Sending a file of a shepherd and a lamb. Apart they have the desired look but the ultimate goal is to bring them together into one object
I’ve been studying this out for several hours now and can seem to come close but never quite get there. It may not be possible but I’m hoping I can learn something new here that may bring me a little closer.
On the left they are seperated. On the right is about where I would like to have them joined together. As I understand it, the Boolean Tool can bring together 2 simple lines and so I use Off-set to create an image for both and brought that together. It is the resultant layer 10. So this part worked. I was hoping I could bring in the individual grouped images and place them within the newly created off-set and once I do, then colors and layers get all mixed up - as expected.
Are there any suggestions on how to make this more more efficiently? At this point, I’m trying to do it for my granddaughter and I am not below going in and editing nodes to make this work but that is a very daunting task. Thought I’d throw out my line and see what I could catch with this post.
select the sheep, then add duplicated shepherd to selection
Tools->Boolean Difference
This should leave you with mostly what you want but when I tried this a piece of the shepherd was left inside the shepherd. Ungroup the sheep and simply delete the extraneous pieces
In following your steps, the end result is the sheep looks transparent. If that’s the desired end result then I’ve done it right and thank you for helping me avoid the chore of editing nodes. However, I may not be fulling understanding what you mean in step 5 when it says to select the sheep, then add duplicate shepherd to the selection.
I only duplicate the Shepherd right? Once that’s done, because it’s a duplicate it turns from this:
When I proceed to step 6. Tool ->Boolean Difference the sheep disappears and I’m left with the shepherd - robes no long the green layer but that can be resolved - with an imprint of the overlapping portion of the sheep on his robes.
Adding back in the sheep results in this.
You mentioned there was a portion of the shepherd that need to be manually removed . Would this be roughly the circled portion in black where the hand and robes cause the sheep to look transparent?
when you do boolean operations it matters which you select first and which you select second. If it didn’t work one way, try selecting in opposite order.
In Inkscape, I think I would make a copy of the sheep, create a mask from it, place it over the shepperd and erase inside the mask, then I’d position the sheep so it looked like the sheep was in front of the shepperd.
I think this is where it went sideways. I suspect @DougL is on point here. I think what’s happened is that you selected the duplicate shepherd before the sheep whereas you need to select the sheep then the shepherd. As a tip, LightBurn has a special feature where if you find that the difference hasn’t worked as expected, you can undo, and then reapply the difference and it will automatically swap the order for you.
No. It will become apparent when you correct the previous step but here’s an example highlighted in yellow:
I wasn’t. I ended up resorting to node editing. My knowledge of node editing has expanded so it was easier than I expected. I appreciate your assistance and follow-up. It could be that I wasn’t fully understanding your guidance, but I’ll revisit it now that I’m not so rushed to finish the project and see if I can make it work.
