Mithferion

Hi All,
I’m pleased to say that we will be pushing 2.3 live to retail this morning. The beta versions were updated yesterday to the same build (2.3.0.2165) as detailed in Patrick’s post here. This means the beta versions are in effect exactly the same as the retail versions we will push so you can keep them installed if you wish. 
As always it’s been a pleasure working with you all on this release and cannot thank you enough for all the bug reports and other feedback you have given. I mentioned at the start of this beta we are working towards a shorter cadence between updates to help us release improvements and bug fixes sooner - and I hope you agree this has worked very well.
With that in mind we will be starting 2.4 beta very shortly (hopefully in just a couple of weeks). Looking forward to seeing you all on here for that!
Thanks again,
Ash

Here's a list of the bugs which have been fixed in the beta build 2.3.0.2165 (GM)
(fixes since the post above for 2.3.0.2157)
Please only reply in this forum to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other bugs & issues forum.
Changes/Bugs affecting all platforms
Cross references - allow anchors and index marks to be filtered by name [AF-2] Placed PDF with a Custom Tag fails to Preview or Export  [AF-1273]   Updated help and localisation Bugs affecting Desktop (Windows and macOS)
Ctrl/Cmd+Click window for shapes remains mostly untranslated  Bugs affecting Windows
Batch Job dialog is too small  Cancel button missing on the export progress pop-up  Bugs affecting macOS
Closing the app window in Full-screen mode hides the app window and causes the UI to lock out  [AF-433] Retina Rendering Causes Excessive Screen Flicker When Set to Automatic (Best) [AF-1156] Bugs affecting iPad
none since 2157

Hi All,
We have just pushed another update to the 2.3 beta (2.3.0.2165) which is considered a potential release candidate and should be available to you on auto update shortly. The list of fixes included in this build are listed in Patrick's post here.
Thanks,
Ash

Embedding and linked are two different ways to place resources in your Affinity projects. Today we’ll look at how each of these methods work and the pros an cons of each.
 
 

Couldn't decide what to do next so did this. People on FB said about the Christine movie that featured a '58 Fury, not watched it but it's now on my list.

Affinity "infinity"

I love that idea: taking a child's work and do something from that, either in 3D or 2D.
Best regards!

I like it! The 3D designs based on these are impressive...but also have a look at this project

Hi there!
I came across with the work of Drawkman Drawkman, and I wanted to try and replicate one of his Cartoon Monsters.
Most of this is flat vectors with slight usage of gradients in some areas and transparency.
What do you think?



Best regards!
 

We're running a Towers/Turrets challenge on the Affinity Designer - hands on group (winners entry gets pride of place on the group banner)... this is my example of a 100% vector turret. Grabbed some grunge textures from Vecteezy, and used the warp tool in version 2. Come and join in!!!   https://www.facebook.com/groups/323847269739786 www.gsdesignstudio.co.uk      

Here are my two attempts at "The Whittler" illustration project from the Affinity Designer Workbook. I forgot to mention in my "Reflected Skyline" post is that every upload that contains two images from the workbooks are years apart. The V1s were done on a low-budget laptop I had since college which still works to this day! The V2s were completed on a much better system. I must admit that I could've put a bit more effort into V2, especially with the robot's neck but hopefully that'll be done if I ever decide to tackle it again
 
V1:
 
V2:

These are some projects done in Affinity Publisher, but took it just a step further to see what they'd look like placed into mockups. The three projects are "Aurelie", "Jovan" and "Komodo". Affinity's built-in stock images feature really helped, especially with the amount of iterations I had to make.
 
"Aurelie"
 
 
"Jovan"
 
 
"Komodo"
 
 
"Komodo" View 2
 
 
All the books together

This isometric illustration project was probably one of the most difficult I've ever worked on but absolutely worth all the effort in the end. Big shout out to Kevin House for taking the time to provide the walk-through and resources to get it completed 💪
 

Decided to concentrate on some much larger drawings this year!....(Year 8)as I never seem to finish!😀
Used New Comic Book Brush Sets combined with PB 33 (Ink Blocking) have not uploaded these! but you can use these:
Brush Sets:
Inkers: Project Brush 19 'Inker'
Patterns: Project Brush 19 'Pattern Toolkit'
01 Dream
Affinity Designer | 1000 x 500mm | 300Dpi

Tint Overlay


Grey Original

Developed in DxO PL7 and finish with Affinity Photo 2.2.1

Hi there!
I came across with the work of Drawkman Drawkman, and I wanted to try and replicate one of his Cartoon Monsters.
Most of this is flat vectors with slight usage of gradients in some areas and transparency.
What do you think?



Best regards!
 

Hi there!
I came across with the work of Drawkman Drawkman, and I wanted to try and replicate one of his Cartoon Monsters.
Most of this is flat vectors with slight usage of gradients in some areas and transparency.
What do you think?



Best regards!
 

Nice improvements.
Is there any chance that we will get absolute differences in addition to relative differences? This has long been requested with Power Duplicate.
Some easy way to make (for example) 100 concentric circles, each 20 pixels larger than the last would be a real time saver.

Hi!
I haven't installed the Beta but I'll ask blindly: is there an option to fix the background visualization for each Category? That way you'd have to adjust once for each Category.
If that's not the case, I think remembering that setting would be appreciated.
Best regards!

I can look into on-canvas controls, but not all values/properties can be easily represented with a control point.  

It would be nice to add this to the Styles panel, too. Most of my styles are white and with the light UI they're just invisible.

No, but I think there should be an option to do this. I'll feed it back.

The background colour is being changed for all categories, but it is remembering the settings.

Apps: All
Platforms: macOS, Windows and iPad
All Affinity apps now allow you to both create and place password protected PDFs.
Create
In the advanced export options for PDF files you will see two new options:
1. Require password to open. If you set a password here that means anyone who tries to open that PDF will be prompted to give this password before they can open it.
2. Permissions password. Here you can further protect the PDF with options for restricting printing, modification, editing and copying with a secondary password.
You will also see the type of encryption being used for the file in question. This is based on the PDF compatibility being used in Export. PDF 1.6 & 1.7 both use AES-128, PDF 2.0 uses AES-256. Password protection is not available with PDF 1.4, 1.5 or PDF/X file compatibility.

Passwords can be saved with the document preset, so for example you could have a preset of “Company Internal PDF” which both specifies the export settings, DPI, etc. you want for that type of document, but also the password settings.
Place
Previously you could not place password protected PDFs in Affinity. Now you can - when you attempt to place the PDF you will get a prompt asking you for the password for the document you are attempting to place.
 

Apps: All
Platforms: macOS and Windows
There were a few requests from the previous beta we have now implemented in 2.3. As a reminder the move data entry dialog is initiated by hitting Return while in the Move, Shape, Picture Frame or Artboard Tool.
1. You can now choose duplicates to be created in front or behind the original using the new Insertion mode options
2. Scale has now been added, to quickly resize an object by a given %
3. Properties of the object being transformed can be adjusted without dismissing the dialog
The scale %, when creating duplicates, will also apply to every subsequent duplicate - a very simple example shown below with 10 copies of the same circle being created, each one at 80% the size of the previous.

You can of course combine that with other transforms, such as below a square being rotated and shrunk on each duplicate.

As mentioned you can also now adjust the properties of the object being transformed without dismissing the dialog. E.g. below I have changed the colour of the shape as well as changing stroke width to “scale with object” while keeping the current move data entry settings live.

Another minor thing to mention is we have also changed the ramp on the ‘Number of copies’ slider to make it more useable at lower values (i.e. the first half of the slider now just goes from 1-50, with the remaining half from 50-1000).