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elguapo

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  1. Please add option “Current & Below” or “All Layers” like in Photoshop for Smudge tool. I often need smudges on separate layer and now it's impossible in Affinity products.
  2. Ok, I wasn't aware that you can drag name and control almost any numeric field. Maybe Apple Mouse support is not that important. The only complain is that stroke name doesn't work that way. It'd be much faster.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. I describe the need, perhaps the tool designed to address it might be even better.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. 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!
  11. +1. I did accidentally change values in Character panel with apple mouse's scroll, but I'd never turn off this feature because of this and don't plan to buy new mouse specifically to work with Affinity products.
  12. May I ask why shouldn't it? As far as I know It's a standard mouse for Mac users.
  13. Well, subj. I remember that Affinity was very mouse-scroll friendly long before Illustrator and every field was precisely manipulated with the scroll: from layer overlays to transform. Now I'm back to Apple's original mouse and see that it works only on fonts.
  14. 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.
  15. +1 Snapshots palette as one more example of terrible design choices. It's amazing how brilliant ideas counterbalanced with these.
  16. Sadly, no. After remapping to different key and restarting Pixel tool is again the main tool for 'B' shortcut.
  17. That's exactly the problem. I remove the shortcut, but after each restart this particular shortcut resets to default.
  18. Real estate is quite scarce on my keyboard. All major tools already occupy all letters.
  19. I automatically assume that you might have problems with eyesight, because just after those words there is (or made them famous) part.
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