Guides Customisation

[Martigny]

Is it going to be possible anytime soon to change the appearance of the guidelines? They can be very difficult to see at times and I can see no way to make them a little thicker or change their colour.

[firstdefence]

There are no entries in the current Beta's for Mac or windows to give any of the Affinity products the ability to change the colour of guides yet, and I doubt you will ever get the ability to make guides thicker. 

You can follow the Beta releases in the Beta forums: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/32-beta-software-forums/

[Martigny]

10 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

There are no entries in the current Beta's for Mac or windows to give any of the Affinity products the ability to change the colour of guides yet, and I doubt you will ever get the ability to make guides thicker. 

You can follow the Beta releases in the Beta forums: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/32-beta-software-forums/

Thanks for your reply. I had a feeling that was the case. I'm working on illustrations that have blue backgrounds at the moment and the guides are almost impossible to see. Hopefully Affinity will take notice of this post.

[Wosven]

37 minutes ago, Martigny said:

that have blue backgrounds at the moment

I had the same problem, and needed to use a Recolour filter layer that I switched on and off to complete the design to distinguish Guides.

[firstdefence]

42 minutes ago, Martigny said:

Thanks for your reply. I had a feeling that was the case. I'm working on illustrations that have blue backgrounds at the moment and the guides are almost impossible to see. Hopefully Affinity will take notice of this post.

Personally it's a given that guides have the ability to be colour changed. The only other option for you at the moment would be to make a layer and draw thin 0.1pt - 0.2pt curves and lock it, the advantage for this is angled pseudo guides.

[Martigny]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

Personally it's a given that guides have the ability to be colour changed. The only other option for you at the moment would be to make a layer and draw thin 0.1pt - 0.2pt curves and lock it, the advantage for this is angled pseudo guides.

That's what I have to do. Silly to have to do so though

[Martigny]

1 hour ago, Wosven said:

I had the same problem, and needed to use a Recolour filter layer that I switched on and off to complete the design to distinguish Guides.

I think it's a pretty basic requirement from a design program.

[Pšenda]

13 hours ago, firstdefence said:

The only other option for you at the moment would be to make a layer and draw thin 0.1pt - 0.2pt curves and lock it, the advantage for this is angled pseudo guides.

Alternatively, a suitable blend mode, such as Difference, can be used so that the guide is visible over each color. Just have to always be in the top layer.

[firstdefence]

11 hours ago, Martigny said:

I think it's a pretty basic requirement from a design program.

I agree.

[GRH]

It's just another of the things you can do in DrawPlus X8 but not in AD.