Andy05
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Just a wild speculation on my side here:
What's the size of the white rectangle in the background? Maybe it's bigger than the canvas and grouping all items reveals the "true" dimensions of all items whereas marking all items without grouping limits the dimension to the canvas?
If that's the case, I'm not sure whether that'd be on purpose or if it's a bug. -
*sigh* Seriously?
There's currently no technique available in AP. Hence the whole discussion!
So, I'm not posting any solution as - read above - there's currently no technique available in AP (repetitive phrase for better understanding, maybe?).
But repeatedly posting the same "workarounds", which won't work for the OP at all, isn't helping either. -
I guess you might have missed the whole point in this thread's discussion. The OP asked for something which currently doesn't exist. Your workaround isn't a workaround for the problem.
5 minutes ago, oO5Dynasty said:My Innovative idea?
Feel free to share any techniques you have to help the community on this topic, I am always ready to learning something new.
I guess you might have missed the whole point in this thread's discussion. The OP asked for something which currently doesn't exist in Affinity Photo. Your workaround isn't a workaround for the OP's problem unless he's trying to cut out "solid coloured pictures" or if he wants to fiddle with zooming in and out whilst using the crop tool.
The macro is - in contrast to your suggestions - something which seems to work. At least to some extend. Ok, maybe I have to apology - if one really wants to crop single coloured rectangles, then your suggestion is the best option, I give you that! -
4 minutes ago, oO5Dynasty said:
I also noticed Copy from the selection does the same thing as the macro.
You're right! Your incredibly innovative idea will work on all images with a solid colour...
So, one just has to keep the lens cap on when taking a photo and your technique will work flawlessly. -
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Doing it the right way is worth it. If you ever have to produce something comparable for a customer, you'll be happy that you could just edit all of those "sources' styles" by editing a paragraph style at once—just because the customer wants a different font or alignment. 😉
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Seriously? Selling presets without showcasing their effects? So, it's buying a pig in a poke?
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No,
your post proved exactly what I said. By pressing enter (as you suggested), you're creating a new paragraph. And that can get any format and alignment - independently from the previous paragraph.
If you have a quote and you want to show its source/author in a different style/alignment/whatever, it should not be the same paragraph. At all. That's typography basics. Used even in the Holy Book for centuries. -
Well, yes, that IS a different paragraph. If it wouldn't be, you wouldn't need a different alignment assigned to it. And yes, the spacing between (or here: above) the paragraph is also part of the format you'd have to assign to it.
You could also use a workaround as you used it in your previous example, by using a centered tab on that line.
But the immense benefit of doing it the right way by using different paragraphs and -styles shows up if you want to change something in your document. Like, in your example, you don't want to have that line bold any longer, but italic instead. Or float to the right or a different font size or... or... or.
You would achieve this for a whole document by just editing the paragraph style. With your "solution", you'd have to edit every single "not paragraph" in your document. -
Why would you have a single line (or whatever amount of them) in the same paragraph, if you actually want to apply a different alignment to it? Why not creating a paragraph style based on the main one and change it's alignment? Then you don't have to use the new line function for something which it isn't made for.
There's a difference between new paragraph and new line for a reason.
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8 hours ago, R C-R said:
[...] but it is among the least intuitive Mac apps I have ever used [...]
I think, you could just delete "Mac" in this part of the sentence.
- Old Bruce, R C-R and suntanglory
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Sometimes something really trivial could cause a problem, so one doesn't think of it. So here's just a possibility of what might have happened.
As you mentioned Nexus Fontmanager, did you install the font permanently or did you just activate it via Nexus Fontmanager? If latter is the case, did you probably close the manager (accidentally), which removes the temporarily loaded fonts from the system? Affinity updates the program's font cache, if temporarily installed fonts got removed. Once this happened, the font won't be available in the program anymore until you re-install the font (either permanent or temporarily).
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Might be worth a try:
Check, if the plugin opened a window in the background. That happened to a plugin I tested with Affinity Photo. APhoto stayed in front, hence I didn't notice the plugin's windows at first. -
Oh, my bad. I must have missed that 2048 in the title. Yes, sadly the new driver generations don't support legacy tablets any longer and it seems like latter won't get any updates anymore.
The main problem seems to be that Affinity is prioritising drawing over "right click" for the pen when you move left-right or up-down with it in an attempt to edit the brush size/softness. -
That driver seems to be a "tad antique". Current version is 14.8.xxx for windows based system and has a lot more options to set up.
Resizing the brush with the same gestures as with a mouse seems to be impossible. But I'd update the driver and assign the shortcuts for "decrease/increase brush size" to some of the buttons of the tablet. That's what I did and it is working without any problems.
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Good observation! That seems to be the trick! I tried multiple .ai files with no luck whereas SVG work just fine.
Hopefully, this narrows down the options for a bug hunt. -
But there are countless of vector graphics from other authors, which work fine. I. e. try searching for "author:Clker-Free-Vector-Images".
There seems to be some kind of (sub)format which either the API or Affinity doesn't support for importing via API. -
Simply said, the execution is a bit more difficult:
Double the image of the floating body. Then mask the lower half of one of the bodies, apply a motion blur in the right direction (in this case - from top to bottom). Set layer mode (multiply or screen might work best in most cases) and adjust the opacity.
Finally make sure the masked and blurred body layer is underneath the copy in original state. -
Exactly, Walt! On top of that, Adobe seems to shift slowly towards making PDF the primary format for Illustrator lately if you read between the lines in some of their statements.
Also, Adobe's help is mentioning PDF as "native" file format for illustrator:QuoteThere are five basic file formats—AI, PDF, EPS, FXG, and SVG—to which you can save artwork. These formats are called native formats because they can preserve all Illustrator data, including multiple artboards.
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Sure, if it'd be an ad in a glossy magazine. But for a facebook pic? Depending on a customer's budget, some final retouch on the original source's jpeg compression digital artifacts might be sufficient already. Even at doubled size.
Putting a well-rendered mask onto a low-res background isn't really the best way to go either, is it? So you better go all in for the big budget, create a full 3D rendering of shield and a new high res background so it matches perfectly again... 🙄
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17 hours ago, Smee Again said:
Only problem is (as with every other digital camera I've ever owned) it has a hard time working with bright red roses. The color is always blown out and nothing like the actual red rose.
Try to underexpose the image by 0.5-1 step and take the picture as RAW format. With software like Affinity photo, you might be able to recover the flowers' true red colours without loosing details due to the red channel bleeded out the highlights.
If you don't want to do too much post processing, buying a grey card/white balance card could be an option. Balancing the whites with that card next to the flowers and using the same settings for the true image could do the trick. That's a good idea anyways, such cards can be purchased for little money and are really useful in situations with "difficult" lights and colours. -
I'd also go with re-designing the plastic/glass shield in designer as vector shapes.
Like so, with just little effort put into it. With more time invested into it (and higher resolution sources), the result could look way more realistic, tho.
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On 4/19/2020 at 1:30 AM, R C-R said:
Also, as is your poll makes no provision for votes that oppose any change so it has an inherent bias.
I second that. Where's the option for voting "Please, no changes"? Not saying, I'd pick that one, but without any such option the whole poll is completely useless as it's 100% biased towards a change - members could just chose what kind of change.
Or, well, maybe it actually DOES reflect the majority's opinion already? Considering that there are only two votes as of now. Like, we could have 283 people already, who decided for not voting for either option given as they don't want any changes? -
The (for private use) free software XNview is also capable of showing .afphoto files' embedded preview. But the viewer shows an enlarged view of that as well. At least it stays within the program and doesn't start external apps for this. The enlarged view of the embedded preview usually is good enough for all tasks related to photo management (tagging, renaming, sorting etc.)
If you work with international artists and photographers, the native support of unicode in filenames and/or meta data comes in handy. Works on various OS, 32bit as well as 64bit versions available.
Disclaimer: This is not meant to be an advertising. I'm merely a user of this program. I neither have any connections to that software nor its developers beyond this.
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War die dir vorliegende Datei ursprünglich ein Mockup mit SmartObjects für Photoshop? Falls nicht, dann findest du diese Vorlage z. B. bei Freepik.com (https://www.freepik.com/free-psd/pink-gift-box-mock-up_1358061.htm#page=1&query=gift box&position=44)
Aktiviere in AP in den allgemeinen Einstellungen die Möglichkeit, PSD mit SmartObjects zu importieren, dann lade die Datei erneut.
Die Ebenen "Your logo here" und "Your logo here 2" sind dann editierbar (und keine Pixel-Layer wie in deinem Beispiel). Doppelklicke auf deren Vorschau im Layer-Panel. Daraufhin öffnet sich ein Fenster, in dem du deinen Text oder deine Grafik platzieren/schreiben/zeichnen kannst. Die Änderungen werden automatisch ins Original-Dokument übernommen. Um die perspektivische Verzerrung brauchst du dich nicht zu kümmern.