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Yes, but that doesn't easily let you select objects within a group. You can't Ctrl+Alt drag select. If you do, you'll window select. Right mouse dragging to deselect is counter-intuitive. All software I use and have used 12+ use LMB + modifier deselect. You cannot force to add to a selection and toggle selection (deselect if selected, select if deselected) You need multiple modifier keys this way, whereas a stand-alone tool could do with Ctrl = add, Shift = toggle, Alt = deselect. The software often times doesn't note the hotkeys, you need to have at least something selected for them to show. Pretty important, since it has these (to me) weird key combinations.

Bump up the topic! Seems to be an old request dated back to V1.
I hope we get the mesh gradient tool in V2 at some point (sooner, I prefer). This one of the top three tools I miss in Designer.
I've just started with Affinity. The way I work with photorealistic illustrations the mesh gradient/fill tool would be a killer feature. Now getting realistic reflections and shading on smooth surfaces is unnecessary complex using dozens of shapes, fills, layers & layer effects. Gradient fill would help a lot.
 
 

I completely agree with you, this "little" annoyances keep me for fully embracing affinity designer.

Alt-clicking an object/layer is not useful at all, as far as I can tell. Unless I did something wrong. It seems to be for viewing only. As soon as you click anywhere, everything is shown again. So it is not possible to isolate a group and edit it without showing/interference of other objects. Wouldn't it be useful to isolate objects like Alt-click does now, but staying in this mode unless you press ESC or something similar.
Right now editing groups is cumbersame. As soon as you deselect an object you are out of the group, and have to double-click to select an object within the group again. Having multiple nested groups is quickly becoming annoying. With such an isolation mode I would always stay within the group and could directly select the objects by just clicking them. That would be some relief....!

I would like a mode where you can open a group or other container and edit these in isolation where all mouse and keyboard events stay within the group. For example Ctrl + A selects everything in the isolated container and not the other parts of the document, clicking and dragging (for selecting multiple objects) outside of the container doesn't cancel the container edit mode etc.
When in this mode the other objects in the artboard/document should become more translucent/faded to indicate they are not being edited.
The following video shows entering the isolation mode by double clicking in Illustrator and this is what I would like:
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/illustrator/using/selecting-objects.html
https://www.webucator.com/how-to/how-use-isolation-mode-adobe-illustrator.cfm

Hi Nader, Rectangle tool is for drawing shapes. It appears clarity may be lost in the translation of your post.Would it be possible for you to post some screen shots or better yet, a screen recording of the issue.
Also, which app are you using. If Photo and you are talking about making 'selections' make sure the layer is a pixel layer, not image, make sure Context menu is set to New or Add, not Subtract. If Designer and selecting vector objects, use the Move tool not the rectangle tool. 

Hello @marteidu,

Open Wacom Tablet Properties. Add a new application profile. When Affinity Photo is started, it should be displayed as Photo in the selection list.
Click on the "Pen" tab. Set the double-click distance of the pen tip to OFF.
Select the Projection tab. Set Screen Area to full. Tick Force projection. Set the tablet area to " full".
In APhoto, go to Preferences --> Tools. Set Input Method for graphics tablet to Windows Ink.

So brushes are not actually vevtor objects I learn. That's quite disappointing, unfortunately.

Thanks, Old Bruce. I have a group. I believe Affinity Designer needs a tool to reset the bounding box like adobe illustrator.

The only current discount is is the 25% discount for the Universal license (all 3 applications, all 3 OSes) for users who own one or more of the V1 applications. 
If you wait long enough, there will probably be another sale that will cover the individual applications for a single OS, but Serif does not announce those in advance.

No one is forced to buy version 2. If you are happy with the features of version 1, then keep working with it.
You guys whining that you can't get a better deal than a new customer should keep in mind that all previous update and the small upgrades that were available for V1 over the years were free. 
And now I ask, who has the greater advantage here? I'm also wondering if you guys who are whining about this had a kiddie circus like this with Adobe or Corel when they didn't have the subscription model?
 

These garbage apps crash every 1-10 minutes. When it happens to stay alive longer than 10 minutes, switching tools lags for like 2 seconds. Windows performance is embarrassingly bad on powerful systems. How has this not been addressed yet?

Really disappointed!!
Since installing all three apps (only have tested Designer and Photo at the moment) They crash. Every time I copy and paste OR Export slices (and other times)
I then get the following dialogue box pops up when I open the software again
You’ll need to go to advanced options for Affinity Designer 2 and select Repair. If you’re still having issues with it, reinstall this app or contact your administrator.
I have repaired etc to no help. I then uninstall and install the same problem happens again??
I have tried with OpenCL acceleration ON and OFF and changed other  settings which doesn't really help.
 
I'm currently running the latest Windows 11 using a Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050 ti
 
Please HELP??
 
 

Hello, I've seen this bug mentioned on these forums before, wondering if there was ever an update with a fix for it? Affinity designer 2 crashes basically every time I use the (Z) key to zoom in and out making the product virtually unusable if you're wanting any type of smooth workflow. 

This ^ +1

Thank you for putting all of the work into making this extensive feature request list together.  I create a lot of illustrations either from scratch, or painting over 3d renders so my workflow is very pen tablet oriented.  A lot of the features you've listed here would really go a long way into making the Affinity suite of products less physically exhausting for pen tablet/display users.  It's by no means a terrible experience today for tablets, but there are some really great quality of life improvements here that I would really welcome.

Hey rawalanche,
You know I discovered the press down Control+Spacebar and drag feature by accident in Affinity Designer, (It only works using Control to the right of the space bar in my case, maybe it's a bug!). This feature is so useful because I just hold the spacebar to pan and add Control to zoom in and out, I can't imagine not having it.
 
That being said, I have also found Snapping while smooth zoom noticeably annoying. I wish there was a toggle to enable or disable it (would be nice if both Control keys worked). I have a friend who loves it, I just don't get her but well. Anyway I have been forced to work in higher zoom level than normal just to avoid the nuance. I second you in this request. 
 
 

I did that and I ended with a lot brushes and unorganized. Other software maintain brush sizes until I reset them to their default values.

You could resize the brush and then duplicate it, the duplicate will retain the brush size you set.
 

It's 2022 and am using NVidia GeForce 512.77 and am STILL getting screen flicker/tearing....

I use Affinity Designer for a project that involves having several files open in tabs, then selecting the visible elements in each file and exporting each file an SVG with the "Export text as curves" box checked and "Area: Selection without background" chosen. I do this same exact thing every day.
I've noticed that after marking the correct export settings for the first file of the day, the others automatically default to "Export text as curves" already being checked, but the Area option doesn't similarly change - I have to manually change every export window from "Whole document" to "Selection without background."
Is there a way to tell AD that I want these same export settings for every file? If not, can this please be a feature request - that subsequent exports automatically default to the settings of the most recent export? Or perhaps there's something I could set up with macros to make this process quicker? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

Cool. Thanks for the info. 

I'm trying to follow this discussion to figure out how to smooth a node.

This whole Right Click to smooth a node makes absolutely no sense to me. It (of course) brings up a menu; there is no other functionality.
 
 

Same question as OP. I'd love a way to click-convert to smooth or smart node points. 

[Designer]
 
Hi,
 
Is there another way to convert nodes, other than going to the Pen or Node Tool's Contextual (horizontal) Toolbar, and pressing buttons? Like, shortcuts for:
Convert to Sharp or Smooth node? Or Reverse Curve?
 
I already have keyboard shortcuts for Close and Break Curve – whose toolbar buttons are right beside the Convert ones. But those are the only Pen or Node Tool shortcuts I could find in the Prefs.
 
Two related things I would love:
- A way to 'pull' Control Handles out of a sharp node (or pop them back in to make a sharp point),
via some modifier key(s) with the node tool. (Like: after-the-fact editing of a path, not while drawing it.)
 
and
 
- When you're manipulating one of a node's Control Handles, 
for a certain modifier key(s) to cause its opposing handle do the exact same thing – i.e., stay in perfect symmetry/mirror image. Including, on a non-smooth node, the control handle angle.
That would be _so_ handy! (It's available with 3rd party Illustrator plugins)
 
Thanks for your attention!
 
- pbass