tom d Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) I have frustrations with Designer. Auto-trace, Line/shape blend, direct single line segment selection, Vector image brush and warp/perspective. In illustrator, there's an outline pointer that allows you to work directly on line segments with copy and paste. This is quite handy. But instead of having a different pointer, we could have a new persona for line work. This persona could have (when they're available) the bitmap auto-trace, line/shape blend and knife tool and anything that we may need only occasionally. And it wouldn't clutter up the existing design persona, which is very elegantly arranged. It would also save you having more than one pointer (illustrator had three the last time I used it). The vector image brush like Inkscapes (although I would prefer Illustrator's random duplication) and warp could be added to the existing design persona without much detriment to its elegance. Edited April 21, 2020 by tom d punctuation Jowday, pyxelles, Andy05 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 There have been past indications from Serif that they intend for the tracing feature to have its own persona whenever they finally get around to implementing it. I don't think any of the other things you listed need a separate persona - they should fit nicely into the existing ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralisdaum Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 +1 for blend tool and non destructive warp/perspective Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom d Posted May 14, 2020 Author Share Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) ralisdaum This guy has a handy work around for non-destructive vector perspective. It's quite clever and I've used it. Check it out. It's towards the end of video. Rory Townsend. https://youtu.be/UQc9IPUkMBc Edited May 14, 2020 by tom d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyxelles Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 On 4/21/2020 at 6:23 PM, tom d said: I have frustrations with Designer. Auto-trace, Line/shape blend, direct single line segment selection, Vector image brush and warp/perspective. In illustrator, there's an outline pointer that allows you to work directly on line segments with copy and paste. This is quite handy. But instead of having a different pointer, we could have a new persona for line work. This persona could have (when they're available) the bitmap auto-trace, line/shape blend and knife tool and anything that we may need only occasionally. And it wouldn't clutter up the existing design persona, which is very elegantly arranged. It would also save you having more than one pointer (illustrator had three the last time I used it). The vector image brush like Inkscapes (although I would prefer Illustrator's random duplication) and warp could be added to the existing design persona without much detriment to its elegance. Great idea! Also including the undo/redo buttons, knife, eraser and pattern make tools. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 On 5/14/2020 at 7:33 AM, tom d said: ralisdaum This guy has a handy work around for non-destructive vector perspective. It's quite clever and I've used it. Check it out. It's towards the end of video. Exported vectors are still rasterized. Live perspective obviously also operates on pixels: Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom d Posted May 21, 2020 Author Share Posted May 21, 2020 You're right, export will rasterise it. But while it's an .afdesign file it will always be a vector that can be edited. It's just a workaround until or if a mesh/perspective tool appears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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