Michal_R Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Hi guys, Is it possible in Affinity Designer to display layers with bitmap (or selected (Pixel) layer) being in outline mode ? It would be very handy while manual tracing in heavy files or to preview overlaping raw curves onto reference image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 No Outline mode will not show a pixel image in outline mode, all it will do is show the outline edge of the image. stokerg 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michal_R Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Yes, that's what I can see now. It seems to be good candidate to feature requests, doesn't it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 55 minutes ago, Michal_R said: Yes, that's what I can see now. It seems to be good candidate to feature requests, doesn't it ? You could request it, but I don't see how this could be implemented. A bitmap could be anything. Even if It was a line drawing, Designer would not know where to draw the line. Now if a line drawing could be converted to vectors, that would be different. I wonder if that would be worth a feature request! John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michal_R Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Hi John, I gueess I wasn't specific enough, sorry. What I meant was leaving bitmap untouched while going to outline view mode. Here is how it should look like : Setting a level of transparency for the pixel layer would be handy too as often bitmap is dark and then black lines would be hardly visible GalaxySurfer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 I just loaded a pixel image in Designer then adjusted the opacity downwards to lighten it. I was then able to draw over this to trace the outline. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michal_R Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Are you in "Outline" view mode (CTRL+SHIFT+Y) ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 16, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 16, 2018 Hi Michal_R, Welcome to Affinity Forums This is not supported in the current version. Feel free to add it to the Feature Requests section if you find it useful to you. GalaxySurfer and Michal_R 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michal_R Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Thanks MEB. I will do that. I know how much Affinity developers are busy and I woudn't like to push them but if this is not too complicated let they take such feature into consideration. This tool is great anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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