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The new corner tool is awesome. I tried it and played a little with it. Now what I found is, when you select a lot of corners and modify them with the corner tool it is sometimes hard to recognize the changes it makes, because the corner tool requires so much UI (circles and lines, etc). It would be great to simply move with the mouse outside the canvas and the UI would disappear and reappear once the mouse is inside the canvas again. That way, you could easily see even small changes made by the corner tool quickly without deselecting every corner you carefully selected. Sometimes the changes are covered by the UI (or corner-tool-quide-lines, if you will, those red lines, circles and dots). Also, the corner tool quickly becomes slow on my iMac mid 2011, 2.7GHz i5, HD 6770 HD, 20GB Ram. And finally, to celebrate the new corner tool, here are some great and funny shapes, one can do when mixing the live shapes with the corner tool:

Add a morph tool so you can change the way pictures or shapes look. And a 3d a legit 3d where it looks super cool.

Hi guys, cheers for the cool software. I've been having a play so far and are offering my thoughts on some issues and feature requests. As an aside, I used Sketch for about 30 days and felt that while it has nice features for more technically-minded programmer-type folk, it's not a great tool for visual designers (in fact, I absolutely HATE it). I still have a fondness for Freehand and a chip on my shoulder at Adobe for discontinuing it and making me use Illustrator. Here are my thoughts for Affinity Designer so far: 10 days isn't long enough for a trial period I want to be able to see all the things outside of the artboard. Sketch was so annoying with this particular issue regarding artboards and grouped objects, it made me want to throw it into a fire straight away. Thankfully Designer doesn't do this, but it also doesn't show me the objects which are outside of the artboard. I set the unit measurements of my document to be in pixels, however text units are in points. How do I ensure that the document's primary unit will be consistent with all my sizing settings? Is a point a pixel anyway? (sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't) Setting line height on text seems unnecessarily buried, should be as top-level as setting text size. Have to open Paragraph window then look for line height setting amidst other options and juggle overlaid window with subject in viewport in order to see changes (I'm on a 15" MacBook Pro laptop so not much screen space). Shift+Enter does not insert a "soft" line-break (e.g. not a new paragraph) in any text input, but I notice Ctrl+Enter does. I feel the Shift+Enter is a standard feature across many different programs (not just Adobe ones) so I'd recommend that convention over Ctrl+Enter. It's kind of nice that you display overset text in Text Frames, but I'd prefer default behaviour is to crop. Is there ability to set crop visual behaviour (visible, hidden, ellipsis) ? It might be outside of the scope of Designer (seems it may be more an illustration tool than DTP), but I'd like to set objects to wrap around text within text frames a la InDesign. Could this be a potential feature? I was annoyed at first with proportional resizing via handles being default (my old habit was to hold shift so got irritated that holding shift didn't size proportionally) but after I thought about it, I size proportionately almost exclusively. There is a caveat though, I thought: when creating any shape with click and drag, it's never proportionate until you hold down shift, so I think you should probably choose one convention and stick with it, rather than incorporating two. I'd prefer the convention of holding down shift to size proportionately, personally. Hex code form input on colour panel is very very recommended On colour panel there's no shortcut button to add colour to swatches, have to go to context menu on top-right. Swatches panel has shortcut button to add colour to swatches, but no option within context menu on top-right to add colour to swatches. I feel like these could be swapped around, i.e. put shortcut button on colour panel Cmd+Y as a shortcut to viewing in Outlines would be real nice... Object selection is annoying me, much to the degree Sketch did too. Would prefer general black and white cursor behaviour like in Illustrator/Freehand (object and direct object selection — I don't want to have to select a specific layer first, nor do I want to continually have the Cmd key held down like with Sketch). In fact, the more you can make this program like Freehand, the better in my opinion it will be against Illustrator :) Deleting point in curve doesn't remove it, program removes it then adds a new one in its wake, unless I set the surrounding points to not be curved (ah, I get it now: clicking curve adds a point. Anyway to make that more explicit? Maybe use a + instead of a wavy curve?)

In photoshop I regularly used the feature trim transparent pixels so that my image would only contain the parts that were actually being used. Is there a feature like this in Affinity Designer?

In photoshop there is really nice way to show and fast layers, simply by holding your mouse button over the eye icon and dragging up and down which will do the exact same operation showing or hiding other layers on which you drag the mouse pointer. Another approach would be to multi-select layers and than hit the show hide button to show or hide all selected layers.

Hi, Please add option like in PS to make move tool select either just groups or layers. It is impossible now to marque select multiple items in a group. Af Designer will just select the group instead. I have to ungroup to do that and then group again. Also for the Node tool please add option + click(or some other shortcut) to select all nodes in a shape. Like in AI :) Thanks, Vlad

Hi From time to time I get pixel artwork that I need to print out as shaped stickers, The problem I have is when I select the artwork in the Pixel Persona how do I then create an Object out of that selection? In Pixel Persona If I create a new layer and try to fill the selection with a solid colour using the fill bucket nothing happens, I can fill the selection with the Paint Brush though. Over in the Draw Persona I can't fill the selection or give it a stoke to create an Object. Is there a way to do this or is this a bug or feature not yet implemented? I'm using the latest beta of Designer download today. thanks Adrian

Just wondering where the icons of the files went/are?! The suite hast such wonderful program icons, and every export to pdf, jpg has a file preview as icon - just the workfiles have a plane sheet of paper. Is it a local problem of mine or is this just wanted? A file preview or a clear icon for the filetype would be great. Just look at the screenshot for what I mean. :)

When I resize a, say, rectangle, I can look at the Transform-palette and see the values change as I move my mouse. It would be nice if I could have the same with the crop tool. Currently, when I crop an image, the values in the Transform palette are updated, but I have to let go of the mouse button first. They don't change as I move the boundaries of the cropped area.

It would be SOOOOOOO cool if you guys could engineer the following, it would definitely put you in "ultimate chingon" category, and knock Adobe off the throne, no shit: If I buy the entire Affinity Suite, I don't wanna jump around 3 apps like Adobe's $uite makes you.... so, what if you could have the 3 apps (or however many you purchase) show up as meta-personas, maybe called Workspaces or something similar, basically enabling ALL the other Apps' tools in one! If I only bought 2 Apps, only those two can be enabled as one. All Affinity apps will share file formats already, right? It'd be kinda like Affinity Voltron..... Whaddya say?