Do you mean to say that you can see some lines or some sort of indication like a table would have?
They are not there like in V2.
V3 improvement list
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I really really want there to be some lines in the Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. I cannot be certain that I am getting the correct item.
I also want the Panels's presets to be stored with the Studios. The only thing better than Panel Presets are the Studios themselves.
On the Windows app there are alternating line shading, so that might be Mac application bug of some sort.
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Yesterday I found an interesting link to the affinity.studio help site by logging in to the read-only Affinity Forum. One of the first things I read was that the UI is intentionally designed for Affinity Studio as monochrome. Supposedly to help with showing colors. It doesn’t look to me as though they have any plans at all to add a light mode, or to provide colored tools. For those of us who have worked for years in the V.1 and V.2 light mode, this is rather discouraging news. But there are a number of very interesting things in this Help posting, and surely they are better than anything one might find if one were tempted to log into Discord — which I am definitely not.
Anyway, just a bit of information.
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One of the first things I read was that the UI is intentionally designed for Affinity Studio as monochrome.
Yeah, I read that as well, somewhere.
It doesn’t look to me as though they have any plans at all to add a light mode, or to provide colored tools. For those of us who have worked for years in the V.1 and V.2 light mode, this is rather discouraging news.
Let's just make sure to make enough noise and submit fedbacks. Eventually they will reconsider.
Interestingly, now that I don't need to use v2 anymore, I have changed it to the Light UI, and there it works much better with monochrome icons.
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As a visually impaired user, the monochromatic icons were a big step backwards in terms of usability.
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I'm not really a fan of the settings taking up twice as much space compared to the v2 dialog box. Maybe it is more friendly for touch screens or something, but virtually every page in v3 requires scrolling.
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Well... sooner or later, as preferences keep growing, scroll will be a need... Happens in lots of applications. I'd exchange that inconvenience for more configuration flexibility, always. But true that a compact design is often more efficient. Yep, it could be for touch screens or... for accessibility (larger buttons/controls for smaller screens, etc).
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Yesterday I found an interesting link to the affinity.studio help site by logging in to the read-only Affinity Forum.
Something to be aware of if you use https://www.affinity.studio/help/ in a browser.
At the bottom of the window there is an icon that looks like an artist palette. White it is not obvious, this open a small window that lets you set your cookie preferences. The default includes 3 items, the last of which is "Targeted cookies."
The explanation is:
I suggest those concerned with privacy (like I am) disable it!
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Something to be aware of if you use https://www.affinity.studio/help/ in a browser...
I forgot to mention that in V3 the Help window (which is apparently an in-app version of that page) my not work for some Mac users depending on the macOS version they are running, or may only work for some items if right-clicking in the window & choosing "Reload" from the popup window.
Happily, everything seems to work as expected at the website regardless of the OS version, so if you have any trouble with the V3 Help window not working, or you just want to use the help system when not running V3, bookmarking the site in your favorite browser(s) can be very helpful.
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Robin Whalley, who creates lots of Affinity content, posted this video ("Affinity Software: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly") yesterday with his v3 reactions. One of several items in which I'm in agreement with him is the way the Adjustment Brush tool creates masks. They're embedded in, rather than attached to the adjustment layer. That means they can't (?) be copied and reused elsewhere. It would be much better if they were standard layer masks instead of these "internal" masks.
The content cannot be displayed because you do not have authorisation to view this content. I like the adjustment brush tool, even if it is basically just an automation of what we do already (add adj layer, add empty mask, choose brush, set primary paint to white). But it would be nice to end up with a standard layer mask.
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To re use the embedded mask ctrl+click the embedded mask in the layers panel and apply the selection again to a pixellayer by clicking the mask button or apply it to something else,adjustment layer,filter layer,vector shape,...
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It would be much better if they were standard layer masks instead of these "internal" masks.
Help → Send Feedback is your (and Robin Whalley's) friend.
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... One of several items in which I'm in agreement with him is the way the Adjustment Brush tool creates masks. They're embedded in, rather than attached to the adjustment layer. That means they can't (?) be copied and reused elsewhere. ...
I would use Spare Channels to save them.
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Help → Send Feedback is your (and Robin Whalley's) friend.
Yep, it's been used regularly.
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Something to be aware of if you use https://www.affinity.studio/help/ in a browser.
At the bottom of the window there is an icon that looks like an artist palette. White it is not obvious, this open a small window that lets you set your cookie preferences. The default includes 3 items, the last of which is "Targeted cookies."
The explanation is:
I suggest those concerned with privacy (like I am) disable it!
Thank you so much. I hadn’t bothered with that icon, but have just logged in and changed that cookies policy. Really grateful for the information!!!
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Something to be aware of if you use https://www.affinity.studio/help/ in a browser.
Thank you so much. I hadn’t bothered with that icon, but have just logged in and changed that cookies policy. Really grateful for the information!!!
I was never able to figure out what the op was talking about. All I see at the bottom of the help page is this:
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Right over in the bottom right corner - the "artist's palette".
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Right over in the bottom right corner - the "artist's palette".
(Click on the image - it's hidden under the search icon.)I see. I was using the Brave browser and it was blocking it by default. Changing to shields down and it shows up.
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I was using the Brave browser and it was blocking it by default.
Ah.... that explains it!
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Robin Whalley, who creates lots of Affinity content, posted this video ("Affinity Software: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly") yesterday with his v3 reactions.
I have now watched his video in full.
In my opinion, his "bad" and "ugly" points are quite… missing the point.
If he doesn't like these new features he's so upset about, he can simply ignore them and use his old workflows as in APh2. Which is also the point why the flexible Studio concept exists.For instance his rant about the embedded masks in adjustment layers: This concept exists since v1! It was obviously meant as a quick and straightforward solution, but you could also always add a separate mask layer with a single click on the Layers panel. What's the problem?! We've always had a choice.
So now this quick and easy method has been extended to the Adjustment brush. James Ritson has explained the reasoning in his own new videos already.So… Don't like it? Don't use it.
It's really that simple.™
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