You don’t need to capitalize the letters when you use the shortcuts, just hit the key on your keyboard. Now that you have an object, you can try all of these shortcuts as we go along.įirst we’ll start with the most common: V, A, P, Z, and the Spacebar key on your keyboard. Create an object by selecting one shape tools (i.e.- Rectangle Tool) from the Tools Panel and click and drag inside your document to create the shape. You can just accept all the defaults and hit OK to open your document. If you want to follow along, open Affinity Designer, and create a New Document. We’ll be working the in Designer Persona, although some of these shortcuts will work in the Pixel Persona too. What I would like is answers about my original question about keyboard shortcuts ceasing to work, and whether what I'm seeing in that regard is expected behavior in the application, or some sort of bug.Įditing to add: As mentioned in one of my earlier posts, I've changed my mind about using a 6-inch x 6-inch image anyway.Today, I’m going to give you the top 12, most popular, most often used, and definitely the most appreciated keyboard shortcuts for Affinity Designer. Is it really necessary for us to go down this path?) (R C-R didn't mention resampling vs not resampling in his question to me. This is a sidebar to the topic of the original post. If you allow resampling, you can retain the original pixel density but shrink the size by discarding pixels.įor your ‘New From Clipboard’ image that started out as 6″ × 6″ 300 DPI but gets pasted as 18.75″ × 18.75″ 96 DPI, simply change the DPI to 300 (without resampling) and all will be well: you’ll still have an image resolution of 1800 × 1800 pixels, but those pixels will be more densely packed when you print the image. If the original image is 10″ × 10″ 100 DPI, changing it to 200 DPI without resampling will double the dot/pixel density and therefore shrink the physical size to 5″ × 5″. That depends on whether or not you allow resampling. It might work just as well, but should I do that if its not the specification I was provided for the images? I think not. If I'm designing something specifically for a print size of 6 x 6 at 300 dpi, I'm not going to design it to be 18.75 x 18.75 inches at 96 dpi, even thought it's the same total pixels. Why worry about the size in inches at all? Because of its relationship to dpi - dots per inches. I suppose this is "expected behavior" as far as the way it's programmed, but it's not what I expected to happen. In other words, Affinity preserves the total pixels when you "paste new from clipboard", but instead of preserving the size in inches and the size in dpi, you get the above. It's now a document that only has 331,776 total pixels. Now, if I reduce the resulting image to the actual size I want (6 inches x 6 inches), the dpi doesn't change - it's still at 96 dpi. Even though the size in inches is larger, and the dpi is less, this is still a document that has 3,240,000 total pixels. What you get is an image 18.75 inches by 18.75 inches, reduced to 96 dpi. Now, apply that to an image that is 6 inches x 6 inches at 300 dpi (3,240,000 total pixels), copying that image, then using "paste new from clipboard". Reducing that image to 5 inches x 5 inches, it would remain at 100 dpi, and would be 500 pixels x 500 pixels, or only 250,000 total pixels. For example:Īn image that is 10 inches x 10 inches at 100 dpi would be 1,000 pixels x 1,000 pixels, or 1,000,000 total pixels. The DPI (dots per inch) doesn't change when you resize an image. I do not think just shrinking the document should change the number of pixels, just the DPI. Left out a step and realized I'd posted the wrong shortcut for the Arrange menu. *Additional Info* If I mouse to use the Arrange menu instead of using the Alt+A shortcut, the Tools shortcuts remain active. So maybe it's something I'm doing, but I don't understand why this kills them. The Tools shortcuts are dead at this point. If I want to use any other Tools at this point, I can't get to them via a shortcut. No idea why.)Ĭtrl+V to paste the copied layer into the fileĪlt+A for the Arrange menu, choose "Align Center"Īlt+A for the Arrange menu, choose "Align Middle" (I'm not using "New form clipboard" because even though the object is roughly 5 x 5 inches, I instead end up with a file that's 16 x 16 inches. It defaults to the same preset I've been using (just a blank of a specific size, 6 x 6 inches), so I just hit ENTER to confirm and the new file opens. Here's how I'm doing that:Ĭtrl+N to start a new file. Okay, I've found something more specific: I'm copying a single layer from one file, and pasting into a new file, after which I need to adjust the object's position, then save it as a new file.
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