Sweatman

Exactly why I'm trying to make one.

I can not find a "Close Curve" option under "Keyboard Shortcuts". Pls advise. Thx

Affinito crashed twice on me today. Kinda odd behavior. Am I the only one?

+1

First off - my apologies. I did mean Transparency Tool. That kinda messed things up...a lot. Sorry. And I tried your recipe. Which is very cool, btw. But I still couldn't replicate the same result.

I have no idea how he did, what he did in the video (12:31 - 12:35). But he did it with only 2 clicks so he was not editing a gradient. And you can tell from the icon that he only used the gradient tool.

(sigh) Every time I take two steps forward, I feel like I get pushed three steps back. "Layer masks"? Ugh. That'll take me another day to figure out. Thank you for the link, tho.

I was under the impression that you could only make a gradient fade in one direction. According to this video I was wrong. And I don't know how he did this. Pls advise.

Does Affinity ever offer sample files from their videos to re-construct? Like this eye-blistering beauty here.....

I must have had my keyboard shortcuts mixed up because all of a sudden all my tool panels disappeared. Reverse engineering my moronic powers, I realized I hit Ctl+Shift+H - which means "Hide Studio". Toggle this keyboard combination for on/off visibililty. I didn't know that was a thing. Now I do, and so do you. 😃

@Pšenda Oh hey!! Now that's slick. Thank you!!

I'm not smart enough to run both apps. And I'm having enough trouble just getting up-to-speed with Designer. =]

That works even better!! Thank you @kaffeeundsalz. 😃

Can you not make a simple flood-fill layer in Designer Persona (Affinity Designer)? Or can it only be done in Pixel Persona? All I want is a simple flat colored layer. I know it's not monumentally inconvenient to switch Personas, but I just wanna know if I'm missing something. Thanks in advance. =]

So I discovered a work around for this issue thanks to Danilo Fiocco. Place your sketch at the bottom of your stack. Draw shapes without fills until all shapes are completed. Then go back in and do your shape thingy (fills, gradients, etc). At that point turn off or delete your sketch layer. It's rough, but it's the best we have for now. 😉

Awesome, Man!! Thank you so much!!!

When you create an object with a gradient fill, it has no transparency settings. Dragging with the Transparency tool obviously creates a new transparency setting. Is there a way in Affinity to delete the transparency information without deleting the gradient fill? Thanks!

I agree about the strong strokes - the lemon was the first example I grabbed. But that's a design choice, not a technique. There's DEFINITELY something else that Danilo is doing that I'm not. I see in his videos he's using a lot of gaussian blurs. I've tried several tests using that technique, but again - it looks just like Illustrator. =[

I really LOVE this guy's work. To me it doesn't even look vector - which is a look I'm going for....raster look. But everything I do still looks like crisp, sterile old Illustrator work. Is there some step I'm missing when I export my image? Is it possible to soften a stroke? I've been fighting with this for years going from AI to PSD to try to find that silver bullet. I know some ppl will ask "why not just paint then?". Because I love working with vector tools. Period. The lemon attachment is mine, the other one IS THE COOL ONE! Thanks in advance.

Is there a keyboard shortcut to control the blur amount on a Gaussian blur effect?

Exactly. If I may use Illustrator once again as an example; after placing a bitmap image in your document, you set it's mode to "template". This will create a monochrome bitmap image that appears like that in *every* display mode. Very handy if, like me, you sometimes prefer working in outline mode. =]

um......because that's all that's been drawn so far. or one could say....objects on other layers have been turned off....or hidden.

Fer sure.

Sorry to point out the elephant in the living room; but that's not how (whispers) Illustrator/Corel Draw/Freehand etc. handles it. =\

Hi gdenby - Thx for the response. It appears that anything other than a vector layer will *not* appear in outline mode. There are clumsy work-arounds (drawing under a Multiply layer but never seeing the template in outline mode), but that's an unfortunate drag. =[