Yuli

I'm still trying to set Affinity to my go-to app for digital art, but some essential things are pulling me back, making me go back to Krita or Paintstorm Studio:
 
- A single hotkey to toggle show/hide layer (it's dumb to have 2 different keys for doing this)
- A single hotkey to toggle lock/unlock layer (same as before, a single key instead of 2!)
- A single hotkey to toggle group/ungroup (again, if some element is alone, press to group. If it's grouped, then press again to ungroup)
- Define custom hotkeys for brushes (so we can change the selected brush on the fly, this is a must. An example for this is changing between different brush sizes)
- Hotkey for toggle brush lock alpha option
- I don't want to make another post for this, but, it's SO annoying that the brush selection highlight is gone after changing the size or switching tools... Idk if this is a bug, but this need to be addressed as soon as possible I think. I believe it's a bug or a missing feature, but please solve this.
- Brushes panel doesn't even have labels for the brushes (besides the tooltip when mouse hover, but this is unconfortable).
 
That's all for now. These changes will make Affinity A LOT better for digital artists, it will definitely improve the workflow. Thanks and forgive if any mistakes, english isn't my first language.
 
 

I can't believe I just posted this same suggestions...
Brush label names and keep the brush selection... among other suggestions... and your post it's from 2019! I hope devs see this, because there are a lot of digital art users that need a decent painting workflow.
You can't even paint if you don't know which brush is already selected!
 

I want Affinity Motion, a real competitor to After Effects

I want Affinity Motion, a real competitor to After Effects

I want Affinity Motion, a real competitor to After Effects

I'm still trying to set Affinity to my go-to app for digital art, but some essential things are pulling me back, making me go back to Krita or Paintstorm Studio:
 
- A single hotkey to toggle show/hide layer (it's dumb to have 2 different keys for doing this)
- A single hotkey to toggle lock/unlock layer (same as before, a single key instead of 2!)
- A single hotkey to toggle group/ungroup (again, if some element is alone, press to group. If it's grouped, then press again to ungroup)
- Define custom hotkeys for brushes (so we can change the selected brush on the fly, this is a must. An example for this is changing between different brush sizes)
- Hotkey for toggle brush lock alpha option
- I don't want to make another post for this, but, it's SO annoying that the brush selection highlight is gone after changing the size or switching tools... Idk if this is a bug, but this need to be addressed as soon as possible I think. I believe it's a bug or a missing feature, but please solve this.
- Brushes panel doesn't even have labels for the brushes (besides the tooltip when mouse hover, but this is unconfortable).
 
That's all for now. These changes will make Affinity A LOT better for digital artists, it will definitely improve the workflow. Thanks and forgive if any mistakes, english isn't my first language.
 
 

I'm still trying to set Affinity to my go-to app for digital art, but some essential things are pulling me back, making me go back to Krita or Paintstorm Studio:
 
- A single hotkey to toggle show/hide layer (it's dumb to have 2 different keys for doing this)
- A single hotkey to toggle lock/unlock layer (same as before, a single key instead of 2!)
- A single hotkey to toggle group/ungroup (again, if some element is alone, press to group. If it's grouped, then press again to ungroup)
- Define custom hotkeys for brushes (so we can change the selected brush on the fly, this is a must. An example for this is changing between different brush sizes)
- Hotkey for toggle brush lock alpha option
- I don't want to make another post for this, but, it's SO annoying that the brush selection highlight is gone after changing the size or switching tools... Idk if this is a bug, but this need to be addressed as soon as possible I think. I believe it's a bug or a missing feature, but please solve this.
- Brushes panel doesn't even have labels for the brushes (besides the tooltip when mouse hover, but this is unconfortable).
 
That's all for now. These changes will make Affinity A LOT better for digital artists, it will definitely improve the workflow. Thanks and forgive if any mistakes, english isn't my first language.
 
 

This. I really like the hold-CTRL function to erase. It's a must for me, and it doesn't exist in any other painting program I tested before.
But it's limited to the pixel brush, I hope they update this to make it possible to use it with the Brush tool (not only the Pixel tool)

I've been enjoying my time in Affinity Photo a great deal. And while I know it's primary use case is photo manipulation it's also clearly marketed toward digital artists as a secondary use case so with that in mind I figured I'd ask for some quality-of-life features geared toward the digital painting experience. Specifically geared toward keeping the artist in the zen creative mindset. The more he or she is using the brushes and the less he or she is fiddling with the interface the better for the overall creative experience.
So here we go!
It would be great if there was an option in the brushes panel to display the brush's name. It would be more than great, it would be immensely helpful. I believe the IPad version of Affinity Designer already has this feature. Please bring it into the AD/AP desktop versions too. I find it difficult to remember what brush I was just using and it's frustrating.  For some reason the selected brush in the brush panel never stays highlighted. Even when it's still selected. It'd be nice if the last brush I used just stayed highlighted. Even after I switch tools.  Along the same lines it would be great if I could click on a layer and see what brushes have been used in that layer. This would be amazing for remembering how to achieve an effect I've previously created.  It would help that "zen" feeling if a feature along the lines of Krita's "Pop up Palette" was implemented. See how it works here:   
 
 
Unlike the Krita version, it would be wonderful to have an option for the Popup Palette to be able to display brush names too. 
It goes without saying that these features would be just as useful in Affinity Designer as in Photo. So having them added there would be great too!
And now here's the part where YOU dear reader chime in with how you don't want to see these quality-of-life features because you fear it will take away resources from features that will help YOUR workflow instead. Because that's what we do here.
Obviously Serif knows what their target market priorities are and will choose the features that are the biggest bang for their buck. These are just things I'd love to see. Your trying to guess what those target market priorities are (and that they just so happen to coincide with your feature requests) is irrelevant but thank you for your concern on the matter future poster!
And yes I know you're going to post anyway.