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    Assuming that Affinity software uses right-click as a way of getting a context-sensitive menu - not all applications do - I would agree that the items in that menu should be limited to those that are only related to the tool/action currently being used/performed. However, looking at the right-hand menu in your "Other Vector Software" image, I'd say that - without knowing which software it was - the other software doesn't give what I would expect from a "properly contextual" menu either. For example, when I'm using a Node tool, I would not expect to the able to: export; create a web animation; add text inside, or many of the other things. When using a Node tool I would only expect functions that related to manipulating nodes, E.g. snap to grid; snip; make smooth, etc. The other functions related to the line I was editing - further "up", contextually - would be available in Select mode instead, perhaps, but not when I was editing nodes. That's just my opinion of course, and more seasoned vector artists will probably have better ideas.
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    Ah, I think I understand now, thanks Mithferion. The video on the other post is very helpful. It's not something that I would use often but I can see where it would be very useful when needed.
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    Just out of curiosity, what would a "Pages" feature do? Do the existing artboards not do you what you want? They're very useful.
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    A "text file created in Windows Paint"? Sounds odd. Anyway, to add to what MEB said, in Designer you can get any item to revert to the defaults by pressing the "Revert defaults" button (it's the fifth from the left on the main toolbar).
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    I have some tiny suggestions. On the long "Noise is an ocean killer" poster: * it will look better if the headings don't have full stops (periods) at the end; * under "Source", use either "continues to grow" or "will continue to grow"; * the circles would look better if they were spread more evenly; * under "Impacts", I think you mean "receive acoustic information"; * does "Ship noise has reduced whale communication by 90%" mean that whales only communicate 10% as much as they used to, or that their communications only travel 10% as far, or something else, it's a bit confusing; * under "Fix", you're missing a space between "the" and "international"; * "noise from shipping" would be better than "noise with shipping"; * under "Speed", the quotes might not be necessary around "cavitation"; * under "Merge", I think you mean "one per company" rather than "one pre-company". On the badges: * I don't think the full stops are necessary on the card backgrounds; * "we call all share" should be changed to "we can all share". Apart from those very small issues, it's really great work. Inspiring in a number of different ways.
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    This https://www.canva.com/learn/how-to-design-book-covers/ is an interesting article about book cover design, with some good examples and explanations. The articles linked at the bottom of it are interesting too. This article https://litreactor.com/columns/13-things-book-covers-can-learn-from-horror-vhs-covers might also be worth reading for a bit of fun. The advice is more towards the horror side of things and not everyone will agree with what the author says - and they seem to be a bit doll-obsessed - but there are nuggets of good advice scattered around here and there, depending on what sort of book the cover is for. I'm not sure what the rules of the forum are but - if it's allowed - you could open a competition for people to submit their samples to and you could choose one you liked, and - hopefully - pay them too. Moderators: Is this something that is unwanted/possible/encouraged?
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    Not so much like "polishing up", more like time travel. Great work.
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    It took me a good while but I found all six items/people. Is one of the people naked? Just to the right of the big tree near the centre, running away from the "camera". This must have taken ages to put together. Great work.
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    Lovely work. Great stuff.
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    I would never have got Kia-Ora. The shapes under the "a" just don't look like they would make "Ora" to me, and the colours don't seem right for a "tropical drink", but there we go. A nice little game, and a blast from the past. Cheers.
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    I had forgotten all about this thread. Thanks for sharing peter. I think I got most of them - Snickers, ???, Marmite, ???, ???, Milky Way, Hovis, ???, Dime, Nescafe(?), durex, Daz(?), Asprin, Lucozade(?).
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    I would expect his face to be slightly darker than his legs as people didn't go to the beach to get a tan back in those days. Going to the seaside was for taking in the sea air - for medicinal purposes - and maybe having a bit of a splash about in the water - for similar reasons. Having a tan was considered something that the lower classes had because they worked outdoors and, as such, someone who could afford to hire - or even buy - a bathing machine wouldn't want to be seen with dark skin as it would make them look poor. Also, people usually didn't walk around with bare legs back then so their faces - in whichever class of society - would naturally be darker than their legs (if they were darker at all). Here's a nice little related article http://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/sunworship.html As the picture was taken in 1915, it's just in the middle of the switch-over between a tan being unfashionable and fashionable.
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    You're welcome Hokusai. It's obvious that you've been doing this for many years so I don't mind not having to go though all of the training and practice that must have been involved. Having said that, I still wish I could make better stuff than I can. Maybe finger-painting is more my thing. One tiny point I've just noticed: Is the bottom-left of the illustration finished? It doesn't seem to conform to the same style as the rest of it. Not a problem, it's just that it doesn't look quite right to me now that I see it again. Also, the cloth at the bottom - about two-thirds over to the right - doesn't seem to be quite right. Should it be white? Maybe it's just the way I'm looking at it.
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    Nice work. This http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/html.php?file=bbcolorcharts.html is a good place to find sample skin and hair tones.
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    Rock it!

    GarryP replied to Ros's topic in Share your work

    Really nice. So much stuff going on.
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    Always really great work. Always a pleasure to see what you come up with next. Always makes me jealous.
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    Very nice indeed. Top marks and a gold star.
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    Excellent work. I had a quick look at some of the other stuff you've posted on the forum and what I saw was really great. If you're not a professional artist or designer now then you could easily be (if you wanted to).
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    I've seen some of the videos that Ben has been posting in this thread and, if the same kind of care and attention is being given to the rest of 1.7, it's going to be a seriously impressive upgrade. Some of the videos look like a kind of "And here's what we'd like it to do" mock-up, until you remember that it's what it actually is doing. @andrewsimper Snapping to/with tangents would be a great feature. Not sure how it would work (and not technical enough to get into that conversation), but useful. (Something like it was mentioned on January 17th but I think that was just about snapping handles and not nodes.)
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    Straight from the fridge daddio!
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    Hey guys... With this kind of talk people will think we're like... all squares. (Where's that hippy emoticon?)
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    Designer got my vote.
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    Indeed. I'm no artist - see above (and my other submissions) for proof - but I can't see where the artistic merit is in a lot of modern art. Maybe I'm just not the right audience, but if I have to be told what something should mean to me then it's not good art (whatever the heck I mean by that). A bed is to be slept in, a urinal is to be peed in, etc. etc. A man dribbling Bovril onto the belly of a swan while its honks are converted into swirling images projected onto the side of an elephant just doesn't do it for me (I made that one up, just in case anyone thinks about looking it up). Paint me a pretty picture or make me a nice sculpture of something that I recognise and I'm happy with that.
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    The idyllic countryside background could be made more prominent, and his spacesuit could be less subtle, and the dinosaur eating a car full of giant spiders in the middle-distance doesn't really catch the eye, but I'm happy with it (and so is he by the looks of him). Maybe if I printed it onto a giant towel, covered it in treacle, ripped it up, and then scattered the pieces randomly around an operating theatre, then it could be a Turner Prize contender?
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    That's no doodle. THIS, is a doodle...
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