How I Create Collage Engraving Graphics in FREE Affinity (Step by Step Tutorial)
If you’re looking for an alternative to Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer is now free. So in today’s video, I’ll show you my complete 5-step workflow for creating killer collage-style graphics for laser engraving.
In this video, I walk through the full workflow — from sourcing SVG artwork, to offsetting and cleaning shapes, to stacking and collaging, and finally flattening/exporting clean vectors for LightBurn, xTool Creative Space, or EZCad.
This works for fiber laser, CO2, galvo, card engraving, knife scales, patches, coins, and more.
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Chapters
00:00 Step 1 (Sourcing graphics)
01:40 Step 2 (Adding Offsets)
10:41 Step 3 (Creating the collage)
18:05 Step 4 (Flattening our design)
22:27 Step 5 (Exporting SVG)