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Adding grain can give your work a bit of character. This is the based on a method described for use in Photoshop but tweaked to work directly in Affinity Designer. Whilst there's no stand alone way to add nosie to an object, it is available when you fill with a gradient and in the fx colour overlay so you can do it either way. So to add the grain using the gradient tool Place a rectangle in a layer above all your artwork and covering the whole image. Set the blend mode to overlay. Fill the rectangle with a gradient from 50% grey, so #808080, to the same 50% grey. When click on the Colour box in the gradient tab to set the grey there's also a noise option. Set this for both the colour stops. Normally you want them to have the same amount of noise for each stop but you can choose different amounts for a varying grain effect. Add an fx gausian blur to that layer, not too big, say about 0.4px Or to add the grain using an fx colour overlay Place a rectangle in a layer above all your artwork and covering the whole image. Fill the rectangle with #808080 Set the blend mode to overlay. Go in to fx and add a colour overlay. Click on the colour box and set also that to #808080 and add some noise using the slider. Add an fx gausian blur, around 0.4px As it's all non-destructive you can tweak the grain size if required.

Worked out how to do it. Copy the first, set to normal, no fill or stroke and use that.

I've an object that's set to screen blend and an overlapping object with another screen blend, but I want the 2nd constrained to the 1st's shape. When I do that it goes wrong. Here's a simple example. The 1st is in layers and looking as you'd expect. The 2nd when I drag the object under the 1st to have in constrained. Is there a way of doing it other than chopping stuff up. Thanks.

Sorry but that new icon is plain awful. Sometimes I really wonder how people create something, look at it and think, yep that's better than the old one when it obviously isn't. You only need to look in your apps folder and it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Nice improvements, but that icon, it's hideous.

Just read the can we have a linux version please thread. Why don't you do what was suggested there and see if there's enough Windows interest with a kickstarter campaign?

I'm trying out the Affinity demo but not sure I'd want to use something tied to OSX. Whilst I mainly use my Mac for design I do also use my Windows tablet and having some non-compatible offerings on the Windows side doesn't help at all. So it will probably be that CS6 will be in use quite a while.

Hi. I'm currently an Illustrator user but have been having a play with the demo. One of the reasons is in order to zoom in more than Illustrator allows. Few things I've not been able to work out that I'm using a lot are: 1) Colour picking from a reference image. Seems you have to pick the colour then select & apply rather than the normal select and pick. That wouldn't work as I'm doing a ton of them, well it would but adding an extra step's just too much when doing so many! 2) Drawing a path with stroke, no fill then splitting using open path that extends past the boundaries (to then colour fill with the picker). In Illustrator you'd use Pathfinder Divide then Ungroup. I tried the Divide but that closes the intersecting path too and screws things up. Any simple way of doing that? Again I have a load to do so has to be as straightforward. 3) Equivalent of a default graphic style for line and fill, so I can say set it to .1pt cyan stroke, no fill and use the D key, or whatever, to use that. I know I can use styles but need it assigned to a key too. Probably, hopefully all simple. Thanks.