LexArt
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After reading the very good and well done Working on Shapes tutorial by CFandM I have thought and the idea that would be good for some shapes design shapes to have an additional outline outside of the edge of the shape
I have seen that there are many outlines filters available in the FF Library as shown in this search FF library outlines filter search But what most of them do is just do an edge detect or make the outline over the same edge of the original source image, and i will see if some of this may add the outline outside of the edge (offset), and also from what I have seen they seem to have a fixed size outline Although I will search and test myself, do you know any filter that is able to add external outlines of different width following the edge or contour? Also have found that there are already available interesting and useful think related FF WIKI Fundamentals Outlines And also this very good challenge with already available filters to download, and although is based on dotted lines, I think that it could be made also full lines Challenge: Stippled outline by Sphinx Thanks very much for any help and want to thanks also to all the ones that contributed to make the Wiki possible |
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Posted: May 11, 2016 1:09 am | ||||||
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Posted: May 11, 2016 5:19 am | ||||||
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Posted: May 11, 2016 5:19 am | ||||||
LexArt
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oh! Thanks very much ThreeDee for making this filters, they are great and exactly what I wanted, you did understand perfectly what I explained, the one I like most is the second one, but I like also the first variation with those artistic outlines, good idea
Very well done and easy to use, love it Much appreciated your help |
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Posted: May 12, 2016 5:06 pm | ||||||
SpaceRay
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I have just found this and it seems interesting and useful for something that I was looking for and did not not know how to do it.
I can´t thank enough to ThreeDee for his awesome, amazing and lovely hard work done for making the filter with the Arial Fonts inside Filter Forge that is something so really useful and wonderful to work with. Although the only problem is that there is no option to modify them and they are the normal Arial font, I wanted to modify the width of them, and tried to modify the curves of each one of the letters, but is very difficult to make the extra bold version as seen here Arial Ultra Bold (or Extra Bold) so I thought that there could be a way for using edge detector or high pass with loops component to add an additional outline, and with loops keep accumulating the number of outlines But then while searching for outline in the forum, I discovered this thread and have found then the solution to make them bold AND even more is possible to make them empty inside with external outline very easily which is something I also wanted to have Thanks ThreeDee very much for making the two filters above that are very good and LexArt for suggesting this (and again thanks a million for the fonts in FF) ![]() |
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Posted: June 16, 2016 3:32 am | ||||||
SpaceRay
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Although the above is true for most of the letters, is works less better with rounded parts, and what is bad and not working is with S and G letters, but really I do not care at all, because I do not want to make words, so missing 2 letters is not important at all and as said do not care
Here is what I mean with that on internal rounded parts is looking bad with a hard angle with S ![]() |
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Posted: June 16, 2016 12:43 pm | ||||||
SpaceRay
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Posted: June 16, 2016 12:44 pm | ||||||
SpaceRay
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I know that the Smoothing setting can be used for smoothing hard angles, but the problem is that it will smooth everything, and convert the Arial font into something like Comic Sans font
![]() But I repeat that I really do not care about this, I can use all the other letters that work well and as I wanted Using Smoothing with 30 value removes the hard internal edge but also softens all the other hard edges ![]() |
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Posted: June 16, 2016 12:51 pm | ||||||
Indigo Ray
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I noticed something similar recently while working with another program (a CAD program actually), but I wasn't sure why it was happening. I think I understand it better now. Thanks, I guess. ![]() No, I don't have a solution, though. |
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Posted: June 16, 2016 7:02 pm | ||||||
SpaceRay
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I was wrong, I have seen that exists the Arial ROUNDED version that I did not know until now, so then it converts it to Arial Rounded extra bold font
Good that it has been useful for you for something else |
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Posted: June 17, 2016 3:06 am |
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