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Remi McGill Audiokinetic

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    Remi McGill Audiokinetic got a reaction from curtissimo in Designer: How to do a "Perspective Transform"?   
    I second this, a simple perspective warp would be very valuable, since we we already have a skew I was quite surprised that this was not there when I needed it. I could live without a mesh warp for a while, but it feels like a broken workflow to not have a perspective warp as it's so common a need (and feels like an extension of the skew feature).
    When I needed this this was the first time I have had to resort to going back to photoshop to get it (And thereby creating a baked in non editable part of my composition).
     
    Thanks for all you do, Designer is a great application.
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    Remi McGill Audiokinetic got a reaction from Jon P in Hard Crash when opening a 1.8.5 file in 1.9.0 (Windows)   
    Great, thanks a bunch!
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    Remi McGill Audiokinetic got a reaction from Przemysław in Designer: How to do a "Perspective Transform"?   
    I second this, a simple perspective warp would be very valuable, since we we already have a skew I was quite surprised that this was not there when I needed it. I could live without a mesh warp for a while, but it feels like a broken workflow to not have a perspective warp as it's so common a need (and feels like an extension of the skew feature).
    When I needed this this was the first time I have had to resort to going back to photoshop to get it (And thereby creating a baked in non editable part of my composition).
     
    Thanks for all you do, Designer is a great application.
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    Remi McGill Audiokinetic got a reaction from lepr in Swapping Palettes - Feature Request   
    I work on icons for multiple color schemes, so I have a document set up with a color palette with global colors for everything in the document.  From this master document I need to make multiple versions of the icons for different color schemes, e.g. Light UI vs Dark UI.  I would love to be able to just swap the palette from the dark palette to the light palette and have all the new colors swapped out where the color names match. 
    Since I haven't found a way to do this yet what I currently have to do I is make a copy of the document, then change each global color to the color in the new palette manually which is really time consuming and a bit error prone.
    If I could just swap palettes it would be a huge time savings for me
    Thanks!
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    Remi McGill Audiokinetic got a reaction from lepr in Need ability to change opacity of global colors in Designer   
    Yes please add a way to change the opacity of global colors after they are created, if I can't change the opacity after I create it then I can't safely use opacity in global colors 
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    Remi McGill Audiokinetic reacted to Rakesh K in Need ability to change opacity of global colors in Designer   
    In Affinity Designer it seems there is no way to change the opacity of global colors. This is becoming frustrating when designing UIs. Opacity is an integral part of color schemes in Google's Material Design; it completely depends on opacity to create visual hierarchy. From Google's Material Design Guidelines: "Using opacity instead of shifting colors often creates better contrast and relative luminance. For example, gray text (#727272) becomes hard to read if the background color changes to magenta."
    Is this feature on your road map?
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    Remi McGill Audiokinetic reacted to sldx in Selecting multiple objects in group   
    I would really like some sort of "isolation" mode for groups, similar to other 2D, 3D & video apps. Basically when I double click to enter a group, if I want to box-select a number of items from that group, there's no way to do it.
     
     
    For example: I do a lot of UI work, and keep things in groups for organization and to easily move things around. But if I want to rearrange the contents of a group, I have to do a lot of work:
    - either dbl-click and shift-select A LOT, but it requires 10+ clicks for a single selection, which is really not ideal. 
    - or lock everything else, but that requires a lot of hunting inside the layers pane, especially since we can't directly select a locked object on the canvas.
    - use layers instead of groups, in conjunction with the Edit All Layers button (thx Meb!), but again that involves a lot of layer-pane clicking on various layers. Plus I loose the grouping functionality, or keep a group in a layer then it gets a bit too much.
     
    So yeah, the problem is that at the moment, in complex layouts, there's a lot of layer hunting in the palette no matter what I do. 
     
     
    To solve all this, the best solution (in my view) is similar to how other apps work: when inside a group, a box-select only selects objects from that group.  When you want to "exit" a group, just click once outside (which is the current behaviour too).
    I feel this fits perfectly with the existing workflow for object selection inside groups: dbl-click to enter a group, then select object from that group freely. The only addition is to have the box-selection constrained to the current group,  until I click outside.
     
    I guess other methods could work too, like holding down a modifier key to constrain the selection to the current group, but it feels like more work when a dbl-click is enough. 
     
    thx!
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