Blending shapes

[KulturedKonfidence]

On 1/24/2018 at 11:19 AM, Phil_rose said:

Good morning everybody,

I am finding another thing that seems to be missing from Designer which I use an awful lot in CorelDRAW and which is kind worrying to me unless maybe I'm missing something. In Corel I have a blend tool. I believe Illustrator has the same thing though I don't use Illustrator. It allows me to create two objects and blend them together. This is particularly useful for creating interesting drop shadows and so on. Is there really no way to do this in Designer? I'm attaching a screenshot to show you what I mean. Corel allows me to choose which aspects of each object interact with one another.

Hopefully there is some way of doing this or it will be added as it seems like a very important tool to me.

Thanks very much and let me know!

Phil

SELECT ALL SHAPES GO TO LAYER, CLICK CREATE COMPOUND. See if this helps.

[Phil_rose]

It didn't. This is my before and after of clicking Create Compound. It seems to be going to upload backwards! The green box at bottom is the Before.

[jstnhllmn]

This feature will arrive the day after we get cold fusion and puppies that don't poop.

[Phil_rose]

yEAH! sTUPID sERIF. gIvinG us CheAp aNd brIlLiant SoftWarE thAt doesN't haVe EVERYTHING wE WaNt!

[Jowday]

8 hours ago, jstnhllmn said:

This feature will arrive the day after we get cold fusion and puppies that don't poop.

But we will still not get export preview and JPG optimization.

[Dazmondo77]

11 hours ago, Phil_rose said:

yEAH! sTUPID sERIF. gIvinG us CheAp aNd brIlLiant SoftWarE thAt doesN't haVe EVERYTHING wE WaNt!

How dare you! - 

as it states on the website:

[jamesharrington]

+1 for this feature. 

[Renaud Denis]

+1

On 7/6/2019 at 10:25 AM, deeds said:

Yes, this feature needed. Miss this most from Illustrator and CorelDraw. It is the heart of geometric repetition and evolvement. 

I used this feature in Corel Draw!, like 20+ years ago actually

Not that I'm saying every imaginable feature should already be in Affinity Designer *right now* of course. But I Love this feature too.

[Hermano]

Blend tool pls... Affinity Designer 1.9.1 😭

[pebar]

Another request here for a blend tool. I've been using this essential tool since the Aldus Freehand days.

[possiblerobot]

Yes please! Designer needs a shape blending tool. It would be the final nail in the coffin for Illustrator.

[liumingming]

Especially the function of expressing the concept of sports is very important

[Foomandoonian]

Adding my +1 for this feature. Was disappointed just now to find that this didn't exist in AD.

[knap9]

Back in 1993, when graphic design on the computer was in it’s infancy, I had a graphics program that morphed objects. I don’t think it did much else. Just made it fun to create fancy text and shapes. I don’t really remember a whole lot about it. It was before I ever heard of Adobe. The point being, that even on the Limited computing power of the day, morphing/blending objects was available tech.

[Gardenia]

Essential feature. +1

[ra.skill]

+1 from me

[Tatom]

On 1/8/2021 at 10:49 AM, Renaud Denis said:

+1

I used this feature in Corel Draw!, like 20+ years ago actually

Not that I'm saying every imaginable feature should already be in Affinity Designer *right now* of course. But I Love this feature too.

You've heard, they put it on the invisible roadmap.... I'm sure in the next 20 years it will be implemented with many missing features and terrible UX.

[ashf]

Contour tool is the only thing that's been added in recent few years. the development is almost stalled.
So there won't be a new feature for next few years I think.

Affinity Designer got lost between amateur tool and pro tool. 
If it's for amateurs and Serif keeps the price low, UI and features should be simplified. current AD is not for amateurs for sure, too complex.
If it's really for a pro tool, features lack in AD should be added quickly to catches up Adobe/Corel and Serif should raise the price more.
Otherwise 2024 which is 10th anniversary of Affinity will be the same as 2014, nothing will be changed.

[Najot]

+1 for this feature

[LondonSquirrel]

On 11/29/2021 at 1:57 AM, ashf said:

Contour tool is the only thing that's been added in recent few years. the development is almost stalled.

Not so. I personally have seen one very useful and time-saving feature added - 'select same fill or stroke' . I occasionally have to work with SVGs from OpenStreetMap. This added feature saved me practically hours of drudgery. For those who don't know or understand what was involved, OpenStreetMaps SVG exports renders every letter on a map as a curve, and every letter has a background colour too. Now try picking your way through about >8,000 objects by hand. It's no use trying to do a marquee-type select as it grabs too much, and then you have to start deselecting things one at a time. What was once an absolute chore to not look forward to became as about a couple of minutes work.

Credit where credit is due, I even made a post praising it: 

 

 

[1GR3]

+1

[mailmindflyer]

+1 .........................we need this feature asap! Thx

[CaptainCrumbles]

+1

[Guest]

On 12/9/2021 at 6:09 PM, LondonSquirrel said:

I personally have seen one very useful and time-saving feature added - 'select same fill or stroke'…

TBH one, two or a handful features added in 7+ years isn't a stellar track record, especially when the competition has had those features for years prior to your release. I'm sure a few folks will pipe in and proclaim a long list of additions, but those additions never seem to be the features/fixes folks are asking for. IMHO Affinity Designer is starting to feel a lot like abandonware (I know that it's not, but it sure feels that way).

The silence from Serif on all of these long-standing issues/feature requests remains deafening.

[LondonSquirrel]

1 hour ago, Bryan Rieger said:

those additions never seem to be the features/fixes folks are asking for

That depends on who you ask. If you mean those who shout loudest, then perhaps not. There is no one 'standard' user - we have different needs and can barely agree on what is 'necessary'. To a lot (most?) people, RTL next is not necessary. To anyone working with RTL text it's 100% necessary - there is no good workaround for anything longer than a couple of sentences.

1 hour ago, Bryan Rieger said:

The silence from Serif on all of these long-standing issues/feature requests remains deafening.

I understand their reasons for this, but it's a pain to us users. If a whole bunch of new/wanted/(old Serif Draw) features came out twice a year or once a year then it would be a different matter. The changes and improvements are useful, but the wheel of progress is turning slowly.

Let's see what version 2 brings round.