Then you would choose how you want to select which bits to keep. The first choice would be to use the add tool. So if you have a couple of shapes overlapping and selected you can choose how you want to deal with them. The new Shape Builder tool is more interactive and in some ways is easier to work with.

What they have added is another tool which extends what those older tools could do. These tools are still available in Affinity Designer Version 2. There is the intersect tool and the XOR options which remove various parts and leaves other parts of your objects. Or you could use one object as a cookie cutter to cut a shape out of the other object. You could take two objects and put one over the top of the other, use the add tool and make one object out of the two. It was always possible to put shapes together, cut them up or dissect them with the simple compound shape building tools available before. It’s definitely necessary to keep your design as a vector to make it easy to make changes when you go back to it later. When you give the design to someone or it’s a design you’re working on over a longer period, it’s highly likely you’re going to make changes to the design a number of times. That’s not really the way the world works. This might not be a problem, if you was doing it at the end of a design process and no more changes were going to be made. The problem with that was, when it came back it was a bitmap. When you tried to do it before it would send you over to the Affinity Photo Application and do the warp. When you’re working on design it’s quite often you want to warp text to fit into a specific shape. It’s surprising it’s taken them so long to add this, because I remember when I used to use CorelDraw it had that ability. This is something designers have been waiting for for a long time, the ability to warp vectors without them being turned into bitmaps during the process.

However, there are additions which are especially welcome, such as the vector warp tool. On the surface it doesn’t look too different from the previous version. First Impressions Of Affinity Designer Version 2

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