Affinity Designer - Smooth curve Tracing
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- A project where I had to trace a Font Logo, where the font was not available. It helps to show the Pen, Node, and Corner tools when creating designs that require smooth flowing lines. This is my personal workflow, hope it assists.
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Excellent Job! Maybe the BEST CZcams training I have EVER watched, good sound, clear voice, good pacing, nice comments about different ways of doing the same processes. Thank you so much!
Been using Affinity Designer for a while, and this is one of the more useful videos I’ve seen (in terms of understanding workflow)! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. That curve tool thing comes in very handy.
Recently Covided out of job and looking for a vector tool without signing my soul over to the devil. Finding Affinity D amazing. Some great tuts for AD out there but yours super easy to follow, no fluff, very pro. Thanks RT!
Thank you so much, the pen tool seems so much easier to work with than Illustrator's pen
Rory, a big thanks from Scotland on releasing an excellent, easy to follow tutorial on the pen tool.
Where others might have left us baffled by talk of beziers, vector paths and fancy maths, you just cut to the chase by presenting a problem and then introducing the best solution: the pen tool.
You have a new subscriber.
Thanks for a clear and concise presentation.
Thanks. Really useful video. I’d always just used the Bézier tools.
Great tutorial, I might make one suggestion though . Instead of using strokes I like to fill in the curve with a bright colour but turn down the opacity, that way you can always see the image you are tracing and you can be more accurate with your paths.
I really liked your method of using the corner tool instead of fiddling with the nodes, definitely going to do that in the future.
AWESOME, Thanks 4 Sharing
Just subscribed, love your AD tutorials, they are by far the most easiest to understand then any other I have watched, TFS!
An EXCELLENT tutorial. Thank you, Rory.
Just the vid i was looking for , god bless!
love your tips great video :)
Thank you Rory, a really clear & informative video. I love your voice, and I had a couple of 'lightbulb' moments watching that! So much better than anything else I've seen, including Affinity themselves (especially now the programs' help files are hard to read and to follow, such a shame after the Serif ones were great). Thank you!!
Thank you, appreciate the feedback.
I’m learning a lot from your videos. Thank you!!
Really enjoyed that. Some good tips in the video.
Nice tutorial. I like your technique. I haven’t used the corner tool before. I usually just change the curves with the points.
Thank you very much for this great video. I love bezier tools but have struggled. I just got Affinity Designer at half price and I am raring to go!
So wonderful all of your videos are marvelous and thank you for great explanations and videos!
those 'throw -away' lines about the middle mouse button were really helpful
you are the best, new subscriber
Another good video, Rory. Thank you.
Great job Rory! Very nice.
Nice! I wasn't aware you could use the corner tool like that
Cool. Thank you
Thank you, very helpful tutorial and much appreciated!
Wonderful! Thank you Rory.
Wow… Something I dreaded to learn... quickly became something that was totally understandable! I agree with the other comment that Serif should be paying you for these videos!
Thank you so much for this helpful Tutorial!
FANTASTIC VIDEO THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL!
thank you!
Love how you teach this! Thank you and God bless!
Great video!
Fine! Thank you!
Thank you so much and may God bless you too!
Thanks :)
Thank you for the tips! New sub 👌
Nice. Thank you sir
Nice Tutorial!
Thanks. Now I can sort out logos for web dev. Very helpful. I am always getting logos that are in bad shape and whose fonts cannot be found. Oh and some clients give mee their logos on PDF!
Nice tutorial, thank you for sharing. Can you do a tutorial on how to distort a word on the top exacly like that one.
Deep dive--great
Instead of moving the line to see what's behind it, you could have created a layer and lines whose opacity is 50% or less. Then the underlying black letters would show through.
Agreed! As I'm new to AD (just got the trio of programs from Affinity last week) and come from Adobe Illustrator (used it for over 20 years but totally not a fan of their subscription model), I've had to redraw logos and text a lot for the tradeshow industry. Not sure if AD has an option of making a template layer like AI does, where you could lock the layer and also lower the opacity. Overall, however, this is a fantastic tutorial and I take my hat off to Rory! =)
Thank you!!
I like Affinity Designer but in this day and age this software should have an auto trace feature like illustrator or Free inkscape. Also AD is seriously lacking in some basic perspective warp tools. If you were to build that bulge text in AD you would spend far more time doing it manually while other software could do it in seconds.
Affinity Photo has perspective warp, Live trace is for wusses.
@@unabashedindividualist6232 it does help sometimes, but it isn't critical
It totally is critical in a design context. If someone says an auto tracer is not critical to efficient designing they aren't doing it professionally.
Affinity does amazing stuff for the price, also keeping in mind that they are currently in version 1. I can't wait to see what will happen with version 2 in the future. Sure, some stuff takes a little bit longer, but for the price it is a great piece of software and since the most 1.8 update is slowly getting closer to Illustrator in terms of functionality
what a beast XD ty man
Nice!
Hello sir, Thank you for the tutorial. But what you showing us is tracing or copying from the text before. What if we want to make a curve from the top at the text? Im not very good at English.
Does anyone know if you can use the perspective tool to create lettering like this?
@Affinity should pay you to do tutorials for them (o:
Mine is the 420th like
how to place images in background layer to trace logo like in adob e illustrator
But in affinity i think you cannot see image in wireframe mode
Why not you lock image to trace better like in adobe illustrator you place image and make it locked templete layer , so you can easily see image edges in outline mode as well
Doesn't Designer have an automatic trace feature like Inkscape? (Trace Bitmap) I purchased Affinity Photo for my raster graphics needs and am new to vector graphics and how to not think in layers as much. The logical choice for consistency with Photo is Designer. Being able to automatically trace an image allows me to focus on the program and learn the features and develop my skills so that I can trace as good as many people who have been doing it got years. Currently it's frustrating to try and trace and very slow.
I believe it's on their product roadmap, but no not yet. As Rory was saying, he doesn't want to use auto-trace from any program for a piece like this where he needs precision and clean lines. This also prevents any need for post-processing to clean up points/paths.
How many years has it been on that roadmap? Too many.
daddy3d1972 agreed. It's not a nice to have. It's a required aspect of mine and most other designers' workflows that I know
Werner Herzog is that you?