Flood Fill - Filling previously erased sections

[Lemonsprig]

I have come across something a little odd that has got me baffled and hoping I can get some insight as to what is going on or if this is a bug. Basically when I use the eraser to remove a portion of an image and then use the flood fill tool to change the colour of what remains, it fills it in but also brings back the section that was previously erased in the new colour.

Steps to recreate.

1. Create a new pixel layer and paint a big blue circle
2. Create a second pixel layer on top of the first and paint a red circle inside the blue circle
3. Change to the eraser tool and erase a portion the middle section of the red circle creating two half circles
4. Switch to the flood fill tool change the colour to yellow
5. Click the flood fill onto one of the red half circles. Both the two red half circles change to yellow but in addition the middle section previously erased re-appears also yellow.

I would expect that if something is erased it is erased?

Thanks 

[Dan C]

Hi @Lemonsprig,

I have followed your steps provided, and unless I'm missing something obvious, I'm having a hard time replicating the issue you're reporting!

I can confirm that for steps 1-4, everything follows as expected, however for step 5 I am a little lost, as you mention setting the Flood Fill tool to Yellow, but then say that your red half circles become Green. In my testing, the selected area was painted yellow as expected. Selecting the 'inside' area that has been erased paints the erased area yellow, as well as the rest of the layer surrounding the 2 half circles.

Please see my screen recording below showing the steps I took and the results I witnessed -

If you are seeing results that are different to this, could you please provide a screen recording showing the steps you're taking?

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Many thanks in advance

[Lemonsprig]

Thanks Dan. My mistake on yellow/green confusion typo on my behalf. Original post corrected.

Here is a screen recording of what happens for me. (thanks for the link on how to screen record.. very useful)

[NotMyFault]

3 hours ago, Lemonsprig said:

Thanks Dan. My mistake on yellow/green confusion typo on my behalf. Original post corrected.

Here is a screen recording of what happens for me. (thanks for the link on how to screen record.. very useful)

Any chance you can share the afphoto  file shown in the video, including saved history?
would need to have the state just after erasing, before using fill.

Currently assuming issue could be caused by brush. May create a new round brush, and use it both for painting and erasing.

 

[Dan C]

Thanks for your recording! As requested above, a copy of your file with the History saved would certainly be helpful - as I have tried on multiple devices here and I'm still unable to replicate this unfortunately.

Can you also please confirm the model number of your iPad, the iOS version and Affinity Photo version that is currently installed for me?

[NotMyFault]

Based on a screenshot from your video, the delete brush did not fully erase, but leaves traces of old color. The blue has RGB 8/0/250, but the deleted area gives 8/1/248 or similar values, indicating incomplete delete. 
 

So i can only repeat my advise to select a clean basic round brush, reset all brush settings (for erase tool).
If this doesn’t help, use reset brush from settings menu in Photo.
 

 

[Lemonsprig]

Hi Dan / NotMyFault

I had deleted the test file I had been using so cannot send it. However I have tried to recreate it and it appears to be working correctly now. Given I was playing around with brushes earlier this leads me to believe that NotMyFault is correct and the erase although it looked at least to my eyes as being 100% hard and fully deleting the marks was in fact leaving trace amounts of ink. which was being picked up by the fill. 

I will certainly be more aware of that going forward.

Thank you both for the assist.