bcowo Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 tapping the screen with one finger trick is too inconsistent and finicky, it keeps picking color instead of constraint, and the floating keys at the bottom just plainly doesnt work. either draws ghost lines or sticks longer than i press it, or snaps to wrong axis. Oh and most annoyingly it keeps disappearing and going back to first page after every action. drawing straight lines are a relatively common action, i dont get why is it hidden behind pages of tools and is that buggy. please give more consideration for touch only use cases, and add an always visible toggle for snapping to axis, or better, a proper ruler tool. Even making the floating toolbox actually float would be an improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @bcowo. 1 hour ago, bcowo said: tapping the screen with one finger trick is too inconsistent and finicky, it keeps picking color instead of constraint, and the floating keys at the bottom just plainly doesnt work. either draws ghost lines or sticks longer than i press it, or snaps to wrong axis. Oh and most annoyingly it keeps disappearing and going back to first page after every action. It would be helpful to know which tool(s) you’re trying to use, but the Pen Tool has ‘Line’ and ‘Polygon’ modes that may help here. Quote add an always visible toggle for snapping to axis The Snapping toggle is always visible in Affinity Designer on iPad. Are you using Affinity Photo? DM1 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcowo Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 23 hours ago, Alfred said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @bcowo. It would be helpful to know which tool(s) you’re trying to use, but the Pen Tool has ‘Line’ and ‘Polygon’ modes that may help here. The Snapping toggle is always visible in Affinity Designer on iPad. Are you using Affinity Photo? Hi, i just checked out the pen tool, it does draw straight lines but it creates a new layer for every line (ill need to draw a lot of them) and most importantly, i cant use any of the brushes. Yes i am using affinity photo for drawing. i dont do vector stuff so i didnt get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, bcowo said: Yes i am using affinity photo for drawing. Thank you for the clarification. I agree that there should be an “always visible” toggle for snapping in APh on iPad. On 12/29/2021 at 9:32 AM, bcowo said: tapping the screen with one finger trick is too inconsistent and finicky, it keeps picking color instead of constraint I can’t reproduce that problem here. Can you provide a reliable ‘recipe’? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcowo Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 34 minutes ago, Alfred said: Thank you for the clarification. I agree that there should be an “always visible” toggle for snapping in APh on iPad. I can’t reproduce that problem here. Can you provide a reliable ‘recipe’? these are the issues im having. since it doesnt show missed clicks it might not be apparent but basically when im holding down constraint and let it go after my stroke finishes it acts as if im still holding down, even though ui stops highlighting it. this shouldnt be the expected behavior from what understand from the tool tip. with holding down with one finger issues, i wouldnt know where to start honestly. RPReplay_Final1640862867.mov RPReplay_Final1640863003.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcowo Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 to add tapping the start point and end point really isnt ideal for drawing lines in the angle one would want them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcowo Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 im not sure if this is the correct place for feedbacks but the ideal tool would basically be the apples ruler tool in the screenshot menu. nothing fancy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 1 hour ago, bcowo said: im not sure if this is the correct place for feedbacks It's not. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feature-requests-suggestions/ is the right area of the forums, and specifically for Photo on iPad: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/44-feedback-for-affinity-photo-on-ipad/ 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...
Paul Mudditt Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 On 12/29/2021 at 9:32 AM, bcowo said: tapping the screen with one finger trick is too inconsistent and finicky, it keeps picking color instead of constraint, and the floating keys at the bottom just plainly doesnt work. either draws ghost lines or sticks longer than i press it, or snaps to wrong axis. Oh and most annoyingly it keeps disappearing and going back to first page after every action. drawing straight lines are a relatively common action, i dont get why is it hidden behind pages of tools and is that buggy. please give more consideration for touch only use cases, and add an always visible toggle for snapping to axis, or better, a proper ruler tool. Even making the floating toolbox actually float would be an improvement. Joining this discussion late but it does seem like you should be using Affinity Designer not Affinity Photo which is akin to Photoshop. If you don’t want to do vector drawing perhaps a sketch app like Procreate may be what you require. Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcowo Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 8 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said: Joining this discussion late but it does seem like you should be using Affinity Designer not Affinity Photo which is akin to Photoshop. If you don’t want to do vector drawing perhaps a sketch app like Procreate may be what you require. Hmm, i kinda went with ap with because its similar to photoshop, photoshop is good with digital drawings, no? and pretty sure affinity advertises photo as a digital art creation tool as much as it does for photo manipulation 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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