Affinity halftone full#

This again is another great way to build up your design and add more depth to your work, while still staying within the parameters of the Appearance Panel. can work really well together, especially when they’ve been reordered to reveal the widths in different ways.Īnother way we can make the most of the Appearance Panel is by applying a Bitmap fill and then overlaying that with a colour (or even another Bitmap fill if we wanted to!).

Sometimes combining an Align to Centre and an Align to Inside etc. Have fun and experiment with different combinations and different orderings of strokes too.

Affinity halftone full#

With this particular design the majority of our strokes will need to be aligned to the inside of the shape, whereas some of the extras will need to be switched to the outside to give a full range of additional colours and really fill out the space. For this type of design, it’s important to make sure we keep an eye on the individual stroke settings for each colour we’re adding. We can now start to build up our design by alternating the colours and increasing the stroke widths. We can do this by simply selecting our letter and going over to Layer > Convert To Curves. Now we need to convert our character to vector curves so we can apply numerous strokes and fills to its structure. This copies over all of the Appearance Panel information without simply copying the shape itself!įirstly we need to create our letter of choice-for my example, I’ve gone with a nice bold letter A-because it’s the best of all the letters :). Then once we’ve made our new shapes we can simply select them all together and go to Edit > Paste Style.

To save time when creating the next range of shapes in the lineup, we can recreate the same colourful design by copying the shape (easily done by right-clicking on the object and selecting copy). Bear in mind that different shapes may require you to have different settings based on their size and dimensions, so individual tweaks may be needed to keep all of your shapes unified. To change the order and appearance of the strokes we just need to click and drag them to rearrange how they will be displayed next to each other. To achieve the same multi-coloured results as above we simply need to increase each stroke weight as each colour is changed. When multiple strokes have been applied to your design you can switch between your active strokes in order to adjust their individual characteristics. Now you may notice the little white dot to the left of the coloured circle in our Appearance Panel is indicating that our new stroke is now the ‘Active Stroke’. To make our multi-coloured shapes we want to convert the fill to white, then click the + Add Stroke button. Alternatively, by creating a new shape with one of the many Shape Tools in Affinity Designer we can then go over to the Appearance Panel where we can see that by default, we have a grey fill and a black outline stroke (currently set to 0 points).