Wahine Bird

Good evening, I hope someone is still seeing this thread? I am new to Affinity Suite - I originally learned graphic design in Corel Draw 3, if that tells you anything about why I have this silly question. -I never really got the hang of layers (as CD didn't use them). Returning to this a ba-zillion years later....... I would like to fill a vector that I didn't make - its in the png format. I have "placed" it, and also "dragged it" to my canvas, I have rasterized, and tried to select with the magic wand, varying attempts to complete this exercise. I want to wholly fill the individual spaces with different colors - If I rasterize it, then the edges become pixelated (which I expect) but it just looks unprofessional. I am currently using Designer in the Pixel persona for this but I am under the impression I don't need to be in Affinity Photo to do most photo-like exercises? Thoughts or suggests, advice welcomed please. Thanks

I am working in the Affinity suite on a Mac and I am also not able to figure out how to join the ends of a stroke. I see this answer is from 2014. It's 2022. Are there any updates please? I am a newbie too