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  1. paolo.limoncelli
    Not yet possible unfortunately... You can change the focal point of an object and place it everywhere, but it works for rotation only. It is named "Rotation Center" indeed.
  2. paolo.limoncelli
    Curious bug... Is this a simple brush? A round or square one I mean.
  3. paolo.limoncelli
    This makes sense perfectly since you're using text frame. Use Align Center, or switch to Art Text and you're done.
  4. paolo.limoncelli
    I've been trying to get the rid of Mixer Brush since first beta release. This is what I discovered about this tool so far: - Flow is not enabled yet, maybe it is not working by design. Really don't know... The sensation I have is that who designed it decided to bind Hardness to Flow, so as you can see below as your load diminishes, the flow's rate does it too. - Colour Opacity works as Flow should: I'm not talking of GLOBAL opacity but the one you select from Colour Wheel. Unfortunately no jitters here, so only manual variance is allowed. - Hardness has not a linear behaviour (see the picture below) - There are still some issues with Textures, sometimes the nozzle turns into a square. This tool (depending on nozzle spacing) is usable between 100-300px size. Larger sizes have strong lags. Currently I use it only for small touchups, it is not still optimised for blocking large areas I guess.
  5. paolo.limoncelli
    Yep, I noticed that, but it is there "always" not only when layer fx are applied, so was daring some more future options. Also there are many other little hints hidden around the UI that make me really curious... :P
  6. paolo.limoncelli
    These would be very useful for icon design too. I think that the Rasterise commands should have more options too. And I suppose these are there but still hidden... :) Where is the smoking gun? Well... It could be a mistake, but it is the only voice in the menu that has the "..." at the end and doesn't present a further dialog, as the convention would suggest. :ph34r:
  7. paolo.limoncelli
    I tried a cross-import of a rather complex project I'm currently working on. Everything seem to be fine, apart the text input thing. Being the first beta release great job so far! PS. Great avatar too! ;)
  8. paolo.limoncelli
    Wonderful!
  9. paolo.limoncelli
    Not possible, these seem to be baked into the .afbrushes binary. Anyway you can create a new document, select the brush you need and place a click somewhere and export that.
  10. paolo.limoncelli
    Exactly Meb, even if I'd expect such a behaviour to be part of Publisher, I'd love to see the simpler (visually speaking, don't mean coding) overflow option in AD too.
  11. paolo.limoncelli
    Thank you for your answer. Clipping is the way I typically use, but it adds unnecessary extra complexity to assets layout. Also is not a "per-line" way to hide, and could result in half clipped lines. Filler works perfectly as I want, but sometimes need to place there real content. A typical use case is responsive breakpoint representation of sections containing fixed paragraphs. This is what I mean (now with a fake lorem ipsum) Basically it is about to extend the "Filler Text behaviour" to all text areas as a parameter you can turn on/off. Does it make any sense? Maybe it's only me... :)
  12. paolo.limoncelli
    Yeah! Brilliant.
  13. paolo.limoncelli
    Hi! Now that we have a fantastic constraints feature could be very useful to have an option to show/hide overflow in Text Areas. This feature could avoid extra complexity in assets design, allowing to emulate a realistic text "cropping". Cheers!
  14. paolo.limoncelli
    These new features rock! Guides and Snapping are vastly improved. Constraints are terrific. Some things I found: Also Alignment doesn't work for constrained elements, but this could be a "by design" thing maybe? In this case I'd suggest a "Reset Constraints" button that revert objects to default settings, so we can start from scratch. An Edit > Paste Constraints would be very useful too. The Auto Distribute = 0 doesn't work anymore, and it was a very handy feature to keep stacked items perfectly positioned. -------------------------------- Suggestion for future releases: Please make an Alignment Studio or give us the possibility to detach the alignment panel: it will speed up things dramatically.
  15. paolo.limoncelli
    Evtonic3 said it all... AD doesn't have vector pattern brushes, so you need hi-resolution bitmaps to solve this problem. The distortion unfortunately is not avoidable at all...
  16. paolo.limoncelli
    Don't worry, we'll sort it out! ;) Are you in Export Persona? In this case make sure the Matte is set to "none". Otherwise, if you're exporting via File > Export, please check if you have Document > Transparent Background active.
  17. paolo.limoncelli
    Hi Manu, Jpeg doesn't support alpha channel, where information about transparent pixels are stored. To keep the background transparent you need a PNG, TIFF or PSD file.
  18. paolo.limoncelli
    If you select it (the adjustment layer) and pick any tool (gradient, paintbursh, selections...) you can edit it directly applying those to the layer itself. Anyway, you can't "see" it (the greymap I mean), only its effect. To see the grayscale representation you have to promote this to a pure mask. Go to Channels, you'll find a channel like [Name] Adjustment Alpha. Right click, and choose Create Mask Layer Now you have a copy of your adjustment alpha as a mask, that you can re-assign and edit with right click Edit Mask. In this case you'll see the grayscale layer. Ps. Remember to clean up your Adjustment Alpha, otherwise you'll have a double mask ;) EDIT Much more easier... Add a new mask to your Adj Layer and you're done... :)
  19. paolo.limoncelli
    Not always... In this case I still think it is useless, I'll never change a large amount of text directly on a distorted layer fake-projection. I do prefer to solve the problem in a much more flexible way, keeping everything safe and clean: multiple files, different purposes, few steps to sync anything. The video shows that you can do it easily.
  20. paolo.limoncelli
    I think that if you switch from Destination to Source in Perspective Tool Mode you could achieve something similar... Not a real perspective crop tool anyway...
  21. paolo.limoncelli
    Bus as I said above... With Continuous Export you are two clicks far from a refresh... :)
  22. paolo.limoncelli
    Totally agree, but in his case it is the very last problem, looking at the sample he showed us I guess... Maybe not a problem at all as far as you're dealing with rasterised layers, and (in my opinion) there is no reason to keep anything editable in this case. With continuous export the placed picture is two clicks far from a refresh. This could be perfectly achievable entirely in AD, but it doesn't feature (yet) a distortion tool/filter. PS. A refresh button for the embedded document should be very useful... :)
  23. paolo.limoncelli
    In this use case the switch of cursor's icon to the cross with "+" or "-" is very needed because the "move" one remains active and could be confusing maybe?
  24. paolo.limoncelli
    For sure a 3D modeller offers the best tools, in particular because you can deal with a real third dimension (not a fake one). But, for such a project, even in a 3D application I'd map textures to a surface maybe? So why are you speaking about kerning capabilities? Do you compose websites or apps mockups directly using C4D text tool?
  25. paolo.limoncelli
    The perspective tool included in AP is a quite demanding distortion filter, so to keep the workflow sleek, and quality results I export my views as PNG (so rasterised vectors) then compose them in a new document. Using the continuous export function these are always up to date. If you use the File > Place command you can always refresh those png if you need some changes. This is my workflow at least... :)
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