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Two Requests on the User Interface
Bri-Toon replied to Bri-Toon's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Thank you for your response. For my take on this feedback, I would say that everybody is different, and has different preferences. So I guess it depends on Affinity’s target audience. So this is personally my take on design and just products in general. When I was learning about software back in school, I was taught what was expected of modern design, and the dos and don’ts. Even though instructors had the best of intentions, I respectfully disagreed, since those things are personal decisions and are very relative. I feel that the direction design is going, not just for Affinity, but all applications, are under the assumption that all people have the same preferences and learning styles. Or what works for “most” people, rather than “different” people. But I like applications that stand out from others, and break the rules. Not just for the sake of breaking them, but to appeal to particular crowds. I mean I’m sure Affinity knows what they’re doing, since they have a particular goal to be the new industry standard, but I do wonder if other designers get with the times just out of pier pressure. I mean we are all very individualized. What works for me may not work for you, and vise versa. I also feel the same with movies, animation, music, but that’s not relevant here. So I guess that is the best way I can put it. Feel free to share your thoughts. -
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Two Requests on the User Interface
Bri-Toon replied to Bri-Toon's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
That’s pretty clever, my friend. Not bad. And oh man, it sounds like he’s spiraling. -
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Two Requests on the User Interface
Bri-Toon replied to Bri-Toon's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Thank you for the welcome. I had a feeling that my jokes would catch your attention, since you have the same sense of sass. And thankfully for you, you’re off the hook, since a clever dad joke is not coming to me. -
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Bri-Toon started following Customizing my AP tool panels , Two Requests on the User Interface , Shading with shapes and 3 others
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Hello everyone, I know what you’re thinking. “Brian, you haven’t shown your face here for a long time, so you need to leave.” “Well the truth is, I love you too. Sure, I have been two or three years absent, but don’t worry, I’m still kicking. But I appreciate your concern. Hahaha!” Okay, jokingly introductions aside, I thought that I’d mention two requests for the user interface. I have always loved Affinity since I was first introduced to it, and wow, version two has really improved big time. As someone who is big into design and simplicity, these two requests are both design-based. They are very small ones, but still important to me. 1) Colored Icons The tools on the toolbar were the first thing that caught my attention, specifically for the iPad versions of Affinity Version 2. I was not a fan of the interface for Version 1, because of the layout options and lack of color. Not bad, just not great. But there were two design choices that I was not a fan of in version 2. The iPad version of Affinity does not have the same colored icons as the desktop version. The icons such as transform, order, or insert, are colored for desktop, but not for iPad. For both Desktop and iPad: The tool icons, like in the Stroke Studio, are black and white. I understand that those icons are not the primary ones, so they may not need the same color styles as the others, but I miss them having an offset of blue. That way, they’re not too distractive, but not too plain either. I’m personally not a fan of modern interfaces going more black and white in color style. 2) Renaming Layers Easier on the iPad Other applications, including the desktop version of Affinity, does not require too much work to rename a layer. All you need to do is double tap/click, or long press/click. With the iPad version of Affinity, there are not too many steps, but just two too many, in my opinion. Sure, it’s not too bad of a hassle, but when your are working with many layers, it can get just a tad bit tedious. So these are my two suggestions. Please let me know what you think. Otherwise, I may have to tell you terrible dad jokes.
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That is great news! Thank you for informing us!
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Pencil Tool Improvements
Bri-Toon replied to Ash's topic in [ARCHIVE] 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.2 & 2.1 Features and Improvements
That can be done with the Shape Builder Tool. It works with overlapping open paths as well. -
I think I see what you mean. I was confused from the video as well to be honest. It made sense up until the 0:38 mark. It looks like Prophet right clicked the “add” icon on one of nested layers, and changed it to “subtract.” I’m aware of adding and subtracting shapes, but not like that. Replicating it on the iPad, it is not clear what to do.
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Alfred reacted to a post in a topic: Shading with shapes
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Hopefully this helps. RPReplay_Final1721873206.mov
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I use a similar technique to Brian_J, but I use a black color to shade in objects. So let’s break this down. 1) Have the “Insert Inside” button selected to clip an object. 2) Draw a closed shape that overlaps your shaded area (no stroke, black fill). 3) Lower the opacity of that new clipped shape.
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Druck-Sensitivität bei Pinsel-Tool funktioniert nicht
Bri-Toon replied to srhkrnz's topic in iPad Questions
I don’t know why that is, but to be honest, you might be better off creating a new post for that. The Affinity forum usually has one problem per post, otherwise they might get lost. -
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Druck-Sensitivität bei Pinsel-Tool funktioniert nicht
Bri-Toon replied to srhkrnz's topic in iPad Questions
Google Translate can mix up words now and then since the translation is not 100 percent accurate. The intention was to say bug. Someone should probably report this bug. If the pressure window is not on by default when brush strokes are made, there is no way to add different variations of stroke later. -
Druck-Sensitivität bei Pinsel-Tool funktioniert nicht
Bri-Toon replied to srhkrnz's topic in iPad Questions
Es sieht so aus, als hättest du dir einen Käfer eingefangen. Wenn Sie mit dem Pinselwerkzeug beginnen, einen Strich zu zeichnen, können Sie die Strichvariablen nicht anpassen, selbst wenn Sie den Pinselstrich in einen Linienstrich umwandeln. Eine Möglichkeit, dies zu umgehen, besteht darin, Ihre Striche mit dem Bleistift-Werkzeug statt mit dem Pinsel-Werkzeug zu zeichnen. Und wandeln Sie die Striche dann in Pinselstriche um. -
Alfred reacted to a post in a topic: Cutting a stroke off with a stroke?
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With both strokes selected, you can use the Shape Builder Tool to subtract the intersection of one of the strokes. Do I understand you correctly? RPReplay_Final1720901316.mov
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Bri-Toon reacted to a post in a topic: I just cannot find the undo button in Photo 2 on iPad
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Bri-Toon reacted to a post in a topic: Customizing my AP tool panels
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With the Stroke Width Tool selected, double tap a stroke width node to delete it.
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Customizing my AP tool panels
Bri-Toon replied to Jim in St. Pete's topic in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong since I don’t have version 2 on desktop, but I believe you go into View > Studio Presets > Add Preset. This was at least the case for version 1.