Alfred

I agree absolutely. Usability is important. There's a button to remove rotation, so why not one to remove crops?
 
Edit: The reset rotation (box) button doesn't do what I thought, but just resets a rotated object's rotation back to zero degrees. 

Yes, I absolutely understand the nature and behaviour of this crop tool. But you seem to be unconcerned about ease of use. You provide a tool which can easily define and manipulate a crop, but which is unable to simply remove that crop. I don't think it should be necessary to go into the layers panel to do that.

I completely agree. I have to set my laptop screen to exactly the correct angle if I'm to have any hope of seeing which tool is currently highlighted (or perhaps that should be 'lowlighted'). It would be great to have the simple 'Invert' option that Julian23 suggested earlier in this thread.

The only way that I can get enough contrast in the UI toolbar to actually see which tool icon is selected is to turn UI Gamma all the way up in Affinity Preferences AND to turn Brightness all the way up in System Preferences.  Black on dark gray is not the best choice for visibility.  

Using the Vector Crop tool is fine, but how do I remove the crop?

I'm using the Fill tool to apply a radial fill to an object.  When I first select Radial as the fill type, the gradient line is displayed anchored to the centre of the object.
 
If I drag the centre node away to a new position, is there a way to snap it back to the centre point again?  I tried double-clicking the node, which seemed intuitive, but nothing happened.  I can't see a way to have the object's centre displayed either.
 
I know there's always the Undo option, but I may have made other changes.  I just want to be able to quickly attach the node to the object's centre.  How is that done?

MS Word is a real disaster of an app. You should use it ONLY for text. Why don't you try some other MS Office compatabile software, like:
 
SoftMaker Office: http://www.softmaker.com/en/
Ability Office: http://www.ability.com/index.php?ln=en
...
...
 They can read/write doc/docx documents (even as their default document) and they are much cheaper and you can even install them on more than 1 computer.

Thanks, Allan. I'm sure these will prove useful to many of us.

Ah, that's the issue, Ken.
 
Using the panel I can enter any value. Opening the Effects dialog it can only go to 100px.

Hi all,
 
It's been a while (don't ask) but I'd thought I'd update this list. There are now 18 tutorials on the channel, more to come. Created to enhance your skills and knowledge of Affinity Photo & Designer and take them to the next level. Don't forget to subscribe to stay up to date.These were created before the 1.5 Beta but you'll still benefit from them. If you would like to see anything in particular just leave a comment below.
 
They are all FREE and always will be, why? Because 1. The apps are so awesome and changed the way I work  2. There is such a great community on here and 3. Matt P is really cool  ;)  (thank you).
 
 
AFFINITY DESIGNER TUTORIALS
 
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7. 
 (In this we create something similar to a Google advert) 
8. Preview Affinity Designs on a mobile device
 
9. Organising Assets using Lingo (Created before the 1.5 Beta)
 
 
AFFINITY PHOTO TUTORIALS
 
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6. What are Personas?
 
7. How to remove spots and blemishes
 
8. Create a 1-5 star rating system (Cool trick to organise your pics)
 
9. Using Apple Photos with Affinity Photo
 
 
 
Allan

I couldn't agree more! On this laptop with its display height of only 768 pixels (typical of screens which are not Full HD) the bottom of the View menu is cut off, even if I move the taskbar or set it to auto-hide.
 

First feedback to menu structure:
- Some menus are too overloaded with commands. Especially the View menu. I would strongly recommend to put some people which do not know the tool into a meeting and do something like "Card Sorting" https://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/card-sorting.html. Maybe this has been done, but I feel a little bit lost in these menus. 
- The personas seem to be the root of your information architecture. It was surprising to find them in the File menu. I have seen them as "Workspaces" and would expect them in the View menu. But I also see, that the availability of the menus depends on the personas. Anyway, having File->New not as first item in the File menu feels strange to me.
 
Interesting to see that this is a WPF application, so I can Snoop around a little bit :-)

the google material color swatches (Material Palette.ase) can be downloaded from > material.google.com and loaded into Affinity Designer
- select the swatches tab (upper right of affinity interface),
select the drop down menu (burger menu),
select - import pallet,
select the Material Palette.ase from where you saved it to on your computer and Affinity will load the swatches.
 
 
All of the google material design elements from material.google.com can be loaded into Affinity (remember to download the Roboto font set and install them)
- download the stickersheet assets that you want to use and use the open command to bring them into Affinty (file menu - open)
Warning!!!  - the google stickersheets assets require a lot of memory and take ages to open in Affinity (the original adobe files use between 100 to 700megabytes in Adobe Illustrator but Affinity needed 12gigabytes just to open the file ??

I searched, but could find no help on using the forum, or guidance on reporting bugs. 
 
My reason for looking was that I had typed some tags without comma separators, e.g. "OpenType PDF" and noticed that only threads with both words were being found. 
 
One has to type it as "OpenType, PDF" to get both tags to show up. The Topic Tag field does say this before you start typing anything, but I missed it. 
 
If there is not already a FAQ somewhere on using this forum, perhaps someone from Serif should write a sticky thread explaining how to write a perfect bug report? 

Hi!
 
Pigmento is a set of 84 raster brushes carefully handcrafted for digital painters
Designed for Affinity Photo and Designer, this set offer natural media look and feel. Acrylics, Gouaches, Oils and more with expressive colour dynamics and tablet responsiveness to speed, pressure and direction.
Now updated with DAUB Spatula set (12 new tools for Paint Mixer Tool) and a new classification: you'll find them in different categories, hopefully now it should be easier to spot the correct tool!
Check this video for a quick sample!
 
This set is fully compatible with Windows and iOS Version of Affinity.

This is a quick concept done using one of the included tool, to show the colour dynamic and blending features.
 
 
 
Some Tips
 
DAUB Grunge Acrylic 4
This is a brush that creates nice textures with a glaze effect and continuous tone modulation using pen pressure.
You can use it as a pure cover changing the blending mode to Normal.
 
Do you know that with Pixel tool presets if you press CMD key while painting you can erase using the same preset?
 
Get it here
 
I'll improve these tool with free updates, so if you want those please add your real email to the purchase page.
 
Happy Painting!
Paolo
 

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Cheers and happy art making,
-Jef (WREN)
 
RASTER BRUSHES
For use in Affinity Photo and Designer. The blending brush in the Oil Set is the only one exclusive to Affinity Photo.
 
DRAFTING

 
INK

 
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Oil Brush Dynamics

Most oil brushes have blending built into pen pressure. With a single brush and hue you can adjust the luminosity of the stroke-
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hue without any lightening or darkening.
 
 
WATERCOLOR

 
 
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VECTOR BRUSHES
For use with Affinity Designer Only. 
 
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Handlettering
 
LINKS
The Box Set
 
 

There's a long-standing (and very long!) thread on the subject. It can be found here.
 
Common Feature Requests Index

This is a way to do a little more creative vignette effect.
You get lots of control over how and where you want the effect.
If you've made it on one picture you can simply copy it to other images.
 
Cheers :)
 

Incidentally, it might be worth spelling out how the test style font traits are supposed to work. If the style sets the Font family, then you can use the Font traits control to set the font used exactly. In this case Affinity will offer the list of named traits from the font file, and there should be no font matching (as long as the font is installed).
 
If the style does not set the Font family, then the other controls for Font weight, Font width and Italic attributes become available. These provide generic names that are not specific to the font, and they do do font matching. For example, if you set the Font weight to Black, and apply the style to Arial, you will actually get Arial Bold because Arial does not have a Black variant.
 
These generic traits are how the Strong and Emphasis styles in the default style sheet work. You can change the Font family in the Base style, and Emphasis will still give you a slanted variant (if the font family has one), even if the new font calls it Oblique or something else rather than Italic. So this approach allows the style sheet to be more flexible and fluid.
 
The downside is that the font matching might not always do what you want, which is why we also let you specify the font exactly by setting both Font family and Font Traits in every style that changes the font. This leads to a more rigid style sheet, in that if you change your mind about the font you'll have to edit all the styles that set it, but it also gives you complete control.
 

There's a download button on each Vimeo page. When you press it, you will be offered a range of MP4 downloads with a choice of size/quality.

Gladly. In some apps there is a strong difference between paragraph styles and character styles, and they never mix. In Affinity, they are virtually the same, and you can apply paragraph styles to characters and character styles to paragraphs. You can also have character styles that are based on paragraph styles, and vice versa.
 
The Type in the Edit Text Style dialog merely sets how the style is applied by default. So if Paragraph is checked, then a single click in the Text Styles tab will apply the style to paragraphs, and you will need to use the menus to apply it to characters. The type also affects which quick lists the style appears in. There are lists of text styles in the Paragraph Studio tab, the Character tab, and two lists in the text context toolbar. The idea is that some people will hide the Text Styles tab when they are not actively editing styles, to save screen space, but they will still apply text styles via one of the lists.
 
So, to answer your questions, the Group type means the style is neither paragraph nor character. It appears in none of the quick lists, and the only way to get to it is via the Text Styles tab. Nothing happens when you single-click it. The idea is that you use it to help manage your other styles, by basing other styles on it. For example, in the default style sheet, there is a group style called Base that contains all the default formatting, and then the other paragraph styles are based on that and just set what they need. Base provides a single place to set attributes that applied to all the styles, such as language and colour, but you aren't expected to apply it to text directly. Instead you apply a style based on it, such as Body or Heading 2. For that reason, you probably don't want Base listed in the text context toolbar, and it won't be.
 
The burger menu at the Text Styles tab top-right has an option to Show Heirachical (sic - we'll fix the spelling). When checked, it shows the based-on tree structure. With this mode you can use group styles for, well, grouping. That's why they have that name. It's off by default because I didn't like having to expand styles to find the one I wanted, especially when the default style sheet is so short, but it may be useful when you have more styles. We don't have any other mechanism for categorising text styles.
 
The Show in both panels checkbox causes the style to be appear both in lists of paragraph styles, and in lists of character styles. So it's kind of the oppose of the Group type. It's for when you have a style that you commonly use both ways.
 
This is all a bit experimental. We welcome feedback on how well it works in practice. It might be a good idea for us to rename the old Style tab to Object Styles.

Hi
 
New users (or demo users) of AP ask again and again where they can find the inpainting brush - and that's only the ones bothering to create a forum account for that question.
 
I think it would help a lot if it was the default tool of the healing group.
 
 

In photoshop filters and other dialogs remember your last used settings, even after a restart.  This is such a time saver.  For example, document resize (where I would never want the default "nearest neighbour") or sharpen where I usually want roughly the same settings after an image resize sharpen.
 
Thanks.

Has this been logged as a feature request? I can see an 'Edit Story' mode being very useful in Affinity Designer, and almost indispensable in the forthcoming Affinity Publisher.

Dear all,

I have some text in my document which is flipped horizontally and vertically.
If I want to edit the text on the screen it is very difficult since flipped text is not easy to read and Backspace and Del keys work in opposite direction on screen which is little wierd to follow.
 
My question is there any edit box I can use to edit the text written left to right as usual?
 
Thanks...