Flood Fill Tool / Designer

[SimoA]

I created a shape in Designer, and then when I try to color it with Flood Fill Tool, the whole document gets colored. What am I not getting here?

 

 

[firstdefence]

You are using vector shapes so you fill the shapes with the colour panel.

[SimoA]

Then I get this:

[PixelPest]

All segments are separate and not connected.

[SimoA]

Ok, I see. How to connect them? I thought Grouping would do.

[PixelPest]

Nope - with node tool enabled there is "join curves" and "close curves". Good luck with it.

I´d start over from scratch using the existing lines as a blueprint... make a bold stroke from it and go Layer->Expand Stroke - then color fill etc.

 

[G13RL]

You can draw the two shapes on top of each other, "Layer", "Geometry", "Merge Curves" and change the color.
For this shape, why not start from "Diamond Tool", convert to curves and adjust the curve of the sides. You will then be able to color the shape and the center if necessary.

[Alfred]

29 minutes ago, G13RL said:

For this shape, why not start from "Diamond Tool", convert to curves and adjust the curve of the sides.

If you make a four-sided shape with the Polygon Tool, you get a ‘Curve’ control that allows you to adjust the curvature (using negative values to make the sides curve inwards) so there’s no need for the destructive ‘Convert to Curves’ operation.

[G13RL]

@Alfred, You are right but the curve of the presented shape is not regular, it is shifted towards the center, so you will still have to convert to curves to draw it.

[Alfred]

20 minutes ago, G13RL said:

the curve of the presented shape is not regular, it is shifted towards the center

Thanks, @G13RL. I hadn’t noticed that! 

[PixelPest]

Not necessarily true: if you like the curvature given by the polygon-tool you can stay non-destructively all the way:

[R C-R]

30 minutes ago, G13RL said:

the presented shape is not regular, it is shifted towards the center

It is hard to tell from the png attachment exactly what the shape is but it is not hard to get very close to it using a pair of 4 sided polygons, with the second (inner) one a duplicate of the outer one that has been scaled down around its center using the shift key.

In the attached 2 polys.afdesign the "presented shape" pixel layer was created from the png attachment after being rasterized & its white background removed. It is only about 250 x 550 px so there isn't much to work with.

[SimoA]

@R C-R Thanks, that worked. I still couldn't figure out how to do it myself... 

[R C-R]

Thanks should go to @Alfred for being the first to mention using the curve adjustment with the polygon tool, & to everyone else who helped you understand how all this works. My contribution was minimal.

As I am sure you have discovered by now, this community forum has lots of users ready to offer whatever help they can with just about anything related to the use of the Affinity apps.

Edited July 5, 2020 by R C-R

[G13RL]

@R CR, thanks for the file, I didn't think to change the polygon proportions before using the red dot adjustment.
At the same time, thanks also to @Alfred and to @PixelPest whom had proposed the use of the polygon.

[Petar Petrenko]

shapes.afdesign