JCSJCS Posted April 23, 2022 Posted April 23, 2022 Hello all, I feel a little silly with this request, but I must be missing something obvious and it's driving me a bit mad. I have a vector (also have it as a png) file that is a black outline - imagine a colouring book image. I want to fill in the black spaces with colour. If you have an iPad, you know you can get the free colouring in apps where you simply tap the blank area and it fills it with colour. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this most basic task in Designer. I can do it in illustrator, on procreate/vectornator/any free drawing app, even on paint. It would be great to do it on a vector file but if it must be a pixel layer that's fine too as I have large enough pngs. Could someone save me? Quote
v_kyr Posted April 23, 2022 Posted April 23, 2022 Hi, can you share a screenshot of that vector outline, i.e. how it looks opened in Designer and what the layers panel there shows for the selected vector object (... or is this instead a Designer on iPad question)? JCSJCS 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
thomaso Posted April 23, 2022 Posted April 23, 2022 Your description sounds like the black outline is not a vector object. Otherwise, you should be able to select this curve in Affinity if you have opened (not placed or pasted) the file in Affinity. Note that vector file types (like .eps) can also contain rasterized pixel content (like photos or scans). – What layer type(s) does Affinity report in its Layers Panel for the layer(s) of this file, e.g. "(Curve)" or "(Image)" ? JCSJCS 1 Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
R C-R Posted April 23, 2022 Posted April 23, 2022 Just guessing but it is possible your vector shapes consist of individual lines, not closed shapes. Like in thois Open vs closed.afdesign example, they can look very much alike but fill very differently. JCSJCS 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
R C-R Posted April 23, 2022 Posted April 23, 2022 7 minutes ago, Hens said: Or expanded strokes which will also not fill because they are shapes instead of strokes. Well, technically if they are expanded into shapes they can be filled but the fill color will not fill anything outside the shape, so the effect will just look like a colored stroke, like in this expanded vs not expanded.afdesign example. The difference becomes obvious if a fill color is applied to the "not expanded" layer. JCSJCS 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
JCSJCS Posted April 24, 2022 Author Posted April 24, 2022 Hi all, and thanks so much for all the helpful tips. Coming from a photography/video background I'm comparatively new to vectors, and coming from Adobe I'm always forgetting Affinity apps have their personas. The files I was trying to colour did not contain closed paths - just the outline curves. I simply rasterised the layer then popped into the photo persona and used the fill bucket. This was after copy/pasting between Photo and Designer for a few days ☠️ Thanks again! Quote
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