[FEATURE REQUEST for Affinity Designer 2, Vector Eraser]

If you are missing tools and features in Affinity Designer take a look at Vectorstyler (Eraser Tool, Gradient Mesh, Vector Brushes, Halftone conversion, Image Trace, Blend Tool etc). For me the program is complementary to Affinity. And using the clipboard, makes that I can copy easily my work to the other program.

Of course I also would like to see those features in the near future in Designer. But till then I use Vectorstyler as an extra tool. 

Both have still Black Friday Sales! So It is a no brainer to have both.

On 9/23/2023 at 4:45 PM, Eternaute said:

Hi Serif team,
Hi Everybody,

I love Designer and all Affinity softs that are in my opinion a game changer in many aspects. CMYK on iPad ! A dream for me...
But I think some few things will make Designer much more convenient for professional work. I used Adobe softwares during 20 years and I am working almost each day mainly on my Affinity softwares for more than 5 years now, on Mac and most of the time on my iPad for drawing purposes.

I have to say that for professional use, many ergonomic things could be improved.
And as an illustration professional, the lack of a simple vector eraser is a real nightmare. I couldn't imagine that such a basic feature would missing when I bought Affinity 1.5... I wait since and many things have been improved but I still need other apps like Illustrator because of a few things really needed.
I bought Affinity 2.0 suite to support Serif for its development but I am tired to wait years for some basic evolution.
Yes I would like advanced features in AD but first the basics, such as a vector eraser that does exist in many vector apps like Illustrator, Inkscape, Amadine or Vectornator.... Please Affinity, listen to that ! Do not wait the 3.0 version… After many updates the lack of this kind of functionality is a real frustration and still avoid the increase of productivity.
We are now talking about AI everywhere and we still wait for basics features such like a vector eraser, this is really difficult to understand.

There are other features that would be useful for my dreamwork like gradient mesh, a frame template tool to make comics pages and balloons with text and styles also for comics (like in CSP), vector halftones and Bitmap mode with halftones conversion (like in Photoshop) and halftones layers… And still ergonomic modifications on iPad and Mac to spend less of "clics" to do things. Time is so important for pros.
But all of that won't be totally efficient without a… simple yet good vector eraser !
A basic one would be obviously appreciate but an Eraser being able to erase with all vector brushes and with free shapes what's underneath and being able as an option to erase intersections (like in the video above) would be so useful !

Many thanks for hearing that request. Wish it would improve those already very nice software and being an even more complete professional alternative.

Eternaute
 

 

[Spiral Tool]

Love the new Spiral Tool!

[Spiral Tool in Affinity Designer]

Love the new spiral tool. It is now also available in the new update V2.3. Hopefully we will see the Blend tool released in V2.4.

[Please add a Freehand/ lasso selection tool for Vector objects in Designer and Publisher]

I also would really appreciate when there will come a Freehand selection/ Lasso tool. I often have to select a area with a lot of different objects, and in Affinity it is almost impossible or you have to make a lot of selections to get there.

[Delete button on iPad]

You now can use it again by tapping on the cross in the left corner and then swipe up.

[Power Duplicate?]

The new way of duplicate in V2

You can duplicate easily by clicking on the new cmd/ctrl button (the right button will become blue on the command controller). And then you can tap with your finger on the object you want to duplicate.

[[ADe] Select same color / fill / stroke / appearance]

Already any news on the selecting feature?

 

When can we expect this feature? Still this year or will it come in 2017?