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Aammppaa

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  1. 1 hour ago, GabrielM said:

    If it was designed to use global coordinates rather than local, you could not create any "ratio" shapes

    But with the system as it currently exists we can not create any linear arrays with rotation, and I know which of those two operations I need more frequently!

    Secondly, the ratio feature is currently far less useful than it should be as it can only apply a ratio, not a step change…

    • Draw a 500px square
    • Duplicate
    • Resize in the W transform box as -=50
    • Power Duplicate

    I would anticipate the series to go: 500, 450, 400, 350, 300 etc

    But the current result is: 500, 450, 405, 364.5, 328.1 etc

    Affinity is interpreting the resize as a ratio (a reduction of 10%) when I asked for a fixed change. If I'd wanted a 10% reduction I'd have resized with W*=0.9

    I'd love the team to revisit Power Duplicate and make it more intuitive and more versatile.

  2. 1 hour ago, GabrielM said:

    This is an expected and correct behaviour. Power duplicate works on local coordinates, not global.

    Ah! I finally understand why Power Duplicate behaves as it does, however…

    1. The help file does not mention local (or global) coordinates
    2. This seems like a very odd design choice!

    Can you suggest an efficient method, using Power Duplicate (or other tools in Affinity) to create a horizontal row of (45) squares, equally spaced, each rotated 8° from the last?

  3. Playing with the brush engine in Photo & Designer and found that Hue / Saturation / Luminance Jitter work differently from other apps…

    In Affinity the jitter is applied per dab.

    280430106_AffinityHueJitter.gif.840a8365925a6378a8cfdd133818994d.gif

    Compare with Photoshop (and others?) where the jitter is applied per stroke.

    1357021786_PSHueJitter.gif.6baea4448077a54fe22aa2e2a053a830.gif

    In my limited experience per stroke is more useful in digital painting for creating subtle variation between painted strokes.

    Could Affinity have the option to choose how the jitter is applied?

    Thanks for your consideration.

  4. Try Radial / Linear transparency to fade the edges of a shape. Works well in certain situations, especially where the shape is close to circular / elliptical or has a straight edge.

    You can Group an object (even a single object) multiple times and add different transparencies to each group to achieve some complex results.

    See attached file.

    Affinity Grouped Transparency.afdesign

  5. Not an answer to your question, but I have always worked the other way around when I like where I am, but want to compare with where I was…

    1. Copy the object.
    2. Go back through history to earlier state.
    3. Paste object.
    4. Compare the two.

    Alternatively: look into Snapshots https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=/DesignAids/snapshot.html?title=Using snapshots

    1. Make a snapshot of where you are now.
    2. Go back in History to find earlier state.
    3. Copy object in its earlier state.
    4. Restore the Snapshot.
    5. Paste the object.

    Or even…

    1. Make snapshot of now.
    2. Go back in History.
    3. Make a snapshot of then.
    4. Toggle at will between the two!

    Hope one of these helps with your workflow.

  6. To be honest it isn't something I need to do often.

     

    I have no objection to your proposed feature, it is certainly more elegant than my workaround, however there are are numerous UI improvements that I would request before this one!

     

    For example…

    Being able to use the numeric keypad as shortcuts distinct from the standard numerals.

    Show / Hide the rotation center via keypress or better yet a mouse shortcut.

    The ability to search the existing keyboard shortcuts by key or action.

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