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1 hour ago, MEB said:
There's [n]o direct way to do it with the Move Tool
There is a way with the Move Tool. An object's Transform Origin can be used as a handle. Snap it to the object's path and then use it as a handle for dragging the object until it snaps to another object's path.
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5 minutes ago, BohoYve said:
I'm not sure why by the preview panel is greyed out
That's correct when a document isn't 32 bits per channel. I thought it unlikely your documents would be 32 bpc, but it was a possibility, hence my advice regarding the panel.
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If your Affinity documents are 32 bits per channel, ensure ICC Display Transform is enabled in the 32-bit Preview panel.
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7 hours ago, Alfred said:
At 96 ppi, 168.6 mm is 638 px (i.e. 2 px less than 640 px). Maybe that means something, or not!
Affinity internally uses pixel as its unit of measure. The maximum corner radius seems to be 1991.1 px, and that is equivalent to 168.6 mm when PPI is 300.
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Welcome to the Affinity forums
Please attach an Affinity file (.afdesign, .afphoto or .afpub) which has the problem.
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37 minutes ago, thomaso said:
Isn't it rather due to the hybrid nature of "text" objects where a fill colour 'usually' affects the containing text (not the shape of its frame), and so do layer effects – unless the text frame gets a fill colour assigned?
I was referring to any object with an outside-aligned FX Outline. The object is composited over an outline-coloured dilated silhouette of the object. Reducing the opacity of the object's fill colour results in the fill being blended with the silhouette instead of concealing the silhouette.
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7 hours ago, lacerto said:
These controls also reduce opacity of enclosed text.
Good point. I was too focussed on the fill of the shape to notice the text fading out.
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The black gradually becoming revealed as the white fill colour gradually reduces in opacity is coming from a Layer Effect Outline (there are two of these on the object).
Instead of reducing the opacity of the fill colour, use the control labelled with "Fill Opacity" in the Quick FX panel or Layer Effects window or Blend Options window to reduce the opacity of the fill without revealing an FX Outline colour.
(By the way, the Appearance panel in AD and the Designer persona of APub allows multiple strokes to be given to an object.)
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@DarkClown Seems like the Auto-select is in Object mode despite saying Default in the context toolbar, and so your marquee selection is drilling down through Groups to directly grab the objects within the Groups - notice how a Group is only dimly highlighted in Layers panel when its content rather than itself is selected. Performing a deletion of the contained objects leaves the now-empty Groups in the document.
I have had the Auto-select behave contrary to its stated mode a few times and corrected it by toggling to another mode then back to the desired mode.
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1 hour ago, ronanski said:
You can put it pretty close but you zoom in and it is still curved so will never get a neat line joining it to the next node which is needed.
I'm not sure if it's what you want, but opt/alt-click the Node Tool on a segment, rather than a node or handle, to completely straighten that segment.
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48 minutes ago, Dan C said:
In Affinity V1, the 'Shape' slider changed the brush from a Square shape to a Rectangle, which means the brush is no longer a 'Square Brush' - hence this option was disabled for V2 as a 'Square Brush' should always be square.
In that case, the functionality could have been kept and the name changed to Rectangular Brush.
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In the file Z50_1657.afphoto, the Pixel object isn't truly opaque except near the top. Make it all fully opaque then do Rasterise & Trim, and then you'll be able to add the correct FX Outline.
There are many ways to make the Pixel object fully opaque, so let me know if you need advice about that.
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7 hours ago, Thomahawk said:
select them all. Suddenly rounded corner option not to be found anymore.
7 hours ago, Thomahawk said:I have to go back to step one, rounding the first rectangle, and make the copies and placements afterwards.
No you do not need to "go back to step one".
A selection of multiple Rectangle objects can have their corners changed simultaneously when any shape tool or the Node Tool, rather than the Move Tool, is active.
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Divide does not work correctly when there is no operand that only partially overlaps another. A workaround is to include a pair of additional temporary operands that do only partially overlap, do the Divide, and then delete the fragments of the temporary objects. See example below. (Other workarounds using other commands or tools exist, but I'm showing one for when you do want to use the Divide command in particular.)
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4 hours ago, Handyann said:
What I do know is that if I draw a shape with the pen tool, then apply the brush, change to pixel persona and erase the unwanted lines, the whole shape becomes a pixel layer.
That conversion of vector to raster can be avoided by using the highlighted option in the screenshot below. Instead, a mask will be nested inside the vector object and the Erase Brush will modify the mask.
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5 hours ago, Sitaara said:
Thank you for your help. Of course, I also tried converting to curves. The problem is that the text does not adapt completely to the (power duplicated) shapes. I'll go on adjusting it manually if I want it to be exact.
thomaso shows the extra info that I wrongly assumed would be too obvious to require mentioning
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Power Duplicate will scale the size of text in Art Text but not Frame Text, Shape Text and Path Text (despite the Art Text Tool being used to create Path Text).
Workaround: apply Convert To Curves command to the Path Text before doing the scaling power duplicating.
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On 3/22/2024 at 2:32 PM, Hangman said:
In v2 of Publisher it's not possible to add an object (i.e., an image) to a frame as a regular child object...
In v2 on a Mac, use cmd modifier when drag-dropping in Layers panel to nest an object as a regular child of a Picture Frame. (Also, opt modifier will nest a duplicate if that is useful.)
An alternative method is to use the Move Inside command.
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7 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
I used the Color Replacement Brush set to a Red (357, 100, 50) to paint over a Green (130, 100, 50) and got a Pink (357,100, 72), so it had an unexpected change to L as well as to H
The tool will be using a Hue-Chroma-Luminance colour model, not HSL, to calculate the result of changing hue, hence the change of more than just hue when inspecting the HSL values.
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@LilianBvr If a raster export is acceptable, use supersampling to work around the problem. For example, export at 400% scale to PNG, and then open that giant PNG and export at 25% scale with bicubic resampling to a final PNG.
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@kuhnbnubstahl Work around the problem by using a masked Fill Layer containing a gradient:
- make a pixel selection
- add new Fill Layer which will automatically get a built-in mask based on the selection
- deselect the pixel selection (not absolutely necessary, but you won't be needing the pixel selection now)
- apply Gradient Tool to the Fill Layer and edit the gradient as required
How to snap to specific areas?
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Yes, I should have added that. PTT is actually one of my favourite tools in Affinity.