BitBull
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Alfred reacted to a post in a topic:
Inserting characters from symbol fonts, how?
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Thanks for the input, all. I have it sorted now, the Google index for Material Icons helpfully includes the unicode values.
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BitBull reacted to a post in a topic:
Inserting characters from symbol fonts, how?
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Sorry to resurrect a long-dormant thread but I was wondering if there was any update on this? I'm trying to cut/paste google material icons and am having a hell of a time. This document seems to indicate it's possible to type the unicode code directly (in Designer at least) but I cannot get this to work, nor do I appear to have a Text->Toggle Unicode option. Ideally I want to be able to do it in Photo. I can do it via the glyph browser but it takes forever and a day to find the icon I need that way. cheers
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Just adding my vote to this. Loving Affinity Photo generally but, as someone who works with a lot of pixel art, this feature is sorely needed. Ideally we need to ability to turn on 'nearest neighbour' as a raster option per layer (aka After Effects), failing that there at least needs to be the option to select which algorithm is used globally for rasterizing layers.
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Hi, Is there any way to set rasterize options per layer in Photo? Say I have a pixel layer that contains a resized image but when it's saved out or merged I want it to rasterize with nearest neighbour scaling rather than whatever it's using as the default, is there any way to do this? If there is not a way to do this how should I resize a layer using nearest neighbour scaling? best regards
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I have been using Affinity Photo for some time for pixel art. There are no issues with merging layers **as long as you make sure everything is the same dpi and pixel aligned** The problem IMO is that not everything pixels aligns even when you have all the 'snap to pixel' settings set to 'on'. Copy/paste for example often pastes at fractional pixels. Plus the interface is obtuse, there are far too many options and it should be much easier to select a single preference saying you only want to work at an integer pixel level. But, as long as you make sure everything is pixel aligned, merging layers does not blur!
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Agreed. As I mentioned above, even if you have things all set up correctly with 'pixel snap' on some other setting override this and give you fractional pixel placements anyway. Once you know what's going on you can figure stuff out but it's controlled by far too many individual settings at the moment and many of the settings conflict with each other. To say the app is 'not designed for professional work' is absolute nonsense though. It's excellent, as is Publisher.
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I agree with you, the way it works at the moment is frustrating and unintuitive, especially when you're new to it. Something shouldn't change in appearance when merged, full stop. However, there are workarounds and I'm working fine with merging layers with no pre-rasterization at the moment. I'm not resizing or transforming content though (other than 90deg rotations). It's very finicky about snap settings.
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It works fine once you figure out what's going on so it's hardly a bug, what it does need is the UI sorting out so you can work in whole pixels easily without changing a gazillion different settings.
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Another issue with this is that snapping to object (and possibly other snap settings) overrides the 'align to pixel' setting, so if you have a layer that's an odd number of pixels in either dimension another layer that contains an even number of pixels will get snapped to a half pixel offset at the midpoint (and vice versa) causing layers to suddenly go blurry for no apparent reason. So I have to turn that snap setting off as well! There really needs to be a global setting to turn off this kind of behaviour. if I want to work in whole pixel increments I should be able to do it without having to change a gazillion other settings. Am extremely impressed with the software on the whole, though!
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Oh yeah, thanks. I had been using that and it's generally much better than constantly switching between pencil and eraser as in Photoshop. I thought you meant there was a persona dedicated to pixel art that would automatically get rid of anti-aliasing and lock everything to the pixel grid without having to change a multitude of settings. I am not sure where you file bugs, but to my mind the fact that 'paste' doesn't lock to the pixel grid when the snap options are set to do so should be one!
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Hi, I am using Affinity Photo in the default 'Photo' persona. I don't see a dedicated 'pixel' persona with the others at the top left? I also purchased Designer and Publisher - haven't looked at Designer at all yet. cheers
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I am new here and have to say that the way Affinity deals with this is painful, it really shouldn't be as complicated as it is to get thing not to anti-alias for pixel art. Having struggled for quite some time wondering why I was getting the issue of layers anti-aliasing on merging, despite having it set to 'force off' and all 'snap' values set to pixel I discovered the following. 1. 'Paste' was not adhering to the 'snap' settings so pasted layers were appearing at fractional pixel offsets. 2. 'Move by whole pixels' overrides 'snap to pixel, so once pasted at a fractional offset the layer was never snapping to an 'exact' pixel. Conclusion - it's probably best to leave 'move by whole pixels' OFF and just use the 'snap to pixel setting' for pixel-art. There really needs to be some kind of global rasterization setting for this IMO.