What am I doing wrong?

[franco_al07]

Followed this tutorial step by step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmNiU_gqiWo

I'm trying to make the stars the same color as the white square.

 

Thanks for any answer

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @franco_al07

I think my first question would be, do you want to:
A. have some star shapes coloured as you want them, or
B. recolour those particular star images?

There will be lots of ways to do what you want but we need to know precicely precisely what you want to achieve.

Edited November 5, 2020 by GarryP
Oops. Spelling mistake.

[AffinityJules]

18 hours ago, GarryP said:

There will be lots of ways to do what you want but we need to know precicely. . .!?

Where's Alfred? 😁

[AffinityJules]

But seriously...

Just make the star shapes the colour that you want them to be when you create them.

[Alfred]

53 minutes ago, AffinityJules said:

Just make the star shapes the colour that you want them to be when you create them.

The OP seems to be using an image of star shapes, but creating my own vector shapes and making them the colour that I want is exactly how I would tackle this.

[Old Bruce]

Hi @franco_al07 Welcome to the forums.

If the star is a png (transparency is required for this to work) then you can use it to clip a white Rectangle. Both stars are Black coloured PNGs.

[franco_al07]

Hi everyone!

 

Thanks for the quick replies. Problem solved!

As you can see, I'm new to affinity and photo editing in general. I haven't edited photos aside from the filtering stuff (Luminar) in years so I appreciate the response. Seems like affinity has a nice community here. Glad I picked this software over the other one where I have to pay >$100 yearly

[Alfred]

 Although the Star Tool and the Diamond Tool look like ideal starting points for creating those four-sided stars, you may find it tricky (if not impossible!) to get the curvature right. Use the Polygon Tool to create a diamond shape with straight sides, and then set the curvature to -100% via the ‘Curve’ control on the Context toolbar.

Edited November 5, 2020 by Alfred
Replaced embedded GIF with attachment

[Dan C]

20 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Might want to try uploading/embedding that GIF again Alfred

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, Dan C said:

Might want to try uploading/embedding that GIF again Alfred

It looks OK here, Dan. Maybe your browser is was blocking it because it’s served up over HTTP, not HTTPS. Here it is again, this time as an attachment: 

[thatGuy]

I personally like the cog tool better for this, it's a bit more flexible with curvature even for flower-like shapes and stuff like that

 

[Alfred]

7 minutes ago, thatGuy said:

I personally like the cog tool better for this, it's a bit more flexible

I like the flexibility of the Cog Tool, too, but in this particular case achieving those concave sides is much more fiddly than the method with the Polygon Tool that I described earlier.