[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.2.0.24229)]

Indeed I have, it shows until I uptick automatic grid. Then nada.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.2.0.24229)]

Hey Matt, grids aren't showing for me, but ARE working. Getting snapping prompts and the lot. I can see them in Photo though and wow. Bugger me is it nice. Good work chaps.

[Shortcuts: Shape Creation = E, R, S instead of M]

Personally I'd prefer matching illustrators keyboard shortcuts, but that's just muscle memory.

 

I like the double shortcuts, a lot like cinema 4D. More apps should do this. You have gone quite far though...

 

Also why start at 6 for a polygon?

 

You've also missed a key for creating lines. I personally quite like it being a mode of the pen too but a direct shortcut would be grand.

[Confusing - All new objects have an invisible black stroke assigned]

I agree it's just odd.

[A Colour Calculator sure would be nice, like this one ...]

A bloody good idea.

[New layer colour change]

Just for the record, I know you can change layer colours :) 

 

In a lot of workflows (Outside of straight up illustration) you use layers to have different states for a graphic or overlays, so having new layers automatically change colour without the slow step of specifying a new colour would be advantageous. Or you could have a preference that determines if this happens or not I suppose.

[New layer colour change]

Not necessarily. You can solve that with a little bit of logic. If you make an array of dissimilar colours you could just pick one "that isn't the current colour" then add that to a bucket with previously selected colours as layers are added so they do not repeat. When you get to the end of the array you can simply start over. Say if you specified 64 distinct colours

[New layer colour change]

It'd be great if when manually adding a new layer automatically assigns a new layer colour.

Pasting shapes or adding images should be added by default to the current layer.

This makes a lot of sense for a straight up design and layout workflow, maybe less for pure illustration.

[Affinity Photo Public Beta (1.1.2.23003)]

They did say "usually".

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta RC1 (1.1.2.23308)]

The arrow key capture still doesn't work in the font size input

[Filter Layers (Like "Adjustment Layers", but for filters!)]

All of the blurs definitely.

[Publisher ETA?]

But it's the beginning of 2015.... :'(

[Layer Colours]

Hey Guys,

 

are you going to implement layer colours to bring the layer stack inline with AD? 

[text on a path auto levelling]

I saw the snapping, good to know about the modifiers, cheers Dave

[text on a path auto levelling]

Hey Matt,

 

first off, love it the new text on a path feature, you guys have done yourselves proud. But I was playing with it just now and I did my regular thing wrote something on one hemisphere of an ellipse and the repositioned the start handle (By eye) so my text was level. This has always felt like a bit of unneccesary faff in illustrator and I was wondering if you guys had some secret wizardry planned so we could automatically do this on creation, or just have a button in the context bar for it? I guess you'd have to redo it every time you changed the tracking or scale of the text.

 

It's late so I haven't put much thought into it but it would be killer. 

 

I think it would only really apply to ellipses but it could be used on diamond shapes too I suppose.

[What tablet do I use]

I've been tempted by the Huion tablets but had no reference of people using them in the real world. Funnily I have a cintiq at work, that I rarely get a chance to use (I'm more managerial nowadays, I don't get as much actual designing time as I'd like) but I've always wanted a cintiq at home, I'm very likely to get one of these now :)

[Concept painting in AP]

Love it!

[Fur and hair brushes]

Here's 20 fur and hair brushes. They are fairly simple, but I like them. Enjoy.

Fur & Hair.afbrushes.zip

[Blue Bunny]

Loving the lighting on the paws. Really nice.

[Request for rotate canvas]

They're already working on this. There's even a little teaser of it in action buried in the forum somewhere, it's looking pretty slick.

[Color Picker]

It's in the colour panel on the right, or if you change your tool bar to two columns it is also there

[Faster font selection]

Yeah, I do that currently. But I do have quite a few fonts so I still need to mouse over and awkwardly select one. Even the addition of a scrollbar would be great at this point

[Swap fill stroke keyboard shortcut]

I do this all the time! I think the illustrator default is shift+x but I have always had it bound to §, no idea why..

[Font size input capture arrow buttons]

A quick one, the font size dropdown doesn't capture arrow up/down, whereas the transform inputs do.

[Faster font selection]

It'd be great to have a more efficient font selector, currently the drop down is a bit clumsy. A search based font selector would be awesome. I'm surprised at how much it slows me down