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  1. Hi James!

    If you want to add something as an asset, there are, as far as I know, two opportunities:

    1. you have that stuff, you want to add, opened as an image. Select the layer and click on the second Burger Menu (that one below the first one) on the top right of the panel. Click on "Add to selection" there.

    2. You can drag one or more images directly from the File Manager into a category in the Assets panel.

    In the first Burger menu you can also create new categories. And you can even rename them there, after you created them.

    The names of the single assets only are displayed if you hover over them with the mouse. By rightclicking on them you can even rename them.

    You can even assort the assets in it's categories by dragging them manually with the mouse. And you can drag one asset into another category.

  2. If the rectangle is really "beyond repair", it should not be a big thing to delete it and create a new one, I think. Or to go back in history and rescue this one by not doing the same mistakes again. It was verry interesting for me to deal with this issue, but it's a thing one should be able to manage, even I would wish that the developers will rework this a little.

  3. Try the following: after you deleted the opaque point, select the Transparency Tool, go to the empty field shown on my screenshot, click on it to open the Gradient menu and click on the button shown in the second screenshot. Then the rectangle should be filled again and you should be able to use it normally. You can also drag a new gradient in the rectangle with the Transparency Tool,  select the transparent point, go to the Gradient menu and set its Opacity to 100%. Both worked for me some minutes ago. I think, it's important to understand, that the gradient you drag with the Transparency Tool isn't a normal gradient. It works like a mask. Possibly the developers will create something in the future that enables us to identify what we have there: a gradient or a transparency mask. That would be better. But in the meantime, I think, we should only keep this in mind.

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    refill rectangle.jpg

  4. 26 minutes ago, Failix said:

    ...Well, what you describe is what I tried to do. At least I think so. Here is another screen video. Am I doing something wrong at any point?

    Damn, it seems that you found a bug after all (but I am not sure). That's in fact the same behaviour I see if I do it this way. I think it is something with the Transparency Tool. It doesn't work like the Gradient Tool, as it seems, because after you dragged it on the rectangle, the colours in the Fill menu change to a gradient from white to black, like it is only a mask. And that is possibly what it is, because you can drag a gradient to transparency even to an existing gradient (like on my screenshot: there is a vertical gradient from red to blue and a horizontal from opaque to transparent). So I am not sure if this is really a bug. It seems that we have two different sorts of gradient here. And because the gradient you drag with the Transparency Tool is only a mask, that only knows white and black (and black is the reference for transparency), you can't give it any other colour. Possibly - I'm not sure about that.

    1805810374_GradientandTransparency.JPG.6191e8cb64fa221b1bf2c5b55f8ed646.JPG

  5. There is one thing I want to say additionally. I am not really a fan of tutorials, especially on Youtube, because every dilettant out there can make such a tutorial, without much kowledge, and tell a lot of bullshit. And many beginners wont even perceive it. But there are many excellent tutorials for all three Affinity programs on Youtube, that helped me verry much. And even this forum is great.

  6. Well, no problem. Look at my screenshot. There you see the red arrow pointing to the Fill menu. Click to open it, then click on Gradient in that menu. There you have this horizontal bar with the gradient path and its end points.. Click on the left point, so that it becomes thicker (selected), and then click on Colour to give the point its colour. Then click on the other point so that it gets thicker and do the same with another colour. After that you can even adjust the Opacity with the button on the right of the Colour button (mostly covered by the red arrow on the screenshot) and the center of the gradient with the button above the opacity button. To rotate the gradient, change to the Gradient tool.

    Hope you understand what I'm telleing. My english is not verry good. I am german. If you understand german, I could even explain it in my native tongue.

    2013957641_GradientMenu.png.dfae71dca207045d3be6f1f097d75fa1.png

  7. I think, I made a mistake. If I draw a gradient from 100% opacity to total transparency to a rectangle and deleted the opaque point, I will get a total tranparent rectangle. That makes sense. After that, I can draw a new gradient path into the rectangle, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Even this makes sense, because it is a gradient from total transparency to total transparency (or only transparency without any gradient), cause I deleted all opacity from the rectangle before. To get a visible gradient I have to go to the Filling menu and raise the opacity with the Opacity slider of one of the points. These sliders are both set to zero after the deletion of the opaque point. And that is absolutely normal. So there is not really a problem, as far as I can see.

    Edit: Your animation confirms this, because as you drawed your first gradient, it started with the opaque colour of the rectangle blending to transparency. After you deleted the opaque point, the gradient you draw started with the now full transparency of the rectangle, blending to the opaque colour. For me, that looks like logic behaviour.

  8. You can't reactivate the old gradient (except by going back in history) - what makes sense, because there isn't a gradient after you deleted one of its points -but if you change to the Move tool there will be the Filling menu in the context bar, in which you can create a new gradient. You don't need to create a new´rectangle for it. Although it's confusing that you have to change the tool for it.

  9. 20 minutes ago, Failix said:

    No, there is probably no gradient any more, right ... rather a complete transparency or a complete filling.

     

    Hmmm ... no matter which point I delete - opaque or transparent - in each case I can draw a new gradient.

    Really? Thought this was why you started this thread. To explain what I mean: If I have a form that is filled with a gradient from transparency to full opacity, and I delete the opaque gradient point, the filling of the form is totally transparent and as long as the Gradient tool is selected, there is no opportunity to fill the form again. Neither by dragging a gradient nor by filling the form by clicking on a colour field or with the colour picker. If I delete the transparent point, the form will be completely filled with the colour of the opaque point. And I can still normally use the gradient tool or fill the form with another colour. -Without changing the tool.

    This is the confusing point. If I change to the Move tool, it's no problem. Then I can select a new gradient or even a filling colour, because then the Filling menu reappears in the contextbar at the top of the interface.

    So you're right, it works, as I already said in one of my earlier posts, but it is verry confusing and should be solved in a better way, I think.

  10. 20 hours ago, Failix said:

    That is also what I wanted. If I don't have the transparency tool selected, I don't see that a gradient has been created.

    What I am asking myself is, if there really would be diplayed a gradient in the layers panel if you have deleted a gradient point. Would there really still be a gradient? I'm not sure about that.

    What irritates me is that you can (some kind of) remove gradients by deleting gradient points, just like you could do by selecting the Type "None", but in opposite to this you can't draw new gradients with the Gradient Tool after deleting an opaque point. And to make the confusion complete, you can delete transparent points and drag gradients with the gradients tool directly after that. Think that should be fixed, because it is verry confusing, and I don't think that this is the way it is meant to be.

  11. It's your personal opinion, and that is okay. But my personal opinion is totally different. Not everything is perfect in Affinity Photo, but even in Photoshop not everything is solved in the best way. Every software has its own solutions. So use the software you are most comfortable with. It's your choice.

  12. 1 minute ago, Failix said:

    In English, when one writes "for your help", how does the reader know if singular or plural is meant?

     

    As a german, I'm not really the expert to answer this. But if you add something like ", folks", I think it will be understood. To feel certain, you can click on the heart button on the right side of the post you reply to.

  13. Think I've got a solution: First I created the problem by dragging a linear gradient to a rectangle. I gave the left gradient point a full opacity colour, the right one I setted to full transparency. Then I deleted the left point, so that the whole rectangle was transparent. After that you will not have an option to refill the rectangle, except you change to the Move tool. Then the Filling options will be available again. So it seems that it's not really a bug.

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