Popular Post boudewijndanser Posted August 20, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2014 It would be very useful to have functions to select the same: Color fill stroke (color / width) Appearance To quickly select all your outlines, or background element in 1 color. Speed is everything. :) BarKeegan, ashf, Lutz Pietschker and 62 others 62 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rui_mac Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 This was asked before. I include a screen capture of all the options available in the Find & Replace and Select dialog from FreeHand. It was great to have something like this :-) Mithferion, matt.baker, JET_Affinity and 13 others 15 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 rui_mac that's an insane amount of find and replace features in freehand. Crickey! Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Can be a great timesaver when you open documents from someone else or from CAD applications. Change any attribute a thousand times at once with only a few clicks. Raphie, Lutz Pietschker, Raskolnikov and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rui_mac Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I still remember that I could search, for example, for line widths between 1pt and 5pt and in the replace field, type *3 So, if it found any line width between 1pt and 5pt, it would change the width to the triple of the width it had. Very powerful indeed. Aammppaa, Schubi63, Raskolnikov and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10on12 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 The Find/Replace was one of Freehands hidden gems - great for handling colours. Speaking of which the 'remove unused colours' was another life saver. Helped clean up the palette and identify colours that somehow slipped through the net. B4ttleCat, krollian and rui_mac 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boudewijndanser Posted October 13, 2014 Author Share Posted October 13, 2014 Almost made a new topic for this one. Really hope this will become possible, and rather sooner than later. :) Thought of this again because the export to eps wasn't working and I thought it was the stroke width variations, so I was going to convert them all to shapes / expand. Found out that I had to click them all, one by one, was looking for a major time saver like: Select all: Stroke / color / etc. This and the way you edit the strokes is pretty high on my list... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CartoonMike Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 +1 boudewijndanser, cosinus and Hans 3 Quote Mac OS X Catinlina, 2014 iMac, 3.5 Ghz Intel Core i7, Huion Kamvas Pro 22 Graphic Tablet, 16GB RAM, MacOS10.12 || Magic keyboard w/numeric keypad, wireless trackpad, Kengsington Edge Trackball || Flux Capacitor in a secure location --- I encourage kids to go ahead and play on my lawn. I mean, how else can I make sure the death-traps work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boudewijndanser Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 Any news on this? I'm making a design with confetti and need to be able to select and change a lot of colors at once, but can't. Going back to illustrator for this, but would rather not... :rolleyes: Josh Neufeld and Sebby 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 No news. I wouldn't expect it for several months. We have so much other stuff to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 No news. I wouldn't expect it for several months. We have so much other stuff to do. Just put in on your future list :) in order no to forget it :P MarkEwi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Well, this is sort of important feature. Would be nice to see it implemented soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkEwi Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Just to get it right: there is no way right now to select fills and contour lines by color or stroke?? Either with search like in Freehand or by select as? It's a must have feature wich I really depend on! And I guess there is a reason why most apps have something like that.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 5, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 5, 2015 Hi MarkEwi, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) No, it's not possible yet. This is planned but there's already many features in development, it may still take a while. Bear with us while we get there. QuietDesign, buschbrand, Sebby and 2 others 5 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkEwi Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 ok, thanks for your answer! I just bought Affinity Designer more because I like the potential it has... But not having features likes that makes it unusable in working-production. Maybe you should add something like that before adding other new cool features ;) kiwi.k, Aleksandr Novakov, lexislav and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkEwi Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Any News on that feature request? Sebby 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 10, 2015 Hi MarkEwi, No, not yet. The latest Beta introduced several new features that were already planned too (some still being worked/developed for the next Beta) and there wasn't yet time to start working on this one. The development team is relatively small so those things take time, but we will get there. kiwi.k and Sebby 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 It’s just a bit silly not having at least some advanced selection options. Quote UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 I think they want to come up with something special because I think " Select same color / fill / stroke / appearance" would probably be like 10 lines of code :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 I think they want to come up with something special because I think " Select same color / fill / stroke / appearance" would probably be like 10 lines of code :blink: Exactly. It’s something I could code myself and I am bad at programming :D Quote UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elabx Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 +1 Craigduexy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raphhix Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 This is one critical feature from Illustrator that I use all of the time. Most of my usage is polishing PDF graphs made in Matlab or such for publication. It's sometimes hard to select the entirety of lines without this feature. Hopefully it will come soon. Until then, I still need Illustrator. Gonzini3000, furtonb and nresnik 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyStam Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I really hope that this gets implemented soon! The smart selection options in Illustrator are easily the biggest time saving features that I depend on in my regular architecture workflow. Not even just time saving, but totally enabling. Without better selection tools, many of my documents will have to be handled by Illustrator because it is effectively impossible to handle dense and varied vector information efficiently in Designer. I want to love Affinity Designer, but simply can't until the selection options are far more robust. Once this happens, I will covert all my designer friends. Gonzini3000, nresnik and Josh Neufeld 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 This is another oft-overlooked but important one for me, way ahead of fancy features like gradient fill meshes. Here's my two cents on what could be a really cool Affinity spin on the feature: Imagine, instead of just selecting the same fill or stroke, you had a slider where you could "fuzzy select" similar objects. So you move the slider up a bit, and now you get those other objects where you used a slightly different shade of blue, or the ones that have a 1.85 point stroke instead of just the 1.5 point stroke on your selected object. nresnik, Sacha and Gonzini3000 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkG Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Ah, that Freehand example at the beginning of this thread! It reminds me of how much I lost when Adobe killed FreeHand. Affinity has done a marvelous job at creating their apps from scratch, not as a mere clone of Adobe's offerings. The new workflow paradigms are one of the best features of Designer and Photo. But as is apparent in this thread, there are certain functions that need to be brought in to the programs in order to be fully competitive. I came to Affinity (and am loving it) after abandoning Adobe over the whole "rental" model. But my favorite illustration program was always Freehand, not Illustrator. All these years after acquiring and killing Freehand, Adobe still has not added many of the features to Illustrator that Freehand had. There are still things that are impossible, or at least incredibly difficult to do in Illustrator that were a cinch in Freehand. Please, development team, do not merely look to Illustrator for inspiration; take a good look at Freehand. You will discover many tools and techniques that, if brought in and given your unique polish, would give Designer a clear advantage over Illustrator. I am also incredibly pleased to hear that integration with the Astute Graphics tools is at least being contemplated.... JGD, JET_Affinity, nresnik and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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