Otto Manuel

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Hi, Is there an automated way to reorder a swatches palette created from a document? I am thinking something that graded by hue or light value and or both. Thank you.

Thank you. I just went to look at the computer that I am retiring from and saw that the Designer 2 installation on that computer did not have the Round Corner with black triangle tool icon in the Tools column. I may have moved it off by mistake. That explains why I did not find it until I began working on my new install on the latest computer. Thank you.

Hi, Thank you. I just figured out that the Rounded Rectangle Tool button leads to exactly what I was hoping for. I just had not figured out that I really had to focus the cursor over the tiny little black triangle. I am setting up a new computer with fresh app installs and some things just seem unfamiliar as I work to set up the UX. Thank you for sending me back to look again and find the feature.

Well, because I tried several times, sometimes I got the reverse affect of my intentions, and others times nothing seemed to happen and I had to use the "unload" function to get something to appear to happen again. When I used a color picker in the some-other-vector-application, that I used for a couple decades plus a few year, it always seemed intuitive. I am going to have to watch some in depth tutorials to make good use of the Affinity Designer version. 🙂 Thank you.

Hi, I like the fact that I can customize the tools bar, and would like to sort some of the tools in the manner which Affinity has already done with some sets. For example, there is a choice to use a combo Zoom/Hand rather than a Zoom and a Hand. Another example is the Color Picker/Style Picker combo that minimizes the display of the Color Picker and the Style Picker. I would like to add a single entry for the complex shapes such as the polygon, star, cloud, balloon etc. Is it possible to combine the individual tool buttons into a multi version that displays the subsets when you hover over it? Thank you.

Hi, Thanks for sharing the tip. I did not about and had never used the style picker. My first few tries with the style picker resulted in total confusion. I still don't get how it's supposed to be helpful. For the time being the four step process seems more immediate. I need to figure out, and hopefully appreciate the thought behind the style picker functionality. Thank you.

So four steps? 1) Select an element 2) Ctrl + C 3) Select another element 4) Shift + Ctrl + V ? Let see if I can learn how to do that. 🙂 Thank you!!!

Is there a way to use color picker to select stroke and fill at once? I feel like I fumble through picking colors. I often, well actually most times, forget to select Affinity Designer's stroke or fill before picking a color and then fumble with fixing that. My old habit is to select an existing element with a stroke and fill that I want or at least a stroke or fill that I want, and anticipate that both the stroke and fill that appear under the color picker will load into the color tabs. I've been using Affinity Designer for about 6 years and I still have not figured out how to color pick as easily as I did for the twenty years prior. Sometimes I expect to select an element and then color pick on another to quickly match the two. For example I click on a white circle with a black stroke and then color pick on a yellow circle with a red stroke and expect the white and black example to change to yellow and red. Is that crazy? Where does that come from? Am I missing knowledge of a hotkey or modifier for a mouse click? What is an easy way to match both the stroke and the fill of an existing object? Thank you.

It's a little more involved than dragging blobs. I will incorporate these suggestions and see if they better suit my goals.

Hi, Thank you for taking the time to make the demonstration. I did not recognize the term when you said "clipped the other shapes". I will try using your suggestion more often. I primarily use Affinity Designer 2 masks with the fantastic pixel shading feature. I forgot about the potential to mask layers of vector content. Here is an example of why using the clip masks is not as effective as I am hoping for. I have added a branch to you tree, and now will have to edit the clip layers below it. I am hoping to do it all at once, if possible. I will give this a try and hope to form an opinion about which method better suits my goals. Thank you!!

Hi, After focusing on this subject a bit, I have learned that I can use the Transform Tool to perform some of the operations I would like to perform, but I have to select at least two sets of nodes. In other words, I select the multiple layers, in my example's case that is four, then I marquee select two node locations, so I have eight nodes selected, then I employ the Transform Tool to rotate the shape, and all the curves remain aligned. I can not affect all the editing I want to do, but incorporating this into my workflow will be super helpful. In retrospect, I realize I have done this before, but had not thought of it in the context of today's preoccupation. Thank you.

Yes, I can select all 4 nodes and move them. I am asking about simultaneously editing the control handles, which is an operation I often want to do in conjunction with moving a selection of such nodes.

Hi, This sounds interesting. Can you elaborate or point me to some instruction info about this? Thank you!

High, I do frequently use symbols, until using them becomes problematic do to the reasons you have stated. Thanks for the tip about encapsulation... I'll give that a try soon. Thank you.