I'm a huge user of Photoshop and moving to Affinity Designer to do some logos and vector images felt like a downgrading in plenty of areas. Note : I have read a lot of tutoriels and forum threads before asking for these changes.
There are VERY obvious things that you could improve :
- Be able to move Fx from one layer to one another, which can be done in Shop by pressing Alt while dragging the Fx. In AD, you must click on the Fx, delete it, then click on the second layer and recreate it. There's a copy option for Fx, but seriously it's trash (it "adapts" the parameters to the size of the objet).
- When you create an Fx, it doesn't seem to save the last configuration used. For exemple when I add contours to several layers, but one by one, the option is set back to 0 thickness and have to manually re-adjust it. Can't have a quick look at Fx because options reset to 0 every time I switch layers.
- The way Dropper tool and dropper buttons work in AD is EXTREMELY counter-intuitive and inconvenient. Was it too hard to just copy the god tier retouching software? Why do you feel the need to reinvent the wheel? I struggle with colors in AD because of the way this works. In Shop, a simple Hold Alt and you can color pick. The color picked is saved into one of 2 colors that you can switch with X. In AD, the option is... well it's trash.
- When you uncheck the "Transparent background" option in the creation of a new file, it should add a background layer like in Shop, instead of... having a white board that cannot be deleted in any way because it is not a layer... Plus, if it was a layer, it could be easier to change the color.
Voila.