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SlavaUX
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1 minute ago, R C-R said:
The value I was hoping to add is to let you know that your comment about 'walking ants' selections being single vector paths is incorrect. That's why it does not work as you assumed it should.
All they do is select an area of the canvas. They can be used with some but not all layer types to define whole or partial pixels for certain pixel-level operations (like masking, erasing, or painting).
It is easy enough to show this. One way is to create a document with a single pixel layer. Deselect it in the Layers panel. Now make a 'marching ants' selection with any of the selection tools. Try painting with a brush without reselecting the layer. Note that the deselected layer is unaffected.
I'm sorry I do not get why you are telling all this stuff about where selection belongs to. What does it matter? Selection is still a vector (a geometric, connected shape defined by X.Y coordinates of its points), and in its nature it cannot have overlapping areas of its own parts. Which makes it simple and perfectly suitable for implementing the requested delete feature by applying the exact same modifications as the "Image layer" has, and deleting the pixels in the original bitmap even though the original bitmap is contained inside a scaled and skewed "Image layer". I'm willing to bet two beers that once I got familiar with the codebase of Affinity I could code such operation in a day. This is not what I call hard to build.
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1 minute ago, R C-R said:
No, it is a document level pixel-based selection, one that may enclose partial as well as whole pixels. It does not 'belong' to any specific layer nor is it itself a layer.
Seriously, I don't know why just wrote that. That message contains no added value to the matter in question.
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2 hours ago, MEB said:
Have you tried to insert/place an afphoto document containing the image instead? It will be inserted as an embedded document (not an image layer) which you can double-click on canvas or in the Layers panel (on its thumbnail) to open and edit in a new document tab as if it was a "smart object" (as in Photoshop).
Saving to file and embedding otherwise simply pasted bitmaps, just to be able to delete selection once? For each bitmap in every new design document? ehm..
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Any progress on this? I need this almost on every time I use Designer
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3 minutes ago, MEB said:
Hi SlavaUX,
The Image layer acts as a container for the original full resolution image data. You are not manipulating the pixel data contained inside (directly) unless you rasterise the layer (which is done using the dpi specific for the document). You can only affect it indirectly through masks, adjustments, live filters or transforms (scaling, skewing etc). If you really want to manipulate it at a pixel level rasterise the image layer so it becomes a "regular" pixel layer as you are used to in Photoshop. Check this video tutorial for more details.Thanks. I got that from the previous posts in this thread. The functionality is a useful addition, which allows out of the box image manipulation without losing the resolution and revert changes.
I also understand that current versions of Affinity Designer/Photo are unable to delete bitmap pixels form a selection on top of an Image layer.
From my perspective it should be possible to implement ('walking ants' selection path is a single vector path anyway, so just apply size/scale/skew from the image layer in reverse order to the underlying original bitmap and delete those pixels. voila). This should be applicable to Erase Brush tool just as easy. Please put this on your roadmap. You know people want it. -
19 minutes ago, R C-R said:
In this respect they are somewhat like vector objects -- you can scale, rotate, stretch, shear, etc. them non-destructively & either via the Transform panel or with the popup on the context toolbar of the Move Tool, reset them to their original properties with no change to their 'native' resolutions.
That's simply not a good explanation of why deleting is not possible. Vectors consist of multiple geometric shapes laid on top of each other, which is the reason you can't select by color or delete that selection. Image layer still contains one single bitmap. Scaled, rotated, stretched or not, there is nothing that makes Select Brush > Delete impossible to build in.
Users are complaining about this missing basic feature since 2016. I don't think it is anyone's interest to defend the lack of it and point people to the workarounds. -
1 minute ago, carl123 said:
Use a Mask
wow. ok. So you are saying:
- it is impossible to delete selection without rasterizing
- that every time I just want to delete a part of an image I need to DRAW a mask in THAT SHAPE? And who is going to pay me for the lost hours?
I don't believe what I'm reading here. That's something that is done in almost any other tool in seconds.. -
I find it horrible UX when I fail to perform such a basic as select > delete selection
What if I don't want to rasterize the image? How do I delete selection from an "Image" without rasterizing it??
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I can't find this " File ▸ New Batch Job " menu item. Is it removed?
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5 hours ago, MCFC_4Heatons said:
Affinity Photo has a pespective grid/plane feature
I saw the implementation thanks to a guy on youtube. Though it is completely useless because it is not in Designer. I would need to purchase Photo just to add perspective to bitmaps, and that would only cover 30% of my perspective needs. I need perspective as a part of my main design process inside the same tool which can apply/modify perspective on the fly to bitmaps, vectors and symbol instances.
Affinity Photo perspective implementation is really beautifully made and this is exactly what I'm asking here as a feature of Designer.
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I'm really needing a free transform tool that can handle
- Vector shapes and groups
- Bitmaps
- Symbols (with whatever is inside it)
Sample use case attached.
- Mark Freeman, mondze and Helianthropy
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Any status update on this? I'm using 1.7 beta, is it maybe already there?
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7 hours ago, Sean P said:
Does this happen with a new document, or is it specific to an existing document? I've just tried it myself on a new document and an old one I've had and neither of them are crashing. Would you be able to attach the document that is crashing for you please?
It is not happening on a new document. But does happen on two different files created with previous Designer versions. Also reproducible in a clean VM environment. Example file attached.
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10 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
But, did it give you an SVG with everything you had in your .afdesign file? Or did it throw away the effects that would have required rasterization?
The .afdesign file (attached to my previous message) did not contain anything except a single vector curve with a solid color fill. So for this specific file Designer gives me the correct output with Rasterize:Nothing, but it will of course fail to do so when output partially contains bitmaps or effects that should be rasterized.
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Title pretty much describes it. No randomness. Designer crashes every time I try to Shift+Click select slices.
This happens both in the Slices panel as when selecting the blue slice boundary boxes on the artboard. -
@legin No that is not the case. SVG for Web preset reproducibly triggers flattening.
With more testing I found that custom preset with Rasterize explicitly set to "Nothing" workarounds the issue, successfully exporting SVG as vector.
Causes rasterizing:
Doesn't cause rasterizing:
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SVG images get exported as SVG file, but they contain a bitmap instead of vector. Beta v1.7.0.209 exported vectors just fine. (tested with the same file)
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I just want to add that I came here after I failed to get rid of the guides by moving them in the empty space between the artboards in v1.7.
I've read here that it should have worked, so I gave it another shot by moving the guides beyond the last artboard, and only then it worked.- nitro912gr and Old Bruce
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Hi Chris, good news and bad news. I am no longer able to reproduce this issue, as it was magically gone after I switched between Personas once. So I am able and fully using the 1.7, but I can no longer debug it for you.
No, I have no additional keyboard/clipboard related software running. Possible interference may come from Display Fusion Pro or Kaspersky Internet Security. I can think of nothing else running on my workstation that would mess with the focus. The extraordinary thing was that the issue was only with that specific submenu and occurred only when you try to expand it by hovering.
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Count my vote on guides distance measure Fireworks style! Being able to measure distance between guidelines is the reason, mostly only reason I use guides during design process.
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As soon as I hover over "Studio", something blinks on the top-right of the Designer Window, followed by immidiate disappearing of the previously expanded "View" main menu.
This makes it impossible to show any sub windows like Assets. I did find any workarounds.
Windows 7 x64
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Subtract tool not working as it should
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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This is hidden so far you have to have read this thread in order to know this feature exists. (there is a usability hint hidden in this statement)