Andrew Tang

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

In the swatches panel, make sure you have a category selected that isn't a system palette. You can now select the vector object and right click to 'Add to' swatches. Or you can now click on the add button on the swatches panel.

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

If you use the Gradient fill tool [G], you can change the angle and position of the gradient for the current selection. :)

Hi Mario P,
I believe the problems you are having are due to a faulty Nik Collection upgrade/installation. You have installed the latest standalone app versions, but the plugin files from the previous Nik version remain installed and that's those that are being called by Affinity Photo 1.7. To confirm this, go to the Nik Collection folder inside the Applications folder and double-click the Viveza 2.app file to launch the standalone version. Then click the yellow Nik Collection logo on the top right of the standalone plugin interface - it should say version: 5.0.2.137 x64 (v2.0.4) - which differs from the plugin version you reported. If that's the case do the following:
- download the latest Nik Collection installer from the DxO homepage, in case you have trashed it
- run the Uninstaller app to clean app the current/previous installation
- follow the instructions on this video. Pay attention to the section that starts at 0:40s where James click the "+" button to add a custom folder to where install the plugin files. This folder must be created manually by you. James has created it on his desktop and called it Plugins but I advise you to create the folder inside the Applications folder on your Mac and call it Photoshop Plugins (or whatever you see fit). Then, when you click the "+" button (as in the 0:40s in the video) point it to that folder you just created and continue following the rest of the instructions in the video. The Nik installer will create a new folder named/labelled DxO inside the folder you created - this is where are located the plugin files - and its the folder you have to browse to/add to the Plugin Search Folder section in Affinity Photo Photoshop Plugins Preferences.
Let me know if you still have issues after following those steps.

BADA55 ....really Alfred 

Hi team, 
Thanks for listening to people’s feedback. Don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for Hex colour input, and works so efficiently too without taking too much space in the studio. Makes me want to help the team even more if that’s possible 

@galactichippo
If you can send us the document with the object that shows the wrong hex value, then that might help in solving this mystery! Thanks.

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

This should all be fixed in the next beta! No worries. 

Hi woodyc,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
This issue should be fixed in the current Customer Betas and will be included in the next retail update. If you wish to give it a try you can download it from here. The Customer Beta also includes quite a few new features (among other fixes/improvements).

Why are your Show Left Studio and Show Right Studio greyed out? That is always available to me whether or not I have a document opened. Have removed all the studio panels from both sides?  
Get out of Separated mode.

Did I read "Arrowheads"?? OMG! Seems so simple, yet so nice to count with it! Thanks a lot for the news!!

Hi Sean,
Good to hear that! I've tried version 1.7 beta and find out the bug has been fixed! 
Thank you very much for your hard works & I'm looking forward to the official release of the new version.
Best regards,

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

Use separated mode:
 
Menu:
Window > Separated Mode
 
In this mode, all files open in its own window.

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

If you use the Gradient fill tool [G], you can change the angle and position of the gradient for the current selection. :)

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

I took a quick look into this and it's because we open files in-place now as opposed to just importing it. This requires apps like Amazon Drive to fully support the Files app which it hasn't yet. Both DropBox, and Google Drive do, OneDrive will show up but doesn't really support the full functionality of Files. Unfortunately, this requires Amazon to update their app.
 
I will probably put in an Import from iCloud as an extra option somewhere but you still can't export into Amazon Drive until Amazon update their app. As far as I can see there's no way to actually put files into Amazon Drive from the Files app, no paste option nor will drag-drop work.

Thanks for that - it looks like the cause of it is coming from Dropbox. I had been using iCloud which wasn't a problem and imported the filename casing correctly. I've just tried the same in Lightroom CC on the iPad and that also does the same thing, so I would contact Dropbox about this as it looks like their API is not passing filename casing correctly in the Files App.

EDIT: Looks like they're already aware of the issue:
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Mobile/Transfering-files-to-iOS-removes-capitals-in-filename/td-p/253977

You need to turn on 'On-screen modifiers keys' underneath the 'Interface' tab in Preferences.