dennisqdw Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Hi all. I've written on this topic before, on one of the threads here. Although I can't say how well this will work for any of you, I've found a free software, that does do select fill, stroke etc by same color, and at least for my simple purposes the software will work for me. It's called Inkscape, and I'm sure you can do a search and find it. Maybe a little competitive pressure will get Affinity to move on this. Meztli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuabl Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) Selection filters are an essential part of vector graphics especially when your exporting multiple layers from CAD software. The three feature that I consider to be essential for an effect workflow are: 1) 'import DWG' with layers, 2) 'live trace' 3) 'selection filters'. This would strengthen Affinity Designer to the point where professional users 'sitting on the fence', would switch in a flash from Adobe to Affinity. I teach Affinity at a university and these features a craved by my students and colleagues. It would be so appreciated if these feature could me implemented in the next release. Come on Affinity you can do it 100%! Keep up the amazing work! Edited July 2, 2020 by josh.brooklawson@gmail.com Sabina Beg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Yesterday I opened a PDF in Designer, noticed it was in RGB space, turned it CMYK, fiddled for a while trying to select rich blacks and turn them 100K. Gave up, left home. Today I opened it in Illustrator, replaced all rich blacks with 100K, saved and imported to layout in 5 minutes. Jowday, David.P and Dazmondo77 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeWonder Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 18 minutes ago, Fixx said: Yesterday I opened a PDF in Designer, noticed it was in RGB space, turned it CMYK, fiddled for a while trying to select rich blacks and turn them 100K. Gave up, left home. Today I opened it in Illustrator, replaced all rich blacks with 100K, saved and imported to layout in 5 minutes. Why do you use Affinity Designer if you already have Illustrator?? Problem solved then, so why complain? Affinity Designer is supergreat, but certainly not for all here, so, don’t use it then... Illustrator and Corel Draw have been around for 25-30 years, Designer for five, so, perhaps one day every features from the competitor will be implemented into AD, but, then it no longer a lowcost alternative for common users... Quote Happy guy playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typographic, photographing, Color & forms, AND, old Synthesizers from the 1980-1990’s… Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021 connected to an 32” curved 5K external display, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015 - also an Lenovo iMac i7 clone with 24” touch screen and Windows 10… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMcK Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 The above two posts are a great example of what I'm taking about! As a freelance production artist and designer of 20 years, Live Trace and Select (same fill colour, same stroke etc.) are essential to move Designer from merely a vector illustration program to a production art powerhouse for CAD work, packaging design and logo work. Would really like to see these two options in Designer update. Sparkway 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 10 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said: Why do you use Affinity Designer if you already have Illustrator?? Problem solved then, so why complain? 🤬 Because Designer is easier in many tasks. I have even done jobs where I have drawn objects in Designer and copy-pasted them to Illustrator to use each apps strengths. Besides, my CS5 will stop working at some time and I hope Designer can replace it at that time. Fruitbasket, Meztli and AffinityMakesMeWonder 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMcK Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 17 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said: Why do you use Affinity Designer if you already have Illustrator?? Problem solved then, so why complain? Because Adobe CC is now subscription based. Because when I eventually update my Mac OS to Catalina, my Adobe CS5 will cease to function. Because I believe in the power and vision of the Affinity. Fixx, AffinityMakesMeWonder, Meztli and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucerod Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 I just want to join in the nagging. I need to modify an SVG image I downloaded from Wikipedia Commons. I lost the arrowheads on a hundred red arrows and 100 blue arrows that are right next to each other. I resorted to Illustrator CS6 since it will still run on my machine. This seems like a feature that would not be that hard to code, and in any case, is essential. Hope you add it since I really like using Affinity Designer and don't like having to return to Illustrator (see how I put in that backhanded complement). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 - Sparkway 1 Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucerod Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Nice! That's about the last thing I miss from Illustrator. Will give the BETA version a try. Cheers, Bruce Sparkway and Move Along People 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uneMule Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Bonjour tout le monde, Comme beaucoup ici, j'ai utilisé les produits de aldus, quark, adobe et d'autres produits alternatifs avant que les "poids lourds" écrasent le marché. Aujourd'hui, les logiciels de quark, adobe et les autres sont matures. Jeune utilisateur (à mon âge ça me fait plaisir de l'écrire) de la suite Affinity, et après m'être dit qu'il manque pas mal de choses, et c'est vrai, je pense aujourd'hui qu'il s'agit d'une proposition alternative crédible par les propositions techniques et les outils qu'offrent les applications. Mais effectivement, et comme cela a été justement signalé dans les commentaires précédents, les applications d'Affinity sont en devenir. Nous réclamons tous à corps et à cris les fonctionnalités que nous avons connus et utilisons par ailleurs et qui nous manque ici, et qui parfois créent des impossibilités. Objectivement chacun a un exemple. Je me souviens également de la première version d'illustrator livré dans sont coffret vert et noir, sa vénus et surtout sa VHS qui permettait d'apprendre après un quart d'heure de visionnage "le peu" que proposait alors cette application novatrice (qui ne gérait pas la couleur). Souvenez-vous d'Adobe Separator et de la fonction de morcellement des tracés longs ! Nos attentes sont fortes et notre impatience tout autant. Et manifestement les gens d'Affinity ont la volonté d'aller de l'avant. Nous comptons tous sur eux Hello everyone, Like many here, I used aldus, quark, adobe and other alternative products before the "heavyweights" crushed the market. Today, quark, adobe and other software is mature. As a young user (at my age it gives me pleasure to write it) of the Affinity suite, and after telling myself that a lot of things are missing, and it's true, I think today that it is a credible alternative proposal by the technical proposals and tools offered by the applications. But indeed, and as has been rightly pointed out in previous comments, Affinity applications are in the making. We are all clamoring for the functionalities that we have known and used elsewhere and that we lack here, and which sometimes create impossibilities. Objectively everyone has an example. I also remember the first version of illustrator delivered in its green and black box, its Venus and especially its VHS which allowed to learn after a quarter of an hour of viewing "the little" that this innovative application proposed then (which did not manage the color). Remember Adobe Separator and the splitting function for long lines! Our expectations are high and our impatience is equally high. And clearly the people at Affinity are willing to move forward. We're all counting on them Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator Quote Toujours pas !Windows 10 Pro 21H2 - Intel Core i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz - 16 Gb Ram - GeForce GT 650M - Intel HD 4000 Affinity Photo | Affinity Designer | Affinity Publisher | 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleMonkey Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 After half an hour, I'm just about finished cleaning up a very small .svg layer by layer. If I'd been using Illustrator, it would have been a two-minute job. Not everybody needs to select objects by attributes, but when you need it and it's not there, you're left with about the most tedious task there is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 4 minutes ago, UncleMonkey said: After half an hour, I'm just about finished cleaning up a very small .svg layer by layer. If I'd been using Illustrator, it would have been a two-minute job. Not everybody needs to select objects by attributes, but when you need it and it's not there, you're left with about the most tedious task there is. Hello @UncleMonkey, 'Select Same' was introduced in the current beta and will be part of the next release version. d. Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 9 minutes ago, UncleMonkey said: After half an hour, I'm just about finished cleaning up a very small .svg layer by layer. If I'd been using Illustrator, it would have been a two-minute job. Not everybody needs to select objects by attributes, but when you need it and it's not there, you're left with about the most tedious task there is. As noted three posts before yours: On 9/23/2020 at 12:37 PM, haakoo said: Select same is already in the 1.9 beta So you could have spent a little time downloading and installing the beta version, allowing you to do the same “two-minute job”. 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...
John Bowlby Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Hi, New to this software. I generally liked using it, but found the clicking these tedious. Found out I couldn't use the beta as a trial member, so I bought the software and can attest that this feature is necessary and awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meztli Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Looking forward to get this update!! This feature is so needed. I can see that it's finally in beta. Thanks affinity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMcK Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Very happy to hear about the Select Same addition in the upcoming update. I’m working on a project right now were this really would have come in handy. Keep up the good work Affinity, so we can keep making our work even better! 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold858 Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Not sure if what I'm asking is the same - but I have an object of some particular color say a car. I'm superimposing another object that has a different color/tone - I would like this other object to match the color /tone of the car - is this possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold858 Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 On 7/2/2020 at 11:52 AM, AffinityMakesMeSmile said: Why do you use Affinity Designer if you already have Illustrator?? Problem solved then, so why complain? Affinity Designer is supergreat, but certainly not for all here, so, don’t use it then... Illustrator and Corel Draw have been around for 25-30 years, Designer for five, so, perhaps one day every features from the competitor will be implemented into AD, but, then it no longer a lowcost alternative for common users... Why encourage people not to use it in one sentence and then state perhaps one day features will be implemented. It seems to be in your best interest to pitch AD since it makes you smile. Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEB Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Has the "select by colour" function been added to the current 1.9 beta? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 1 hour ago, LEB said: Has the "select by colour" function been added to the current 1.9 beta? It’s only in Designer, but if you have both Publisher and Designer you can access it in Publisher via the Designer Persona. 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...
LEB Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Th Just now, Alfred said: It’s only in Designer, but if you have both Publisher and Designer you can access it in Publisher via the Designer Persona. Thank you @Alfred, will give it a try! Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb M Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 It is now 2021. I've seen the requests for "select same colour" many years, and the fact that Affinity is working on it. I use this feature constantly, as I "recolour" individual colors in an image. Are they any closer to having this done? I spend so much time trying to find these, what seems to be, simple tasks, to no avail. It's very frustrating. Please let me know if it's finally here and if I'm just not finding it. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 8 hours ago, Deb M said: Please let me know if it's finally here Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 11 hours ago, Deb M said: Please let me know if it's finally here and if I'm just not finding it. You'll know what's coming (or now, available) if you watch the beta announcements or the new release announcements. For example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/132727-affinity-designer-for-windows-190/ You can also check the Help where the Introduction has a section on new functions in the release: https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Introduction/keyFeatures.html?list=newFeatures 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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