Finally converted all of the Bitcoin White Paper’s charts and math formulas into vector outline art objects for a poster layout. Pulled each chart/formula directly from the Bitcoin White Paper PDF and pasted into Affinity Designer. Then outlined all text, expand stroke on all strokes, made sure all grouped objects were ungrouped, then selected all…
Direct-to-garment (DTG) printing alert for semi-transparent artwork on dark colored tees. I originally had a beautiful gradient from orange to transparent, which would allow the text to gradient from orange to the color of the shirt. Except direct-to-garment (DTG) printing can’t accommodate any transparency in the artwork when the artwork is being printed on dark…
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Three examples of Bitcoin t-shirt “preview” images for when WooCommerce products are shared on social media. Yoast SEO‘s WordPress plugin makes these images easy to attach to each product. Model t-shirt mockups (with transparent background) generated with Printful‘s Design Maker. Layout using Affinity Designer. Final designs exported from Affinity Designer to JPEG format with Quality…
Now that I’ve spent time meticulously drawing a cowboy boot in Affinity Designer for an Every Floor Is A Dance Floor™ t-shirt, I’m getting deeper into the actual design profile of a cowboy boot. Cowboy Boots Hub has an excellent article, Everything You Need To Know About Cowboy Boots, showcasing 5 different design styles as…
The goal is to make vertical text on a curved path. But since Affinity Designer doesn’t have a straight-forward way of accomplishing this effect we need to jump through a few hoops: Starting in Affinity Designer Making text outlined Switching to Affinity Photo and using the Warp Tool Switching back to Affinity Designer Warnings: Converting…
While this post shows how to export high resolution in Affinity Designer, it is specifically about transforming tall 12″ X 16″ 300dpi high-resolution t-shirt vector art into square 300px X 300px 72ppi low-resolution PNG graphic for the Web (while maintaining the best quality at the smaller 300px 72ppi size). NOTE: the first step, “Make dimensions…
The goal was to distort the perspective of vector art in Affinity Designer. Unfortunately, the Distort Perspective tool is only available in Affinity Photo (which transforms the original vector art into raster art). This is not ideal. I wanted to distort the perspective of vector art like I could in Adobe Illustrator, not end up…
Converting a PSD/PNG file to Vector Have old Photoshop (PSD) and PNG files that need to be converted to vector so I can manipulate them in Affinity Designer. Commenter recommend Convertio. The following process gave me a vector file that’s really close to final. Upload Photoshop PSD/PNG file to Convertio In the “to” dropdown, choose:…