Mark Freeman

This thread is the only reason I log into this site now…. because I’m a sadist apparently…. and wouldn’t you know? They spent time and presumably money updating the forum since my last login, but apparently NONE on the subject of the longest running thread (of any import) on said forum. Oh, the bitter irony.
Someone once said that Serif were just controlled opposition for Adobe… I dismissed the “conspiracy theory” at the time, but time itself makes a convincing argument.
Canva will eat both of them, and I won’t shed one tear.

This thread is the only reason I log into this site now…. because I’m a sadist apparently…. and wouldn’t you know? They spent time and presumably money updating the forum since my last login, but apparently NONE on the subject of the longest running thread (of any import) on said forum. Oh, the bitter irony.
Someone once said that Serif were just controlled opposition for Adobe… I dismissed the “conspiracy theory” at the time, but time itself makes a convincing argument.
Canva will eat both of them, and I won’t shed one tear.

Hey Dan, thanks for such a thorough reply. Yeah, zooming in or out does help. I’ve not had the issue for a bit, but will screengrab this for future reference. Love the App, thanks again!

Are you sure you copied a text object in V1?
To me in V1 it pastes the font + the gradient … which feels like an expected behaviour when pasting a text style since colour is just a text style attribute like font face or size etc. (To paste the gradient only you can copy a non-text object.)

Hi everyone,
I recently upgraded to Affinity Designer 2 on macOS. With Affinity Designer 1, I was able to copy an element with a gradient fill on it and then paste the gradient using 'Paste Style' on a different element. (For example: text gradient copied, pasted to another text element.) 
In the past, it would just paste the gradient and not change the font. Now it's changing the font.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
- jc

There's a Settings option in the Affinity apps to enable the View Tool, I think.

Better at least HEX than nothing.
...but if you really want to see CMYK values often, maybe there should be a small button next to this box, that would cycle between HEX/CMYK/HSL and remember that choice for each color window separately.
This way I could let it keep showing HEX and you could make it show CMYK or HSL and it would still take this  little space.

My apologies for any confusion caused, I can verify this is still currently logged as a requested improvement with our development team, however our recent update has also resolved may Artboard Bleed export issues.
I've 'bumped' this improvement request with our development team to bring it to their attention once again for you

Hi Mark,
In the snapping menu if you untick show snapping candidates it should stop showing the pink outline
Thanks
C

Buy V2 for this.

Thanks, but that is also not the "invert pixel selection" function. The function we're looking for is the one where, if you have a set of pixels selected (surrounded by marching ants), you invert the selection so that everything outside the marching ants becomes selected.

Thanks, but your screenshot is from Photo, and the topic is about Designer's Pixel Persona.

H is the shortcut you want
 

Love me some synth baby yeah!

SO GLAD AFTER 4 YEARS WE FINALLY GOT THIS BASIC TOOL IN V2

It’s funny because most tools required to complete the vast majority of potential client’s work exist in designer. Admittedly there are some that would be nice, and would speed up workflow, but as someone who uses both pen and keyboard/mouse I find it perfect, especially compared to AI on ipad, which is junk, I have to rent it periodically for exporting in AI format for certain clients and that. is. it. Speaking of which… if you’re wanting all those things and you are a professional, why aren’t you renting desktop illustrator instead of again, whining here?

Good question, why do you care so much? I use AD professionally on the ipad. Yeah I had to use some workarounds for AD1, and AD2 is still flawed, but overall fantastic, especially at the price, and if you compare it to AI for the ipad there is no competition…. none, and it’s $9.99 a freaking month. Vectorizing is the only thing it has going for it. Your description sounds like you have never used AD, but yet you are on here whining? “zero tools for vector designing” 🤣

I understand that people are unsatisfied with v2 at the moment, but I’m sure the people at serif are reading most of this and will improve. It is still one of the main alternatives. Adobe destroyed the market 15 years ago when they bought macromedia. And when all serious competition was gone they used their monopoly and switched to subscription based licensing. That’s why most of us are here, because the full suite is a fraction of what we would pay at adobe. Of course there are other alternatives. But what I love about the affinity tools is that their general user interface is similar over all three products. I could not make the switch from photoshop to Illustrator because it was so different. But enough ranting, Affinity Crew you need to improve perspective warping and I think it’s mainly a usability issue. Please consider our idea’s and suggestions and make this great software even better.
Thank you 

Yes snapping and especially for perspective warping I would love some centering function. So basically the stuff you usually get with shift/one finger and ctrl/cmd/2 finger for normal transform.

Nice catch mate….  it’s almost the least intuitive place to put it in the entire app, but whatevs it’s there and it’s badass.

How do I access these options on iPad??
 
edit: I found it, it's in the layer stack, middle button at the top. It's bloody well hidden though, I will say that.

Love me some synth baby yeah!

Love me some synth baby yeah!

Love me some synth baby yeah!

Sounds like something big is happening:

https://affinity.serif.com/?utm_source=serifemail