Jowday

Please imporove this filter, because its a mainfilter for our layout-business.
We get tons of bad dark photos (from schools and some churches) which we pimp up easily with the equal filter in AdPhSh.
In AdPhSh it takes 1 or 2 seconds to optimize and the quality/result is milestones better than in Affinity Photo 1.6/1.7.

You are an excellent presenter, @James Ritson 

Hi @Sean P
Thank you for your thorough answer.  Especially the videos.
How about the use case @squirrelfire reported did not work for him now. There is no way to quickly edit and smoothen a sharp node like he preferred in 1.6, right?
Note that CMD is Mac only - Windows users must use the right mouse buttons as well. It is as handy like using light poles as chopsticks.
@squirrelfire If this is a deal breaker for you, give Gravit Designer a test run. Then pen tool is second to none - I use it a lot for constructing shapes quickly. Thats what I purchased Designer for originally. It also has a knife tool and bezigon tool. I export my shapes to Illustrator when they are ready all done.
 

Now that is a beautiful list of features 

Yo be honest it’s a feature a lot of us would like to see implemented. Hopefully it gets implemented and if it doesn’t then their is nothing we can do about it. For me crop to selection is apart of my workflow in every project. It’s just how I like to work and I would like to see it implemented.

@Sean P Thanks for the update and the information. As @Jowday mentioned this new feature is adding a lot of time to my projects requiring multiple clicks and/or button presses to acomplish the same task I could easily do on the fly in 1.6.

I agree this is very basic and would be very useful.

Can I please bump this thread? This feature is really, really needed. Like super important. I was shocked that wasn't implemented yet. I realize we can go with the boolean operators but that is just ... not the same.
Thanks.

I know I've suggested a similar feature, but all this talk of smoothing curves brought this up in my mind; in addition to a tool to smooth a curve, Affinity Designer should also have the opposite.  I am of course referring to Midpoint Displacement, which would allow illustrators to make non-uniform curves more easily than having to draw each node individually.
 

 
Being able to smooth curves is indeed important, but as it is, it's really hard to produce a line that doesn't look uniform, and a roughening tool to add pseudorandom midpoint displacement would make illustrating much less time-consuming.

A 5-hour work on the iPad Pro, the former of the previous work with the program called Nasrettin hoca, prepared by the Affinity Designer program with the vector coloring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6tmgaMsDgs&t=3s
 
 
 

But in the comment section... 

I don't want my vectors to be so flat and smooth, but I can't find a simple way to make them rougher. In Illustrator there is a transform option called roughen, which is nice and simple, but I really don't want to use Illustrator because their subscription service is stupid. and I love Affinity too much to use Adobe products. I just really can't figure out how to go about getting this effect on my vectors.

Hello, 

I am a very longtime Serif software user. Over the years I have had the following products. 
Serif Drawplus 4 Serif Drawplus 6 Serif Drawplus 7 Serif Drawplus 8 Serif Drawplus X2 Serif Drawplus X4 Serif Drawplus X8  Serif Webplus 10 I still use Serif Drawplus X8 almost exclusively, though I own a more recent version of CorelDraw. I prefer Drawplus overall. 
I would like to move to Affinity Designer soon, however, for the past 5 YEARS I have seen threads again and again with an employee claiming that gradient mesh is on the road map. 

I absolutely cannot switch to any product that does not offer gradient mesh as I use it in almost every project I create. There is no better way to produce a photo realistic nose on a face in my opinion. I simply will not buy a program without it while I can use Drawplus, CorelDraw, or even Inkscape and find the tool there. 

I have been waiting, for five years, to see an announcement that Affinity Designer has gradient mesh. I am almost done waiting. I need to know, definitively, will it come out this calendar year? 

If not, I will permanently move to CorelDraw. 
I would very much prefer to stick with you. 
Can you please give me more information than a vague statement that it is on a roadmap?
Roadmaps typically finish out in less than half a decade.
Is this actually going to occur? If you decided not to do it, that is fine. I am okay with moving to another product but I am tired of waiting for something this board was told in 2016 would eventually come out. Please have the courtesy to tell a life long supporter of your products if this is worth waiting for or not. 
Thank you. 

These are further illustrations for the "week" series. The idea - it's a short rhyming sentence - a task for every day for children - so the children's stylistics. For me it's Affinity fun and learning. I only show the ones I have done in Affinity Designer (others are in Inkscape). Each illusion came out in a different style.
THURSDAY
 

this is my second illustration in Affinity. I draw many illustrations, but I'm switching to Affinity.
 

This is one you can stare at for a long time for many reasons - well done!

This is one you can stare at for a long time for many reasons - well done!

Why not this pattern? Its awesome!

Hi.
In fireworks for example when i select a image with the selection tools, then i can convert the selection a curves.
In Affinity Designes how can do that?.
Thanks a lot for you help!

I agree. AD should get some improvements regarding web-design features.
As a workaround you can try https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ to optimize your exported icons.

Yes, we are patient. In 2016/2017 it was “high on the list”.

This issue was reported over 2 years ago and there's no sign of it being even considered let alone fixed. All I've heard since I reported it is a message like this from the moderators saying that it's a known issue and that it's been passed on to the dev team. 

Ah, one piece I forgot to share. (I hate double posting, so I have to check everytime - if I do bear with me). 
A bit of a retro-thriller spoof. 
best
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