gdenby
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If you hold down the command/windows key while holding the shift, it will constrain the expansion from the bounding box center.
What does the database need. Is it an image field, or the .svg data?
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"As far as i can see it, there is no way at all to simply copy & paste a color from one object to another"
There is a simple way. Check out the eye dropper selection circle. It is the small circle to the right of the eye dropper in the fill and color dialogues. Drag it anywhere, even outside the Designer window. It will pick up the color where it was placed. Then, another click on it will transfer that color to the selected object.
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Thanks, jer, I'm glad you liked it. Learned a few more things myself, and having to write down something clear about what I understood from use was a good exercise. I have looked over the shoulder of people who did page layout for a living, but this was the first time I tried to put something together that was mostly consistent.
I'll go back and look at it in a couple of weeks. I suppose there are some things that are not well enough stated. Some of the graphics could use tweaking. And I now have 5 pages of arrow variations, one of which I pushed into sort of a swimming fish!?
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Hi, all,
Some time ago there was a question about tutorials that were not vids, for people that liked to take some time reading. I decided to make up an introduction to the shape tools in AD.
Nothing to fancy, but I hope it outlines what the shapes can do, and how to manipulate them in basic fashions. The file is a bit over 4 Mb. I put it on DropBox, and this is the 1st time I've used the service. Hope it works out OK.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/asdn7jkkx8b8wbx/All.pdf?dl=0
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I'm new to Affinity Designer—a few hours—so please forgive a newbie dumb question. Is this instruction intended for iMac/mouse users? I'm not making any marks in the "Pressure" grid.
I drew an arrow and saved it in a file so I can copy and paste it where needed, but it's not very elegant and manipulating it takes time.
I'm surprised that arrows aren't included as part of the "Line" choices. If a trial use had been offered I wouldn't have purchased it after the trial period.
The work around is found in the pressure setting of the stroke dialogue.
On a Mac, you can also insert arrow symbols from the character map utility, and convert those to vectors for further manipulation.
And, yeah, its one of those things that should get built in.
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I haven't used the full PS app in years, tho' my daughter has. I showed her Affinity Designer, which has the same brush engine as Affinity Photo. She thought it was quite responsive, and noted there were more blend modes. I just got Photo, and the paint tools seem more extensive than what Designer has, tho' it doesn't have the vector brush tool. Many Photoshop brushes work with it. It works well with a graphics tablet.
There are quite a few nice examples of painterly work in the forum subsection of "Share your work." You might want to look them over.
Serif has said AP is designed as a RAW developer, and photo manipulation app. Its not focused on painterly work like Krita, or Corel Painter or any of the other programs dedicated to producing more traditional styles thru digital means.
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Nice and clean. Well done.
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I'm a bit perplexed. If you have used the method shown in the repeating patterns by using symbols, you should be able get an .svg file that will have no blur.
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Mac only, so don't know if its any help. Picked up Neo Finder a few weeks ago. Has handled everything so far, including Designer files. Fairly fast. Shows all the standard file info. Plus anything specific to the file type, such as EXIF data, Geotags, etc. Allows mass comments, use of controlled keywords. 1 down side, I only bought the individual use license, and the catalogues don't auto update.
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As dutchshader mentioned, the night sky is one of the chapters in the Designer workbook. It comes in after the sections on interface description, and core skills. So be prepared for at least some getting used to where everything in the program is, and basic skills like level layering and grouping.
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Hi, mwean.
I notice that almost all the objects have white fills. When those are exported, I see that both the fill and the stroke are defining an enclosed area, thus the blue shapes. When I set some of the rectangles to fill = none, the resulting code for them produces a single set of set of co-ordinates with fill = none, and stroke set to rgb 0,0,255. Perhaps that will work.
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Indeed, working with big vector pieces can mean mapping out tons of raw geometry, hitting select all, and then using the shape builder tool to merge, subtract, and trim at will without having to think about what is and isn't selected when working with standard boolean operations. It's actually a bigger deal than most people give it credit for and I'm quite surprised Affinity isn't jumping at the chance to put their own spin on something that lies at the heart of vector and object-based design: improving the user experience of working with shapes and operations.
I guess that the shape builder was available in adobe CS5 when I last used that version. I didn't need to use it. From you post, I infer that the shape builder only interacts with shapes that are overlapping, and ignores the rest? Is that correct?
If so, that is nice, but I can't manually make a good blend, or a mesh warp. I can manually select objects for booleans. As already mentioned, blends, and mesh warp are features Serif should build first.
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Image trace isn't available. The report is that the devs will release something if it is really good. In the interim, most people have been using free, as in Inkscape, and inexpensive utilities. Inkscape is good, but I find it difficult to use, lots of parameters. I have a tool called Image Vectorizer, cost $5- $7, that works about as well, and is close to drag and drop.
I haven't used Adobe in years, but it appears that Affinity's boolean operators do the same thing as the shape builder. Select the overlapping forms/levels and add, subtract, intersect, divide or combine as desired. The order of operation depends on how the objects are stacked in the layer hierarchy. A big square with a smaller square inside it will wipe both out if subtracted when the big square is higher in the stack. In a reverse position, the small square will cut a hole into the larger. Etc.
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I do agree the interface would benefit from a bit more work. I was delighted with the light UI in the recent AD beta release, which is a fine improvement. But the 'wares prestige will be built on the speed, reliability and scope. If the devs have some spare time down the road (!?what), perhaps they could build in an option to load various 3rd party interface graphics packs.
The creative web link brought me to an error 404.
I suppose you have a different version of GIMP, than I do, which is 2.8 Mac, tho' I don't know who put the package together. Finding the icon I want in GIMP is a PITA.
I have 2 different problems w. your argument. While the "flat" icon look makes sense in many situations, it does not seem to be a perfect solution. Yes, it looks stylish, and that sells. But the bigger issue I have is that the examples are too busy. Not cartoonish, but lots and lots of little lines for the icons, and masses of text to describe what the icons activate. Perhaps have a tooltip pop up in a local language so that everyone everywhere would learn to associate a particular shape w. a specific operation.
I'm unfamiliar w. the apps you reference any time in the last 10 years, I have to wonder how much screen space the dialogues take up. Will it work on an iPad w. finger tip control w/o obscuring the work?
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I don't use the pixel persona much in AD, but I think what you are looking for can be done. If you paint different colors on their own layers, and then select all the layers, the smudge brush will mix the colors from all the layers. Please note, AD is not a dedicated paint program, it is a vector design program that has pixel painting to allow more subtle effects on the vectors, and or blend them with images.
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"Styles" which are a mix of fills and strokes can be applied to multiple object, or created out of a selected object. Abject may be copied, and their effects setting can be pasted onto other objects. One can also change the transparency of any selected object at once.
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Cool. Nice to know what can be done. I got AP for my iMac a few days ago. Still dipping my toes in, and realize there is lots of things to learn.
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Glad you got it done. Sometimes its the smallest thing that messes up. I had a program that absolutely had to work for a mass mailing fund raiser. Took me 2 frantic days to realize that I'd used the wrong kind of brackets around one of the expressions.
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I really am envious of your skill and inventiveness, but in a good way. Gee whiz, so many images, so nicely fused together. I suspect I have more than 2 thumbs, and all of them are up for you!
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I'm assuming the art is all vector work. If so, it is easy. Select all, and make a copy. Group the originals, and lock them. Paste the copies in, and while they ar highlighted, use the boolean add. Change the fill to none, and change the stroke to a white line of whatever size you might need, and have the stroke set to "align stroke to outside" in the stroke dialogue.
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Thanks Gdenby, that sounds that it tackles half of my workflow issue. Lets hope the pencil tool wil become a bit more powerfull. Does it help if i point it out that i miss this in Designer or is this all-ready on the list?
During the time I've been on the forum, about six months, I don't think it has come up. But I don't read the feature requests request that often. Feel free to make a post there, tho' I will mention that there are other much more desired features that already are on the developers' to do lest.
And yes, it does seem like something like a double click to close a line would be very handy.
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Okey Callum.. so basically, i need to exit my tool everytime i need to close an object. Men.. thats.... disappointing. I have to experiment more but at this moment, i am am back in Adobe Illustrator to finish this. I really have to think this over. Thanks for your time Callum
Technically, its not exiting the pencil tool, its just holding down a modifier key so the pencil tool can change its nodes position. It goes back to pencil as soon as the modifier stops. That way, the last drawn node can be positioned on the 1st, and it will snap the line shut in less than a second. Also works w. the pen tool. Smoothing is another issue, but the 1.6 beta with the pencil stabilizer makes smooth curves much easier.
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Surprising and fun. Saved the file for future investigation.
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Just being chatty, 'cause I'm curious. Seems ordinals are poorly defined. Sometimes they are part of a font set, other times they are formed by the app into a superscript notation. Fraction characters don't exist in all fonts. I can't find any unicode for number ordinals, but fractions are available. Evidently different apps handle the formation in different ways. I found one example of ordinals that were from old bit mapped fonts. So what you are getting can be a real mixed bag.
A suggestion. Considering that text editor can read and translate them, perhaps pages can retain the formatting. Copy the clients' info, and paste it into a new document. Perhaps Pages will sort out the variables, and create a new document with all the characters of 1 sort.
Color Management with Designer
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Indulge me please. Could you describe how to copy the current fill to palette so that it is rgba? Nothing I've ever done.