I absolutely HATE the idea of going back to my Adobe subscription but this is something that is just going to drive me insane trying to work without. It's seriously a real shame because up until now I have been adapting quickly and easily to the differences coming from Photoshop. I hate to say it but Affinity just became unusable to me because of this lack of full grid snapping. (Sometimes just for quick testing.) Anyway. I often need to just open one of these source PNGs and move something to a different location. (I know, it's lazy, but I am a one-man-band so my time is stretched very thin.) There are also MANY 2D sprite sheets where everything is laid out in grids of 8 pixels. PSD that has the full layer stack and such. PNG file and make some quick modifications rather than tracking down the original source. how shall I phrase."on the fly"? As a game developer I have like 50 projects going back to literally the 90s of things that I have worked on. The use cases I'm talking about are much more. This seems like a good workflow for building UI elements from scratch. Hover over the artboard you wish to make a snapping candidate and wait for the artboard's border to flash purple.Thanks for the input.Click on the artboard you wish to make a snapping candidate.With the Artboard Tool selected, do one of the following: To set an artboard as a snapping candidate: If you choose to display or hide the grid, this will display or hide the grid for all artboards, not just the selected artboard. From the View menu, select Grid and Axis Manager.Color-click the color swatch to select a color for your column guides.That is, when I place my cursor near the grid and draw, the lines on the Pixel layer should follow right angles on the grid only. I do not have the grid enabled otherwise - I only did that for the screenshot and screen rec here. In the screen rec I also show the Snapping settings. ![]() ![]() I have also enabled the grid so you can see that whatever the green snap line is finding is neither the grid nor the guide. I wish to use the Pixel Persona and a Paint Brush Tool brush to draw lines that snap to the grid. I've attached a screenshot and screen rec. Rows-defines the number of horizontal guides that will appear. I have an Affinity Designer document on which I have set up a 1-inch grid.Columns-defines the number of vertical guides that will appear.The Column Guides section allows you to manage the following: With an artboard selected, from the View menu, switch on Show Column Guides then select Guides Manager.Click the Add new guide icon for either horizontal or vertical ruler guides. With an artboard selected, from the View menu, select Guides Manager.You can likewise snap to other document artboards, if they have been established as snapping candidates.įor more information on guides and snapping, see the Guides, Grids and Snapping topics. Callum - Sorry - yes have renamed it 'Affinity Designer v1' to not get confused and if it makes a difference, I am using a Mac running Ventura (macOS 13.0) Thanks for the help, Callum, on this busy day. Prevent other snapping options if you want easy snap to grid. Select with it all nodes of the selected shape. When snapping is active, dynamic guide lines appear when an object is aligned to the edges, corners, or midpoints of the current artboard. Select the shape in the layers list or with the normal selection tool. So far Ive figured out this: In order to make pixel art (which would look something like this), I use Pixel Persona mode then create a square brush and then click on the Pixel Tool.Yes, Ive turned on the grid and snapping, but I cant seem to draw the way I would want a pixel brush to draw. Furthermore, you can activate snapping to dynamically align objects to these guides. ![]() Unique guide and grid layouts can be established on each artboard to help you position objects. Design aids and artboards Design aids and artboards
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