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Just to complete the picture - this is what I wanted to do with the Power Duplicate feature.
Its a 2 point perspective grid.
Perspective grid.afdesign

Thanks Walt. I tried that but it still loads the Colour swatch. I will make a new feature request.

What I am saying is the modern technology is giving people who do not have the inherent skill a fake skill! Thus it is dumbing down real skill to a lower level. Its artificial whatever way you look at it.
Here's another way to look at it.
1 Create a competition to find a good natural artist but also allow AD users.
2 Create a competition for a good swimmer but also allow the use of a small powered motor.
You have a similar thing where men can compete against women just because they call themselves women.
Its all artificial!
Do you get my point?
 
 
 

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'Canva’s talk about democratizing design – so that anyone without skills can slap a design together – leads to idiocracy, where expertise evaporates and the world is forced to stare at even more Tupperware-style design'
I'm 85 and I remember when DTP first became available to those who had an IBM Pc or as I did, purchased an Amstrad PC.
At that I was running my own graphics studio using the old cut and paste method for producing artwork. Very rapidly I saw how the quality of graphic design deteriorated because companies no longer need to studios like mine. They bought programs like Quark Express and got the office junior to play around with it and create their brochures and manuals etc. Also the developers of these apps were not trained in graphic design and especially typography. To make graphics fit the space available they simply squeezed or stretched it to fit. As for typography they used as many different fonts and sizes just because they could. The quality at that time was abysmal! I was never able to afford a Mac and so I moved out of graphics.
I think the way Serif's Publisher handles typography is very un-intuitive for someone with the traditional typography skills. However it is called 'progress'.

Is there a way to rotate a photo manually? Moving it 15º at a time is a nuisance!

This is just a question about how the UI is designed.
I think it is good idea to give users different UI appearances that suit their eye.
My observation of Serif's UIs for Ad and AP is why do they not use maximum contrast to make the text and small graphics easier to see. I had to change my UI so that I could tell when I had 'Edit all layers' selected. This is easier to see on a lighter background than on a darker background.
What is the purpose of offering a UI that makes reading it more difficult although it may look pleasing to the eye. I find this a lot in websites where readability is compromised by aesthetics.

Yes that does the job nicely! However there is one tiny problem and that is sometimes I want to manually align the guide with an object's handle but the handle disappears as soon as I move the guide. Remember the reason I want to manually move the guide is for accuracy and that snapping often gets in the way. Your solution fixes this problem for me.
Disappearing handles whilst moving a guide has been issue between me and Serif for several years. In my view it defies common-sense to make them disappear.

Its possible we not have been looking at the same set of comments Alfred!
I was responding to to this from GRAFKOM
This topic was already discussed 2 years ago.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/181196-guides-improvements/page/2/&comment=1058908&do=findComment#findComment-1058908
 

I reloaded the Layers tab and they were visible again. It was because the tab went below off the screen. All sorted now thanks.

Hi Walt,I found a way to get round it by copying the text from the Word doc and pasting it back again but un-formatted. I then copied it again and pasted it into my AD2 text box.

Maybe this thread should be aired on 'Feedback suggestions' but I would like comments from users first.
ADV2 can now offer different coloured guide lines. This is a very useful feature for what I am suggesting.
I have searched to see if anyone has suggested angled guide lines and there appears to be none.
Different coloured angled guide lines would be a great feature for those who like to draw in perspective.
Image 1 Shows a screen with 3 sets of angled coloured guide lines. Each set of lines can be on a separate dedicated layer if so desired. The layers can be selected using the selection icon below left of screen.
Image 2 Shows the 3 sets of lines converging to a point (vanishing points). The idea is that further guides can be drawn that will automatically converge (snap) at the same points. These guides can be turned On and OFF
Image 3 Shows how the guide lines can be automatically adjust for 3 point perspective. The left and right hand vanishing points (LVP and RVP) can be moved, along with their respective guide lines, onto a horizontal line representing the 'Horizon'. A perpendicular guide line can be moved left or right to snap to the vertical vanishing point (VVP).
Image 4 Illustrates how some one who wants to draw accurately in perspective buy using an ellipse and adjusting the guides accordingly.
Image 5 Illustrates how the 3 vanishing points can be used to draw in perspective.
Image 6 Illustrates a further refinement which may or may not be easy for a developer to manage and may cause the eyes of those following this procedure to 'glaze over'.
The purpose of the following procedure is to establish the correct ellipse proportions for the LVP and RVP guides.
Image 7 It will be necessary to draw the major and minor axis on the green ellipse using conventional vertical and horizontal guide lines.
Guide lines from the LVP and RVP should be drawn through the centre of the ellipse.
Image 8 Draw a blue ellipse with the same major axis as the green ellipse positioned with its minor axis on the blue RVP guide line and transformed to intersect the green ellipse at points A on the red LVP guide.
Image 9 Repeat 8 above only on the red LVP guide to intersect the blue ellipse at points B. If drawn accurately the the red ellipse should also intersect the green ellipse at points C.
Image 10 Illustrates These ellipses drawn on a cube although over distorted in perspective.
Have I made a good case for angled guide lines?
 
 
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Well said! I wonder how many of them know anything about graphics from a basic and first principles level!

With respect Walt, that's a pretty lame excuse! I get the impression that the developers live in a world of their own with only minimal acknowledgement to users needs.

Hi Walt, file attached.
Margins.afdesign

Yes it was checked and I am now using AD2.4.2. I will update system spec info.

Thread title edited.

Walt you have confirmed what I was thinking and that the line width tool is not appropriate. However it might still have a use for incomplete or partial ellipses. I will check that one out.

Years ago I stopped watching TV and films put out by the controlled media of Hollywood and governments and their agencies because I no longer want to be brainwashed by them. This has given me a lot of extra time to be able to THINK and not strangled by wall-to-wall TV, sports and entertainment!
When you start thinking again that's when you see just exactly what kind world you are living in!
Filter .afdesign

The West has been brainwashed for decades over just about everything by Hollywood, the media, governments and big multinational corporations so there is likely to be some truth in references to psychology and the CANVA takeover.

I'm afraid that I can't remember what I was doing at that time except that I was working on the same drawing. I have been away since then until today when I hope to pick-up on the drawing again. If the crash happens again I will make a note of what I was doing at the time.

Well said! This is going to be a difficult criticism to refute!

Agreed and once you know, you can walk if you want to.

Well said! This is going to be a difficult criticism to refute!

Well said! This is going to be a difficult criticism to refute!

Well said! This is going to be a difficult criticism to refute!