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The naming of the Assistant settings are a bit confusing


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I was trying to select a group in a project I was working on when I noticed that it got rasterized when using a brush. So I checked out the Assistant and got confused by the naming of the option that rasterized the group. It's called "vector layers" which confused me, since I associate vectors with well, vector shapes, not groups and stuff. The same could be said about erasing and applying filters to "vector layers".

Maybe I am a bit picky, but some clearer names for non-pixel layers would be nice.

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I don't think there's a good term other than raster vs non-raster, which isn't going to be a helpful terminology, either.

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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

I don't think there's a good term other than raster vs non-raster, which isn't going to be a helpful terminology, either.

Alternatively you divide each option up so that you can decide the settings for each layer type separately. So one tab is "Groups", another is "Vectors", another is "Images", etc., etc. That way you have a bit more control for each layer type while allowing for better naming that directly refers to the type of layer you are changing the setting for.

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10 minutes ago, Frozen Death Knight said:

Alternatively you divide each option up so that you can decide the settings for each layer type separately

That's a good alternative, if Serif agrees with creating that many more options.

-- Walt
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    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
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