tonyrambler

Hi Nathan, no just using Designer 2.04. Waiting for the full 2.1. I haven't come across the issue in Photo v2, although I use it a lot, probably because I rarely do that kind of work in it. Same with Publisher v2.

I've seen this mentioned for Photo and Publisher on other threads. Working in Designer, centre of object rotation is sometimes relocating itself a short or long (or massive) distance from the real centre, even when placed back there with snapping on. Don't know if I can reproduce it (will try) but it is often enough to be very annoying. Only solved by restarting the app. Trying to find the centre—sometimes way off the document area—has made me wish there was a "return to centre of object" button for the toolbar, as on a big screen the small crosshair is hard to find out in the weeds. This is of course a separate issue to the bug.

Re: the other suggestions: Regarding Select All, Ungroup All etc., I just tried that now and on this image it is a big job. Ungroup All only ungroups the top level groups each time, and this pic has multiple nests up to 6 deep all over it—possibly over a hundred of them—which remain grouped, so I'd have to dig into each nest and Ungroup All over and over again…………………………… nah. Thanks all.

Thanks (old) Bruce. Select Object has just solved it, in fact. I'd overlooked both Select XYZ features completely (haven't kept up with all the features…) so thanks. The answer for this one piece seems to be 3138 objects. For some reason it won't respond to Select Vector Layers or Curves at all but it will happily select all Transparent Objects. Thankfully, every single layer has transparency except the background colour rectangle. Tony

Is there a way to display or discover the total number of layers in a Designer image? This would include all of those concealed in groups as well as those that are separate. Tony

Thanks everyone for the continued inputs. I will be looking at the earlier replies in more detail when I have some free time. For clarity, all of my work using (Logical) And mode was always in Draw, not PhotoPaint, as my work was all vector based. FirstDefence—yes, those are something like I was producing, but always in Draw. None of the Affinity modes replicate the effect, including Multiply. RichardMH, I think I see what you are getting at. I have actually done a couple of pieces where I mimicked the approximate effect by combining shapes and things like that, but it's a very tiresome workaround and it doesn't provide the organic variations of the blending modes. Thanks. Tony

Hi NMF, thanks for those details. I'll look at Apply Image later when I have some clear-headed time. I searched what I could find on CDraw blend modes but can't find a definition of how And or Or work, only found Xor on one forum. I'm not even certain that Draw still includes And. As you can imagine, it's also a very frustrating search term to have to use. It's almost impossible to search for in any specific way, so I've had to look for complete docs on blend modes but can't find the formula listed. Thank you for your suggestions.

I was using it in Corel Draw for shapes with gradient fills. Often the shapes were just rectangles over the entire area of the design, as it was the gradients I wanted. Here's a portion of one example. This is two overlaid gradient filled rectangles, one radial and the other (probably) conical, blended using And. Ignore the star effect, it is just the background colouration effect that's important. I haven't found a way to recreate this yet without Draw.

This is a very technical question and a very long shot, and I am not necessarily mathematical enough to understand a technical answer! Back when I used Corel Draw there were three blend modes I haven't seen elsewhere: And, Or and Xor. I did many pieces of work using the And mode for a particular effect. My question is, does a tool such as Procedural Texture allow the creation of such a custom blend mode (or to mimic it) and how would something such as the And calculation be formulated? I haven't yet found anything explaining the nuts and bolts of the And mode in Draw. I see things written about And gates, such as the equation is Y=A.B but I don't know how this relates to creating the solution. Anybody clued up on this kind of thing? Thanks!

Hi, maybe I'm missing something— is it possible to constrain the direction of movement of warp controls using snapping or shift key or etc.? Also seem unable to use arrow keys with/without shift to move warp control points (only the whole object). It seems that the movement is aways unconstrained regardless of any modifiers or snapping settings, so tricky for getting symmetrical quads/meshes etc. Hope this is clear. Thanks.

Bumped anyway. It might be a waste of time but it isn't a waste of very much time, after all. Serif—love your apps, use them most days, please add ColourChecker support as it is absolutely essential for a serious photo app. There, my work here is done and it only took a moment.

I'd like to bump this thread up again, as this is still an important missing feature in Photo 2.0.

Hi jweitzel, Thanks for your response. I think the Affinity suite is remarkable and I agree that it is unfairly criticised by some on here. It wouldn't surprise me if there was some incentive for certain other corporations to muddy the waters a bit on the forum. It happens everywhere else where market share is involved, after all. Ah well. This macro complaint isn't such a big deal but the code needs fixing and also it's a bit clunky in its design even when it works. Personally, I love the Affinity Suite. I used the StudioLink integration exhaustively on one very large project (a 300 page illustrated book) for several weeks with totally consistent smoothness and speed and almost zero glitches, all in one chameleon-like book/photo/vector window the whole time. It was a total pleasure to use. The Famous Industry Standard apps never gave this kind of ability. I think the whole suite is great. It doesn't have to be perfect, as long as they continue to listen.

Similar issue here with macros not playing, also Photo 2.0 DIY Macro for luminosity layers runs sometimes and then other times doesn't at all. No notable differences in images (I'm batch scanning many small colour & bw photos, all the same spec when being edited.) I do agree that the interface isn't very intuitive. When I first clicked on the macro in the Library it did nothing. I turns out this is what you do, but it just didn't work that time. Having to "Edit Macro" and then press play worked that time but doesn't always (again, a bit unintuitive). Any clues?

That's very helpful, thanks. I hadn't explored the left hand tool bar of the Develop persona at all. I use Photo as much as possible but occasionally there's still something useful (and maybe basic) that hasn't appeared yet. Best wishes.