Scale error

[alexelfandi]

Hello, I have just started to use Affinity designer but when I finished the design, i wanted to scale it to make it a bit smaller but everything changed.
all the proportions broke.

I actually used Shift + alt to scale it proporcioanlly but it did not matter. Should I check an option like in illustrator or something, thank you.

 

Here i leave you an image with the before and after. 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums.
I’m not sure what you mean by “the proportions broke” as I don’t know what you expected to happen but I can see that the nose and eye sockets look very different.
How did you draw these two things?

[alexelfandi]

I mean that, the original one is the image that has the "before" tag, and when I try to make it smaller ( proporcionally ), the nose and the eyes sockets they change to the other image. They should maintain the proportions.

Sorry if i dont explain myself correctly, if you still dont understand, I´ll make a gif so you can see better. Thanks

[alexelfandi]

16 minutes ago, alexelfandi said:

I mean that, the original one is the image that has the "before" tag, and when I try to make it smaller ( proporcionally ) on resizing, the nose and the eyes sockets they change to the other image. They should maintain the proportions.

Sorry if i dont explain myself correctly, if you still dont understand, I´ll make a gif so you can see better. Thanks

 

[GarryP]

Apologies. What I should have said is that I don’t know which parts of the design were supposed to have been resized proportionally and which were not.
I can see that the nose and eye sockets are different so I asked how you drew them. Are they curves, or shapes, or did you use a brush or something else? A screen grab which includes your Layers panel (with all layers expended) would be useful.

[alexelfandi]

I´ve done everything with forms instead of the skull, which I did it with the pen tool.

[GarryP]

I have a feeling that you might have used the Corner Tool on some shapes.
If so, that might be where the problem could be.
Can you try Baking the corners and then resizing? (Corner Tool, select all nodes, press the Bake Corners button on the Context Toolbar.)

[alexelfandi]

Okay, that worked for me, but if in any future I´d like to change those corners again with the corner tool, what should I do? is there a reverse function?

 

[GarryP]

Unfortunately there’s no way to ‘unbake’ a baked corner.
If we could specify a percentage instead of a size you probably wouldn’t need to bake the corners. That functionality has already been requested.
I think the only way at the moment is to resize a copy where the corners have been baked. That way you have your original to go back to. Not ideal but I don’t think there are many other options.

[alexelfandi]

Okay, thank you so much for everything, just helped me a lot. 

 

[GarryP]

You're welcome.

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, alexelfandi said:

the nose

I do not know if it was the intention, but the nose socket is not symmetrical (which is the reason why it was so crooked after shrinking). Which I would expect in the case of insisting on the possibility of editing using the Corner tool.