brandweinart Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 I made a series to curved shapes of increasing size that I would like to flatten into a layer so I can fill the spaces with different colors/gradients. I see lots of advice on converting raster to vector but not the other way around. Can Should I convert the curves to selections? I feel really lost here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 You do not say which app you are using. I would guess Designer. First I must ask why your shapes need to be raster. You can fill a closed vctor shape with any fill you like, including gradients. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandweinart Posted January 26, 2021 Author Share Posted January 26, 2021 5 hours ago, John Rostron said: You do not say which app you are using. I would guess Designer. First I must ask why your shapes need to be raster. You can fill a closed vctor shape with any fill you like, including gradients. John I am using Affinity Photo. I can understand how to fill a complete shape with ( a solid at least. And I see that I can export a file with multiple layers as a jpg file and then work on that. Do I have designate how the shape is to be filled before I start or can I come back afterward and try out different ways of filling. It seems like the same tools that I can use on a pixel layer are not available for a curve layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 On 1/26/2021 at 2:25 AM, brandweinart said: I am using Affinity Photo. I can understand how to fill a complete shape with ( a solid at least. And I see that I can export a file with multiple layers as a jpg file and then work on that. Do I have designate how the shape is to be filled before I start or can I come back afterward and try out different ways of filling. It seems like the same tools that I can use on a pixel layer are not available for a curve layer. You can select the layers you want to flatten into one layer and select Layer -> Merge visible, then you will get an additional raster layer while the original layers are preserved. If you do not wish to preserve the original layers, select these layers, group them (control + g), right click the group and select rasterize. Otherwise if you want to flatten everything in the entire document choose Document -> Flatten. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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