postmadesign
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4 hours ago, GRAFKOM said:
My point is that the publisher could take the tools from the Designer, such as Corner Tool, Contour Tool, Pencil Tool, Vector Brush Tool, creating symbols and creating Artboards.
And already. And we have a very nice show.
Of course, Photo as a separate program due to many other tools. Although Photo begs to add a few tools from the other two, eg Transparency Tool, and I can't understand why I can't create a bleed in Photo.This really is a workflow issue. I believe that illustration or graphics are a very different thing than layout and graphic design. I think Publisher really took an interesting approach with their personas, so that you can actually access the corner tool or the vector brush by going to the Designer persona. However I do not use this functionality as much as i could, and often prefer working on graphics, logos etc in designer only and doing the layouts in Publisher. Perhaps that is because I am so used to working this way coming from Adobe. Fusing Publisher and Designer completely would not be a good thing in my opinion. It would make the program much more complicated and bloated. As I said I just need some elements to be present in all apps for consistency.
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5 hours ago, MEB said:
Go to the Character Panel, switch the first dropdown on top left to Missing Fonts (it's located at the end of the list), then click the arrow on the next control on the right - it should display all missing fonts families.
Did not know about this, at least thats something. Thanks!
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16 hours ago, GRAFKOM said:
More and more I come to the conclusion that only Publisher and Photo should remain of the three programs.
Not sure I agree. I never really use Photo, Designer and Publisher I use all the time. Designing vector illustrations and Assets is much easier with artboards than Pages, and certainly believe a full blown vector program should be part of the trilogy. What I find hard to work with sometimes, is that only for one specific feature you would need to switch to the other app, like a vector pencil tool that is missing in Photo, or the perspective and mesh transform tools that are in Photo but not Designer. The borders between the apps are sometimes arbitrary and might not be useful for all workflows. A more flexible system where I could pick and choose which modules and functions I really need to use together would really be my dream, just give me the toolbox with all the tools (when I have bought all the apps) and let me combine them in a modular way... I can dream, right??
Anyway, I think it would be useful to have some parts in all 3 programs, like resource and font management. Seems like a rather simple thing to implement as the code is there.
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I saw that you added a resource manager to the latest beta, which makes a lot of sense to me. It would be very useful too if you could add a font manager like Publisher has too, though. It is hard to assess which fonts are missing from a designer document and know which ones I have to activate. I only get a small pop-up message when I open the document, but this not always complete if I use a lot of fonts, and I can not get it back when it disappears. I hope you could consider this?!
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49 minutes ago, Sean P said:
It looks like this issue is slightly different to the one I thought it was - from what I can see its being caused by Accumulation/Flow values of less than 100% not displaying whilst using the Pixel Brush Tool. All those brushes are set to use the Pixel Brush, so when pressure isn't 100% the flow/accumulation isn't causing the brush to not draw like previous.
That might be the cause. I tested some regular paint brushes, and these seem to behave normally.
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1 hour ago, MattP said:
This might be a crazy question, but is it possible you've played with the pressure mapping for either Affinity Designer retail or Beta in the Wacom drivers? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any changes to the pressure input at all and this looks like the ramp is acting differently?
No, both are set up very much the same...
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This still is an issue in Beta 1.9.0.4
The brushes look OK in the panel, but don't work as they should when painting.
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2 hours ago, MEB said:
@postmadesign,
What problems with raster brushes? The rendering of brushes in the Brushes panel in Affinity Designer should be fixed too if that's the one you are referring to (the fix wasn't included in the current Beta of Photo 1.9.0.199).The brushes render correctly in the panel, but don't behave as they do in the MAs version. It reacts completely different to pressure in some of the brushes, not creating a gradual buildup with more pressure, but rather an on/off thing. I know this is not a place for bugs, but I created a thread about this two betas ago, and although things have changed, the brushes still don't work like they should. See attached to know what I mean.
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1 minute ago, ChristiduToit said:
Ah, this is super awesome. The (easy) canvas rotation feature is definitely going to be a game changer, been waiting for that for a long time!
I really like that you've implemented it into the scroll wheel of the mouse.
It might be nice to also tie it to the zoom tool, so that if you have the zoom tool selected and click and drag while holding CMD it also rotates - that way users using tablets can quickly and freely rotate on-screen using their pens instead of having to switch to the mouse first. Almost like the brush modifier shortcut (ctrl+opt+click and drag for brush size), but for canvas rotation.Yeah, that would be great, other programs SPACE to pan with and SPACE+SHIFT to rotate with the pen on the tablet.
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I see some weird bugs with the layers panel and vector brushes (reported) but it's nice to see the resource manager in Designer.
Perhaps you could consider adding the font manager from publisher too, as it just makes sense for a design program. Finding and replacing fonts can be tricky in more complicated documents in Designer.
I like the new canvas rotation. I use it with an Intuos 5 with touch, and it works well by just pressing CMD and scrolling with two fingers up or down. Certainly much better than trying to rotate with two fingers using gestures on the Intuos, which never properly works.
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I have seen this too.
I use an iMac 2011 with High Sierra
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I don't know if this is the same problem or related, but all vector brush presets are exactly the same basic line, the preinstalled ones and the ones I installed myself. This is quite a bad bug, as i makes the program practically useless for illustration right now and I will have to stick to the MAS version for now.
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I see the same issue on the latest Betas, as well as still some weird behaviour in the pixel brushes, as described in a thread in the Designer Beta forums. It is different in this Photo Beta, but it is not as it is in the retail version.
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I uploaded the brushes and the file. Will try the propcol file, but cannot guarantee it will go through.
EDIT: all files are now uploaded
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I tried uploading, but as it is a rather large file, I always get network trouble. I will try again shortly, or upload the things in seperate attempts.
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Here is the screenshot of my performance settings.
I use a 2011 iMac with High Sierra
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In the latest beta I have seen problems with vector lines with brushes applied, but also on some objects with a basic color fill, that they appear and disappear, especially when zooming in and out. This especially happens with selected paths. I attached a video where you see the effect with a stroked object.
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I uploaded the brushes now.
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I am uploading the brush packs now. I hope you can fix this!
EDIT: upload does not seem to work right now. I will try again in the morning.
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I have stumbled into a rather nasty problem with the pixel brushes in the latest betas for both Designer and Photo. When I use exactly the same brush in both the beta and the App Store versions, I get a very different result. It is hard to describe, so have a look at the video. It seems to have something to do with the opacity or flow dynamics, but I am not sure. The first brush one from the Crayon set by Frankentoon. It is a brush with custom wet edges, but not a double brush. The second brush shown is from Eleni Debos brushset (from the Affinity store) which I use with the pixel tool, so no wet edges. No double brush either. It affects other brushes as well, not just these too. I hope you can fix this soon, as it is quite unusable atm.
FWIW I am using both Programs on a 2011 iMac (non-metal compatible) running High Sierra.
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20 hours ago, Andy Somerfield said:
- Text on a path is now available in Photo.
Any chance you could get the Auto Selection / Magic Wand in Designer's pixel persona? It seems to be a glaring omission, and curiously it is in the ipad version but not the desktop....
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17 hours ago, Andy Somerfield said:
Setting a blend mode on a sub-brush will now work properly - paving the way for import of PSD dual-brushes in a future build.
That is pretty cool, would be great if PS double brushes could be imported into Affinity, as it would make the number of available brushes much higher than now
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13 hours ago, MattP said:
- Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say...
Perhaps it could be possible to select the same brush properties for vector objects, and/or the same appearance (all strokes and fills)?
Select all locked layers, or have the ability to exclude locked layers from the selection.
Perhaps add an ability to select only within a layer or group?
Font Manager in Designer?
in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on macOS threads
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I don't agree with this assesment. I think it is very nice vector program that is fast and intuitive, but lacks some of more advanced features Illustrator has. With regards to vector brushes you are correct, and I do wish Serif would add more options in this regard into v2. I have worked with with Illustrator for several years, but always found it very cumbersome to work with. It has great features, but I never likes the basic path manipulation. I like this a lot better in AD. I guess it all comes down to personal preference, but I personally think Designer is the most original program of the three, as it is something between Illustrator and Photoshop. I find it very nice to work on designs, create iterations on multiple artboards, look reference images in one big space. Though Illustrator could potentially do this, it is just too sluggish for me. Publisher is great to have because I want to have an alternative to indesign as I need it for my job, but it is more like a light and quick version of indesign in many regards. As for Photo: I never really use Photo that much for my job, as I do hardly any photo work, and for the more lightweight tasks, I just use Designer...
PS I am happy about some discussion, but can we get back to the original topic, this whole thread is starting is gone quite off rails. Thanks.