skylamar Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 When I was in elementary school (I'm decades older now), I used to spend hours each day drawing comics. My art skills were mediocre, but I had fun. A few years ago, I bought Clip Paint Studio, the Japanese anime/comic-book software, to play round with making digital comics, but I found the software unintuitive and so hardly used it at all. Fast forward to today and I own all three Affinity apps. And I realized I could easily make comics with them, using Publisher as the main app for accessing all three. However, Affinity Designer's Call-Out shapes, which I would like to use as speech bubbles, are unnecessarily limited. The main problem is that the tail of the shapes can only be moved left and right. I wish the tail could be dragged to any position on the circumference of the shape. Yes, I could easily create some speech bubbles myself, since they are basically just ovals with a triangle attached. And that's what I'll do. But it'd be easier to use the call-out shapes, especially if I were creating a comic with numerous pages. fde101 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylamar Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 Also, I realize it is possible to create a non-destructive compound shape containing the oval and the triangle, which makes it somewhat easier to change the location of the triangle when needed, but a smarter call-out shape would be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Also having importable and exportable smart shape libraries would be good a bit like Assets but with adjustment points/nodes. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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