Noise/Grain: additional flexibility please

[ronnyb]

I love being able to specify noise / grain in Affinity's colors. I think it would be even more flexible if:

 

1. Rename Noise to Grain. Noise is an antiseptically cold-sounding term; Grain speaks to the art, craft and texture of photography and design.

 

2. Allow Users to specify both App-wide (App Prefs) and Document-Wide (New Doc / Document Settings)  setting for Grain. This would tremendously easy the tedium of assigning noise to colors manually and maintain consistency, something that is not possible now as there is no numerical input for noise. Obviously there would be some exceptions with PMS / Spot colors etc

 

3. Allow users to apply noise as an Effect AT THE TOP of the Effects stack. As things are implemented now, applying a Gaussian Blur effect to an object blurs its color's Noise. I understand why that behavior makes sense, but from an artistic / creative point of view, one may want to blur only an objects' Shape and/or Colors   while maintaining the document's Grain settings.

 

Thanks for your consideration. The 1.5 betas are amazing, keep up the great work! Please unleash iOS betas ASAP :D  Oh, and Affinity Publisher :D lolol ;)