[HTC M8 Smartphone]

Oh my word! That's just stunning!!! What an incredible first attempt - I think I'll fall off my seat if the next attempt is even better!?!  :o

[Introduce Yourself]

Hi GryphonArt,

 

Yes, just fire away with questions on the Questions forum and we'll try our best to answer them :) 

 

Thanks,

Matt

[FreeHand Find & Replace]

Hi Chirpy,

 

I know exactly what you mean and I think we've already mentioned it on the forums before - we'll be adding it as soon as we can get around to it :) 

 

Thanks,

Matt

[First test piece in Designer from August]

Haha! So that's what your avatar is! :) That looks awesome, Kevin! A truly brilliant first work as well - top marks! :)

[What would you call this]

Hi Ronnie,

 

We call them 'stroke' brushes in the office... :)  Also, yes, you will (one day) be able to just select some vector objects and drop them onto the brushes panel and they will become a vector brush... 

 

Thanks,

Matt

[First attempt ...]

I agree - great use of texture to create a very organic feeling drawing :)

[Big Hero]

Oh wow! This is great!!! Thank you, ricke76! :D

[Planets]

Nice work, Ronnie! :D

[Painter Packed Bristles tool for AD!]

Seriously great drawing, Paolo! Gosh, I feel SO hungry now!!! (and it's only just 9am!!!!) :S

[Improvements for Styles window]

Both great suggestions, thanks :)

[AD Beta sucking CPU cycles when inactive]

Hi Ronny,

 

I've just checked this on my MacBook Pro (late 2013 model) and iMac (mid-2011 model) in both the current beta and MAS versions - they're both consuming about 0.3% of the CPU when just sitting there with your document open. I wonder if it happens for you straight away if you open the document again? I'm thinking that there is probably some process that wasn't successfully completing and that may have been causing one of your cores to be active. This is obviously not good, but we'd need to try to provoke it to happen again in order to find it... Any ideas what you may have been doing just prior to noticing the issue?

 

Thanks for your help,

Matt

[Painter Packed Bristles tool for AD!]

Fantastic, really useful tutorial, Paolo - thank you!!!  (Interestingly, my computer just auto-corrected 'tutorial' to 'tortilla' - I wonder what that says about me!?!)

 

Hope you have a great New Year too! :)

[Vector output]

Wherever you've used pixels, you've used pixels - there's no getting away from that, but if you've clipped them to a vector outline, for example, then the pixels (should) be clipped against the vector outline producing a crisp, clean result. Like I said, show me a specific example and we could probably try to guide more, but there is no general way to have raster data which is scalable without introducing artefacts (because the extra data required has to come from somewhere) but that doesn't mean the effect on the screen can't still be pleasing and often trick you into thinking there are no pixels by clipping to a vector parent object.

 

:)

[practicing vector work . . .]

Your blue girl work is very impressive - looks very artistic and considered. I also like the pink girl is really well done - very bold and clean, but as you say, maybe in need of a few bits to finish the picture. These are amazing works for somebody who is starting out on their journey with the package - I'm really excited about seeing what you come up with next! :D

[Ruler ticks too small in inches]

Okay, I can look at changing this :)

[Hide visible selection of selected object/layer]

Hi Jakerlund! :)

 

You can temporarily hide the tool by holding space, but we do try to hide the tool automatically when we think it would be useful - like when you change the colour in the Colour panel. It seems that we haven't done this as often as I thought though because I would also expect it to hide the tool when I change the weight of the stroke in the Stroke panel and clearly it sounds like it should hide when you're adjusting an effect parameter too, sorry. We can definitely add this :)

 

Thanks,

Matt

[Promoting more resources]

Couldn't agree more, and there is already something in the works... ;)

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.0.21458)]

Hi Boban,

 

I think I need to leave the 'editable text in PSD export' question to Ben for when he gets back off holiday as this is really his area of expertise... but I couldn't agree more about the need for a quick way to see the distances between objects! I'll add it myself soon if someone else hasn't already beaten me to it! ;)

 

Thanks,

Matt

[Rotating the stroke gradient]

No problem Gear maker, just go to the Gradient Tool (press 'g') and choose 'Stroke' from the 'context' on the context toolbar then just drag the handles with the mouse. If you want perfectly horizontal/vertical then use the Shift modifier to constrain it 

 

Hopefully that helps :)

Matt

[Jagged edges]

The 'jaggies' you're seeing are simply from your fill - it is a conical fill that starts and ends on a different colour. If you simply change your gradient to start and end on the same colour, but then very shortly after transition to the different colour you were after then you will not see this effect, it will instead smoothly transition. It is the only part of any fill type which exhibits this artefact - and it is simply because it is not a certainty that you intended to make a sharp transition between two colours or a smooth one. Perhaps I should change it to automatically smooth the transition?

 

Thanks,

Matt

[Vector output]

Only the bits that require the raster elements will be raster, plus where possible your raster elements will be clipped to the bounds of some other vector shapes (if possible) to give crisp edges and resampled to reduce any effects caused by lack of resolution.

 

In short, it's not as simple as yes or no, but the results will generally be very good - if you have specific examples, I can give more detail.

[dpi of a placed picture]

Hi Trystero,

 

Have you tried the beta version? It should read and write dpi to/from image formats correctly so your jpg should appear as intended. Also, you can scale something easily in the Transform panel by typing in "*=37%" in the box instead of the current width (for example) to scale. Is that what you mean?

 

Thanks,

Matt

[True Detective Compositing (Pixel Persona)]

Nice work, Ronnie - and good luck with the client! :)

[Topkapı Palace]

This is really wonderful - great work again FB! :)

[Pencil tool]

Hi steblina - I'm intending to greatly improve the functionality of the Pencil Tool in the future, so please accept my apologies for its current form - it will get much, much better as soon as I've got a little time free :)