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This error is too long. I hope to fix it as soon as possible

So…
What you can already do now is:
create layers

  switch to Export persona convert layers to slices export, e.g. as GIF

  use one of the zillions of free 3rd party apps to create your animation

Why is not possible to have choice "Soft edges" by both - Selection brush and Flood selection?
Edges from "flood selection" are terrible or inaccurately after refine...:/

Is this in the works?

Hi all,
I'm considering buying Designer but one thing that I can't find is if there is a way to fill an object using vector or patterns. I only find gradients and bitmap.
I know we can duplicate an object to create hand made pattern but I can't then edit the repetitions like if is a bitmap fill.
Cheers,
Juan

I am deeply involved in software development of a huge project and at this time two huge projects of national importance. Actually three now covid-19 is here. We are scaling up and down from one to several teams and funding is great at times, sometimes not. I know a thing or two about building products from the ground and up. Was involved in four major projects similar to Affinity: starting from scratch on new platforms. There is a factor these apologist posts totally - totally - misses: management decisions, product vision and just plain vanilla business priorities.
My job is to tell developers (entire teams) what to do next. Their job is to offer advice about how to do it and to then implement the features. If we need a bigger team to reach the target and in time, my job is to get the extra money from management. Usually not a big problem if there is a business priority behind and a well defined business case. Architecture and complexity is a huge part of software development and you have to build things in the right order. But you also have to adjust the team for the tasks and projects at hand. The alternative is starvation of resources, reduced speed of development and goals not met and in the end... failure to meet expectations. And all that follows. Sounds familiar? We are super agile and flexible. Because we HAVE to.
No need for these endlessly repeating apologist explanations about why Affinity is developed they way it is and why it takes time. Guestimates from deep down the Mariana Trench.
No further comments. 

Lack of features such as properly functioning boolean operations, vector brushes, perspective deformation and distortion, convenient possibility of fast merging of vector objects makes me think about going back to Adobe Illustrator. Unfortunately. I am a big fan of the Serif products. But the lack of some features causes me despair.

I agree Serif has every right to include or exclude features based on their plans and priorities, but they are also beholden to their customers or else they will fail to exist. Serif risks their product being viewed as an amateur alternative if universally understood expectations for professional software are not met sooner than later.
Everyone feels their tool preferences are "essential" and I know not everyone agrees on what is truly necessary to make Affinity products stand on their own.
I think many would agree with my perspective, that properly functioning boolean operations, true vector brushes and text warp are a few examples of basic necessities for a wide majority of designers.
How can anyone create professional designs if the boolean operations create dirty geometry and parts go missing? How limiting is it that only raster brushes can be unique? Why has text warp been available in Photo but not Designer for years?
I'm excited about the little new features like being able to port your brushes to any installed version of the apps on different devices automatically... that is cool - but it feels like we're getting excited about new fancy rims on a car and ignoring the fact that we've never installed brakes. I'd rather a car with brakes and the other essentials over one that has fancy rims and no brakes.....
Yeah the car looks nice with the new rims, but it can never leave the driveway safely... I'd much rather we get the car drive-able first and then worry about making it look flashy.
I'm using an outdated version of Adobe CS6 Illustrator to do my vector work.... I have to paste anything i do in Designer over to Illustrator to merge vectors so they are not a mess. I rely on Illustrator or Vectorstyler to make blends and make text warps. If I want to fill in sections of negative space in a design, I have to also paste it in illustrator to do a live fill or use a blob tool or use the merge tool with a fill behind the negative space to cookie-cutter it. I care WAY more about basic function than I do about the bells and whistles.
 

I made a video showcasing the differences between the Lasso tools for Photoshop and Photo. As you will quickly notice, the edges that are drawn baseline in Photo are quite rough and the anti-aliasing is not nearly as effective at cleaning up the roughness as in Photoshop. Only when adding some feathering did I fix most of the issues with the selection, but it still doesn't get fully the same results.

Desktop 2020.03.02 - 16.07.36.02.mp4 It would be much appreciated if you guys at Serif could take a look at this. : )

2021 +1   

If you are a vector illustrator - and Corel or Adobe is too expensive then this gotta make you curious: 
https://www.vectorstyler.com/detailed/
https://www.vectorstyler.com
The sad comparison is Affinity Designer - strip the toolbar for fillers and you get this:

Designer needs the PRO in professional. 
Designer is a tool for bitmap illustrators with a few basic vector tools for control. It will never catch up (not even close) on any competing vector program - and Serif do not intend to. It is obvious.
Designer is not cheap - what you save in money you will lose in time = money. Life. Time. Efficiency.
Or lets "quote" Affinity Spotlight:

When is Transform tool coming to ADesigner? We really need a tool to warp or perspective our graphics/text as vectors, (no rasterized)

I'm having an issue with the designer software after updating to 1.8 the latest update today.  When I use my Wacom tablet pen for fine tuning my art, the mouse becomes unresponsive.  I cannot click with my mouse to save the document or make any changes within the drawing.  I'm stuck only using my Wacom pen.  This is so frustrating.  I did not have this problem before updating.  Please fix the issue

I don't even know how to describe it. But I think it's understandable without comments.

I'm in China and it only takes 5 minutes to download.

I'm in China and it only takes 5 minutes to download.

I'm in China and it only takes 5 minutes to download.

Betas are for testing, you should definitely expect them to crash 🙂

I'm pretty sure we all very much like Designer. That's why everyone is so vocal about it.
If everyone hated Designer then nobody would care about this missing basic feature.

It runs fine on my 20H2 too, but there are many bugs that make Photo and Designer unusable right now. When you open a grouped layer they crash instanty. Same thing when copying those layers... I tried but could not do anything useful. So I went back to the previous version. I'm sure a new beta will come out soon as it's quite hard to test this current beta when it crashes every 5 minutes.
Try to open a group from a file created in a previous version, it crashes intantly. Same when I try to copy a layer inside the group.

Warp tool really needed. I have to use affinity photo to create a Warp text using a really tedious process then continue in Designer.  Make it happen this 2021. Thanks. 

Hey everyone I really like Affiniy Designer but I am annoyed by these issues. Its impossible to make any kind of complex logos or complex objects with the boolean tool. 
I made an example (see first video) with three circles that overlapping and used the divide boolean operation to create a circle with three sections. The end result is more than disappointing.
The edge where only two circles overlap each other it looks okay-ish. But on the edge where all three circles overlap its a whole new story. After deleting the unnecessary micro forms you see the whole disaster.
It creates something that looks more like a zigzag line than a smooth curve.
As a work around to not getting this unclean line I can do it step by step (costs more time) but there is that other problem.
The gap between the forms. sorry but can somebody explain me why this is happening? They should be in line also after using Divide. You can see in the second video that the blue color shines through the two forms.
Ohh an the cherry on the top if you using Divide to make a form and you want to Add them back together it is not possible, because of the thin gap.
Affinity_Designer_2021-01-08_10-25-04.mp4 Affinity_Designer_2021-01-08_11-23-08.mp4

This looks like it is probably the same issue you posted about in the announcement topic:
It's good to make a separate topic, as you just did, I think. Thanks for doing so.

If you don't want to do it or can't do it, you should tell everyone. How many years of life can there be without relevant news for six years?