earl_grey

Hi,
Before I created post about bug but its not a bug. Currently, when I round the corner of a shape, the tool automatically switches to the Node Tool.  I think its not intuitive because I want select a type of rounding and I must to switch to the corner tool again after rounding.
Okno 10-06-2023 18-54-20.mp4    
 
 

This is not the behaviour in V1, and seems most unhelpful... so I'd agree with you that it is a bug.

Hi,
just some compliments on the release notes for 2.1. Very well designed and presented, this is how release notes should be made. Usually, it is boring list of stuff nobody wants to read. It is obvious that you put a lot of effort into that, was worth it!
Cheers,
Lars

Hi,
I would like to suggest adding a Path Width Tool for easier and more precise stroke adjustments. This tool would allow users to thicken the outline at specific points by simply clicking and dragging with the mouse. Other software like Adobe Illustrator and Amadine have a stroke width tool.
The current method, using the Pressure chart in the Stroke panel, is not as user-friendly or accurate as it could be.
 
Current method:

Suggested (like Amadine or Adobe Illustrator):

 
 

I liked the old fillet (corner) tool icon. That said, I like what I am seeing overall.
But you know, a new UI is also so you really feel that yiu've purchased something new. So there's definitely some merit to that. Plus it's nice to do for the staff as well, I imagine.
 

I dont speak German (and the current version of drawplus has a bug, other languages don't work) but Serif DrawPlus x8 has tool named as "Gitterfüllungen":

 
Sorry Affinity for spam, but i found my old DVD copy of Serif  

I searched this forum first and was surprised not to see this asked before. Adobe's subject selection tool with a single click is proving very popular with subscribers to that software. I often isolate my subject to blur the background and would love this to be much faster. Do any of you know or even just think, that we'll see a feature like this added to Affinity Photo 2.0 in the very near future?

Hi All,
Thanks again for all your continued help with this release. We are getting very close to launch. This will be the final beta build before what will hopefully be our first release candidate next week. For that reason we are not really making any further significant changes (or anything which could be considered risky). 
The main thing I want to make you all aware of is that we have decided to not release the cross-references feature with 2.1. For that reason this feature has been removed from this week's build.
Any documents you may have created which include cross references will still open (and they will even still update), but you will not be able to edit or create new cross-references in 2.1. We understand this might be disappointing for some of you, however we will be moving into 2.2 beta very shortly after 2.1 release, and as soon as a 2.2 beta is available that will include cross-references again (and will definitely make it to 2.2 release!)
We have made this decision primarily as we have been working on adding better formatting options (as have been requested on these forums) into the feature, but we have not quite managed to get it to a point where we feel it will be releasable in time - and considering all the other great stuff / fixes we have put into 2.1 we don't want to delay the whole of 2.1 because of it.

Other than that in this build it's mostly just fixes which you can see in this thread.
Thanks,
Ash

Well there have been already a buch of such blend tool request threads in the forum, people should better (re)use those existing threads instead of creating hundred new ones about one and the same theme here!
 
... and so forth and so on !
 

Hi,
I would like to suggest adding a Path Width Tool for easier and more precise stroke adjustments. This tool would allow users to thicken the outline at specific points by simply clicking and dragging with the mouse. Other software like Adobe Illustrator and Amadine have a stroke width tool.
The current method, using the Pressure chart in the Stroke panel, is not as user-friendly or accurate as it could be.
 
Current method:

Suggested (like Amadine or Adobe Illustrator):

 
 

Hi,
I would like to suggest adding a Path Width Tool for easier and more precise stroke adjustments. This tool would allow users to thicken the outline at specific points by simply clicking and dragging with the mouse. Other software like Adobe Illustrator and Amadine have a stroke width tool.
The current method, using the Pressure chart in the Stroke panel, is not as user-friendly or accurate as it could be.
 
Current method:

Suggested (like Amadine or Adobe Illustrator):

 
 

Hi,
I would like to suggest adding a Path Width Tool for easier and more precise stroke adjustments. This tool would allow users to thicken the outline at specific points by simply clicking and dragging with the mouse. Other software like Adobe Illustrator and Amadine have a stroke width tool.
The current method, using the Pressure chart in the Stroke panel, is not as user-friendly or accurate as it could be.
 
Current method:

Suggested (like Amadine or Adobe Illustrator):

 
 

There are 3 tools I miss from DrawPlus and CraftArtist, which I used often.  I display them below.  From reading some of the past posts about them, I think your users, myself included, would really love to have them back in some form.  It's way faster and easier to do than even Ctrl-J for large grids and transformations, as shown in the Workbooks, and it's always nice to have more than one way to do things -- in this case, these tasks were simpler in DrawPlus than the newer Affinity.  If our calculations were off for the end result we wanted, we knew right away and could Ctrl-Z, change the parameters, and try again.
The Replicate Tool:

The Transform Tool:

And finally the Blend Tool, which can transform one object to another in terms of shapes and figures, images, colors, transparency, etc.  This one is a simple transparency transform for 100% to 20% with 3 steps between:

Thanks in advance for your careful consideration of my suggestion.
Sonja Thompson

I know this has been asked before but I'd like to ask again.
Is there is any chance we could get the ability to password protect exported pdfs to restrict editing and/or opening? 

You can also have a look at this post of mine
where I mention also yet another program
which have the feature you like and a few more
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150962-add-ability-to-precisely-vary-width-of-a-stroke-at-any-given-point/
 
 

Hi,
I would like to suggest adding a Path Width Tool for easier and more precise stroke adjustments. This tool would allow users to thicken the outline at specific points by simply clicking and dragging with the mouse. Other software like Adobe Illustrator and Amadine have a stroke width tool.
The current method, using the Pressure chart in the Stroke panel, is not as user-friendly or accurate as it could be.
 
Current method:

Suggested (like Amadine or Adobe Illustrator):

 
 

Currently to create a new document using the contents of the clipboard, one has to press CTRL+Alt+Shift+N. While this shortcut is functional, it is quite long and can be cumbersome to use. Additionally changing this shortcut may result in overriding another important function.
I would like to propose a more convenient method for creating new documents from the clipboard. I suggest that when no documents are currently active, pressing CTRL+V should directly create a new document using the clipboard contents. This would make the process more intuitive and easier to perform.
 
Example
Copy image to clipboard. Open Affinity Designer/Publisher/Photo. Press CTRL+V.

Currently to create a new document using the contents of the clipboard, one has to press CTRL+Alt+Shift+N. While this shortcut is functional, it is quite long and can be cumbersome to use. Additionally changing this shortcut may result in overriding another important function.
I would like to propose a more convenient method for creating new documents from the clipboard. I suggest that when no documents are currently active, pressing CTRL+V should directly create a new document using the clipboard contents. This would make the process more intuitive and easier to perform.
 
Example
Copy image to clipboard. Open Affinity Designer/Publisher/Photo. Press CTRL+V.

It is cumbersome to use. I never understand
how somebody could offer such a Shortcut.
My patience already ends when i should use two
control keys. E.g. Shift+Alt+Anykey.
So, any solution that will reduce the keys
is a good one to me.
 

Currently to create a new document using the contents of the clipboard, one has to press CTRL+Alt+Shift+N. While this shortcut is functional, it is quite long and can be cumbersome to use. Additionally changing this shortcut may result in overriding another important function.
I would like to propose a more convenient method for creating new documents from the clipboard. I suggest that when no documents are currently active, pressing CTRL+V should directly create a new document using the clipboard contents. This would make the process more intuitive and easier to perform.
 
Example
Copy image to clipboard. Open Affinity Designer/Publisher/Photo. Press CTRL+V.

też chciałbym polską wersje 

Below is the list of all new features and improvements included in the 2.1 beta. This new functionality is in addition to the many bug fixes and stability improvements in this version (currently 2.1.0.1790).
Depending on how the beta goes / how many issues there are to fix it's possible some more items will be added to this list before 2.1 is officially released - follow this topic if you want to be notified if that happens.

To learn more about these features please click on the link to go to each feature's dedicated post. To give feedback or report bugs against any of these features please reply to that same post (also check out bug reporting and feedback tips).
Features and improvements affecting all platforms
Balanced dashed lines and other stroke improvements (new in build 1730) Running headers in Affinity Publisher (new in build 1730) Show special characters added to Designer and Photo (added to iPad too in 1730) Adjusted Mask Behaviour (new in build 1730) Auto-select options in move tool (new in build 1713/1714) Square bracket stroke width adjustment expanded functionality Blend mode keyboard shortcuts Alt / Option - drag to duplicate in Layers panel Alt / Option click to expand / collapse all in Layers panel Crop tool improvements Auto clean added to paint mixer brush Paste inside picture frame Vector Flood Fill Guides improvements Vector warp nodes now obey snapping Brush panel improvements Raster perspective and mesh warp live filters added to Designer Search bar added to your add-ons (new in build 1713/1714) Analytics Windows and macOS features and improvements
WebP and JPEG XL now available in batch export (new in build 1736) Migrate retail version content and settings to beta version (new in build 1730) Cross references available in Affinity Publisher (this has now been pushed back to 2.2 as announced here) "Close All" added to File menu Asset panel reordering improvements Rename... added to Layer menu & tab behaviour Mask to below... added to Layer menu Measure tool now available in Photo and Publisher Place tool now available in Affinity Photo Drag / Drop bitmap fill to colour and swatch panel Zoom tool context options in Develop persona iPad features and improvements
New left swipe options on iPad layers panel (new in build 1736) Redesigned edit menu (new in build 1730) Some file management changes to iPad (new in build 1730) Style picker added to iPad apps (new in build 1713/1714) Drop down menus with checkable options no longer auto close New keyboard shortcut options added Reset rotation in navigator with double tap Pencil double tap option to open quick menu Long press geometry operation to create compound Tapping warp group thumbnail now selects node tool PDF options now exposed when opening Modifiers now available for Select Object Hide Layer type icon now available Main view rulers added  
If you have not enrolled into the beta program yet and would like to take part, you can do so here. This will immediately give you access to the latest 2.1 beta builds to try for yourself.

Kindly, please add this feature. +1

Blend tool (object blending) has been requested since 2015. It's a crucial part of doing parametric / creative work. Any chance to put in onto priority / pipe?
Thanks

@mara.cernoch @earl_greyand @chessboardand anyone else reading this thread running Affinity Designer on Windows,
Would you mind trying something for me?  Uninstall the current version of V2 Designer you have installed and install the MSI/EXE installer which you can download from this page:
https://store.serif.com/en-gb/update/windows/designer/2/
Theres a link just under the download button which says 'Also available: Download latest version EXE (572.42MB)' if you can download that version, install it and see if it performs any better for you.  I'm not working this weekend (yay me) so will check the replies on Monday.  But i'd be really interested if the users with the Ryzen CPU's see an improvement. 
There have been users reporting the MSIX versions, which we launched with were running slower than expected in certain workflows (for all Affinity apps, not just Designer), due to the sandboxing of MSIX installs but the .exe version isn't sandboxed so would be a good test to run to see if things improve.  I'm also interested in hearing if the Intel users see an improvement as well, so please don't feel left out and do post your findings, be them good or bad or the same