sleepycal

Doh, of course. That was a bit of a failure on my part, sorry! One more problem, bit more serious one... for some reason, I am now unable to drag objects around the layers panel... I can move them on the canvas, but I can't move them in layers. I have tried to reset all user preferences, I've ensured objects aren't locked, I have tried to restart the app and I've tried on a blank canvas.. Nothing seems to be working. Any ideas?

Also, I'm running into some of the same UX problems as 00Ghz. It's a bit fiddly to use.. I'd like to +1 on MEBs idea. Never mind, the problem I was having was actually the other way around.. it was snapping to objects before snapping to pixels.. which is the correct behaviour.

Using "Force Pixel Alignment" and "Move By Whole Pixels" works fine if the object width/height are whole numbers, however if either are decimals then pixel alignment will not work and will continue to use sub pixels. Should this be raised as a bug, or is it expected behaviour? Thanks and keep up the great work guys.

Thank you everyone for the responses and apologies for the slow reply, for some reason I didn't get a notification. It would appear that Force Pixel Alignment and Move By Whole Pixels achieves the result I was looking for, I'll mark this thread as closed.

After a while of moving and resizing objects around the canvas, even with grid alignment enabled, some objects will eventually have sub pixel positioning (e.g. x=253.32 instead of x=253). This naturally will cause edges to render "fuzzy" both in pixel view and some zoomed vector views, and also messes up future object alignment. In some situations, for example web design, there is almost zero need to have support for sub pixels. I find myself spending extra time fixing these alignment problems afterwards by manually typing in the whole number into the x/y/width/height fields, then zooming in and re-aligning the objects with each other manually. As such, I'd like to vote for a feature toggle which can disable sub pixel positioning (e.g. always round up position/dimensions to the closest whole number). Thoughts?

Seems to be a problem with the rectangle properties bar at the top. If you click on "Corner" and switch between "None" and the other 4 options (e.g. rounded), the percentage box next to it is not disabled/enabled accordingly. Instead you either have to click off and on the item, or tick/untick "Single radius" to make it re-draw the UI and display the box accordingly. Let me know if this doesn't make sense.

@MEB - Any idea how long until this feature is added? It's on the roadmap afaik, but not sure how much priority it's been given.

Hello, After several months of using Affinity Designer, the color wheel is still really bugging me. I've given it a fair chance, but it feels clunky and not as nice as the panel in Photoshop. This is for a few reasons; 1) Only one single panel (RGB Hex Slider) has the "hex code" input field 2) Multiple clicks are required to change panel type (click dropdown, then click selection) 3) Sliders are small and fiddly to use 4) Overall it doesn't feel nice to use I'd love to see something like the Photoshop panel, or an improvement of. Thoughts?

Actually, you have a good point. I only just discovered "line mode" in the pen tool, which pretty much does everything that I need, and is a lot more flexible than my originally suggested idea. Sorry for the waste of time, I should have researched the pen tool properly before submitting, thank you for the feedback!

I'd like to request the ability to apply stroke to a specific side of an object, for example the bottom of a rectangle. The use case for this would be elements in web design, where often you want the ability to apply a grey border between items. Another ticket similar, or perhaps the same, has already been raised here. However this could be quite tricky to represent in the UI as an object could have many sides. As such, my proposal would be for an additional context menu item which allowed sides to show/hide stroke. By default, all sides would show stroke, but if 'show' is clicked on a side, then it would disable for all sides and then show only that one. Likewise if you unhide the last shown side, then it shows them all. Here is a very poor mockup example; http://i.imgur.com/g1uwBZw.png Thoughts? Cal

This is one of the most important reasons I have switched to Affinity, the community interaction and developer feedback is truly unique. Even when features are rejected, they make a concerted effort to explain exactly why, though thankfully in this case it has been approved :) Once again, keep up the fantastic work guys, and thank you to everyone for your feedback.

Couple of months ago I raised a bug about not being able to select layers. This was fixed by clicking the "edit all layers" button, however after a reinstall I completely forgot how to fix this and had to specifically find my post to figure it out again. I'd like to suggest enabling this feature by default, justified by arguing that this is a common UX feature across most editing software. Thoughts?

Beautiful, thank you for the swift update and do please pass my love onto the team, you guys are doing a fantastic job. Cal

Ah beautiful, sorry I didn't spot that before, thank you :)

Hello, There is a neat feature inside Sketch that allows you to convert a layer group into a "Symbol", which can then be repeated as many times as you wish on the document. For example, you could create a "button" symbol, and if you edit the symbol it automatically applies those changes on it's duplicate copies. This is potentially similar to the photoshop "smart objects", however I do prefer the Sketch approach because I can edit the symbol without having to switch tabs or save, this allows me to see the changes on all duplicates immediately. I had a look around on the forums but couldn't find any similar request, so +1 for this. Thanks Cal