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Modify Opacity and Blending mode key board shortcuts?


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i am coming from Adobe Illustrator. Tying to use same shortcuts in affinity.

How can i modify the blending mode shortcuts and the opacity?

I looked at all the keyboard shortcuts but i could not find anything to modify opacity. Also how do i set blending modes shortcuts?


I only want to add 2 blending mode shortcuts. Screen and Multiply.

 

Also is there a way to add shortcut to Gaussian blur image.png.bccbf54a7ff176dbe71a84007324c07e.png

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I don't think there are shortcuts for the blending modes.

But for opacity, just type a number. E.g.  1 will give you 10%, 2 will give you 20%, 35 (typed quickly) will give you 35%.

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Layers/layerOpacity.html

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29 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I don't think there are shortcuts for the blending modes.

But for opacity, just type a number. E.g.  1 will give you 10%, 2 will give you 20%, 35 (typed quickly) will give you 35%.

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Layers/layerOpacity.html

opacity ones gives me weird opacity level. like 23% 36% etc on pressing 1-10. I also found that if i press the same # button key it gives me something like 20 23 26 then back to 100.

In illustrator i can modify that. I don't know who is the designer of the this particular interface but Illustrator is clear winner in this regard.

i would really like to have the blending mode shortcuts assigning available. I use those 2 so extensively. Shortcuts save so much time.

Also when i search for shortcuts in my keyboard shortcut setting in illustrator Its so easy.
Example:image.png.714ecb2e296e2ff85f2f61691bda43a3.png

Example: image.png.3ca8de1419bba2fdf1195164e50744cd.png
 

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24 minutes ago, JonyJodha said:

opacity ones gives me weird opacity level. like 23% 36% etc on pressing 1-10. I also found that if i press the same # button key it gives me something like 20 23 26 then back to 100.

Possibly your pressing then too quickly? 

Pressing 2 should give you 20% and pressing three should give you 30%. But if you press 23 you'll get 23%.

In theory of you pressed 1 2 3 4 quickly you might end up with the last value you specified, 34.

These shortcuts are hard-coded, and not modifiable by the user.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    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.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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