nickbatz
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Well, yes, of course I know about undo/redo! That's in every program going back to the mid-'80s.
And it's a very different thing. But thanks.
A better way of articulating this request is that I'd like to be able to use the slider to get close to the historical state I want, then use a key command to step in either direction until it's in the state I'm looking for.
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macOS Mojave 10.14.6, Affinity Photo 1.10.5
The title is pretty much says it: you can scroll up and down the history list with the up and down arrows on the keyboard, but then you have to click on the state to get it to recall it.
If that's how it's supposed to work, then I would suggest that it should change as soon as you land on an entry in the list, just as the sliders do.
The horizontal sliders work fine, but it's hard to fine-tune from there. And if you've made 50 billon subtle changes (as I do all the time - I'm not using it to edit photos, I'm using it for art)...
TIA
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Okay, thanks, at least I know it isn't just my system.
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If you Option-click (Alt in Windows) on a color with, say, the Brush tool, that color becomes the business one.
But that doesn't happen with the Paint Bucket. Instead you need to switch to the Color Picker. Is there a reason for that, or is it just a glitch in my system?
It wouldn't matter if both I (the Color Picker key command) and G (G for Bucket?) were left hand letters on the keyboard, so you can just switch without looking down. And I could just set up my own commands using BetterTouchTool, but I'd rather not change the defaults.
TIA
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15 hours ago, firstdefence said:
You can use Layer (Layers) aka a panda layer lol!
You can put Layers in a Group so they're in the same "folder." That lets you show/hide several Layers at once with one checkbox, move them em masse, or just keep them organized - which is important, because the list of Layers becomes unwieldy pretty quickly.
Another reason to put them in a group - the one I was talking about here - is so you can select them all at once. What I'm talking about here grouping several Pixel Layers so that I just click on individual "objects" to move/tweak them without having to switch Layers each time; clicking on the "object" makes its Layer the active one.
But you could accomplish the same thing just by shift-clicking on several contiguous or discontiguous layers to make them all active. The Group just makes it easier.
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22 hours ago, R C-R said:
Making a layer a child of a parent layer is not the same thing as putting several layers in the same group layer. See for example the Masking vs clipping layers video tutorial.
Yes, thanks, I know.
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Following up, Affinity Designer does work the same way.
I guess the way to work is simply to put all these layers in a group. The advantage to this system is that you can control which layers are in front, i.e. the parent and child layers.
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NotMyFault: Yeah, thanks, I use the Clone Brush more than my toothbrush - and my oral hygiene is fine.
firstdefence: Right, thanks.
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I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a way to paste a bunch of pixel selections onto a single layer and keep them as individual objects.My next stop is to figure out Affinity Designer, which I just picked up while it was on sale - mainly to support Affinity, because I work with pixels rather than vector objects. I haven't used it yet, but I'm guessing it might be useful for this.
You can see why having multiple "objects" on one layer would be convenient:
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Am I right that every time you copy and paste a pixel selection, it creates a new layer? Put another way, am I right that there's no way to paste more than one selection "object" onto the same layer, right?
I do understand rasterizing, Merge Visible, masking to layers, pasting inside and controlling what you paste, etc.; I just want to make sure I haven't been making this more difficult than necessary over the past few months!
TIA
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On 5/16/2022 at 11:33 AM, John Waller said:
I make music charts and I need some quarter notes, rests and all that. Can I drop a font into Affinity? Any direction much appreciated !!
The traditional one for music notation is called Sonata, but if you do a search for "free music notation fonts" you'll get 50 billion and one hits.
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What Walt.Farrell says, and furthermore:
For what I use Affinity Photo for - Modern art "paintings" - it's not even a given that the best stage to sharpen is just before exporting. The reason is that fill, clone, copy/paste, etc. all over the place, and sharpening/not sharpening affects the borders and textures of individual elements within a composite.
I use a combination of upscaling to 300 DPI (at as late a stage as possible, because it does slow things down), the built-in sharpening filters, and Topaz Gigapixel AI - often in different areas of the same picture. None of this lends itself to a one-size-fits-all process.
Gigapixel AI is a whole other subject... but while I'm off on it, it would be great if the plug-in worked in Affinity Photo.
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I do my best to remember to turn it on, but this really really really really and a few more for good measure needs to be a preference that is on once you set it and never ever ever ever ever turns off.
Alternative, if you're worried about people running out of storage space: put it in the freaking Save dialog as an option.
Can you feel the swearing?
I truly love Affinity Photo - so much so that I bought Affinity Designer on sale just to support the company. But you can imagine why I'm frustrated!
(If I'm wrong and it is a pref, my apologies. But otherwise, bear in mind that I'm irritable to start with, so please don't reply with the bleedin' obvious - like how to use a mouse or something.
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Hm. I have used that before, but I never thought about what it really does.
Thanks, good suggestion.
(There are so many nooks and crannies in this program! It really is great.)
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This is about a 4" sq section of a much larger 17"x36" picture I'm working on.
Ideally I'd like to flood fill some of these red lines and shapes. Not all of them, some of them, and there are a lot - and there's a lot of red.
Am I missing an easier way to constrain the flooding to where I want it than just to make selections each time I click with the bucket?
What I plan to do is use Select Sampled Color within another selection (that I'll have to copy/paste onto another layer first, I guess). But I'm wondering whether I'm not missing a simpler way.I'll probably use other adjustments as well, of course.TIA -
Thanks Young Bruce.
Sorry to be so ornery.
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Okay, update: it does work in the Brightness/Contrast panel but not in the Channel Mixer.
Please, this is for the Affinity gods to note, not because I need someone to mansplain me how to pee straight or use a mouse!
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8 hours ago, Pšenda said:
If this was a problem, as Walt writes about it, it would depend on the movement (motion detection) of the mouse itself, not in the context of what and how large is currently displayed on the screen.
Try hovering your mouse over the slider thumb, lifting the mouse into the air so it can't detect any movement, and then double-clicking the left button.
Seriously? Are you really going to try and tell me how to use a f-ing mouse?!
2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:The best Apple Mouse is going to be a steaming piece of [expletive deleted]. I have used many many of their mouses and none of them was any good. Not even as a paper weight. Their track pad however is a joy to use.
As Walt and Pšenda have pointed out the slightest movement of the mouse will defeat the double click.
What is it with this forum?
I appreciate your showing me that the feature is supposed to work, but WTF?!
Please go home. This is getting annoying.
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3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
If I remember correctly what I've read, I think that may be sensitive to very tiny movements, and perhaps your double-click isn't registering if you moved the mouse slightly between clicks? The target is rather small.
No, I tried it with the screen zoomed way in to make sure. There are some flipped bits somewhere.
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An Apple Magic Mouse, the best one ever made.
Maybe I should download and reinstall.
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Affinity Photo v. 1.10.5, macOS Mojave 10.14.6, Mac Pro 5,1 12x3.46 GHz, 64MB.
But I see you guys are both using Windows. Since it's working for you, this should be a bug report rather than a feature request.
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8 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Double-click on the slider control node.
Nope. Not here.
I'd be happy to post a screen capture showing that what Hens did simply doesn't happen.
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Not on my machine it isn't, at least not in any of the Adjustment panels. Double-clicking selects the number so you can then type over it, but it doesn't reset it.
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Option-clicking, double-clicking, whatever in a dialog box to reset it.
For example, you play with a slider in the Channel Mixer and don't like the result. Having to type in 0 and hit Return is not as bad as getting smacked in the face, but this would be a good addition.
Thanks.
Recalling History requires clicking on the state to recall it (is it a bug or a feature request?)
in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
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Because that's a different feature and it does something different.
Sorry to be ornery, but why are the replies I always get on this forum and on Facebook groups always so basic?
I'm under no illusions that my posts are brilliant, but I don't think I come off as being so stupid that someone needs to tell me how to use a mouse (I'm not kidding, that actually happened!).
Oy gevalt!