Designer: Change stroke colour to match fill colour for multiple curves

[Ducati]

Hello

Still very new, so be gentle with me!

I'm doing some low-poly art. When I'm drawing the polys, obviously I don't know what colour the fill is going to be, so my stoke is just set to black. When I've finished drawing the polys, and start to fill them (I'm using the Colour Picker Tool set to an average) I want the stoke colour to be the same as the fill colour. It feels like quite a long winded way, as I select each poly, grab the Picker, fill the poly, then switch to the Stroke colour and have to re-use a Picker to grab the same colour. 

Is there a way to just (maybe when I've finished filling) just grab all of the polys and say make the stroke the same colour as the fill?

I would have been happy to just turn the strokes off, but then the shapes don't match up neatly.

Any other shortcut tips appreciated!!

Thanks.

[GarryP]

I don’t think there’s a way to do what you want but it’s not something I’ve needed to do myself.
I’m still a little bit confused as to your workflow – e.g. “using the Colour Picker Tool to set an average”, and other points – so if you can give us more detail as to exactly what you want to do (not what you are doing but what you want to achieve) then someone else might be able to help you. Visuals are often useful for demonstration purposes. (There’s a chance that you might be able to do what you want easily but in a totally different way.)
Note: If you tell us which Affinity application(s) you have access to that sometimes helps in selecting methods.

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[Ducati]

Hi

GarryP & Lagato thanks for your responses. I'm sorry my message wasn't clear enough. I didn't want to teach anyone to such eggs, so I guess I thought 'Low-Poly' was a known technique. Apologies!

Low-poly art is where you take an existing piece of art or photo and randomly draw a load of shapes over the top - more often triangles or sometimes 4 or 5 sided shapes. I use the pen tool for this and align the nodes of each shape with adjacent shapes so there are no gaps. When the image is covered in shapes (curves), you fill each individual shape with the average colour of the shape. If you google 'low-poly art' you will see some amazing pictures, but here is my first attempt (with the help of Tigger)?

So, you can't set the colour of the stroke when you are drawing the shapes, because at that point you don't know what the colour is going to be. You could set it straight after you draw each shape - draw, fill, set stroke colour, but I like to make sure all my lines and nodes are aligned before I start filling. 

I guess it's just one little extra step to have to change the stroke colour, but an image will have hundreds of shapes, so it's just a bit frustrating. Anyway, it's a slow way to build a picture, but I like the effect, so I'll persevere

BTW - I'm using ADesigner. I put it in the title but forgot to mention it in my plea for help.

Thanks again for your time.

[Andy05]

If you create the polygons without gaps in between, you might just fill them and remove all strokes when done. At least this would be way faster than recolouring each and every single stroke.

[Ducati]

Hi Andy

Yes, I think that is a good point, but it's a lot easier said than done 😀

I've been using the lines to see where I've drawn already, and to easily align the nodes. At some junctions of the shapes, there might be 5 or 6 lines/nodes to line up. Obviously I don't want any gaps, but overlapping looks a bit crap too. I have my snapping on (obvs) but once there are a good number of shapes, it wants to snap to everything and anything. You're quite zoomed in as well, so it's not always easy to know what it is snapping to.

Anyway, I spent quite a while yesterday working with the stroke on and filling/changing colours as I worked, and it was pretty tedious, so I might give your suggestion a go today.

Thanks for your help.

 

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[thatGuy]

You can use Expand stroke and Separate curves for this, possible downside is you have stroke&fill as separate curves afterwards so it's a nasty thing to handle in case of changes later on.

And, yes, it requires the stroke to have the desired color assigned.

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[Ducati]

Haakoo!

I might just love you! Actually when I read your comment, it didn't make sense to me. A quick google of the 'affinity designer x shortcut' informed me: 'Switch between Stroke/Fill (or Color 1/Color 2) color selectors'.

When I first tried it, I didn't quite get the result I wanted. With 'Fill' selected, select shape, select Dropper Tool, click in shape to get the average colour (shape fills with average colour). Hit 'x', Fill switches to Stoke, click in shape again to get the colour. Well because my Dropper is set to average, the stoke colour picked up the average of the average, so came out just slightly lighter. So I just changed my work around to start with the stroke selected. Then when I select the average colour in the shape, I can select it once for the stroke, hit x, and use the dropper again on the unchanged Fill to fill the shape.

Genious!

Thanks for taking the time to help me. I really appreciate it.

[Ducati]

3 hours ago, thatGuy said:

You can use Expand stroke and Separate curves for this, possible downside is you have stroke&fill as separate curves afterwards so it's a nasty thing to handle in case of changes later on.

And, yes, it requires the stroke to have the desired color assigned.

 

Thanks!

[Ducati]

Thanks Lagarto! 

I saved some love for you too...for teaching me how to correctly use this snapping option. I did have it turned on, but I was missing the crucial piece that I actually needed to select the adjacent shapes. I also had Construction Snapping and Align Handles turned on (not got round to looking these up yet 😳 ) so that was probably muddying my muddy waters.

All working MUCH better now.

I'm so grateful for your support!