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  1. When working with CAD files, there are usually quite a lot of lines that need to be altered, each with very minor variations. To this end, it is important to not only consider fill & stroke colour but also the stroke weight. Currently, it is possible to work around this by sifting through the lines based on stroke weight or Fill & stroke colour first to then sift through them once more with the other category. However, this quickly becomes quite a tedious job. Therefore, I would like to be able to select all objects based on fill & stroke colour & stroke weight.
  2. First off, thank you for Affinity Designer's powerful toolset. It's a joy to use! When I am using Affinity Designer to create complicated presentations with multiple artboards and nested groupings, I wish for 3 key tools to make my job faster, easier, and more controlled. Tools that obliterate tedious tasks can mean the difference between enjoyable and monotonous, between making money and losing money as a designer. Let me know if you think these three suggestions should be added to Affinity Designer. Apologies if these have already been suggested... 1. SELECTION SETS a. Summary – Select a bunch of objects across artboards, even within groups, and save them out as a selection set. b. Distinction – Not the same as grouping because the selection set can span multiple groups. Also spans objects located on different artboards. c. Procedure – Select the objects you wish to have in the selection set, save them as a selection set, give the set a unique name. Choose your selection set from a list at any time. The selection is made, ready to modify, hide/unhide, lock/unlock, etc. d. Advantages, examples – Easy to select multiple objects within complicated group structures. Many 3D apps have this, like 3DSMax. 2. SELECT BY… a. Summary – The “Select By” command allows you to select objects by stroke, fill, or effect properties. b. Procedure – Select the source object with the properties you wish to select, activate the “select by” command, choose the properties you wish to select by (stroke, fill, effect) Affinity Designer will select all the matching objects. c. Advantages, examples – Allows you to select all objects with similar properties and easily change those properties. E.g.: If you determined that your assets would look slightly better with a 6-pt. line thickness, rather than a 4-pt. line thickness, you can select them all and change them easily, without adjusting adjacent objects with a 5-pt. stroke. Adobe Illustrator has this. 3. COLOUR MODIFY a. Summary – If a group of selected objects have the exact same stroke and fill colour, this command will allow the user to change identical stroke and fill colours simultaneously, rather than have to change the stroke colours and fill colours separately. b. Distinction – Not the same as using Global colour on a stroke and fill, where the global colour swatch can be changed, because this affects all items using that colour, not the selection exclusively. c. Procedure – Select the objects with the colour you wish to change, activate the “Colour Modify” command, choose the source colour, choose the new target colour, all the selected objects’ fill and stroke colours are modified if they are the exact same colour. d. Advantages, examples – This comes in handy of you have an asset comprised of a mixture of lines and shapes all the same colour and you wish to change that colour, which can be complicated when those objects are grouped, and/or have mixed colour stroke and fills.
  3. An "unlink global colour" button in the colour panel would also make it much easier to change the colour of an object which currently has a global colour assigned to it. At present, for an object with has a global colour assigned, the default colour panel shows options for tint & opacity/noise, with a button to "edit global colour". If you wish to "detach" the global colour for this particular object, you have to select a different colour panel interface from the drop-down, either the wheel, sliders or box. (Note, you can also double-click the fill/stroke colour switcher to achieve the same result). Ideally, an "unlink global colour" button next to the "edit global colour" would then *automatically* switch the colour panel back to the wheel, sliders or box interface, which I believe would make for a faster and more intuitive UI. thanks
  4. Request to have more select options - select by same colour/stroke etc. etc. Apologies if this has already been requested but I couldn't find a list of future considerations.
  5. Scenario: Create a basic rectangle Fill it with red colour Draw an ellipse and make the fill colour yellow and keep it selected Select the Eyedropper tool and click on the rectangle to copy fill attributes Ellipse adopts the red colour Select the red rectangle and use the command "Select Same Fill Colour" Result: Designer refuses to accept the fact that the red colour in the ellipse is the same with the one in the rectangle… You also get the same results when using the Global Colour swatches. Using the Eyedropper tool, copy a global colour from another object and apply. Without anything selected, edit the Global Colour Swatch and you will notice that the copied colour will not update. Looks like a bug.
  6. Hi Does Affinity Designer have a tool for selecting lines with the same line weight and/or colour yet? Like the magic wand tool. Kind regards Michelle
  7. @GarryP Thanks for the reply! It may be fixed in a more current version. Not sure. But that's what I do (maybe this is more precise): 1. Create a document palette. 2. Create a global color. 3. Select a rectangle. 4. Select "Colour Overlay" from the Effects menu. 5. Select "Colour". 6. Select the global color from Swatches 7. This doesn't result in the global color being used by the "Colour Overlay" Effect, but a window shows up that lets me edit the global colour instead.
  8. I want to use Select > Select Same to filter my objects from a PDF. In Illustrator, I can use Select Same to get all the objects that have a particular stroke & fill colour without selecting objects. I can use this to sort items along a gradient/ palette. The workflow is as follows: create a document palette > select the first colour > Select Same > Group > Deselect, pick the second colour rinse and repeat. This is also helpful to retrieve objects that are nested deep within the PDF, as long as you know the colours of the object.
  9. 1. In the colour panels, I'm using HSL slider most of the time because they are the most flexible and natural for choosing colour for me. But the problem is there is no HEX input field which I using very often. Each time I need to double click on the colour rectangle to open "colour chooser" and there enter or copy HEX code. The only slider which has HEX input is RGB Hex. It would be nice that the same input is on all other sliders. Also, in that case, you wouldn't need separate colour mode RGB Hex because RGB will already have Hex input 2. This feature request is regarding deleting individual anchor points on the path. Currently, it works like this: We have a path with 4 anchor points. We select one and press delete. It will remove this point and automatically select the rest of the points and if we press delete again it will remove the complete path. The better and more productive way would be like in the Sketch app. After deleting the first point it would select next in the order and we just keep pressing delete and removing individual points until the end. Thing is if I want to remove complete path is easier to select all and press delete. And on this way by selecting next in the order automatically we have the speed and flexibility to remove more than one individual point. Sketch_delete_anchor_point.mov Affinity_delete_anchor_point.mov
  10. I would like to be able to switch to the move tool from right within the colour picker. Currently, ctrl is in use to pick from the document palette, but I think it should be used to switch to the move tool, like in other parts of the software. The reason being is that I want to select elements and change their colour with the colour picker, yet I can't select other elements other than switching tools. This should also be possible by holding a modifier key. This is also what Illustrator does and it makes working a lot easier if you don't have to constantly switch tools (two presses as opposed to one for holding a modifier).
  11. This would be great for more concise colour selections from various sources like a webpage. The Multi Select Colour Picker Tool would have a panel that would add a sequence of colour selections, the selections would be undo/redo capable, you would also have the option of adding the selected colours as global colours via an optional check box. What you think, a viable suggestion?
  12. Can you please take another look at the colour palette and swatches panel across Affinity suite. Its bugged me for a while and is very poorly implemented. The colour palette is horrendously clunky to use and EVERY time you start a new document you need to manually create a new Document palette or else working with colour will drive you insane. A blank document palette should automatically open by default and be the current active palette. As you start working with colours they should be automatically added to the palette. So for instance if you created a new document and then created a triangle and chose a colour from the swatches panel, that colour should automatically get added to the document palette which should be independent of the swatches. At the moment as you work nothing gets added to a palette and so the so called palettes are not really palettes they are still swatches i.e. colours to choose from. A palette is a collection of colours that are in use is it not? The document palette should be independent of the various inbuilt swatches. You should be able to import colours to the document palette from the inbuilt swatches and/or any swatches that you create (from the document palette). At the moment swatches and palettes are essentially the same thing in Affinity and they should be treated separately as they work differently. A palette is colours in use. A swatch is a collection of colours to add to the palette. Furthermore when working on a complex design, having to manually add each individual colour after previously manually creating a document palette gets very tedious. It would be much more efficient to select the item you want to recolour, create the colour in the mixer and the colour should then get added to the document palette as it is now active on the canvas. At present it only gets added to a crippled 'recents' palette. The recents palette would not be required if you use the method I describe as any colours used in the document will be present in the document palette therefore killing two birds with one stone. Colours should also be made drag and drop able as at present the recents bar you have to unselect any graphic elements, select a recent colour and then click 'add to palette' if you forgot to add one of the colours you used earlier. If you don't unselect the currently selected graphic element when trying to add a recent colour other than the current active one to the palette then you incorrectly colour the element and have to undo. Therefore meaning all but the last colour in the recents bar are irrelevant as you currently have to make it active again to then click add to palette. A quick drag and drop of any colour (active or not) from recents bar to the palette below would be much more intuitive and efficient. A third idea is If you have the Colour panel open alongside the swatches panel you could also quickly create a batch of colours (albeit one at a time) and drag and drop these across to the adjacent document palette. You cant currently do that. This too would speed up working with colour no end. Just a couple of ideas.
  13. @carl123 Thanks for that. The problem is I am working something quite complex (a generic seamless texture set for my concept brushes!). I used layer stacking in a symbol to create optional texture layers with an additional containment rectangles that can be transposed between symbols or adjusted using colour | layer options | transform etc... layer groups can contain multiple stacking! To get the pattern: Duplicate the centre symbol and detach Delete un-used layers (manually)..may need to get into habit of colour coding! and use layers > select same tag colour Then copy to grid output and export You can do colour but this slightly increases the file size! test in Base brush set (using sub-brush erase options for added texture)
  14. Why, in the the name of all that is holy, can Affinity products not 'remember' how I'm choosing colours? For example, I want to change the stroke colour of some objects... I click the grey rectangle in the rectangle. The colour spectrum shown appears... I choose 'swatches' because that's what I want EVERY TIME. I choose a colour... great. I select another object, repeat, you'd think Affinity would automatically display swatches because that's the last option I used, but NO. You'd think there might be a user preference to specify the default view, but NO. Every single time I have to click about to get to the colours I'm using all the time. EVERY TIME... if there were a tax on clicks I'd be broke. Please fix this.
  15. I think you're missing the point here, @Mithferion 😉 The way AI handles overprint is object (property) based while in Affinity it's colour-based. The object oriented system is imo way more logical, you could easily want to overprint the same colour at one place of the document, while having it knocked-out in other part. Overprint preview is a must also, without any doubts... Also, it's not that easy to handle colour swatches in Affinity compared to AI - you can't work with multiple colour swatches at once, and you also can't switch Spot color checkbox anymore, once you've created a Spot color swatch, you can't turn it back to CMYK (or other colour model). The only, and very counter-intuitive way is to create a new swatch, then Select > Same Colour, then change the swatch, later deleting the spot-colour swatch. What a UX I'd say...
  16. I'm working on a map which has a hundred or so icons and hundreds of instances of each. These are all nicely arranged in layers which I can hide or lock as needed. BUT when I want to select all symbols of a certain stroke weight or stroke colour my organised layers are ignored and all instances are selected even if they are on hidden or on locked layers. This is very counter intuitive and I can't find any efficient work flow other than one by one picking hundreds of objects hoping I didn't miss any. It would make more sense, AND be more useful if locked and hidden layers could not be selected. After all, they are hidden or locked for the very purpose of not wanting to change them, yet the command to "select-same... " overrides that very intentional choice to lock and hide. I would like to know whether this was an oversight in the implementation or whether there is some useful reason for this behaviour. For me it is worse than useless, because I can often not see what "select same" has selected because most of the time, most of my very large map is off-screen.
  17. I have no problem adding colours from the swatches panel to the selected gradient when the Gradient tool is active and I have the object selected. I use a Document palette and either Global colours or just swatches from that palette. Or any other palette with swatches in it. If you are talking about the Gradient on the Context toolbar I just select the colour stop and then use the Swatches to pick a colour.
  18. I'm a new user, coming from Illustrator. Unless I've missed something there seem to be some oversights in Designer's colour handling. 1. I can Create Palette From Document to add used colour swatches, but these are always non-Global swatches. Although I can then convert them to Global swatches, the illustration colours aren't linked to these swatches. Illustrator correctly creates Global swatches when the Add Used Colors / Add Selected Colors command is used. In commercial design work it's common to have to edit colours in an existing file, and Add Used Colors is used a lot, for example to remove any 4-colour blacks or find incorrect colour mixes. 2. Likewise Select All Unused is a commonly used command in Illustrator. When preparing files for printing it's useful to be able to see exactly which colours appear in a file and to be able to delete and edit them. Illustrator has a strange way of doing this, where you Merge swatches. Personally I think Indesign handles this better, using a dialogue box. 3. Illustrator's Select Same (Fill, Stroke, Stroke Weight) command is also something that gets a lot of use, for line drawings and diagrams. I've added a comment to a different thread that is a feature request for this. 4. Not as important, but it is useful to be able to see colour splits without editing the colour swatch. Indesign has a Name With Color Value option and shows the CMYK mix when you mouse over the swatch. Illustrator uses the CMYK values as the default name when creating a new Global swatch.
  19. I select a fill/stroke colour and the default tab is always the Colour tab, but I always watch to pick from the Swatches tab as I have a limited palette as do a lot of designers. I have to select the Swatch panel everytime I select an object and fill. Over time this becomes 1000's of extra clicks. I just want the tab to stay the last one I picked. Is there any way to do that? If not it should be a sticky tab selection this is basic UI design - have a memory. This is one of the most annoying features in the app.
  20. The latest beta includes 'select same tag colour' which is available via select / select same / Tag Colour and also by right clicking the layers panel, so you should be able to tag all your layers you want to switch off altogether, on different artboards, throughout your layer stack. just select one of the layers that has the tag colour you want to switch off and right click and scroll down to select same tag colour and un-tick - hope this works for you? see attached : Screen_Grab_2021-01-25_at_16_31_16.mov
  21. When you open the Fill: well for a shape the defaults tab shown is always Colour. I always use Swatches so have to select that every-time. Next time I open the same or different Fill: well it's reset to Colour. Could it please remember the last tab set as I never select by Colour it's always by Swatches and after a few 1000 times it's now just insufferably repetitive to have to keep doing it. I've gone through all the settings and can't find anything related to this, nor on the help forums. Is there a way to fix the colour picker tab so its sticky between invocations?
  22. Since there is already a background colour assignable to artboards (which is great) it would just make it usable if the background colour extends into the bleed, so that print documents are printed/cut properly artboards also could have strokes (borders) - imagine designing 20 artboard based online ads: select all artboards, assign an "inside" border of any colour and width, go have a chat with your mates. now it is draging a rectangle for each artboard and always make sure that it is positioned/sized properly,...
  23. One of the things I complained about in the past was the inability to select things with the same attributes, in particular fill and stroke. So I am offering my thanks and congratulations to Affinity for bringing this much wanted/needed feature. I sometimes have to work with OpenStreetMap SVG exports. In the maps, usually only one or two buildings are important and the others are noise. This is a small snippet from a much larger map. In the past I had to select each of the unwanted buildings, all shown light brown here, and delete them. With 'select same', I can change the colour of the one building I want to keep, then select all the other buildings by 'same fill and stroke colour', and delete them. In the snippet there are perhaps 80 buildings, which would take a few minutes individually. In the larger map there are over 1,100 of these which used to take for ever. Now it takes a second or two. This is an enormous time saver for me, probably a couple of hours for just one map. But it also saves me the frustration of having to select these one at a time. J.
  24. to help differentiate between overlapping curves and nodes when multiple are selected, it would be useful if paths and their nodes could be (optionally) coloured differently for each layer/path selected. e.g. select 2 paths, one is blue with blue nodes (default) and the other is orange with orange nodes. When nodes overlap, it would then be easy to know which is on top without having to move anything first. it would also be nice if you could change the default colour from blue (or set a "default layer colour"). thanks
  25. One of the things that I use quite a lot for creating controls for music software is the ability to easily recolour the whole control - Adobe Illustrator offers this capability in a really useful form in its Edit Colour/Recolour option where you can select multiple objects and recolour them all in one go in a very controlled and obvious way. With the trial of Affinity Designer, I could not find anything that can do this sort of recolouring - as a result, it does not do what I want for my use of it. This would be a great addition to Affinity Designer and could mean that I would actively consider using this as a cost effective option rather than the expensive AI subscription for the occasional use I need it for.
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