rui_mac Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Local and global colors are he standard names that most designers know and use. Illustrator uses local and global colors.In Freehand, ALL colors were global. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krollian Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I never understood the local colors thing. Graphic designer from Bilbao (Spain) FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer rocks! - Diseñador gráfico de Bilbao (España). FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer ¡mola! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rui_mac Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Imagine this scenario:You have a logo that has a specific color (or colors). You want to make... lets say, a flier, that must include the logo. Your layout includes some colors based on the logo colors with slight variations. So, you duplicate the logo color(s) and set them as global so that you can experiment and see your tests propagate in all elements that use that color(s). But the color(s) of the logo must remain local so that they stay safe. Speaking of that... FreeHand had an ability to do one thing that was sooooooo useful. You could define Tints (percentages) of a color. Let's say you define a color X. Then you create, for example, a color that is 35% of color X. You can apply the Tint color as any other color. And, if you change the color X, the Tint changes accordingly. This is specially useful for Spot colors (but it works with any type of color) since when we are creating layouts with solid colors we usually use several shades of the same Spot colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted November 12, 2014 Staff Share Posted November 12, 2014 Andy Tang currently has a build with global colours... and tints... I'm a terrible tease, sorry. Lescot, rui_mac and JGD 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CartoonMike Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 It's the teases that pleases. :D Mac OS X Catinlina, 2014 iMac, 3.5 Ghz Intel Core i7, Huion Kamvas Pro 22 Graphic Tablet, 16GB RAM, MacOS10.12 || Magic keyboard w/numeric keypad, wireless trackpad, Kengsington Edge Trackball || Flux Capacitor in a secure location --- I encourage kids to go ahead and play on my lawn. I mean, how else can I make sure the death-traps work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rui_mac Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Release the Krak... no, wait... Release that Build!!!!! ;) JGD and rtideas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I have 2 versions Beta & reg. Use Beta and wait for AD in App store? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krollian Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 rui_mac: You say: Speaking of that... FreeHand had an ability to do one thing that was sooooooo useful. You could define Tints (percentages) of a color. Let's say you define a color X. Then you create, for example, a color that is 35% of color X. You can apply the Tint color as any other color. And, if you change the color X, the Tint changes accordingly. This is specially useful for Spot colors (but it works with any type of color) since when we are creating layouts with solid colors we usually use several shades of the same Spot colors. --------- I know this question very well. I have worked lots and lots of hours in prepress with FreeHand since 3.1 version to MX version. It was so simple to edit colors in just one trip to the menu to get this things done: - To name all colors that a document has but are not defined in the color pane. That way, all the colors that contain the document are defined and named in the colors pane. - Delete all unused colors. And yes. FreeHand has a pane for gradients (or tones) of a given color defined in colors pane (including steps from 90 to 10% predefined) So, so simple... See the “tones pane” (I do not know how in english version is defined) at the bottom left of this image. Is from my flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/krollian/14773300344/in/set-72157645962387176 rui_mac 1 Graphic designer from Bilbao (Spain) FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer rocks! - Diseñador gráfico de Bilbao (España). FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer ¡mola! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I've just spotted the following: Default layout is landscape, like it. Colour swatch: UK spelling used by Affinity :wub: , Apple still Americanised. Can't win them all :P MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit69 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 any news about an upcoming beta? just curious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted November 25, 2014 Staff Share Posted November 25, 2014 We've got lots of things underway at the moment - including preparing for the Photo beta that's getting very near, so there are a large number of changes to Designer that are not yet finished, so right now we wouldn't be happy to release another beta version. We'll see how things go over the next couple of weeks and either release an update then, or wait to release a new Designer beta alongside the Photo beta launch (as they need to be running the same codebase in order to make best use of the shared file format) 000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit69 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 thanks for the info! sounds good and i am very anxious to see, what is coming up next from you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Larsen Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 In the beta when exporting to png the .png gets hidden - e.g. Filename instead of Filename.png. Any reason for this? I personally prefer it when the extension is included :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 25, 2014 Staff Share Posted November 25, 2014 That's a Finder setting. If that's happening only for PNG's, right-click on a PNG file, select Get Info, then in the Name & Extension section make sure you have Hide extension unchecked. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Larsen Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 That's a Finder setting. If that's happening only for PNG's, right-click on a PNG file, select Get Info, then in the Name & Extension section make sure you have Hide extension unchecked. I know about the Finder setting but I don't want to right click and change it for every image I export. Screenshot of the exact same file exported with app store version and beta version: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andrew Tang Posted November 25, 2014 Staff Share Posted November 25, 2014 I know about the Finder setting but I don't want to right click and change it for every image I export. Screenshot of the exact same file exported with app store version and beta version: Screen Shot 2014-11-25 at 16.29.38.png Hi Andreas Larsen, This is a mac OSX behaviour that we were not honouring with the version from the App Store. That was very naughty of us and this behaviour is fixed for the beta, and now works like every other application from Apple. It is intended. To fixed this issue globally, you need to: - Click on your desktop. - Click on the Finder menu. - Click on Preferences... - Click on Advanced tab. - Make sure the check box for 'Show all filename extensions' is ticked. - You might need to restart your computer to see the effects. Edit: Just tried it in Photoshop and it ignores this OSX settings - both export and save. Edit 2: After a discussion with my colleagues, we've decided to add a preference to show the extension for saved and exported files. Hopefully that is acceptable to everyone. :) A_B_C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Larsen Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Edit 2: After a discussion with my colleagues, we've decided to add a preference to show the extension for saved and exported files. Hopefully that is acceptable to everyone. :) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 25, 2014 Staff Share Posted November 25, 2014 I wasn't aware of the different behaviour for the MAS versus the beta. Sorry Andreas. Should have known better. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andrew Tang Posted November 26, 2014 Staff Share Posted November 26, 2014 @MEB - You're being too hard on yourself. :) @Andreas Larsen - This is now in for the next beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Larsen Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I wasn't aware of the different behaviour for the MAS versus the beta. Sorry Andreas. Should have known better. @MEB - You're being too hard on yourself. :) @Andreas Larsen - This is now in for the next beta. Agreed, no one expects one person in the team to know it all with the rapid release/development cycle you're currently having. Just glad things get added/fixed :) peter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpedit Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 . . . Edit 2: After a discussion with my colleagues, we've decided to add a preference to show the extension for saved and exported files. Hopefully that is acceptable to everyone. :) I like having my image files show extensions but do not necessarily want to see them in app files. I mean, imagine an app that saved files with an eight letter extension! :) Is their anyway you guys can trim that down? I just did a brief search and the Wikipedia entry, at least, showed no one has yet reserved "AFD". Or "afd". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted November 27, 2014 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2014 Consider what happens when we release .afphoto and .afpub though - they would have both been trimmed down to afp which would be no good. We decided to just go with something clear, consistent and obvious :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpedit Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 I see your point. Then I would like to see the option to apply extensions to exported files separately from imposing them on saved AD files. The long extension is trivial when viewing folders in column modes but, for me anyway, produces awkward parsing that slows down recognition when appearing on desktop files where longer names are forced to multiple lines. Not a big deal, just saying. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted November 28, 2014 Staff Share Posted November 28, 2014 I do agree and we always knew that a longer extension is more cumbersome, but we did it for a reason. I think the ability to toggle whether or not the native file format extensions should be visible or not when saving new files (separately from exported file type extensions) is a good preferences option and would obviously resolve your issue so we can try to look at that :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjohnb Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Hey Guys, the issue where the color picker didn't work correctly on multi-monitor setups still isn't working for me :( I'm pretty sure i saw it was fixed for the next release so assume it is fixed in the latest beta which i just downloaded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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