Burny

A children's book style image using textured strokes in Affinity Designer

Hello everyone !
My friends call me Burny. I am a graphic designer, illustrator, web designer and web developer from Belgium.
I discovered Affinity designer and Affinity photo a few weeks ago. Here are some of my work...

Another sample using negatives to show the worst errors @ 800% zoom (excuse the gory colours):

It makes expanding a stoke impossible to use as it's no where near as accurate as it should be. Really hope this is fixed or radically improved soon.
However, I appreciate it's far from a simple task.
File attached.
Expand stroke bug.afdesign
 

Hi IPP imprimerie,
Bienvenue sur les forums Affinity :)
Sélectionnez l’Outil Plume, allez à la barre d’outils de contexte et appuyez sur le bouton Sélection (seulement Affinity Photo).

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Fixes
Fixed crash when access is denied to the ProgramData directory (diverts to user's AppData) Fixed objects not adding to symbols correctly Fixed crash pressing up arrow in opacity edit box Fixed SVG import not using units (was always at 72dpi) Fixed SVG loading of hidden attributes Fixed SVG loading of strokes with no line style but with width Added ability to break curves in multiple places at once Fixed export to allow forward slash Fixed Brush Dialog not updating after changes to context bar or via shortcuts Fixed being unable to rotate image past -0.7 when using increment Fixed Export Size not changing when using Selection with/without Background Fixed colour swatches dragging colours from the panel over objects Fixed Gradient Tool flyout disappearing when trying to adjust RGB Sliders Fixed SVG import of stroke-dasharray values when the array has an odd number of items Fixed SVG import of stroke-dasharray="0" (now parsed the same way as stroke-dasharray="none") Fixed SVG import to use case-insensitive colour names Fixed Asset panel expansion state not being remembered Fixed Preferences > Performance dialog entries shifted too far left Fixed missing warning icons in Export Persona Added PSB file extension to open dialog Fixed pixel-preview between 200% and 400% when the user chooses ‘Slowest’ retina rendering Fixed images copied from Microsoft paint appearing upside down Fixed not opening maximized after resetting the Preferences options Fixed Swatches panel 'Create palette from image' incorrectly needing document Fixed having a .(dot) before the file extension not populating the Save As dialog Fixed equations not flagged red if they are not complete and correct Fixed Export allows decimal point pixel sizes Fixed manually editing guides on second artboard give incorrect value Fixed starting or opening a document with no visible window area causes it to be inverted  
Known Issues (that did not affect earlier betas)
Brush Editor dialog sliders are laggy (fixed in next beta)

It works with 1.6.0.82

Hi !
I can't adjust the position of a text on a path. I can select the orange cursor but nothing happen.
Impossible to choice if the text appear inside or outside an ellipse.

I was preparing to send you a file that causes a number of problems with symbols and I discovered a new crash. Select all objects with Ctrl+A, then move them outside the artboards.
Bug - symbols always update 3.afdesign

It works with 1.6.0.82

It works with 1.6.0.82

It works with 1.6.0.82

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
 
Fixes
Fixed Gradient flyout incorrectly showing previously applied gradient Added keyline added around main window and dialogs Added Radial Controller support option into preferences Fixed ghost text objects shown in the view after creating text and moving it Fixed lines shooting out when drawing with the Surface Pen Changed pen tilt to be mirrored around vertical Fixed selection refinement in CMYK documents Fixed vector export of corner tool and filter effects on vector clips Changed Path Text to use the same icon as Artistic Text Added blacklisting of broken colour profiles (if loading them causes a crash, the next time the application runs, it will skip that profile) Changed Find in Layers Panel to switch to the Layers Panel if it's not visible Fixed FX Symbol failing to show on clipped objects Fixed being unable to change font of multi-font selection Fixed ICC profile combo boxes being too wide Fixed more Light UI issues Fixed missing Arrow Ends icons on context toolbar Fixed Assets category text size is too small Fixed a number of the fields in Adjustments are clipped Fixed HSL Adjust able to enter invalid values for Hue Shift Fixed exporting of clipped text frames Fixed OpenType MarkToLigature rule, which fixes accents on certain font glyphs Fixed import of Russian RTF text with "Language for non-Unicode programs" in Windows set to Russian Fixed SVG export to export radial and elliptical fills as vector regardless of transform Fixed PDF export to export radial and elliptical gradients as vector even if sheared Fixed uncommitted nudge transforms getting reverted when the user hits Escape Fixed crash when closing document Fixed blank documents prompting to save on close Fixed memory leak in Export dialog Fixed crash when changing export options then attempting to export on a new document Fixed sporadic crash when panning a document Fixed sporadic crash when attempting to open files via Explorer Fixed crash when the user right clicks in the open file dialog, when they have bad shell extensions installed (e.g. AMD drivers) Fixed some objects failing to invalidate properly Fixed more Russian UI issues Fixed untranslated Hintline items Fixed pressing the X on the close dialog closing the document without saving Fixed crash loading EPS files Fixed black rectangle around shape when exporting due to Outline FX Fixed crash with massive filter nodes Fixed Path Text handle dragging Fixed selection brush size not being remembered Fixed sporadic crash when editing memory intensive images

Thanks for the file. It looks like Sean logged it with development but didn't say so in this thread. Hopefully development can shed some light on this. If you reselect the group it doesn't happen, which is odd 
 

I'll bet on constraints. This bug is consistent and it's around for quite a while. If that's the case, the workaround would be to select all objects and set them to the default  x/y scale in the Constraints panel.

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Fixes
Fixed startup crashes Fixed application hangs (Not Responding) Improved performance of document render when dragging out a new object Fixed hang when dragging by frame text with snapping enabled Fixed crash reporter failing to generate crash reports Fixed failure to edit a Global Colour Fill that is not already applied Fixed being unable to change matte colour on export  Fixed Export Preset not being remembered Fixed setting blend mode for bevel and emboss preventing file from saving  Fixed Global Colours importing to Application Palettes incorrectly Fixed Colour well incorrectly showing colour when using Greyscale Added missing boolean operation menu in the Layers panel Fixed EPS load crash Added rotation of nodes in NodeTool Fixed occasional failure to finish loading files Performance improvements to Inpainting Fixed PDF import never completing when they contain tile patterns Further improvements to stroke expansion Improved error reporting in installer Improved the way we load ICC and WCS profiles so WCS profiles give a better description Fixed DNG files failing to load properly Fixed PDF import crash Disabled Radial Controller support (i.e. Dial) unless the --radial-controller flag is passed on the command line

Hey Burny,
 
It looks like this was reported for the Mac too so we should get this fixed pretty soon. Sorry about that!

1.6.0.79 is now available.

It's been a while since i 'arted'. It's good to get back to creating creatures and using Affinity Designer. Here's a new one. He likes to chew yer charging cables (just to annoy you!)
 
George
 
 

Cheers!!
 
As promised, here's another critter created solely in Affinity Designer.  Had to put in a colour background as the white clouds werena showing up. Hope you guys like it! 

Hey folks,
 
Been a wee while but I'm back at creating creatures with Affinity Designer (and paper & pencil). Instead of adding a new topic for every one I make, I thought I'd start this new thread to put them all in and show them off to you all.
 
So here's one for ya! :)
 
George

Affinity Designer vector illustration of my daughter at 19-days old.
 
No pixels or vector brushes used here, just good old fashioned strokes and filled paths. Masks, transparency tool, layer FX and blend modes used where needed and a couple of adjustment layers to tweak the colours at the end.
 
I'd guess there's around 2,000 elements make up this image - around 500 are individually positioned head hairs, and many of the individual wool strands are actually three strokes twisted together too which ups the object count. With all the blurs and depth of field stuff, it nearly kills my MacBook and takes a good 20+ seconds for the screen to redraw after every zoom or edit on high quality view settings - spent a lot of time in wireframe and low quality mode at the end. When I get a faster Mac, I'd like to add some of the less important detail that's missing to make it more convincing  (e.g. the almost invisible eyebrow hairs, more detail to eyes etc.) and tweak some of the bits that are annoying me.
 
No idea how long it took as I've been working on it on and off in my spare time (which is practically non-existent with a baby) since December - I'd estimate 30-50 hours.
 
Anyway, hope you like it!

New work. This started out as just the head and it grew. I used this one to play with text -I just loved the way I could get right in and adjust the scripty word, 'Tae' until I was happy.
Vector plus textures and a little work in Pixel mode. Anyway, I hope you like it. And do go to Scotland to see the famous 'Tobermory Floaties'.

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
 
Fixes
Fixed startup crashes Fixed application hangs (Not Responding) Improved performance of document render when dragging out a new object Fixed hang when dragging by frame text with snapping enabled Fixed crash reporter failing to generate crash reports Fixed failure to edit a Global Colour Fill that is not already applied Fixed being unable to change matte colour on export  Fixed Export Preset not being remembered Fixed setting blend mode for bevel and emboss preventing file from saving  Fixed Global Colours importing to Application Palettes incorrectly Fixed Colour well incorrectly showing colour when using Greyscale Added missing boolean operation menu in the Layers panel Fixed EPS load crash Added rotation of nodes in NodeTool Fixed occasional failure to finish loading files Fixed PDF import never completing when they contain tile patterns Further improvements to stroke expansion Improved error reporting in installer Fixed Path text to support changing baseline for multiple lines Improved the way we load ICC and WCS profiles so WCS profiles give a better description Fixed PDF import crash Disabled Radial Controller support (i.e. Dial) unless the --radial-controller flag is passed on the command line

Hello!
When drawing with the Pencil or Vector brush tool, there's a glitch in the size of the strokes's first point. See screenshot.
Unfortunately, that makes it practically unusable for my job at hand.
AD 1.6.0.80b
Using a Wacom Cintiq, and a Wacom Intuos 3. Same problem on both.
Deleting the first point does not help. The size information is just moved to the next point.
 
The latest stable, 1.5.3.69, has no stabilizer yet, and the stoke thickness changes strangely after lifting the pen. Can't use it, either.
 
Thanks!
 
 
test strokes.afdesign

Unless an issue you are encountering is directly related to running the application could we ask that you report each issue as a separate post in the Windows Beta forums please. It prevents this thread from getting too busy and helps us manage your issue better.

Thanks.