[Affinity Photo, using all areas to identify boundarys]

Hi A_B_C,

thanks for the "trick". For sure it works, but, as you mentioned.... it takes time and - which is harder to handle with- if you have a complex drawing with lets say 150 Windows to be selected, and after 135 you make a mistake and double click, the whole selection is gone and you start again...

The other way would be much saver and easyer.

 

 

You can also select everything black as a color in the line drawing, invert the selection and jump to the other layer and then fill with bucket...

But also if you then wnant to change something you have to cancel your selection and start again. For easy drawings okay - but would not persuade to kick Adobe...

 

As the option of using all layer is existing for the selecting brush, it should not be a huge problem to implement it also to magic wand and paint bucket.

As I think, as a non expert in developing apps ;)

[Affinity Photo, using all areas to identify boundarys]

Hi,

 

I postetd this allready in the questions and feedback area, but it might be better here.

Further - I am german, so please don´t hit me for my bad english... :)

 

Architects (like me) often use Adobe Photoshop for coloring black lined drawings, floor-plans and elevations etc...

For this it is very helpfull to use all areas for the "bucket" tool or the "magic wand" to identify areas to be filled with color.

Then one layer is used for the colors, another for the boundary lines (as an imported line drawing, floor plan etc. as eps or pdf)

 

Currently Affinity Photo only uses objects on the working-layer to identify boundarys for Areas wich are to be filled with colour (e.g. with the bucket/fill areas tool).

 

Much better would be to have the outlines on another layer...

 

With this, to colorize black-lined drawings is very fast and easy and would be a big benefit!

 

Best regards,

Eike

[use "all layers" to fill areas]

Hi all,

 

my name is Eike, I live in Germany.

 

I am an architect and usually use photoshop to colorize floor plans an elevations of facades.

I think about switching to Affinity photo.

 

In photoshop you can use all layers to identify the boundary of areas wich might be filled with colors.

 

So I have one layer with lines (imported EPS or PDF) an on others I do the filling simply by spilling color into an area defended by lines - and you can choose if lines on other layers shall be used to identify or not.

 

Is that possible in Affinity photo?

I use the trial version and could not find this option.

Also google searching didn´t help me.

 

Thanks and best regards,

Eike