[Make 2D-picture 3D with shadow on ground]

Nice 👍

[Affinity Designer Windows Customer Beta - 1.9.0.891]

1 hour ago, Jowday said:

I think the splash screen is too detailed with too much cramped into a small frame - looks almost washed out on a high res screen. Remember "Get close, then get even closer! "🙂

The Photo splash screen is spot on.

I agree - Designer splash would look cool 2 meters long in an art gallery but for a splash screen it's just headache fodder - way too busy for my eyes at that size

[Make 2D-picture 3D with shadow on ground]

Just out of curiosity, I wonder if it's possible if you only own Designer, to open a file originally created in Photo that uses the live perspective distortion and have access to the settings -  if so you could always drag the layer to your assets panel and always have access? in theory?

I can't test this as I already have Photo but I've created a photo document with a group that contains a vector square and a live perspective filter (Latest Photo Beta) just wondering if someone who only has Designer could test? although I guess it will have to be latest Designer beta : see attached

Perspective test.afphoto

[Make 2D-picture 3D with shadow on ground]

The obvious way would be to group all items and grab one of the corner nodes and drag to create perspective - this was one of the first pitfalls I came across with Designer back in 2014, as it's just a standard, basic feature of a pro vector application, at first I thought it was some weird bug, but as it turned out, Designer didn't have that capability -YET- but was planned for a future update - wow - me thinking it may be two or even three years down the line before I can work comfortably ------ keep faith ------- 6 years later - no mention of when we'll get this - the road map was buried years ago - and vector distortions blanked - my faith is on fumes - well that's enough negativity, in the meantime, as firstdefence suggested 

[Affinity Publisher Not Converting PDF to CMYK. Please HELP.]

A PDF/X variant should help 

[How to get PNG to merge with black background?]

A simple blend range adjustment would sort this in a few clicks

[Curves are being rasterized after export]

KOIYALD Brushes = Keep Off If You're A Logo Designer

ALDI Brushes = Ace Logo Designer Instrument 

Lidl Brushes = Lousy If Designing Logos

Vector Brushes = Virtual Effect Centered Towards Organic Raster (current)

Vector Brushes = Very Effective Curve Type Of-infinite Resize

[Automate Affinity Publisher]

44 minutes ago, carl123 said:

You could batch generate 8000 low-res files from the originals and have them linked in Publisher (all in one folder) then when the data merge is done just replace them with the same hi-res images of the same name

In theory sounds like a winner, a bit like the old OPI workflows - just wonder how pub will handle the relinking and output, especially if theres deadlines involved - I'm sure all of us would like to know if it's possible - Very best of luck cidelab

[What is the best way to create complex shapes without undesired lines inside?]

1 minute ago, Dazmondo77 said:

Boy am I thick or what - I have a previous post on this 

I apologise to  haakoo as I'll prob be asking "Never heard of this" in all future mentions of Segment Cutter - 🤨

[What is the best way to create complex shapes without undesired lines inside?]

48 minutes ago, Dazmondo77 said:

Never heard of this ??? more info? do you mean the segment tool?

Boy am I thick or what - I have a previous post on this 

On 12/1/2020 at 4:09 PM, Dazmondo77 said:

Hey MattP I think you forgot to mention anything in the added features list about the 'segment cutter' spotted by haakoo - this is a great feature (Ctrl+Click path, deletes that part of the path between two nodes) Bye Bye break curve hello delete segment 👍

[Making 3D from a 2D object]

42 minutes ago, prophet said:

If you're up for it, you can do some manual vector work to clean up @v_kyr's background shapes.

Thats currently the best way to do it and is really easy by just deleting nodes you don't want 👍 Prophet

[What is the best way to create complex shapes without undesired lines inside?]

2 hours ago, haakoo said:

segment cutter

Never heard of this ??? more info? do you mean the segment tool?

[Curves are being rasterized after export]

2 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Another method to create the crescent.

Yes definitely the best method 👍

[Curves are being rasterized after export]

3 hours ago, anon2 said:

How about "Phoney Brushes" or "Ersatz Brushes"?

Pretend Vector Brushes - menu name = PV Brushes

Dangerous Vector Brushes - menu name = DV Brushes

Just A Little Bit Arse Over Tit Vector Brushes - menu name = JALBAOT Brushes

A Bit Like Vector But Not Vector Brushes - menu name = ABLVBNV Brushes

Do Not Use These Vector Brushes If You Want To Create Vector Artwork Brushes - menu name = DNUTVBIYWTCVA Brushes (my fav)

Of course we'd have to have a name that reflects true Vector brushes:- Definitely, totally Proper, Completely Safe Vector Brushes - menu name = DTPCSV Brushes

Or even DTP brushes 👍 Definitely, Totally Proper  

[Curves are being rasterized after export]

3 hours ago, Joachim_L said:

You used a raster brush on the circle so it gets rasterised on export, but you can make this without any raster element e.g. out of a pie and a circle.

Or using a proper vector brush - yes Affinity vector brushes are very confusing as most are just vector paths with assigned raster PNGs which follow the path - hopefully at some point in the not too distant future we will get "vector brushes" then the other "not vector" brushes could be under something like "path brushes" or something - see screen grab:

[Printing PDF issues]

Are you saving the pdf in a pdf/x variant? - which should help

what pdf app are you using to print? - Acrobat reader / pro are the best options for colour accuracy

Usually, if it views good in Acrobat, it will print good - on rare occasions that you have similar problems to your description, you can print as image (see image)  

[Mesh Warp Live Filter Please]

On 12/24/2020 at 8:24 PM, Medical Officer Bones said:

Perhaps the Affinity devs could have a look at its code for inspiration?

Wow that would be really handy - also a vector version in Designer (now that is pushing it) - but for now, I'd be happy with a bog standard pre-millennium perspective warp tool in Designer -------- I wonder!?!?!?

[Global Colour question (AD)]

I reckon it would be really cool if there was a preference tick box to force globals by default - just imagine how much time could be saved - default globals would also make it less confusing for people aiming to switch from InDesign - having it as a tick box would let people who love the current way colour works in affinity, but for me, I can't imagine a scenario where i'd ever switch it off 

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.9.0.13)]

Select same tag colour by right clicking on the tag - Nice touch - great work 👍 - = linked layers have arrived - kind of - although a bit confusing, with the addition of Photos linked layers which looks like it would have a similar ability but it just seems to be a pretty poor symbols substitute that's a bit of a pain to use and doesn't even work with groups - can't see me finding a use for it in its current state - its a shame its been granted golden access to place linked icons in the layers panel - hopefully something good will come of it in the end

All we need now with select same (which is ACE by the way) is a document wide ability to use with studiolink in Pub - a bit frustrating that it's currently only page by page

[Problem with Publisher! CPU completely overloaded!]

Back in the mid to late 90's we used to use an OPI (Open Prepress Interface) system with Quark 3.3 where we had a sun spark server with all the linked images scanned direct from a Crosfield Magnascan 656 Drum Scanner, Hi-rez images placed in the main folder would auto generate low-rez versions with exactly the same name and size but only 72dpi - on output you just needed to have OPI ticked and it would auto replace with the high-rez - surely theres a modern way of doing this that could take the strain off affinity, as I'm guessing that if publisher does all the lifting in creating low-rez copies, this could have the opposite effect with documents becoming super massive and still pretty sluggish even with linked images.  

[is Crop to selection possible]

11 minutes ago, Ulysses said:

Affinity Designer does work with vector brushes.

Affinity vector brushes are bitmaps that flow along vector paths - useless for a proper vector workflow

[is Crop to selection possible]

6 minutes ago, Andy05 said:

if you use a pipe wrench for steering.

Shame there's nothing comparable for missing vector distortions and proper vector brushes from within Affinity - I'd be chuffed with 'pipe wrench for steering' until the super, ultra, mega proper steering wheel is added - oh yeah, crop to selection would be fairly handy and like vector distortions and proper vector brushes, I couldn't fathom why we didn't get these basics six years ago  

[Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.9.0.209)]

Just wondering if it would be easy to implement 'select next' and 'select previous' as in Pub and Designer, as the shortcuts are really handy for moving between elements of a mask group?

[Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.9.0.209)]

35 minutes ago, Chris B said:

f you select a layer and go to Layer menu > Duplicate Linked you will see the panel after clicking the new icon on the Layer Panel.

Ahhh - just had a mess around with it and not something I'd use - I prefer symbols - looks like it's a very basic symbols-like feature solely for Photo users who don't have access to symbols - be interesting to learn who can make use of it?

[Problem with Publisher! CPU completely overloaded!]

19 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

A tad? More than a tad.

I should have said 'wake the dead'