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Hello, I wanted to reach out for help regarding using the vector flood fill tool, as I came across some difficulties. I get an error message "calculations failed". I created a flower of life composition from circles, converted to curves, only the outlines, no fill, just stroke. From what I understand, the fill tool should be working as all my shapes are closed overlapping objects. Could anyone possibly give me advice on what I might be doing wrong? My goal is to fill out the shapes between those outlines in color, to create a stained glass effect. Sadly the Divide operation is also not working. Thanks for any advice! Wera

Hey hey @carl123 Oooh thanks for sharing! I was looking for similar threads but maybe your title didn’t include relevant keywords so I didn’t see your thread. I think I will reach out to Serif directly to ask about it. I really don’t want to switch to Fresco for this because I need to draw with both Stroke and Fill. Let’s stay in touch!

Heyo So with the new update, as far as I heard here in the forum, there is a new smoothing algorithm for the pencil tool. From what I can see, this smoothening is enabled even if stabilization is off. Lately I needed to draw with a more organic feeling, where the line isn’t perfect but instead it looks as if I was drawing in my sketchbook. So this smoothening thingy is quite annoying 👀 Does anyone happen to know if this can be deactivated somewhere? Anyone else who had similar thoughts? Thanks! Wera

@walt.farrell Yes! I think this solved my problem, oh my, it is even embarrassing that I haven't noticed it before! Apologies for not attaching a screenshot in the first place - it is an unpublished client project. Thanks so much Walt! And thank you @Paul Mudditt for taking the time to help too, I really appreciate it.

Hey hey @Paul Mudditt Thank you for your suggestion - I tried it out and sadly the error persists. I draw for example one leaf in my illustration on a lower layer, where it should be, and then the second leaf already pops up, and becomes the top-most layer. It is very annoying because my very 1st layer is my rough sketch, which always has to be on top. Every single time I draw something new, it catapults itself to be the very first layer, plus it deselects itself. So I have the extra steps, dragging it where it should be.

Hello Community I was wondering if you have been having any issues with the iPad Designer lately? My software starting lagging, sometimes it freezes or slows down when I am drawing in the Pencil Tool mode. Another thing that drives me insane, because it slows me down, is when I draw a shape with the pencil tool, the software doesn’t stay on that layer, but instead it “jumps” to the top layer, or it rather deselects any layer. Normally I would draw a shape with the pencil tool and then directly click on the Color Studio and recolor my shape. Now the layer selection of what I’ve drawn gets “lost” and I have to manually search for that element I drew and the recolor it. I am working with many layers so it really slows me down. Literally every shape gets deselected and I have to search for it manually to recolor it. What is happening? 🫣 I tidied up and closed any unnecessary documents, trying to keep things light. Maybe my assets libraries are slowing things down? I am currently working in a document that is between the A5 and the A4 format, nothing crazy, 16x19cm. Thank you for any insights

Hey hey everybody! My situation doesn't look any better today, sadly. I have an illustrator friend whom I will pay a consultation fee so that she teaches me more how to fix those broken files. the document size is completely different, the groups are not groups - she says it is a glitch and Adobe doesn't recognize my groups, the software creates some mysterious frames that mess up with other layers Conclusion? I think I will have to abandon Affinity and switch to Adobe because my career is important to me. This is super hard for me because I've always been a big advocate for Affinity. I created many online courses about it, I built my YouTube channel around it. Aiiii, not good, not good at all And to be honest, Affinity is so much better! I am trying to find my way in Adobe now, and it is such a mess... Not intuitive at all, no Pantone colors, sigh. But all my publisher clients will demand .ai or .psd files. Thank you @Dan C for all the information, nevertheless!

Following this thread and pasting in what I wrote in some other threads on this topic: Currently trying to export my Affinity Designer vector illustration for a book project into Adobe Illustrator and it is a terrible mess. The biggest success I have is with exporting a PSD into Adobe Illustrator, but Adobe creates some strange unnecessary sublayers, or masks. It is frustrating and I am stressed I won't be able to deliver a proper .ai file to my client Eps isn't working at all, PDFs, lose all the layers and groups, plus the formatting is in points, not in millimetres

I am pasting in my issue from another thread: I'm currently trying to export my Affinity Designer vector illustration for a book project into Adobe Illustrator and it is a terrible mess. The biggest success I have is with exporting a PSD format into Adobe Illustrator, but Adobe creates some strange unnecessary sublayers, or masks. It is frustrating and I am stressed I won't be able to delivery a proper .ai file to my client Still, .psd is the closest. EPS is a joke, PDF loses all the layers and groups, SVG is also not accurate meeeehhhh.

Aaah that solves it, thank you!

I had a chat with Serif and they’ll “improve it back” with the next update 🙃

Hello everybody 👋 I was researching the option of setting spot colors in Affinity Designer but I can’t find this option on the iPad. I need to set them up for my client. I see that Pantones are automatically spot, but I also have a few CMYKs. I create a document color palette and add my CMYK colors as global colors. When I long press to open the edit menu on that color, I can only adjust the color on the sliders but there is no box for changing it to a spot color. Hilfe! Ayuta me! Pomocy! :))) Thank you! Wera

Oh, sadly I’m not very happy with the new auto-close. Is there a way to go back to the previous version? I liked that the curve closed itself, even if the start and end nodes were farther away. It made hand-drawing vectors much easier and faster. Now I have to go through the effort of getting as close to the first node as possible, and also creating unnecessary node points on the way. The old pencil tool would just snap-close itself and create a straight line, kinda like the pen tool. On top of that, the sculpt mode doesn’t close itself automatically, so there is really no other faster way of working for me. I just released a new illustration course and I will probably need to do some extra work, producing a bonus lesson, explaining this to my students.

Just wanted to let you know that this got resolved. It was a misunderstanding, everything is working properly. Sorry for the confusion!

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing issues with their iPad app when trying to place a photo (a screenshot) from the iPad Photos app? Affinity Designer iPad, all updated, 2020 iPad model. Thanks for your help! It wasn’t an issue yesterday and today it’s crashing every single time, with different photos.