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  1. shushustorm
    Hey everyone! It would be useful to be able to name symbols. Best wishes, Shu
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    Hey everyone! Right now, rastering layers can be a tedious task, which I noticed when I needed to rasterize >100 locked layers, because - only one layer can be rasterized at a time - rasterizing removes layer locks. This behaviour is the same for Designer and Photo on iOS as well as on macOS. It would be useful if multiple selected layers could be rasterized and if the layer lock could be preserved. Best wishes, Shu
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    Hey everyone! It would be great if there was an option to lock and unlock all children (may be groups themselves) of a group. While I posted this in the Designer for iPad subforum, this could be very helpful in the other versions of Affinity software as well. Personally, I just think it's most useful in Designer, since the number of objects and layers can add up quite a lot. Best wishes, Shu
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    Thanks for clarifying, GabrielM! It would be great if this could be implemented. It speeds up productivity by quite a lot.
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    Hey everyone! When adding to selection, Designer for iPad does not take group levels into account. For example, when trying to select "Shape 1" and "Shape 3" from the following tree: Group 1 Shape 1 Shape 2 Group 2 Shape 3 Shape 4 , Designer for macOS would select exactly those. Designer for iPad, however, selects "Shape 1" and "Group 2". Also, there seems to be no "Add to selection" for Photo for iPad at all. Would be great if you could add that at some point. Best wishes, Shu
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    Hey everyone! I'm not sure if this happens when using other Affinity software, but when exporting to .psd, Photo on iPad deletes empty layers and a layer if it has solid color and is placed as last layer and sets its color as background color. Please don't assume empty layers could be deleted or a solid color layer should be converted to background color. This is quite inconvenient. Best wishes, Shu
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    Thanks! So I guess it may be a while until then. But it's good to know nonetheless!
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    Awesome! Thanks for pointing that out! This will save some time.
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    Hey everyone! To my understanding, there seems to be a way to use Macros, but not record new ones on iPad. Is this a planned feature? Personally, most of the time, I wouldn't bother with iPad Macros if I have to set them up on macOS. Especially since I don't always have access to desktop when working on iPad. Best wishes, Shu
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    Hey everyone! I have a lot of files (right now, 128, but there will be a lot more) from Procreate that need minor editing. I would like to save all .pngs flattened and close all files at once, since at the moment, this takes just about the amount of time that I need for actual editing. It would be great if there was a way to save multiple files in the same manner (for example, flattened) and (or) close them with discarding any unsaved changes. Best wishes, Shu
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    Hey everyone! It would be great if there was an option to save and load presets for documents. For example, this would avoid having to type in a specific resolution each time when creating a new document. Best wishes, Shu
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    Well, it really depends. Procreate has shortcut gestures to zoom out to fit the screen and to rezoom to the last zoom. For me, though, this isn't even a zooming issue, but rather a panning issue, because when I work on details, I would zoom in on a larger iPad as well. But I have to pan more on smaller screens. Then again, I rotate the canvas a lot anyway, so I might as well pan while doing so? I'm not sure, since I don't have a device that uses 3D touch, nor am I currently developing for iOS, but it seems the sensors that make use of 3D touch can in fact read more than just two steps, because you can set its sensitivity in the settings: https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht205056 I don't know whether the full sensor is exposed to developers or not, though. _ EDIT: Sensitivity seems to be accessible: https://developer.apple.com/ios/3d-touch/ _ But even then, the pencil probably also has tilt recognition, which probably hasn't been extrapolated from force touch data yet?, which may be interesting to some people. Thanks for the link to the video! Quite interesting! 0:34 to 0:47 shows what I mean when talking about reaching UI quickly. Of course, it's sped up so it looks even more dramatic, but the smaller the display, the less of a hassle to interact with the software. About the pencil, maybe I try one of those to make sure, but the ones that I used before were similar in size and more of an obstacle than helpful.
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    I know what you mean and I do understand that issue. But in the end, it's a trade-off between zooming on small displays and long ways to access UI on bigger displays. I have been using styli for drawing, but to me, it was too tedious to always switch between stylus and fingers (for example, when trying to rotate the canvas or for undo / redo). Maybe you place the device on a flat surface for drawing? Then, you have the second hand free to do things like that. Personally, I am holding the devices in one hand and draw with the other. If I need to use two fingers, the pencil is in the way. However, I did not use the Apple pencil yet, which may be interesting due to pressure sensitivity. I'm not sure, though, if pressure sensitivity is included without specific styli via 3d touch for newer devices anyway.
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    I don't know. Maybe this is rather subjetive, but I am in fact using an iPhone 5S, which has the smalles screen size available at the moment (which is included in the iPhone SE). I am doing a lot of work on this device using Procreate, especially since version 2 has been released. It works incredibly well. And I could make good use of both Photo and Designer on this device. Personally, I don't think precision should be an issue, since you can always zoom in and dragging sliders has its own mechanic that lets you set precise values (slider speed reduces with distance to original tap position). Procreate also found good ways to integrate their UI so that it's not in the way and there is an automatic UI hide feature while painting. When my iPad charges, I keep working on iPhone. In fact, the only thing I prefer about working on iPad is that my music library is on there and not on iPhone. (Mind you, I am using iPad mini 2, which, unfortunately, does not have access to Photo either.) I am even waiting for a new iPhone of that screen size for upgrading. And I was thinking about buying a new iPad so that I could finally use Photo without transferring to macOS, but the lowest screen dimensions supported by Photo are just kind of big, which makes it uneasy to hold and the movements to interact with the device longer. In the end, I guess this just comes down to personal preference. About the reviews, I am not sure if you read the reviews that were referring to Procreate Pocket 1. Version 2 has just been released and I guess there aren't many reviews on this yet. Version 1 was very limited, but version 2 is very much capable and it almost offers everything that is included in the iPad version.
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    Same here, when importing from the macOS versions of Photo and Designer to Procreate, everything works as expected ever since I updated Photo and Designer a while ago and made sure it exports as 8 bit. Currently, I am not running into any issues with the following setup: Procreate 4.0.8, Procreate Pocket 2.0, Affinity Photo 1.6.6 (macOS), Affinity Designer 1.6.0 (macOS). So it seems this problem is iPad specific.
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    I know ensuring nice UI and UX design would not be an easy task, but just imagine having the full power of Photo and Designer on iPhone. When I think of the new Procreate Pocket 2 that was just released, running Procreate, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, with the common .psd file format, maybe even including Files.app integration, on iPhone would create a _beast_ to work with that fits into a pocket.
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    No worries! Thanks for trying to help! I didn't even think there would be a simple workaround, so I posted this topic in feature requests.
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    Thanks for your suggestions! Exporting the selection probably doesn't work, though, because when I work at double the size, the tiles won't have straight edges when painting outside of the square that originally was the border of the whole document. I may be able to set the export size to half, but I'm not sure if this will resample the image, which I am trying to avoid; and even then, I need to offset in Photo by 50%. Maybe I should upload an image to show the issue more clearly. EDIT: Also, mirroring sometimes doesn't work when painting from one instance of a symbol into the other instance (see attached image, pink note). EDIT 2: test.png: Added note test.afdesign
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    Using symbols is just like what I am doing right now as a workaround, but unfortunately, that's not very convenient, because I don't want to expport the whole arranged pattern, I only need one tile per exported file. So I have to delete the duplicates and resize before exporting or work at double the size and automate cropping in Photo.
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    Hey everyone! I am working a lot on patterns (literally hundreds) that I want to repeat on both x and y later on. For doing so, it would be very useful to be able to offset and repeat (wrap) curves and groups using Affine and being able to access Affine in Designer. Right now, it only seems accessible in Photo and trying to Affine curves or groups will rasterize them. Best wishes, Shu
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    Well, that's exactly what we are aiming for, isn't it? At least that's the feature I was missing and using in Photoshop for years.
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    How about both? Once the feature was there, they could just include it in both the cropping modes as well as the menu bar's drop down menu (including a shortcut?). Using this as cropping mode could have the advantage of the cropping tool adjusting when removing some selections on the borders. EDIT: The last part probably won't work since you have to select a different tool to make further selections, resulting in the cropping tool not being active.
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    Awesome! I wasn't checking in the current version. So they did implement it! Thanks for your reply! I will mark this as solved.
  24. shushustorm
    You don't even have to click Apply (in the UI), you can just press the return key. So if "To Selection" was a mode for the current cropping tool that is saved as preference, you could just - select something - press C - press return - done
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    I know what you're talking about. I am aware of the non-destructive approach Serif chose for their cropping tools, which I think is quite useful. And while Adobe may use destructive cropping for crop to selection (I'm not positive), Serif doesn't have to implement the tool in the same manner. Also, - including this feature, even if destructive, would add functionality many users would care about (non-destructive cropping is nice, no doubt, but that's just icing on the cake. If the cake is missing, you don't want any icing?) - The sample code I included would approach cropping to selection in a non-destructive manner, since it basically uses the already existing crop tool and enhances its spectrum of application. Not renaming, but defining a different custom input for the tool and give that input a name. It could be implemented as a cropping mode ("To Selection"?) for the current cropping tool. Writing the last selected cropping mode as preference to disk would be nice as well. So you don't always have to change modes when you use one a lot. Exactly!
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