Missing Opacity Slider for Colors in v2.2

[eclecticthis]

So I just updated to v2.2 and found that my opacity slider in my Color window/box in Affinity Photo has been replaced by a noise slider. The noise thing isn't something I have ever used and am not likely to use often, but I do change the opacity often (especially in gradients). Is there a setting somewhere so I can choose to have the opacity slider instead of the noise slider? 

[walt.farrell]

That slider has always been dual-purpose. Click the word Noise or the well under it, and it should become Opacity again.

[carl123]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Click the word Noise or the well under it, and it should become Opacity again.

Clicking the word noise does nothing for me, only clicking the well toggles between Noise & Opacity

(Windows 11)

[eclecticthis]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

That slider has always been dual-purpose. Click the word Noise or the well under it, and it should become Opacity again.

Thanks! I had no idea what a "well" was, but that led me to clicking around some more, clicking on the white circle worked, so I guess that's the well.  

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, eclecticthis said:

Thanks! I had no idea what a "well" was, but that led me to clicking around some more, clicking on the white circle worked, so I guess that's the well.  

I think it is called a "well" because it is reminiscent of an inkwell, although it makes more sense in the color wells like in the Color panel.

[thomaso]

6 hours ago, eclecticthis said:

that led me to clicking around some more

If you still get familiar with the interface it maybe helpful to set the delay for pop-up tooltips to none. (app preferences -> user interface)

For this well it has the most pragmatic, cromulent tip of the app, imho.

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, thomaso said:

For this well it has the most pragmatic, cromulent tip of the app, imho.

The tooltip in V2 just says "Switch," which is less helpful than it could be.

[Pšenda]

12 hours ago, eclecticthis said:

I had no idea what a "well" was

alias Opacity/Noise/Intensity toggle button:

https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Panels/clrPanel.html

[thomaso]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

just says "Switch,"

Yes. I like that. – Imagine it would say "Noise" or "Opacity" … or "Click here to toggle the interface between opacity and noise".

No, "switch" is perfect, imho! … And is definitely more useful than this for instance:

On that level it would just say "Well" instead of "Switch". 😉

[R C-R]

16 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Yes. I like that. – Imagine it would say "Noise" or "Opacity" …

It would be much more helpful if it said "Switch between noise & opacity." As it is, it is unclear what is being switched. For instance, it might mean to switch on & off noise or toggle opacity between 100% & 0%.

[thomaso]

3 hours ago, R C-R said:

it is unclear what is being switched

So what? Just switch and you will see the "switch between noise & opacity" without any harm.

Especially for your profound, cromulent doubting skills I had posted the "Lock" example, where "it is unclear what is being locked". 🙃

Instead of arguing about tooltippoetry it maybe more useful for this thread and the OP to make missing options in other colour panels of Affinity UI more public and prepare new users this way for future surprises. For instance: How to set a text frame colour opacity to a specific value, say 35% ?
(tooltip: "Swatch")

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, thomaso said:

So what? Just switch and you will see the "switch between noise & opacity" without any harm.

The "what" is a tooltip should eliminate the need for guessing or trial & error.

2 hours ago, thomaso said:

Especially for your profound, cromulent doubting skills I had posted the "Lock" example, where "it is unclear what is being locked". 🙃

It seems pretty clear to me that it locks the layer. (BTW, "cromulent" means acceptable or adequate so I'm not sure you want to use that word to describe my doubting skills.)

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

pretty clear to me that it locks the layer

Funny. There are various discussions confirming that it's unclear in Affinity what gets locked with this button. If it is clear to you then by your experience, not by the tooltip. This tooltip just expresses the visible symbol as text and wouldn't be more or less clear if it would just say "Switch".

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

"cromulent" means acceptable or adequate

… and e.g. "fine, normal, excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic". – "The schoolchildren of Springfield are watching a film about the founding father of Springfield, Jebediah Springfield. The film ends with Jebediah intoning, 'A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.' One teacher at the back of the room leans over to another and says that she’d never heard the word embiggen before she moved to Springfield. “I don't know why,” the other teacher replies. 'It's a perfectly cromulent word.' (…) The joke was so sly and subtle that as 'It's a perfectly cromulent word' was repeated, it wasn't necessarily clear to the hearer that it was a joke." https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/what-does-cromulent-mean

[R C-R]

17 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Funny. There are various discussions confirming that it's unclear in Affinity what gets locked with this button.

That's true, but I doubt any tooltip that isn't unreasonably long would clear that up.