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Don't forget about using a camera to read facial gestures.
When I frown or look confused I want it to automatically process the undo function.
Actually, no, scratch that; it would undo pretty much everything I create.

Hi there!
I wanted to share this video. It's a conference made by Gleb Alexandrov during the Blender Conference 2017. It applies to anything. Hope it's of use for everyone.
 
 
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Hi everyone!
Hope you are having a great weekend. Well, I wanted to share something I did and something new for me: drawing a Pug using a "Kawaii style". The intention is to create a character and then having said character in different moods and situations (like Facebook stickers).
As I said, this style is something new for me, so any feedback and tip will be appreciated.

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Thanks, Mike. I guess I would be well advised to stop parroting that particular piece of advice!
 

Anyone that is going to edit that file will know. Illy doesn't automatically release clipping paths, for instance. Most any design I have made there are a dozen or more clipping paths that have to be released (and that clip path container deleted) in order to then work on the file.
 
The rename thing is a hack and is no better than just giving a PDF in the first place. The hack was originally done for various applications that couldn't open PDF but could AI files--when all they were opening was the pdf stream anyway!
 
dozens had started a new topic after posting to this thread.

True, but the "free content" brushes and macros are not in the announcement, as they are only available for 2 weeks from 1.6.7 launch, whereas this announcement will live for a long while I expect.
 

"Andrew Loomis." Wow, I'd completely forgotten the name. I had studied his work when I was a kid. What ended up more influential for me was "The Painter's Secret Geometry: A Study of Composition in Art" by Chas. Bouleau. In most of the examples shown, the compositions are mostly dependent on the geometry of the canvas. But in some works, like those of Vermeer, the proportional grid, golden sections, for nested compositions within the whole, which in turn, must be supposed to be part of an yet another scale of composition.

Where does that leave us with regard to Affinity Designer for iPad, Matt? You posted your ‘#shakycam’ teaser to Twitter in July of last year!
 
 
 

Have you checked the post asking for camera images...?

We won't release anything until it's ready, and we won't be showing pictures of what we've got until we're nearly ready because other people can copy our UI in the meantime! It makes no sense for us to tease a UI until it's nearly ready for sale... 2 months since the last posting is surely not discouraging is it? There's nothing new to say and development takes time - great things don't just pop into existence without many man-years of work!

Hi,
We are pleased to announce the App Store release of Affinity Photo for iPad, version 1.6.7
The change-list is as follows:
 
- Brand new shadows / highlights algorithm in Develop.
- Brand new clarity algorithm in Develop.
- Now fully supports open-in-place - including saving back directly to the original location.
- New “Import from Camera” - supporting RAW and automatic HDR bracketed merge. Has fancy histograms and scopes.
- New ability to install custom fonts in preferences.
- New “Average Blur” filter.
- New “Solo” layer option in layer properties panel.
- New preferences option to show touches - good for screen recording.
- Added the “Median Brush” tool.
- Added ability to export brushes.
- Added ability to both import and export styles.
- Added option in preferences to cache screen updates - you will see much less pixelation when painting etc. - but it uses more memory.
- Added transparent TGA import support.
- Adjustments panel now has an option to show a simple list (by popular request).
- Overhaul of pencil / touch input mechanism - this enabled much needed functionality such as long pressing with Apple Pencil to pick colours in brush tools, etc.
- Apple Pencil can now dismiss flyouts without passing a tap through.
- Further performance improvements in develop persona.
- Preferences option to choose default storage location.
- Improved support for the dropping of files into an open document.
- Bitmap fills are now available on vector objects.
- Can now rotate image in Develop.
- Pasting now keeps things in the right place.
- Maximum / minimum filters now obey the current channels properly.
- Brush scatter works properly when controller is “random”.
- Improved angle / tilt support for Apple Pencil.
- Handle vertical panoramas better.
- Improved crop tool behaviour when using ratios.
- Improved retouching tools in 32bit mode.
- Improvements to selection refinement.
- Improved TIFF support.
- Channels page improvements / fixes.
- “Save a copy” stability improvements.
- Ability to clear history.
- New “Constrain” modifier button for Depth of Field tool.
- Snapping candidates can now be selected by hovering over them whilst in a drag.
- All colour flyouts now have a built in colour picker.
- Increased the maximum undo stack size.
- OpenType improvements.
- Added “Undo” to the two-finger-tap context menu.
- Improved input smoothing for all tools.
- Improved behaviour when trying to move small layers (ie. avoid inadvertent resizes).
- Improved text tool UI.
- Moved spelling suggestions to context menu.
- Creating stacks from RAW files now works more correctly.
- Improved Perlin Noise filter.
- PSD, PDF import / export improvements.
- Help improvements.
- Fixed transform studio aspect ratio lock.
- Fixed some HDR merge crashes.
- Fixed multiply blend mode in 32bit documents.
- Fixed marching ants disappearing when canvas is rotated.
- Fixed issues with “Direction” brush controller.
- Fixed colour picker appearing too easily in paint brush tool.
- Fixed long press being too short in some tools.
- Fixed HEIF import from Photos app.
- Fixed issue where stray colour picker loupe could remain after switching tools.
- Fixed incorrect DPI limit in resize tool.
- Fixed inability to export liquify meshes.
- Numerous other fixes and stability improvements.
 
Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Bugs on iPad section 

The Vanishing Point Filter in Photoshop is similar in concept, in that it is a 2D construct and it allows you to drop flat artwork onto and rotate it upon a grid to simulate a surface. Its' an elaboration of what you could do in Photoshop with the Free Transform tool, prior. But again, it is all about raster imaging, not vector artwork. And as you can tell from its name, its intention assumes converging perspective, not parallel perspective.
Moreover, though, as I said earlier:
An interactive axonometric grid feature facilitates axonometric construction, which is about much more than just distorting a flat image to look like it's on a flat surface of a box. It assists you in drawing objects of all kinds of shapes with mechanically-correct proportion. For example, the samples below are all about drawing "directly into" isometric viewpoints. Very little of it is about dropping objects drawn "in the flat" onto boxy surfaces:
 

JET
 

Hi there!
I wanted to share this video. It's a conference made by Gleb Alexandrov during the Blender Conference 2017. It applies to anything. Hope it's of use for everyone.
 
 
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Rick, it doesn't matter what you or I think could or should be possible. Serif has said it isn't gonna happen.
 
And just how well does the psd import and export work anyway? I find it lacking myself. Or, EPS? 
 
In any case, keep PP for work that is better to not bring forward and use APub for newer work. 

Hi there!
I wanted to share this video. It's a conference made by Gleb Alexandrov during the Blender Conference 2017. It applies to anything. Hope it's of use for everyone.
 
 
Best regards!

I've added DDS support to a list of things to look at in the future. This could be a long way off though, as I have a lot of higher priority work to complete first.

A worthwhile presentation. It is a good, concise description of how to present features so the eye and brain can dwell on them. It doesn't address the issue he mentions early on, "composition." I suppose because he is talking mostly about renders of individual objects. Maybe if one adds in another layer of size, call it "global," and then decompose it by adding in the large shapes in ways that form the same sort of balance he talks about of medium and small frequency detail in the large. That would contextualize any objects within a given frame to an implied larger frame.

Actually, I use a mouse  I didn't know about the scroll wheel trick. It's fantastic!
However, I also think that keyboard shortcuts for that would be great.
Thanks for the tip!

If it's mandatory to deliver the AI file, some folks do this: pay one month for that solely purpose and integrate that fee into the final price for the client.
Another way would be that more clients embraced the Affinity range of products.
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Haha. This made my day. And that's because:
a) Absurd things are funny.
b) This can be said about anything, so it's so generic.
c) I am in a good mood.
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Here is the thing : Illustrator existed for about 31 years while AD is 4 years. When a software that is more than 7 times younger can replace most of the older software feature, you (not specifically you, but people that says this software is not an Illustrator competitor) just need more time. 

I thought that was a positive...?

Well all of the text shortcuts are now installed and ready for the future.
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Affinity Designer (ADe) 
Affinity Publisher (APu) 
Affinity Digital Asset Manager (ADam) 
 
Come on Affinity Gnomes, I have shortcuts to use.