Lulie

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Not sure if this counts as a bug or a feature request, but currently the Colour Picker Tool does not recognise transparency.
 
(This makes it pretty hard to do icon design for non-retina screens in Affinity.)

I'm working on web design a lot and I love Affinity Designer. This week I had to create an icon (favicon to be precise), which I obviously designed in Designer.
 
So far so good, but there seem to be no way of exporting an image as *.ico.
 
Are there any plans for adding support for ico files?

Until you convert the shape to curves, there really aren't any nodes for it, just the resizing handles & for the ones that have modifiers, the little control handles that change its properties, like the one for the polygon shape tool that changes the curvature of its sides or the pair that change the inner & point radii for the double star shape tool.
 
After you convert the shape to curves, you lose those modifier control handles & the ones in the toolbar like the one that sets & changes the number of points or sides for polygons, stars, & so on -- they just become ordinary shapes that you have to modify one node at a time.
 
So if you are working with the more complex shapes, it is usually best to leave them as modifiable shapes unless & until you need to do individual node-level changes.