[Stopping at Mac?]

...I'd just lock this one guys.

[Fourth channel always alpha... why?]

Yup, when I work with CG I'm normally exporting at least 4 additional channels besides RGBA. While we're here, openExr support would be brilliant

[Arrowheads please. . .]

Just a random thought. As this feature is not yet underway (Personally, I'm not bothered too much about it) could you allow the resulting arrow head to slide along the length of a bezier path ensuring the tip is oriented to the direction of the nearest node. Mix this with the ability to add multiple heads, you could come up with some really funky stuff. See B

 

You could also add this as generic functionality, Snapping oriented objects to nodes. See C

 

If you're going to do it, might as well make it best in class ;)

 

I've attached a rough doodle, in case my explanation is crap.

[Live Union, Subtraction, etc]

hrm

[AFD - New character panel]

Ah yeah, I knew about that. I just mean doing it without the extra mouse movement

[AFD - New character panel]

Loving the new panel, a couple of suggestions and some feedback:

 

• It'd be nice if CMD + T toggled the panel's visibility when not showing, might be a weird one but I personally don't like the clutter of having type panels open the entire time :)
• Would love a little space between the text alignment and justification buttons, making them button groups
• Do you need the extra typography panel when all of it's options are in the main panel? I might be overlooking something here.

[Canvas views shortcut]

Tab does this in both apps

[AD - Export persona export groups and some tweaks]

Using the export persona pretty heavily at the moment for a project. It'd be great to have sketch style export to multiple locations using groups in the slice list.

 

Being able to define groups in this panel would be great to keep dozens of slices organised, being able to set things like export location and format by group would be killer.

 

It'd also be great to be able to group objects from export persona too, when I'm doing a slice from layer, I currently have to which back to the default persona, group what I want to export together, then switch back to export. It could be faster.

 

..also I don't think the v keyboard shortcut works in export persona.

[[ADe] Keyboard shortcut for find in layers panel]

Ta! How's the booleans coming?

[[ADe] Keyboard shortcut for find in layers panel]

See above, it'd be dandy.

[Affinity Designer - expand button on right click or context bar]

I'm not sure if the right click menu is contextual on the canvas but it'd be a nice place for an expand stroke button, also a keyboard shortcut wouldn't go amiss :)

[Designer - Reverse curve button in stroke panel]

Could you guys expose a reverse curve button on the stroke panel? When working with stroke pressure it's quite cumbersome to drop what you're doing, going to node selection then clicking the button in the context bar.

 

Little speedups ;)

[Could I constantly use the beta version for free?]

Just going to put it out there, AD costs about 1/10th of what illustrator used to go for.

[Brush stabilizer]

What an awesome idea

[Affinity renders Illustrator files better than Adobe!]

That's the GPU acceleration (The rocket icon on the top bar) turn it off and you're golden. The speed boost with it on is a little underwhelming anyway. At least when compared to affinity.

[3D layer view mode]

This is a really clever idea. I'm thinking something a bit more like the 3D inspector from Firefox

[Affinity Photo Public Beta (1.2.0.26185 RC2)]

- New snapshot icons for AshTeriyaki ;)

 

Cheers Andy, much better :)

[Affinity Photo Public Beta (1.2.1.26106 RC1)]

Also could you guys still swap the merge down and merge selected shortcuts? I (and I assume a lot of other people) are still expecting merging selected to happen when you cmd+E, I do this countless times in a session. 

[Affinity Photo Public Beta (1.2.1.26106 RC1)]

Are you guys going to fix the 'restore snapshot' icon for RC2?

[Affinity Photo Public Beta (1.2.1.25787)]

Mike, you use PS 5? Blimey, I didn't know that'd run on Intel macs. I have fond memories of 5.5, it was the first version I had :)

[Non-destructive boolean operations by default]

Could you swap it Dave? That'd be awesome

[Is Affinity Designer for me?]

Affinity Designer is a good choice. I think for a novice it might be more intuitive to learn than illustrator. There are fewer tutorials for it though. But they are our there.

 

If you are looking to do illustration, Affinity is a much better choice than sketch, which is geared toward UI design. The drawing tools in sketch are poor.

 

Compared to illustrator, there are fewer tools in affinity but all of the core stuff (and much more) are available. That being said, in many ways Affinity is a better drawing package than illustrator. I'm a professional designer and illustrator veteran and I tend to use Affinity designer for pure artwork and illustrator/photoshop and nuke for everything else.

 

Hope this helps.

[Will there be a UI persona for AD?]

We're also interested in any "snags" you find in Sketch.  These might help us shape our tools to do a better job.

 

Here's a mix of feature requests and Sketch/Illustrator snags, I've tried not to mention anything you guys have already confirmed (But there might be a few in there)

 

Symbols & styles

• Nestable - Symbol in a symbol with a shared style on a thingy in a symbol. In space.
• Searchable - Universal object and layer searching would cover this :)
• Clear organisation - sketch lacks a proper panel for organising symbols and styles. Styles and symbols should be group-able.
• Keynote and pages type style control - Sketch can be fussy with cmd+z, often you end up inadvertently breaking styles and text styles, changes once applied should be local until you click "Update". This also makes sketch-style text frame omission unnecessary.
• Inheritance from palette and symbols - if you change a global colour used in a style or symbol, it should affect all styles and symbols. The same should be true of styles inside symbols.

 

Artboards

• Artboard organisation - stacking by row and column with defineable margins, maybe a nice 'pack by order' method.
• Parenting - nesting artboards under others for export and organisation. For example, a web design with all of the desktop screens in an artboard group and the mobile in another.
• Esure pasting artwork respects selected artboard bounds.
• Toggle artboard boundary visibility.
• Move multiple selected artboards.
• Lock/unlock artwork by artboard.
• Show/hide artboard or artboard group
• Optional scale artwork when scaling board.
• Optional guides by artboard.
• Create slice from artboard.
• Create artboard from selection bounds
• Move artwork with board - Illustrator has an annoying bit of behaviour if you drag a board too close to a neighbor and velcro's an object from another artboard to the one you're currently moving, this is rubbish.

 

General

• CSS compliant filters - CSS filter allows hue rotations, saturation and a lot of advanced compositing effects, support has recently become very good.
• 9 slice scaling
• Placeholder image generation
• Option to copy colours as RGBA(0,0,0,0.1) or hex with leading hash, float, swift and objective C colours (Like skala colour)
• Guide multi selection, alignment and distribution
• Guide grid creation
• Snapshots in designer ;)

 

I/O

• Import and export text styles and symbols
• Export symbols to CSS file (With modern CSS3 feature support and vendor prefixes)
• Export Colour palettes and text styles to sass/less variables (Neat)
• Export path routing - Similar to sketch/adobe generator, putting /xxx in slice name creates a subdirectory and places the file in there
• ICNS & ICO generation

[Colour features in the future :)]

Maybe just something as simple as this. 

[Colour features in the future :)]

I think that's on the way Petar. Regarding the chords feature, it's there but it could do with some more UI. It's a little hidden gem but it's very easy to miss.