Xara :: Shape Builder And Eraser In Graphics Package

Nov 20, 2012

I have just been trying out the new 2013 Xara and cannot make the eraser or shape builder add to a shape, it seems to be stuck in delete mode.

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Xara :: Shape Builder And Eraser Tools

Mar 1, 2013

Up in the Xara Xone a discussion cropped up that started us talking about the eraser tool. So I thought I'd get a thread going here where everyone can share tips and tricks regarding the eraser and the shape builder as well

The eraser tool is available in Designer Pro X, and Photo & Graphic Designer 2013 And the Shapebuilder is available in Designer Pro X

To start things off here are a couple of handy tips:

You can force the eraser to produce an opacity mask and non destructively edit vector shapes in two ways. 1. set some softness or 2. group your vector object with it's self.

You can use the H key to toggle the node view on and off . If you have Designer Pro X the shift key toggles between the shape builder and eraser tool for handy editing.

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Illustrator :: Shape Builder Vs Pathfinder?

Oct 10, 2012

For combining shapes, isn't the Shape Builder tool essentially the same thing as using Unite in the Pathfinder? Is there some other advantage to using it?

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Illustrator :: How To Check Alt+shape Builder Function

Sep 9, 2013

I'm trying to remove half of a shape (right half of a heart) by covering the right half with a filled rectangle, and drawing across the half of the heart I want to delete and the rectangle with the Shape Builder tool while both shapes are selected and while depressing the alt key. This should remove the heart-half and rectangle, leaving me with the left-hand portion of the heart, so I can copy/flip it for a symmetrical, whole heart.
 
I have removed the guides so there's no interference, and both shapes (heart and rectangle) are selected (both show bull's eyes on the layers panel).
 
I reset Illustrator (opened it while holding down shift+ctrl+alt). Got a message afterward saying my Live Paint Bucket plugin couldn't be found. I can't find any info on the Adobe website about restoring this plugin.
 
I'm running Illustrator CS6 as an app from Creative Cloud.It looks like I need to repair my shape builder and live paint tools?

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Photoshop :: Equivalent To Shape Builder Tool That Illustrator Has In CS6?

Sep 26, 2013

1. Is there an equivalent to the Shape Builder tool that Illustrator has in Photoshop CS6?  I want to rasterize some text and combine a couple letters into one shape.
 
2. If you want to embed text into a .PSD or .TIFF, do both Convert to shape and Rasterize text result in the font/text being embeded in the file the same way?

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Illustrator :: Building New Shapes Using Shape Builder Tool?

Nov 12, 2012

Building new shapes using the Shape Builder tool?

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Illustrator :: How To Join Two Letters Using Shape Builder Tool

Oct 3, 2013

I am making a sign for my logo. The 'i' in my script face is long and overlaps the following letter which the sign maker's router will not read. So I would like to be able to use the shape builder tool to join the 3 instances where the letter 'i' appears each to the following letter. No luck so far. I have turned the type into points. I have highlighted the first instance, 'i' and 'c'. but the shape builder tool shows a circle with a line through it... not working.

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Xara :: Make Cone Shape In Photo And Graphics Designer 2013?

Jan 1, 2013

Is there a simple way to make a cone shape in Xara Photo and Graphics designer 2013? I need to make a cone that can be extruded and shaped sort of like this?

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Illustrator :: Dark Path Edges After Using Shape Builder Tool Or Masking Objects

Aug 12, 2013

i have a problem with path edges after using shape builder tool or masking objects. This problem occurs when i draw bright colored objects above dark colored object. After that i have dark path's edges. Like this: [URL] I have one solution (pathfinder->dive objects and delete some dark elements on the bottom).

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Paint.NET :: Different Shape For Eraser

Sep 1, 2012

Can there be an square eraser ? Sometimes, when I do erase, being that its circular, doesn't matter the size, its harder for me to edge out the straight lines, especially the corners, leaving me with a "dent" in the pic.

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Xara :: Using Magic Eraser In PGD2013?

Sep 12, 2012

I have been trying to remove text from photograph but unsuccessfully using the Magic Eraser. I have a photo of my nephew with the text over the image, I am not about infringe copyright but using the image as an exercise. I will not be printing the image. I wondered whether others had success in suing the tool as the videos displaying the tool all seem to generate unbelievable results. Is it just the various grey tones on my nephew's pullover that make it too difficult perhaps?

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Photoshop :: Possible To Make Custom Shape Eraser

Aug 11, 2012

It is possible to make a custom shape eraser in Photoshop? If not, do you get any plugins for that? Currently I only use a circle for erasing pixels.

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Xara :: Can't Locate The Magic Eraser Tool

Sep 20, 2011

I just bought Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7. I can't locate the Magic Eraser tool.

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Xara :: Converting Ripple Shape To Bitmap Copy And Then Slicing Shape

Jan 4, 2012

I just read the thread the thread "...plus ask about erasers" but it doesn't answer my question about combining shapes to remove unwanted portions - or at least I didn't quite understand it. Here's my issue. I've created a nice "background" image with ripples and live effects, but it has gaps, and isn'tthe right shape. I need to erase parts of it and clip it to the right shape, but every time I try to do this using the slice tool, it puts the gaps back into the image! Attached is my image and the shape I want to clip it to.

I just tried converting the ripple shape to a bitmap copy and then slicing the shape - that doesn't get me the rippled effect I want - just the shape I already have. Then, I tried just creating the water ripples in my shape - but again that leaves gaps and when I try to "slice" them away it does all kinds of weird things to the shape..

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 :: Align Shape And Text Object At Center Of Shape?

Jan 14, 2012

I'm creating a logo that consists of the word DIFFERENT in text and a shape, a dot (an ellipse) that I want to appear above the I and be vertically aligned with I.

How can I do this?The problem is that I can't see how to identify the point in the text - the centre of the I - to act as the target. I can't seem to get any of the Snap to Object tools to work.

I feel that I should be able to mark a specific point anywhere on a shape or an object and use those points to align.

I suspect that I could achieve the effect that I want by splitting the text characters up into individual objects, than I can align them more obviously but then I set up some other issues with kerning.

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 :: Text Within Shape While Precisely Keeping The Shape's Outline

Nov 11, 2011

I'm working with CorelDraw X3 and want to fill text into a round shape, while keeping it's exact outline. Hence, cutting of parts of words and letters is fine with me as long as the shape is well-defined. Unfortunately when filling paragraph text into a shape, the automatic line breaks lead to a quite irregular shape regardless of font size.

As workaround I arranged a mask in front of background and text but this requires a square paragraph text which is larger than the background. Since paragraph text obviously cannot be cropped with other objects I made the mask size bigger and filled it white. When exporting my document as image everything looks neat, but there must be a better way to do this in CorelDraw itself?

I tried converting the paragraph text into artistic text and cropping this, which works fine for a few words and a small object. But I'm talking around 1000 words here, and trying to crop this artistic text leads to very random cropping results. I guess such a large number of objects and knots is too much for CorelDraw to handle!?

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 :: Crash When Using Eraser Tool?

Apr 4, 2012

When I am using the eraser tool in correldraw x5, I get a crash from time to time.

This crash causes my correldraw to completely shutdown with a message that an unexpected error has occured and that the program had to be closed.

Working with important information, this is a big issue for me.

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 :: VBA - Change Eraser Thickness?

Aug 14, 2011

It would be nice to have vba scale the thickness of the the eraser tool based on the current zoom setting.  What i'm after is every time i click on the eraser tool, it will autosize to 2% of the current window size. So if im zoomed in really far and the current window has a wdith of 1 inch, the diamter of the eraser would change to 0.02 of af inch. Where as if I was zoomed out far and the current window had a width of 24 inches, the eraser thickness would default to 0.5 inches or something like that.  The idea would be for the diameter of the erser to always be the same thicknes % of window size no matter what zoom level im at.

I can figure out how to get the current zoom level, and I know how to make this script run by altering the customization and setting this script's hot key to X.  but im not sure if there is a function to change the thickness of the eraser.  it doesnt seem to record when I attempt to record a macro.

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 :: Soft Eraser With Gradient

Apr 20, 2011

I want to know if is there any soft eraser, like brushes, with gradient around the center point of eraser, like in Photoshop.

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 :: Eraser Tool Requires Selection Of Object?

Jul 23, 2011

I don't know if I did something wrong, I click Artistic Media brush and click on the page and I get the message again and again.

The Eraser tool requires that you select an object.

CorelDraw X5 v. 15.2.0.686 Hot Fix 4 - Windows 7-64

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GIMP :: 2.6.12 - Wacom Eraser Works Like Brush Not Eraser?

Jan 25, 2014

I'm using a Wacom Intuos2 tablet with GIMP 2.6.12, and it works fine except as the subject says, the eraser works like a brush. In Photoshop, I don't recall exactly what it does, but I believe switching to the eraser (meaning flipping the pen over to the "eraser" side" switches from the foreground color to the background color, so that it effectively works like an eraser.

How can I do that, or something similar, in GIMP? I've searched everywhere and most of the posts have to do with getting the tablet recognized (check) and implementing pressure (check).

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 :: Erase (like With Eraser Tool) Artistic Media Brush Strokes?

Nov 29, 2012

is there a way to erase (like with eraser tool) the artistic media brush strokes ? 

eraser tool works on every draw/shape/stroke but the artistic media tools. is there a workaround?

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Xara :: Cut Out A Shape

May 10, 2013

i use the Photo Grafic designer 2013, how do I cut out a shape. For example I want to cut out a car and get rid of the backgound so that I can use the image of the car somewhere else.

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Xara :: Possible To Add More Than One Fill To Same Shape

Jun 28, 2012

2 numpty questions for DPX

1. Is it possible to add more than one fill to the same shape i.e two elliptical fills to a shape.

2. When you add the shapes together how do you maintain the fills in each shape - I have 3 shapes that i have 'played with' all with one fill (so far !) when i add the shapes together they combine to form a single shape but with only one fill

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Xara :: How To Convert PNG To Shape

Apr 29, 2013

Is possible convert png to shape ?

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Xara :: Shape Not Changing?

Feb 2, 2014

If I type in something like "Book" then highlight it with the selector tool. Then go to Arrange> Convert to Editable Shapes and go back and unclick/click it has not changed into an editable shape.

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Xara :: Won't Convert To Fillable Shape

Feb 13, 2014

it's a Line drawing and I "think" I got all the separate lines joined, but it won't convert to a fill-able shape.

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Xara :: Imported SVG Shape Will Not Fill

Jul 1, 2013

URL....i dropped it into xdpx ungrouped everything extracted the france shape and tried to fill it.i check and it is definitely a closed shape.i can manipulate the outline as normal but nothing i do fills it it's definitely not transparent to remedy this i draw a square under it, select both and subtract shapes this gives me a square with france cut out of it then i draw another square inside the former square but outside the france outline i move the square underneath, select both and once again subtract shapes finally i have my shape filled as i require.

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Xara :: How To Create A Triangle Shape In DP7

Aug 24, 2012

What is the easiest way to create a triangle shape in DP7? I'm creating a diagram of button mapping for a PS2/PS3 controller. I'm hoping I don't have to draw one free hand.

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Xara :: Unable To Create Shape

Sep 21, 2013

My mindset doesn't work properly with shapes - more with lines and curves from point A to point B.

My normal usage of Xara is for banners and posters etc. not art or technical drawing. Anyway, I wanted to create a specific shape in Xara - it's not that I can't create it otherwise (it's very simple to create in CAD and export as PDF - import into Xara), it's that I can't create it in Xara - No matter what I try I cannot create this exact shape. I say exact specifically because I can close to fudge it, that's not the point. How would I go about creating this shape exactly.

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Xara :: Modifying Clone Shape Later?

Aug 14, 2012

under Photo Clone Tool, there are a few comments, which I'm not sure if they're conflicting or I'm not reading them correctly, but I cannot seem to be able to change the clone shape...:

"After you've drawn your freehand clone shape, you can adjust the smoothness of the line. This is exactly equivalent to the Freehand tool smoothness control. This is only active immediately after you've drawn the clone shape. If you edit the clone outline using the other tools such as the Shape Editor, this control become disabled."

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"Clone shapes are normal vector editable shapes, and once selected you can switch into any of the normal line or shape editing tool to make further adjustments of the outline."

and

"A photo with clone edits, is stored as a new 'Photo Group' structure. This acts like a normal photo for many purposes (you can resize it, rotate it, enhance it etc, and it will act as a single photo object). But using 'select inside' (Ctrl+click) or using the Page & Layer Gallery to view the group structure, you can select and edit the individual clone objects within the Photo Group."

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