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Hey guys, I am working on a piece currently in Designer that is primarily made up of vector container shapes with pixel "painted" insides (see attached). I am starting to find in outline view a plethora of paths because each of my painted pixel layer rectangles is in full view as well and I am wondering if there might be a toggle type preference in future versions to just view the vector paths in outline view. The more painting I add to this piece, the more rectangles are added and the outline view is becoming increasingly hard to decipher which are vector paths and which aren't, making any editing of those vector paths in outline view almost counter productive. I would probably never edit or even move the painted pixel work in outline mode so I am wondering why I need to even see them? Thanks.
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affinity designer Tape VHS Illustration
retrograde replied to Egor Komarov's topic in Share your work
Well done cjclip. Very realistic.- 10 replies
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Hey Matt would it be a pain to enable the deselect key short that already seems to be in the draw persona but doesn't seem to work, or allow us to input our own there. I'm fighting a couple decades of muscle memory over here... ;)
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affinity photo Luminare Saga - Scribe's Bedrooms
retrograde replied to Brett Stebbins's topic in Share your work
Lovely fun stuff!- 1 reply
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affinity designer A simple car, a castle and a night view :)
retrograde replied to SinovenatoR's topic in Share your work
I thought that I had already commented on these earlier... ... great job on these, especially as they are your first ever! -
Just downloaded and kicking the tires so to speak... I'll echo others here in saying thanks for that zoom preference, it's just really nice to have preferences for these type of workflow things... and cheers again the continued perseverance on these betas. :)
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Would be very cool but I think it's waaay down the road if at all.
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I agree, that shape on the left is not what I would've done. You would just create an irregular shape in behind the people and fill it with a shadow colour then apply the transparency tool.
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Cheers seven, you too!
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Really nice, I like the style and lighting as it is. It goes great with the orthographic view. Sort of like those old airbrushed photo illustrations in tech manuals and textbooks.
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affinity photo Luminare Saga - Scribe's Room
retrograde replied to Brett Stebbins's topic in Share your work
Looking good Brett!- 6 replies
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That looks like a "multiply" grey gradient with one swipe of the transparency tool... :D
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Some nice requests Hokusai, I would also love a hide/unhide all and lock/unlock all either as a shortcut or a right click menu option, ideally as a preference. I also would prefer a preference on the zoom behaviour. It's currently also a little strange that in order to do a marquee zoom you have to invoke the "zoom out" key short space/command/option and drag... but I think this is either an unfinished behaviour or an oversight. Good ideas on dragging either a colour swatch to an object or vice versa. I noticed as well that command "d" does nothing in draw mode even though its listed in the draw mode shortcut as "deselect"... it works in pixel persona though, that as well seems unfinished or unaddressed to me.
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krollian, I agree, plus everyone has a different reason for using the app. I am mostly interested in illustration, not so much UI or layout type work so I gravitate to those features that tick the boxes I'm interested in... The important thing I see and what makes Serif a little different than most, is that the guys and gals doing the hard work are listening to their users and creating something that ticks their boxes as well, creating something that is more than the sum of it's parts. :)
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Not sure if this is a bug or what but when I have two or more files open and cycle between them using the tabs, the documents shift. I can have them both fitting in the window (command-0) and after a couple or three clicks on their respective tabs to bring each to the front they slowly move off to the left eventually out of frame... what the...
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Would love to see Designer's brush behaviour updated to the same as Photo 1.5 beta, where when you pick a brush it automatically selects the right tool in the tool panel i.e. pixel or brush paint tool. Even if I am using the text tool and select a brush in the brush panel the app knows to switch to the right brush tool. This is exactly how it should work. Awesome! :D Right now in designer, pixel persona, you pick the tool, then the brush, then sometimes you have to re-select the tool and then sometimes you have to re-select the brush... it seems inconsistent and not ideal. a boy can dream... would like a sticky highlight of the brush in the panel as well. :) a boy can push his luck... of course ultimate nirvana would be custom panels users could create and save. :P brushes, artboards, styles etc... ... but seriously that first point would be awesome. ;)
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retrograde replied to Paekke's topic in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts
You said it Hokusai!! Until this and a few other small but very very key features are implemented/ironed out I'm still forced to wear that other hat and wait on jumping in with both feet... ...watching progress daily and waiting patiently... ;)- 14 replies
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A couple of little things that I think might improve the artboard experience. 1 - when an artboard is copy dragged to create a new duplicate, perhaps an updated artboard number be added to it's name both in the document window and in the layer stack. 2 - Command 1 or 8 for 100% or actual size zoom into the artboard that is active or was active last, currently it centres the view. :D Can we add another tab to the Assets Panel for linked or placed image/textures etc... management? Or is there somewhere else that would be better located? ... While I think of it, I'm wondering why there isn't a global noise adjustment layer capability in Designer. Does it have something to do with the vector and raster nature of Designer? It seems to work great as a live noise filter in Photo over raster and vector shapes. When put on the top most layer it covers everything below it and it's a live effect so you can adjust it... really cool. (Post merged by PJC into one suggestion post)
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Yes there are none of these tools yet Gary. Hopefully soon. Currently though you can do a LOT with linear and radial gradients. Combined with the transparency tool and gaussian blurs, your shading needs are pretty much met. It's a different workflow but just as flexible, probably even more so. Re the contours, or in illustrator parlance, offset paths, nothing yet. Nice clown btw.
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Nice job Jonathon. I would like to see the noise feature be carried over to the pixel persona work. So far I think it's only available on vector work... if I'm incorrect somebody let me know, thanks. Or as an top most adjustment layer over the whole piece so noise could be added globally across a piece. Even better, a procedural texture adjustment layer with the ability to import textures would be awesome.
