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We are approaching MAS publication!! Good work, guys! :D

Hello! Good job as always. Great congrats. But... What about this? I would like to apply a color directly to a gray or bitmap image. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21035-apply-a-colour-to-a-gray-image

Hi! Just a basic question. Could I use the Pen tool to make a silhouette for clipping an image, and export the image with the cutout of the silhouette to EPS or native format to place in on another application to be able to change the background every time I want? An example could be a frog with the moon as a background.

The magic word (and this is similar like the old feature in FreeHand) is PASTE INSIDE. Select everything you want, Command + cut, select a polygon and Paste Inside. Voilà! Designer will create a layer with each pasted inside polygon. You can see each element of the layer, select it, delete, it, edit it and so on. I have done so many vector logos and designs that for me is something natural. Affinity designer has for me the most clean interface, power and flexibility of all the popular design and vector applications. I was fed up for the treatment Adobe had with all the users of FreeHand. Now Adobe says Illustrator will be re-optimized and so on... Well, Illustrator WILL NOT change all the old and strange routines and ways it works because a lot of users will be kicked out. Search on the web about FreeFreeHand. Legions of FreeHand users had purchase Affinity Designer. What can I say? Hey, the reason is that Affinity Designer rocks! Personally if I must pay every new big version for me will be a real pleasure.

Thank, R C-R. I have Affinity Designer from the first Betas. But I mean that the trick is about have a portion of the image, not manipulate a layer. It is generally a convention from a long time ago in graphic application on Macintosh. If you have something selected, dragging that element or a portion of that element using Option duplicates that selection and is ”floating” ready to use. The original element remains in its place intact.

If you do not need to manage a lot of pages, like FreeHand, Affinity Designer is the perfect Application to do this kind of work.

Well. Thanks. Designer does not stop improving :)

Hi! Just a simple question about an very very very old trick. If I have a selection and I move it with Option (Alt for Windows) the action is not duplicate this selection? Sorry. Maybe will be a simple solution, but I downloaded the Beta of Affinity Photo and I am new with this fabulous app. I am an old fashioned user of Amazing Paint, Adobe Photoshop, Graphic Coverter, Acorn and Pixelmator and I want to hold on all the time with Affinity Photo when I will purchase in no time ;)

I have problems with Affinity Designer 1.4.1 version printing with multi page documents: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/24191-affinity-designer-customer-beta-15-beta-11/?p=114147

retrograde: Totally agree with you!!! I mean when I was writing about the interface I talked about the interface of the application. Not the possibility to design interfaces ;)

Retrograde: I have a text document with all the trips & tricks that I am interested in and I read in this forum. I do not believe that even the creators of this apps could manage and know the 100% of the all the features available. That's how all the the good apps work. Because of the all the options available. The key is that most of the diary routines have to be clear, intuitive and transparent. Is a real art of intentions, perspective, code and interface. And I imagine a lot of things more...

Hello! I did not used any Beta version to print, but 1.4.2 version have an strange behavior when printing. Say I have 2 artboards and if I want to print the 2 pages, I have to delete one artboard to be able to print the second page.

Maybe if is text is selected the stroke is applied to the text. If the circle is selected, the stroke is applied to the line of the circle?

Just a simple question: It is possible to give a stroke to a polygon, say a circle for example, that have artistic text applied? I had to duplicate the circle to get a stroke. See the image

Well. That means october. And Beta version 21 before! Haw haw haw!!! Do not publish in a hurry so a lot all people will say: You have published a version not mature, lot of bugs, uh, oh, and so on... :blink:

So, maybe the 1.5 version shall be available in the MAS in september or even, before? Well. The most important thing is a very good and stable version. Not a lot of improvements and sparkles but with stability issues (as always) :) Keep on the good work, guys!!!

zaqzaq: I think that Affinity Designer in not the best tool to create a multipage document with 40 pages and export the document as a PDF. In Mac OS with Preview or Acrobat Pro and another apps in another OSs you can join images to create a multipage PDF. Or wait to Affinity Publisher!!!

Hi! Maybe I have crazy ideas about the creations of colours but: Will have sense that when I create a color, the name could be something like C30 M56 Y0 K100 if I use CMYK sliders? And talking about images, I would like to have a Window for them to be able to replace a lot of images by a new one and have more information about images in this pane. I do not mean the pane will be so powerful like the future Affinity Publisher app, but a basic pane when I can see a list of all images placed in a document and I could be able to re-link them will be fantastic! But the basic question about images update is: Right now when a place an image and close the Affinity Designer document were the image is placed, if I change that image (edit colors, curves and so on in other Photo retouching app) when I open the Affinity Designer document again, the image does to update ti the last version. Thanks for your great app!!!

Well. It is a basic function. Maybe in the 1.5 version? I hope so! And best tabulations: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/22313-tabulated-text-in-affinity-designer/?hl=tabulated

Good point. I think that is a very practical trick. Thanks a lot!! As always you are listening all time. So I am always doing evangelism about your wonderful apps. Keep on spreading the word!!! :D

Wow! Thanks as always. You have the answer published here just before I ask, indeed! This forum is so good! Mac Affinity Rooooooks!!!!

I would like to see in Affinity Designer the possibility to mix text and graphic elements such as polygons in the same text box. See an example in this attachment applied to a text surrounding a circle.

Hi! Mmmm... I was looking for the way to apply tabulations on text, but I did not find it. So I need to adjust texts in the wrong way: using spaces to align varios words or phone numbers and so on.

Ouch! I thought that the artboards must be edited in clicking on the button Document configuration at the up left of the interface... Thanks!!! P.S.: I forgot the Artboards tool in the same place that is the Move tool. Sorry. I was looking for it in various panes. The consequences that happen when you are used to work in FreeHand and Horrostrator... Ahem!

Talking about artboards: If I create a document with the artboards unchecked, I will be able to create artboards later? Right now it seems not possible. You must create a document with the Create artboards option checked to have them.