Timber

Hi Matt, here's the file with the line with two arrowheads that shows the stepped issue I'm seeing. If you zoom in you can see the stepping on both ends. – TImber ArrowSteps.afdesign

Also, on my item 1. above, the swap arrow head with arrow tail, button/icon is really hard to see in light UI, not so bad in dark UI mode.

Here's a zoomed in snapshot of the stepping I'm seeing...

Great to see new features implemented~! A couple of notes: 1. It would be nice to make the 'reverse direction button' of arrow ends a bit more visible... it's so grayed out on my screen I guessed at what it was... couldn't really see the icon. 2. I don't recall seeing the OS requirements for 1.7 but I've been testing it in Mavericks and up... the Appearance Studio - multiple stroke and fills, seems to not work at all using Mavericks. One of the nice things about Affinity programs so far.. is that they have been usable in older OS's. Is this a change, or a bug? 3. In some quick playing with arrowheads, I get some stepping using arrowheads/ends at 500% size and using a pressure mapping of the line (bringing both the start and stop ends down but leaving the middle up). If I remove the arrowheads/ends this stepping goes away. Bug?

These are nice, thank you. However I've gotten good results with the Colour Sketch, a number of photos I've tried go to a black and white sketch devoid of colour. Any suggested tweak to the macro to keep the colours intact?

Thinking of ways to improve the application icons... So, I'm thinking maybe at least the "aperture" portion of the icon should be black/dark like an opening/aperture would be.

In Designer 1.7.0.3, it seems if I add a Soft Proofing layer and it's not at the top of my layer stack, as soon as I try to move it to the top, Designer crashes. Very repeatable so far in my testing.

So, it looks like I drew the curves using either the pencil or brush tool... then when curve was still selected I selected the Text tool... which seems to automatically convert the curve to text curve and wonk the ability to further adjust it's fill, stroke, etc. Lesson seems to be, to de-select curve before selecting Text tool.

Interesting... the idea of going back through the history panel was helpful, though I had saved file previously before turning 'save history with document' on, so where this happened in history wasn't there. In trying to replicate this, if I draw an object and then select under the Layer menu > Convert to Text Frame, it turns my object into a text frame and cannot be turned back unless one goes through history to before that action (or issue an undo command). The interesting thing is, I know I did NOT select Convert to Text Frame, so I am still unsure how this object became a text frame. Once a text farme... you can no longer edit the fill.

Hi, working in Designer Mac... I created a curve, say of a mountain range... using the pen tool. It looked good and I made some edits with the node tool, added a color, then selected the gradient tool and added some gradient shading. Odd thing is, when I went back into the file today to edit the gradient color... when I select the mountain layer, 1. there's not color, nor gradient available to edit. and 2. It shows in the layer's panel as a T (text) curve. There's no text in it and I really don't recall converting it. Is there any way to get it back to where I can edit the color and gradient? Anyone ever run into anything like this before?

Also then, does setting or changing the Color profile in Document Setting change the way one views the colors on screen? If so, then what's the difference in setting color there vs viewing with a Soft Proof layer?

Hi, working in Designer Mac, I've got an ad that I'm working on... my normal printer uses an ICC color profile of US Web Coated SWOP V2 and it looks on screen fine and prints out fine. Another print company that I'm sending the work to uses GRACol G7 GALCol2013_GRPC6 ICC and when I soft proof with this ICC profile the overall design looks like I put a light gray blanket over it. Question, can I use an overall color layer adjust that compensates for this? Or do I need to tweak each color as best I can? Thanks in advance!!!!

Adding the snowflakes as Assets seems straight forward enough.... only thing I find not great, is the snowflakes on the light gray background barely show up... it'd be cool if one could control or set the background color somehow to 'see' the assets better. Just a thought.

Studio panels... both for AD and AP I'd love to see the Typography panel be made available as a dock-able panel, so that it could fit alongside the Character and Paragraph panels as well as being a separate window. Just seems to make sense to have it another tab alongside the other text formatting panels. And, there's times I really wish the Studio panel AND/OR some of the panels had a scrollable length. There are times I simply cannot see enough of the panel info and scrolling would help. Thanks – Timber

One other interesting thing, when I switched from Light UI mode to Dark UI mode, initially the selected tool keeps a light gray highlight. If I clicked on it again, it went back to the Darker highlight mode. I've gotta tell you, the lighter highlighted tool stands out far quicker to my eye than the darker highlight. See screen shots below.

One minor bug... tried going to Develop persona, wanted to go back to Photo persona without changing anything, dialog box comes up saying "Please either commit or cancel the develop operation before switching to another Persona".... clicking cancel in this dialog box does nothing. One would expect it to go to the Photo persona as the dialog box seems to indicate.

I can make a clipping path, put a color fill layer above, and then use Color blend mode to change the color, but I'd like to clean up the underlaying irregular surface without losing the clapboard horizontal lines and other details. i.e. make it look like a clean even surface paint job but again showing board delineations and details. Suggestions?

Hi, see the attached AP photo file. Want to be able to show this as if it had a decent coat of paint on it. What's the best method of achieving a sample showing it as if it's freshly painted? It surely needs it, but the idea is to show how much nicer it'd look with a paint job. Thanks! House.afphoto

Almost a full month later and the current beta 1.6.5 (Beta 5) is still not usable on OS X Mavericks. No even worth trying to test other functions as it's so badly crippled. Hope to see a fixed beta real soon. Encouraging the next beta update, please! – Timber

Hi Oval, I missed that announcement. Glad to hear it's a known issue and being worked on. Cheers – Timber

Completely hosed. No tools, no Studio panels, cannot create New Document, really odd behavior, this and the current build of AP Mac too behave this way on OS X 10.9.5 Mac, early versions of Betas were fine, current release App store builds run fine. Just these last betas of AD and AP Mac. - Timber

Wow, all kinds of problems with this build, completely unusable. No tools, no Studio windows, no preferences access, splash screen never closes. Strange behaviors in AD beta too! Just nothing works right. Mac OS Mavericks 10.9.5, Betas at least worked up to this point. - Timber

I think too the previous fast pace of newer beta releases and updates, prior to adding the Windows and iPad versions of the apps, got everyone spoiled. That was very impressive, but it's also very understandable with the expanded product releases that things need to be crossed checked and make sure the code base functions properly across the various platforms now. I think the programmers are doing a great job and encourage all to sit tight and wait for the goodies. I'm sure the programmers want to add to these programs prowess as much as we all want to see that happen too. Meanwhile, there's still so much I learn all the time that I can do with the existing builds. Keep up the fantastic work guys and gals! and Thanks! – Timber

Also, as In AD I get a reliable crash every time I try to switch between Dark and Light UI or Light and Dark. in Affinity Photo Mac 1.6 Beta 1, using OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks. – Timber

Posted Today, 04:52 AM Timber, on 06 Jul 2017 - 12:07 PM, said: Hi Timber. Thanks for that. Could you let me know which version of macOS you're running? This is in OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks. - Timber