smallreflection

Purpose: Improvements, Features, Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: https://s3.amazonaws...stomer Beta.dmg
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
 
Improvements, Features, Fixes
 
- Support for the new Force Touch trackpad on new MacBook and MacBook Pro
- Added support for Yosemite’s “Photos” app in the media browser
- Added ‘Polygon mode’ to the Pen Tool which acts like Line mode used to and changed Line mode to draw individual line segments
- Improved translations in all languages
- New algorithm used in the Pixel Tool so that you can more reliably paint beautiful, narrow pixel lines
- Blend ranges can now be non-linear
- LAB/CMYK blend mode improvements
- All pixel tools can now use the Ctrl+Option drag size modifier
- Grid manager improvements - now has a basic and an advanced mode
- Pressing the red close button no longer quits the application
- EPS import improvements
- PDF import improvements
- PSD import improvements
- Text no longer draws stroke outline if there is no stroke colour
- Text tool selection behaviour improved
- Many new keyboard shortcuts (see Issue 2 of Affinity Review for a full list!)
- Numerous stability improvements

It is Hebrew, the 4 letters are shin lamed vav mim. The word is Peace, but means much more than peace. It is hello, good bye, but mostly it is completeness, contentement, wholeness, health. It is all encompassing.
 
@affinity4christ15, I love the uniform, thank you!

Here are two words (same word with different look) I would like to know your opinion as to which you like best.
 
Secondly this letters are made up of a bunch of shapes with different colors placed side by side. Sometimes I can make the triangles meet perfectly and sometimes I cannot quite get 3 different triangle points form a perfect union. Is there a trick or shortcut to get this accomplished?
 
Thank you for looking and suggesting, critiquing even criticizing. I am a big girl I can take it. The idea is to improve.

Testing a newly made brush, based on the tuturial provided by PAOLO (http://www.paololimoncelli.com/bristles-for-affinity-designer/ )
 
Mixing goes well. This one was a caricature I started in Mischief, and abandoned.
I won't completely finish it, but it gave me the drive to do a good one very soon....
So keep an eye open on this space... ;)
 

It was great for painting.
But after some time painting( half hour to an hour ) evrything started behaving heavy, slower.
I also found that after the painting time, and after closing AP, the whole system acted up somewhat.
After restarting my iMac, everything went back to normal.
 
But all in all, a fun job to do.Though I have some personal troubles with the likeness, I am interested in painting some more stuff in AP.
Great work ,and congratzz to the programming team.
 
I intend to place all my paintings in this topic, to save up the space of the forum.
 

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: None
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: http://affinity.serif.com/beta-download
Update: Run the app to get the link / click download above.
 
1.2.0.25338
 
- Fixed crash issues on 10.7, 10.8.
- Fixed text tool keyboard issues.   Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- New “Shadows / Highlights” filter (with Live Filter capability). - New “Invert” menu item in Layers menu - works on any layer type. - New “Flatten” command. - New “Acquire Image” menu item - for scanning. - New “Force Touch” trackpad support. - New “Line Mode” in Pen Tool. - New support for “Photos” app on Yosemite in the media browser.   - Crop tool supports internal undo / redo. - Improved localisations in all languages. - X3F Sigma RAW support fixes. - Faster develop import. - Rotation controls for Develop. - Rectangle-sampling for White Balance. - Ability to create presets for Details, Tones. - New “Tones Clipping” overlay mode. - Pixel Tool line drawing improvements. - Quick access to the Advanced Blending dialog form adjustment panels. - Blend ranges can now be non-linear. - New built-in plugins folder, in preparation  - LAB / CMYK blend mode improvements. - EXIF support for reading / writing PSD. - Ctrl+Option can be used to set brush tip size / hardness in Liquify and Refine tools. - Grid customisation improvements. - Improvements to preview performance of all filters. - Add Noise improved in CMYK. - Field Blur is now a Live Filter. - Pinch / Punch improvements. - High pass improvements. - Diffuse glow improvements. - Curves improvements for greyscale. - Fixed LAB TIFF export / import. - Threshold adjustment improvements. - Export now offers PDF, SVG, EPS. - Export now offers presets. - Pressing the red close button no longer quits the app. - EPS import improvements. - QuickLook thumbnail generator fixes / improvements. - “Straighten” function in crop tool. - Crop tool UI improvements. - PSD import improvements. - Can press “F” to toggle between High Frequency / Low Frequency layers. - Liquify improvements. - Added 500px.com to Stock page. - Snapping support for Perspective tool. - New keyboard shortcuts in all Personas. - Text tool selection behaviour improved.   - Numerous small stability improvements in all Personas.   - New / improved camera support:   Canon: 5DS, 5DS R, 750D, 760D, M2, M3 Fujifilm: XQ2, X-A2 Leica: Monochrom (Typ 246) Nikon: D7200, 1 J5 Olympus: SH-2, TG-4 Pentax: K-S2 Samsung: NX500

Text is going to be a big area to solve.  I'll be working with another of our guys to crack that one.  We may have multiple options for text, including rasterising, converting to curves/paths for export, and exporting in fully editable form (though this will be the difficult bit).

@Andreas Larsen, @00Ghz,
We are already aware of the expand stroke issues. Matt will take care of it as soon as he can, but you have to be a little more patient too. Some issues like this one may require a complete rewrite/rethink of the function and may take a little time until we find a solution we are happy with. 

Hoping it's OK for me to say this.... it'll disappear if not!
 
We're in a great position with devs that have far more autonomy than most. It's their call with the head of dev what to add/pull/prioritise, when to submit to Apple etc—and of course they would rather have everything in the app too but then it'd would never get released at all (because perfection is unachievable!) :)  It means they have tough decisions and cannot please everyone, but it also means they are working harder than the average dev to produce something very special. Just so you know, it's rather refreshingly not a financial or sales director making the calls in team Affinity.

Affinity is here for the long haul, so if a feature is distracting from what's deemed more important then the team know it can make it in a free update instead. And be in the customer beta before the next update. Win win? Hopefully!

Text underline and strike-through work like that by design. You can, for example, give black text a red underline, but if you don't specify an underline colour it uses the colour of the text. Usually this is what you want: if you change the text colour you want the underline colour to change with it. That's what "No colour" means in this context.
 
The same logic is being applied to the text's main stroke, and I guess it shouldn't be.

@00Ghz - I've never seen that before!?! Yes, that's a bug but I can't make it happen for me! :( Can you make it happen all the time or is it only certain objects? Could you possibly send me a file which I can copy from that shows the problem? (it only has to be a cut-down file) Anything you could send to support@seriflabs.com would be a great help, thanks :)
 
@smallreflection - Thanks for that, it's just a bug with text - it shouldn't be drawing the line at all if the fill is 'None'. I think that it is useful that the line weight, attributes and pressure are remembered on this object (or any object) though - for if you ever wanted to get them back by simply setting a new colour. Setting 'No Fill' didn't necessarily mean that I wanted to lose the settings I'd made for my line for the future. As long as they don't draw (which on everything apart from text they don't draw) then there is no harm and it can actually be helpful. I think?

Here is  the custom smoke brush I promised in my Custom Smoke Brush Video.
Free to use as you like. If you create one of your own I would like for you to post it to this thread and share with the rest of the community. Let fill the room with smoke ;)
 
 
Don't know how to make your own? Well watch my free Video Tutorial 
 
 
 
 
Thanks cheers and use responsibly :P 
Smoke brush 3 demo.afbrushes.zip

Hey guys, because the comunity in the Facebook Group helped me a lot i decided to give you some resources i've created.
This pack contains: 
- 3 custom ribbons
- twitter, facebook and youtube title picture templates
- 1 grass brush
- 5 Smoke Brushes
- an awesome color palette for flat ui design
 
You can use it private and commercial, more informations and credits are as a pages and docx file in the pack.
 
Sorry for my bad englisch im just a student from germany
cheers and have a nice day
 
Affinity Designer Pack.zip

This sounds like a duplicate of https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/8347-textbox-copy-paste-changes-font-size/. That one happened when the document had changed DPI or been scaled. Thus:
New document at 72dpi. Create text frame. Change document to 300dpi. Copy and paste text frame. If this is the same or related, it should be fixed in the next build.

Every day I use AD professionally and every day I think : this app is just incredible.
All is not perfect but I've never regretted AI. Sometimes, I use AI for special effects and that's all.
Thanks !

What a list  :o  … and this one is *extremely* useful:
 
Hide the tool UI during numerous interactions (stroke width, pressure profile, layer effect interaction)
 
Thanks a lot everybody, and have a nice weekend! Alex  :)
 
EDIT And wow, I have just seen that Dave fixed this … *awesome* work … he will know what I am talking about …  ;)

One thing I don't understand : when you copy/paste a group or a object, sometimes, the copy is inside the group, sometimes outside. I have no rational explanations for that, it's a complete mystery.
I would like to see the same behavior like in cinema4d : in the objects manager, select a group or an object, move it with cmd, you get the arrow with a "+" (indication for copy) and you can place it where you want in the hierarchy.
 
Another thing : How can we make patterns ? I know, I can do it "old school" with duplications but it takes to much memory, I would have the same thing like AI.

Purpose: Improvements, Features, Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: https://s3.amazonaws...stomer Beta.dmg
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
 
Improvements, Features, Fixes
 
- Fix for incorrect rendering of AI/PDF imported objects with blend modes and passthrough option
- Hide the tool UI during numerous interactions (stroke width, pressure profile, layer effect interaction)
- Fix for vector export of objects which had thin strokes and either pressure profiles or inner/outer alignment
- Added support for cmap table format2, used by Asian languages. Also added support for most Apple text encodings to all the cmap formats
- Fix for numerous strange Zoom Tool and View Tool consistency issues
- RGB and CMYK sliders can now be linked by dragging while holding Shift
- Improved PSD import including support for reading in guides
- Fix for embedded documents not correctly honouring the option to ‘prefer aspect ratio locked resize’ in the same way other images do
- Context menu in Layers panel now includes ‘Rasterise…’
- Fix for colour buttons in ‘box’ colour controls not drawing correctly for the current profile
- Fix for loading certain optimised PNGs
- Added Hue range support to HSL adjustment and also option to enable HSV
- Fix for miscellaneous problems with the Open Recent menu item
- Added label-dragging of text fields to adjust the value in the field
- Improved accuracy of the new text on path functionality
- Fix for not being able to cut/copy/paste in certain text fields in the application
- Improved PSD export file size and support for writing out guides
- Changed Text Tool logic - Escape now deselects the current object if there is no text selection highlight but remains in the Text Tool
- Improved vector file import of curves - they should now have useful curve node types automatically set in order to help with re-editing them
- Fix for unexpected behaviour of frame text objects at certain angles
- Changed the default for ‘Text in Points’ to be enabled
- Added .abr PhotoShop brush file import
- Improved EPS import
- Fill/Stroke context toolbar flyouts now support noise/opacity slider for colours
- Improved user experience of ‘Open in Affinity Photo’ - no longer requires a previously saved document so should be more transparent
- Improved PDF import of opacity on bitmap fills
- Fill Tool now works on raster selections and on masks/adjustments
- Colour panel sliders can now be set to edit values in 8bit, 16bit or percentage
- Fix for non-square textures being stretched when used in raster brushes
- Improved RTF import - fixes a bug seen by pasting certain characters from a Microsoft Word table
- SVG import improved to include ‘symbol’ tag support
- Fix for sliders not automatically disappearing when activated and used through one mouse down -> drag procedure
- Added default page setups for iPhone 6 Plus documents and Apple Watch (38mm and 42mm). Cmd+8 should show you the correct physical size of the device's screen on your display
- Fix for PDF export of lines with miter join type causing unnecessary line expansion
- Fix for boolean operations involving text only considering the first character in the result!
- Added ability to switch views by using Cmd+`
- Forced our popup panels to always appear on top of other UI
- Improved SVG export file size
- Improved on-document object selection logic
- Fix for intermittent crash coming out of Separated mode
- Miscellaneous other tweaks and improvements

I am so impressed at the speed you guys manage to put in accepted features. Wow, is all I can say. 

> - ABR brush import!
 
So much sexy. Thank you!

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: None
Mac App Store: Not submitted
New beta sign-ups: https://affinity.serif.com/photo
Update: Run the app to get the link
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Gradient tool now works on pixels layers, masks, adjustments, live filter layers.
- ABR brush import! - Improved PSD import including support for reading in guides! - New Z-Map blur filter. - Develop WB is now in Kelvin, defaults to “As Shot”. - Develop has an assistant - to control what is automatically applied. - Double-click a slider to reset it in Develop Persona. - Edit -> Paste FX. - Added Hue range support to HSL adjustment and also option to enable HSV - Curves, Levels and Channel Mixer offer alpha channel support. - 32bit Greyscale TIFF import. - Crop tool improvements. - HSL adjustments fixes and improvements. - PSD Export improvements. - Improved TIFF export. - Colour panel sliders can now be set to edit values in 8bit, 16bit or percentage - Fix for incorrect rendering of AI/PDF imported objects with blend modes and passthrough option - Hide the tool UI during numerous interactions (stroke width, layer effect interaction) - Added support for cmap table format2, used by Asian languages. Also added support for most Apple text encodings to all the cmap formats - Fix for numerous strange Zoom Tool and View Tool consistency issues - Fix for embedded documents not correctly honouring the option to ‘prefer aspect ratio locked resize’ in the same way other images do - Context menu in Layers panel now includes ‘Rasterise…’ - Fix for colour buttons in ‘box’ colour controls not drawing correctly for the current profile - Fix for loading certain optimised PNGs - Fix for miscellaneous problems with the Open Recent menu item - Added label-dragging of text fields to adjust the value in the field - Fix for not being able to cut/copy/paste in certain text fields in the application - Improved PSD export file size and support for writing out guides - Changed Text Tool logic - Escape now deselects the current object if there is no text selection highlight but remains in the Text Tool - Improved vector file import of curves - they should now have useful curve node types automatically set in order to help with re-editing them - Fix for unexpected behaviour of frame text objects at certain angles - Changed the default for ‘Text in Points’ to be enabled - Improved EPS import - Fill/Stroke context toolbar flyouts now support noise/opacity slider for colours - Improved user experience of ‘Open in Affinity Designer’ - no longer requires a previously saved document so should be more transparent - Improved PDF import of opacity on bitmap fills - Fix for non-square textures being stretched when used in raster brushes - Improved RTF import - fixes a bug seen by pasting certain characters from a Microsoft Word table - SVG import improved to include ‘symbol’ tag support - Fix for sliders not automatically disappearing when activated and used through one mouse down -> drag procedure - Added default page setups for iPhone 6 Plus documents and Apple Watch (38mm and 42mm). Cmd+8 should show you the correct physical size of the device's screen on your display - Fix for PDF export of lines with miter join type causing unnecessary line expansion - Fix for boolean operations involving text only considering the first character in the result! - Added ability to switch views by using Cmd+` - Forced our popup panels to always appear on top of other UI - Improved SVG export file size - Improved on-document object selection logic - Fix for intermittent crash coming out of Separated mode - Miscellaneous other tweaks and improvements

Dribbble is a great place to gain visibility/credibility in the professional community. I've tagged the few Affinity pieces I have so far there, and I've seen a few others do the same.

I think we all need to start adding "affinity" tags to all new work posted on Dribbble would be a great way to locate and gather it all

Some form of measurement tools will be considered later. Right now we have a road map of what we consider important features that are getting looked at first.