JerryLin

Could Affinity Designer add this function ASAP?
It's really inconvenient.

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Hi JerryLin,
That "mode" only appears if you skew an object containing a transparency or gradient and edit the transparency/gradient again and it's only available in the Customer Beta. It allows you to have more control over the gradient/transparency distortion.

A more recent set of tutorials for 1.7 (and above) is available via affinity.serif.com or from Designer's Welcome screen.
The legacy tutorial set, also available on YouTube, includes:
1. Getting Started
•        Discover Affinity Designer
•        For Beginners
•        For Beginners Too
•        Using the Help System
•        CMYK Setup
•        Designing from a Sketch
•        New from Clipboard
•        Actual Size Zoom
•        Editing PDF Text
•        Using the Grade UI Kit
2. Artboards
•        Artboards: Basics
•        Artboards: Exporting and Printing
•        Artboards: Colour and Opacity
•        Artboards: From Content
•        Artboards: Design Aids
3. Drawing Lines and Shapes
•        Pen Power
•        Shapes
•        Convert to Curves
•        Corner Tool
•        Drawing Perfect Triangles
•        Stylish Strokes: Textured Lines
•        Stylish Strokes: Dashed Lines
4. Colour and Opacity
•        Complex Gradients
•        Adjusting Noise and Opacity in Fills
•        Transparency Tool
•        Changing Colours
•        Blend Modes
•        Colour Picker Tool
•        Colour Palette from Document
•        Colour Palette from Image
•        Pantone Colours
•        Global, Spot and Overprint Colours
•        Quick Opacity Setting
5. Layer control
•        Layers Panel
•        Lock Children
6. Object control
•        Selecting, Finding and Isolating Objects
•        Rotation Point: Overview
•        Rotation Point: Worked Example
•        Vector Scaling Options
7. Symbols and Assets
•        Symbols (1.5)
•        Assets (1.5)
8. Painting
•        Shading Using Raster Brushes
•        Adding Raster Texture
9. Text
•        Artistic, Frame and Shape Text
•        Text on a Path: Overview
•        Text on a Path: Worked Example
•        OpenType Typography
10. Media
•        Using Raster Images in a Composition
•        Film Noir Style Illustration
11. Saving, exporting and sharing
•        Save History
•        Soft Proofing
•        Exporting
•        Exporting: Layers
•        Exporting: Slices
•        Exporting: Continuous
•        Exporting: Automatic Directory/Folder Creation
•        Exporting: Multiple Outputs from a Single Slice
•        Exporting: Transparent and Coloured Backgrounds
•        Exporting User Settings and Keyboard Shortcuts
12. Design Aids
•        Constraints: Overview
•        Constraints: Worked Example for Web Design
•        Snapping and Dynamic Guides •        Snapping: Candidates
•        Snapping: Object Creation
•        Snapping: UI and Web Design
•        View Modes and Split View
•        New View
•        View Points
•        Grids: Icon Design
•        Grids: Floor Plans
•        Isometric Grid Drawings: Part 1 (Single Planes)
•        Isometric Grid Drawings: Part 2 (Multiple Planes)
•        Isometric Grid Drawings: Part 3 (Layers and Compounds)
•        Grids: Coloured Lines
 

1. Align to key items is available from Alignment options. You will have two new options - First and Last. If you select a group of objects the First Align option will align all objects in the selection to the object which was selected first before all the others. The same applies to the Last Align option but it will align objects to the last selected object.
 
2. If you edit a Raster Brush you will have a new option to set Wet Edges and create a custom profile.
 
3. We're hoping to add some information about the Outlier stacking mode to the help in the future  

Hello JerryLin, 
Cmd + ` only works for Separated mode (Window -> Separated Mode). In regular mode use ctrl+tab to change views instead.
 
I'm not sure i understood your second question:
- Fill/Stroke context toolbar flyouts now support noise/opacity slider for colours
This point refers to the ability to toggle between noise and alpha in the Fill and Stroke flyouts panels on the context toolbar (see image below).
Earlier this was only possible in the Color panel on the right of the interface. Now you can do it through the context toolbar too.
 

- Hold Shift while dragging RGB or CMYK sliders in the Colour panel to create tints / shades.
  I really luv this feature, will u add this feature in Affinity Designer??? It's really useful and powerful feature like color picker !!   :wub:

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: None
Mac App Store: Not submitted
New beta sign-ups: https://affinity.serif.com/photo
Update: Run the app to get the link
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Levels adjustment can now be applied per channel. - Custom blend gamma (per layer) (Blending Options dialog). - Text defaults to 1.45 gamma (looks crisper). - Custom coverage / AA maps (per layer) (Blending Options dialog). - Pixel Tool can now erase (hold Command). - Crop tool will now snap to guides, page edge. - Marquee tools will now snap to guides, page edge. - Option to always show a brush crosshair in Preferences. - Menu items to facilitate switching Persona - (Affinity Photo menu). - Duplicating a pixel layer with a pixel selection will do the right thing. - PSD import / export improvements. - Layers panel context menus. - Resize canvas improvements. - Fixed moving guides & samplers with a pixel selection. - Paste As New Document fixes. - Colour picker accuracy improvements. - Brush cursors will now correctly honour larger accessibility settings. - Can now specify default working space conversion / assignment (and warnings) in Preferences. - Live blend modes on Filter Effects dialog. - New “Saturation” slider for Develop Persona. - Vignette filter improvements. - Hand Tool / Zoom Tool improvements. - Develop brushes have context bar elements for size, hardness. - Liquify brushes can be sized using [ and ]. - Smudge brush improvements. - Hold Shift while dragging RGB or CMYK sliders in the Colour panel to create tints / shades. - Flood fill improvements.   - Numerous stability and performance improvements.   - Numerous minor Develop Persona improvements.