Can I Combine the Ellipse, Rectangle, and Rounded Rectangle Tools into the Shape Preset Tool?

[Mr. Mendelli]

I prefer how this tool is in Affinity Photo, all of the shapes are contained within the one tool button. I can add the individual shape tools, but I like to have my tools as consolidated as possible.

[R C-R]

I am not sure this is what you want but in View > Customize Tools... (not customize toolbar!) you should see one shape tool with a small triangle at its bottom right corner. Drag that into the Tools panel & drag all the other shape tools off of it & all the shape tools will be in that one button group.

[Mr. Mendelli]

I already tried that (I should have specified so...), it did not work that way for me. All I have access to in the grouped tool is what is in the screenshot.

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, Mr. Mendelli said:

I already tried that (I should have specified so...), it did not work that way for me. All I have access to in the grouped tool is what is in the screenshot.

What else is there? That's all the 'quick shapes' there are in the app.

[carl123]

7 minutes ago, R C-R said:

What else is there? That's all the 'quick shapes' there are in the app.

On Windows, Designer's dropdown for the tools icon only has 18 of the 21 tools available (excluding the cat tool)

The dropdown does not include "Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle & Ellipse tools, which all have to be added as separate tools

In APhoto all 21 tools are available in the dropdown

@R C-R Is this different on a Mac?

[R C-R]

31 minutes ago, carl123 said:

@R C-R Is this different on a Mac?

No. I just wasn't thinking about the rectangle & ellipse tools.

[Mr. Mendelli]

Bummer, well thanks for all of the replies everyone.

[Old Bruce]

Seems strange that we cannot have the default Shapes fly-out from Photo as an option when we Customize Tools... I show the top of the default here.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

Seems strange that we cannot have the default Shapes fly-out from Photo as an option when we Customize Tools... I show the top of the default here.

Just guessing but maybe because they consider AP to be more of a pixel editor & AD as more of a vector/shape editor, so for the latter the ellipse, rectangle, or rounded rectangle are considered 'basic' or fundamental shapes.

Or maybe it is just because they never considered that more than a few AD users would want all the shape tools in one AD fly-out group?

Either way, it seems like this could be added as a feature request for AD, & not hard to implement....

[R C-R]

As kind of a lame workaround, what about assigning/using one or more keyboard shortcuts for the ellipse, rectangle, & rounded rectangle tools, & then removing them from the Tools panel? I think the default is "U" for all of them, which cycles through them, but maybe other shortcuts would do. What I have done experimentally in AD is to assign "E" to the Ellipse Tool & "R" to the Rectangle Tool & Rounded Rectangle Tools because it is easy to remember, & tapping "R" cycles between the 2 similar tools.

EDIT: I just noticed that if I tap "E" repeatedly, it cycles between the Ellipse & Rounded Rectangle Tools, even though the Rounded Rectangle Tool shortcut is set to "R."

Anybody else seeing the same thing?

EDIT 2: Quitting & relaunching AD stopped the "E" cycling between the two tools, so now "E" cycles between the Ellipse Tool & no tool selected, & the "R" key cycles beween the 2 rectangle tools.