Designer: simple way to fill transparent areas?

[Hewal]

Hello, as you can see in the picture, the outer line is not a contour, but a surface. But I would like to color the inner area of the ribbon.
So far I have traced the edges with the drawing pen tool, but this is tedious. Is there a simple trick or an easier solution?
 

 

[v_kyr]

The easiest way for more complex shapes (when available as a bitmap) is to perform a bitmap-to vector tool based centerline vectorization/tracing, then saving the vector trace result as SVG/PDF and import that then in Affinity for reuse.

 

Ansonsten bei initialen Vektoren ...

1. die selektierte Kurvenebene duplizieren (so das zwei untereinander sind)
2. beide auswählen und geometrisch Aufteilen
3. danach alles was die Aufteilung an Ebenen generiert hat auswählen
4. und dann geometrisch Subtrahieren

... das Resultat sollte dann eine vereinfachte Art centerline Form haben.

 

 

[lepr]

Select the Curves object then do Layer > Geometry > Separate Curves.
That will give you several shapes, the lowest being a silhouette of the entire original object and the others being interior shapes.
Fill the silhouette shape with the edges colour, and fill the interior shapes with the ribbon colour.

[craned]

 

I am having a bit of the same problem. I would like to create a mask of the fish, and only have the flag show through the internal of the fish. The entire thing seems to be transparent.  Thoughts?

[Ray S.]

@craned make a copy of the fishs outline and use it as a clipping-path for the "flag"-fill.

[Hewal]

14 hours ago, v_kyr said:

The easiest way for more complex shapes (when available as a bitmap) is to perform a bitmap-to vector tool based centerline vectorization/tracing, then saving the vector trace result as SVG/PDF and import that then in Affinity for reuse.

 

Ansonsten bei initialen Vektoren ...

1. die selektierte Kurvenebene duplizieren (so das zwei untereinander sind)
2. beide auswählen und geometrisch Aufteilen
3. danach alles was die Aufteilung an Ebenen generiert hat auswählen
4. und dann geometrisch Subtrahieren

... das Resultat sollte dann eine vereinfachte Art centerline Form haben.

 

 

 

I seem to have done something wrong, because at the end I had exactly the same result as at the beginning?

[Hewal]

14 hours ago, anon2 said:

Select the Curves object then do Layer > Geometry > Separate Curves.
That will give you several shapes, the lowest being a silhouette of the entire original object and the others being interior shapes.
Fill the silhouette shape with the edges colour, and fill the interior shapes with the ribbon colour.

This did exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much. 

[Hewal]

This did exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much. 
It is true that the silhouette must now be filled (area), but thus the contour can be "faked".