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Hello, can someone tell me where is the placeholder text command in the iPad version? Could not find it. Or is this the next function that does not exist in the iPad version? Had to create an extra file for me now where a placeholder text is located so I have one. Actually assumed there was no difference between the desktop and tablet versions. But now I unfortunately had to find out that the tablet version is only a slimmed down version and that there are some features not there, which I use quite often in the desktop version.

Hello, could you please add the hyphenation feature in Designer as well? Sure, I can also work manually or even right away with Publisher, but if there are already the many options for typography in Designer, it is also helpful to have the automatic hyphenation function in it. I would also like to have it in the iPad version, since there is unfortunately no Publisher for the iPad yet, I use Designer for typographic work. I'm used to typographical work in graphics programs through AI, when I need to quickly create a few flyers, app designs or similar things.

Hello, In the desktop programmes I have the possibility to switch my open file back and forth via the command "edit in Affinity Photo" or "edit in Affinity Designer" in order to be able to carry out certain work. Is this function also available in the iPad apps? I use this function quite often and would also like to be able to use this on my iPad. But I could not find this function.

Hello, I have the problem that since the last update I can no longer use images from the stock libraries. The moment I try to drag an image onto my workspace, the programme crashes. Publisher_2021_03.14_-_19_55_17_01.mp4

Hello, I would like to ask if it would be possible to improve the modelling function, which can be found under the pencil tool. I find this function really practical, but there are a few small things that bother me a bit. 1. no matter how hard I try, although I bring the two end points exactly over each other when drawing, the shape is not closed. Could one perhaps add a kind of tolerance range here, which one can also determine oneself, in which the two end points automatically attract each other and the object is closed? If you cannot draw a shape in one go and you have to draw it in small sections, you are always forced to continue drawing from one of the two end points so that it remains a line. Unfortunately, what doesn't work is that I can't connect two lines with this function. This is possible in AI and I find it much more comfortable. Here I can use this function to start a second line at a different point on the work surface and then draw the line to the end point of the line to which it is to be connected and when the two end points meet, they are connected to form a node. Could this function perhaps also be added to AD? That would certainly make it easier for many to work with the pencil tool.

OK, but I am looking for this function for the Designer Persona. In the desktop version it is possible to turn on the blend mode before drawing.

I followed the instructions you described exactly, i.e. hold down the brush studio for a long time, but no edit appears and I can't get to the menu you attached as a screenshot. Are you using the current version 1.9.7? I always keep all programmes up to date.

Thanks for the answer, I tried it right away, but unfortunately nothing happened. If I hold down on one of the brushes, a menu appears in which I can then click on Edit. But these are the normal settings for the brush. Is it possible that there are different versions of the apps? I use an iPad 8th generation 2020 and not an iPad Pro or iPad Air. Maybe some functions have not been intigrated on the normal iPads because they are perhaps weaker in terms of performance.

Hello, I recently got an iPad and immediately bought both Affinity programs so that I can also create my creative ideas on the go. The operation is in contrast to the desktop version but quite different on the iPad and I do not find all the settings options as I know them from the desktop version. Among them would be, for example, the possibility of the blend mode for the brushes. Where do I find this? Or is it not possible on the iPad to be able to set this in advance? At the moment I create groups to which I then apply the desired blending mode. Otherwise I am forced to first draw all strokes, select all in the layer palette and then subsequently assign the desired blend mode. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Hello Affinity Team, I recently purchased an iPad and wanted to transfer all my color palettes that I have in my desktop version to the programs on the iPad. But now I had to find out that it is not possible at all to import and export color palettes. This is a great disappointment, because the many color palettes I created, including many very complex gradients and special colors such as HKS, are very important to me for the design and had cost me several days of work. Please add these functions to import and export color palettes in the iPad versions.

I had recently asked in the forum under feature requests and suggestions if it might be possible to add the live filters that you have in Affinity Photo to Designer, so you don't have to switch between Designer and Photo every time. So far almost all live filters from Photo can be changed later in Designer. But unfortunately there was no answer if it would be possible. Until then, unfortunately, you have to use the more cumbersome way, as I had shown in the video. Or you can do it the way Jowday described. I created several brushes with noise effect in Photo and then added them in Designer under Pixel Persona.

As a further alternative to get more noise, I would use it with "File / Edit in Affinity Photo". There you then select your object, what should get the noise effect and would then use the live filter "Add noise". Then you go back in the same way in Designer, ie "File / Edit in Affinity Designer". The live filter can then also be used subsequently in Designer and transferred to other objects. Desktop_2021_02.14_-_21_11_06_01.mp4

Hello, I have just encountered a problem with the display of a placed Designer file. 1. zoomed in to the place where the graphic should be placed. 2. designer file inserted into the document via place. 3. rotated graphic, resized it and used vector crop tool to reduce the free space, since the Minimum Content or Maximum Content command will crop part of the shadow in the graphic. 4. zoomed out again. Graphic is suddenly displayed incorrectly in the frame. 5. when I zoom in again, the graphic is displayed correctly again. Publisher_2021_02.09_-_10_26.47_02.mp4

I just opened the current Photoshop and executed the described commands. That by the command Control + I the selection reverses is also not in Photoshop the case, but also only with Control + Shift + I possible. The command Control + I is the command Invert, so from positive to negative. The commands are the same in both programs in the current version. And I don't remember that you could use the Control + I command to invert the selection, and I've known Photoshop since version 4. But if it is so important that you want the command to be different, then you have to change it manually in the keyboard shortcut settings. The Invert command (control + I) is under Layers and the Invert Pixel Selection command (control + Shift + I) is under Select. Regarding the inaccuracy in selecting is almost identical in both programs. Also got a mismatch in Photoshop when I inverted the selection. I found another problem for this with the quick selection tool. I reported this error in the forum last night and even attached two videos.

Here is another shot that I took with my cell phone. You can see it there now. 1612743936983.mp4

Hello, just discovered a bug when trying to use the quick selection tool to select a uniformly colored background. If I start with the selection at the top left, the tool does not recognize the edge of the object and selects it even though I do not even touch the object. Interestingly, in the attached video it looks like I'm touching the object, but on the screen itself, I'm almost a full brush tip width away from the object. If I start the selection elsewhere, the quick selection tool will do the job right. Desktop_2021_02.08_-_01_13_42_05.mp4

Hello, you can customize the keyboard shortcuts in all of them yourself. I have adapted my abbreviations myself to those of Adobe. Or do you mean something else!

I am also missing these functions for deforming vectors and I would be really happy if these are soon available in Designer.

I find the new function "New brush from selection" really good. Especially the way that you don't have to create a png file first to create a brush is exactly the same as I know it in other programmes. It would be really great if you could create the other brush types (pixel and vector) in the same way. That way, the somewhat annoying way with the png file would be omitted and you can create your new brushes faster. Maybe you could also create real vector brushes this way.

Even though it's a bit inconvenient, I also use Photo in parallel to make my distortions. If you use the live filters and then return to Designer via the editing path, the vector graphics remain and you can even use the perspective filter again in Designer without having to switch back to Photo. I have tried this several times now and it works. But unfortunately, the graphics are later converted to bitmaps when they are output. Unfortunately, that is not so nice. I'm curious whether the perspectives and distortion tools will be added to Designer in the next major update. Desktop_2021_02.06_-_22_12_01_01.mp4

Hello, would it be possible to maybe add the live filters that you have in Affinity Photo also in Designer? Would love to be able to use effect filters in Designer without having to constantly switch back and forth between Designer and Photo, plus save time desgining.

Hello, would it perhaps be possible to insert the Mash Wrap Tool also as a live filter, as it was also done with Liquify and the Perspectives Tool? Would be great, because I want to be able to use it to deform my texts without it being converted to pixels and I can replace the text later.

Thanks for the new update for fixing some bugs in Designer. Are also a few helpful, new features added, these I like. But unfortunately some of the long existing bugs are still not fixed. I keep reading that this problem is being passed on and that they are working on a solution, but so far there is no sign that they have addressed these issues. Bugs and problems that have only arisen since the last update have been fixed after a short time. Errors and problems that have existed for several years and have been reported very frequently have still not been fixed. These include, for example, the functions under Geometry to combine and split objects. Furthermore, incorrect results when you want to use more than two objects at the same time.

The problem with the vector brushes occurs at the moment when you use the function of beginning and end limit in the settings of the individual brushes. So it happens that a too short stroke cannot underline the two ends. That is, if you use this function in the brushes to not distort the two ends, you will automatically be limited in the stroke length. As soon as you remove these two limitations in the settings of the brush, the error is gone on the one hand, but unfortunately the complete stroke is then distorted or repeated. Almost all of the brushes included in the program have these limitations and thus these faulty strokes occur if the length is not correct.

I can understand some who are not quite so satisfied with the current programs because they have very high expectations and are looking for an alternative to Illustrator and Corel, because they want to escape the subscriptions and the ever higher costs. Who does not want that. But many are not aware of how complex it is to develop a program and that it takes a lot of time until a new function has been developed and programmed and it then works perfectly. Which probably many do not know either because they may not know the beginnings of the competitor programs and see the current versions of the competitor as the absolute standard and expect the same from the developers at Affinity, how many years, for example, Adobe and Corel have put in development time until their products have received their current functionality. Who is interested in finding out when which functions e.g. B. found its way into Illustrator, you can look it up on Wikipedia. Here you can find a list of the versions and when which function was added. In addition, Adobe and other software manufacturers have significantly more employees who work on the individual products than with Serif and thus the development of new functions is much faster than with Serif, which also affects the high price of the competition affects. If you compare the functionality of Illustrator and Designer, I would think that Designer has roughly the same functionality as Illustrator had in version 10-11. There are smaller solutions and functions in the Affinity programs to get the same result in the end. But of course you have to know which alternative paths are available and how to use and combine them. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion, as I have already mentioned several times here in the forum, that the errors in the functions that are already available are finally fixed so that they can also be used and implemented.