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  VectorStyler Manual | PDF
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  @freggern thank you very much for the update of the manual. This is a gold mine for understanding how some features work
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  Object as a "see through" mask!
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  Aha, seems Illustrator 2025 can do it as well. Use the Transparency panel. Select the group and in Transparency panel click Mask. Then Alt+click the mask icon (white field) in the panel and create black shape there (you can create many shapes, hide, move them, in the Layer mask panel that opens). No need to invert or clip. Illustrator zooming is so sluggish… it is painful. So far Affinity and Inkscape are best regarding zooming with the mouse scroll wheel. Now, regarding export to pdf, svg and eps. Illustrator failed to export to svg. (as VectorStyler exports a null svg) Illustrator exported to pdf successfully. Illustrator exported successfully to eps (VectorStyler did but lost the mask) and I could open that eps in Affinity and VS and with some combining shapes and groups the result was usable! Inkscape 1.4 could not open the eps at all. Interesting indeed! Seems pdf format is the winner although the actual mask object could not be selected\moved\edited in a pdf editor! Illustrator recognized the mask layer form VS as imported pdf (pdf created in VS). Affinity totally rasterized the mask = fail!
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  New Youtube video : VectorStyler Repeater Basics
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  New video posted : Color your vector design in vectorstyler https://youtu.be/e5BqIlhPDVw?si=SzJdZePtnPI18W4l
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  Attempts of a kind of Halftone Lines in VS
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  @EricP Thank you and thank you for watching Then it could be a country-specific problem for @lin
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  Kind of Guilloche Pattern
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  her a few other tries of mine
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  Just a Pattern
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  Another interesting optical illusion. Made in VectorStyler and Black Ink VectorStyler Dashed Lines, random colorized, the whole thing copied, and two copies placed underneath, each with a Gaussian blur image effect Black Ink Only for Symmetry, because of its symmetry Fusion Feature. . .
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  Copying Objects in VectorStyler with the Right Mouse Button
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  Symmetrie Tool/Feature Workaround
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  How to fuse such a Shape made with this Workaround ? Of course you could connect it by hand. One option would be to remove and join the protruding ends using the Trim & Join Tool. . . But there's an easier and faster method. Select your Design; protruding paths don't matter. Go to Object > Combine Path and select Regions and you'll have a closed shape. Here a Video
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  Displacement with Curvature Scale
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  @VectorStyler 0_1754525454555_Curvature Scale.vstyler
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  Kind of Metaballs in VectorStyler with Tips and Tricks
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  @monsterfox said in Kind of Metaballs in VectorStyler with Tips and Tricks: @Subpath This effect is similar to the halftone effect I provided last time. Have you tried to see if you can make it? As I wrote already in the other thread, I don't believe this effect was created using the Metaball trick. To me, it looks more like it was created using the Truchet method. But i have no clue how. But you're welcome to try it yourself via the Metaball technique; all the necessary techniques are described in this thread here. Btw. anyone else is also welcome to try it. Here the Picture
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  Concentric
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  @Li-Xiao I gave your Method also a go. Then i converted the result into curves did a break apart. Added an Outline Zigzag Shape Effect onto it and Colorize it. Looks like this, i call it a spikey star
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  Polygonal Spiral
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  Sample file: 0_1748095318063_Polygonal Spiral.vstyler
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  A kind of Voronoi Shape Pattern in VectorStyler
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  @EricP Thank you, you're very welcome. Nice to hear when it was helpful in one way or another. I like to experiment, and many tutorials of mine are the result of these experiments. They also help me if I ever forget how a function in VS worked. By the way, don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
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  Patterns Generated with Node Bump Effect
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  @EricP I'm glad the recorded video was helpful to you. The reason the videos are not public on YouTube is mainly due to a lack of time to maintain them. Feel free to share my videos with anyone to help more people learn about VectorStyler as they are listed.
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  Colorize possibilities you may not know
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  @EricP Thanks, I'm glad it's helpful. Yes, I was surprised and very pleased too. Its also great and fantastic that the randomize function will use the selected colors only then. Love that Feature.
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  WIP - Testing Blending: not yet a tutorial but soon for beginners
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  @Subpath Thank you clicking on the image enlarges it. Here some close up with different settings, very easy to change the overall appearance:
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  Dash patterns, you may not know
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  @Devil-Dinosaur Thank you, i have fun of discovery and experimenting and fun of sharing what I discovered. As for the community, it can only get bigger and bigger and bigger
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  Making a Windrose
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  @monsterfox Yes, you can go to Object > Transform > Rotate or you can use the the keys Shift+Alt+R.
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  Kind of pattern selection using the Colorize feature
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  @monsterfox , @VectorStyler . . You can't simply create a color palette and color your shapes with it. There is a little more to do then this Either You need to determine the object order and adjust the colors in your palette to that order. Or create the objects of your Design according to a specific system/order so that the order in which the objects are created are always the same. In addition, the number of shapes in the design must match the number of colors in the color palette. The Shape Builder trick can only be used to a limited extent here, and only with objects that don't overlap. Here is a video where I created a color palette according to the selection order of your design. Here the video
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  The surprising possibilities of Stroke Stripes for pattern creation
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  Another nice result with this type of pattern creation which work even on simple shapes. All you have to do is apply an offset shape effect to it. . . . . And dont forget you could duplicate a composite Shape use the Pattern above but duplicated the circle here which leads to this pattern