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If you have say 3 circles, one on top of another, and they are all selected, you can "drill" down to them by simply multiple clicking and FH will switch them off in sequence.
Alt + Click selects objects individually that are covered by other objects.
But this doesn't interact well with Shift to add things to the selection.
Better to use the Layer Studio to Ctrl + Click the objects you want.
On your second point: AD doesn't have node transforms yet - but they are coming.
Point 3: Again you can use the layers studio and just drag the object outside.
Or right click (in the Layers studio) and choose Release.
Or Cut and Paste (so long as you've not previously clicked the Insert Inside Selection button!)
Sadly there doesn't seem to be a keyboard shortcut for this action.
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Instead of splitting the forums is there a mod to the forum software that would enforce tagging of posts from a list of existing options.
Users would have to select application and OS, before the post could be created?
Searches could then be filtered using the tags to limit results.
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I think it would help to see an example of what you are asking, so that we can see your layer / group structure.
Can you attach an example file?
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Just discovered that for any given layer of a nested group you can single click to step up or down the layer stack
An example...
Ctrl + Click to select the Yellow Square
Now if you click the Orange Triangle, it selects the group Triangle & Circle, which is the next object down the layer stack.
Or click the Green Pentagon, to select the Pentagon, which is the next object up the layer stack.
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I don't use Illustrator, but think that I see what the Group Selector is doing.
No separate tool in AD.
In the attached file there are 4 groups, each grouped with the shape above it in the stack.
Double clicking with the Select Tool drills down through successive layers of nesting.
This seems to be the opposite of Illustrator... initially selecting the biggest group and with each double click stripping away the outermost object(s).
So, repeated double clicks on the Circle step down successively smaller groups until just the circle is selected.
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@MEB Thanks for the suggested method, which does seems like a viable way to do things.
It does seem slightly inelegant though as it involves duplication of all the vector objects, which means twice the data to store and render.
I still think that simply extending the ability to Ctrl + Click multiple objects is the cleanest way to go... no duplication of objects, achieves what we want (to paint within the area of the vectors), and uses existing methodology.
Would love to hear what the devs think?
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@obtusity Thanks for the reply and your example file.
As you say it works well enough in very simple cases, but will become cumbersome if one is trying to select dozens of shapes. More so if they are complicated in any way: small, gradient fills, different strokes, overlapping.
Indeed go back to your example file and try to select everything in order to add a new, second pixel layer. It is already significantly harder.
I am sure that with a little thought the development team could improve selection of multiple vector objects, after all I can already select multiple items in the Layer studio, and can Ctrl + click, so now need to do both at the same time!
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And why separate Win and Mac products? They look, act and perform the same on both platforms... or am I wrong about that?
The products do indeed share code for the backend (behind the scenes stuff) but the user interface (although it looks the same) is different on Win / Mac. Therefore certain bugs are platform specific.
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In the attached file I have some vector objects that I'd like to paint into using the Pixel Persona.
In each case I created the object, then added an new pixel layer and dragged it inside, to nest it.
- With the Single Object (pink square)
A nested pixel object is clipped to the area of the square.
- With the Compound Object (2 orange stars)
A nested pixel object is invisible!
- With the Group of Objects (3 blue circle)
A nested pixel object just becomes another object in the group.
It is not clipped by the other objects in the group..
- With the Layer Containing Objects
A nested pixel object just becomes another object on the layer.
It is not clipped by the other objects on the layer.
Although this behavior is consistent with the way that each type of object behaves (individual, compound, group, and layer) the resulting effect on the pixel layer is wildly different.
What I am after is the result in the simple, single object scenario: to be able to paint into the vector shapes.
As a work around I tried Ctrl + clicking the objects in the Layers Studio to create a free (marching ant) type selection that would constrain the painting. This generally works for all object types, but has the drawbacks that the marching ants are distracting, and I can only select one object/group/layer at a time.
Could Ctrl + clicking be extended to allow multiple objects/groups/layers to be selected at once?
Finally, is there a better way of selecting an arbitrary set of objects (of different types, possibly across multiple layers) and constraining pixel paint to those areas?
- With the Single Object (pink square)
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@ianrobertdouglas This looks like a bug to me. The symbols should obviously not vanish when the group is duplicated.
Interestingly, if you group the 3 symbols, and then make the group into a symbol, then duplicate, the symbols remain as symbols!
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Agree, but this issue doesn't just apply to masks... Adjustment layers too.
If masks/adjustments could be defined as a Symbol, then one change would update all layers where the mask/adjustment was applied.
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Hooking to Affinity worked for me during the beta phase, so it ought to work with Retail.
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Perhaps post your file and someone might be able to see what is going on?
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Agree!
Just adding AD or AP, plus Win or Mac to the title / post makes a huge difference.
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Just spent a pleasant evening playing with adding raster based texture to a vector image.
Learned quite a bit along the way.
- Bri-Toon, GDPR-365024 and Alfred
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MEB already has a list of this nature on his site...
http://www.miguelboto.com/affinity/resources/
However I agree that it makes more sense to pool resources here.
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@soulburn In what way is this different from the sort of image stretching that Affinity Designer already does along a path?
In the Brushes Studio choose Image from the dropdown.
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Please could the Preferences search box also search the Keyboard Shortcuts?
At present if I am trying to find an action to check / alter the Keyboard Shortcut I have to know where that shortcut resides.
If I don't (and I may not even know whether a shortcut can be assigned to a given action) then I have to trawl through the whole list.
Even better - filter the shortcuts by the search term to remove all the options that I don't want to see.
Case in point: I'd like to find whether I can assign a shortcut to Show Rotation Centre, and have gone cross eyed looking for the option!
Thanks.
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@voom If you have Force Pixel Alignment turned on, and enter dimensions in mm (or other real world units) they will be moved to the nearest pixel, which will create a decimal with a fractional part.
Could this be what yo are seeing?
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True it isn't on the roadmap, but then neither is the Lighter UI, but there are Twitter leaks of that being worked on.
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There is already the option Edit in Photo / Edit in Designer, which passes to file to the other app.
I guess that merging the personas if both apps were installed may give a smoother / quicker workflow.
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Hey DesignMeister,
Worth keeping an eye on the Common Feature Requests Index (and using the forum search).
You will see that this feature is already on the list :)
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Have you enabled Force Pixel Alignment and Move by Whole Pixels?
These two options live next to the Snapping Magnet on the AD main toolbar.
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You are correct that at present there is no option to align to last selected object, or bounds of back-most object (as Xara Designer does it).
This is a feature that has been requested many times before and is on the common requested features list…
However, your example is simple to achieve using snapping rather than the Arrange tool. Simply drag the line over the Square, with Snapping enabled, and the line will drop into place beautifully.
I am sure there are other more complex examples that would require upgraded Arrange tool, but many things can be done with the right Snapping options enabled.
[FORUM] We need separate sections for AP and AD
in Pre-V2 Archive of Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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With compulsory tagging, I'd just tag the post with both apps and both OSes :)