Mithferion

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@TransitionMan
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This is the easiest question of the day..... 
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Hi all just wanted to share this link to, what I thought was a good explanation of typographic terms.
 
A Beautifully Illustrated Glossary Of Typographic Terms You Should Know
 
Example.

Very nice! It can be difficult to simplify sometimes. You’ve pulled it off!

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.

Best regards!
 

As I'm sure you're aware, Brian, there's a wide range of views about what constitutes "the essentials"! You only have to look at the innumerable posts lamenting the absence of this or that "basic" feature from AD and/or APh.
 

Bindle to Kindle: A Hope of EPUB.
Look at this poor soul.
A bindle full of stories to be told.
He needs Affinity Publisher fast.
To tell his tales at last.
 

Egads!
It tickles me how often in the Illustrator User Forum, users struggling to get their heads around its convoluted interface so often say they are "visual learners." Every time it makes me think, "Um...you do realize you are reading the answer you just thanked me for, right?"
But seriously, since the early days, I have made it my habit (and advice to beginners) to start by not just reading through the manual start-to-finish, but actually work through the operations it describes as you go. In the end, that is so much faster than asking random "how to" questions in online forums or watching videos because it is, first, accurate (amateur videos and answers in online forums are so often just cases of the blind leading the blind) and, second, more thorough. Plus, actually sitting at the computer with the manual and playing with the functions as they are described removes most of the painful boredom, and encourages experimentation in a sensible sequence in the learning process, as opposed to struggling with operations as they happen to occur at random.
 
I suspect it's already occurred to you, Befehr, but...
Create a cylindrical extrusion along the Y (vertical) axis in isometric:
Ellipse tool: Drag an ellipse onto the page. Transform palette: Set its width (major diameter) to the true measure of the circle it represents. Set its minor diameter to "w*sin(35.26)". PenTool: Line Mode. Mousedown on the center of the ellipse and shiftDrag any arbitrary distance upward. Transform palette: Set the 9-point proxy icon to one of the bottom points and set height to "[true measure length of the cylinder] * cos(35.26)". CopyDrag the ellipse by its center and snap to the top of the centerline. (Yeah, you could have just moved  a copy of the ellipse vertically by the cosine of the iso angle, but in the real world, it's usually advantageous to draw centerlines of extrusions.)
Beyond that:
Select one of the ellipses. Click the Pie button. You now have an interactive isometric protractor for finding correct measures of off-axis lengths rotated about the Y axis. Just key the needed angle(s) in the Start and End fields.
Get accustomed to this and you can easily start thinking "Who needs grids?"  
JET

These Affinity programmers are sneaky buggers, they hide things in plain sight 

Well, not even Illustrator CS6 can open it.
What a thing...

Sure. We all do. And I'm confident all that is coming. But that doesn't mean they have to be implemented in the same conventional-wisdom "me, too" way, or that I want them to be. I'm as eager as anyone, precisely because I highly desire more innovative thought being applied to even such seemingly mundane capabilities. I'm in a hurry, but not for yet another look-same, do-same program. I already have a slew of those.
One of my favorite cases-in-point is Affinity's value fields. Long before most programs like cough Adobe Illustrator cough figured out that it runs on a computer, a precious few other programs like  cough Macromedia Freehand cough enabled its users to key a math expression directly into its value fields instead of having to turn away from the $1000 computer to open a drawer and drag out a $10 pocket calculator. It was years later that Illustrator caught on, but as of CS6 (the last version available without a rental contract), that capability is still limited to a single kind of math operator (multiplication-division or addition-subtraction, but not multiplication and addition in the same expression, or parentheses).
Spunky Affinity comes along and, right off the bat, betters FreeHand and pretty much all others in the Bezier drawing software category by letting us enter trig functions into value fields. And that plays quite handily into the feature being discussed. Here's how:
Those familiar with the ubiquitous plastic ellipse templates used in mechanical drafting since long before drawing software came along know that the cutouts on those templates are labeled not in terms of height and width (as mainstream drawing programs universally do), but in terms of angle. Why? Because a 25° template has elliptical cutouts which are correctly proportioned to represent a circle which is tilted 25° degrees from the viewer's (and the illustrator's) line-of-sight.
Now, which of those is of most value to an illustrator? "Height and width" may be of value to a designer making a pleasing page layout, but it's pretty useless to an illustrator thinking about the orientation of a circular part of his subject in space.
So you want a 25° ellipse in Affinity? Just key "1" in the width field and "sin(25)" in the height field. That one simple direct unsung capability puts affordable Affinity light years ahead for anyone interested in using their software for mechanically-correct drawing. And as the grids/axis feature becomes functionally enhanced, these two seemingly separate features don't just stand alone, but further empower each other—again, the very definition of functional elegance.
That kind of feature implementation is what used to be called functional elegance; a driving principle in the early days of graphics software, but one which seems to have been long forgotten by the monolithic software vendors. A designer not needing to think of ellipses in terms of tilt angle can just enter height and width values as common. And beginners intimidated by such a capability can work as usual without stumbling over it (or even being aware of it) until they have the need.
I can easily imagine that if Adobe Illustrator ever gains this long overdue practical capability, it will be rolled out with fanfare rivaling New Year's Eve in New York and a clever Adobe-esque name (LiveSmartAngledEllipses!), as if Adobe invented the sine function—and many Illustrator-only devotees will be convinced it did, just as they seem to believe Adobe invented multiple pages and the concept of a 2D converging perspective grid, and will have its own separate "Tool" given predominate space in the already over-crowded main tool bar, right beside the all-important "Lens Flare" tool.
So Affinity Team, please do take your time. Just hurry up about it.  
JET

We always want to get ahead.  We also want to try break the mould and offer things that others haven't yet thought of.
 
A lot of what I'm working on is coming out of my head, rather than referencing other apps. Just imagining what I'd like to be able to achieve and fitting tools to do the job.

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Fixes
Fixed Surface Pro pen UI failures (installer now ships with .NET 4.7.1)
Fixed documents disappearing behind main window when clicking on tools
Fixed Vector export print and print preview differing from on-screen
Fixed crash with multiple documents open when using pixel selections
Fixed memory leak during tool draw
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Fixed PDF export of embedded uncommon fonts
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Fixed OpenType Contextual Alternatives displaying incorrectly with Levandria font
Fixed crash in GlyphBrowser when fonts don't have a cmap table
Fixed Type1 fonts being incorrectly embedded in PDFs
Fixed failure to add symbols to some documents
Fixed failure to load some .afpalette files
Fixed alignment of some context bar items
Fixed custom Export Presets not being remembered correctly
Improved performance of Brush Editor dialog
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Known issues
Dragging export file path variables will close the popup

Fortunately, it's part of the Team's Roadmap for the 1.X cycle.
Best regards!

Today I did the design of the next site. And I remembered about the wonderful program that I bought and did not regret, it's Affinity Designer! Very powerful tools for UI, Web and advertising layouts. This is not advertising, it's just a statement of facts. Having worked almost half a lifetime in design, I came to the conclusion that nothing lasts forever in terms of tools for the designer;). Times change and need too. Now many tools have been developed that help to realize their ideas, and Affinity Designer does not take the last place. It's good that developers pay a lot of time and effort to ensure that the user is as convenient and effective as possible! Having worked in Affinity Designer, I can not go back to similar products of competitors, the habit is such a thing =))

sorry for my english =))

I don't know what program you're alluding to. (You know you can just say it, right? Don't worry; just change your hair color and wear a hood when you go out.)
Similar ability to do what was shown in the demo clip does exist in a few other 2D drawing programs, but not, for example, in Adobe Illustrator which (at least as of CS6) doesn't even provide for creating non-rectilinear page grids at all. In case you're thinking of Adobe Illustrator's 3D Effect plug-in, that's an entirely different thing that shouldn't be confused with the subject of this thread. (And even 3D Effect doesn't let you perform that kind of transformation "live" on the page.)
 
This is all 2D. So there is no actual "tilted" plane in the sense of a 3D model. There is just an on-page grid which effectively constitutes a drawing of a tilted plane. You can already do that in Affinity Designer:
 View Menu: Grid and Axis Manager Turn off the Use automatic grid checkbox Click the Advanced mode button Select the Isometric or one of the Dimetric or Trimetric presets from the Grid Type popup menu. That alone is a far more capable grids implementation than is provided in the majority of mainstream 2D vector drawing programs.
The point of the demo, though, is that Ben has been working on adding some functional geometric association between the grid and on-page objects. The live-shape Star object has been "sent" (using DrawPlus's term) to a "plane" (grid) as you would often want to do in a 2D parallel perspective drawing with something like a logo. But its association is not just a done-and-over-with 2D transformation. The association is still "live" so that Ben can just drag the familiar rotation handle of the Star object's bounding box and effectively "rotate it upon the plane" defined by that grid.
And yes, there are a few programs which can do that, too. My two favorite examples are at opposite extreme ends of the price spectrum: Serif DrawPlus, using its 3D Planes feature, and Corel Technical Designer, using its Projected Axes feature. (In fairness, there are other reasons for the price difference.)
But the fleshing out of this feature set in Affinity Designer is a huge functional advantage over all the current mainstream 2D drawing programs. It constitutes explicit support for an entire drawing discipline that is just as appropriate for 2D drawing programs—and for commercial illustrators—as converging perspective. It's frankly rather laughable that over three decades after the "desktop publishing revolution" of the mid-80s that such things are still almost entirely neglected by the monolithic 2D drawing programs.
As mentioned earlier in this thread, this is (so far) about parallel perspective (based on parallel axes), not converging perspective (based on vanishing points). That's why Affinity's grids feature is appropriately called the Grids and Axes Manager.
The whole purpose and intent of "axis-based" (axonometric) drawing—of which isometric is just the most common variation— is to be able to draw "directly into" a mechanically-correct perspective view. The whole idea, dating back hundreds of years, is to not have to draw everything first as rectilinear side views (like traditional drafting) and then construct the desired perspective from those.
So in this sense, while the rotatable star screen grab demonstrates one of the "building block" capabilities, it does not demonstrate the eventual drawing power that capability will yield. The capability proven by the demo is useful in itself for doing things like not just "sending" the logo to the various planes of my billboard example, but also easily rotating it as needed on those planes. But its ramifications are much larger.
So don't get me wrong, that capability is very useful. But the real power represented by the rotating star is in how it will play into empowering an illustrator to "draw directly into" a parallel perspective view of objects which are not so conveniently "boxy" in shape and neatly aligned parallel to each other.
Providing the typical basic rectangular warp tool is fine for simple things like distorting something drawn "in the flat" to fit a photo of a monitor or the side of a cereal box. But that's really minor compared to the scope of more fully supporting an entire long-established drawing discipline which will empower users to do a whole lot more.
JET
 

Hi Kiarian,
Ideally they should be merged into a single node however the current (boolean operations) code does create additional nodes in a few situations. We are aware of these issues.
There's plans to rewrite/improve this and the expand stroke code in a future version. One thing you may/can try is to add a node to the middle of the vertical line on one (or both) shapes then drag it over the other half of the shape to force an overlap between the two halves, then perform the boolean operation. In some cases it may help to get a clean boolean operation.

Just another little reminder to the moderators that I think this thread should be removed.

Going quite well. What do you think? Personally I get on with the brush engine. Would like a colour picker, ( floating colour wheel) but never mind.
Got about half way with this scene up to now.

Bonjour.
Ambiroa  vous mettra certainement un petit cœur. Et....
Merci Alfred

It was @Mithferion, here.
 

I been doodling up a storm.. here is one of my pieces of art.. Crystal Frost ..
 she love to fly in the night sky,  however her father forbids her from flying especially at night, worried his daughter might be seen by other dragons or ponies that travel in the day and especially at night... 
Crystals father refuses to teach his daughter to fly, he needs her to stay out of  sight to be safe. Not teaching her to fly keeps her grounded and gives him less to worry..
However she does try to imitate the wild creatures of the woods, it is from the birds she learns how to  fly... one evening while her father was away, she wandered off into the woods where she finds a nest of young birds . watching them trying to fly, she tries to imitate the birds and try to fly, so she can follow and fly with them.
She was so happy  about  what she learned she showed her father what she could do. Seeing his daughter fly for the first time  made him very fearful and he lashed out in anger and scolded his Daughter never EVER to fly ever again... tearful,  feeling  she did something very wrong she promises never to fly again..
just a brief story I made up...
However there is so much to Crystals life the is just so complex she struggles to understand why her father is the way he is, and life in general..,
I also have 3 of my custom characters i made up, getting plush made by LionCubCreationsLCC. 
she is very skillful at custom plush... once they are made and arrive will post pics here of my characters in plush style.  
 

The project is finally done. For the past 13 weeks I’ve been working on a gaming magazine while at SAE. The magazine deals with gaming but unlike other magazines where they talk about news and reviews TossUp talks about in-depth gaming information such as what works, what dose not, fail within games, game mechanics and more. The project was made with a  mix of affinity designer, affinity photo and indesign.
 
(This project was made for a uni assessment and is not a real magazine.)
 
If you would like to view the magazine online click here: https://adobe.ly/2Ex6EaF
 
Below are mockups of the magazine.
 

 
 
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fatih11,
Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums. Thanks for your suggestion, which I'm sure would be appreciated by many users.

You're very welcome.