synaptyx Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Sorry if I'm not explaining myself properly. Here are some screengrabs. This one is inside stroked text. The red pixels outside should not be showing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synaptyx Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 As you can see, it's not working on this stroked object - the only way for it to work is to select Draw behind Fill on the stroke panel and that's not always appropriate for the object and design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synaptyx Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 The thing is, when I'm designing, I don't want to have to be setting this attribute on every object I draw, I mean that's just nuts! I want to get on with the job of designing and drawing and export to hard edged pixels when I need to. The level of detail anti-aliasing control is wonderful for people who are designing pixel-based designs from the get go. My purpose is to create clean edged designs with strict colour counts for screen-printing with the caveat, that the designs may be printed with anti-aliasing as well depending on the product and method of printing required. Thanks for reading and taking on board all my comments and niggles. It may not sound like it, but I love Affinity and am looking forward to updates and upgrades! :) Kal and Jowday 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuhehene Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Just chiming in to say that I'd also like to see an option to disable anti-aliasing across the board. The coverage feature is very handy for tweaking the look of the AA. But when working with certain low-res art styles I need to be able to just turn it off altogether. Having to toggle it manually per object is tiresome; when quickly iterating during the drawing phase I want to just be creative and not have apply a specific setting or preset all the time. Perhaps the coverage could be stored with the default settings when using the "Synchronise" button? synaptyx and LilleG 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 I hear ya, Synaptic.... As a temporary workaround, keep in mind one does not need to apply the anti-alias to each object. Just design using the Force Pixel alignment option and other appropriate settings in the snap window and when you're done, simply Select All and then apply a flat Anti-alias ramp. Also, I would personally use a Square cut-off at the 50% mark, for a more realistic and accurate conversion to anti-alias, rather than simply a flat line at 0% or 100%.... The thing is, when I'm designing, I don't want to have to be setting this attribute on every object I draw, I mean that's just nuts! I want to get on with the job of designing and drawing and export to hard edged pixels when I need to. The level of detail anti-aliasing control is wonderful for people who are designing pixel-based designs from the get go. My purpose is to create clean edged designs with strict colour counts for screen-printing with the caveat, that the designs may be printed with anti-aliasing as well depending on the product and method of printing required. Thanks for reading and taking on board all my comments and niggles. It may not sound like it, but I love Affinity and am looking forward to updates and upgrades! :) synaptyx 1 Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Ventura 13.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 16.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted October 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted October 9, 2015 That's something I think we could maybe look into.. Let me have a look :) Thanks, A LilleG, synaptyx, ronnyb and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Any time I see that sexy curve management widget in coverage map I wish I had one for dynamics jitters too... :P ronnyb and Andy Somerfield 2 Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted October 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted October 10, 2015 Do you mean something like this @paolo.limoncelli? https://s3.amazonaws.com/affinity-beta/download/brush_jitter.mov A paolo.limoncelli, anon1 and ronnyb 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 Definitely in love with it. Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian23 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I looked for that quite a while until I found the dialog to set the "coverage map". The help does not list it. In case somebody else is also looking for it, that dialog is visible after click on the gear-wheel in the layer list where you can also select mix mode and opacity. Maybe this can be also added to the context drop down menu of the layer (right mouse button / ctrl+click). IsabelAracama 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom-b Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Is there a way to get this to behave more like the pixel tool? I personally would love it if there was an option for paths to be rendered with a similar algorithm. Playing with the coverage-map curves is cool for certain effects but not great for controlled pixel-art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethernaut Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share Posted March 20, 2016 I'm sorry to resuscitate this topic, but I've recently tried to use Affinity Designer for a Pixel Art project again, and it feels like there are still issues preventing this feature from being used. I'm using coverage maps to create a sharp transition, which seems to work just fine... until you start overlapping objects. In this example here, the brown shape is nested inside the dark green shape, and whenever their edges "touch", antialiased pixels are created. I've also set view quality to nearest neighbor, but no luck. Affinity Designer would be so awesome for this kind of task, specially because it so seamlessly blends pixel and vector workflows. But for now, the worlds of vectors and pixels shall remain separated, it looks like. :-( Leo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbert123 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Bumping this again. Can't we just quickly turn off anti-aliasing globally for a document and/or specifically for a bunch of layers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voidsea Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I was a Adobe Fireworks user, and I can choose Hard fill mode for object I want to be rendered as pixel art. The curve thing is a little too complex to apply if you got a lots of objects. Quote The Boss is watching you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsnaps12 Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 I am also a fireworks user. would love to be able to just quickly select parts of objects and have a drop down of.. hard edge anti aliasing feather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiori Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 For me either on AP or AD, the reason i don't do my pixel art in them is because you cant turn AA off, so for instance if i create a circle shape or a line shape depending. Or any of the other examples people mentioned it will go the AA route and ruin it.Currently i use Clip Studio Paint for Pixel work, which has shape tools and works great all in all. I hope affinity implements a proper pixel toolset/way to draw anything in the software without AA.(or as people noted, with many AA options, including off) Tiartyos and LilleG 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterycoconut Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Anti-alias on/off checkbox would be easier for sure. Current coverage map has a bug by which it doesn't affect the whole line when strokes are aligned to the inside or the outside of a shape. Tiartyos, LilleG and Kiori 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitrusDrop Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 +1 Really would like an easy way to disable antialiasing everywhere. Would like to add that sense I keep all my objects in groups it is really hard to apply the map settings to a large number of things as I can not apply them to groups nor select all objects as it selects them as groups and not sub-objects so I have to rather painfully go through each group of object to apply the map settings. Tiartyos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firewater Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Chipping it to say I've been using Affinity for pixel work and it's been a rather unfortunate experience solely because of the lack of this one simple feature. Hope you can get around to it soon enough. angelhdz12, Kiori and Tiartyos 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiori Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 The new AD/AP 1.7 has lots of cool new features, unfortunately this wasn't included. Why? No love for pixel artists? Tiartyos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 I'd also love the ability to "switch off anti-aliasing" I design in vectors but want to view/render/export as solid colour pixels. What are the chances? Do I really have to use Illustrator? http://www.icoeye.com/blog/?p=220 Jowday, Kal, angelhdz12 and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 I want to add my support for this. My most common use case is to export raster print versions of a logo. For logos (and similar hard-edged graphics) antialiasing just makes them print with a fuzzy edge, so I always export high-res raster logos with no antialiasing. This is easy to do with Adobe software, but I've yet to find a simple way to accomplish the same thing with Affinity software. Adjusting a 'coverage map' graph on individual objects is crazy complexity for replacing such a simple feature, and it didn't work predictably for me anyway. Please, can we just have an antialiasing check box in the export settings? matt and Tiartyos 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norvald Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Any updates in 1.8.1 on this issue? When I export as transparent png should I go for Resample as "Nearest Neighbour" to get closer to solving the issue? I see that Teespring is recommening people to export with "Nearest Neighbour" (Hard edges) in Illustrartor. + turning antialiasing off (None). Or is the simplest way just to use GIMP for this last stage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Need this again today, designing for Playdate (monochrome/black-and-white display with no antialiasing) handheld console. It's so disappointing that we currently have to use another tool to do this. angelhdz12 and Kal 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Needing the again. Gah, this gets me down more than it should! angelhdz12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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