eobet
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But that's unusable for curves?
Also, it's infuriating how there's no exclusive modifier key for de-selecting, since the shift button toggle often toggles on things you don't want because the selection is so inaccurate (or "generous" if you want to do a positive spin on it). 😩
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I can find it in Photo (it's a lasso icon) but I can't find it in Designer.
The default box selection method in Designer is always "inside" which is so limiting, and I also don't see any quick switch icons for doing "crossing" or a combination of both...
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It's an imported object. I can't be manually tidying those things up. Affinity needs to have automated tools for this.
I just imported it into Illustrator instead and did expand, add, no issue. (Illustrator also has way better selection tools.)
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I'm also looking for this info. The above answer is not sufficient because it's not a specific indexed palette (it's "automatic", ie outside of your specific control).
Here it's described how to save a palette from an image document, but you can't use that palette to convert a document to it?
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I just noticed that after saving the .afphoto file and opening it again, the mask is merged. I may have opened the file in Designer in between but this is a bit unforgivable as it's destructive (even though in this occasion it was what I wanted).
Similarly, I'm now fairly certain that I dragged a bitmap into a layer and it became a mask by mistake, and after opening the .afphoto file again, that bitmap was just a white rectangle...
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How can I merge this levels adjustment to the mask? The Merge button in the popup doesn't do anything.
Ctrl-E on the adjustment doesn't do anything either.
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One would think that the built in tools should play well together, but they don't.
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I have a previously saved print document which I now want to change to web, and change the units to pixels.
Regardless of how many times I open document settings and change to web, the next time I open it, it says print again.
Similarly, even though units does say pixels, when I go to a previously created object, the stroke width says points.
Even if I type 1px to change the stroke, it still converts it to points.
This is version 2.3.0.
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This is apparently the reason. 🤬
And of course you can't delete them.
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I don't even know how this is possible in Windows.
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Ah, just found the answer by accident... it's apparently "lock children", an option which appears when you click on the masked image. Still feels very backwards!
Also, adding to the unintuitive behavior, the transform rectangle is only sized to the original clipped area, not the actual image size, so moving it around is done blindly when it comes to finding the image boundaries...
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Masking in Designer feels very unintuitive!
I dropped an image into a document, and the way I found to create a mask from a curve on that image was to place the curve above it and use "mask to below". But the result of that is that the curve is a child to the image, and not the other way around which feels more logical.
Further, I have no idea how to move the image without moving the mask. How can one do that?
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Straight up bug, I think. See attachment.
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As you can see, I've managed to round the two on top, but the two on the right refuse to respond. Why?
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I had to use my work laptop with Adobe Illustrator on it just now to trace something.
Really wish Affinity could get a solution here...
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Still doesn't really answer why all objects put into layers become masks, even in a new file while this document is open.
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This file is incredibly slow to edit:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg
Further, when I try to sort things into layers the way I want it, all objects become masks!
In fact, if I create a new empty layer, and add any object in it with this file open, it becomes a mask.
What's going on here?
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Can't believe I have to ask this, but when pasting things into Photo 2, they become images.
Yes, I can rasterize them, but aren't images like smart objects?
If so, how do you edit them? I can't seem to double click to do it, and there's not context menu for it either that I can see...
Also, if you scaled the image, and then copy it and paste it into a new document, it's the scaled result that gets copied, not the original image!
Seems you have to manually set the scale to 100% in the toolbar before copying it? Right next to a big "replace image" button that's mocking you because I don't see any "Edit Image" button!
I must admit I don't get the UX behind this at all...
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I should have posted this in the bugs section. Perhaps someone knows how to move it?
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This is in Affinity Designer 2.1.1 running hardware accelerated on a 3090:
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Ah, thanks! Turning off auto scroll worked well.
It was frustrating, because even collapsing all layers and then selecting something, expanded the layer again turning the scrollbar into a dot.
I wish there was an "auto expand" toggle in that menu too.
Why can't I add these expanded strokes to a single object?
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Well, I took the result from Illustrator back into Designer and continued with the entire illustration, and then it came time to export it as an SVG/PDF the output was absolutely horrible.
Green result is Illustrator's export, and red result is from Affinity (both outside aligned strokes).
add problem.svg