AshTeriyaki

Maybe just something as simple as this.

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.

I'm going to apologise in advance. Tool consistency vs "What you'll actually spend more time doing". The current MAS version has (I believe) the correct behaviour. esc goes back to the selection tool. Most people are less likely to drop many text items in sequence. Normally it's type for a logo, perhaps a paragraph or two. Keeping the tool active until a second esc just makes it feel a bit broken still. Clicking outside is sufficient for this IMO. In an attempt to not start an argument, any chance (I know..) we could get this as a preference? Or perhaps a mode of the text tool. ...sorry again.

Just noticed theres a styling inconsistency with the stroke panel compared to the others. It's the same panel as the flyout on the top left but looks very odd when opened along side the other panels, should it look somewhat like the layers panel? Also while I'm on the flyout vs. panel thing, just a poke about getting a panel-ised version of the gradient flyout? Ta!

Ah cool. Still think from a usability perspective theres a good case to duplicate this button on the profile flyout. Also did you ever speak to the dev about your alternative icons for the pen toolbar? They're way clearer than the ones currently in app.

A big fan of this, I would find this far more useful in designer than photo, I go for big, messy documents with lots of ideas thrown all over the place, in a given session I almost always destroy something accidentally, this would be a lifesaver.

Knew it... Anything you can tease us with?

That is a little different to "Hundreds". The only thing I've noticed about the viewport is things render faster depending on how far away you are, like a region of interest. You could also try grouping some of these? That seems to have some effect on viewport performance. Affinity dev should have a good idea of performance caps but I'm fairly certain I've seen affinity handle more objects than that.

Just a quick one, a reverse button on the stroke profile would be ace. Running into this with saved profiles, you create a shape, apply it but you don't always know "Which way around" the path is. :)

That's so weird, I've had AD working with numbers of objects that'd make illustrator look silly. How many objects are there?

Ah, with you now. Yeah works for me, I'm not too fussy about which key it is as long as there is one :)

Not working for me...

It's unlikely chaps, typekit is owned by adobe.

I'd personally prefer to see sketch style symbols

Not sure if it goes against any convention rules. I like the line and polygon modes where they are. But I'd sure love a keyboard shortcut to instantly summon them.

Not to mention code infection...

I'm sure a lot of people run into this issue. I certainly do. Miguel's icons make a lot more sense.

You Rock.

On the Z-Blur front, what's the plan for this filter? I'd love to see it rolled into the lens blur with a few more options: Selecting a channel from the current image The ability to move the focal plane and focal point A few more in tool adjustments, not all depth passes will come in with the full 0-1 values so maybe an inline option to move the black and white points. It's a start though and overall a really good beta :)

I quite like the resize snapping. Would it be an option under snap? or default behaviour?

This behaviour by default would be awful, but with a modifier it'd be lovely.

I love these!

I'm not sure text on a path is in photo, but it is in designer. And it's really easy! Just draw a path, hover the text tool near the line until you get a little wavy bezier icon below the cursor, click and type. I've attached a video. I'm not sure if this feature will make it into photo, it seems like a bit of mission creep to me, but maybe one of the Affinity devs has an answer. text on path.mov

So here’s a big one :) Illustrator has some object selection tools, like selecting all objects of a certain type or some that share similar attributes, like fill colour. It’s very useful, but it could be done better. It’d be great to have fuzzy and conditional searching, provided you store enough information about objects. So you could do a search not only name but by object attributes. This would select all matching objects on the canvas to be moved, grouped, released, isolated etc. It opens up a huge world of possibilities on large documents, in a post UX features world this could be a world beater. It’s all well and good sketch having it’s symbols and shared styles, but on huge, complex UI documents... Well, yanno… You could do things like “All objects with X fill colour” or “All rectangles X wide” it gets even more exciting if you could make fuzzy searches like “All objects approx X wide” or “Red cogs at approximately X coordinate” A brucey bonus is if you guys we’re to save attributes like an object that is a duplicate. So if you had power duplicated a shape you could select all of them at once. “But what to do with these selections?” I hear no one say. Well! Save them. If you have a few hundred objects selected, you can save the selection to be recalled and modified later. Also you could manually select objects on the canvas to save to a set.

You've kind of contradicted yourself Ronnie, Illustrator drops the text tool once you're done. The switching is still the main issue I think, removing that will solve a lot of issues. I think keeping the text tool active until you dismiss it would be almost as much a muscle memory freak out for many as the current situation. But let's see what it's like in the beta :)