[Auto Select Layer]

On 2/4/2021 at 5:17 PM, mtdv said:

Are there any plans to add this? It's been a year since my last post and I was pretty bummed to see that 1.9 didn't address the issue.

+1 - my post in this thread celebrated 3 years a few days ago :( 

[[WINDOWS] Spaceman - Workspace Manager for Affinty]

Many thanks, @gabriel_komorov, this is a pretty cool application! Now I might actually spend time customising the Affinity apps to my liking (so far I found it a waste of time since it would get rewritten any time I switch PC).

For those that are a bit confused (as I was) about what happens when you backup: The app takes the configuration files from desired Affinity software and saves them into a folder structure locate wherever the Spaceman.bat file is running from. I.e. If I (1) place the Spaceman.bat in D:\Affinity_backup and (2) take a backup of Affinity Photo named "testBackup", then (3) the resulting backup will be stored in D:\Affinity_backup\Workspaces\Photo\testBackup.

[I want to save my studio settings]

+1 For this. I was really surprised that saving studio settings is not a feature.

[Auto Select Layer]

Hi, I just wanted to add my voice towards option to disable the auto selection. As a long time user of Photoshop, the current behaviour drives me to randomly selecting layers that I am not interested in, moving them around when I was not intending to, and aligning objects which I was not expecting to align.

[Clipping masks on groups?]

Ah, so I missed this in my search. Sorry about that.

 

Thanks a lot for the pointers.

[Clipping masks on groups?]

Hello,

 

Is it possible to apply a clipping mask on a group of layers in Affinity photo? Essentially I would want to reproduce this approach from photoshop:

 

So far I am not aware of a non-destructive way of achieving this. The destructive way is to (1) duplicate the group, (2) flatten it and (3) apply the clipping layer to the flattened single layer.

 

Thanks for any hints!