[Help! Color selections applied to stroke by default]

btw, the key command to switch between stroke/fill as the active is "x".

[Selection lines fade after deselect]

Hello,

 

I've been trying to figure out what causes a magenta line to fade out on deselect. It seems to happen randomly. See the link for a video.

 

https://elpulpo.tinytake.com/sf/MTU4NzM5OV81NDI3MDQz

 

I'm on 1.5.2.58 windows.

[Option-Drag from center to scale/transform]

While recognizing that I may simply be experiencing learning pains here, I tend to agree with the original poster. I have no doubt that Affinity have put all kinds of thought into how these things *should* work, but the fact is that every other piece of software I'm familiar with does things in the "standard" way, ie. [alt] scales from center, [shift] constrains proportions, etc. Every time I scale a layer in APhoto, I have to play around with the keys until I get the behavior I'm after. Is this really necessary? Could we not have a preference option to use the "standard" scaling keys? True, it may be less powerful than the Affinity team's solution, but it would give newbies an easier way in, and just seems like a win–win solution for everyone.

Just curious which other pieces of software you are familiar with?