Dan503

One of the really cool features about Affinity is how you can open the exact same file in both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. You can even have the same file open in both products at the same time. I'm finding myself often having the same file open in both programs a lot. I make some changes in Affinity Designer, then I open the file in Affinity Photo and make some changes there, then I go back to Affinity Designer becasue I want to make more changes there... but now the file has gone out of date ☹️ The only way that I have figured out on how to refresh the document is by closing the file and re-opening it. I would really like to just be able to press ctrl + R or something to have affinity check if there have been any modifications to the file. Ideally in a perfect world, every time you save the file in a different Affinity program, the file would update across all your affinity programs so you are always working on the latest version.

Sorry I meant right-click. As in the click that brings up the context sensitive menu. I usually assign it as an action though to avoid the fiddliness of the right-click menu. So all I have to do in Photoshop is create the path, press F4 (or some other key) to apply a clean brush stroke, then press the delete key to delete the path. Super fast and easy. I need to draw hundreds of these lines when doing the inking. I don't have time to be fiddling around switching between two programs for every single line. It is something that takes me 2 seconds in Photoshop to do.

I would really like this feature implemented as well. I use it a huge amount when I'm doing the final stages of an artwork when I'm cleaning up all the lines and making everything look smooth. A super important feature to not overlook is "simulate pressure". This is a feature in Photoshop's implementation that basically taperes the thickness of the line on either end of the path. When I'm at the inking stage of my artwork, I draw a line with the pen tool, left-click, select "stroke path" and it strokes the path using my current brush settings (which includes "simulate pressure"). I can't fully make the switch to Affinity without this feature :(