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Is there a way to copy contents with copy/paste, and in the same location? How about making a duplicate of an artboard?

Can anyone explain this new button? I don't think its hide selection as it is in AI.

Somehow one of my macs retained all the graphic styles whereas another did not with the new beta update. Anyone?

I am not getting this.

Yes you can. Make a duplicate layer of the icons shown (one layer) and leave only the shapes as solid color fill (doesn't matter what color as it will not be seen), add the inner glow in effects panel with the blend mode set to normal or multiply but then lower the fill opacity to zero as in the picture attached.

Just for the record: Notable changes: - Artboards. These are still work-in-progress and you can expect a few niggles, but at least you can see the direction we're heading.

Would like to see contour in bevel/emboss part of layer effects.

The texture can be an image you find online, desaturated, with overlay mode or something like that, and placed on top of these elements.

I attempted to recreate the image you posted. I didn't do the texture but I do have some ideas on that. Just wanted to share the file to show how I did it. Its not traditional but it was easy. Once you understand the app and its limitations/advantages you'll be able to get along with your projects. beach.afdesign

The uploader has put a cap on my uploads on this forum. What gives?

Not available yet, devs have this coming, no timeline though.

Thanks MEB. Greatly appreciated.

Can you please add a transform options box or pop up window that allows for more precise rotating? I found that Designer does not do a precise job of rotating and lining up shapes when creating round patterns. There is a fraction of a millimeter or so that prevents for clean patterns. I am not sure if the custom rotate center still needs tweaking or what but my patterns are off and I have to back to illustrator for this. I am using a mathematical method so I know that my degrees in creating these patterns are true and exact. Not sure how else to explain this bug. See attached for a difference in degrees. And also to add to this, when placing the rotation center to where I need it, the only way to rotate to a custom degree is manually using the rotate handle on the bounding box-this may be where the difference in degrees I am off even though I am going by the real-time degree hovering display in degrees. This is where the input degree box would work better instead of doing it manually. My suggestion on this would be if one moves the rotate center to a custom place, this movement should override the transform palette rotate input box that is linked to the 9-point reference box. So in other words, if I move the rotate center only allow for the input field to now control the rotation. This would solve that issue.

What does showing in realtime matter at all if these are adjustments to the design?

Is there not a way to add my saved styles, which are quite a few now, all at once? They way it is now on beta, its only one at a time. This is real time consuming. Can we multiclick at least on this? May a drop down like PS does to add styles in bulk?

I just noticed that in Designer, standard shape objects get drawn with preview always on, and when you move them the full preview comes with it, so it looks laggy, at least on my Mac. When I look at Illustrator way, they don't do any preview as you draw and when you move objects, they use an outline. I think Designer should follow this way. Not much of a complaint but an acknowledgment and comment/suggestion to Serif. Objects do draw faster obviously with the preview off.

Okay I figured out that the initial Cmd+J is key getting this going.

If I try to implement the power duplicate function in conjunction with the fixed rotation point of an object I really get lost, in that it behaves very weird. Trying to make a flower design for practice but I can't get it. The copied, pasted new petal in its new location to continue the pattern all the way around does not remember the last movement position.

I am getting no snapping on this, the second artboard and only on the left hand side, see video.

I am not getting this. Artboard size adjustments work fine for me.

Not seeing this on my mac.

You need an old G4 Mac! That's the easiest then get on this website! You need old software to really get this look I think. You can try to do it with today's apps but they'll never feel authentic. http://macintoshgarden.org

Congratulations on the update having a lot of fun figuring stuff out! Anyone you can get on to me for complaining about this really really small detail that has changed, the drop down arrows in the layers palette look like little play buttons... I know! Small detail but it bugs me! Sorry! Awesome job guys.

The inpainting tool is not capable of removing and replacing a large object with the background that should be behind it. If it is a complex background that has all sorts of objects (cars, people, houses, buildings, whatever) and you want to remove the object, you can't expect it to line up all the things up perfect. You will always have to use cloning along with the inpaint tool to complete your image. It's not a magical brush. Cloning in Photo works well, you shouldn't have to go to another app to to do regular cloning. Sorry you had a bad experience but you have to understand the tools limitations.

Use a stroke around the top wing to help aid in your creation of the curve as a guide. You could stitch it from pieces from each to get exact but that seems like a lot of work. See attached. The red stroke I applied to the top wing is the guide I would use to visually guide me make the bottom. Like I said you could chop up the stroke and make it it's own shape, then using boolean geometry you could make your bottom wing.