Show own grid has become very cumbersome in Photos 2

[Affni]

In several posts on same subject it is said, that the keyboard shortcut  cmd '  does also work when you have created an own grid. This is true - however, whenever a restart Affinity Photo2 I have to go first to grid and achses where an empty selections is shown as default, then I have to scroll down to select MY grid in the firste and only entry, select it ... and after THAT detour, I have to close that dialog  can toggle.

Would it be possible, to allow in the overall preferences, to define what should be use with toggling = either the automatic 1 pixel grid or a specific personally defined grid?

The minimum should be, that whenever I open grid and achses, the last gridtyp used shows right away and is ready for selection.

OR

You allow the user to predefine own keyboard shortcuts for functions like this

[fde101]

The problem with this is that the grid is a per-document setting - you can have different grids selected in different documents - it is not an application property.

The canonical solution for this in the Affinity products is to create a template with the grid set up the way you want it, then use that template when creating new documents.

There is a problem, however, when working with Photo, in that many documents are created by "opening" a RAW file or other raster image file, which in effect creates a new Affinity Photo document and imports the image into a new layer of that document which is then named "Background".

Currently there is no opportunity to access a grid which is stored in a template when "opening" raster images in this way, and I believe that is the problem which should actually be solved.  Rather than a piecemeal solution for one property at a time (grid, etc.), I think the best way for this to work is to allow the user to specify a template of their choice to use when "opening" raster images or RAW files, perhaps with an option to use it (or a different one) when creating from a preset also (as this is something that is a bit more iffy).

The user could then save a template with their desired grid settings, maybe a few adjustment layers for soft proofing (likely turned off but still set up and ready to go), and when they open a raster image, it would open a copy of the template, set the document size to match the image being opened, and import the raster image into a new layer on the bottom of the Layers panel.

This would solve the problem for the grid, allow the user to rig custom adjustment layers to be ready to go for any new image they open, have custom document color swatches (even global ones) in place and ready to go, etc...  and it should be fairly straightforward as all of the underlying mechanics to make it happen already exist in the application.

[Pšenda]

14 hours ago, fde101 said:

in a template when "opening" raster images

It could also address requests from many users who require inches/millimeters as document units when opening a raster image with pixels.

[Affni]

Thanks for the hint, that grids are part of the respective document. Since this is comparable to applying live filters I tested to create macros ... and it works.

So, I created a new category in my Macro-Library and named it "Grids". Depending on my requirements I can now doubleclick  300x300 or cube or whatever. The mainly used grid is also the top - hence I just have to click on Library an select the 300x300  grid.

Important: The program seems to remember the last toggle command. In case you double click such a macro and nothing happens, go to the menu "show grid" or apply the shortcut  

cmd  `   = that means  press cmd   and press    the grave accent.

Finally  -  I tried to record a 300x300 grid and clicked on the menu "show grid" before stopping and saving it. Though no changes were shown in the recording window I may be possible, that including the "show grid" action in the recording assures that the grid is shown regardless of the prior status.

Hope the attached macro-example also works on your Mac

 

Grid.afmacros