piginhat Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Hi, having migrated to Windows 10 after 10 years on Mac OS I find my tool of choice GIMP does not look or operate great on my 4K display so went in search of a Photoshop-GIMP alternative and found Affinity as review say as good as Photoshop. So I have started my 10 day trial as I don't want to fork out £50 on something that wont help me do what I need. All looks good, nice interface but....where is the Paths view? I regularly use the colour/flood tool to select an area then switch to Paths and do selection to path and vice versa, but I can't find this in Affinity....help someone please? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 27, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 27, 2018 Hi piginhat, Welcome to Affinity Forums There's no paths panel in Affinity Photo. Paths are managed directly in the Layers panel. It's also not possible to switch from a selection to a path for now (just the opposite - check the context toolbar with the Pen Tool selected: you will find two buttons to convert the path to a selection or to a mask). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piginhat Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 Thanks MEB Ok so am having a hell of a job to get a smooth round button with shadow and an arrow inside it. This seemed so easy to do in GIMP and although Affinity is a cool looking tool just trying this basic setup to see if it is the right tool is painful See the attached how the edges are not smooth. I use the flood tool to select the area, then select pen tool, convert to smooth, new layer, then colour fill? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piginhat Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 Ponders! Should I be using Affinity Designer rather than Photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Hi, piginhat, I don't use Photo enough to say for sure, but it seems to me that vector work is displayed w. anti-aliasing. In Designer, the default appearance is vector, and one must switch to a pixel view to see what the screen rendering looks like. Attached, the same vector shape made in Photo, one shot from Photo, the other in Designers default. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piginhat Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 Thanks, been hunting around, looking at videos etc and decided Designer was for me so just bought it...now the fun begins :-) Hello Affinity Designer.....goodbye GIMP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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