GarryP
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This is related to known issue AFD-5595 I believe: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=AFD-5595
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Welcome to the forums @MikeDD
That functionality, if I’m remembering it correctly, was changed/merged into the newer Auto-select functionality.
It can be a bit tricky to understand how it works so some experimentation might be necessary.
There are explanations in the forums so a search for auto-select might help.
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In addition to the advice above, when you have a Frame Text layer selected, the Colour Panel, Swatches Panel and the Stroke Panel affect the text inside the layer, not the layer itself which, as has been said, is controlled by the Text Frame Panel.
If you had any text in the layer you would have seen the colour change.
It’s very easy to be confused by this at first but you get used to it after a little while.
Note: You can tell that you have a Frame Text layer selected if the blue selection/bounding box has an extra little handle at the bottom right just off the corner of the usual bottom-right handle.
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You might like to try the Freehand Selection Tool, setting the Type to Magnetic – see attached video for an example.
In the video, all I am doing is clicking to start and then (roughly) moving (not dragging) the mouse pointer around the shape, then clicking to complete the selection.
It’s not as quick as just pressing a key but it’s fairly quick.
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How far ‘down the tree’ would the indicator be 'valid' for?
Would it be just the immediate child layers or any child layer of a child layer of a child layer, etc?
For instance, if the example below were the layers, where a dash means a parent-child relationship (layer G is a child of F, which is a child of D, which is a child of C, which is a child of A), and layer G was deactivated, where would the indicator be shown?
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- - - - GAnd what would the people who don’t need/want to see the indicator, for whatever reason, do about it?
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15 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Please don’t tell me off for asking that, even though I know it’s something I should have tried harder to ovoid!
Some might say that you dropped a bit of a clanger there, which is no yolk, but the thought doesn’t appeal to me.
I think you managed to dodge a bullet but nothing changes much, just another one to put in the family albumen.
I think I’ll let this lie now before I go hunting for more eggs-cruciating bell/egg-based puns.
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1 hour ago, caroline daniell said:
If not, is there any other way l can get hold of them?
Try the post by Ron P. just before the post where you asked this question.
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You’re welcome.
Note: You need to have a Pixel Layer (not an Image Layer) or the contents of a Pixel Selection, before you can use it in a Pattern Layer which is why I Rasterised the image at the start of the video.
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I’m pretty sure that there has been more than one request over the years for the user to be able to specify that the bounding box is not displayed for the selected layer, mostly because it can sometimes ‘get in the way’ of what you are doing.
For some tools, there is an option on the Context Toolbar to temporarily hide the bounding box when you are performing certain tasks – see attached image – but there’s no option to hide it ‘permanently’.
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The blue rectangle which can be seen around the “Presents” Frame Text layer is the bounding box of the layer.
It shows you the extents (for the most part, with some exceptions) of the layer you have selected.
This is almost always displayed on-screen for the layer which is currently selected.
You cannot (in most circumstances) make this invisible for the selected layer.
If you don’t want to see the bounding box you can deselect the layer.
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If you had a license for V1 then you should be able to install it again (from wherever you installed it before, if it’s not already installed), and then export the Styles from V1 and import them into V2.
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No harm done.
You should still be able to import the brushes you need into the beta software to continue testing with them.
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(This should probably have been posted in the beta section of the forums rather than here.)
I believe this is expected behaviour as the beta software is a separate (temporary) installation from the commercial release, rather than an update.
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By they way, welcome to the forums @tanjap
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Yeah, it was more like “here’s something that might be of interest” rather than “here’s something that will do exactly what you need”.
Another interesting possibility could be to:
- create two (or more) overlapping circles;
- use the Shape Builder Tool to make them into one shape;
- use the Contour Tool.
See attached video.
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Without being able to see the image itself it might be difficult to give the ‘best’ method without (lots of?) guessing.
One quick method you can try is shown in my attached video – make two copies of the selected person, and when you use the Flood Fill Tool on the lower copy make note of the settings I used and remember to keep the pixel selection active when you use it.
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An alternative to the above method, in some circumstances, especially if you aren’t particularly bothered about the exact size of the circles (and/or some other geometry), might be to use the Star Tool.
See attached video for an example of use.
To get something like the ‘club’ in the original image you might have to use a combination of the two methods.
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Another method, depending on circumstances, but only with Designer, could be to:
- use the Quick Grid functionality with the Rectangle Tool to draw a grid;
- resize the grid accordingly;
- set the Stroke (not Fill) for the Rectangles to None;
- use the Vector Flood Fill Tool to add a part of the image to each rectangle;
- use the Export Persona to create new Slices and export the individual images.
See attached video for an example.
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One possibility, if the Convert To Curves was working better, would be to:
- ungroup the group inside the Warp Group;
- duplicate the Warp Group twice;
- remove the contents of the duplicated Warp Groups;
- move one Group layer from the original Warp Group to each Warp Group (in the correct display order), leaving one group where it is;
- use Convert To Curves on each Warp Group.
Unfortunately, currently, this still makes the curves a bit ‘wobbly’, but I don’t know why.
Affinity Designer v1.10.6.1665 Magic Wand stuck at tolerance slider
in V1 Bugs found on Windows
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It’s unlikely that this will be fixed in V1 so, while the developers can look at it to try and make sure that it doesn’t happen in V2, you are probably stuck with the problem while continuing to use V1, unless you can figure out a way to get round it happening.
If you can come up with a reliably repeatable workflow that the developers can follow to replicate the problem then that might be useful for diagnostic purposes.