[Swipe up or down on the Layers Studio icon to quickly reorder layers]

A swipe up or down on the Layers Studio Icon to reorder the selected layer(s) would be incredibly useful.

[Swipe up and down on the Layers Studio icon to quickly reorder layers]

A swipe up or down on the Layers Studio Icon to reorder the selected layer(s) would be incredibly useful.

 

[Move tool modifiers available in Affinity Photo for iPad?]

I bought Photo on iPad, current version 1.10.5. There’s still no Move modifier. It’s an odd omission, given how well implemented it is on Designer for iPad and Designer/Photo Desktop.

The Transform Origin and Transform Objects are powerful tools. But for Illustration and matte painting, the Hide Selection While Dragging is cruelly missing. 

[Settings for Improved Performance?]

 

I was about to tell you to de-activate Metal—it slows down performances on 1.7.x— but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be the issue here.

On 8/18/2019 at 12:40 PM, Mark Oehlschlager said:

" late 2012 iMac, 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5; 16 GB RAM; 512 MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M)."

Affinity apps use the main processor intensely. CPU is the main performance factor here, more than the GPU. I'm afraid that a 2012 Core i5, with its limited amount of threads, might be in cause.

 

[very slow since update to 1.7.0]

On 8/3/2019 at 9:20 AM, nwhit said:

with the new 1.7.2 betas, my speed is massively faster than 1.6.x or 1.7.1

Now that's exciting news! Looking forward to it.

[Affinity Photo 1.7 is very slow]

Update:

Following the topic below, I deactivated Metal Compute. Even if my laptop supports it. And the problems are gone. Back to 1.6.x performances.

 

 

[very slow since update to 1.7.0]

Same here.

I had massive slowdowns since 1.7, and up to 30 seconds freezes on some operations. I turned Metal compute off, and it's all gone. Back to 1.6.x better performances.

[Affinity Photo 1.7 is very slow]

Same here. Terrible performance issue on large documents, that I didn't have on 1.6.x. (OSX Mojave, MBPro 2015. Integrated GPU + Metal activated). Moving a group of layers can cause freezes for seconds. Saving a 190Mb document can take up to 10 minutes. 

I can't currently use it for production. Unfortunately I have to revert to 1.6.x

 

 

 

[Affinity Photo 1.7.0 looks slower to load image]

Photo 1.7 on Desktop is also slower. I get important lags on large illustrations, that I didn't have on 1.6.x.

[Collages]

@MEB Amazing, thx!

[Collages]

2 minutes ago, limas.design said:

Wow!  They should look nice on the wall. 

 

Thx Limas. They're not on the wall—yet! It's in the making.

 

[Save History with Document, cap?]

How could I miss that. 

Amazing! Thx

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Collages]

Appreciate your feedbacks. I'll keep posting.

 

I have a couple of making-of's that it might be interesting to share with the community. Any idea how to embed a video in a post—instead of a link to a third-party?

[Save History with Document, cap?]

The Save History with Document is a brilliant function, that allows to screencast and build clean making-ofs. 

 

I noticed though that there's a cap around the hundreds or so; the first steps in the list disappear progressively. On purpose?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Proving the Earth is round with Affinity designer]

NIce one.

 

I think you could get a better zoom-out animation, centered on your character, by going Z then ALT-click. Or even Z and drag-right.

[Collages]

Following up with some excerpts of my collage work.

It might be more abstract than the rest of this thread I'm afraid. Glad to share here.

This one is enroute to screenprinting.

 

P.

 

[Collages]

Hi guys,

 

Illustration from a summer screenprint serie. Half Affinity Designer, half Photo.

 

The capture was made afterward, rolling the saved history backward (neat function!).

 

Best,

P.

 

> Video Making-of

 

 

Final

 

 

[Paste in Place Between Artboards?]

+1 to paste in place.

 

The most useful feature when it comes to UI design, where repetition is key.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5.5 - Beta 1)]

Suggestion: 

 

As the wireframe mode is going to be more useful and prevalent, I would assign the default shortcut to Y (instead of CMD-Y).

 

And change the Transparency tool shortcut to not T, but let say O. I (color picker) and O (opacity/transparency) being close on the keyboard and close in function.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5.5 - Beta 1)]

The choice to make locked items selectable in wireframe mode is neat. 

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 15)]

 

 

• Added option (in Preferences) to always show the selected item in the Layers panel when selection changes

 

Bravo! 

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 12)]

You can assign that now in your keyshorts pref panel. Under Draw>Layers>Expand stroke

Yes, and the shortcuts manager is very handy. ⌘⇧O not being currently assigned, we could have it pre-installed, thus aligning to the industry standard.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 12)]

A ⌘⇧O shortcut assigned by default to expand strokes would be neat :)

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 11)]

 

Scroll to selected Layer (in the Layers Panel) - I work with files that have thousands of layers, nested within folders upon folders — and this was before art boards. I spend a lot of time in the Layers Panel, arranging, grouping, masking, renaming, etc. Scrolling through thousands of layers every few minutes is really painful. 

 

 

Rebound on Jeff's request. In production environment, manipulations on the layers panel happen a hundred times a day. A standard layer show-up would save a lot of hassle.

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 12)]

One have to dig into the layers panel to find the selected one, or right-click 'Reveal in layers panel' to make it show up. Why not automatizing it! Manipulations in the layers panel can be frequent. It would be a huge time saver.