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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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23 minutes ago, jefferis said:

Can you do that in Affinity? 

Affinity doesn't have any auto-tracing functions.

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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

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Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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    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.
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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/

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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.

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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 

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It says Intel.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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