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Non-Destructive Warp Tool or Live Filter
elguapo replied to angelhdz12's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
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I am learning Affinity Photo and was amazed by equations there and procedural textures. Also the ability to use math in numeric fields is stunning (although I didn't find how to use non-linear functions there). Combined with Cmd-J. I propose to widen and enhance this ability for more creative coding (as creative coding is the future anyway). E.g. yesterday I made a design mock-up filling elaborate shape with specific words. This is very tedious task to make manually and need some creative approach to do. In Illustrator it can be made with with spraying symbol (although no, each word is different). Another example, I select array of items and want them to have specific distance from each other. I now have only the basic distribute part, which is 3 clicks + check + numeric field. Very laborious. Especially if this array has 2 dimensions of objects, I need to select each line individually and distribute then re-distribute. Imagine I can fit equation in numeric field and it's done. Of course it might be possible to just add compatibility with applescript or python or javascript. But even basic coding will be powerful feature. I perfectly understand that you can't make specific tool for every specific designer's need, but maybe it's possible to provide the environment inside Affinity products and this will be more than enough.
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Toggle Bounding Boxes ON or OFF
elguapo replied to DylanGG's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
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Loved them too in Autodesk but normal smoothing setting inside Brush solves this problem automatically for sketching. And for vector we have all tools we have.
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Global color palette editor
elguapo replied to elguapo's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
I describe the need, perhaps the tool designed to address it might be even better. -
Basic global palette editor is much needed tool. E.g. I select several complex objects with gradients and in one palette editor I edit each color (like in Illustrator). Sometimes adjustment layer is impossible to use due to export issues or just to not overcomplicate things, and although it's good to use global colors sometimes I forget to use them or get to much involved into developing some of my quick drafts that it's too late. As I understand this tool is quite easy to implement, just to get color values of each object and acquire new that I'll edit in palette. but it will be an enormous improvement in workflow.
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Right now Affinity has outdated smoothing for its' raster brushes. Window and line stabilizers. These were quite new in 2018, but now it's 2022 in 20 days and all raster programs already have inner smoothing for all brushes. Procreate, Photoshop, etc. They all have settings that smooth brush strokes so it becomes more natural even on challenging curve strokes. Please add this setting too.
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Sometimes there is need to quickly rotate the photo basing on what is present on it. And for this purpose I use point transform tool. And there is an annoying thing with pivot point: I always need to click and drag it from center to the point I need. Two problems: 1) When the photo is very big I have to zoom out 2) Imagine doing it to 20 photos when this task becomes repetitive. I propose to add modifier to quickly put it in right place without need to zoom out. Opt-click for example. Illustrator has this feature for its' rotate and reflect tools.
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Ability to add several layers of one FX
elguapo replied to elguapo's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
By the way, Adobe wasn't ashamed to copy mouse scroll wheel control of numeric fields in Illustrator from Affinity. Same with many powerful ideas from Astute Graphics -
Despite many problems, bugs and lack of many essential features, still working in Affinity Designer is pure magic. I'm working on elaborate design right now and can't even imagine this workflow 5-7 years ago. That I can make quick marks and reviews right on my vector artboards, copy them multiple times for versions iteration and handle this all in one file + everything is still instant quick. Thanks a lot to all developers for the product!
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+1. Very needed feature. Either context menubar item, panel menu item or appliable shortcut.
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Hide artboard names
elguapo replied to wvanderzee's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
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AutoTrace (convert raster image to vector)
elguapo replied to eross21's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
I am very much against autotrace in Affinity as core tool. It's probably quite complex to code and should require decent amount of developers' resources (although perhaps AI can do some game changing stuff here, I'm not the right specialist). There are way more essential tools that need attention. And there definitely should be 3rd party autotracers in market.- 474 replies
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Ability to add several layers of one FX
elguapo replied to elguapo's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
I automatically assume that you might have problems with eyesight, because just after those words there is (or made them famous) part.