lepr

No, the parametric shape remains as the basis of the Shape Text, and its controls are available with Node Tool as usual, so the developers could easily provide a means of getting the parametric shape object from a Shape Text without a conversion to Curves.
 

A suggestion: The Useless Live Filter

A suggestion: The Useless Live Filter

Brilliant! Thank you so much!

Yes indeed! I think you're correct. This is must be what I was remembering. Thank you, lepr!

A trick that suppresses dithering of a vector gradient when exporting to a raster format: give the gradient-filled object an FX Colour Overlay with zero opacity: gradient tool gradient.afphoto
An alternative way to avoid dithering is to use an FX Gradient Overlay on an object: gradient overlay gradient.afphoto
 
This document contains a Procedural Texture gradient: procedural gradient.afphoto

It's an ancient permabug that has been known to Serif for many years: an expanded stroke will be too thin when Size Variance in the stroke properties is not 100%. The closer to 0%, the greater the error in the expansion.

I'm happy to confirm that the latest beta version, Affinity Photo 2.3.0.2114 has made the following improvements:
The default behaviour of View > Show Grid has been returned to match Affinity Photo V1's behaviour - meaning the 'Automatic' Grid will be applied, which changes the frequency of grid subdivisions as you zoom in/zoom out.
  A new separate Pixel Grid option is available in all Affinity apps, under View > Show Pixel Grid. You can find out more about this feature here. If you wish to test these changes, you can sign up for our beta program using the information below:
Many thanks for your feedback here, as it helps us to continue to improve the Affinity Suite 

Actually wonder if this should in fact be a transform panel thing and that if you have "transform objects separately" checked and type in an absolute value into the transform panel (e.g H=100px) then all the objects in your selection should adopt that height rather than it working proportionally based on the key object size?
Also we'll get round to adding a "Size to Same" function at some point!

Here's one of many solutions: shadow edted.afphoto
 

Here's one of many solutions: shadow edted.afphoto
 

The particular problem with that example document exists in v1 also.
When a clipping Curve with no fill is not closed, we cannot select its nested content in the document view.
If you either close the Curve or give it a fill, then its nested content can be selected in the document view.
In my opinion, the problem should be considered a bug.
 

In general, but there are exceptions, Affinity uses the following modifiers while you drag with mouse left button:
Mac cmd = Win ctrl Mac ctrl = Win mouse right button Mac opt = Win alt Mac shift = Win shift combinations of the above

You're welcome
Translate is a mathematical term for the operation.

Just dragging a point with no modifier will both rotate and scale the selected object(s) about the Transform Origin.
Translate means move the object(s) without scaling or rotating, like sliding across the page/canvas. On Windows, you will need to hold down the right-button while you drag the point with the left-button.

Feel free to merge or remove this thread if such a suggestion has already been made. 
Currently, you can smooth paths in two ways (Correct me if I'm wrong):
'Smooth curve' tool which works globally on the curve and has no settings.
Or 'Convert to Smooth/Smart' which works on selected vertices.
It would be nice if Designer V2 had a brush like tool for smoothing curves, with tolerance settings for better control over smoothing. There is a similar tool in Adobe Illustrator.

Hello!
This was my first attempt at a completely digital 'painting', which I ended up using stop-motion animation to turn into a short video. The artwork was created in Affinity Photo using the NB Master Watercolor brush set.
Fox is actually the name of our pet Cockeral and Isla is my daughter. It was originally part of a larger piece which included a full portrait of Isla, but in the end, I decided to spin it out into a standalone piece. The portrait is ongoing.
A higher-resolution version of the work can be viewed on my website at www.msibley.com.
Thanks for looking 😊
 
 

Foxy 720p.mp4

"On the Edge"  Just having some fun with Affinity Photo. 🤪

I'm glad you took up the baton of a completely unnecessary and fruitless discussion about what no one said, but is still mentioned over and over again 🙂

Nobody said it does. I've been a software developer for four decades, so try preaching at someone else.
 
 
 

I think it's more a case of "some are assuming that because the know-how exists at Serif for a particular tool that was in Draw Plus, the tool should be in AD by now."

I think it's more a case of "some are assuming that because the know-how exists at Serif for a particular tool that was in Draw Plus, the tool should be in AD by now."

My own photo of Bran Castle, the alleged residence of Count Dracula, in Transylvania, taken in 2016, formed the basis for this image. It was covered with the texture dragonshield by D.Wuestenhagen (included in Affinity Photo 1) and the decoration was done with the great Halloween assets by user @v_kyr . The font is a free TrueType font called Ghastly Panic Font by Chad Savage http://www.sinisterfonts.com
 
All edited in Affinity Photo 2.2.1.
 
German Text:
Mein eigenes Foto der Burg Bran, der angebliche Wohnsitz von Graf Dracula, in Transsylvanien, aufgenommen 2016, bildete die Grundlage für dieses Bild. Es wurde mit der Texture dragonshield von D.Wuestenhagen (Beigabe von Affinity Photo 1) überzogen und die Ausschmückung erfolgte mit den tollen Halloween Assets vom User @v_kyr. Der Font ist ein freier TrueType Font namens Ghastly Panic Font von Chad Savage  http://www.sinisterfonts.com
 
Alles in Affinity Photo 2.2.1 bearbeitet.

As does pressing esc key 

I used the current retail version of AD to do the screenshots and exporting, but you could have used my document that was created in AD 1.10.6  in your AD 1.10.6 instead of building a replica