AI-style Recolour option in Designer v2 - still nothing?

[AndyMac]

I suggested this when I looked at v1 and have now looked at v2, and can't find anything...

One of the things that I use quite a lot for creating controls for music software is the ability to easily recolour the whole control - Adobe Illustrator offers this capability in a really useful form in its Edit Colour/Recolour option where you can select multiple objects and recolour them all in one go in a very controlled and obvious way.

Specifically, Adobe Illustrator's recolour picks up the set of colours in the selection and allows you to either change them all together keeping their relationships intact or change individual ones (in the way you can in Affinity Designer).

The option to change them all together keeping their relationships intact is the capability I was specifically talking about. This means that you can have a complex image with multiple shades of colours to e.g. to simulate metal with reflections/shadows, and change the underlying colour for them all to e.g. a red metallic finish retaining all the detail of the reflections/shadows. You would have to do this individually in Designer and would have to also work out the relationships between them manually, which is challenging.

In the screenshot you can see AI's tool picking up all the selected red items and the graduations inside some of them, and this allows me to change the whole image to e.g. blue or green variants simply using the AI recolour tool and selecting the primary colour in the wheel and changing its colour.

Unless I am missing something, I can't find this sort of capability anywhere in Designer v2, which is a real missed opportunity.

I would ask again that it be considered for inclusion in a future update, as this sort of capability would enhance the product significantly.

[tudor]

The HSL color adjustments in the Layers palette do exactly what you want and more. Keep in mind that you need to adjust your workflow because the adjustments are not the same as the recoloring options in AI.

[AndyMac]

@tudor I can't see how this is working (at least in the way I need it to)

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The HSL color adjustments in the Layers palette do exactly what you want and more. Keep in mind that you need to adjust your workflow because the adjustments are not the same as the recoloring options in AI.

I tried what I thought would work and it changed all the elements to a single colour when I changed the Hue slider in the Layers palette, and even just working on a single element in a single layer, it changed a graduated fill to a uniform fill when I changed this - unless I'm missing something in the way this works.