Rocketdrive
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Brush Cursor does not rotate
Rocketdrive replied to postmadesign's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
I'd like to see that, too. It is not terribly important, since I see more pressing ToDos, but would be nice to have in a future update. -
+1 for that one, too
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Totally agree. Temporary keys can be very useful. +1
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Thanks, mate.To be honest, it was the wisdom of many good teachers that I could tap, and a lot of ongoing practice that brought me somewhere.
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As Inktober 2018 continues I decided to stay a bit longer with Photo. I am pretty happy with the mood and look of those three illustrations
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I've actually been drawing for this Inktober mainly in Blender 2.8 with grease pencil. However the last three days I needed a deeper, more painterly and textured look - perfect for the painting tools in Photo. Ironically, it was the special prompt list from Adobe, which made me switch back to Affinilty for those days
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Symbols, Superscript
Rocketdrive replied to Rocketdrive's topic in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on Windows threads
Thanks, Chris. I can't check the glyphs right now, but I know that the same font can be set to superscript in Affinity Designer. -
I noticed two minor things today: 1) When detatching a symbol, the corresponding objects in the layers palette still have the orange bar that denotes a symbol 2) Highlighting two characters (asterisk and closing bracket) and clicking on the Superscript button didn't do anything to the characters. They just stayed as they were.
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Not happy with White balance tool
Rocketdrive replied to Atindra's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
Hi @Atindra, on my monitor the upper image appears well balanced, even if a bit on the warm side of the spectrum. The lower one appears to have a red tint, and at the same time a colder white balance. I guess I know what You are missing in AP, however since I never shoot with a proper greycard I learned to balance the color with the usual temperature and tint sliders present in AP as well as in LR (which I use for 99% of my shots). LR has deeper control, since You can adjust hue, saturation and lightness of individual colour groups - which really helps with complicated lighting situations and unintended tints in parts of the image. I wouldn't mind if Affinity got this amount of control, too. -
Thanks, @GabrielM, that's it. Much appreciated
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Hey guys, it would be great if I could choose to save the settings for the last new document. Like, width, height, doc type, units.. in short, everything As far as I remember that is the default behaviour in the desktop version, and I find it very useful. Those who don't should of course be able to turn that off. And next step would be template files or document presets. But until then the above would help a lot.
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I am using English as the main language on my iPad, but edit many Designer documents that contain german text. Now, some spellchecker does it's job and underlines most of the text with red dots in Designer. I have all spellchecking features under iOS settings turned off, and can't find any in Designer. Is there any other place where I can look? TLDR: I want all spellchecking turned off by default in Designer. And Photo, should it behave the same.
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Yea, once You think about it it's the most obvious way to go. But You have to cancel out some of the philosophical ballast as well as resist the urge to follow every hype
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The comparison between Affinity and Resolve is pretty far fetched IMO, but that's totally fine as long as it works for You . I use Affinity together with Fusion (standalone) without problems, by creating and exporting assets as PNG or EXR, and using them for compositing and animation in Fusion. As long as both companies play nice and adhere to industry standards, I can build my pipeline to my liking. About Linux ... I wouldn't mind if one day everything just worked, every driver needed was there and stable, and I had all the apps that I need without spending night after night browsing forums and hacking the hell out of the shell . Until last time I tried it there was at least one major dealbreaker, maybe nonexistent driver, wonky wacom support, and of course missing pro apps like, well, Affinity. For the time being I choose like that: which app does the job best? Which OSes does it run on? On which OS does it run best? Which hardware does the OS run on? Which hardware is the best compromise of power, stability and price?
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After exporting illustrations from Photo as JPG files, I switch over to bridge and fill in metadata such as description, keywords and copyright. I thought, at some point it would be cool to add IPTC data in Photo directly, and have that attached to all files that support it, like JPG.
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I have many brushes, some of which appear similar to each other in the palette, but behave differently. In order to easier differentiate them I'd like to see (and change) their names in addition to the stroke preview. In fact, I'd like to customize what I see: tip, stroke, name, and also set a size for the icons.
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I didn't find a setting for that, so I'd like to ask You to add it: I often need to see which exact brush I have currently selected. I have many of them, some similar by icon, but different in behaviour.
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Even if it's hard to believe: You can make Your own designs or templates. Those possibly having the advantage of not looking like the stuff that everyone else has.
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Because Word sucks, most people also do not care about using it properly, i.e. using styles throughout, but rather use direct formatting. I seldom relied on direct import of Word docs, bacause it always introduced problems further down the road. For best results, I convert the content to plaintext first, then go over the entire text (be it a four page folder or a badass 200 page business report) and reformat it properly in the target application, that mostly being Indesign. When the most used styles are bound to shortcuts, formatting plain text is extremely fast, and You have very good control over it. I totally see that importing word files is important for many, but in the meantime it is still easy to get work done with little workarounds.
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Currently I am developing a folder based on designs that I created in Designer. So far I like the experience. Almost everything is exactly or at least close to where I expect it to be. Now I am not afraid to retrain my muscle memory, but it's fine to know where menus and functions are. I haven't had any crashes or glitches so far, but I am also not pushing very hard - just getting accustomed. Publisher feels like Designer with multiple pages, which is basically what I first expected of it. Textframe linking is perfect, copying and pasting elements from Designer let's me reuse most of what I have already built. The different zoom behavior that is set by default reminded me of classic Adobe apps. Fortunately there is a setting to change to Affinity's "scrubby" zoom, which I prefuer so much more now. Next up on the testing list: image linking as well as exporting for print.
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Nice ones!
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Will there be an iOS beta?
Rocketdrive replied to n8o's topic in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on macOS threads
Now that both are available on the iPad, I can say: Both Designer and Photo are perfect on the iPad for drawing and illustrating. However more traditional design work that involves a lot of mouse work goes slower on the iPad. So while a lot can be done on a mobile device, it is not always practical. It might be partially due to muscle memory, of course, so I will try to push things further on the iPad -
Yep, the two buddies are running in order to get the house with the bullhead warm and cosy while it's freezing outside
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Thanks, I just couldn't find it online - which means that it maybe got "just" printed
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I'd copy the panorama to a second layer, and increase the brightness until the dark areas match the light areas of the original image. Then use a mask with a linear transparency gradient: the end with the now too-light areas should be 100% transparent, and the other end, now properly exposed, should be 100% opaque, covering the dark areas underneath. The gradient can further be tweaked with intermediate steps.
