Aerogel Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 In Affinity Designer, is there a way to hide the blue outline surrounding the vectors on selected objects - similarly to how Adobe Illustrator hides the blue lines going forward by pressing "CTRL + H"? I often compare adjustments to a design by doing undos/redos and the blue vector outline changes what the design looks like. Thanks for any help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forms, Aerogel. You might try pressing the space bar and see if that helps. RGBear, Aerogel and HeiligerBimBam 3 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerogel Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 Thanks for your quick response, @walt.farrell! The spacebar helps in some scenarios. I also found turning on "Hide Selection While Dragging" (screenshot below) to be helpful. As of right now, It seems that Affinity Designer currently doesn't have the functionality to turn off the vector selection at all times. Again, thank you Walt. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerogel Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) Thanks for your quick response, @walt.farrell! The spacebar helps in some scenarios. I also found turning on "Hide Selection While Dragging" (screenshot below) to be helpful. As of right now, It seems that Affinity Designer currently doesn't have the functionality to turn off the vector selection at all times. Again, thank you Walt. Update: Further working with Designer, I discovered that the blue outline goes away when you select a tool that doesn't use the outline. A tool like zoom (Z) or hand/view (H). If doing an undo/redo comparison and you would like to not have the blue lines displaying, you can select the zoom (Z) or hand/view (H) tool before toggling through the undo/redo comparisons. Edited July 29, 2019 by Aerogel accuracy and spelling updates. thomaso 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 The space bar gives you the View (Hand) tool temporarily. thomaso 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerogel Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 "View (Hand) tool temporarily." The temporarily part makes it a good use case for some scenarios. Thanks walt.ferrel. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iumbra Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 Hi, I need to hide this selector when adjusting colors, it is especially critical when working on an object with a border - the border is partially hidden behind this blue selector and makes subtle color adjustments nearly impossible - any idea how to go about it? Best regards, iumbra electroplated and _Th 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 34 minutes ago, iumbra said: I need to hide this selector when adjusting colors, it is especially critical when working on an object with a border - the border is partially hidden behind this blue selector and makes subtle color adjustments nearly impossible - any idea how to go about it? Press the Space Bar (as suggested above). iumbra 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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