I’ve just downloaded Intaglio after struggling with other program to do vector drawing. Intaglio looks the most straightforward to use, but I have come across a problem I would like help with please.
I have drawn a box and filled it with a colour. I would like to make it a bit transparent, so the image behind it can be seen. I tried opening the solid colour editor, selecting the eye dropper tool, then clicking on the colour I want to make transparent. It did not appear in the solid colour editor. How do I get my colour into the editor to make it transparent?
I’ve just downloaded Intaglio after struggling with other program to
do vector drawing. Intaglio looks the most straightforward to use,
but I have come across a problem I would like help with please.
I have drawn a box and filled it with a colour. I would like to make
it a bit transparent, so the image behind it can be seen. I tried
opening the solid colour editor, selecting the eye dropper tool,
then clicking on the colour I want to make transparent. It did not
appear in the solid colour editor. How do I get my colour into the
editor to make it transparent?
Or is there a better way to do what I want to do?
Would Window > Fill – Opacity slider do what you want?
Ah yes, thank you. It’s not quite the effect I wanted though. It just allows the underlying colour to come through while the texture is hardly visible at all. It is the texture I am really after. (I’m trying to get a newsprint look.)
And one other odd thing. One of the objects I want to make transparent is a group of several to make up the required shape. When I try this on that object, only one of the components is made transparent. The others stay at 100% opaque.
Ah yes, thank you. It’s not quite the effect I wanted though. It
just allows the underlying colour to come through while the texture
is hardly visible at all. It is the texture I am really after. (I’m
trying to get a newsprint look.)
Just in case, sometime, what you see on screen is not what you get on
the pdf.
And one other odd thing. One of the objects I want to make
transparent is a group of several to make up the required shape.
When I try this on that object, only one of the components is made
transparent. The others stay at 100% opaque.
I am afraid this is definitely out of my very limited competence. I am
sure, though, that some of the real experts will respond.
And one other odd thing. One of the objects I want to make transparent is a group of several to make up the required shape. When I try this on that object, only one of the components is made transparent. The others stay at 100% opaque.
I tried ungrouping it into its components, then adjusting the opacity separately for each one. Unfortunately, where they overlap appears darker than the non-overlapped areas, which makes perfect sense for adjusting the opacity.
I want a coloured rectangle with one rounded corner, and no lines around the edge. The way I made this was to make a rectangle with four rounded corners. On top of this I put two smaller rectangles with square corners, to cover three of the rounded corners. What I would like is to be able to make the whole thing a bit transparent. But it seems that whatever I do, the component parts always get treated separately, rather than the whole object being treated as one coloured figure.
I have not used Intaglio enough to know what other method I could use. There is probably a way to draw the lines around it, and fill what is left so it is just one object. If there is, if someone could explain it to me I would be grateful.
Aha - now I understand what you want: a Boolean operation to make the 4 objects one. That is easy: Select all 4 objects and go Menu->Object->Path->Unite
Voilá. http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4454/unite.png
Cheers
I’ve struggled with filling arbitrary shapes for some time, with big help from this board. I think, for the general case, the Join command is needed. ‘Unite’ frequently gives weird results. See
“Join” is usually for welding different paths into one by selecting the end-points and call for “Join”.
Give me an example of what you´re trying to achieve and I´ll make a short video.
