hey what's going on guys today we're inside of affinity designer and i just want to share a
very quick tip with you how you can create this kind of effect here where we've got part of the
a going over the r and as we get to the bottom and then goes behind the r same as with the t
over here it goes behind and it goes over then it goes back behind this is a really easy technique
and you can use this with shapes as well as text so we're just going to get started with this now
on the new canvas so first of all we're going to come down to our artistic text tool i'm just going
to write out anything that you want to use for me i just write art to make this quick and easy
just re-center that i'm going to grab that move tool just put this into place for the moment into
the center of the screen and if you just double tap on that and select all of it you can change
your whip settings here on your stroke if you want to make it bigger or smaller as well as you could
also come up here to the fonts menu and change a different font to what i've got here as well as
change the size if you want then the next thing we're going to do is we're going to convert all
of this here to curves and we'll do that using this button on the top menu which says convert
to curves so once we select that we'll see we've got a group now inside of here and we've got all
these individual letters and what we need to do is just move this outside of the group because
we don't need it in there so if we just go ahead and hold down command and select each one of those
we can just drag them back up and we'll just delete that group as we don't need it then
we'll just go ahead and give these some different colors so we just change that one to maybe green
i'm gonna make it a bit darker so you guys can see on your screen a little bit better and i'll make
that one blue then from here we're just gonna grab our move tool and we're gonna just place these
where we want them to go so on the r i think i'm going to have that coming around i want to rotate
that a little bit make it a bit more creative and bring that somewhere around there and we'll do
the same with a t maybe just rotate that a little bit and put this roughly where you want it to go
and you can make that big or smaller if you want it's entirely up to you get as creative
as you like so for me i'm going to leave that roughly around there so that is generally the
hard part done now and all we have to do at this point is we just gotta come and grab our no tool
which is this little white triangle there and we just need to break this up and what i mean
by that is we just start selecting a few points here such as one there and just one round here
and we select both of these points that we just created so that one's already in the top blue
so come down to here we hold down shift turn that one blue as well so both of them are now blue
we're going to come up here to the action menu and we're going to select that break curve option
right there and once we hit that if we go over to our menu over on the layers you can see we've
got two pieces here now and all we generally have to do is take this piece that we just cut
and just move that down behind they are so underneath it and you can see now that we've got
that effect where it's going underneath but it's still going over the top of it there and you'll
notice if we zoom in that you do get these little white lines i'm not sure why this happens but to
get rid of that we just simply tap back on that and we can just pull this slightly over the line
and do that on the bottom one as well and it is as simple as that so now you can see it
looks perfect so we're just doing back out again and focus on other pieces that we want to do so
because we've had this one going under and then that's going over this one here can come under
so once again we're just going to break it up so select another point there come down here to
where we know we've cleared the letter underneath it and create another point and we'll select both
for these blue ones again by holding down shift then we'll go back up to the action menu and
we'll break that curve once again we'll come and find that over in the layers menu which will be
that piece there and once again just drag that underneath the r and we've got the same effect
there once again we've got these little white lines but remember we're just going to simply
just draw over that so if we just zoom in and just make that a little bit bigger
and then down here as well pull that over and then that will cover that up for us and zoom back out
again so you can see how it's all coming together now then we'll just focus on the a we don't need
to mess around with the r at all because we can just work with these two letters so if we go on
the a and we decide where we want this to break and over that we'll keep that one overlapped at
the top and this one down here i think we'll break it so we'll put a point in there and the
point here select both of those with shift back up to your action menu break that curve and you'll
notice sometimes on this when you break the curve it will also bring in that middle section there
on some of these letters that doesn't matter as nothing's actually covering that so we can
get away with just moving that anyway and all we need to do now is just bring this one above the r
and then we've got that effect as well where it now goes underneath but it's
over at the top and once again get rid of those little white lies by zooming in
and we just select that piece that we just created and just make that a little bit bigger
just to cover those white lines and that is our problem solved
zoom back out and it is just as simple as that so what we can do now is if we grab all these
blue pieces for instance if we hold down command while selecting these on the mac and i think it
may be alt on the windows pc but i don't use a windows computer so i can't be sure of that so
once we selected all these blue pieces alone if we want to come over here and grab our fill tool and
we're going to the context menu at the top there on the left hand side and change that to stroke we
can just come over here and i'll give that a fill on the stroke there a bit of a gradient to make it
look a little bit more creative and of course we can do that on the r as well so we select that one
make sure we've got the straight selected up there and we can just come in here and put a
stroke on there you can change these colors if you like to make it look a little bit better as well
add additional colors in there if you want to so if you want to make that white in the middle
or kind of like that it's entirely up to you what you want to do with this
and we select those a pieces as well and then we add another gradient on this one
and maybe put another one in the middle here that we did before and change the color on that
so you can see how quick and easy that generally was so if we just go ahead and group
all of this and you do that by selecting the top one holding down shift and selecting
the bottom one and that selects all of those then you hit command or control g
to group now we can come in here and add some effects this may not always come out perfect but
it will give you a good idea such as if we put on 3d now and we make that a little bit bigger
you can see it does look pretty good but where it overlaps here it kind of just merges into the
shape which i don't think looks too bad anyway that's something that you may have to live with
if you want that kind of effect but i kind of like the way that looks anyway or if we just
turn that off and we put a drop shadow on this for instance and we change that to 10 pixels
we can see that we've got the drop shadow around everything else apart from the bits that go
over the top which to me once again that doesn't look too bad it still gets really creative in my
opinion so you are free to do whatever you want with that and experiment a little bit
and we'll just shrink this down for a moment so i can show you it'll work with shapes as well so
as i shrink this you can see that it's got pretty messy and this is something people don't generally
take a lot of notice off but it's important if i just command or control z to undo that
and we come down to our strike menu here we've got this option called scale with object
and if you make sure you always got that checked you're never going to have that problem
so if i try to resize this now the straight will actually adjust with the size that we go down to
as you can see so all stays in one big piece without getting all messed up if we turn that
off and we do it again it's just going to end up breaking like it did before as you can see so just
always make sure you've got a scale with object turned on and it's going to undo that to reapply
it for that to work correctly then you won't have that problem so i'll just move that over there out
the way for the moment and we'll just maybe do something like the olympic rings or something
just to show you can use shapes for this as well and we'll start by grabbing just a few ellipses
so drag that out hold down shift to keep that perfect and we'll make that invisible in the
middle by turning off the fill and we'll give this a stroke just color that blue and make it as big
as you like so 40 is fine on this one as well and we can just be quick with this and just command c
to copy and command v to paste or control c and control v and just move a few of these
out i'm not going to make it perfect i'm just going to get a quick example so you can see it
and i'll just move that one out the way again and we'll just be able to drag this on so you can see
on the screen a little bit better then we'll go ahead and do exactly what we did before with these
if we just select all of them and we're going to then go ahead and convert these to curves up here
then we'll just give these some individual colors so that one could be that color and we'll do that
one that color and just break this up a little bit exact same principle as before now we'll just go
ahead and grab our node tool and we can just start creating points and breaking this up so we put
one here put one here select both of those points and just go up and click on the action menu break
curve once again we've got that piece there now so if we want that to overlap the green is going
to bring it above the green as you can see and if we zoom in we may have that white line there
you can't actually see on that one so that went pretty well so once again it's gone overlapped
and it's gone under at the bottom and we'll do the same over here on the orange one so we select
a point there and the point here will be fine select both for those points break that curve
and then we're just going to move that below the green so it sits underneath and finally
we'll do the blue one and we'll just set some points here so maybe one there and one there
select both of these break that curve and then we're just going to move that below the orange
and we did the same as before just group all this together and you can add your effects
on there as well if you want to just put 3d on there maybe make it a little bit bigger
and remember scale with object make sure you've got that checked so when we come to resize that
it's not going to break as we go smaller or bigger so as you can see you can get some pretty quick
easy effects with this which look pretty good in my personal opinion i think it's best if you
just leave the effects off and we just have it as standard so we can see that it looks a lot nicer
and this is a really good effect to maybe use with your logo or something
simple just with a bit of texture a few circles or shapes so i hope you found this video useful
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