VectorCat
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Gabe;
Yes, I have and I am continuing to use it. Thank you!
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can I have a big brush size and a highly selective one?
it seems that when my brush size is bigger, it doesn’t discriminate much at all. I am using snap to edges but when my brush size is big, it basically selects everything which is the same as marqui or select all, or the lasso tool when grab everything.
I’m after a tool which will A) let me cover a lot of ground per swipe, and B) respect the change in color as the perimeter of what’s to be selected.
Can I have such behavior?
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Yes, it really doesn’t get clearer than that. You aren’t going to spend $10 so that you can make $5.
In fact, as I think of the entire project which I first learned of in late 2014 with the release of the spectacular Designer, it seems like a huge undertaking..even for the Mac market, most of which revolves around graphic arts, and which has a passionate, committed even rabid user base, the maker of the macOS and the computers which run it the most profitable/valuable company on earth, with more cash laying around than the rest of the planet...it still wasn’t guaranteed to be successful.
Happily, it seems to have been!
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I have an icon whose dimensions are correct in Vector persona, but as a slice in Export persona, the dimensions of this slice extend to the bounds of art which is cropped.In other words, the crop doesn’t limit the H X W dimensions.Is there something that I can do to fix this? I need the cropped item to be *cropped* so that the icon dimensions don’t reflect the size of something that’s been cropped.Hope this makes sense!Never mind...just discovered, and made use of: the slice tool. So that’s what that thing’s for!
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I believe that the area or zone of control, zone of responsiveness can be programmed.
My question is in there..begins with “Is there anything that can be done...”
thank you
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I’m prepping a photo to be printed at Costco, and using a crop ratio that matches the size print I want. I can easily adjust the custom crop ratio I need and place it where I want but the instant I lift my finger, the crop grid moves a pixel or two!
I am not a shaky-hands fellow
Is there anything that can be done to make the grid just a wee bit less sensitive, for those of us out here who do not have the microscopic knot-tying hands of a brain surgeon??
In general, I’ve noticed that, across platforms, the “sensitive areas” of software programs and OS interfaces has shrunk to +/- 1 pixel, which I find insane. I don’t know if it’s a trend in UI design, or what, but IMO it’s simply unrealistic to expect that anyone outside of the brain surgeon class has the ultra-fine-grain coordination required to constantly be able to hit a target of 1 pixel or less!
Then, throw in the stress of deadline, perhaps a cup of coffee or two, it getting later in the day, retina displays which perhaps narrow this area even further, repeated frustrations of being un-able to operate in < 1px increments and you have the makings of a very frustrating and wearing experience.
Thank you for reading!
And to clarify, I just had this experience in Affinity Photo, not Designer.
Addendum: Plus, often when I merely touch that grid to try to move it, it vanishes. Grrr. I may have to git ‘er done in the not-Pro version of Pixelmator, which at least gives me a fighting chance at success!
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OK..good to know thank you. It doesn’t seem intuitive, but now that I know, I know.
I appreciate your sharing that bit. It sounds familiar, but it’s been awhile since I placed a file into AD/iOS, though I use AD/iOS almost every day!
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I (probably others?) go through a lot of gyrations trying to place/import files into Designer. The out-of-the-box choices are: iCloud or Photos. Files isn’t invited to the party.
Why? Can there be more paths into AD with less fussing and diddling?
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I have a slice and a destination folder. when I hit export slice, I get the little message saying that my slice has been exported , but when I open the folder, there’s nothing there.
what should I be looking at? the art in question is selected, I did make it a slice, and selected an output format..
thank you!
edit: I may have had some “wrong” characters in the name. changing the name to something web-legal nixed the prob.
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as a fan of macos, affinity and linux, I wonder what the experience of using affinity on linux would actually be like? do affinity for mac products rely heavily on the various “layers” of os x which devs can freely tap into to give functionality to their apps? are there counterparts in linux?
in my experience, the affinity devs truly get macos; they don’t merely write great software which runs on a mac, as some legacy software developers do. they fully operate in the head space of “what’s the mac way of handling this? now, what’s the even greater mac/affinity way of handling this?”
until recently, I was about fed up with computering in general, but developers such as serif breathed fresh new life into the experience and brought back the focus on creativity, and took emphasis away from doing workarounds on sclerotic software.
If they could do the same thing on the linux platform, that would be very exciting, but I certainly wouldn’t expect it if it didn’t pay off for them.
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I am using Publisher to realize a project I began last year on another software platform which, tho decent, is not at the level of OS X and Affinity. I was very excited when a friend of mine told me about Publisher beta and said to myself, "...SAY, now!"
It's a collection of Autumn photos across 3 months: Sept - Dec taken nearly everyday, and the entire collection should give the feel of Autumn unfolding in slow motion.
There are 875 photos averaging 8MB each. Publisher file is now 1.92GB. I'm learning the software as I go, but I have about 25 years' experience with PageMaker, QuarkXPress and InDesign, so I have a sense of what I ought to be able to do.
So far no issues..not a squeak. All the tools I need, behaving the way I need them to. This is a beta..I'm sure the finished software will be great!
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This is a huge help, toltec..I might even print this onto paper and keep it tucked for easy reading in my iPad case.
Thank you
And, not to put too fine a point on it, but for a company which has built an industry on removing barriers, they sure do know how to create them sometimes.
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is there a way to do this elegantly? trying to get something done within the constraints of iOS is sometimes stifling.
though designer and photo each have created folders within Files, neither one seems to “see” the folders or their contents..perhaps there is an extremely easy way to do what I need to do and I just don’t see it?
the apps “insist” on getting imported images from either the cloud or from photos, but make it pretty hard to send an image to photos..I don’t get it.. why can’t we get/place images from anywhere on the iPad?? why must we be forced to place images only from the cloud or from photos and why is it so hard to get images from the app into photos?
IMHO, any lump of pixel data on my ipad is mine to chose where it goes and how to move it about. Freedom, anyone?
thank you!
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perhaps covered by another..bottom handle of crop tool is blocked by cropping control panel. workaround is to slightly zoom out so that that the cro- handle is clear of the control panel.
thank you!
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ok, and yet other palettes were visible. clearly different from toggle all pallets..I’m not sure I get it, but glad to know how to show pallets
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yes. studios not gray.
what’s the purpose of hide/i hide studios?
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yes, I did. Other “studios” were open at the time.
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I don't get why that should be. I assume that when a panel, say Colors is closed, it should be able to be brought back by selecting it from the Studios...but all the choices are gray.
How does one open various panels?
macOS Mojave, AD 1.6.1
Thank you!
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I have nearly no problem on Mojave. I can launch Designer just fine and yesterday I worked successfully on a document which came from Illustrator for PC..had a bunch of type to re-format and style.
However: There was a period during which AD was not "in front," and when I returned to it, I could see the window, and I could see my art, but I could not see any toolbars or pallets. Quitting and re-launching brought them back.
Could this be a...mis-interaction between Application and OS? Perhaps AD needing to display it's interface and OS not allowing it to because it had not been in front?
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7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Was it, perhaps, the app checking if an updated version was available? That could require a login to the store.
that’s a worthy hypothesis..I’m not sure so I’ll go with “possibly”
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On 9/27/2018 at 8:42 PM, capybara32 said:
I am having a bad time with it. Frequently, if I try to open an image file modified in Affinity I get an error message from "Security and Privacy" dome in 'Systems Preferences" that says that Affinity is NOT a qualified app and I have to go to that item in system preferences to override the block. which adds two more steps
is there any possibility that this is a permissions issue? I realize the warning relates to recognized software, but post new-os x installation, I’ve sometimes gotten screwy errors that suggest the mac didn’t even know where its own bum was.
my favorite: after working in PS, trying to save, the error said, “you can not save the file because it doesn’t exist” or, “..because the location doesn’t exist.” or equally nonsensical ideas.
Both were cured by redoing the permissions. YMMV.
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9 hours ago, Leigh said:
It would have been the Mac App Store asking you to confirm your login details and not our app. I occasionally get this too on my Mac.
ah..good to know, but...I wasn’t trying to access the app store at the time.
was it the long arm of apple reaching out?
Photo: selection based on noise?
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
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Is it possible to make selections in Affinity Photo based on the colors in noise.
The steps to do this in photoshop are to make a selection, then to “select more” - the result is many little selections based on the color chosen.
Can this be done in Affinity Photo?
Thank you!