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Scungio

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  1. Freid, In watching your video I did not catch the export out of Affinity Designer. I remember some time ago, I think the 1.5 beta that Serif had put in an export option for Spine? Is that what you use? I was curious how well that cuts down on set up time.
  2. Ronnie McBride did a video on a logo design using Affinity Designer with Apple Motion. He frequents this forum from time to time too. Anyway the video: I use Motion too and have illustrator and I am able to import .ai files into Motion but it has limitations. It (Motion) sees the .ai file as really a PDF file with everything on one layer. In Motion you are able to uncheck the fixed resolution so that if you zoom in or scale the artwork it acts like a vector and remains sharp. Here is a video by Mark Spencer showing this feature: In Affinity Designer you can create artwork, vector assets and then export out as PDFs. Then in Motion you can uncheck the Fixed Resolution and be able to scale up the vector art. You just have to break down the work in Designer so that each layer is exported out as its own PDF file, the Export Persona helps with this greatly. Now the ability to export out a file within Designer to be able to use as a Motion Shape would be great. There was a script for Illustrator that enabled that but I always found it hit or miss.
  3. Exactly what do you want to resize? If I draw a rectangle and then want to resize it I can go to the transform panel and click the chains to make sure the width and height are synced. Then say that rectangle was 5 x 4 inches and I want it to resize it to 25% of that size. You can highlight either the width or height field and type in *.25 and press enter. Now I have that rectangle scaled down to 1.25 x 1 inch. Is that what you mean or is it something else?
  4. Serif debuted the Photo app on June 5th for that $20 introductory price and even extended it some if I remember right. It is a great price even at the regular $30 price. Some people who don't even have an iPad yet bought the Photo app at the lower pricing to take advantage of the sale. I think Serif did the best they could with that opening sale but come on, they have to eat too, they have bills to pay, employees to pay, a company to run. I would be against them refunding money to people who missed the sale price, you have to draw the line somewhere. That may sound cold to you but that is my 2 cents. Just be sure not to miss the sale for Affinity Designer for iPad when that debuts. Early bird catches the worm and all that...
  5. Take the pen tool and make your path then press on the selection button...
  6. gratzer, I opened the new.pdf you have in Illustrator and there were 13 missing fonts that I did not have on my system and it had to substitute for them. So whether it is Illustrator Or Designer that is the situation that I find myself in with your files. But I was able to copy from the new.pdf and into Designer and was able to italicize and bold those characters that needed it but I have no idea what font to choose. The question I have for you is that in your test.afdesign, the a1, a2, b1, etc, those have been converted to outlines, curves, but what font is that? If you can find out what font that is then it would be a simple matter to change the copied text to that font, and the italicizing and bolded part of that formula would match.
  7. Just a simple mistake, you have to hold a modifier key down, on the Mac it would be the Option key while clicking Add, on Windows I think it is the Alt key and click on Add. You can also with those layers selected just go to top menu and choose Layer/Create Compound or use the keyboard shortcut Option+C or (Alt+C on Windows?)
  8. Hey MikeW, Don't know if you are directing that question to me or not. No, I don't have that Computer Modern font in gratzer's test.afdesign sample. What I was saying is that he should be able select the formula from that new.pdf and paste it into Designer pretty easily if on a Mac. My mentioning the Paste Without Format was just a hypothetical and an option to save some time in certain circumstances. For example if you had a PDF and there was some text that you wanted to copy and it was colored pink, using the Paste Without Format would remove that color when you went to paste it in Designer.
  9. On a Mac here but I opened your new.pdf file in Apple's Preview app, selected your text example and copied it. Then I went to Designer and pasted. I was also able to Paste Without Format so that the text would change to what Font and Sizing that I chose beforehand.
  10. Yeah, as I explained briefly sometimes you have to manually go in and move some nodes around to make one shape overlap the other just enough to make the add/join operation work. Better to explain in a video, so here is a 3 minute clip:
  11. Yeah, the Shape Builder tool is nice in Illustrator but can be finicky at times. But regardless of whether you are in Illustrator or Designer it basically comes down to selecting the divided shapes and adding them together. I assigned a keyboard shortcut to the Add Geometry command so I select two shapes and then Control - A. Sometimes you get a result that does not work as the shapes were not overlapping enough and you have to use the node tool to move points so one is slightly over the other. It can be tedious but it gets the job done. I also tend to use the Donut Tool with a hole radius of 0 to start off making the circles or ellipses. Then when you are ready to do an offset of those circles it is easy enough to select them all and then change the Hole Radius to get the offset. Then I usually convert them all to Curves and then select them all and Divide. Then from that stage it is just a matter of selecting the individual pieces and joining them together. If I have the time maybe I will put together a short video showing how I go about it. In the meantime here is a file where I saved the history with it. Just move the slider in the history panel to see how I went about it. In the beginning I had started a different design but then abandoned it so sorry if that causes any confusion. knot.afdesign
  12. jhazel0705, Honestly, I think you are making it too difficult then it needs to be. As bleduc mentioned it probably is the easiest and fastest method to just make the shapes/petals and arrange them in front or back of each other and you could even use the target behavior to add shapes inside one another. The live paint and refined path abilities of Illustrator are just not in Designer at the moment.
  13. I don't mean this to be offensive but what do you use your other hand for? I have used many programs over the last 30 years too and I have my right hand on my mouse or Wacom Stylus and the left hand close to the keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts are crucial in speeding up my workflow whether I am using Affinity Designer, Apple Motion, Harmony, Clip Studio, etc. You don't know what you are missing! :D
  14. I understand what you are saying, to each their own. I just try and use keyboard shortcuts because I find them faster then going up to the menu and clicking. Like I love to use Compound shapes and have 'live' boolean operations. But sometimes I want to release the compound so I set up a keyboard shortcut of Control + C. Much faster for me to invoke that shortcut then go up to the menu, click on Layer and then click on Release Compound. That is two clicks and it is much slower than me using my keyboard shortcut.
  15. Yeah, if you are on a Mac you can use Quicktime and choose New Screen Recording, draw a marquee selection over your photo/image and the history panel and then press Start Recording, when you are done cycling through the History panel go up to the top menu bar and press the stop button. Then a window opens up with your recording and you can choose a size and export it out. Even if you did a long 20 second back and forth it would probably only be about 5 MB in file size.
  16. If you right click on a layer and bring up the menu you can choose Merge Visible which takes all of the layers and their adjustments and masks and creates a new layer and flattens them into that layer. Photo does not delete your original layers which I rather like but you could easily just delete those afterwards.
  17. One of the things I always hated about Adobe and their paste operations is how damn confusing it all got. You paste something and it is offset? Then they insert all kind of paste in front, paste in back, paste in place, in the menu, what a mess. That to me is an example of Adobe's bloat. I like Serif's approach. When I copy and paste it pastes in front by default and if I have to move it behind I just use the Command + [ shortcut key and/or use the targeting options as dutchshader mentioned. Once you use it enough times it becomes second nature and will speed up your workflow.
  18. You can map your own keyboard shortcut for this in the desktop versions of Photo and Designer. Go to your Preferences and choose Keyboard Shortcuts. Then in the second menu select Miscellaneous. Then look for the command Set Fill to Black and White and click in the blank field to the right of it and enter your keyboard command, for me I chose Control X but you can choose anything you wish.
  19. I have been using this cool little iOS app called WheelMasks to create color swatch palettes that I then import into the Affinity Photo desktop by way of the Import Palette/Document Palette and then choosing the .ase file that WheelMasks exports out. When I try and import the .ase file, Adobe Swatch file in the Photo iPad version, I get no option to actually select the .ase file. Is this not implemented yet?
  20. It all depends on what you want to do with Affinity Photo. I can tell you what I have been doing in terms of books. I loved Katrin Eismann's books on Photoshop, her Restoration and Retouching books. Even though they are quite old now and they were written for Photoshop CS2 and earlier, it does not matter because what she covers is still relevant. I am trying to duplicate what she did in Photoshop by using Affinity Photo of course. She covers basic stuff but goes into detail of what is happening when you use Layers, or Curves or the Clone Tool, etc. She even had a section on using Apply Image and Calculations and sure enough that is available in Photo so I am eager to see if I can replicate her examples. The important thing to remember is that it does take time and effort to 'translate' a book dealing with Photoshop and apply it to Affinity Photo. I love Bert Monroy's work and have some of his books. He does this photorealism and he uses Photoshop (and some Illustrator) and he is just a master. Again, it all depends on what you want to do or learn, or how you want to use Photo? To do retouching? Create, paint photorealistic works? To do texturing for 3D work, games?
  21. Are you able to post a screen capture of what your Layers look like and where you have the adjustment located? If no layer is selected and you add Colorize (Recolor?) adjustment then it will be added to the top of the Layers panel and yes, it will affect everything below it, all of your layers. If you have 5 layers and select the 3rd layer down and add an adjustment Layer it will be inserted right above that 3rd layer and colorize the 3rd, 4th and 5th layers, everything below it. You can group the layers you want to colorize and then twirl down the triangle for that group and select the top layer, that first layer and then add an adjustment layer, it will be inserted above that first layer in the group and affect everything below it. A better approach is probably to apply the adjustment layer to the group by dragging the adjustment layer on the group until you see the short vertical blue box just to the right of the group name. It will affect all of the layers in the group but you have the added benefit of being able to easily access the adjustment layer without having to twirl down the triangle for the group and expose the contents. The Adjustment Layer Icon will be to the right of the Group Icon when it is closed up. If you knew all of this and are still having problems then that is beyond my meager ability.
  22. If you want a specific layer, just uncheck the visibility of the other layers in the Layers Studio and then export out. In terms of using the iOS pasteboard, I don't know if Serif has that implemented yet.
  23. It isn't that Adobe just put in a raster to vector line tracing to CS2, they had it all along, they just wanted you to make a separate purchase to get it. Anybody remember Adobe Streamline? I had that app installed way back when. Development stopped at version 4 and then it remained fallow until they debuted Live Trace in Illustrator CS2. I don't know for certain, but I always got the impression over the years that Adobe would take discontinued products like Streamline and tinker with them, repurpose them and add them to Illustrator. Another app that I think was folded into Illustrator was Adobe Dimensions. This was a standalone app that allowed you to extrude, revolve (lathe) just like the 3D effects/modeling that you can currently do in Adobe Illustrator CC. Adobe Dimensions stalled at version 3.0. So, users may say, hey Serif, hurry up and add this feature to Designer but look at the advantage that Adobe had. They had years and years of development in both Streamline and Dimensions as separate apps and then were able to fold them into Illustrator. It is understandable to me that Serif is going to need quite a bit of time to add those features. Rome was not built in one day.
  24. I would never want it implemented on a full-time basis. The way it is set up right now is perfect in my opinion. One of my biggest pet peeves in other software is that I was always having to turn down or turn off the smoothing (Flash). I don't want software auto correcting the line that I put down, unless I specifically want it to. Smoothing is not the same as the Stabilizer but they are both trying to assist you in the line that you are trying to make. I find that the stabilizer is good for some things in terms of getting specific types of lines but will slow you down in other cases. If it was implemented all the time, then you would have people like me requesting the option to turn it off. This will differ from person to person, but at the end of the day, I think it is best to have the stabilizer as an option that you can turn on or off.
  25. This video is about 12 minutes long and I go over open, share and export within Photo for iPad. I also use Stratospherix FileBrowser app to access a Mac Pro and use the Open In command to send the file to Photo. I take a photo and add a text layer and export it out to Procreate using the Share action for Procreate. I am still fuzzy on this process. Sometimes I have no problem getting the file to Procreate and other times it will not show up? This video was also something of a learning process in terms of recording video off the iPad. I used ScreenFlow and it worked well. The bottom right corner video is video recorded from a webcam and the quality is poor, but I was using that as a guide for Touch Callouts in ScreeFlow. Being able to track the input of your finger or pencil and to have it display is something that is very hard to pull off. In ScreenFlow they have these Touch Callouts and you have to do a lot of manual fine-tuning and it may not be worth the effort. I did a 4 finger gesture at the 5:30 minute mark? and then some one finger swiping, and tapping from 8 minutes to 8:30. This was my first attempt at doing this and I don't know what to make of it. Worth it? Yay? Nay? Or is it better to have a smaller video in the corner where you can see the person holding the Pencil and get a better idea of where they are tapping? Oh, well, the video:
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