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marsofearth

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  1. First off, love Affinity suite of products for the Mac! Wonderful tools for professional photographers and amateurs alike. 
     

    My wife is a more traditional artist who has little interest in learning dpi and pixel resolutions. She does everything by eye and intuition.  She loves using affinity photo, but finds the saving of her images frustrating. She works intuitively, so does not think about exporting, or dpi or resolution. She just wants to play with her photo in Affinity, Resize visually, and save for whatever media type endpoint (usually social media).  I understand, that simple things are usually the hardest to engineer, but usually the most rewarding.  
     

     

  2. I also would like to throw a vote in for "force Pixel snapping"

     

    I recognize all the hats that need to be worn, I am a designer and heavy equipment operator, but the pixel snapping truly appears arbitrary, unless you constantly keep your eyes on the transform panel and constantly make adjustments there.

     

    I just want a giant check box button that truly "forces" pixel snapping, pixel transformation. Sure would make web work a lot easier when slicing assets.

  3. Auto slicing layers not honouring pixel snapping.

     

    Some layers sliced to sub pixel alignments even though the layer is snapped to full pixel alignment and has a whole pixel size boundary.

     

    Some layers, this is not a problem, and the layer is sliced correctly.

     

    Slicing some layers exports to the entire image size that has been cropped/clipped. 

       example.  An image of 1000x2000 is clipped/cropped to 500x500

                       Slicing either manually or by auto layer slicing that is showing 500x500 actually exports as 1000x2000

     

    Sometimes slicing works, sometimes it does not.

     

    In either case, export persona is showing some serious issues.

  4. Hello,

     

    I seem to be missing how to copy and paste fill and stroke for text exclusively.

     

    When I copy and paste style, to text, my text sizing and spacing changes also.

     

    I only want to copy the fill colour, and the stroke (colour, weight, mitre, draw behind fill) and paste that onto my art text.

     

    I do not want to also copy font, text size, character spacing, and other position and transformations.

     

    Is there a quick setting I am missing.

     

    thank you very much for you guidance.

     

    Mars

  5. Wow, lots of questions, I'll try and answer them all for you.

     

    Q1. Why is this a problem.

     

    A1. We have many files with multiple occurrences of a font we wish to replace.

     

    Q2. Are you opening all 500+ Files in one go, or just when needed?

     

    A2. We are not opening all 500+ files at the same time, we do need to change out all the fonts in these files though, one at a time before the end of the week for the printers.

     

    Q3. How often do you open files from a couple years back?

     

    A3. We are not opening files from years back, we are opening current product packaging files that are being prepped for print.

     

     

    I hope that answered all your questions.

     

    Anyone know of a solution, or tip, or a trick in a font manager, or even a terminal command trick?

     

    Thanks!

  6. Hello,

     

    Does anyone know of a nice way to make a global font replacement in all affinity documents?

     

    I have redesigned a font, and would like all uses of the old font to be replaced by the new font.

     

    example -  Font A is in all affinity design and photo package designs, and would like Font B to replace it.

     

    Just looking for a solution that does not involve opening 500+ documents and *select* replacing every text appearance in each file.

     

    Thank you for any advice you may give.

     

    Mars

  7. Downloaded and tested the new Beta 5

     

    Outline opacity works differently than in Beta 4, but still incorrectly ( compared to to how it correctly works in AD)

     

    see images attached.

     

    Inside Outline is still Masking the layer it is working on, instead of blending with the layer it is working on.

     

    Thanks.

     

    Mars

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    post-16601-0-92671900-1488382452_thumb.jpeg

  8. Hello Chris,

     

    No special steps.

     

    Affinity Beta 1.5.2 (beta 4)

     

     

    1. Open Image

    2. fx Panel

    3. Outline > Normal / Inside / 3px / Black / Opacity 0%-50%

     

     

    Outline is working as a Mask, it is no longer blending with the background of the image.

     

     

    Not sure what is wrong with my set up here. Maybe I accidentally bumped a setting I do not know about?

     

    I have attached an image example.

     

     

     

     

    N2745F-test.afphoto

  9. fx Panel

     

    Problem:

     

    Opacity Setting no longer seems to work on Outlines. 

     

    Why:

     

    For some product images I like to be able to apply a black inside outline when placing the product image on a dark background.

     

    Most of my product images are taken on a white or grey background and the images will sometimes have a slightly shiny edge to them that pops out a little too much on a black or dark background.  

     

    By adding a black inside outline, and reducing the opacity to about 33-50% the edge blends in nicer with a darker background.

     

     

  10. Q. Is there a way to increase the Icon Preview Thumbnail for each individual brush in the Brushes Palette?

     

    Reason: I have many brushes with subtle differences.  I am a visual person and would like the ability to quickly pick the correct brush.

     

    Having the option to have a LARGE thumbnail vs. a tiny thumbnail and the 'stroke' preview.

     

    For example, many of my light flare brushes look exactly the same in the palette tiny thumbs and the 'stroke' preview is unnecessary for their application.

     

    thanks,

     

    Mars

  11. Hmm If I understand you correctly; you have a shape with solid fill and you have a text layer above this shape?

     

    If you wish to CUT the Text layer OUT of the SOLID fill layer,

     

    1. select BOTH the Text Layer and Shape Layer.

    2. Either Go to the Main Tool Bar and find "OPERATIONS" and select SUBTRACT

        OR Go to the Layers Menu find Geometry/Subtract

     

    Should do the trick if I understand you correctly.

  12. Deja vu...   I'm sure this conversation has been had already.... many times.  And I think Petar made exactly the same point last time... and the time before... and the time before...

     

    I don't think we are going to change our strategy.  Get Adobe to give you a single all purpose app, and then come ask us again.

     

    Adobe does not give anyone a single all purpose app, It provides a suite of loosely compatible apps where import of AI or PS or ID files between the three only somewhat works...

     

    I prefer the idea of tightly integrating the file format between A-designer, A-photo, A-publisher  so that at some point, hopefully,  moving between apps at least appears seamless, appears as if you are still working on the same "Workbench" but simply using the tools that are needed.

     

    Adobe is the furthest from providing an all purpose app at any level.  The Affinity Suite is closer to being a convergent than Adobe is at this point.

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