPest said: For the first "F"; select and go Layer->Geometry->Divide. Seems you were Expanding Strokes at some point. Cheers Thanks, I'll try this <3 Quote
photoadele Posted July 10, 2019 Author Posted July 10, 2019 Almost there, thank you all for your help! I'm trying to get the middle areas of the A and the R to be transparent on that pink wall. The client wants these colours, she wants a "Prince of Bel Air feel". So I'm playing with the gradients, but I'm trying to get them all uniform, I tried to select all the letters at once and apply a gradient, but I'm missing something, so each one looks a bit wonky. PINK WALLGREENLOGO.afdesign Quote
PixelPest Posted July 10, 2019 Posted July 10, 2019 Ok - I did a bit of cleaning up, because there are still doubles all over the place and do 2 Boolean subtraction on "A" and "R" to get the holes back. Then Merge the tag and add 1 gradient + 1 shadow for fun: PINK WALLGREENLOGO 4U.afdesign photoadele 1 Quote
photoadele Posted July 10, 2019 Author Posted July 10, 2019 11 minutes ago, PixelPest said: Ok - I did a bit of cleaning up, because there are still doubles all over the place and do 2 Boolean subtraction on "A" and "R" to get the holes back. Then Merge the tag and add 1 gradient + 1 shadow for fun: PINK WALLGREENLOGO 4U.afdesign THANK YOU so much!!! This software is taking me quite a bit to get the hang of after working with Illustrator....I'm usual this dense.... Quote
adam1762 Posted March 12, 2021 Posted March 12, 2021 On 7/1/2019 at 11:42 AM, stokerg said: Cześć fotoadele, Jak próbujesz wypełnienie? Udało mi się chwycić narzędzie Gradient Fill i wypełnienie gradientem bezpośrednio do F, przeciągając po niej. To samo z literą A. Jeśli chcesz to zrobić z całą literą, możesz testować wszystkie litery, a następnie test Warstwa> Geometria> Xor, co powinno stanowić jedną dużą krzywą z całej litery i jeśli klikniesz i przeciągniesz Wypełnij narzędzie nad nimi, kolor zostanie zastosowany do wszystkiego. Jeśli nic z tego nie działa, czy możesz załączyć plik .afdesign, a ja przyjrzę się, dlaczego może nie działać Select all layers with letters and use "add" and after fill the gradient. Graffiti.afdesign Quote
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