WillAdams
November 9, 2020, 5:43pm
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Unfortunately, Serif’s Affinity Designer doesn’t have auto-tracing — not sure if Affinity Photo has a path option or no (it should, but I suspect like Photoshop it would be a matter of exporting and then importing into Affinity Designer (in lieu of Adobe Illustrator).
I did a tutorial on this sort of thing at:
c.f.,
If one only has a pixel image:
[image003]
then one has three options:
auto-tracing — EDIT: Carbide Create has since gained this feature: Carbide Create - Image Tracing
using the pixel image using a tool such as MeshCAM or Carbide Create Pro’s texture feature
re-drawing — this is a tutorial on this:
Begin by going to Job Setup and setting the Stock Size and importing the image onto the background:
[image]
or
@Bonch has a project which requires this very charming image:
[WoodlandKidsLogo_BW]
which is only available as a pixel image.
Re-drawing it should be straight-forward:
First, launch Carbide Create, create a stock area of the correct proportion, and import the pixel image and size it appropriately:
[image]
EDIT: Alternately, one could use the new Image Tracing feature: