[Panorama Hell/Help]

@James Ritson Nice video James.

[Toggle active layer from keyboard]

As far as I know there is no keyboard shortcut to scroll through the layers or toggle between layers.

 

Try locking the Dust & Scratches Live Filter Layer

[[HELP] Editing Existing Text]

Welcome to the forum.

 

What king of image are you talking about?

Can you upload an example?

[Panorama Hell/Help]

You also have colour issues, look at the sky left and right of the post.  

 

To re-align these misalignments you need to be able to edit control points which, unfortunately, would take you out of Affinity and into a dedicated Panorama App. That app would allow you to preview and the edit control points used to stitch the images together. 

[What's the best way to create 8 bit graphics in AD?]

Why don't you use the Grid & Axis Manager to set up the grid you would like to have?

[Cutting out parts of letters in Designer]

• Create a black square
• Select the font for your name
• Type "Eric Weber"
• Select font for Studio
• Type "Studio"

 

[Trouble with Drawing]

Out of curiosity, select another tool and use it like, say, the Rectangle Tool, then select the brush tool and try to paint.

[Letter does not show in SVG file, which is signed to Visual Studio.]

Awesome,  happy it works for you 

[Letter does not show in SVG file, which is signed to Visual Studio.]

1 minute ago, William Tran said:

@firstdefence

Hi, this is the SVG file. Thank you for your replying. 

 

Empty Order 3.svg

Morning William, within the export settings of affinity you can tell the SVG export to convert text to curves.

 

[Letter does not show in SVG file, which is signed to Visual Studio.]

Could you upload the SVG for someone to look at or open the SVG is a text editor to show the code and paste the code here?

 

Untitled.svg

 

Example code from SVG above: 

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 289 186" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:space="preserve" xmlns:serif="http://www.serif.com/" style="fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:1.41421;">
    <g transform="matrix(1,0,0,1,-392.202,-339.822)">
        <g transform="matrix(1,0,0,0.474284,0,276.416)">
            <path d="M681.054,309.15C681.054,269.295 665.707,236.937 646.805,236.937L426.451,236.937C407.549,236.937 392.202,269.295 392.202,309.15L392.202,453.576C392.202,493.432 407.549,525.789 426.451,525.789L646.805,525.789C665.707,525.789 681.054,493.432 681.054,453.576L681.054,309.15Z" style="fill:rgb(235,235,235);"/>
        </g>
        <g transform="matrix(1,0,0,1,24.4868,-0.380795)">
            <text x="409.465px" y="378.996px" style="font-family:'ArialMT', 'Arial', sans-serif;font-size:54.193px;">T<tspan x="436.561px 466.701px " y="378.996px 378.996px ">es</tspan>t text</text>
        </g>
    </g>
</svg>

 

try converting the text to curves, if it isn't already.

[Export to TIFF]

@Fixx 

[Rectangular to Polar filter]

Just tried this in GIMP and it behaves as PaintShop Pro (PSP) does in Rectangular to Polar and as Photoshop does in Polar to Rectangular.

 

 

 

I like Gimps filter window and to a lesser extent Photoshops approach to the polar filter, being able to see a preview and flip between settings is a nice feature that Affinity should have, instead of having two separate filters with no controls.

[Cutting out parts of letters in Designer]

Is this a font or a design you have created?

[3x files for Xcode stickers]

From the Export Persona.

 

Found in Affinity Help

 

The Export persona is a dedicated workspace for exporting artboards, layers, groups, and objects as export slices to different file formats and image sizes simultaneously. You'll also be able to export custom drawn slices.

How it works

The Export Persona uses a combination of panels and tools to create slices. Slices are export areas which you choose to output from your document.

The Layers panel, Export Options panel and Slices panel are used in combination in Export Persona. A Slice Tool is a unique tool in Export Persona which is used to create custom slices.

Using the Layers panel

The Layers panel is different from the Layers panel in Draw Persona. It is used exclusively as a precursor for selecting artboards, layers, groups, or objects from which slices can be created, and added to the Slices panel.

When you export a Layers panel item as a slice, the slice will automatically size to what is considered to be the extent of the selected item. A circle symbol at the top right of the slice indicates that it is auto-sized. If you choose to resize the slice, the symbol changes to a square, indicating that the slice has been modified. A resized slice created from a Layers panel item can be reset to 'auto-sized' at any point.

Using the Export Options panel

The Export Options panel lets you set up your default export settings, or settings for the currently selected item prior to slice creation.

Using the Slices panel

The Slices panel stores all your slices (from the Layers panel or Slice Tool) ready for export directly from the panel. Each created slice has an initial export format (e.g., PNG, JPG, or SVG) associated with it on creation, with additional export formats being added per slice if needed; each export format lets you export at different size scaling or absolute sizes.

You can use the filenames in the Slices panel to specify (or create) a folder hierarchy in which to place your exported files. This is achieved through the use of the forward slash, or oblique, character.

For example, a PNG hero image could be placed within an img folder within an assets folder using the following syntax: assets/img/hero

If any part of the folder structure does not exist, the folder hierarchy will be created when the appropriate slices are exported using Export Slices (n).

You can export the entire document's page using File>Export or by selecting the predefined spread area on the Slices panel.

Using the Slice Tool

The Slice Tool gives you full freedom to create export areas of all sizes, over any part of your document.

The  Force Pixel Alignment option on the Toolbar, when selected, will ensure your slices snap to full pixels when created, moved or modified.

 To set default export options:

1. On the Export Options panel, select the Defaults tab.
2. Adjust settings as appropriate.
3. Jump back to the Selection tab when finished.

The settings will be used when your next slice is created.

    To export an area of the document as an image:

1. Do one of the following:
   • On the Layers panel, select an artboard, layer, group or object and click Create Slice.
   • With the Slice Tool selected, drag on your page to define your export area.
2. Do one of the following:
   • On the Export Options panel, adjust export settings as appropriate.
   • Jump to the Slices panel, expand the slice entry and alter the export format or choose an Export preset from the pop-up menu (PNG, JPEG, and Apple icon design presets only).
3. (Optional) On the Slices panel, click the + icon under the export format entry to add an additional graphic export format.
4. (Optional) On the Slices panel, click the indented + icon under the export size entries to add increasing levels of resolution (2x, 3x, etc.) to the export format.
5. Do one of the following, to control what gets exported:
   • Select Click to export all formats for this item.
   • Select Click to export this size. This exports a specific export format for a slice at a specific size.
   • Click Export Slices (n) to export all formats and sizes for all checked slices in the Slices panel.
6. Navigate to and select the storage folder for the exported image(s) and then click Export.
7. (Optional) On the Slices panel, select Continuous if you want to automatically re-export export areas if the document is subsequently changed. This option is only available if Export Slices (n) was selected above.

 

[Rectangular to Polar filter]

Grid of squares canvas size 100mm x 100mm Squares 25mmx25mm 

 

I get a different effect from you on Polar to Rectangular, this is a "Group" of squares - no border:

 

...and with no border and Rectangular to Polar I get:

 

This is a merged visible layer.

 

Note: Photoshop behaves like Affinity.

 

 

[jpeg import issue]

Take a screenshot of the screen with the layers panel showing.

[101 Questions on Swatches Panel]

3 minutes ago, toltec said:

 

 

I believe that is the swatch name. So short of "renaming" every colour what you see is what you get.

 

To rename, right click and choose Rename Fill

I was half right, Whatever method for colour selection is used in Colour Chooser from the dropdown menu, will be the name allocated to the colour when added to the swatches palette 

[101 Questions on Swatches Panel]

3 hours ago, johndugan said:

Is there a way to resize the panel? A lot of space is wasted on swatches that only have a handful of colors.

Depends what you have below the Swatches panel, if you have a panel that only takes up a small amount of space the swatches panel will remain large (length wise) and the panel below will stay seated to the bottom. There is; for me, an annoying behaviour with Panels whereby the Panels do not remember their dimensions i..e. how they have been set.

 

An example of this is:

• Have the Swatches Panel at the top
• Below the Swatches Panel, have the Colour Panel and the Assets Panel.
• Click on the Assets Panel and scale it up so the Swatches Panel is smaller.
• Now switch to the Colour Panel, you cannot make the Colour Panel Larger.
• Switch back to the Assets Panel.
• The Assets Panel adopts the position of the Colour Panel instead of retaining its location. set previously.

By rights, the Assets Panel should remember where it was set but it doesn't and this makes resizing Panels a bit of a moot point.

 

 

3 hours ago, johndugan said:

I accidentally deleted a couple swatches when I was playing around trying to remove colors from a particular swatch (note to self: "delete palette" does not mean "clear pallet"). They were default swatches. Is there a way to get them back?

Preferences > Miscellaneous > Reset Fills

 

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1. Is there a way to change the swatch color tooltip value from RGB to Hex (or anything else for that matter)?

I don't think so, there is no Hex Sliders option and the tooltip will show whatever slider option is selected, I could be wrong.

[measurement of the length of a curve]

Would be cool to have this feature:

 

[Export to TIFF]

Are the tiffs exported as 16Bit?

 

Might also be an idea to ask the author of Sequator what settings are appropriate for export to Sequator from Affinity Photo, he can download the trial and advise.

[Digital painting AP tutorial?]

Yes, use the image as a trace, lock the layer and start creating. Practice and experimenting is all part of the learning curve. Even the great artists had to start somewhere and were novices at some point. have a go and have fun, it will all click together at some point.

[Turning a figure to marble (almost NSFW)]

Do you think we have gone off topic again lol, anyway, I vote for Phil to have a whole body wax  you can't get a good marble overlay with Barracuda chest hair.

[Turning a figure to marble (almost NSFW)]

will e be able to do this, who nose...

[Turning a figure to marble (almost NSFW)]

You need to make a bump map or use a displacement filter, or try a blend mode, and mask out the background.

[Achieve Ripple effect similar to photoshop]

I've always liked Sketchup for the line styles that can be achieved with these sort of drawings. Would be nice if Affinity had a feature like that built in. You could always create some pencil styled brushes and use them as strokes or just buy some and get that authentic sketched look.