3D Vector Text - Affinity Designer

[@OlivioSarikas]

What Affinity Designer tutorial do you want to see next? :)

[@TheChameleon2008]

more Affinity Designer on the ipad :)(

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Square, i don't have a iPad ;)

[@TheChameleon2008]

@@OlivioSarikas Oh, really? Because Affinity Designer is so awesome on the iPad and working directly on the screen is such a blessing :) Hope you will get more subscribers to that you will get more Ad money so that 1 day you can try Affinity on the iPad!

[@Darkgrass]

@@TheChameleon2008 You can look up the artist called Jhonatan S Silva, who does AD tutorials on iPad - he is pretty good.

[@accessibleavatar]

@@TheChameleon2008 Most users are on desktop.I have low vision and nbo moaney so ipad stuff is out for me

[@tonybrookes4524]

Just a quick tip with snapping I find useful. If you're trying to connect a point to another point and it's not snapping, quickly select the destination shape, before going back and moving the point. Affinity Designer seems to remember and snaps to it. I use this trick often. Thanks for the vids. I've picked up a few good tricks off you especially with Affinity Photo.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Tony. That's a awesome tip :)

[@timclayton8214]

I am so glad I found this channel as I just got AD for desktop - and your beard is amazing!

[@rizalabuahmad]

Nice tutorial sir ... thanks for sharing

[@NeoFighterX]

Great video - thank you! I found that holding down shift, while dragging the node upwards helps a lot as it sends it straight up with good tolerance for moving the mouse left-right by a few degrees. Brilliant thanks again.

[@andyml1]

Another great tutorial Olivio - Bravo!

[@helenmcloughlin4671]

Thank you Olivio, nice clear video. I'd like to see a video where the text is in a hole, like cut into the background. Thanks

[@janghyun8322]

Thank you for a good lecture. ^^ I have a question. After copying text, press Command + J button Overlays existing text layers. Text spacing does not automatically occur. Is there something missing in the lab? Perhaps After duplicating text, press Command + J button Shift + cursor repeatedly?

[@galfarrero4619]

this was super helpful. ❤️

[@HediJ86]

same problem here

[@minibricks5274]

thanks for the video man, much appreciated. Keep up the good videos.

[@OlivioSarikas]

You are welcome my friend 👍

[@error.418]

Switch your snapping mode to Curve Drawing and you'll get nice node snapping

[@vampirndl2602]

Hello Olivio, thanks for the tutorial. The first way does not work for me. I am duplicating the word, then moving it slightly. But when I click CTRL + J, I can see that it is duplicating the layers in the layers window, however, the "stack" of words does not get higher in the drawing window. I followed your instructions step by step and I don't understand what I do wrong. Maybe you have an idea where I make the mistake? Or maybe any other person? I am quite new to affinity designer so I'm sure that I make a mistake but I don't know which one... I'm grateful for any help! Thanks in advance!

[@GMonge-mj5ef]

Same thing happened to me!

[@KJFirestarterFilms]

When press control J it doesent stack up in height?

[@tinman6182]

I would like to see how to get the icing trim running down the side or the front of on a cake

[@GMonge-mj5ef]

I pressed CTL + J and my layer did not rise, even though the layers duplicated. What am I doing wrong?

[@KJFirestarterFilms]

Yeah having the same problem!

[@anthonywarner3610]

Absolutely Brilliant, would never have worked that out by myself.

[@OlivioSarikas]

you are welcome :)

[@emmanuelrehbanibeats]

Thanks Olivio. I didn't know about CTRL+J

[@hollownights6946]

Hey man I can’t see studio on view window to click Isometric, it’s proper frustrating can any help???

[@adrienleblanc8240]

Hello ! First of all, nice work for the quality of the video, the tutorial, and the efficiency of the tips you're showing. I'm tying to replicate this affect so I duplicated my text and moved it to the side and when I press cmd + j, it duplicates my text but it's just behind it and it doesn't go on the side ... Maybe you could help me with this problem. I found a solution by moving the duplicated text one by one but it's uneven and very long.. I would really appreciate if you could give me an answer to this problem .. 😉 thank you !

[@wilburgarcia2011]

Congratulations for the video. Won another subscriber from Brazil.

[@tjorgensen2007]

This video is really cool. love this thank you

[@OlivioSarikas]

thank you very much :)

[@alainadamski7703]

Thank you Olivio , it was simple but very good effects.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Alain :)

[@businesseXpress1]

Hello, I have tried many times to make this work but when I get to selecting the bottom layer with the node tool it jumps up to the next layer without any nodes?? My version 1.8.5.703 maybe the video is different? All very frustrating!!

[@OlivioSarikas]

try locking the other layers, so you can't click on them

[@businesseXpress1]

@@OlivioSarikas Hello again, Thanks for the info but it still doesn't seem to work for me, so I have sent it to my contact at Affinity support to see if he can see what is wrong. It is probably me: I put it down to old age!! It usually takes a couple of days to get a response; I will let you know if I get it working. Regards Trevor

[@CindyLeeWatts]

Thank you for this tutorial, it is so easy to follow and exactly what I was looking for. I'll definitely follow.

[@Darkgrass]

Neat ideas for creating 3D text effect. By the way, I'd like to see how you create & save styles in Affinity Designer or Photo, and apply them to any drawn shapes. Thanks!

[@OlivioSarikas]

great idea, i will write it down for my next tuts. thank you :)

[@traceymahoney6958]

awesome tutorial thank you

[@OlivioSarikas]

You're welcome!

[@kevinmichel2765]

HOW WOULD YOU TAKE A TEXT AND MAKE IT WHERE IT HAS TO HAVE VECTORS FOR A SIGN COMPANY. I HAVE AFINITY PUBLISHER, PHOTO AND DESIGNER AND I THOUGHT IT WAS AUTOMATIC THE MOMENT THE TEXT WAS CREATED IN PHOTO.

[@MikeAttanasiofoto]

Great video Olivio... When I press control J the next layers don't move... Do you know why?

[@OlivioSarikas]

hi michael, sometimes it doesn't work right away. delete the layer again, make a dublicate and move that dublicate as intended, then right away press CTRL+J as often as you need it

[@MikeAttanasiofoto]

@@OlivioSarikas thank you for your reply!!!!!! Will give it a try. again, love the videos too.

[@FifaInspected]

@@OlivioSarikas Hi Olivio. I'm having the same problem with the layers not moving when pressing Control J. I've had similar issues with previous videos where you would use the same process. I've never been able to make the layers automatically move with control J. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[@Compileideas]

Amazing tutorial, Thanks for sharing !!!

[@leeshands719]

Outstanding... as always! You continue to amaze me with your knowledge of Affinity Photo AND designer. Thank you so very much for your awesome videos!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Happy i could help, Lee

[@chinyere215]

Would you please show us how to import re made gradients & vector sets from PDF's. assets. thank you

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi David, what do you mean by "re made gradients"? Do you colorpick them from the PDF? You can save gradients as "swatches", save, export and import them.

[@chinyere215]

@@OlivioSarikas thank you for responding to my comment. Let me try to explain my question a little better. I downloaded 600 gradients from Deviantart the came in a grid 20x60. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to import them into Designer

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi David, as far as i know you need to color-pick them individually by hand. there is no automatic way to do that at the moment. sorry

[@chinyere215]

@@OlivioSarikas I was afraid that may be the verdict. I have a lot of color picking ahead of me 😕

[@thomasvansciver9158]

This one was pretty awesome !! Thanks for sharing this.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Thomas

[@ozpaul2sb]

Nice, Olivio. All I want for Christmas is Affinity Publisher for my iPad Pro and I'll be happy.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Sounds like a plan, Paul. Make it so :)

[@cjc363636]

Hi, Olivio! I'm figuring it wouldn't be that hard to add a texture pixel layer to the letters? Like steel or glass? That would be awesome. And thanks for the tutorial!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi CJC, i made a tutorial about that. Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3i5fGRtdtOCjMU

[@teejayjoyce6118]

hi i found this an excellent tutorial i learned so much without realizing it

[@RiccardoPareschi]

Thanks Olivio, I've learn a couple of interesting things.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Happy you like the video, Riccardo :)

[@joshuacoppersmith]

Great ideas. Multiple strokes under Appearance could also add some flair. Not a criticism at all (you should hear my German), but English actually uses uppermost rather than most upper...it's an exception used with the direction words like bottom, top, upper, lower, etc.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Great Idea, Thank you for the feedback, Joshua :)

[@accessibleavatar]

Wow! Amazing! Thank you! A Tute Suggestion: How to COMBINE text WITHOUT is filling the holes in letters like the A B D etc. I tried so many times. converting to curves then ADDING. The only way I get around it at the moment is by combining 2 letters. save as svg then combine next letter etc. Even then it comes out crap! I want to start creating images for cutting machines.. as well as looking rather amazing as image art too. Thank you so much! Angela

[@SebTheFatCat]

you could try using a mask to removing the extra that is within the holes

[@accessibleavatar]

@@SebTheFatCat That would take too much time when creating many designs.Also I will need to understand how it is done

[@OlivioSarikas]

hi Angela, you should be able to copy the text layer then use "mask to below" (via right click the layer) to create a mask from the text layer

[@cheungirisful]

Thank you very much

[@lowien_loslaufenandlostpl]

That is perfectly good

[@abdullahakpinar334]

so sad, that there is no 3d extrude implemented per default..

[@adisgodona]

hey thanks for leting us mention the toto we need , i am nrew user to affinity i am highly recomanding youto do a good detail totorail , " how to make film poster " in affinity photo or afffinity what ever

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Cinema, I was thinking about recreating some Netflix Movie Covers. Maybe that's something for you. Movie posters seems a bit too niche. Not sure many people do them outside of the movie industry ;)

[@allesfurdiefamilie6958]

Thank you

[@thisisgrounded4777]

thats a very complet tutorial man. nice! keep it up ;)

[@yayoferreira]

boom, super video

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Yayo

[@CarlSurry]

Very good, well done.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Carl :)

[@artokmt]

Still I hope they add blend or some tool to do that still little faster.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Blend would be awesome and make this so much faster and more dynamic :)

[@m.p-o2278]

great video, thanks for the information, thats very helpful :-)

[@arieltaylormo3111]

Text styles, please! Thanks.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, I have multiple videos on Text Styles for Affinity Photo. Have a look if they help (a lot of things that work in Photo, work the same way Designer)

[@Sandeepmanila]

THANKS

[@capemay2177]

Amazing

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Ali

[@capemay2177]

🌹

[@hellobraundesign]

COOL ! ;)

[@jonaswachholz39]

so i think designer is such a good alternative to illustrator, but heres the catch, i littarally cant use it because there is no proper blend tool, i dont understand how such well developed software doesnt have such a key feature, im deeply dissappointet :(

[@bpejinov]

Xara Designer--...1 Click...3D text

[@gunitsa1]

photoshop cc better 3d efekt ..no 100 layer efekt ..

[@PaulaBean]

Ouch, making 20 copies and then having to repair each letter... not really 3D. More like a dropshadow on steroids.

[@OlivioSarikas]

well... 3Dish... obviously Affinity Designer is not a 3D software like blender, so it doesn't have real 3D rendering. But this is a easy effect and if you write the text right the first time, you don't need to repair anything - or if you do, hitting ctrl+j 20 times isn't that much work ;)