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Reproduce steps: 1. Draw a rectangle. 2. Drag an Image to the rectangle's thumbnail in the Layers panel to create the mask. ( It has to be an Image object in this case. Btw, there's a blue outline showing outside the transform box when using Pixel object to do so. Is this by design? ) 3. Click the rectangle on the canvas. It CAN NOT be selected by clicking. You have to click and drag to select the rectangle, but this is hard when there are many elements on the canvas. You can group the rectangle to make it easier to select by clicking, but you still can't access the color when using the HSL sliders. You can click the rectangle in the Layers panel to tweak the color, but it's hard to find when there are many layers - especially since you can't select it on the canvas to use the "Find in Layers Panel" function. The best solution is fix this bug, I think it's a bug, right? Affinity Designer v2.6.3 macOS 15.5

Sure, I've attached the file now. Liquid_Glass.afphoto

A language this messy has dominated web graphics and animation for almost 30 years — and we’ve never seen Python even come close to replacing it in this area. If JavaScript was truly that bad, it should’ve collapsed after the first wave. But not take over ActionScript 3 and expanded into so many areas of development. Saying “JavaScript is still that same mess from 1995” is like saying “you were born poor, so you’ll always be worthless.” That’s not criticism — that’s just lazy thinking. I used to be a Flash animation/game developer, so I went through the whole rise and fall of Flash. During that time, I saw a lot of really creative designers using JavaScript to build amazing stuff / plugins. So yeah, I’ll admit I have a bit of a bias toward JavaScript, especially because I think it has a natural edge when it comes to UI work. That said, I also use Python for batch tasks and automation. But honestly, I just don’t see that many people in the design world using Python. More than JS? I really doubt it. To be fair, I don’t think Affinity choosing JS over Python (or the other way around) would make that big of a difference in terms of extension maintenance. I mean, are you guys planning to build full-blown apps inside Affinity or what?

I've re-uploaded the video in 1080p. It should be available on iPad now I guess?

Took inspiration from jhey ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ’s web demo, I recreated the Liquid Glass effect in Affinity Photo AP_Liquid_Glass.1080p.mp4

I just updated Affinity Designer to v2.6.3—can’t believe such a bug made it into the latest version. 😞 When the mouse moves to the edge of the bounding box, the skew cursor appears, but as soon as you click, it switches to the regular scale mode. That means skew transform doesn’t work in this version — which is one of the most commonly used features! I doubt there will be a fix release right away, so how can I downgrade my Designer? I was about to create a design draft for a client, and this bug couldn’t have come at a worse time. It completely wrecked my schedule. Next time, I’m definitely not updating right away. 100% reproducible, attach video below: iShot_2025-05-14_19.34.52.mp4

This is a very handy feature that allows users to quickly edit certain content in a paragraph that needs to be highlighted, please check the attached demo video. Alt_Dblclick_Select_Same_Style_Text.mp4

A better solution is to let users choose how to use the Alt key to pick color in the settings 😄

When the Rectangle tool is active, you can hold down the Alt key to pick and apply colors automatically from the document. I've attached a video to demonstrate. By the way, I changed the shortcut for the Rectangle tool from "M" to "R", the shortcut keys I pressed are displayed in the lower left corner of the screen. iShot_2024-11-19_10.13.16.mp4

Auto apply color seems to be inconsistent with other tool settings. For example, when I draw a rectangle using the rectangle tool, I can immediately press the Alt key to pick a color and it applies automatically. However, with the color picker, pressing the Alt key does 'not' apply the color automatically, maybe press Alt key to apply color automatically is better?

Using JavaScript makes it easier to transfer PS scripts. Before the official JS API is released, I've tried to use other ways to temporarily write some simple script functions such as randomize, Convert Images to Artboards, Batch Masking, Reverse Layer Arrangement, Batch Rename Layers... They are also in kind of JS.

Add a Fill Layer from Layers menu, and move that layer to the bottom, fill it with pure white color, problem solved.

In this video, we are going to make this color blending effect in Affinity Designer ↓ have fun