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How to fill a vector drawing in Affinity Designer


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You can when you treat the drawing as a pixel layer - what I´d try to avoid.

You´ll need to draw shapes underneath the parts with the Bèzier-tool and fill with color accordingly or use gradient regarding your requirements.

You can of course separate the curves and take it´s part to adjust the color then - but you will pretty easy run into layer stacking and clipping hurdles. Drawing shapes underneath seems easier to me:

 

 

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I'd say the divide method works ok.

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For some strange reason I feel hungry 🤫

 

 

 

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PixelPest thank you very much for the information. I had to lough when I read your Location “Under the bridge”

 

firstdefence thank you very much for the Information. I am sorry that I made you feel hungry.

Can you please do a step by step instruction on how you created those colourful hamburgers.

I am new to Affinity Designer.

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Step one
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Step One Result: A lot of separate curves, these can now be selected and coloured.
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Because they are all now black you can use a few techniques to see them better...

  • Probably the easiest and clearest way is to select all the divided curves barring this one and change the colour to white.
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  • While all the curves are selected remove the Fill and add a small stroke
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  • Use the Outline View Mode to see the areas of each curve, from there you can select the curve you want to colour and change back to Pixel View Mode, or if on Mac You have the additional choice of Retina Pixel View Mode. This method can be a bit tedious, just wanted to show an alternative method.
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2 hours ago, anemos said:

PixelPest thank you very much for the information. I had to lough when I read your Location “Under the bridge”

 

Isn't it?  But not so funny when your landlord cancels your apartment after more than 3 decades and you don't know where to go with your family. 😲

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