AshTeriyaki

I keep getting tripped up by this, could this preset have bleed added by default? More often than not you're going to be sending files to print with it's bleed.

The slices panel is much more glanceable than the layers panel when looking for artboards. It's not a feature I'd lose sleep over not having, but it'd be nice. It's an edge case.

I'm currently working on a file with a lot of artboards that will all be exported with a naming structure, I know slices are named by the artboard they are on, but it'd be nice to have a little button to sync slice names to the artboard, just a little uni-directional thing.

Hiyaaa. I've been trying to think of ways to make use of the mad zoom in affinity and I thought a great way to demonstrate it would be to show a person standing on the earth, at the correct scale. So I did. Then I made a fake flat Earth video, because giggles. There may be some naughty words and I must warn you all, the rest of my youtube channel is very silly and quite offensive.

Ah ok, gotcha. It's something you can get used to. However yes, this is also true of cmd-dragging. You can still end up with half pixel positions, with snapping and move by whole pixels turned on.

Hello there, The beta is shaping up nicely. Old news maybe, but since all of the "sticking to whole pixel" fixes that went in (HUGELY WELCOME BTW) I find that if you alt-drag copy objects they no longer respect whole pixels when you drag the duplicate away, is this an easy fix?

Matt, on the topic of unlock all, could you assign a default keyboard shortcut (cmd shift l) I know end users can assign their own, but defaults are awesome.

Hate to burst your bubble, but this is true of all software, it's not a "Steve Jobs" thing. Features come when they are ready and the order is always based on demand or technical practicality. Have you ever seen the illustrator beta forum? I have. It's not pretty. At another company they have products with bugs that have existed since the early 2000s. Trust me, you could have it far worse. The level of transparency from Serif is impressive and almost unprecedented. But being able to see into the development of a product may affect your perception of it somewhat.

Only just checked this topic, you lot seem to like these!

On the rotation point, I've always been behind adding a canvas rotation tool in the desktop apps, seems a bit of a waste to only let multi-touch people make good use of it.

You sneaky boys! Congratulations Ash, Tony, Andy and the team! I'm so excited to download Photo!

I'm sure they are working on this, you can't just throw more Dev's at something and things magically start happening faster, getting new engineers up to speed and meeting code standards takes a long time. Hopefully they are already working towards getting more competent people working on Designer. FYI, by competency I don't mean other devs are stupid, just don't have the understanding of this particular platform yet.

Minor misalignments of icons, in a beta software release, affecting no one? I kinda see the point you're making, but c'mon, you must have something better to do with your time. Solid beta chaps, would like to see some polish and also (Mirroring comments from some others) some refinements to some of the existing tools and some wee workflow enhancements. A few nice little bugs squashed and the new font search is rather nice. Keep on keepin' on.

Strangely I was about to start a thread on this, but someone already did it! The art board alignment thing is a pain in the butt, I think forcing artboards to full pixels is definitely the way to go, I've had my guy working on dozens of banners in one doc, with the export being what it is, is killer. BUUUUuuuut, then having to go back through and nudge all of the boards to export files at the expected size is a bit rubbish. I'd love you all forever if you'd fix this :D

It's a very different way of working when compared with after effects, I wouldn't call working with nodes intuitive as such... Also throughout this thread I've seen no one mention Motion, it's incredible value for 30 quid. It does about 60-70% of what AE does and it has real-time playback and a true 3D workspace, bosh. It's a shame The Foundry killed off Hieroplayer. That was basically a fully fledged editor for £150 with a load of neat toys on top. It just flew under everyone's radar. I think the Serif guys have confirmed they will not be working on a product like this, which is definitely the right decision. It'd be a fools errand.

Yup, I've always wanted this too.

Yup, it's in the designer crop tool, just not the more often used crop in photo. I've always found that strange

Didn't see this reply! I also saw Andy mention that scripting (Yay) with javascript (Semi-boo) is on the way, I still feel macros would be tip-top though. Firstly for basic things like isometric transforms, scaling tricks etc. But later down the line a Nuke-type implementation would be amazing. Think about it - write a variable, declare a type or make it an argument in a UI-control-create function of some sort, save it as a macro and bosh! On the fly basic plugin and macro creation, pretty killer. If you look into nuke gizmos they even have a basic UI creation tool so you can drag out controls and hook them up later in scripts.

For an IDE go with phpStorm/webStorm/intelliJ or coda. Or if you just need a text editor there's dozens of strong applications out there - sublime text, atom, brackets, visual studio code, text wrangler, etc etc. Dreamweaver fell behind many, many years ago.

They have said that scripting is coming and it will be javascript.

That's not how Nexus works either ;)* Most applications at The Foundry are written in QT, (Modo is not, apart from the Linux version, so they may have changed for the win and mac OS versions) which does a lot of the platform agnosticism magic, though you never get past particular case-by-case issues and limitations by platform. It's just not that simple I'm afraid. *Ex-Foundry employee

Surely this has strayed far from being a useful conversation at this point?

There's an option for this in preferences now, so the layer panel shows what is currently selected, that's me satisfied :)

High-end CRT's are still excellent, often film graders will still use CRT monitors. They can have excellent colour reproduction, the panels themselves last a long time and often don't suffer some of the brightness consistency issues of LED and LCD panels. Basically, the only downside is they are pretty big and there' some hard limits on the size of the panels. CRT FTW.

This would be awesome.