[improve shortcut tooltips]

I made this example to see what appears if I hover over to the attention sign. 

what I simply suggest is add more detail like this: "Miscellaneous>Find in Layers Panel"

this really saves time 🙂

app version is designer 2.1.1

[move your settings to new version]

3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

But note that there isn't a way to migrate from, for example, 2.2 Beta to 2.2 Release version when it becomes available.

thanks a lot, that's what I need! Will this feature come to normal releases? (not beta)

[move your settings to new version]

6 minutes ago, NathanC said:

Hi @arifg,

The App Preferences and Shortcuts are not included as a part of the content migration process, if you wanted to use the same preferences that you used in V1 you would need to manually replicate the preferences used in V1 and then set the same preferences in V2.

As for shortcuts, you can export your V1 shortcuts to an .afshortcuts file (Via file > Save) which can be imported into V2 file in the shortcut preferences by pressing 'Load' and then loading the V1 file, however due to some of the menus being changed between versions and new features being added you may find some shortcuts are missing.

thank you for the shortcuts tip. but...

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Do you mean V1 to V2, or something else like 2.1 to 2.2 Beta?

....I mean from 2 to 2.x beta versions, or future versions. Because I can't see an option for this.

[move your settings to new version]

how can I use my settings/preferences (like use scroll for zooming) to new versions? is there a workaround?

[Redraw issue - Show all / unhide all layers doesn't work properly]

21 minutes ago, bbrother said:

This is a known re-draw issue affecting the layers below in the stack, zooming in/out will correctly draw the objects in again.
This is something that has been previously logged with the developers.

as you mentioned another user posted similar for Mac users, so let's say it's also happening in windows 10 and 11 (tried both.

[Redraw issue - Show all / unhide all layers doesn't work properly]

4 hours ago, GarryP said:

On my set-up, which I’m fairly sure has the default keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+Shift+H is set to “Show Others” not “Show All”, which is Ctrl+Shift+Alt+H - see attached image.

When you say “show everything again”, which are you trying to use?

Note: Videos (and screenshots) which don’t show the full screen are much less useful than those which don’t show the full screen. I realise that being able to get full-screen video could be a problem but the more you can show us the better.

I used "Show others" on both Designer 2 and Photo 2. This issue is consistent in my pc. And thanks to you I found the other bug using "Show All". This shortcut works but I had to press 2 times; at first it deselects the selection if there is a selection, and then at second press it shows everything. Do this; have many objects, select one and use Ctrl+H to hide others, then without doing anything else use the shortcut "Show All".

[Redraw issue - Show all / unhide all layers doesn't work properly]

small update: this issue is also present in Affinity Photo.

[Redraw issue - Show all / unhide all layers doesn't work properly]

in this example I'm using Designer 2.1.1. I have many layers on the background, I used shortcut ctrl+H to "hide others". Then, I used ctrl+shift+H to show everything again, nothing happens. panning the view, still nothing. zooming in or out fixes the problem. In windows I was using picture in picture addon for a video, using MS Edge.

[Affinity Photo - Create an animated gif]

I found a workaround;

-first you make your stickman in a layer, that is in the group 

-then you make or duplicate another layer... you know the rest.

grouping is for if there's a background object etc.

the idea is; can someone make a macro to hide the layers by order, and by fps, like  "play this animation at 30 fps"

[Suggestions for Primary / Secondary color]

15 hours ago, Callum said:

Hi Arifg for your first suggestion you can go to Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts, set the drop down options Photo & Miscellaneous. Look for Set Fill to Black & White, you can specify a keyboard shortcut to use.

Thanks
C

Thank you for the quick response. I will use the shortcut 'D' most of the time as I get used to the program. However, I thought this suggestion could be an answer to the question; 'Where's the default color button?'. This would be particularly helpful for beginners and improve the interface's quality, as if you don't see a feature, it doesn't seem like it exists

[Suggestions for Primary / Secondary color]

     

I have many suggestions to improve this little useful feature;

-Default color button; returns the primary/secondary colors to black and white.

-Change Appearance to stroke/fill mode in Pen,Rectangle and other Shape related tools and also in curve edit mode; Because I think this feature is acting like Affinity Designer's feature when I'm using pen mode. you don't need secondary color when using these tools and it confuses me most of the time.

-Change the appearance of the Color picker, somehow it looks like it doesn't belong there, maybe because the tip is not aligned with the circle next to it.

-Right click is empty so it can be binded to choose secondary color, and to choose stroke color in pen mode.

-Recent colors could be next to Color picker because there is enough space in every color selection panel( i.e. wheel based), for me this is important because it makes my workflow really faster. It's not visible in other slider modes. Also it could be added to Tools under the primary/secondary color viewer, for the tablets it could be really useful.

    

 

 

[Presets in Develop Persona]

I have this issue too, tried this in Beta verison also. if you saved a preset, you have to choose the default then choose your preset again to get the effect. Good thing that they noted this and hope they fix it soon.