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Yep, I was going to suggest T but assumed it was already reserved for the "type" or text tool... is it not?

Hey ronnyb7 you changed your avatar, I didn't recognize you... what's the loupe tool about?

Thanks Quarian, that's great info. I'm a bit lost when it comes to AE or motion graphics unfortunately... I understand asking people in this forum about AE might not get me many replies so cheers for yours. :)

Haha, of course Matt, hypothetically speaking... any key would work that hasn't been taken yet. Ideally preference would be for a one key solution as opposed to a shift or option plus key but really anything that is close to the left side (sorry left-handers) of the keyboard would work. Even the ( ` ) key just below the escape key could do it or "shift-z"... cheers for considering it though.

I would be very happy with a transparency tool shortcut...hint hint... pretty please... Matt I'm talking to you... ;)

Cool suggestion, I would utilize it more if it was a button in the tool bar...

Yes that's a great feature of Blender. I brought up a similar discussion a while back. I love Blender's implementation of this using the scroll wheel to increase or decrease the influence of the falloff, very slick. I don't know why vector apps haven't had something similar to this...? I'm sure it would come in handy for complex organic shape manipulation.

Hi all, is anyone using After Effects with Designer... and if so how's the workflow or are you having any issues getting files into AE? A friend of mine is excited about trying Designer but needs to be able to work with his assets in AE. Currently he's copying and pasting from Illustrator into AE. I would try it myself but I don't have AE. If anyone out there has any experience with this that they'd like to share, please let me know? Cheers guys and/or gals. ;)

Cheers ronnyb7 :)

Perfect Peter! :D

Hi DeezWun, it's a feature that isn't in the app yet but is on the road map. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/842-affinity-designer-feature-roadmap/ A bunch of people, myself included, are anxiously waiting for this to migrate over design and logo work...

Thanks MEB, yes I saw that thread. I was hoping for a solution for the pixel brush painting type of stuff -OR- even an overall adjustment layer or layer effect like brightness/contrast only for noise and it would effect any layer below it, so you still have some control as to what gets the effect... seems to my inexperienced eyes that it would be similar in theory to the gaussian blur effect, only using noise?? Is there a technical reason for not having it I wonder? ... and it sure would be good to keep this in Designer, as much as the suite will be closely tied together, it would be a little bit of a workflow hiccup to have to open up Photo just to add noise to something pixel based...

That's how I would do it as well MEB... I would use a black multiply fill around 10-15% opacity then apply a transparent gradient on it. That way if you change the blue to another colour the shadow still works. Once you create the shadow shape you can just duplicate it as many times as you need it and adjust as you go... you could also save it as a style to quickly apply it or use in other documents...

Just wondering if there is a way to get the noise feature to work on painted or pixel work? Can't seem to find it, don't know if it's buried somewhere or just not a feature... sure would be great to have it work in a similar fashion to the vector stuff.

Divide is working for me in the latest beta... beta 1.0.21861

I would love to see a few more "photo" teasers... hint hint...

Thanks Matt, I did the double take thing too. "Huh, another update you say, can't be..." nice to know there are some real humans at the other end of this application. :D

Hmm, I haven't upgraded to Yosemite yet, think I'll wait....

Thanks MEB, that makes sense and that's what I thought it meant, only I could've sworn yesterday I imported a palette using the "add" route. Must be losing my mind... thanks!

I'm having an issue inputting stroke values in the stroke palette. Works fine in the tool shelf but isn't recognizing my keystrokes in the input field of the stroke palette. When I input a stroke width value in the tool shelf it updates in the stroke palette but won't allow any inputting... the slider works just not the input field. anyone having this issue?

Hi MEB, I have a question re the colour panel palettes... I'm using the latest beta 1.0.21861. On the swatches panel, is there a difference between importing or adding palettes? For instance "add Application Palette" or "Import as Application Palette"? I'm just wondering what the difference is if there is one? Cheers.

Thanks for the update on the update!

Those sneaky guys... :)

Nice style David.

Just tried the new brush sizing and hardness controls and interactive rectangle and ellipse improvements. Spot on guys, very nice!