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Holding down a finger, for however long period of time, while tapping around with the corner tool does NOT allow you to select more than one node.

Yeah, I think I can confirm my theory... Affinity, what is going on??? Back to Illustrator again...

Look at this: Why would Affinity Designer do this to me? It looks as if Affinity swaps the positions of one of the newly created handles with the position of an existing node!

Great! Missed that thread. Could a moderator perhaps merge these two?

But what if there is a node in between that box that I don't want to select? You need a shift click selection then, and the delay Affinity forces upon users really hampers that workflow.

Procreate handles the gallery so much better than Affinity. I was not able to find any way to navigate when I did save a copy. But you can't export in the .afdesigner format! (Man, quoting stuff in this forum sucks too... I tried to cut and paste text from the above comment in order to reply to each statement, but all I got was some random numbers.)

Thanks! Glad to hear I'm not alone in this. Here's a refinement that might work even better:

Yep, sounds like the same thing! Thanks for pointing this out to me.

I mean, they're just the mirrored versions of each other. Is this a bug? This, I would understand:

To clarify: Layers appear as if they're locked when imported from the iPad, but of you box select around them, you'll discover that they're in fact not. The workaround is to remove the lock from all layers on the desktop and then lock the layers again.

I have this enabled, but it doesn't help. Affinity Designer on iPad constantly thinks me putting my palm on the screen means I want to rotate or zoom around the view. I can't remember when this happened last in Procreate. It happens CONSTANTLY in Affinity.

OK, THE INTERFACE TO THIS FORUM IS DRIVING ME NUTS NOW TOO. HOW CAN i DELETE THESE BLOODY QUOTES??? Thanks for the help! I wouldn't have thought to check that menu, because the icon looks like a scaling icon, and also, why would something that's TOP LEFT on the desktop, be BOTTOM RIGHT of the iPad? That huge menu on the iPad has its right column near empty. Why not just merge that transform menu into the top one? I want the customizability you get on the desktop on the iPad, for no other reason than to turn the iPad UI to the desktop one so I don't have to come here to ask for every. Single. Feature. It's so unintuitive.

This is desktop: This is iPad: Why is there such a stupid difference between the two interfaces? I understand everything on the desktop version, but almost nothing on the iPad version.

I'm trying to select two nodes on an object, but holding down a finger while selecing the second node (a guesture approaching industry standard) doesn't seem to work. Also, Affinity Photo on the desktop has really great "add", "subtract", "new" selection mode toggles, but I see none of that in Affinity Designer on the iPad. EDIT: Oh... I need to hold down my finger and wait until some weird, blue circle under it has finished animating?

I can't find a Share button in Designer on iPad. Do I really have to change the default save location from iPad to iCloud and save a new copy of a file just to be able to export it to iCloud? (Also, since when is "close" the same as "delete"? Absolutely crazy, imo.)

Yes. How did you make them?

Are there only sharp and smooth nodes in Affinity? Not pointy, ie nodes with control handles but they can be at a different angle on each side of the node?

Is the gradient tool even in Affinity Photo vector based? It doesn't matter if I rasterize my layer, the moment I use the gradient tool on it, it overwrites everything, even if I leave one end of the gradient transparent! Just to do a mask that looks like this, I had to do three layers and merge them and then convert to a mask: It took ages especially since the bloody gradient tool for some ungodly reason reverts to white and grey every bloody time I select it anew. What am I missing here, or does Affinity have a really poorly optimized workflow here?

I think you replied while I was editing. Please see my edit for updated feedback.

Has this stopped working? I followed these instructions but that only makes the adjustment layer have no effect on anything. EDIT: Ok, I also missed the need to select "alpha" from the channels drop down. Why can't this be selected automatically when you do the first drag and drop action? If a very advanced user wants to drop the adjustment layer on the mask and *not* change the mask, perhaps they could go in there and have to change it instead, while the most used option in this case should be the default?

Doesn't matter if I switch to the dropper tool and select current layer only, still doesn't sample accurate colors from the mask. EDIT: I'm in the alt-click mask only view mode, btw.

Again I needed this today. Saw that I already replied to the old thread, so here's a bump for the new thread too...

See attachments. 1.afphoto

I also missed crop to selection today. Very finnicky to workaround.

How do I do that? I only see "mask to below" and that produces a weird result: Top sublayer with the crop symbol in it is "mask to below", and bottom layer with the grey blob symbol in it is an imported photoshop mask. I'm still struggling with this. It's nowhere near as easy or quick as in Photoshop.