Anonymous Puddle Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 How can I reset the grid colors to default in Affinity Designer V2? I found this post in the forums, which has been answered, but it seems a little outdated because it looks the the grid options and UI has changed since then: Any help on how to reset this would be appreciated or the values for me to be able reset them myself to default values would be appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted June 4 Staff Share Posted June 4 From the View menu select the Grid and Axis option and then set the RGB values for the Grid lines and Pixel grid lines to 204,204,204 and this will change the colour of the gridlines to the default value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 25 minutes ago, DWright said: From the View menu select the Grid and Axis option and then set the RGB values for the Grid lines and Pixel grid lines to 204,204,204 and this will change the colour of the gridlines to the default value. As noted in the linked post, you may need to set the alpha values, too. The default primary grid colour is RGBA(204,204,204,89) and the default secondary grid colour is RGBA(204,204,204,45). It would be really helpful to have a button for this in the Grid and Axis dialog. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous Puddle Posted June 4 Author Share Posted June 4 Here is the feature request I’ve submitted regarding this issue: Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous Puddle Posted June 4 Author Share Posted June 4 I am able to set the RGB values of the colors in the menu but I don't see where to set the alpha values. Also, (at least in AF Designer), the options are "Grid lines" "Subdivision lines" and "Pixel grid lines"; I do not see primary and secondary. So I'm not sure which you are referring to @Alfred. The horizontal sliders to the right of each of the three options is the opacity. Is that the same as the alpha value? If so, I don't know how to manually input a precise value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 13 minutes ago, Anonymous Puddle said: I am able to set the RGB values of the colors in the menu but I don't see where to set the alpha values. I don’t even see where to set the RGB values! 14 minutes ago, Anonymous Puddle said: Also, (at least in AF Designer), the options are "Grid lines" "Subdivision lines" and "Pixel grid lines"; I do not see primary and secondary. So I'm not sure which you are referring to @Alfred. I’m assuming that ‘primary’ refers to the Grid lines and ‘secondary’ refers to the Subdivision lines. If that assumption is correct, this is yet another example of inconsistent terminology. 17 minutes ago, Anonymous Puddle said: The horizontal sliders to the right of each of the three options is the opacity. Is that the same as the alpha value? If so, I don't know how to manually input a precise value. Yes, the alpha value is indeed the opacity value. There’s no indication here (on Windows) of what the current value is, let alone how to set it numerically. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous Puddle Posted June 4 Author Share Posted June 4 Interesting. Are you saying that it is different on Windows than Mac, se you see "primary" and "secondary" whereas on Mac (me), I see "Grid lines" "Subdivision lines" and "Pixel grid lines"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 No, I’m saying that the linked posts about this issue refer to ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’, but (like you) I don’t see those terms in the UI. 10 minutes ago, Alfred said: I’m assuming that ‘primary’ refers to the Grid lines and ‘secondary’ refers to the Subdivision lines. If that assumption is correct, this is yet another example of inconsistent terminology. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 26 minutes ago, Anonymous Puddle said: I am able to set the RGB values of the colors in the menu but I don't see where to set the alpha values. You can only set them, I think, using the XML file shown in the post that was linked earlier. Via the UI, all you can do is adjust the slider for Opacity. 8 minutes ago, Alfred said: I don’t even see where to set the RGB values! Grid and Axis manager: Alfred and Anonymous Puddle 1 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous Puddle Posted June 4 Author Share Posted June 4 10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Via the UI, all you can do is adjust the slider for Opacity. In that case, can anyone share a screenshot of what the default opacities are so I can at least get mine close to default? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Designer 2.5.2486 Beta on Windows: Anonymous Puddle 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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