Gunny

You are very polite. 😏 Designer can handle many things but this is not one of them. I wanted Designer to make my mediocre inking smoother but Designer is (still) almost unusable for this task. You can get the result you want but it is definitely not fast nor convenient. 😕

1. I can't see the size of the document. 2. I can't find the size of the current selection. Can it be displayed somewhere? 3. Is it really useful displaying X and Y coordinates outside the document's borders? I find it quite distracting.

The elliptical brush can be somewhat faked by adjusting the pressure profile but unfortunately it is quite annoying process if you do it by hand. However, I just got the idea the same thing could be handled automatically by the app. The pressure profile would be a function of the angle in each part of the curve/stroke. I think it would not be even too difficult to code it... 😏

+1 Designer's way of displaying strokes is far from perfect and it should have been completely rewritten but I believe adding elliptical brush tip instead of circle should work even with the current (rather simplified) method.

+1 This is one of the small things that I still miss. Alt-clicking to temporarily display only one layer (or group) works but I often need to display two or three layers for a while and then display all (30+) layers and that's quite a lot of clicking. Grouping helps a bit but it's not the same.

1.10.0.1104 is still crashing.

Control + left mouse click on a small preview of a layer in Layers palette usually creates a selection based on alpha channel of the layer. However, it creates an empty selection when the layer is hidden/disabled. I suppose it's just a shortcut to something like "Composite Alpha - Load to pixel selection" (it does similar thing) but I don't think anyone would like to get an empty selection just because the layer is currently hidden so it feels like a bug. Please change this behaviour.

I am sure it was mentioned even before. 😒 Anyway, +1. I especially miss automatic unhide when I create a new selection. It usually takes some time to figure out that it really does something but I can't see it because I hid selection some 15 minutes ago. I think most people creating a new selection want to see it so it does not make sense to keep it hidden.

That varies a lot depending on the affected area. 🙁

I really wonder why some actions do have shortcuts (Break curve, Join curve) and some don't (Smooth curve, Close curve)... 😧

That sounds quite familiar... 🤨

Hallelujah! 😃 It even works correctly with the same line weight and different pressure profile. Thanks!

It's not about comparing the layout of dialogs. It's about usability. The purpose determines the shape of every tool. A hammer is better at driving nails than a rock but the hammer must be of the right size and its handle must be of the appropriate length. Adobe just has been producing "hammers" for some time and they got pretty close to the ideal shape.

Actually, the curve from point [0, 0] is not that complicated. 😃 y = a*x^2 + b*x (or y = a*x^3 + b*x^2 + c*x with three control points and so on) You just have to put in the control points and solve the coefficients a and b (and c). I did that for one of my utilities and it worked just like old Photoshop. I guess it's a matter of taste. I am also used to the range <0, 255> but float values enable more accurate control. The downside is that you can't simply tell RGB values from that because they are <0, 255>.

It's not that simple. Photoshop could rely on 8bit channels in the old days , but today you can have 16bit or 32bit channels so having universal representation <0, 1> makes some sense. Having numbers like 32123 and 30524 would not be too helpful either and the range <0, 255> might not precise enough for some users. But I still believe Affinity could add another control to the dialog od Levels and Curve to switch the values from <0, 1> to <0, 255>. Or make it a global setting for all dialogs. After all, the colour picker still uses the 8bit range <0, 255>.