Merge live paint button software#
Merge live paint button professional#

So the Merge command saves a lot of time and tedium. In that common workflow, you don't want any cuts across same-colored regions, because as the vinyl shrinks over time, void slivers appear. One common real-world use case for this is when preparing a design for cutting from sign vinyl. So it results in the minimal individual paths around visually contiguous regions of the same color. It Punches (subtracts) overlapping fills of different colors. It Unions touching (abutting or overlapping) fills of the same color. Illustrator's awkwardly named Merge performs two basic Boolean operations in one move, based on their color: It's possible these things can be done in Designer and I just missed them.

but at some point, I need to be able to flatten and collapse what i have made. Affinity's options to keep things flexible is great. I also need the ability to destructively collapse a pile of vectors for final output. then I grab them all and after expanding them into vector fills, I divide them using pathfinder to be able to select the overlap parts and delete, leaving me a clean intersect edge. When I am inking a cartoon image like this tiger, I use the brush tool to get thin to thick lines and overlap on purpose. I also use the same feature to combine different expanded strokes that were overlapping. Sometimes I use the live paint feature in illustrator, but it's often just as easy to do what I just explained and is shown in the video. I use the Illustrator version of 'merge' to quickly fill in a background color inside a negative space - like in the tiger. I fooled around enough with scissors and glue in First This is an example of what i need Affinity designer to be able to do for explained it well. But they would make sense in Affinity as well. It seems that these features comes at a premium price in other products, though. A computer can combine their work into one single TATJING.

We need more than tools like glue, knife and scissor. The whole point of using a computer is that such tools and features can help and assist the user.

Merge live paint button software#

It is also totally meaningful that the software takes many operations out of the workflow so the creative can focus on being creating. Such tools are invaluable when working on huge illustrations/project where the user makes many, many, many adjustments and shapes.

Merge live paint button professional#

In a professional setup where time is money and the shortest path is always the preferred one such features are greatly appreciated - not to mentioned understood. When applied to three shapes, two of them being the same hue, the Merge action joins the two yellow shapes and trims the outline of the other blue polygon. The Merge pathfinder is similar to that of the Trim command when applied to two multicolored shapes. Merge is in illustrator a 'pathfinder' - an easier way to perform several steps - than all manual: