2/18/2024 0 Comments Affinity designer trace image![]() Step 9: Final tweaks and preparing for printĪll that’s left to do now is export our image for printing and to use online too. With a bit of experimentation you’ll be able to see some of the texture from the t-shirt blend come through to your design and ultimately end up with a realistic-looking t-shirt mock-up! I found that Multiply is the best option in this case, but see which works best for you. Now the design is in place we just need to go over to the layer blend mode and experiment with some of the options we have there. Artboards are a great way to separate your designs out into different sections and to help to organise your work for future reference too. To do this, make sure you’re in the default Designer Persona, select the Artboard Tool, and click Insert Artboard at the top of the Context Toolbar. It can be beneficial to create separate artboards in many types of design work. One quick and easy way you can do this is to group together the line areas of your design, along with your separated coloured layers by selecting them on the Layers Panel and going to Layer > Group and then making a duplication of this new group, which you can use to place over the top of your t-shirt mock-up. ![]() Now what we want to do is drag or place our t-shirt image into our document (ideally onto a separate artboard as this will make life easier when we come to export our imagery) and bring our illustrated design on top of the mock-up image. By using the Flood Fill Tool again, you can simply go through the design and fill it with blocks of colour. Part of the print process involves creating separate mesh printing screens for each of the colour layers you are going to print, so by considering that at this stage of the design process you will save yourself a lot of time and also avoid having to redo any of your finished elements.Īs I wanted to create something really bright and eye-catching I decided to use bold colours during this next step. Separating your design into different colours is particularly useful if you intend to screen print your image. We could also break down these new pixel layers into different sections of our design to give ourselves even more flexibility. For this step, I feel it’s really important to make a new Pixel Layer each time we want to change the colour. Now let’s start to add some colour to our design. This will give us complete freedom in the next steps of our design and (more importantly) more flexibility for printing or other purposes in the future! Step 6: Adding colour Now, all we need to do is chose our fill colour from the Colour Panel (I’m using black for this example as it will come in handy further down the line), zoom into our drawing and simply click on the inked area to instantly create a duplicated version of our design, this time without any background whatsoever. Now we’re in the Pixel Persona we need to create a new Pixel Layer by going to Layer > New Pixel Layer or by clicking on the little chequered icon at the bottom of our Layer Panel (ensuring that the new layer is placed above our inked drawing layer), then we need to grab the Flood Fill Tool from the Tools Panel to the left-hand side of our document. This enables us to use a different set of tools to digitise our image. Firstly, we need to head over to the top left corner of our screen and switch to the Pixel Persona. The benefit of this route is that it instantly turns your design into a highly contrasting black and white image that can be used to great-effect, especially if you’re trying to avoid lighter marks or pencil lines being included your design. Sometimes this can result in a slightly harsher image, but if that is the look you’re after, this might be the best option to try. What we want to end up with is a very clear separation between our drawn ink lines and the blank parts of our paper.Īlternatively, the Threshold Adjustment can be used to achieve this effect. ![]() Now we have the dialog open we can tweak the settings to create more contrast in the image. We can do this by selecting our layer on the Layers Panel, and by going to Layer > New Adjustment > Brightness/Contrast or by clicking on the Adjustments icon within the Layers Panel too.
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