jefferis Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Illustrator had a feature where you could allow unclosed vector lines whose gaps where minor to close for a color fill. Is there a feature like that for Affinity Design or Photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Unclosed Curve layers can have a fill, see attached image where you can see that the black Stroke doesn’t go 'all the way around' the Fill. If this is not what you mean, can you give some more information about what you want to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Be aware that the fill between strokes will be straight and can´t be "curvy": GarryP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Then there is this sort of situation. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | 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...
PixelPest Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 .. or this when no fill-rule will work to fill the whole shape inside its boundaries: Old Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefferis Posted August 31, 2022 Author Share Posted August 31, 2022 Okay, so I am running into a bit of a problem. I used a vectorizer program to create the image from a picture. You would think the natural fill are for the line filled with yellow would be the rest of the leg. In AI you would pour fill into that area, but I don't see the same function exactly. The fill with the line is filling outside the enclosed area. This is where AI would see the closed areas and fill it. Any ideas how best to proceed? This is taking way longer than I had hoped. Pilate2_vectorized.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 You are going to have to join all the separate open curves. You are going to have to duplicate some of them and do the joining twice because there is one open curve separating two areas. It is a lot of work. Note also that the head and neck and torso are not separated. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | 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...
jefferis Posted August 31, 2022 Author Share Posted August 31, 2022 Is there a better way to vectorize a photo~!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 That ain´t gonna work in Affinity Designer. The centreline autotrace looks awful. Better do an autotrace for a color filled shape -then back in Affinity Designer go Layer->Geometry->Separate curves. Send the outer path to the background and color fill the inner shapes to your liking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefferis Posted August 31, 2022 Author Share Posted August 31, 2022 Thanks Where would you do an auto trace for color? Can you do that in Affinity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 23 minutes ago, jefferis said: Can you do that in Affinity? Affinity doesn't have any auto-tracing functions. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Inkscape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefferis Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 7 hours ago, PixelPest said: Inkscape. Thanks.. Just found out it doesn't work on a Mac in the current OS. 😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 2 hours ago, jefferis said: Thanks.. Just found out it doesn't work on a Mac in the current OS. 😞 Type autotrace into the forum search box and you should find many discussions, and many suggestions for other tracing programs. Perhaps one of them will work on your system. But where did you see that it doesn't work on a current macOS? This page says it should work on 10.11 or higher: https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-on-mac.html Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefferis Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 I downloaded the latest version and is shows with a No ENTRY symbol. Not supported on this version is the error message. I found a free Vectornator in the APP store. Will try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 3 hours ago, jefferis said: Thanks.. Just found out it doesn't work on a Mac in the current OS. 😞 Which OS? Works for me on Intel Mac OS 11.6.8. There are two versions available for Mac OS Intel and arm64 which I assume means the new Apple chipset. https://inkscape.org/release/1.2.1/platforms/ Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | 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...
PixelPest Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 It works on Mac/Intel or ARM - otherwise I hadn´t suggest it. Inkscape user on Mac since 2003 speaking here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefferis Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 Don't know why. Mac 2019 with the current Monterey with the latest security update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Did you choose the intel chipset from the link I provided? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | 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...
jefferis Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 Yes I tried 1.2.1 which is the latest they had on their site, unless that is M1 Only.... they aren't very clear about which one would be intel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 This one from here:https://inkscape.org/release/1.2.1/mac-os-x/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, jefferis said: Yes I tried 1.2.1 which is the latest they had on their site, unless that is M1 Only.... they aren't very clear about which one would be intel It says Intel. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | 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...
jefferis Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 DOH! 🙂 I did not know arm64 was the M1 I thought it meant 64 bit vs. 32 bit. I've been on Macs since 1986, pre OSX, and pre 64 bit architecture. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefferis Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 Wow.... Lot of features and looks like a steep learning curve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJack Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 9 minutes ago, jefferis said: Wow.... Lot of features and looks like a steep learning curve? Why not just use a free online vectorizer?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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