KipV
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1 hour ago, h_d said:
I reckon you had the brush opacity set to 20%.
45 minutes ago, thomaso said:... or colour opacity in the Colours panel?
Oh yeah, those are both good points! It just occurred to me that one layer could have strokes with different opacity settings. Due to this scenario it would be impossible to have the brush opacity carried over to the layer opacity. I just had to think through the full process of how that would work.
I would like to make it a bit more transparent so I suppose now I would just do that through the layer panel? I might bring it down to 75%-80%.
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This is going to seem like a bit of an odd question, perhaps. I made some hand drawing on my Wacom tablet three years ago and titled it "background drawing body text 20 percent opacity." When I open the file I can see that the text is very light like you would expect from a low opacity image. The parts of the drawing that overlap get darker in that spot which is another characteristic low opacity (since 20% on 20% would give you 40% opacity.)
The thing I can't understand is that each layer says that it is set at full 100% opacity. How could that be possible? Maybe there is something really basic I could be missing?
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My most likely explanation for what happened is I might have renamed a parent folder while the Affinity file was still open. Which of course would have messed up the path. I didn't think about this until after I made this post but it occurred to me that I did need to rename some folders and likely forgot to close every single file down first. Ever since then everything has been working great in Affinity so I'm not so worried about it at all at this point.
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I want all the files to be organized in a folder dependent on the page it is in.
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Yeah, I would really like to keep illustrations together in the same folders as everything related to the project. This way when I want to update a webpage I just go to that folder that has all the imagery located together with anything else to do with that page. If I had to jump between this project folder and separate Affinity folders in very different locations I'd go crazy after a while!
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It is stored locally in the sites folder inside the home folder. It doesn't look like other programs are using it. I noticed other people talked about restarting the computer so I gave that a try and it seems to be running pretty well without the error messages at the moment. I wonder if the problem was really as simple as just restarting the computer?
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The message I get is:
Failed to save document: Title Drawings From May 2025
Save failed because control of the lock file was lost.
Do you wish to save the document to a new file?
When I try to save it I get the message:
Failed to save document: (with the path and file name of where I'm trying to save it.)
Save failed because the file could not be created.
Do you wish to save the document to a new file?
How can I resolve this problem?
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Okay great I'll look into it the filter and blend modes. This drawing is in Designer now do it need to be brought over to Photo?
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I have a design that is the basic outline and fill of a piece of clothing. I was wondering if there is a drawing technique that could give me the fuzzy look of the inside of sweats? I don’t tend to have the need to design with patterns all that often so it is hard to know where to look online in tutorial videos. Doing that search now it doesn't seem like there are too many videos out there on this type of thing.
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10 hours ago, Hangman said:
No doubt a silly question but when selecting a colour from the Colour Chooser, I'm assuming you have a Pixel Layer rather than an Image Layer selected in the Layers Panel...
Yes, it is a pixel layer. In this example I'll select the pixel layer which I want to add more brush strokes to and then go into the color chooser. Sometimes when I start to draw it will keep adding masks automatically even though I'm not sure that is what I want to do? I'm just trying to add more strokes on top of what I've already drawn.
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On 12/8/2024 at 11:32 PM, Hangman said:
Hi @KipV,
Are you selecting colours by holding the Alt Key and dragging? If so, I've not been able to replicate this so far...
Can you upload a quick screen recording demonstrating the issue...
I do not use the alt key when I am in the color chooser window. Do I need to? Sometimes it lets me select and sometimes it doesn't I should also mention when I went back to Affinity 2.5 it occasionally happens there was well but not as often.
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There is some strange stuff going on with the brush tool and the color picker. Sometimes when I try to set a color the selector circle will move back to white. It will force itself back without my involvement. Sometimes the color black I want will show up as I should be able to draw with it but when I draw nothing happens.
This didn't seem to be a problem with 2.5.
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@Hangman Yes, view mode is set to vector. The weight was thin so I changed the default to something thicker. Not sure why it was set that thin. @MEB Keep selected was checked.
It seems to be working fine now. I'm not sure what was going on but sometimes the stroke would stay there after I drew it and sometimes it would disappear. If it happens again I'll pay closer attention and post a follow up.
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Whether it be the pencil, brush, pen, sometimes a stroke will be there right after I draw it but usually not. I can draw a marque around the strokes which allows me to see where they should be but they usually do not show up.
If I switch the stroke from a stroke color over to a fill color than the fill always comes up. I do not think this is user error since it never is a problem on 2.5.5 only 2.6 (2831.)
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1 hour ago, A-mark777 said:
I am having the same issue. Running MPA with External Thunderbolt Display. Ventura OS. When I use external monitor, then switch back to MBA screen the panels and tools all go offscreen. Using Window > Zoom did help, but it should be automatic.
By bring up Ventura it makes me wonder if Somona would be any better in this area? I didn't want to upgrade at first but that version is nearly up to 14.2 now.
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On 11/6/2023 at 2:22 AM, Dan C said:
As above, this issue is logged with our development team and we're hoping to have this resolved shortly.
This problem seemed to be pretty resolved for me in 2.2 but came back for most of the apps in 2.3.
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@Diego Lopez For me it seems to have gotten better with the 2.2.1 update. 2.2.0 was almost unusable.
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1 hour ago, Serif Info Bot said:
The issue "Some shortcuts are broken when upgrading from 2.1.1 to 2.2 with modified shortcuts" (REF: PD-935) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.2.0.1971".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.This bug appears to have been fixed in Publisher. I tried to see if it was fixed in Designer but the window will not show up for me on the laptop. (I can see it in stage manager and expose only and probably on my large screen if I had access to it.) So right now I can't test that bug on Designer.
I am trying to figure out why an old file I thought set at 20% opacity is showing 100% in the layers panel.
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In this particular case the overlapping strokes are not too big of a deal (you can barely see them.) What I'm ultimately trying to do is export it as a png that is more transparency so that it will fade into the background more. So if lowering the layer opacity would do that then that is all I'm looking at doing.