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created a curve [blue--happens to be square to begin with] and modify with the node tool [orange] power duplicate is not activated tried to modify a square shape instead of a curve, but can't match the new shape [orange] [edit] apologies for the vague rambling. health problems lately sometimes prevent me from even realize how incoherent I am. Here is the question: does power duplication work with curves? I want to create the blue shape [a square converted to curves] and modify it into the orange shape [no parallel sides, slightly taller and wider] and then power duplicate to repeat that modification [change side angles and lengths, ie. change the orange shape the same way I changed to blue shape, which is I believe the entire point of power duplication] and create a visual pattern. see the attachment for an example. it appears, no matter how I try, that power duplication doesn't work with curves, and I cannot figure out a way to modify any shape [as in non-curve Photo shapes] to create the orange from the blue. so: does power duplication work with curves? [/edit]

Ah.

Does one have some functionality or ability or use that the other doesn't? Just trying to clarify if they are actually different tools, or if they really are exactly the same tool but with two different names based on which menu is in use.

Eh? Unless I'm missing something, that's a distinction without a difference. And still confusing.

That's the ticket. Puzzling that the context menu says "Release". Why would the same command have two different labels?

[edit] In Photo:[/edit] How can I release a layer from a group using only the keyboard? I do funky stuff with groups all the time. I hate using the mouse when I don't have to. Extensive searching hasn't found anything useful. If I missed something let me know.

@JimmyJack Yup. More or less what I did.

Once the first two lines are set, press and hold CMD, press and hold J, 358 dupes in about 10 seconds. Always open to learn one more thing iffen ya got one.

True. I'm still hoping for scripting someday; only thing I miss about Photoshop.

Indeed, @thomaso. I finally realized that @GarryP's first attempt would work in combination with a simple circle. A line from the center, duplicate, resize, change angle, power duplicate, then put a circle over the center. I got stuck trying to make the tool do what I wanted instead of just finding a way to get the result. @GarryP Exactly correct, but if I use the node tool to resize, it doesn't seem to power duplicate. However, this all seems to be expected behavior, as you say. Thanks for digging in.

First change is from 100% (the original) to 110%, or a ratio of 1.1 from old to new. It's consistent. It's also on the 'nice to have maybe someday' upgrade list, I suspect, to be able to choose numerical rather than proportional growth . . . but I ain't holding my breath.

Thanks, @GarryP. Close, but not quite. Note that I have the transform origin *outside* the line, off to the left. I'm using exactly the same process (I believe) and when the transform origin is outside the line, it moves when the line length is changed, whether increased or decreased. I can replicate what you're doing here, so I'm pretty sure it's specific to this case. I'm wondering if it has to do with the method of changing the line size, some sort of CMD-resize or CTRL-resize. Must have my first cuppa and I'll give it a go.

I want to create a series of lines which rotate around the center of my image, getting longer as they rotate. Concept is, create a line 100px long rotated 0º, CTRL-J, rotate -3º and stretch to 103px, then power duplicate. But when I stretch the line, the transform origin, originally 100px away, moves as well. (see video) I haven't been well so my brain don't work so good right now. What am I missing here? transform origin moves when object resized.mov

That works, as a workaround. Messes with my workflow, but it's better than nothing. Danke, @thomaso

Any chance this is going to be fixed? It may well be the most frustrating thing I experience with Serif tools. Just opened and moved more than a dozen images. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor. Click, move to the other monitor.

All my custom pallets were missing from AP after the update. Fortunately I use the same pallets for AD as well, so I exported/imported and didn't lose them. Still, an unexpected behavior. Mac Mini Late 2014 MacOS 11.5.1 Big Sur 16GB RAM 1.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core I5

I'll read up on Global Colors, but I have a keyboard shortcut for swapping between AP and AD so I can create, switch, and use the Select Same Fill Color and do even less work. Thanks once again, @walt.farrell

d'oh. Names. Name layers instead of or in addition to tagging with colors. I've seen that option for, like, ever, and didn't even think to look at it. Carry on folks. Nothing to see here. (But glad for any work-organization tips in this regard.)

I create multicolor designs, and then variations where each color is replace by something different. Saved my sanity when I discovered the colored layer tags to let me choose all the layers of a color and replace all at once. Sometimes, though, I use more than 9 colors, and end up with two no-color groups blended together. It's not the end of the world; it's rare, and workable when it happens. But if there's a way to add a couple more color tags for layers, it would be most helpful.

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You're most welcome, and it probably isn't implemented because it's not as easy as we might think and/or it's not as important as other things that need implementing. Project management and digital product creation is at least eleven times as complex as most people realize. In my previous life as a guy who did stuff, I was sometimes asked "Why haven't you done this yet?" and the only answer was "Because I was doing 3 other things you asked me to do." One employer literally said "If you work faster you can get more done in the same amount of time." I've reached the age where patience comes a little easier, mostly as a way to accept what is rather than fussing about what I wish it was.

Right. Of course. Thanks. @Lagarto I do have Designer, so that's also helpful.

Re-reading your comment, it appears that you're speaking of moving the whole line. I'm hoping to grab it and edit it, shoving nodes around independently. Though it's already not behaving as I expected; in the attached, if I move the blue line using the node tool, once it has moved beyond the ellipses I used for the mask, the added blue line bits disappear. 20210522-over-and-under-2.afphoto

@anon2 Got it. Thanks.

@firstdefenceThat's the direction I was trying to go but didn't think to rasterize @AlfredAh, yes. Probably the direction I'll go. Thanks to both of you. Both ideas depend on the lines (these are just scribbled examples) being in their final shape before creating the overlaps. Any way to make them editable if one or more lines is moved?