Fill a rectangle

[charlesbewlay]

Why is it so difficult to just fill a rectangle with a colour. Nothing works after over an hour trying everything?

[Hangman]

Hi @charlesbewlay,

Questions

1. Are you using Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo or Affinity Publisher?
2. Is your rectangle a vector shape or a raster image?
3. How are you attempting to fill the rectangle, i.e., which tool or process are you using?

[firstdefence]

It's not difficult, create a rectangle, with the rectangles layer selected, which it should be if you have just created it, if created previously simply click on it in the workspace else select the rectangles layer from the layers panel, go to the colour tab and make sure the fill colour well is upper most. and change the colour.

[charlesbewlay]

1 minute ago, Hangman said:

Hi @charlesbewlay,

Questions

1. Are you using Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo or Affinity Publisher?
2. Is your rectangle a vector shape or a raster image?
3. How are you attempting to fill the rectangle, i.e., which tool or process are you using?

Hi @Hangman, thanks for quick response.

1. Publisher 2. But also switched to the other Personas

2. Vector – just drawn from Rectangle in the left hand toolbar.

3. The Fill tool (G) and the colour swatch with fill selected (and tried line also).

This should be incredibly simple.

[charlesbewlay]

10 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

It's not difficult, create a rectangle, with the rectangles layer selected, which it should be if you have just created it, if created previously simply click on it in the workspace else select the rectangles layer from the layers panel, go to the colour tab and make sure the fill colour well is upper most. and change the colour.

Thanks @firstdefence. I did that, see the fill panel top left, click on the swatch I had created. But nothing happens.

[charlesbewlay]

3 minutes ago, charlesbewlay said:

Thanks @firstdefence. I did that, see the fill panel top left, click on the swatch I had created. But nothing happens.

 

[GarryP]

Is your Layer Opacity set to 0%?
Select the layer and then look at the Opacity setting in the Layers Panel.

If that’s not it, try what you see in my attached video.
If that doesn’t work for you then please attach a full-screen video showing what happens for you.
Please make sure that we can see the Layers Panel in the video.

[firstdefence]

Simple errors can be the bane of our lives so its worth asking obvious questions, with that in mind, In the Colour panel, is opacity set to 100%

[charlesbewlay]

3 hours ago, GarryP said:

Is your Layer Opacity set to 0%?
Select the layer and then look at the Opacity setting in the Layers Panel.

If that’s not it, try what you see in my attached video.
If that doesn’t work for you then please attach a full-screen video showing what happens for you.
Please make sure that we can see the Layers Panel in the video.

 

Thanks very much @GaryP, that worked a treat!

[charlesbewlay]

Just now, charlesbewlay said:

Thanks very much @GaryP, that worked a treat!

Your great video I meant!

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.

Just out of interest, what was it in my video that made the difference?

[R C-R]

7 hours ago, charlesbewlay said:

Thanks @firstdefence. I did that, see the fill panel top left, click on the swatch I had created. But nothing happens.

It looks like from your screenshot that you have the stroke color selected in the Context toolbar & the stroke width set to "none" (zero), so of course the color of the stroke won't matter. Try selecting "Fill" in the Context toolbar instead & you should have no problems filling the rectangle with the color of your choice.

[charlesbewlay]

On 6/7/2023 at 6:56 PM, R C-R said:

It looks like from your screenshot that you have the stroke color selected in the Context toolbar & the stroke width set to "none" (zero), so of course the color of the stroke won't matter. Try selecting "Fill" in the Context toolbar instead & you should have no problems filling the rectangle with the color of your choice.

Actually, fill was selected, and clicking on a swatch did nothing, and same with line. Instead I used the Swatches Panel.

Still, why the Context tools did not work remains a mystery. I just tried in a different job and it works fine. Thanks @R C-R