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waveman777

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  1. Hello there. It's been more than a year and nothing happened, so I want to address this one more time. This has been an issue since I remember, and it slows down designing dramatically. Object selection shouldn't count as action! It forces me to press cmd+z many more times then necessary, when I look at history, I see multiple rows named "clear selection" and "set current selection". But these are not "real" actions, only selections, and undoing them takes too much extra time and it's a real pain, as you sometimes need to press cmd+z 20 times in order to undo 10 real actions. Could you please exclude selecting object from history list? It's a real pain. Thanks
  2. Should this be considered as a bug and therefore the post moved to a different section?
  3. Hi there. Here something that's been bothering me from the very beginning. I'm not sure why UNDO works the way it works, but when I select an object and move it around, then deselect it, then hit Undo > it is selecting an object again instead of moving it to the previous position. In order to move it back to the previous position, I need to hit Undo twice! I wonder what's the idea behind it. Selecting and deselecting it's not really an action one would like to undo. If I move several objects around 10 times and would like to undo it one by one, I need to hit Undo 20 times! instead of 10. This is really time consuming and nothing justifies that. Again - selecting an object is not really an action and shouldn't be on treated as one. Ideally, there should be an option to skip selections and make it work as every other software for designers. Best Regards
  4. it's been a year since I bought Affinity Designer and I'm still not able to use it efficiently... At all. Illustrator is still a winer when it comes to working with colour, and their Recolor function provide excellent solution to recolouring multiple objects at once. Without this functionality Affinity Designer is pretty much useless unless you're doing some very basic stuff. I can't believe that after a year this still the case... I don't know why I bought it really, I must have had my hopes too high.
  5. Hi MEB, I'm sure you're going to improve the colour picker at some point, but meanwhile all we need is a shortcut to it which I believe is not a big deal, although I might be wrong. Anyway, the way it works now reduces efficiency dramatically, the tools are there but accessing them quickly is a pain. Being able to recolour multiple objects quickly is also crucial for illustration designers. Thanks
  6. I'm wondering why no one from the staff ever replied to what I posted about colour picker problems (check the previous page), while most trivial questions about the AppStore are being answered by staff or moderators almost immediately. It really discourages me to keep testing this software as I feel that I'm being ignored. One more problem I noticed was when I used trackpad to rotate the canvas. Now I've not idea how to reset the rotated canvas to it's initial view.
  7. I totally understand your point and I'm aware of the fact that Adobe's been here for quite some time, therefore I'm not asking Affinity guys to add or refine most advanced functionalities. I need basic tools to work decently so I can start using Designer as an alternative to Illustrator. The colour picker tool is there, so the functionality is also there. All needs to be done for the time being is to add a shortcut to it so I don't need to waste time dragging the tool across the screen. I believe this isn't something that require much work, but is simply ignored. What's the point in adding more functions if people cannot use the software due to lack of basic ones? My frustration comes from the fact that I bought a software for graphic designers, and I cannot use it because I don't have a shortcut to colour picker. It's kinda like... adding a rear spoiler to a car that doesn't have a wheel.
  8. This is all great, but unfortunately I still cannot used your software which I bought months ago. I cannot work with a software for graphic design which doesn't have a properly working eyedropper tool and a shortcut attached to it. Could you please tell me how long do I need to wait for it? Is there any solution that I'm not aware of? I still use Adobe Illustrator for everything and I cannot see myself switching to Affinity Designer anytime soon even though I paid for it... I must admit I hoped that this is going to be something that will give Adobe guys headaches, but what I see is that you're working hard on new features, but completely ignored the basics. Being able to use eyedropper tool instantly with one click is absolutely essential without a doubt. I don't even mention something like recolour tool... I guess recolouring a complex artwork with hundreds of objects would take enormous amount of time given the tools we have available now in Designer. All best
  9. Are you planing to fix the Colour Picker at some point or give it a shortcut?? This is ridiculous! I bought this software months ago and still cannot use it! I'm stuck with Adobe because it allows me to work fast! Why don't you fix what's most important first? It's a colour picker! The most frequently used tool! My eyes hurt and my hand hurts from using it! I'm a bit frustrated at this point.
  10. Guys, please check the solution in this post, and see if this would work for you. If so, this might be something for developers to work on. All comments welcome!
  11. I get your point but you don't always need a precise colour picker as the loupe. If you simply want to sample a colour and apply it, changing icon to eyedropper like in Illustrator is the best approach, as it's not as distracting as the loupe. What you see inside the loupe is much bigger, therefore you're forced to use precise selection which takes more time due to the cursor (loupe) size. Precise colour picker i something that you need only from time to time, and holding an already selected eyedropper tool for 2 seconds gives you that option on demand. This can be also achieved by force touching on a new apple trackpad.
  12. This is strictly related to eyedropper tool which is currently not developed very well. We've mentioned it many time and hopefully Affinity developers will make it happen. One of the solution to that is described in THIS post. In this solution eyedropper tool would work similarly to the one in Illustrator which allows you to copy fill & stroke from other objects by evoking eyedropper via keyboard shortcut.
  13. Guys, you're absolutely right. Please also check this post, where I explained a possible solution for the eyedropper tool. I'd be interested in what you think about it. Cheers
  14. Hi @MEB Thanks for your quick explanation to @Nazario, but have you actually read my post? I'm very interested to know what you guys think about the possible solution I posted. I know it's a long post but I wanted to be as clear as possible. Please let me know if this is something you could discuss and possibly implement. Thanks
  15. Hi Alex, I'd keep the colour well to the right as it is now, I don't see any point in simply abandoning it. Yes, having a colour picker as a regular tool should also work fine. The point is - how you access your tools and how quickly and efficiently you can use them. I'd really love to use AD and move from Illustrator but I simply can't. I takes me ages to to quickly recolour objects in AD, it is so frustrating... but I can do it in Illustrator in seconds! Either by using eyedropper and quickly apply colours from other objects if I need to, or by using "Recolor Artwork" tool which gives me a list of all the colours used and I can quickly changing them, combine them, or applying a completely new colour palette. All this can be done in seconds in Illustrator. If I was asked to recolour a very complex illustration in AD, I'd really start crying I guess. Also, I know that you can get the colour picker loupe in many tools by holding Option and dragging the cursor while holding the mouse button down, but again - this is completely useless because 1st - you need to remember in which tools you can use this option, 2nd - you can pick the colour, but this colour is not applied to the selected object! This is ridiculous. There is no point in trying to make everything differently than in Illustrator. If something works great, it shouldn't be redesigned unless it makes the tool even better! "Recolor Artwork" tool in Illustrator is a killer if you want to recolour complex illustrations. In AD - I struggle! Imagine applying different colour on 50 different objects in AD...either your hand would be in pain, or you'd fall asleep during the process. ;) All you need is click, and click. When I try some of the tools in AD, I get the impression that the software is made by great programmers, but there is not even one professional graphic designer in the team.
  16. Oh, and btw, the current behaviour of the colour picker wouldn't even need to be changed as some people might like it. What I posted is something that could be easily added, and I believe it is not a rocket science. It's just adding a shortcut to the eyedropper, and slightly changing the behaviour of the loupe. Most people, especially professional designers would really appreciate it.
  17. Hi Lille, less steps is exactly what wee need. Selecting colour and applying it should be the easiest and highly intuitive thing as we use it all the time. Basically it's all about using the steps you mentioned in the most efficient way. You can click on eyedropper, but you should be also be able to evoke it by a shortcut. There is absolutely no need fro dragging it from somewhere, it takes far too much time and you're loosing focus on what you're working on. Also, you could click on placement area, but if you have an object selected while using eyedropper, the colour should apply to that object instantly. This is obvious that when you have an object selected and then used eyedropper shortcut, you wan't to change the color of that object by sampling if from somewhere. Also, the loupe is something that we have by default, but it's not necessary, as most of the time we don't need so precise colour sampling tool. Imagine two big shapes, and you want to copy a colour from one to the other. When you go and grab an eyedropper, the cursor is changing to a big loupe and it becomes your cursor, which you need to drag all the way to the desired object and finding the right place to sample the colour from. It's more difficult than with a simple eyedropper cursor like in Illustrator, therefore, it would be much easier if you could evoke a loupe only when you hold a mouse button for a moment using eyedropper. This holding a button when using eyedropper tool should be automatically recognised by software that you need more precise colour sampling and gives you a loupe instead, which again would be easier to use because you wouldn't need to drag it to the desired place, as you're already there! This would me a massive improvement!
  18. Hi Alex, your idea is interesting but it seems that there would be too much thinking about what you're actually doing. It look like a process that you need to learn and get used to it. My concept utilises something that is already out there. Everybody is used to 1 click action - you click a shortcut button, select a colour, and that's it! But since Affinity Designer has the ability to use the loupe, this could be combined, you cling and hold, and you have a precise colour selector. Not much thinking involved. It's very intuitive and straightforward. I really would like to hear what Affinity developers think about it. Cheers Norbert
  19. Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum and this is my first post here. As a graphic designer with more than 15 years of experience and someone who's been looking for an alternative to Adobe products, I've been testing Affinity Designer Beta for a while and I'm really amazed what can be achieved with such great input from users and by developers who listen! Right now I use Affinity Designer Beta along with Adobe Illustrator, testing, comparing, trying to achieve similar goals using both. It is great that developers from Affinity are not trying to make a copy of Adobe products and finding mostly better solutions with users in mind, but there are times, when I'm really in a hurry and I'm forced to do certain things in Illustrator. There are things that slowing me down A LOT in Designer, and the major one is colour picking. Right now I just cannot find any other way then: - selecting an object - moving cursor to the top right corner - grabbing a colour picker - choosing a colour - moving cursor to the top right corner again - and then finally selecting it. All this takes far too much time for such simple operation, so I gave it a lot of thought, and came up with something that I believe will work great. First of all, what's needed is a one button shortcut for the Colour Picker tool like the "i" in Illustrator, and then we can use the loupe from Designer to create even better experience and this is how it could look like: - select Colour Picker tool via one button shortcut, then - pick a colour from any object by just clicking on it - OR - HOLD on any object for 2 seconds to change the cursor to LOUPE for more precise colour selection! - boom! And now the most obvious thing - if you don't have any object selected, this action will just choose a colour which will be selected when new object is created, but when you DO have an object selected, this action will APPLY the colour you've just chosen to the already selected object. Advantages: much fewer moves and clicks, less distracting and keeps you focused on what you're currently working on, intuitive and when gives more control by using loupe for precise colour selection without any additional clicks or moves. All this would speed up everything tremendously! If this or something similar has been already discussed, or if there is any solution to that which is already implemented and I simply don't know about it, please let me know. I wonder what you all think about it! Best Regards!!!
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