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Huh. Dunno why I wasn't getting it. Thanks, all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soJBciuPDcw

Then I'm still confused. I'll do some reading about how the Gradient Map works; it's where I'm getting hung up. All I get is a red/green/blue gradient but I don't know what to do with it.

Ergs. Maybe I should use PHOTO instead of DESIGNER. (I default to Designer to create, Photo to edit, and didn't even think about where I should be following a PHOTOshop tutorial. Hey, it was late.) Thanks muchly, @kaffeeundsalz

Late night fooling around, so might just be my brain, but I wanted to translate this Photoshop tutorial to Affinity https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/super-quick-and-easy-duotone-text-effect--cms-28993 Cannot sort out Part 2 Step 2, making the transparency mask so you can map the two colors to darks and lights. Tips, pointers? Thanks.

Ah, I hadn't used those keys; just click and type. Mac Catalina here, so no input on Windows experience.

Ah. Well how come this tool I only paid $25 for doesn't do everything my old $700 program could do? 😝 In spite of the occasional hitch, I am so delighted I discovered Photo and Designer.

Meaning, it is not currently possible?

Transform panel is not the issue. The donut start/end/total angle setting. Yes, set to 2 digits, no, not showing in the display.

Ah, yes. I have angles set to display 2 digits. No effect on the interface. Computer has been restarted multiple times since that change.

Creating, for instance, a donut, I can type in very precise angle measurements, to at least 2 decimal places. But the displayed number is always rounded to a whole number even though the donut itself clearly uses the angle to whatever precision I've typed in. Is there a way to make the display match the true value to 2 or 3 decimals? My problem: sometimes I'm guessing what the decimal places might be to get an exact alignment or fit, and once I've tried a few, zeroing in, it would be nice to see that the value is, in fact, currently 46.8 so I don't keep trying 46.8 when I meant to try 46.7 or 46.9.

@GarryP In fact, one of the marvelous tricks in Affinity tools is that I can use 'gr' in place of 1.618 @Old Bruce That functions for me, but in the long run, once I'm in the field, typing a number or calculation is faster. Thanks for that info, though; didn't realize it.

No beneficial effect with the changed settings, but it does become u g l y - d o g - s l o w so I've switched it back. Resizing the image with a quick CMD- CMD+ removes it, so that's what I'll do for now. Happy to do more troubleshooting if we might learn something.

It'd be totally custom. In my design I tend to work in phases, so I'd use sizes starting at some base, then increasing by the golden or silver ratio. But the base would change by project or phase or whim. I'll just get used to typing the font size number in. The drop downs are a mite fussy so clicking and then typing is sometimes problematic; it selects the whole field, or selects only the unit, or just drops the cursor in the middle somewhere.

Here are the specs; will try making those changes and test. Chipset Model: Intel HD Graphics 5000 Type: GPU Bus: Built-In VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 1536 MB Vendor: Intel Device ID: 0x0a26 Revision ID: 0x0009 Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v4

I don't normally use 48, 64, 72, 96pt fonts. Or any of the others on the list, for that matter. I do like using the drop-down, though. Is it possible to edit that list? Designer on Mac Catalina

Just opened the attached file I created yesterday and it shows the black artifacts as in the screenshot JPG. The Navigator shows no problems and the exported JPG is fine. This is the first time it's happened with an AF file. To date this has only happened with SVGs I created as text so I thought it was something I was doing. Happens pretty consistently with my SVGs. Designer 1.8.4 on recently rebooted Mac Catalina 10.15.6 Faith Wilcox email template banner.afdesign

Love dropping by and having my question answered clearly and simply before I even ask it.

Indeed. Came here looking for exactly that feature. A mite tedious clicking "edit" for each swatch or item, copy hex code, paste to my list, lather, rinse, repeat.

Thanks, @Sean P. I'll try that next time, and look forward to the fix.

When I start to (usually accidentally) drag one window into another, then stop, a green translucent rectangle the size of the dragged window appears, and nothing I do will make it go away except restarting Designer. See attached screen shot. It bees ughlee. Mac Catalina 16gb RAM dual 28" Viewsonic monitors

Glad to be of service. Especially iffen it leads to fixes

I have the tools on the right, and documents on the left (after moving them from the right.) Document windows stay put once moved, so they accumulate on the left monitor.

That moves the whole app to the chosen window, not just the document, defeating the purpose of a two-monitor setup. It's not a window on each monitor. Once I move the created/opened document to the left-hand monitor, the abandoned windows stay there. Though I'm not sure how this particular point helps, or if it's simply an observation.

@thomaso: here are those settings, though they don't technically apply to re-opening documents except when an app is *closed*, yes? I'll walk through the process: 1. Open Designer and Photo 2. New document in Designer (which, of course, opens over on my right-hand monitor behind the tools and I have to find it and move it to my wide open left-hand monitor, but that bug has been reported so we'll move along) 3. I "do some stuff" (that's the technical term for typing one word and drawing a doughnut). Window is named Affinity Designer - <Untitled> [Modified] (37.4%). 4. From the File menu I select Edit in Photo. 5. The document disappears from the Designer window, but the window stays open, with nothing in it and no title except Affinity Designer. 6. The document opens in Photo (again, behind the tools) and I move it to my work monitor. The window is named Affinity Photo - <Untitled> [Modified] (37.4%) 7. Once again, I do some stuff. 8. File > Edit in Designer 9. The document disappears from the Photo window, but the window stays open, with nothing in it and no title except Affinity Photo. 10. The document opens in Designer (behind stuff, I move it) in a new window named Affinity Designer - <Untitled> [Modified] (37.4%) 11. The old window (see #5 above) sits there, eyeing me suspiciously. It is still named only Affinity Designer. It clearly needs a drink. 12. I loop through steps 3 through 11 for one hour and twenty-three minutes, at which point the windows consume my desktop and my Irish whiskey, leaving me wondering where it all went so very wrong. Okay, I only did it three times, and it's too early for whiskey, even Irish. 13. Leaving the whiskey for later, I now have one window in Designer with the document in it, named Affinity Designer - <Untitled> [Modified] (37.4%), and two empty windows named Affinity Designer. I close one empty window, and both close. 14. There are two empty windows in Photo, both named only Affinity Photo. I close one. A black pool opens at my feet. I dive in. It has no bottom. No; that's the movie I was watching. Um, I close one, and the other disappears. Yeah, that's it. 15. I now have both apps still open, and the document in Designer in the Last Window Standing, which is named Affinity Designer - <Untitled> [Modified] (37.4%). 16. I eye the liquor cabinet suspiciously.

Apologies for not being more specific (I used to run a help desk; I know better.) Mac Mini running Catalina latest version, with the latest versions of Photo and Designer. From Designer, with a document open: File > Edit in Photo File opens in Photo, leaving an empty document window in Designer. I do my work in Photo, then File > Edit in Designer File opens in a new window in Designer, leaving an empty window in Photo. The more times I do this, the more empty document windows are left. Closing one appears to close them all, though I've only paid attention to that once.