[What are the specs for a really soft brush]

I stand corrected. I must not have been setting the parameters identically.

[What are the specs for a really soft brush]

Hi, IndigoMoon,

As far as I can tell, the individual "dab"  at any moment for the "hard" brush is a filled ellipse with a tone that is even across the entire area. As the dabs accumulate to form a dot or a stroke, they inevitably form bands even at the lowest hardness. The soft brush has stepped intensity from the center to the edges, and so the dabs' perimeter can be quite faint.

A real world analogy. A piece of inked hard felt will always leave a rather distinct edge. A cotton ball will have to be pressed all the way down to get anything as clear.

[What are the specs for a really soft brush]

Attached, a sample of what I get using the brush I mentioned w. the settings you specified. The bottom line is 3 passes, and is still lighter and more diffuse than the Ps sample.

 

Then I tried the 2nd recommendation, same setting, but the brush repeat to 20% instead of the default 10%. 4 dabs in the same place.

 

 

[What are the specs for a really soft brush]

Hi, Michael_

Use a different basic brush:

[Subtracting multiple white background areas from an image in Designer?]

Hi, Ballyshannon,

This what you are trying to make?

Finderscope_sub ope space.afdesign

 

[Regarding Flood Fill]

Hello, Ravi Gupta,

I haven't used Photoshop at all for 5 years, and prior to that very infrequently. So I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do. 

My understanding of Affinity photo is that a flood fill on one layer will work within any drawn lines. This would correspond to your Ps layer 0. If you want to fill other layers such as layer 0 and layer 2 in AP, each layer needs to be selected.

However, if you wish to flood layers that are separate from the bottom layer, they need to be merged before filling the areas. 

 

Note the change in the layers panel.

[editing HSL vector element > pixel element after export]

Hi, papartig,

If the Logo has only solid fills, they can be turned into global colors. Every instance of a global color is changed when the color is edited, which can be done w. HSL sliders. However, each color needs to be done individually, AFAIK. Gradient fills don't update in my experience.

My understanding of Designers vectors is that neither the fill or the stroke are vectors. The vectors are the areas defined by the paths connecting the nodes. The stroke and fills are separate attributes made by pixel paint routines around and within the vector, assuming those routines are supported by whatever format to which one exports the file.

[Paint a series of circles]

Hi, bpedit,

12 hours ago, bpedit said:

Edit: This will not work. When the text is converted to curves, the resulting "circles" are composed of two concentric circles. I need simple, single line circles....

Then use a period. Or a dotted line, w. stroke expanded.

[Reset Origin of rulers to different point in Designer]

1 hour ago, GryphonArt said:

Adding my request to this too.

Just -finally and out of necessity- started using Affinity and this is one of my first hurdles:-(

Do try the beta. I've had a few odd things happen, but everything seems to be working quite well.

[Having a problem when pasting objects into Affinity Designer.]

Hi, taybon,

I've never used "Graphic," but I see it exports .svg and .pdf types of files. Did you try to open an exported file, or actually copy and paste? If copy & paste, I'm surprised anything worked right. I've opened lots of .svg files made in several different apps w/o problems in Designer.

[How can I join two different forms to become one?]

I have everything turned on except "gaps and sizes" because all the snapping info on the screen can get confusing.

If an object is going to be reflected along an axis, I only draw half, and then, as described above, join and close the halves when they are mirrored by the axis.

 

[How can I join two different forms to become one?]

Hi, Burian,

It is hard to tell from the images posted exactly what is going on. Perhaps you might add a sample file that has problems.

A base suggestion. In the snapping settings, make sure snapping to guides is active. (Myself, I have pretty much everything in snapping turned on.) That way, anything that is drawn can have one side perfectly aligned to a center vertical  guide. Then when flipped and slid over to the other side, it will snap to the guide. When moving, hold the shift key to constrain motion to horizontal. Indicators will appear when the 2 halves are lined up.

Select both sides, and shift to node tool. Use join curves, and then close curves.

[Boolean Games - Newbie Designer]

Hello, again,

Good work. Coming right along. 1 critique. Shift the transition line between the black and the grey so it is at the center of the orange indicator.

[Concentric Circles?]

Hey, DesignMeister,

If you are still around here, the duplicate feature accepts the size input, but the duplication process takes that input not as a constant, but a percentage of the next duplicate. 

[Jagged lines when Vector Inking over a sketch]

Hi, QueenofHyperbole,

You are using the "vectorbrush," a name which often confuses new users. If the "brush" is from the basic category, it is pure vector, and will change size and opacity, but it will not have a texture.  But what it can do is stretch or repeat a bitmap along a vector, which is what you are seeing. 

Some notes. The brush variability needs to be turned on, and the amount and response to pressure or velocity can be set thru the brush editing dialogue. Also, the pressure variations can be set or tweaked from the objects stroke dialogue. I have a number of stroke pressures saved as styles, so I can easily assign the way the stokes changes shape. For example, fat to start, and trail off, or bulge in the center.

[Calendar 2019]

Each one better than the last. Congratulations!

[Affinity Designer: How to continue a vector brush curve?]

Hi, Erica,

AFAIK, what you want is not supported. 2 things. You can assign a vector brush stroke to a pen line, which mean the brush "nib" will continue to stretch or repeat along the vector. You can also draw a new line w. either the vector brush or the pencil, and then use the join curves command. If the added curve is close to the original, the join won't require much if any tweaking.

[Node creation on exact path Intersection points?]

24 minutes ago, R C-R said:

... Sliding the node changes the shape of the curve, & the initial position is still an approximation.

Agreed, not precise enough for machine work,  but possibly precise enough for a laser cutter. Looking at charts for the kerf of a laser cut, I see they can be as small as .08 mm. I just did a manual intersection in 1.6.1, and got a result .001"/ .025 mm different than a divide boolean operation. Also finer than a laser printer running at 600 dpi. But the down side was needing to be zoomed 2000%  Better results at 20000%, only .001mm. Kinda wonder what kind of graphics one would be doing?

[Node creation on exact path Intersection points?]

Hi, Steve_N,

Not a dev or a mod, just a user.

Sometime early in the v 1.6, w. snapping set up one could approximate the position, then slide the node. It would turn yellow, as would the curve underneath when the intersection happened. I've played around a bit w. the 1.7 beta, and there has been an improvement. As the node tool passes over the selected vector, a cross slash tracks along the curve, and when the slash intersects the underlying curve, a yellow dot appears, and a streak of yellow on the underlying curve, allowing a click to place the node at the intersection.

FWIW, the beta has a slew of new node positioning tools. 

[Designer: Is there a way to quickly acquire Context ToolBar values?]

Hi, Dave G,

Better yet, select object w. preferred appearance. Edit-Copy. Select other objects. Edit-Paste style.

Saved styles can not be updated. Delete old, create new from selected object.

 

[node along an edge]

O.K., this is weirding me out. Yesterday, tried doing simple copy and paste on a pixel, not image layer. No results unless I switched to move tool. Today, as expected. New layer containing the selected pixels.  But today, if I switched to the move tool, not only were the pixels duplicated, and able to move, but the selection marquee would move w. it, and reshape as the layer was resized, grabbing more pixels from the under layer.

Really must work w. Photo more. There's something really basic I've missed.

[Vector Styles?]

52 minutes ago, DesignMeister said:

What I want to do is create a vector image with shadows, gradients, noise fills etc., which I can scale up or down as required, and then be able to send to a t-shirt printer whilst retaining the effects.

Toltec is an experienced t-shirt producer. Perhaps message @toltec. Offers lots of good advise.

[node along an edge]

Hey, claycle,

I've been in the same place. I rarely use AP, but what I've learned needs an extra step. Make selection, switch to move tool (V), then copy/paste. 

I guess that tells the app that one is not trying to copy/paste the selection area shape,  but the pixel contents within the current selection.

 

[Vector Styles?]

20 minutes ago, DesignMeister said:

Hmm, It seems that I will have to make the basic shapes in AD to the size I need, then finish it off in AP or PS.

Thanks for all he help.

I may have mis-understood the original question. The AD fx are scalable w. the vector object. They only become a fixed bitmap when exported as a vector format that does not gradients/opacity. Or as a bitmap. As long as they are manipulated within AD, the fx will scale.

I thought you wanted vector shapes w. the kinds of fills such as gradients and opacity changes that can be a part of a vector object description.

[Vector Styles?]

So, a sample. Imperfect, but in the right direction.

ShadoeFayk.afdesign

In the meantime, I tested out .pdf and .svg. .pdf doesn't appear to have the same way of handling opacity. .svg doesn't seem to render the AD noise parameter. Seems to produce dither bands.