[M1 Mac / Big Sur: Affinity Designer asking to record my screen!]

14 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

And it can colour pick outside of its own app window, so pick the colour from elsewhere on the screen?

Yes - outside the app, desktop another open app window wherever.

[M1 Mac / Big Sur: Affinity Designer asking to record my screen!]

I was talking about what comes with the installation of BigSur like TextEdit, Preview, iWork.apps, Notes etc - to adjust colours you can use their color picker over app windows without restrictions - as it was as long I can remember.

Edit: Just loaded another from the AppStore (sandboxed) and it's not asking when using the color picker.

Does this help or is there anything else I can try?

[M1 Mac / Big Sur: Affinity Designer asking to record my screen!]

12 hours ago, VectorCat said:

Very nice.

Fun fact is that Applejuicefactory´s own apps which uses the macOS color picker are not asking you for anything. So nice.

[Insert New Node Action?]

It's here written down:

[Insert New Node Action?]

You don't have to sell it to me; I'm an Inkscaper since 2004 and a moderator in Chat+forum over there. You know there's a better tool for more evenly distributed nodes on an existing path where your method quite easily become useless (left example):

And you can try this in Inkscape for fun:

😄

[how to create a cut path]

Maybe try the Contour Tool

[How do you choose colors to gradient from image or some other source?]

Case closed by Samsonite methinks. 😅

[Why are my gradients not exporting?]

If you want to keep the text editable you can check that particular feature in the SVG exporter "convert text to curve" or something in that line.

[Why are my gradients not exporting?]

 

17 minutes ago, Parin said:

How did you do that?

Straight forward I'd say - nothing special in particular. I'd make sure not to have any transparencies in the gradient - though it should work in SVG but probably not in PDF if you're going to a print shop. It's all in the file - nothing hidden or magic wands used.

[How do you choose colors to gradient from image or some other source?]

It's click+hold+drag from the pipette to the place you want the color picked from. it then appears in the little circle right to the pipette - click there to make the change happen:

And you can insert a new stop by clicking onto the gradient "line" itself.

[Why are my gradients not exporting?]

Maybe compare with this quick hack which exports well to SVG:

Vcard.afdesign

[lock function??? to draw within shape edges...]

Maybe like so?

[Insert New Node Action?]

Maybe like so:

[Distort a rectangular image to fit a curve/donut?]

I tend to use a 3d app for these kind of projections. Your image has not a suitable aspect ratio though:

[Distort a rectangular image to fit a curve/donut?]

Mmmh - Filters->Distort->Rectangular to Polar?

[M1 Mac / Big Sur: Affinity Designer asking to record my screen!]

I see - but the OP is on M1/Mac/BigSUR - just in case he's looking up the wrong tab. 😉

And yes - thanks to Applejuicefactory being paranoia as one only can be. On the set up on this machine you have to go to this "verify"-process for every app. Being asked to allow a content creator app to allow access to save a file to HD is kinda nonsense. But here we go. 😶

[Why In can't convert to curves or expand arrowheads?]

Doesn't make sense or do anything on open paths.

[M1 Mac / Big Sur: Affinity Designer asking to record my screen!]

I don´t have any Affinity app entry like shown in the screenshot above on my M1 Mac/BigSur and have used the color picker of course. 🤔

Well - wait - it's not in "Accessibility" it's in "Screenrecording": 🤮

[Why In can't convert to curves or expand arrowheads?]

8 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

When the stroke is aligned to centre, but not to inside or outside.

Ok:

[Why In can't convert to curves or expand arrowheads?]

Works here:

[Cutting a shape out of another shape]

[Resize color chooser]

the Color Chooser is representing all kinds of Color descriptions in one place - which you may not need.

[Cutting a shape out of another shape]

Is your "ear-ring" probably just a single stroke instead of a color filled shape like you will get after "expand stroke"?

A screenshot or example file might be helpful methinks.

[Resize color chooser]

Ah - thanks - was reading "color wheel" - need more coffee I guess. Yes this "thing" is huge compared to the "Color"-tab floating. So if @kat don´t care about the extra info "Colour" might be the better choice.

Thanks @PaulEC

[Resize color chooser]

May I ask what kind of tool this is? I have "Colors" but not "Color Chooser" that I know of.