Totte Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Hi! I'm trying out Artboards (In Designer) at the moment and currently I got 10 similar artboard. Is it possible to link objects to mimic each other? Lets say I've made a rectangle to act as a background in each of the artboards, and I want to change the background of all of them, without having to select each rectangle individually. Is this possible? Bonus question: Is it possible to export all artboards at once as individual files? Instead of doing 10 exports selecting each artboard at the export window. Quote Photographer * Design Trainee * Linux nerd Instagram - Youtube - Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 19 minutes ago, Totte said: Hi! I'm trying out Artboards (In Designer) at the moment and currently I got 10 similar artboard. Is it possible to link objects to mimic each other? Lets say I've made a rectangle to act as a background in each of the artboards, and I want to change the background of all of them, without having to select each rectangle individually. Is this possible? Bonus question: Is it possible to export all artboards at once as individual files? Instead of doing 10 exports selecting each artboard at the export window. Try using symbols. Make the rectangle a symbol and you should be able to do what you want to. Totte 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totte Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Try using symbols. Make the rectangle a symbol and you should be able to do what you want to. Never used symbols, do you know any good tutorial video to get started by any chance? 😅 Quote Photographer * Design Trainee * Linux nerd Instagram - Youtube - Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 there is the 'Official' video from Affinity https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/designer/desktop/video/301628203/ it is on their Learning page for Designer, https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/designer/desktop/ worth a look in my opinion. Check out the export persona tutorials. Totte 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totte Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 1 minute ago, Old Bruce said: there is the 'Official' video from Affinity https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/designer/desktop/video/301628203/ it is on their Learning page for Designer, https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/designer/desktop/ worth a look in my opinion. Check out the export persona tutorials. Cheers! I watched those when the software was new, didn't recall where to find them 😅 Thanks for the help! Quote Photographer * Design Trainee * Linux nerd Instagram - Youtube - Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 'Unofficial' video: Screen Recording 2021-04-08 at 20.41.00.mov Basically display the Symbols panel, select your rectangle, click Create, drag the symbol to the other artboards, select one of the nested rectangles in the Layers panel, and change its colour (or shape, or position, or anything...) Totte 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Totte said: Lets say I've made a rectangle to act as a background in each of the artboards, and I want to change the background of all of them, without having to select each rectangle individually. Is this possible? Yup: delete all those rectangles, you don't need them select all your "Artboard" type layers in the Layers panel activate the Node tool context toolbar > Fill In other words: Artboards are objects. And vice versa: any vector object of any shape can be converted to an artboard. And back to an object again. 1 hour ago, Totte said: Is it possible to export all artboards at once as individual files? Click the Export Persona button in the toolbar. Totte 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 You could also use a Global Color as the Fill for your rectangles, and then change the definition of the color to affect all of them. https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Clr/globalClr.html (By the way, you don't need to use a rectangle as the background for an Artboard. You can set the Fill color of an Artboard directly from the Context Toolbar. And you can use global colors for the Fill there, too.) (Edit: I see that was already mentioned ) Totte 1 Quote -- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Select > Select Object > Artboards Change the colour in the Colour Panel Totte 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totte Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 So.. that was easy by just filling the artboards Cheers. Next problem; Let's say I got a different "icon" in each artboard. Any way to change the colors of all these icons at once? We back to objects as mentioned earlier? Quote Photographer * Design Trainee * Linux nerd Instagram - Youtube - Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Global colours as suggested by @walt.farrell are the way to go. In the Swatches panel, Add a new palette. This can be document, application or system-wide and by default will be called Unnamed (grrrr....) Rename the palette if you want (mine is called Logos), then Add Global Colour: Again, you can rename the colour if you want. The white "dog ear" at the bottom left of the swatch indicates that it's global. Apply that colour to your icons: Right-click on the global colour in the swatches panel and Edit Fill: All instances of the global colour will be updated. (PS if you've got a different question, it's a good idea to start a new thread. Makes it easier to find ) Totte 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totte Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 Cool! Cheers, will have a go and experiment with it a bit and I think I'm good for now 😁 Once again, thanks guys. Quote Photographer * Design Trainee * Linux nerd Instagram - Youtube - Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Other options: name those objects in the Layers panel, giving them all the same name, then Select > Select Same > Name tag those objects in the Layers panel, giving them all the same tag color, then Select > Select Same > Tag Color h_d, Totte and walt.farrell 3 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 13 hours ago, loukash said: In other words: Artboards are objects. And vice versa: any vector object of any shape can be converted to an artboard. And back to an object again. I hadn't realized an artboard could be ANY shape. 🤯 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, Bryan Rieger said: ANY shape. Totte 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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