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I have one crazy suggestion. There is an option to switch to different view modes in Designer (vector, pixel, pixel retina, outline), even to split views. I cannot see this view modes in Photo now, only in Designer but what about to add "1-bit view" to all Affinity apps? The idea is to get realtime preview of the artwork even the apps will still work in X-bit grey / colour mode. Make it sense or is that stupid suggestion? I don't know... 
 

Creating 1-bit lookalike is not a problem. Threshold filter makes perfectly good B&W image (and as it is nondestructive you can turn it off/on like preview). You can even export it to 2 colour/B&W PNG. It is then 1-bit truly, but it is not true 1-bit bitmap image, it is 1-bit indexed colour image. It does not behave in InDesign like 1-bit bitmap image. 
This export bitmap export option should be added, preferably to TIF format export.

Hello,
I can not find a Bitmap mode in 1-bit Photo Affinity off I need to process files that keeps strictly their mode and their resolution.
This is copydot files and it is important that it be treated as such.

It is provided a 1-bit Mode?

If that were the case , it might be interesting to have a true improvement over Photoshop that generates moiré patterns when you want the resample .
 
 
 
(This messages was à Google Translate).
 
 
 
 
Clyde

Hi Affinity,
I’d like to please make a suggestion and request for two important features to be included in future (hopefully near future) iterations of Affinity Photo. I likely express the opinion of many illustrators and digital artists in sharing this request.
Painting in Affinity Photo is wonderful. But a significant drawback is the lack of ability to pull up a color wheel immediately while working with a tablet and stylus, wherever the cursor happens to be at the time. This feature would allow the artist to choose a new color on the spot (without having to reach over to the color wheel in the controls). The color wheel would need to pop up quickly, allow rapid choosing of a new color, and likewise disappear easily with the release of a key. Being able to use a keyboard shortcut to instantly access the color wheel and choose a new color is a great workflow advantage in other software.
I know it’s currently easy to switch to the eyedropper tool and choose an existing color in the image. And that’s super important too. But in my opinion there also needs to be an immediate way to easily access and pick colors, of any hue and value, from the full color wheel.
Similarly, being able to pull up a full menu of the brush tips available (including those created by the user), wherever the cursor happens to be, and to pick a new brush right then and there, would also be a huge asset to workflow. This too exists in other software by simply clicking the stylus button when hovering the pen over the drawing tablet.
Affinity’s lack of quick access features for choosing both color and brushes on the fly is currently holding back Affinity Photo’s efficiency. Working without these abilities feels strange when many of the app’s painting features are otherwise so robust.
Please seriously consider these suggestions. Adding these features would really help round out Affinity Photo’s power as imaging software.
Thank you for your consideration.

Title says it all. Google PageSpeed is recommending the use of these formats, but AP doesn't support any of them. Please, if possible, do.

I use Affinity Photo for painting digitally with a Wacom mostly.
I like it, but there are some things that make certain workflows a bit slow or clumsy.
Feature requests:
* An option to turn off tool toggling when pressing the same keystroke twice and no second
  tool is available. I want to press B for brush, and when pressing B for brush I mean brush
  and not something else. If the brush just happens to be selected already, I don't care,
  I still want a brush. The current auto-switching behaviour is VERY annoying, especially
  when the UI is deactivated (tab key), because then you may not remember which tool is
  currently active.
* An option to NOT automatically switch foreground and background colours when switching from
  brush to fill tool. This switching is most probably an intended feature, but it feels very
  much like a bug and is VERY annoying.
* Palette windows should open on keypress even when the UI is deactivated (tab key).
  I like working with the UI deactivated to have the whole screen for painting.
  To pick a colour, for instance, I want to hit C, pick one, hit C again and continue
  painting. Currently, I have to hit TAB, then C, pick a colour, hit C and TAB again.
  Or dock the colour palette and use TAB, but that's not the point, because the
  docked UI is already crowded with other palettes such as the layers, etc.
* Palette windows should always open under the mouse on keypress, regardless if they're already docked. Don't undock, though!
* Modifier keys are inconsistent when resizing an area, depending on whether you're
  resizing at a corner or at the edge. In my opinion, SHIFT should always preserve aspect
  ratio (even when resizing at the edge), while not pressing SHIFT should allow me to
  freely resize (even when resizing at the corner). Or at least make this an option.
* Throughout the UI, the settings should always be persisted and stay intact across documents.
  For instance, the last filter can be applied with CMD+F, but unfortunately AP forgets this
  as soon as I close the document and open another one. I have to open the filter again and
  make all the necessary settings a second time. Another example is the crop tool:
  I usually want a fixed aspect ratio of 16:9, but AP forgets this as soon as I apply
  the cropping, so I need to enter the same numbers over and over again...
* Make all non-destructive manipulation layers (brightness-contrast, etc.) available as filters,
  for a faster workflow. While these layers are very handy at times, it's just an unnecessary
  extra step to when doing speed paintings.
* A polygon lasso. I know I can make straight line with the freehand lasso by using the SHIFT key, but a simple
  polygon lasso would make the workflow faster, esp. when painting over polygons.
* A pixel spray tool, for creating retro-style dither effects.
* See the file's location folders when right-clicking the document title. (This is standard on macOS.)
Bugs or misbehaviours:
* Keyboard shortcuts don't work when the focus is within a tool window. This is very annoying
  and can slow down an otherwise fairly efficient workflow. At least allow me to hit the ESC
  key to bring the focus back to the canvas.
* Auto-scrolling should stop when the end of the canvas has already been reached.
  Indeed, there is no need for any auto-scrolling at all when the whole canvas fits into the window anyway.
  The current behaviour feels very annoying when trying to quickly select an area in a corner of the canvas.
* The UI can be hidden by pressing TAB. That's great, but this state should not be persisted.
  Otherwise you'll end up with a grey window with no UI whatsoever on next re-launch...

Hello,
I have question about exporting multiple slices.
Use case is that I want to export multiple copies of the same slice but for each of them would use different scale.
I want to specify in pixels w*h*4(or scale) of each slice. That looks like a great place for using a user variable but it does not work as expected.
Can I only use string\text values here?

Also I tried using a simplified version where I use Width and Height, but they are not specified. Where can I 'specify' them?

I have recently shifted from Adobe to Affinity. Most of my work is related to Designer, I use Photo occasionally. I’m very satisfied with it overall. I can do pretty much everything on Affinity which I could do on Adobe. But I have noticed that there are some very basic tools which are missing in Affinity apps. Here, I’m making a list of those tools. My request to Affinity decision makers & developer team is that, please include these tools in Affinity 2.0 as designers are desperately waiting see these in Affinity (Most of them are just related to Designer but some are missing in Photo too):
 
Freeform Gradients Gradient Mesh Tool Vector/Pattern Fill Shape Builder Tool Live Tracing Perspective Distort/Free Transform RTL Languages Support Blend Shapes Inefficient Boolean Operations 3D Text Tool Simplify Curves Live Mesh Warp Filter

Windows 10 Home, Publisher 1.9.1.979 (no hardware acceleration).
I created a document to try and help another forum member but I have come across a behaviour I wasn’t expecting.
Watch how the images move in my video.
I’ve attached the file for experimental purposes.
Is this supposed to happen? Am I doing something wrong?
2021-03-10_13-34-03.mp4 unexpected-constraints-behaviour.afpub

Beside the option for separate files with an option for a custom suffix/prefix it would be handy to have the option to change the page names or add a name so that this can be used as dynamic part of the filename (^P).
 

I'd love to see this option in Publisher. 
My way of work at the moment is this: I create one file which contains many version of the same flyer, for example. Say there is a brand group and 8 sub-brands. It is much easier to create all the flyers within the same file so I can easily copy elements from one page to another. Making 8 different files doesn't make sense to me.
So, when finished I obviously need to export separate flyer for each brand. Now I have to manually select page and export as current page, or select the number of the page I need and then export. 
Let's hope they'll add it very soon. For 1.9 update it would be the best. 😁

If I'm not mistaken, AD cannot open multi-page afpub files. At least I don't know why.
And it would be a hassle anyway - creating something in Publisher, than save it, go to Finder, open it with Designer and only then export.
Makes more sense to be built into the Publisher itself, I think.
 

compound-constrain.afdesign

Still the same in 1.9.2.

Vector crop tool on an image that's not 100% opacity look strange.
It become different opacity though opacity value is the same.

Same problem here! I worked with ...a long time waiting the Development team to fix it! I hope they will fix that as soon as possible.
Thanks Friksel for your reports with video show.

When working on a big layout I use copy on an object with Effects applied to it and than paste FX on the target objects to make sure all my objects get the exact same outer shadow.
But it's not working as expected: when pasting the Effects on an object with a different size, the values of the Effects (at least with Outer Shadow) are different!! It looks like Designer does some sort of proportionally scaling to the surface of the object we paste the Fx unto, but that's not consistent and unwanted anyway. I don't know what Designer does with the values, but it's not pasting the FX the way se set them up and copied. This way paste FX is pretty useless, because we want to have the exact same effects on all our objects. At least with effects like Shadow, Glow etc. Now we still have to adjust all FX-values by hand, so copying and pasting didn't make much sense.
I've been looking for a way to paste with absolute values (like checkboxes, preferences, a different menu item for it), but could't find it anywhere. Especially because we set the Outer Shadow value in pixels and not in percentages, we might expect the FX get copied with absolute values too. So I call this a bug.
(Unfortunately rightnow I have to walk through all of my (around 100) objects in the file one by one to set the right Outer Shadow values... 'cause I just found out it isn't using the same shadow everywhere now... damn )
Hope this can be fixed soon, because copying and pasting FX is a pretty nice workflow that really speeds up the workflow and the way it is build now is just unusable!!
Thanks in advance!

fx-copies-values-relative-instead-of-absolute.mp4

it would be useful to be able to link external tables. Excell table with price list. I amount the tables and formats them in Publisher with styles. If I update the prices, the linked tables also update in Affinity.

Could you please add a Project Timer function to Affinity Publisher, like the one in CorelDraw? It really helps to keep track of the time spent on a project and how much to charge a client.

Please quickly implement the ability to change the background color of the asset panel. 
If one choses the dark skin for the product, the assets are not visible.
Most of my assets are black line graphics.
Give us the option to change to a brighter (but not stark white) shade.

Some big problems with linked frames and pinned/inline objects. Impossible to work as the undo is ignored.
The file was imported IDML.
 
Here is a video.
 

2021-02-13 19-02-24.mp4  
 
 

When duplicating text objects with pinned images holding Option, the pinned object of the duplicated instance will move. Can be "fixed" by setting the offset to 0.
See attached video.
Bug.mp4

If a pinned symbol is added on a page with master page, the symbol losses linkage. You need to group the symbol so it doesn't lose the linkage.
The second problem is that when making changes to the symbol on the page with master added it ignores changes. But when making changes to the symbol outside  as an object, than it effects the symbols.
Symbol master page BUG.afpub

2021-03-03 14-38-48.mp4

Hello!
I'm moving from PS to Affinity Photo and I think the embedded document and PSD smart object imports are working great but I noticed, when you are making changes to the embedded document it auto-saves on the fly. Can I disable this feature and make it wait for me to save the document before changing the main file like the PSD smart objects do? I mean, it's great feature, I like it but it draws a lot of my computing power and I would like to turn it off.
Take a look if you don't understand what I'm talking about. First I'm showing how affinity and how PS works. 
AffinityEmbdoc2.mov

I downloaded the beta, still pdf files are scaled incorrectly when placed in a pictureframe and updated, very frustrating!