Fill a Section with a Texture

mBIT · January 18, 2023

Hi,

if you Select a Section of an Texture and try to fill this with another Texture it fills first ... after scalling i looks very bad !

The Texture is in a Place and to the borders it does not fill correct - no repeat of the Texture!

Someone any idea ?

firstdefence · January 18, 2023

Welcome to the forum @mBIT

Which Affinity app are you using?
Which tool are you using?
What are those tools settings in its context menu just above the workspace?

firstdefence · January 18, 2023

You can use the selection as a mask.

Deselect and selections you currently have active
In Affinity Photo drag in the pattern you want to apply or place it whichever method you prefer. Make sure the X, Y, W and H are all integer values.
Make sure the pattern layer is selected and choose Layer > New pattern layer from selection
The document will fill with the pattern
Temporarily turn the new pattern layer off so you can see your design layer and make sure it's selected and make a selection
Turn the New Pattern layer back on and make sure it's selected in the layers panel
On the layers panel click the mask icon at the bottom and select Mask, this will mask the layer layer to the selection
Deselect the selection by pressing Ctrl + D or Cmd + D on Mac

To edit the New pattern layer, i.e. scale it up or down or reposition it, you will need to remove the mask by dragging it above the New pattern layer, once you have done that you can drag the mask back onto the new pattern layers icon to re-apply the mask.

I sincerely hope there is an easier way to do this in Affinity Photo.

mBIT · February 6, 2023

Well ... sounds nice but is not what really works ... in my ancient Photo Impact 12 I go here and take a seamless texture copy it to the clipboard and go to fill with clipboard ... it fills the corresponding area with the texture repeatedly ...

Here it would be cool if I can already scale and rotate that (which is really cool) ... if instead of 1x the texture it seamlessly pastes it into the area ... unfortunately this does not work as soon as the BITMAP is reduced the edges come and that with textures with 4096x4096 pixel in an area that is smaller ...

But thanks for the help, I'll continue in Photo Impact ... I have bought affinity 1 and new also 2 but for something like this it is not suitable ... or much too complicated ...

firstdefence · February 6, 2023

Slightly easier way, by creating curves and filling the curves, you draw a curve using the pen tool and use the gradient fill tool to fill the curve with a bitmap texture, it will scale and rotate as you want, or if you have the parts as vectors simply export them from where you created them and fill, or use a third-party app to vectorise the graphic.

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StuartRc · February 6, 2023

In Designer you can use a vector pattern contained within the assets panel. Simply drag the object onto the Fill swatch of a vector shape. It can be seamless and scaled. I use this a lot now! really useful for adding quick textures to images