Phojoegraphy

iPads are a daily use device for me and I'm on either Procreate, Affinity Designer or both for almost every project. I just pulled the trigger pre-ordering a new Gen 3 iPad Pro 12.9" as I'm currently working on a Gen 1, 12.9Pro and although I'm excited, I'm also nervous because rarely am I a day one upgrader. Can any of the dev's speak to 1.6 (or 1.7) running on the new iPad Pro? I'm hoping to hear that's it's running smooth and stable so I can get rid of my older iPad sooner.

Procreate and Designer are my two go-to apps on my iPad. I use them professionally almost every day. I have a 12" iPad Pro1, (I update every other product cycle,) and the latest Procreate version runs circles AD in Pixel Persona especially when using textured large brushes. It's just more responsive and fluid. I just did a raster t-shirt design all in AD because I wanted to give it a shot, and it just had a bit too much lag for my taste when drawing. It wasn't a deal breaker, but it definitely made me miss using Procreate. I'm excited for the next new 12" iPad pro, hopefully it'll even the playing field a bit as I love the features in AD.

Thanks for all the work in curating these.

I'm striking out importing styles from anywhere (Dropbox or iCloud) The workaround for me is to use my desktop version to apply all my styles to a series of shapes and use that document as the master styles document where I can open it in Designert for iPad, select the shape and import the styles one at a time that way. Consequently, this is also how I'm saving color palettes also. I'm just opening a screen grab of my desktop palette and manually making it on the iPad. Not ideal but it gets the job done.

This is huge for me. At the very least creating from an image.

I've searched for specific answers but have come up empty handed on how to get styles and application palettes from Designer on the desktop imported to Designer on the iPad. When I attempt to import styles from a cloud stored file, the respective .AFSTLYES file is grayed out. I don't see a way to import application palettes, (or create one from an image or document, which would work also). I know you can access a document palette, but you can't save that to the system palettes so that doesn't work if you want to use that palette on another document. Is there a reason why this isn't possible? Is there some limitation from being on an iPad that keeps these features from being on the roadmap?

Did you try airdropping them (If you’re on a MAC)?

Thanks Lee and gdenby - hopefully it’s on the roadmap.

Is there a way to import color swatches from Designer on Mac to Designer on iPad? I tried AirDropping the swatch file and also to load through Dropbox but don't see an import area like for brushes. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance for any help.

Where oh where is the Cat Tool on Designer for the iPad!? ;)

Same. I think scale stroke to object should be on by default or have an option to toggle it on by default in preferences.

I did see that, I want it in the worst way! It was just also exciting to see the little Easter Egg in the training video too.

I saw a glimmer of hope while watching the Affinity Photo iPad tutorial videos. In a clever bit of marketing, in one of the early videos, they jump back to the iPad home screen and you can clearly see a Designer icon on their iPad screen! Nice tease... now take my money!

How does it open in Affinity Designer vs Affinity Photo? As far as Affinity software goes, I use AD almost daily and have limited experience with AP by comparison. I recommend you open in AD since it's first and foremost a vector editor, scale up to the printable size you want, export as an AD file or even export a PSD and then bring into photo for other editing. That said, I feel like you'd do better editing this EPS in AD from start to finish so it remains a vector. There is a trial of AD to be had if you don't own it. Also, you should be able to download a PSD or at the very least a JPG of this image to use in AP from Shutterstock.

It's pretty comical to read this. I use Procreate almost daily and have the same problem when using AP. At the very least, I wish AP would let you user define gestures like two finger touch. Procreate should be lauded as a standard on how to do a minimalist user interface, however AP pack so much into their iPad app while keeping it pretty user friendly, it's ridiculous (in a good way).

Suggestion: Lock the layers when hidden so you can't accidentally paint on them... Like I just did. Procreate (painting app) has a nice solution for this - When you try to paint on a hidden layer, you get a dialogue that pops up and warns the layer is hidden and asks if you want to view the layer, but no mark is recorded on the hidden layer.

Suggestion: I'd love to see a "favorites" slot for filters. The user could mark filters and they would show up together creating filter groups that are easier to find than scrolling through the entire list. (Perhaps even several Favorites slots.) Thanks for listening.

A feature I'd love to see after working with some complex masking with AP on the iPad is an easier way to jump back and forth between black and white when using a brush on a mask. Having two color swatches in the brush bar at the bottom when working with brush would be extremely helpful. Thanks for an excellent program.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction @Mithferion even if it is sad news.

Not sure if this has been discussed before, a search didn't turn anything up, but I'd love if Affinity Designer could export to Adobe Illustrator. (I create a lot of graphics that need to be brought into SAi Flexi for vehicle wraps and EPS is often riddled with layer errors.) Thanks for the consideration and keep up the great work.