marksthompson Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 Hi It is a while since I have tried to use a jpeg file fill a shape. The Fill tool no longer appears on the tool bar and the Vector Flood Fill Tool is missing the Bitmap fill option that the user guide says should be there. What am I missing? Thanks in advance for suggestions Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 Did you consult https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_vectorFloodFill.html Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksthompson Posted November 12, 2023 Author Share Posted November 12, 2023 yes I did. The user guide says there is a bitmap fill option. There is not on my current configuration. That's the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 Check the Affinity version and the OS version. Though you said you can not see the "Fill tool", there's no Fill tool in Designer. It's the Gradient tool similar to the Fill tool. You can add it via View>Customize Tools if you can not see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 33 minutes ago, marksthompson said: yes I did. The user guide says there is a bitmap fill option. There is not on my current configuration. That's the problem. Can you upload a screenshot, showing the complete Application Windows ? Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 21 minutes ago, ashf said: Check the Affinity version and the OS version. Though you said you can not see the "Fill tool", there's no Fill tool in Designer. It's the Gradient tool similar to the Fill tool. You can add it via View>Customize Tools if you can not see it. The Vector Fill Tool is new introduced in V2.3 (or V2.2) to Designer (see my link to help in realy above). It seems it is not visible by default, so you need to add it to the tools panel manually. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksthompson Posted November 13, 2023 Author Share Posted November 13, 2023 10 hours ago, NotMyFault said: The Vector Fill Tool is new introduced in V2.3 (or V2.2) to Designer (see my link to help in realy above). It seems it is not visible by default, so you need to add it to the tools panel manually. Hi Notmyfault. Before the Vector Flood Fill Tool was announced there was a Fill Tool in Designer I used it to fill vector shapes with bitmap images (usually seamless bitmap). This is what I cannot do. The User Guide says the Vector Fill Tool has a button for 'Set Bitmap Fill'. This is not available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksthompson Posted November 13, 2023 Author Share Posted November 13, 2023 5 minutes ago, marksthompson said: Hi Notmyfault. Before the Vector Flood Fill Tool was announced there was a Fill Tool in Designer I used it to fill vector shapes with bitmap images (usually seamless bitmap). This is what I cannot do. The User Guide says the Vector Fill Tool has a button for 'Set Bitmap Fill'. This is not available. Update. 5 minutes ago, marksthompson said: Hi Notmyfault. Before the Vector Flood Fill Tool was announced there was a Fill Tool in Designer I used it to fill vector shapes with bitmap images (usually seamless bitmap). This is what I cannot do. The User Guide says the Vector Fill Tool has a button for 'Set Bitmap Fill'. This is not available. Update. It must be my memory that is faulty. The bitmap fill is in the Gradient too as you suggested. This is not where I remember it being. Thanks NotMyFault and ashf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 13, 2023 Staff Share Posted November 13, 2023 Hi @marksthompson, Welcome to Affinity Forums It's not your memory, in v1 this tool was indeed called Fill Tool in Designer and Publisher and Gradient Tool in Photo. Its tool icon was also different from Photo V1. It was later renamed to Gradient Tool in Designer and Publisher to match Photo and also adopted Photo's icon, so it's now called Gradient Tool in all apps for consistency (V2). Old Bruce and ashf 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 Lol. I was the one requested to rename the Fill tool. I completely forgot it. NotMyFault and Old Bruce 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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