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Refering to point 9 and scaling 'framed text', is there a shortcut key for this? It would be very useful :)

Don't think it is. Would be a nice feature though! It's very mac like (drag n drop) ;)

Thanks Matt! I've just downloaded candidate 3 (been on holiday). Copying and pasting from one file to another is a lot better now. The process is a lot more fluid. :) Raskolnikov, I think the current solution (I'm using Candidate 3 now) is pretty good. With the current solution you get the best of both "modes" :) For example If the object you copied from is still within users viewport it is pasted in the same position as the original object HOWEVER If the original object isn't in the viewport ie zoomed into another part of the canvas then it will paste at the coordinates of the viewport instead. Cheers for the shortcut Dave :) Dragging is wayyyyy to slow. This shortcut makes things a lot faster now :) Thanks for the help guys :) P.S My issue with point 2. was to do with a faulty mouse so that clears that one up :)

Good idea.. but the editor wouldn't let me add numbers? It showed in preview but not when I published it. I've just numbered them inline for now. 1. Ahhh thats much better :) 2. Ohhh. I think I was miss clicking on the arrow which was causing me to double click and then due to double clicking this inadvertently made the window zoom in on the object. Thats kind of annoying. The arrow is very small, maybe it could it be widened? Some invisible padding around the button would be enough. Perhaps limit the zooming in on object action to only when you double click in the layers icon box. ... 6. See 2. ... 8. Not sure I'm a fan of this one. I like to know that if I press a shortcut it will always be that tool. I think there also must be a bug happening here as well as sometimes when cycling I don't get the zoom curser back but I can still zoom in and out. 9. The second anchor is helpful for that specific layer but when you want to scale a group the text box content doesn't scale only the content. I can show a picture if it helps. ... 10.2. I'm referring to stroke type. You usually have inner stroke, centred stroke, and outer stroke. See image bellow. I can only see how to do outer stroke or outer stroke AND inner stroke combined. Cheers for the help MEB :)

hey guys, Did my first project in affinity today. I really like it! Can't wait for the photo app to be developed too Just wanted to share a few user issues I came across while doing a real project. Hope it helps. This is relevant to mostly version 1.0.18771 and a little bit of 1.0.19046. Sorry for the mix. 1. ​[RESOLVED (see post 2)] I keep wanting to click on objects and find that I can’t select them. Is there a shortcut that would allow me to do a direct selection? Photoshop has this where you can press ctrl click and it selects the layer (or group, it depends on how you set it up). Currently I have to drill down my layers window until I find the exact layer which is a really slow process. 2. [RESOLVED (My faulty mouse)] I often find i’m having to click on a layer in the layers window multiple times as i find it opens and closes in one click? It seems too sensitive. Don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this. 3. [RESOLVED (software update)] Pasting into a file that is very long or very wide is a bit of a pain as it always pastes at the top and not at your current viewing screen position. It would be nice so that when i paste something I don’t have to scroll up and then drag it back down to where I was. 4. [RESOLVED (Use Shift and mousescroll)] Dragging items around to somewhere that is currently off the screen is a bit slow / sluggish/ clumsy. I found you could use the mouse wheel while holding the layer for vertical positioning but haven’t yet found anything for horizontal. 5. It would be nice to be able to copy and paste layer effects PLEASE PLEASE That would be very awesome. 6. [RESOLVED BUT (Still think it shouldn't zoom in though)] Sometimes I’m drilling through the layers and due to having to click multiple times (on the layer icon) I find the window will automatically change and zoom to the position of that object. This is great when you purposely intend to be editing that layer but it causes me to loose my orientation of where I am in the project especially if its a small object. I then have to zoom out every time which slows things down. Maybe this is just related to my issue with the very sensitive double clicking. maybe don't zoom to the object just change the viewers position. Perhaps if this was more animated and with a duration under a second that might help stop the loss in orientation. 7. [RESOLVED BUT (Personally think whole group should lock not just that layer)] If I lock a layer should I be able to move the contents inside it? This feels a bit strange. 8. [RESOLVED] If I press Z I get the zoom icon, if I press it again by accident or for any other reason it goes back to the pointer tool? In some situations the zoom icon doesn't appear even though it can zoom in and out? It would be nicer if it just stayed as the zoom icon after all that is what I’m pressing. 9. [RESOLVED] The "frame text tool" doesn't scale it just reflows. this is good when you want to reshape the bounding box but when you are scaling a whole project or the layer that its in it just doesn't want to scale. You end up having to do "Convert to curves" which is a destructive destructive process. 10. These are more requests than anything else: 1. In separated mode would it be possible to snap tool pallets to other tool pallets? 2. with strokes I can do inner stroke with an outer stroke but I can’t find a way to be able to do an inner stroke on its own? Hope this can provide as some useful user feed back. Love the work you’re doing! Go kick adobes ass See the attachment of my work to get perspective...

I'd see the animation tool as being very limited. From a UI / UX perspective (thats all I know) I don't really need a fully fledged and separate animation package. Just something that allows me to visually see how my app I designed in photo or Draw might transition. Something along the lines of the limits of CSS3's translate and transform and opacity would do. As a bonus it would be nice to be able to animate the effects pallet like blur too. *hint hint* Don't get me wrong a full Affinity Motion app: with 3d, motion graphics, film production and audio editing would be legendarily-awesome but that would be be a MASIVE undertaking :D lol *hint hint* I understand though that its important to get a solid and strong foundation with the first 3 personas, especially from a marketing perspective. Maybe sometime after then we could be thinking about animation and such... perhaps? :)

Adobe has a few neat shortcut features for time savers. Is there something similar in affinity? One is Alt+Shift+Arrow button: This duplicates the selected object or group and increments it by 10. Another is Shift+Arrow button: This increments a field by 10. For example the opacity slider would increment up or down when you press these keys. Also Alt+drag: Hold down Alt and drag your duplicated item wherever you want.

Just realised the lack of lock button myself and thought it odd that I could not see one in the layers window. It also felt odd that I could remove it with one click of the padlock icon but then have to go through the menus to get it back again. I get that it looks nasty but it's a good tool when you want to move some objects and not others, like locking a side menu or background. Its pretty useful when you are layering lots of things on top of each other. It can get annoying when you try to select one layer and end up selecting another layer behind it or an effects layer in front. I usually avoid this annoyance by quickly locking and unlocking layers. Here are some suggestions: Perhaps put it in the transform window Add a toggle icon to the bottom or top of the layers window Grey out the lock icon on each layer when not in use. Add a shortcut key - CMD+L is already taken :P Right clicking Place the lock icon where the visible icon is and move the visible icon to the preview window. Clicking on the preview window shows or hides the layer - not sure about this one. Thanks for considering :)

Could it be posable in the future to script our own dynamic shapes? Or even better app wide scripting functionality for making plugins and such :D

Sorry to bring this back up... I know this feature isn't planned but with animating UI's becoming an increasing necessity I think it would be nice to implement at least some sort stripped down timeline based animation tool. Maybe you could design the code with this in mind for later implementation? Photoshop has a great implementation of this where your layers turn into layers on the timeline. You can then animate simple effects like transform, opacity, effects etc Showing your animating UI's to clients is become more and more popular as it allows the client to see the animating result before its coded. This saves lots of timely re-coding. Here are some examples from Dribbble.com: Anyway here's to hoping :D

+1 for javascript scripts / modules / plugins / macros :) I think however its important to provide constraints. for example one of the reasons why firefox became less popular was due to plugins slowing it down. On the plus side you can build a whole community of people that would help to improve and add to this software. This would make it extremely powerful. After effects is a nice example for plugins. I just can't use after effects without my plugins, productivity is just too slow.

This is brilliant news :) Brush-on-adjustments would be super! Could you included gradient adjustments too? is there any rough beta release date for Affinity Photo? BTW on a deferent topic I think the current designer package is brilliant for webdesign as you are often using vector and raster elements at the same time. This program cuts production time by a lot because of this as it makes for a much better workflow. Really excited for this product! :)

I know its probably a massive undertaking but the ability to edit raw files like in Adobe Camera Raw would be brilliant. From what I can tell you can edit up to 16bit photos which is a good start.

hello :) I've noticed that you can embed design documents into your current document which is brilliant as it allows for a modular design approach. Is there a way to convert a folder/layer in the layers pallet to create an embedded layer or as photoshop calls it a "smart object"? I've noticed you can right click on the canvas and go "add to --> objects" but I've got no idea what objects is (I've looked around) so dont know if this is relevant. thanks