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I am using the trackpad when working with affinity photo. I would like to assign the left mouse button press to e.g. the key 'z' so i can hold down that key while using the trackpad to move. That means I won't have to apply pressure to the trackpad to draw, but instead hold 'z'. Is this possible?

bbrother The post you refer to was created after my initial post, so how could I have found it? 😜

Awesome, thanks @loukash !! Works like a charm.

It's also buggy. If you make a few states, close the document. open it again, add more layers and then add another state. the old states will include the new layer(s). when i captured these states this new layer didn't exist, so it should not be included in the state. also, when updating previous states, there is a bug preventing them to hide the new layers added after the state was created. i don't know if i managed to describe this properly, might be better to see a screen capture.

In my workflow I do a fair share of dragging images into my document in affinity photo or designer from the file manager/desktop. The image is then applied in full size which is rarely something i want in an existing document. So I was wondering if there's possible to trigger the "placement" function when you drop a file into an existing document instead?

I love this feature, but in my opinion some things are missing: - You can't rename an item after it's created - You can't reorder the items in the list - The icons on each item are placed so it's easy to mis-click on the update icon instead of apply. My suggestion here would also to be able to double click on an item to trigger "apply".

Thanks again for responding so quickly! This community is awesome!

Thanks "Copy merged" did the trick 🥳

Yes, but wouldn't it be possible for AP to temporarily rasterise the image when you copy an area from it, so that you could grab it into the clipboard? Instead of manually going through duplicate layer - rasterise layer - copy&paste area and then delete the layer again. EDIT: nevermind, "copy merged" was what i was trying to achieve.

Is there any way to reset the pixel tool to its default settings (affinity photo)? I have changed brush type for this tool and can't get it back to how it originally was (1x1 square). I've created my own square image brush, but it does behave a bit differently than the default one.

Is there any way to copy an area from an image type layer? In the example below I set a selection and using copy&paste. instead of copying the area it duplicates the whole layer. I know that I can rasterise it and then copy&paste, but why not copy directly from an "image"? cucumber.mp4

Thanks a lot for this! I will experiment a bit with this approach

Thanks, I will get back to this next time I need to do some more pixel work with fonts. Also sorry for posting it twice. The first post was in an Affinity V1 feedback thread, which I noticed afterwards, was archived.

there doesn't seem to be any good way to turn off antialiasing for text in affinity. by turning off the antialiasing in the blend mode settings, it just turns the antialiasing into a solid color, useless for fonts. now i must use GIMP to type my text in there and then export the bitmap for use in affinity to achive this. is there a better way?

yes, by turning off the antialiasing in the blend mode settings, it just turns the antialiasing into a solid color, useless for fonts. i have a project where i need to turn off antialiasing for fonts, can't believe this isn't possible. now i must use GIMP to type my text in there and then export the bitmap for use in affinity 🤦‍♂️ seems like such a simple feature