MattP

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.
 
Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

No, this isn't possible at the moment unless you go to the trouble of making a gradient texture to use in a vector brush... We have much grander plans when it comes to gradients and I'm not prepared to mention what it is right now because it won't be as much fun when we do the big reveal in the future if you already knew what was coming! ;)

Draw some lines to act as guides. Activate the "Curve Drawing" snapping preset. Apply the mesh and then drag each of the three mesh nodes at the bottom until they snap to the guide lines. For the middle node, enable the "Cusp" option. Drag the handles of the middle node and the two other nodes at the bottom so that they follow the guide lines. 

A fairly simple one of a  1968 Ford Mustang GT fastback Bullitt. Thought I'd do it a bit differently.

That's an amazing piece - really well done! Top marks! 🤩

My latest illustration done in Designer v2.6, and something very different for me. Everything was done in the main Designer Persona. 

Tracing will come in the future - but it will be a new 'Persona' (one of the main buttons along the top left of the window) so that it can have its own UI and tools. We have a fair few ideas for this - not just the obvious... :)  It's not coming any time soon though, I'm afraid to say...

We've had a query about what is viewed as 'acceptable' content, and what our stance on it is.
 
This topic is one which is typically fairly volatile because everyone is so different and what is acceptable for one person, can be shocking or inflammatory to another. We don't want everyone to feel cautious about what they click, just in case they are faced with something they'd rather not see, but we also don't want to discourage people from sharing the amazing work they've been creating, so... We think the simplest, clearest thing to do is:
 
If you think your image could in any way be described as controversial...
 
- Start a new topic with an appropriate title
- Upload your image to a sharing site (Flickr, Behance, Instagram, etc) - you can even use the 'Share' link in the app's File menu
- Write a proper description of your work in the body of your post and add a text link to the image you have shared
 
 
Now, if people think they'd be offended, they just don't have to click the link and they won't see it at all.
 
Thanks,
Matt

Peachy Magazine Cover Experiment
Just a bit of fun, not a real thing.
I just thought I’d see what a ‘positive’ gossip magazine cover might look like.
Mostly done in Publisher with bits and bobs done in Designer.

Hi there, Sean!  :D I was just looking at Flickr a few minutes ago (for the first time in years!) and was just about to contact you! Great to see your name appear on the list and I'm sure Designer should work well on your MacBook Pro - I wrote a lot of it on my old 2008 MacBook Pro so there's been a lot of effort put in to make sure that it runs smoothly without needing the latest and greatest hardware.

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.
 
Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

Tracing will come in the future - but it will be a new 'Persona' (one of the main buttons along the top left of the window) so that it can have its own UI and tools. We have a fair few ideas for this - not just the obvious... :)  It's not coming any time soon though, I'm afraid to say...

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.
 
Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

Tracing will come in the future - but it will be a new 'Persona' (one of the main buttons along the top left of the window) so that it can have its own UI and tools. We have a fair few ideas for this - not just the obvious... :)  It's not coming any time soon though, I'm afraid to say...

Hi Blane,
 
Just select your text and on the Text context toolbar that appears along the top you want to dropdown the list that is next to the alignment/justification buttons - it controls Paragraph Leading which is what you want to change. As you move over the different items in the list you should see the change happening dynamically on your document - just click when it looks right :)
 
Thanks,
Matt

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.
 
Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.
 
Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

Hi johs,
 
Just go to the Export Persona, change to the 'Layers' panel and select all the layers in there and click 'Create Slice' and then go to the 'Slices' panel. Notice that you have now create an exportable slice for each layer. You can select each one and choose its export format and properties. Now you can either select 'Export all' or just click each one to export it individually :)
 
Hopefully that's what you're after? :)
Matt

...you can adjust opacity of the line based on the pressure profile! :)
 
The default line doesn't have this property selected, so here's how to enable it:
- Draw a curve
- Go to the Line Page
- Click the 'Properties...' button
- Drag the 'Flow variance' slider to the right and you should start to see the effect
- Play with the pressure on the curve
 
...incidentally, up until the other day you could just hit the delete key when you had a node selected in the pressure window - I'll get it fixed :)

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.
 
Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

Simple thing to do, the Braun TP 1 Transistor radio and phonograph/record player. Designed by Dieter Rams 1959. Might do a version with a record sometime.

Just a few. Quite fun to do and quick as they aren't particularly complicated other than doing them head on when there might not be head on references, so some guess work. Did Van Doesburghuis slightly differently as it's so simple it looked a bit boring.

Hopefully this image should clear up the confusion?
 

 
Fold tries to look like it's folded over on a tight corner. Overlap treats each tight corner as though it's the end of one curve and the beginning of another so the pieces overlap. Pull tries to pull the texture around the corner by distorting the areas leading up to it slightly.
 
Hope that helps,
Matt

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.
 
Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

@MattPno, there was no line visible, you solved it in one. Thank you. There were  few PDF options available so I chose the one for print as that seemed the most logical. No idea what difference it makes but it worked