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Where has the transparency slider gone?


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There used to be an opacity slider in the colour panel.

image.png.df303f3f1776a3e1cad9653055fda9a6.pngscreen grab from v 1.9.0

It is now a noise slider.

image.png.06ef80236091dea2ccfc170f035dcd32.png screen grab from v 1.10.4

I used to be able to use it to control the line OR the fill depending on whether I selected

line image.png.565285f38655280ccae7c32f0381b578.png image.png.927f5964b4597eb3825b9642fb9a3da8.png

or fill image.png.3942f52c0f5510609a5f1f4569a7dc05.png image.png.f2c87e4709f84558f7c8f672b12fbb80.png(this fill is lighter, but yellow was a poor choice to demonstrate this - sorry)

Now it seems the only option is to use the Opacity slider in the Layers and Effects panel

image.png.49e7002b12b0de837c04c7acbe29c9f7.png

But these control both line and fill.

How do I control line and fill separately now? 

 

Thanks...

 

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2 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Click on the circle under the word Noise and it will change to the Opacity slider.
Click on the circle under the word Opacity and it will change to the Noise slider.

IMHO If Serif want to save a very small amount of space in this way, it would be a good idea to have some indication that this is how it works! 😕

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Agreed.

This has been confusing people since 2016, for example:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/23468-15010-adding-noise-to-a-fill/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/52181-noise-slider/
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/53377-bring-back-the-dedicated-noise-slider/

As far as I can remember, just off the top of my head, this is the only place where the software uses this ‘trick’ to save screen space.

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40 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

IMHO If Serif want to save a very small amount of space in this way, it would be a good idea to have some indication that this is how it works! 😕

Agreed. Doing this in the desktop apps but not in the iPad apps is a particularly odd decision, given the much more limited screen space available on an iPad.

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Thanks all - must have clicked it accidentally to turn it to Noise - but Noise might be useful one day - so not a complete waste of time. I like Affinity Designer, but the initial enthusiasm seems to have flagged. I wish they would get on with incorporating the features that were in  Serif Draw...

Another first world problem 🙂

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