Repeat Objects Along A Path In Affinity Designer

In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can take a single object and repeat it along a path in Affinity Designer. This can be useful in creating fun patterns and decorative borders.

To accomplish this, we’ll need to create an object to repeat and then make it into a Textured Image Brush.

Once made into a brush, it can be applied to any shape as a stroke, and you can even draw with it using the Vector Brush Tool.

If you don't want to create the PNG image you can download a copy of it here:

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro
00:22 Creating the shape
03:15 Repeating the shape along the path
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[CBM]

This is very cool. But is it possible to do the same with a vector shape, not bitmap?

[raymk]

You can also make the spiral object using Spiral Tool ("Use Cusped Segment" setting), and adjust the turns accordingly.
The best part of it is, obviously, you can tweak the line's width as your heart's delight.

[EngineerRon]

Great stuff, as always. Thanks Nick! (BTW, I purchased your Master Class awhile back. HIGHLY recommended to all here!). Keep up the great work!

[mangeshmahore]

You really made simple design by creating such types creative sessions.

[leannet]

You are a good teacher. When I have some time to practise, I will pop in.

[sonub]

As soon as I heard your voice, I was like that’s Logo’s by Nick. I love your content. I watched all you GIMP videos and they’ve helped me a lot. Love how you explain everything. Going to grab that course you have as well. Thanks for all you do. Really appreciate it. Also, would love to see a master class tutorial on Affinity Photo if that’s something you are thinking about doing.

[jekalambert]

Loved the pattern and can see so many possibilities with this technique. Thanks for sharing.

BTW, I learned from a tutorial on another channel that Affinity default for maximum brush size is 100, but you can type in any size greater than 100 in the dialogue box to the right of the brush size slider.

[TedMattos]

Great tutorial, Nick. Thank you for teaching it!

[righttoexplain]

This was awesome. Thanks Nick! I created a really cool brush using this technique!

[u]

Thank you. Enjoyed and learned much. Clear and easy to understand and follow. Once again…thank you!

[StarryKnight]

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!

[kevinhouse]

Nice tutorial, but hopefully some day the Affinity team will offer vector equivalents of their vector persona brushes.

[BEDplaysGAMES]

This was really great, thank you for it!

[DerekGoveDesign]

Perfect timing.
I literally need to create a pattern almost identical to this for work tomorrow. I 've only been using Affinity for a week, and was about to search for a tutorial...
Great video. Clear, concise.

[jaaferelsadig]

Thank you for the tutorial, I really hope Affinity make a vector version of this though.

[ridwanajibari]

i just installed affinity designer on my ipad. this is really helpful although the experience is different on ipad

[BarbaraRz]

Dziękuje za Twoją pracę, bardzo pomocna była dla mnie .pozdrawiam

[SirGosht]

Will we ever be able to use vector shapes as opposed to PNGs for this?

[israelfranco]

Thanks for the tutorial. One question: is this vector brush?

[FaretraDesign]

At your previous video regarding how to make custom brushes in Affinity, you said that in order to change the color of the stroke, we have to go to New Adjustments and Recolor, while in this one you just change the brush stroke color and the color changes. Could you explain why this happens?