Hi, are you referring to the video at 6:36? I just made some squares and gave them colors I wanted to use. I color picked them from some other cartoon artwork that had colors I liked. Hope this helps!
Learned so much from your videos. Thank you sir. Perhaps using the vector flood fill tool for coloring may be a better option to start with when using designer? Then off to the brush for shadows and highlights.
Thanks for the suggestion, David! Yes, vector flood is another way to do it. I think which method you choose mostly depends on how your shapes are connected and how you prefer to paint them. For example, with the pixel method, I can make all my grass and leaves as one layer even though they may be disconnected. Then I can easily sweep my brush across all of them. I believe with the vector method, I'd need to keep selecting areas that aren't connected in order to select them. But, a great benefit of the vector flood tool is that I can easily modify my linework later on. Perhaps I will do a video on the vector flood tool and explore these methods 😎
I had been doing this in Pixel Persona a little differently but with the same result. If I highlighted a layer then started to paint the assistant would make a pixel layer that was clipped inside the object so I would be painting inside the lines. I can't see how that is different than this. I'll have to look closer at it.
Hi Karin, your method also works. Actually, I am making a video now on the Vector Flood Fill tool and will be showing a coloring method similar to yours, so stay tuned :)
@@TechnicallyTrent In playing around with it I couldn't get it to work with a vector object. I have to have the pixel layer clipped inside. I went back and re-watched your video and saw that you rasterized the object "to make it easier". But, in reality you have to rasterize it in order to use protect alpha.
Boa tarde. As minhas desculpas por escrever em português. Será que o meu Caro Senhor poderia explicar como guardar uma imagem em CMYK para utilizar depois em livro e ir para a gráfica. Muito obrigado pela atenção que lhe possa mercer este meu pedido.
This is ANOTHER example of how Affinity boggles my mind with things that break flexible workflow CONSTANTLY! Yes, preserve alpha is great. It's essential. But WHY is it linked to the brush and not the layer!!!! There's tools that aren't the brush that I want to preserve alpha for. And shortcuts that I want to preserve alpha for (like alt + backspace for fill). But those don't have a toggle for preserve alpha. It's not that something has to copy Photoshop, but it's absolutely worse to tie it to brushes. I'm two months into heavy affinity usage and constantly baffled at they shackling decisions. Honestly, Affinity has been the most disappointing experience in software I've ever had. And made more disappointing by the fact that the stuff that's good is really good. But the stuff that's bad is mind boggling bad. Just lacking functionality of the most basic things. While excelling at advanced features.
Hi @WickedFader, I agree that preserve alpha on the brush is a strange place to put it. I am also more accustomed to seeing it as a Layers option. As for limiting effects to certain areas/shapes, usually I lose the clipping feature for this. This is where you can drag something into another shape. I'll be making a video about this shortly, so stay tuned!
![Vector Flood Fill Tool [Part 1] - Tutorial for Affinity Designer](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bsNovUYXSsw/mqdefault.jpg)
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Really great tutorials. The best I have seen on the Affinity products. This channel is gonna really skyrocket soon. Great work!
Thanks Sean!
Great tutorial Trent. Very useful feature
Fantastic, I wondered where the protect alpha button was, how come I didn't notice it. Many thanks for this.
Yes, it works differently in Affinity programs than in other programs I've used.
Hi, interesting tutorial, still how do you add color pellets in the document as above ?
Hi, are you referring to the video at 6:36? I just made some squares and gave them colors I wanted to use. I color picked them from some other cartoon artwork that had colors I liked. Hope this helps!
Learned so much from your videos. Thank you sir. Perhaps using the vector flood fill tool for coloring may be a better option to start with when using designer? Then off to the brush for shadows and highlights.
Thanks for the suggestion, David!
Yes, vector flood is another way to do it. I think which method you choose mostly depends on how your shapes are connected and how you prefer to paint them. For example, with the pixel method, I can make all my grass and leaves as one layer even though they may be disconnected. Then I can easily sweep my brush across all of them. I believe with the vector method, I'd need to keep selecting areas that aren't connected in order to select them. But, a great benefit of the vector flood tool is that I can easily modify my linework later on.
Perhaps I will do a video on the vector flood tool and explore these methods 😎
@@TechnicallyTrent Excellent. There are so many ways to get things done.
Great tutorial 😊
Thank you! 😊
We are appreciate your hard work
Thanks for watching, MTM!
Great. Thanks a lot🎉
Helps a lot, Thanks
I had been doing this in Pixel Persona a little differently but with the same result. If I highlighted a layer then started to paint the assistant would make a pixel layer that was clipped inside the object so I would be painting inside the lines. I can't see how that is different than this. I'll have to look closer at it.
Hi Karin, your method also works. Actually, I am making a video now on the Vector Flood Fill tool and will be showing a coloring method similar to yours, so stay tuned :)
@@TechnicallyTrent In playing around with it I couldn't get it to work with a vector object. I have to have the pixel layer clipped inside. I went back and re-watched your video and saw that you rasterized the object "to make it easier". But, in reality you have to rasterize it in order to use protect alpha.
I never knew. Thank you!
No problem!
Espectacular
Thank you!
Boa tarde. As minhas desculpas por escrever em português. Será que o meu Caro Senhor poderia explicar como guardar uma imagem em CMYK para utilizar depois em livro e ir para a gráfica. Muito obrigado pela atenção que lhe possa mercer este meu pedido.
Hi @augustosousa.50! In Affinity Designer, you can change to CMYK by going to Document Setup -> Color tab. Hope this helps!
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This is ANOTHER example of how Affinity boggles my mind with things that break flexible workflow CONSTANTLY! Yes, preserve alpha is great. It's essential. But WHY is it linked to the brush and not the layer!!!! There's tools that aren't the brush that I want to preserve alpha for. And shortcuts that I want to preserve alpha for (like alt + backspace for fill). But those don't have a toggle for preserve alpha. It's not that something has to copy Photoshop, but it's absolutely worse to tie it to brushes. I'm two months into heavy affinity usage and constantly baffled at they shackling decisions.
Honestly, Affinity has been the most disappointing experience in software I've ever had. And made more disappointing by the fact that the stuff that's good is really good. But the stuff that's bad is mind boggling bad. Just lacking functionality of the most basic things. While excelling at advanced features.
Hi @WickedFader, I agree that preserve alpha on the brush is a strange place to put it. I am also more accustomed to seeing it as a Layers option.
As for limiting effects to certain areas/shapes, usually I lose the clipping feature for this. This is where you can drag something into another shape. I'll be making a video about this shortly, so stay tuned!