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I discovered an unexpected behaviour in the color wheel. When I use the color slider in the hue ring, sometimes the slider in the triangle jumps to the fully saturated color. I expected the slider in the triangle to keep its position within the triangle, just changing the hue, not the brightness or saturation. After experimenting some more so I could tell you how you could reproduce this, I found that this happens only when the color is fully desaturated, i.e. the color slider in the triangle sits exactly on the line between black and white. See attached video. color_wheel.avi I am using Windows 10 and Affinity Photo 1.8.5.

No, Windows Ink is disabled. Now I enabled it, but it does not seem to make any difference.

I have the same problem. See attached Video. The problem is that the pen tip 'jumps' a few pixels to the left as soon as the pen touches down to draw a line. I have two tablets, a Wacom Intuos Pro M and a XP-Pen Star G640. Interestingly, this happens only with the Wacom, not with the XP-Pen. And also not with the mouse. Also, it is only with 'High Precision input mode'. Not with 'Low Precision'. The displacement is independent of how much the picture is zoomed in. It seems to be a fixed amount of screen pixels. This is not a serious problem since I can switch to 'Low Precision' to solve the problem. But I wonder what high precision would do? I got the impression the pen strokes are a little bit smoother. I am using Windows 10 and Affinity Photo 1.8.5. All tablet drivers are up-to-date. Affinity_Photo_2020-11-03_13-11-51.mp4

The shortcut Ctrl-Alt-Pen drag to resize the brush size or change its hardness is very useful and I use it often. The problem is that if the view is rotated, the direction that changes the size or hardness rotates with the view. It is difficult to keep track at which angle the view is rotated currently. It would feel more natural if the dragging direction for changing the brush size could always be left/right independent of the view rotation. Here is how to reproduce the problem: - Start a new document - Choose the brush tool - Ctrl-Alt-Mouse left button and moving the mouse left/right changes the brush size - Use the menu items View/rotate left or right to rotate the view to some other angle. - Depending on the view rotation angle, Ctrl-Alt-Mouse left button and moving the mouse left/right now changes the hardness of the brush instead of the size, or reverses the direction of the brush size change. Also, it is a bit difficult to change the brush size by a tiny amount. A fairly small pen drag produces a relatively big change in brush size. A setting to reduce this sensitivity a bit would be great. And lastly, another shortcut for freely rotating the view would be great. For example with the already existing shift key, like so: Space moves, Space+Ctrl zooms, Space+Shift rotates. I am using Windows 10 and Affinity Photo 1.8.5.

verysame, can you try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace? This worked for me. I discovered it by accident.

Hello Mike, Your comments made me try again, and now I got it: Neither Alt-Delete nor Alt-Backspace work, but Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does! Either the help is wrong, or there is an issue with Windows keyboards or foreign keyboard layouts. So my second issue is irrelevant. Andreas

Good day! Having played around with Affinity Designer the whole afternoon creating curves and shapes, I would like to share some thougths. - It often happens to me that I add a node accidentally, because it just takes a single click. I would prefer a double click instead of a single click for adding a node, which is something I do far less often than trying to select a curve or a node or dragging the path. - When deleting a node, the curve is distorted significantly. It would be great if you could apply an algorithm that tries to adjust the neighboring nodes such that the shape is preserved as much as possible without the deleted node. (I know that this is not possible exactly mathematically, but when adding a node and then deleting it again, I would expect to get back almost the same curve.) I often simplify curves by deleting nodes, for example when drawing with the pencil tool and the curve is a bit shaky and has too many nodes. But deleting the superfluous nodes does not produce a smoother curve, rather it ends up more like a series of nearly straight lines. Or I try to place a new node along the curve in a better location and then delete its neighbour (effectively moving a node along the path). As it is now, this always requires me to restore the path to its previous shape. - In the help I read this: "The curve will automatically reshape because of the deleted node, but you can retain the curve's original geometry by pressing Alt+Delete key instead." This does not work on my Version (1.5.3 on Windows, Swiss German Keyboard Layout). Alt+Delete does not do anything. In my opinion, the current behaviour (automatically reshape) is not useful. Make a shape preserving node deletion the default. Then Alt-Delete could be used for something else, for example to create a straight-line segment. - While talking about keyboard shortcuts: There are some keyboard short cuts that do not work for me. I have a Swiss German Layout. For example, the [ and ] keys do not work. On my Keyboard, I need to type them with the AltGr key, which is the same as Alt+Ctl. This gets confused with Keyboard shortcuts like Ctl+Alt+[ which I cannot press at all. When trying to redefinine a function to [ and ] in the shortcut editor, it is recognized as AltGr-ü and AltGr-¨, which is insofar correct as it is the typed key combination, but it does not work. Keys defined this way show no reaction. (Letters and numbers do work, though) - The "Smooth curve" function sometimes produces unpleasant results. For example, I draw a circle and convert it to a path. This gives me a perfectly smooth path with 4 nodes. After clicking "Smooth curve" I get a path with 12 nodes. While I admit that it is still smooth, it goes as against my experience that the smoothest paths I create are usually those with the fewest nodes. Also, when drawing a line with the pencil tool which seems a bit shaky, "Smooth curve" will just add more nodes! - A "Simplify curve" function might be more useful. Successively reducing the node count while trying to keep the overall shape as much as possible. Either apply it on the whole curve or a selection of adjacent nodes. - When designing free form curves, a good strategy is to place the majority of nodes so that their handles extend vertically or horizontally. (This trick I learned from typographers https://theagsc.com/blog/tutorials/so-whats-the-big-deal-with-horizontal-vertical-bezier-handles-anyway/ ) It would be great if there was a way to restrict the handles to these directions. In the help I learned that by pressing Shift, the directions are constrained to multiples of 45°, but it seems this only works when laying out the curve with the pen tool. When editing it with the Node tool, pressing shift just fixes the handle direction (which is also useful). Nevertheless, I really like the program! Best regards, Andreas

If only I could buy this highly praised book in Switzerland. Can you solve this problem somehow?