Felonius

Twice in the past 5 days using AFPhoto 1.7.1.404, the tool panels have completely resized themselves without any action on my part. After this random resize, the layers panel can no longer be vertically changed in size because the "handles" at the bottom of the panel simply don't appear. The handles for increasing/decreasing the horizontal size still work just fine, but the vertical handles never appear. Video capture attached for proof. Panels are moved to secondary monitor. My specs: Win10 x64 update 1809 Lenovo ThinkPad T460 Intel i5 6300U / Intel HD 520 Graphics 16 GB RAM Dual monitor setup -- Mon1 1920x1080, Mon2 1680x1050 The only solution I've found so far is a workspace reset (holding CTRL while starting the app). And you can imagine what a pain this is to do multiple times in a week. afphoto-layers-panel-resize-bug.mp4

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Bump Bump Bump! (Even though I started the thread). This is such a convenient tool to have.

The lack of this feature remains a continuing annoyance every time I use AF Photo. It's been in Photoshop for as long as I can remember, since at least Photoshop 7, waaaaaay back in 2002. Not having this feature is particularly troublesome when I want to use a square brush with the erase tool to trim off corners in at perfect 90 degree angles, or when I want to do a perfectly straight-line clone stamp or brush stroke. Please add this feature. Thing is, it's already in place for the pen tool in AF Photo right now ---- click to drop a node, hold SHIFT to constrain a straight line angle before dropping your next node. It can't be that much more work to add it for the brush, clone stamp, and erase tools.

Love the Affinity apps, bought both Designer and Photo for windows. However --- PLEASE add the ability to draw a pixel brush or eraser stroke to a constrained 45 / 90 / 180 degree angle by pressing and holding the SHIFT key. This is the third time I've requested this. This has been a default UI behavior in Photoshop since at least Photoshop 7. EVERY SINGLE TIME I forget that Affinity Photo doesn't have this (yet), I grit my teeth. I know you can click --- then press shift --- move the cursor --- click again and it will draw the brush stroke to the exact spot of the second click, but there's no way to 100% know that you've constrained the angle exactly 45, 90, or 180 degrees using this method.

Purchased. Very excited. This truly is an opportunity for Serif to carve out a market in the design software space.

Create multiple groups of 2 or more shapes. Select the groupings. Click any of the align actions in the "Align" action panel. The groupings will show that they move to match the chosen alignment action. Click "Ok" in the alignment panel. The groupings will still show as selected on the artboard. Click away from the groupings to deselect them. The groupings move back to their original, unaligned positions.

Ah hah! figured out the exact steps to reproduce the problem. It appears to be related to having the Character studio panel open, while the Layers panel is moved out of its standard docking position. I started by reloading the app and removing all current config items by holding CTRL and clearing all selections. To reproduce: Open any image in ADPhoto with multiple layers. Go to View -> Studio and select the "Characters" panel While the Characters panel is open and visible, move the Layers panel out of its default position. Doesn't have to be on a secondary monitor, just has to be moved out of its standard docking location. While the Characters panel is open and visible, and the Layers panel is moved out of its default docking position, try right-clicking on a layer in the Layers panel. Took a new video to demonstrate. This has fairly obvious consequences for people wanting to move their panels off to a second monitor, which is how I stumbled on to the problem in the first place. :) ADPhoto-bug--part3-1-5-0-37.wmv

After some more experimentation, I discovered that if I have more than one layer selected at a time, the right-click dialogue appears and stays properly. If I attempt to only right-click on a single layer at a time, the problem occurs. See part 2 attached video. ADPhoto-bug--part2-1-5-0-37.wmv

Took a video to show what I'm talking about. In the capture, it shows my cursor. When there's a small blue circle around the cursor, that's me attempting to right-click on the layer. ADPhoto-bug-1-5-0-37.wmv

I don't know if this has been reported yet, but in AFPhoto 1.5.0.37, when I right-click on a layer in the layer panel, the dialogue appears for a split second then disappears, with no opportunity to interact with it. This is on Windows 7 x64 with all current updates, Core i5 3320M notebook CPU, 8 GB RAM, Intel GMA 4000.

I've requested this once already in the Designer Windows Beta forums, but you really need to add the feature that Photoshop has basically had forever where holding SHIFT automatically constrains brush movement to 45, 90, or 180 degrees. This isn't a "deal breaker" per se for me, but it is absolutely the difference between me telling people, "Yeah, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are pretty good, decent products I guess" to "Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are amazing tools that you're simply a fool if you don't own them." It's just one of those niggling things that makes me sigh every time I try to do it in Designer/Photo and then remember it simply doesn't work. I realize you can do click/release -> SHIFT -> move cursor -> click, and it will automatically do a brush stroke from the first click to the second, but this is not the same functionality as what I'm asking for. I also know you can do box-select, column-select, etc., and it kind of sort of works . . . but it's not the same. There are so many instances where I've used this feature in Photoshop that not having it in Affinity Photo / Affinity Designer feels like driving a car without a speedometer.

I don't know if this is a bug or not, but on a couple of different documents, I've created object masks in the layers panel and then exported the document to PDF. Without fail, the masked elements in the PDF are ALWAYS rasterized instead of remaining in native vector. I re-generated the same content in Illustrator, and the output PDF kept the masked elements in vector format. So my question is, is this behavior by design or unintended? It seems somewhat strange to me that using a vector object mask on another vector object would case the object to be rasterized when exported to PDF. As a designer this was very unexpected especially is it could potentially affect the quality of print output down the line. Just curious.

Follow-up --- I'm getting repeated crashes in all sorts of ways using the Export dialog menus. The way listed above is a repeatable process, but it's now randomly crashed the last three times I've used it doing entirely different things. It's bad enough that I don't dare use 1.5.0.14 for fear that I won't even be able to get a simple PNG export without it crashing.

In the export to PDF dialog, if you try to change the radial button from "Use Document DPI" to the custom DPI option, the "Use Document DPI" radial button does not deselect, and the custom DPI field / slider does not become available. Then if you close the dialog window, the application crashes. This is Windows 7x64.