theelijahmacdougall

Any updates on this? I'm coloring a comic book at the moment, and whole conditions aren't horrible if I use designer for too long it nearly grinds to a hault. Got to a point yesterday where I couldn't get the program to switch from Lasso to Bucket without seconds of delay. The team can point at AMD but they can also stop being so hardheaded and make their products usable for the other large number of people with AMD cards, just saying.

Pretty much the title. Affinity Designer's overall illustration workflow is quite tedious and time-consuming for any sort of coloring work—Clip Studio Paint has reference layers (which should also be on the list of features for Affinity), but at the very least the vector fill tool ought to be an option, considering we have such sophisticated selection tools and the pencil tool which is capable of filling.

That's really unfortunate seems like quite an easy slam dunk to whiff on there. Have they indicated why it may be difficult to implement?

Hey all! I'm working on doing some coloring work for a comic book, and my workflow has been to paint in vector shapes as a base, then masking my strokes to the tool. Overall, the whole thing is extremely time consuming to execute (even if it looks good in the end). Clip Studio has reference layers that accomplish the same function, but Affinity doesn't. Does Designer have any sort of "fill selected area with vector" tool/function, or even something in that ball park? This would save me a ton of time and adjusting. I prefer working in Affinity over CSP and I'd hate to have to go back/ mess around with non-vector fills. Thanks!

Long story short: I realized I forgot to add 5 pages to the beginning of the document (cover page, table of contents, etc) because the tutorial I was using jumped straight into working with the manuscript. When I added the pages, it suddenly broke all my chapter headings and moved the text around, even thought the number of pages I had added allowed the first page to remain on the proper side of things. Thankfully, I was able to revert back to the time before it broke, so I didn't lose any of my (hard and tedious) work. So my question: Is there a feature where I can add the pages I need WITHOUT also rearranging the body of my text (i.e.- can I "lock" the pages in place)? Would the merging documents section potentially fix this? Or would it be better to make those five pages I need in a separate doc, and merge them in my PDF software? I've never done more than magazine layouts in a program like this so I'm not sure how to problem solve this stuff well. Extra flavor: The novel is 465 pages when formatted so it makes my beefy PC lock up whenever I have to make a significant change. It's been tricky to format. EDIT: it seems I've discovered the problem. My chapter page Master Pages are bugged. When I first made them, my text frames were linked and set to auto flow. At some point, the program unlinked them, and whenever I'd add a new page the text would flow, but the master page wouldn't allow it, causing everything to break. Copying the Master Page spread, relinking the frames, and applying Master C to the pages allowed me to add my extra pages without destroying the document.

Hey @Old Bruce, thank you so much! Saw this the other day when I was heading into work and forget to let you know that your advice was invaluable. Thank you so much friend!

Sure thing! Here's the skeleton version. For reference I started to manually change the flow at the beginning then immediately realized it was going to take forever. DeathwishTemp.afpub

Hey guys. I'm typesetting my wife's book, and for whatever reason, I can't seem to get the autoflow text to flow from page 1, and so on chronologically. Instead it's flowing to only odd numbered pages. What gives? Unfortunately, I've found only one AFPub self publishing tutorial, and the last time I did something like this was back in college on inDesign. Thanks!

Ha! With smart objects being recognized now, does this mean that PSD mock-up files can finally be used appropriately? Even if not, thank you so much to the Serif team for their dedication to making something quality--and powerful.

Hey there. So, in the current version of Designer, switching to a different window oftentimes causes three issues for me, but never all at the same time: the currently selected tool will be shown as my mouse pointer, rather than the tool. Makes drawing a pain and requires a program restart. Input will not be excepted by the program, i.e. I can't use any tool when I've clicked back into the program. Input will be incorrectly processed: i.e. every stroke I make becomes a straight line and cuts off quickly. Not really sure why these happen, but it makes drawing in designer fairly obnoxious.

Hey there! So I recently began to use Photo and Designer for drawing. I've been loving DAUB's brush packs, but I've been running into issues where the lines are noticably unsmooth without line-smoothing enabled. Compared to say Clip Studio Paint, they look pretty bad. Kind of makes inking my pencils a major chore. For context, I'm using a Kamvas Pro 13 as my drawing tablet. I've got the latest firmware installed, so the awful pen wobble present a year ago is cancelled out. Can anybody shed some light on how they accomplish better line quality if they're using these programs for comic art? Thanks!

Guys, I just want to do a simple thing (see below). So, I can accomplish the look that I want, but it's not correct. In theory the geometry tool should be able to allow me to select the shield, and the rectangle, then just cut out the sides that the rectangle intersects with. Instead, it redraws the lines, and gives me two shapes, instead of just a spliced shape. Basically all I did was create the shape, then place a white filled rectangle in it. When I got to save it, and eventually print a variant of this, that silly rectangle is going to show. It was always so easy in Illustrator! But I imagine there's simply something I don't know, and I'm not sure how to ask for the information I need other than this.