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    dizeyner reacted to firstdefence in Precise object placement from art board to artboard?   
    It would be a nice addition to have Master Artboards but as of now there is no such option. Even with Master Pages/Artboards there is still the creation of instances of elements - effectively symbols replicated to each page, edit one and they all change. The big advantage with Master Pages/Artboards is global placement, so if you wanted to move an element to say the right side of the Page/Artboard you would do that on one page and all elements would shift on the subpages. In Affinity Designer (ADe) you would have to move the Element/Symbol on each page and if you have 5+ Pages/Artboards that would become tedious very quickly.
     
    Symbols can get you so far, so editing a symbol effects all symbols but what you want is placement on Pages/Artboards as well as replication and editing and ADe does not cater for global placement. You could select all elements on each Page/Artboard and nudge those elements into place or drag them to their new location.
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    dizeyner reacted to ChoccyHobNob in Custom Document Types and Page presets   
    I'm sure this is going to be a simple answer that I have just not been able to find for myself but I'm tearing my hair (what little there is left) out over this. 
     
    How do I create custom document types and page presets that I can pick from the new document dialogue in Designer?
     
    I have never picked one of the builtin types, they are just not sizes I ever need to use but there are a couple of dozen other sizes I use a lot that I am forever having to look up the settings for as I switch between them. Blog featured image, facebook cover picture, icon, forum avatar, that sort of thing.
     
    I'd like to save them in their own document type, with their own page presets, I just can't find where I can add them.
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    dizeyner reacted to Wiredframe in Change default grid settings   
    Hi everyone, 
     
    In 99% of my work I use a 10px grid. I'd really like to set this as the default grid. Instead I have to set it in every new document and every new artboard.
     
    Thanks in advance  ;)  ;)
     
    PS: Also it would be awesome to always open the document color palette when opening a file that has one.
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    dizeyner reacted to gobigdale in Art Boards & Pages   
    I AGREE!!! 
     
    This looks to be the Fireworks replacement that so many UI Designers are looking for, however we need Pages, Master Page, Symbols. This is a critical feature for guys designing website, mobile apps, and full blown desktop applications.
     
    I would love to start testing this app for you now and integrate it into my daily workflow, however I just can't go back to a single layers palette. Too much extra effort to keep track of all those layers.
     
    Pages/Master Page is important because it lets us design multiple pages in a single document. It also makes it very easy to adjust common things once like backgrounds, headers, footers, etc. without having multiple versions spread across multiple layer sets or files.
     
    Everything else looks pretty solid. I like your color picker, and gradient tool. It is nice. 
     
    Overall, I am excited about your product. I have been using Illustrator, Fireworks, Sketch3. 
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    dizeyner reacted to eball in Art Boards & Pages   
    I agree with adding pages and art board. I have used Fire Works since it was in beta form. Currently it is the most valuable tool I have - esp. for the web and device app design. Affinity could rival it with the addition of multiple pages.
     
    I am actively looking for tools to replace all of Adobe's apps on my computer. I look forward to the day that I can be Adobe free. 
     
    Thank for this terrific product.
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    dizeyner reacted to Ammar in Art Boards & Pages   
    Hi
     
    Adding art boards and pages features will me Affinity more used in UI designs
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    dizeyner reacted to taharvey in Designer: Multiple pages requirement for UI/UX   
    It is difficult to organize non-trival projects in AD without pages. For example, I  have a website with 40 views, each with its own layers showing the base view, notes, actions, and datamodel.
     
    But in addition to these basic layers, every page/view has custom layers to manage overlays, popovers, sliding panels, menus, special action behaviors, or  in complex views multiple data-models. If I had to flatten all layers for 1 master artboard view, I'd have 100s of layers to manage, and it wouldn't be clear which artboard view they go with. In addition, managing shared layouts with shared layers, is a very helpful concept.
     
    Artboards are not practical solution for non-trival design projects. Artboards are nice for managing aspect ratio variants. Both pages and artboards are used to good effect in Sketch, which with omnigraffle problems own most of the UI/UX market.
     
     
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    dizeyner reacted to dariobros in Is there a way to open a layered PNG file and retain layers in AD   
    I work at a creative dept for a big company hiring more than 10000 employees. We have decided to replace Fireworks with other software and Affinity Designer is on our list. From the research that was done recently we have rated Affinity Designer quite high in comparision to other software, 2 major points that still stop us from switching are: lack of smart objects and it's not possible to open layered png files (Fireworks png).
     
    With these two features added, Affinity Designer will become an amazing piece of software, good enough not only to gain all ex-fireworks users at once but to compete with Adobe Suite!
     
    I keep my fingers crossed and perhaps another pair of hands could reprioritise your development program. 
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    dizeyner got a reaction from Pynk Freud in LEGACY: Official Affinity Designer Video Tutorials (70+)   
    I love the videos. but is there a searchable manual? the videos are great but when I forget how something is done I need something I can quickly search and refresh my memory without going back to watching the whole tut. I DO need the video tut for learning. LOVE that you do this. just need somekinda quick reference and maybe what would really be great is some kinda keyword reference? 

    for example you use "nodes" instead of points for the editable parts of a vector. Theres a few other things you say differently than what Im used to and Im happy to adapt...just think some kinda quick glance chart or something as a refresher would be awesome. maybe you have that already..just point me to it!
     
    Thanks!
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    dizeyner reacted to Callum in missing sample files?   
    Hi Katherine,
     
    The red 'X' you see on the cloud icon means it is downloading the X is a cancel button. After some time (depending on your network connection) this should disappear and you can open the sample file.
    By clicking on the thumbnail :)
     
    C
     
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    dizeyner reacted to R C-R in filters?   
    You will find these effects in popups at the top of the layers panel (next to the Opacity setting) & in various filter windows.
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    dizeyner reacted to crabtrem in filters?   
    The easiest place is to look at your layers panel, which in my opinion should always be the main panel you look at constantly. At the top under the layers tab you will see opacity, and to the right a drop down menu with normal at the top. These blend layers will provide you live feedback to its results. Blend layers can be found in many other places, and used in conjunction with other effects, adjustments, and filters too. But for the start, the main area is there at the top of your layers panel.
     
    Hopefully that's right. 
    Good luck.
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    dizeyner got a reaction from evtonic3 in retaining patterns from pshop to affinity   
    Im in process of trying to move away from photoshop and into affinity designer and have just run into a snafu. My file, containing several layers, also contains an FX pattern overly. Its getting dropped out when I open the file. Be nice not only to keep my color gradients and other FX but also to keep the patterns that are applied.

     
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    dizeyner reacted to crabtrem in centering canvas problem   
    I'm not an expert.  But have you tried the CMD-0 (zero) options?  And have you seen the keyboard hint sheets on the blog?  They might help.
     
    https://affinity.serif.com/blog/new-keyboard-shortcut-cheat-sheets/
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    dizeyner reacted to JimmyJack in SCALE IMAGE   
    Ya know you've hit an open nerve with me. It's very frustrating in Affinity.
     
    If you have a shape (rectangle, circle, whatever) or a curve, constrain proportions is done with Shift,
    But If you rasterize a shape to Pixel, or import an image it's the Alt/Option key. Art text tool too.
     
    Why any difference at all????
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    dizeyner reacted to schizandra in IPAD???   
    According to what I've read from the Affinity team on these forums and social media, Serif intends to release a fully functional version of Designer (and I believe Photo as well?) for the iPad Pro. No ETA though. 
     

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    dizeyner reacted to Lee D in support for layered PNGS and groups and pages?   
    Hi Katherine,

     

    Welcome to the forums.

     

    For the moment we don’t support Fireworks layered PNG’S, this is something that is being looked into by our developers but we don’t have a time frame at the moment, sorry.

     

    Thanks

     

    L

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    dizeyner reacted to Lee D in remove stroke or edit a style and items disapear when layers dragged   
    Hi dizeyner,
     
    Select the object you have applied the glass style to, now select the Effects tab or right click the select Layer Effects. Now deselect Outline, this will remove the White stroke from around the object.
     
    With regards to your image selection, have you tried using the Quick Mask Tool. This will allow you to select an area, then apply a Gaussian Blur and create a Masked layer. If you would like to upload an image showing what you would like to do we can take a look, no problem.
     
    Thanks
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