lepr
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14 hours ago, ripper said:
is there a chance to copy from two different Layers at once (so it lands it two different Layers, not in one?)
No, the pasted objects are always together, with no option for replicating the parent Layers structure of the source objects.
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An alternative method using Spiral Tool and not requiring Point Transform Tool:
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31 minutes ago, R C-R said:
Not sure what you mean by index. Say for example a curve has 50 or more nodes & one or more pairs of them are overlapping, or how that would work if there are several nodes of different layers at exactly the same location. Can you provide any more details about it?
I was hoping you would see my earlier post as it is now. I edited it only 2 minutes before you responded, so I understand why you were not aware of that. I could, but will not, provide details. Many regulars here will know why.
48 minutes ago, R C-R said:EDIT: Are you maybe thinking about indexing by Z order, like bottom to top?
No.
End of my participation in this discussion.
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[deleted because my initial comment would have led to a near endless argument that the forum doesn't need]
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3 hours ago, Tulimord said:
Previously, I could group objects using Ctrl+G, and they would stay grouped until I ungrouped them. Currently, grouping only lasts until I click or change the tool.
I think what's happening is the objects are staying grouped, but you have enabled the option which makes the individual objects be directly selectable as if ungrouped.
In the Context Toolbar of Move Tool (and many other tools) is an Auto-select control; in its drop-down list, select "Default" instead of "Objects" to get the selection behaviour to which you are accustomed.
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40 minutes ago, HT_5634 said:
follow the shape of the spiral.
For the stroke of the spiral, use a 'vector brush' with texture that is a linear gradient. You might want to use a greyscale gradient and then apply a Gradient Map Adjustment to the spiral to colour it.
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Welcome to the Affinity forums
The destructive Filters have never had a blend mode drop down, as far as I'm aware. I think you must have been using Live Filters when you previously saw the drop down.
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1 hour ago, Dan C said:
I understand however this might not be the desired behaviour for all users
I know, and that is exactly why my second sentence, which you quoted, suggested providing an option rather than forcing something on people.
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55 minutes ago, lphilpot said:
Why not just make it white on black, black on white or some other sufficiently contrasting combination?
Yes, I'd prefer it returning to how it was in v1 - white text on black. There could be an option so the user can choose the v2 style (but with improvement) or the v1 style.
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1 hour ago, zgwangbo said:
think you misunderstood me. There's no pop-up menu on Version 2.2.0 and 2.3.0 when clicking the button, but 2.1.0 has the menu.
I did misunderstand.
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A preset must have a unique combination of settings. You already are using a preset named 'WB-20231125', so you will need to change some setting before the option to create a preset will become available.
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It can be almost unreadable for dark colours, too:
In my opinion, v1 was far more readable - white text on a black capsule, regardless of the colour being sampled.
There are some bizarre software design decisions.
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3 hours ago, Washishu said:
Outline stroke converted the stroke around an object into a compound path, to which I could apply, for example, a gradient fill.
That sounds like the Expand Stroke command.
3 hours ago, Washishu said:Layer–Geometry–Divide (when I tried) doesn’t work with an open path as the ‘dividing’ object.
There have been changes to the geometry commands since v1. They have been significantly improved, in my experience.
3 hours ago, Washishu said:There is no Cut Curves with Key Object in my Layers–Geometry menu.
That arrived in v2.
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Sean, your example contradicts your explanation for the use of percentage instead of angle, which was "it is a distance along those cusped segments". I'm struggling to see how you came up with that explanation.
That example has 0 full turns and a 'partial turn percentage' (note the word turn that is in the tooltip) of 83% producing about 2.2 segments, not 83% of a single segment.
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33 minutes ago, Sean P said:
Hi lepr,
This is because it is a different formation of geometry when you're using Cusped Segments - it is no longer an angle, instead it is a distance along those cusped segments.No, not in the AD beta on macOS in front of me. The partial turn percentages are relative to a full turn with 100% being equivalent to 360 degrees, 25% equivalent to 90 degrees, and so on. A cusped versus smooth version of a given Spiral has no difference except the underlying nodes are cusped versus smooth and the segments are linear versus curved. Or am I missing something?
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6 minutes ago, Oufti said:
is the pixel value always rounded up to the next greater value (e.g. 2.1 and 2.7 will both be rounded to 3 pixels)
yes
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7 hours ago, Sean P said:
The Spiral Tool's Partial Turns field will switch to use percentage if you have enabled 'Use Cusped Segments'.
That prompts the question "why?"
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9 hours ago, thomaso said:
how did you detect the trick?
I don't remember - it was years ago when I noticed Merge Curves creates a new object with identity transformation matrix.
11 hours ago, thomaso said:Do you also know what influences the resulting brush width if those curves get merged? I experience sometimes the largest width of the merged curves rules, sometimes it results in a very different and much smaller width than any of the initial curve used.
The new unscaled object that is created by Merge Curves is given the stroke properties of the source object with the lowest position in the stack.
If that source object is being scaled by its transformation matrix and has 'Scale with object' enabled for its stroke, then its apparent stroke width on canvas and in Stroke panel differs from its underlying stroke width. It is the underlying stroke width which is given to the product of Merge Curves.
By the way, the underlying stroke width of an object can be found in Appearance panel.
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The Celtic Knot
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I agree. This is the 'Share your work' forum, not the 'Tutorials' forum, and the OP was merely showing their work and how they did it, rather than posing as a tutor.
I also agree with Ash, that there are many misleadingly overcomplicated tutorials on the Web, but the OP was not presenting a tutorial and so the comments about poor tutorials would have been less potentially offensive if made elsewhere.