ReallyLuckyDog Posted April 26, 2020 Posted April 26, 2020 Hello, I right-click on an object in the layers menu and choose copy. I then click on another object in the layers menu to make it active. I go to Edit > Paste FX to apply the FX. In this case, the copied FX was a Bevel/Emboss - Radius 0.5 px, Soften 1 px. What was pasted was Pillow - 0.6 px, Soften 1.2 px. The other settings seem to remain the same, however, they were the default. I would have hoped that the FX paste would retain all the settings contained from the original copy and would be pasted but this seems not to be the case. I am learning to use this software and maybe I am just missing the proper sequence of steps. Macbook Pro mid-2014, 10.14.6, Designer 1.8.3. Thank you. Quote
Wosven Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 Hi, It's a long known annoying result of pasting styles/effects of the apps. Depending of the smaller or larger object you apply the effect on, it's be resized. It's only interesting when drawing to adjust the strokes, for example, but in all the other situations, we'd rather have the effects/styles applied with exactly the same values. For now, there's no way to set its values back to size 100% (what we want when designing or doing layout), or disable this resizing: I hope you don't have too many parameters, since the only way is to select the items with the effect and set back the value to what you're expecting. ReallyLuckyDog 1 Quote
Staff Sean P Posted April 27, 2020 Staff Posted April 27, 2020 Hi ReallyLuckyDog As Wosven have said this is a known issue that is with development to be fixed - I'll get it bumped with them. Thanks for letting us know. Wosven and ReallyLuckyDog 2 Quote
ReallyLuckyDog Posted April 27, 2020 Author Posted April 27, 2020 Hello and thank you for your replies. If it helps, I also noticed that as I cycled through the objects in the layers palette, I noticed that while the numerical values (which I manually changed to all be the same) remained the same, the slider bubbles moved left or right slightly, a pixel or two. The FX panel was open on my second monitor. Have a great day, Rick. Quote
walt.farrell Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 While it's true that the sizes of the effects may differ, I've never seen the basic type of effect change. ReallyLuckyDog said that they copied a Bevel/Emboss but what pasted was a Pillow. That seems odd, unless @ReallyLuckyDog fell into an easy trap: When you're looking at the effects panel, the effect that is highlighted (blue) on the left is the one whose settings you see on the right. But the effect(s) that are actually applied are the ones that are checked on the left. It's easy to think you're looking at the settings for one effect when you're really looking at the settings for another, if you don't know what they're supposed to look like. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
thomaso Posted April 27, 2020 Posted April 27, 2020 39 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: It's easy to think you're looking at the settings for one effect when you're really looking at the settings for another, It's indeed a trap and an issue in the UI. – But related to this topic a menu selection inside one effect might be have changed after copy/paste: 23 hours ago, ReallyLuckyDog said: copied FX was a Bevel/Emboss - Radius 0.5 px, Soften 1 px. What was pasted was Pillow "Emboss" and "Pillow" are both available subsettings of the effect "Bevel/Emboss": For this topic again: There is only this 1 effect which offers pillow + radius + soften. So a report about their changed values is hardly related to a different effect. Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
ReallyLuckyDog Posted April 28, 2020 Author Posted April 28, 2020 Hello Here are a copy from and copy to screenshot. In this case the change was minute, it shows the values have changed and the sliders have moved for both radius and soften. I understand that this is something I need to be aware of going forward. Thank you for the replies. Have a great day, Rick. Quote
Cristian Dragos Posted February 19, 2022 Posted February 19, 2022 Any new on this issue? It's 2022, February and we still have the same problem in the latest AD 1.10.4.1198 and it's really annoying! Quote Check out my awesome Affinity Creations!
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