golfortennis Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 I am working on creating yardage books for golf, and have decided to try to step up what I am doing. Whereas before I was just tracing against an image then having black and white diagrams, I'm trying to see if I can add some color. Where there is water, I am looking to fill blue. This was done tracing the lines on my iPad. As the image was too large to do all in one, the line for the water (highlighted blue) was not the entire section. When I go to fill(which has worked out well on some others), I get this : The bottom part of the blue is water, and I would be ok with that, but the top part actually is covering land as opposed to water. Any idea how that might be fixed? The desired end product is to have the colors fill in where desired, and then just take the checkmark off the image. Thank you for any help. I am very much a newbie with this program, so my limited attempts and searching has not turned up what I was hoping to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 That is an open curve. You will need to close it and then possibly edit the outline to cover the upper left. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfortennis Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share Posted July 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: That is an open curve. You will need to close it and then possibly edit the outline to cover the upper left. So I'm trying to see what "closed" is. I have a similar image on this one: But no problem getting the fill to go. The only difference is I think I drew it all at once. But deleting the original curve and tracing it again all at once, gave me the same result as before. I also did a "merge curves" that I found in a search, but nothing. I've even removed the curves that were left of the curve delineating the water, but still no luck. I'm obviously missing a step somewhere, but can't really piece it to what I am finding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 56 minutes ago, golfortennis said: So I'm trying to see what "closed" is. These are open curves: This is a closed curve, where the coincident start and end nodes are combined to form a single node: If you fill the closed curve, you get this: If you fill the open curves, the fill has a straight edge between the start and end nodes, like this: v_kyr 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfortennis Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share Posted July 29, 2022 2 hours ago, Alfred said: These are open curves: This is a closed curve, where the coincident start and end nodes are combined to form a single node: If you fill the closed curve, you get this: If you fill the open curves, the fill has a straight edge between the start and end nodes, like this: Ok, after trying a few things, I get the concept of why it's doing that. What I'm not seeing is how to get the blue in the right spot. I'm less concerned about the land in the top left corner or mid-left, but it's that portion in the top half of the curve. I've tried redrawing the line to where it comes across the top, ostensibly "closing" it, but that doesn't give me a different result. I don't know that I want to use the paintbrush, because it looks a little messy(at least when I do it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 4 minutes ago, golfortennis said: What I'm not seeing is how to get the blue in the right spot. It isn't clear to me from your screenshots if there should be any blue fill along the upper part of the open curve so I can't tell you exactly how to fix this, but if there not supposed to be any of it on the top part, with the Node Tool select the uppermost node of that curve & delete it. After that, or if part of the top section should be blue, use "Close Curve" from the Node Tool context menu to close it, & add nodes & position them as needed to confine the blue fill to the desired area. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Some good autotracer might be of help here, especially if you have to vectorize a bunch of those fields and then recolor parts on those. golfplatz2.afdesign 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfortennis Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 2 hours ago, R C-R said: It isn't clear to me from your screenshots if there should be any blue fill along the upper part of the open curve so I can't tell you exactly how to fix this, but if there not supposed to be any of it on the top part, with the Node Tool select the uppermost node of that curve & delete it. After that, or if part of the top section should be blue, use "Close Curve" from the Node Tool context menu to close it, & add nodes & position them as needed to confine the blue fill to the desired area. Thank you. I will try that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfortennis Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 8 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Some good autotracer might be of help here, especially if you have to vectorize a bunch of those fields and then recolor parts on those. golfplatz2.afdesign Autotracer.... now this could be real useful. I will be doing a lot of reading/watching in a couple days. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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