AFFINITY CONVERT IMAGE TO VECTOR PLUS

In this case, our bottom part of the cupcake is done. So, make sure you have created what you need on that layer before clicking on another tool. If you click back on the Pen tool, a new layer will be created. Clicking on another tool will deselect the layer. You can switch to the Node tool or Transform tool and edit the nodes if needed. If you add a node that creates a curved path instead of a straight line, click back on the last node to change it to a square, then carry on to add the next node. Carry on to add nodes around the bottom half of the cupcake until you come back to the first node. Click to place the first node, then click + drag to place the second node and curve the line. With the Pen active, begin “drawing” the bottom of the cupcake.

Next to this, click on the Stroke menu and select a color (we went with a red color).

Do this by going to the top panel, on the left side corner of the screen.Ĭlick on the Fill menu, then click on the No Fill circle with a red line through it. Next, remove the fill and change the pen color. Now we are ready to start tracing the design and convert the JPG to an SVG! Step 2 - Draw with the Pen ToolĬlick on the Pen tool on the left-side panel. Just above the Layers panel, click on the drop-down menu for the Opacity and lower to 50%. When working with the Pen tool, we want to be able to see where we are drawing. If you are working with an image that contains quite a bit of detail including shading, increase the Brightness and Contrast to make it easier to trace. You will be unable to edit the Vector Crop Tool afterwards as this is a destructive action. Right-click the layer and select Rasterize & Trim. Next, go to the Layers panel on the right-hand side of the screen. You can use the Vector Crop tool to crop out the rest of the image and leave only the one cupcake. We are using a JPEG image file that contains a few different cupcake designs on it. Open the design in Affinity Designer by going to File > Open and then locating your design. Step 1 - Prepare the Design you Want to Traceīefore we can begin “tracing” the design, we need to prepare it first. We are using Affinity Designer 2.1 during this tutorial but you should be able to follow if you are using a previous version. You can then save the trace as an SVG and open it in Affinity Designer. We do have a quicker option where you can trace in Inkscape and then add a color fill to the traced image. This method does take more time to complete, but you edit the sketch or image exactly as you want. eventually.You would need to manually trace with the Pen tool and then edit the nodes with the Node tool. I think this kind of 'intelligent' auto-tracing is or soon will be possible due to advances in machine learning, & from a few remarks made by one of the developers around a year ago, this is what they would like to add to Affinity Designer.

While some of the existing auto-tracers can, with a certain amount of human input, do a half way decent job of minimizing excessive node creation while still preserving a usable amount of path detail, I have yet to find one capable of grouping & stacking shape layers into the kind of parent/child object hierarchies humans typically create to simplify editing complex documents, or recognizing that a single gradient-filled shape could be substituted for a dozen or more overlaid shapes of different colors, or that a variable width stroke on a single shape would be better than overlaying smaller shapes on a larger one to achieve the same look.

AFFINITY CONVERT IMAGE TO VECTOR PLUS

The other advantage is you have total control over your art instead of what amounts to a random guesstimate of the art you want tracing, plus you'd probably spend as much time tweaking the trace as if you done it from scratch.

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