Subclavius Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Using Affinity Photo to create curves (pen mode) - when objects on the same layer are filled, the intersecting area is always empty (no fill). This is equivalent to 'Alternate (even-odd)' mode in Affinity Designer. It would be very, very useful for me to have the 'Winding (non-zero)' mode from Affinity Designer available to counter this problem. I use the pen mode to trace objects - writing in particular, and where strokes intersect there is always a blank area which has to be later manually filled. I would like to make a plea for this enhancement which on the face of it looks not too dificult to implement. charactersword, Krustysimplex and Alfred 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogual Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 I would love to see this added too. Until then, I have a workaround, although it's rather cumbersome: you can export the curve to SVG, open it up in a text editor, add fill-rule="nonzero" to the <g> element, save, open the SVG in Affinity Photo, copy the path and paste it back into your original document, where it will now have the correct fill mode. (If you have Affinity Designer, then pasting to and from there might work too, I don't know.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subclavius Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 I also have Affinity Designer available (the apps aren't that expensive) which I occasionally use. It's proved really useful here though as I simply copy the APhoto layer to the same-sized document in ADesign, alter the fill mode and copy back into the APhoto document. Seems like such a simple enhancement to add though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Subclavius said: It's proved really useful here though as I simply copy the APhoto layer to the same-sized document in ADesign, alter the fill mode and copy back into the APhoto document. Wouldn't it be simpler to simply use File > Edit in Designer, make the change, then File > Edit in Photo? No need to copy layers around. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Wouldn't it be simpler to simply use File > Edit in Designer, make the change, then File > Edit in Photo? No need to copy layers around. Wouldn’t it be simpler to simply have a choice of fill mode available directly within Affinity Photo? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Alfred said: Wouldn’t it be simpler to simply have a choice of fill mode available directly within Affinity Photo? Of course, but I wasn't commenting on that. I was helping a user improve his workaround workflow. Alfred and ThePirateOfTheSevenSeas 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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