Jordane Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 I have been spending hours trying to fill an area of my picture... It turns out to be an impossible task! I have found myself pasting my image on paint.com to fill out the area and then paste it back on my final document! Please help with simple language... 2 Shoes.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted May 8, 2019 Staff Share Posted May 8, 2019 Hi Jordane, Welcome to the forums Are you looking to fill the drawing section by section, or fill the entire image? If it's the latter you can select your largest curve and simply select a fill colour from the context toolbar, as shown below! Quote Please Note: I am now out of the office until Tuesday 2nd April on annual leave. If you require urgent assistance, please create a new thread and a member of our team will be sure to assist asap. Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Dan C said: Are you looking to fill the drawing section by section, or fill the entire image? I suspect it’s the former! The problem is that some areas to be filled are bounded by unconnected lines. In the above screenshot, the lacing panel on the left-hand side of the shoe is filled almost completely, but the one on the right-hand side is only filled where there is a curve which is not part of the main shoe outline. Jordane and Dan C 2 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Hi, Jordane, Looking at your file, it appears you are trying to us the vector curves like "paint" lines. At this time, Designer fills the space enclosed by a vector line, and you have a lot of open vectors that can not have a fill placed cleanly in them. The shoe needs to be put together differently. Don't think of it as a bunch of lines that can have color between them. Think of colored areas that need to join together sort of like paper cut outs. Attached is a re-build. I took lines, duplicated them, broke them into smaller parts, and then joined and closed them into abutting shapes. Rather tedious, but doable. OneShoe.afdesign Jordane, Dan C and Alfred 2 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Hi @Jordane. Welcome to the forums. Depending on your final design needs & preferences, you may not need to close all the curves to color them if you take advantage of layer clipping to nest some of the shapes into others, like for "Shoe 1" in this 2 Shoes mod.afdesign example. This can eliminate the need to duplicate, break, & join some of the unconnected curves when rebuilding files for coloring. This also makes some reshaping edits easier (but can make others harder). It also makes the outline view mode look strange, which can take some getting used to if you frequently switch view modes to check your work: Jordane 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordane Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 You guys are brilliant, Thank you for helping me out! Not sure I understood all of it but I think what you are saying is I must make shapes instead of lines if I want to be able to fill in the drawing... A new conception of drawing for me... I am teaching myself how to use this Software and really appreciate your advice. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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