The Grey Earl

Every time I use the text feature try to select a new font, change the size of text from either of the drop down menus, there is a problem and it only allows me a second or two to make a selection, otherwise it reverts to arial. Also, affinity photo keeps crashing, I never used to have this problem, but in the last few weeks, it does it every 4 - 20 minutes, variably. Finally, I own Publisher, Photo and Designer. All were working and accessible from the tools panel within Publisher, now it says I need to purchase and install Photo and Designer. Essentially Photo and Designer have stopped working from this route. Help please!!!

Is rotating layers not a common occurrence for most visual editors? That seems like a pretty integral feature that needs addressing? I understand the resizing of layers leading to loss of quality but if loss happens for rotation and movement of a layer, surely that is going effect all users working with the programme? Can you advise anyway to keep picture/pixel quality, whilst still being able to move and rotate?

Hi Gabe, Thanks for getting back to me, I've just started a quick edit on a watercolour/pencil crayon drawing. I did a simple copy and past of one of Apollo Creeds eyes as the other wasn't looking right. I flipped it horizontally, so it is now on the right side of his face. If you zoom in, you can see straight away that there is a loss of quality in the layer against the other eye on the left. I then went on to do some minor erasing/clone tool which I think may have added to the blurring. Not entirely sure about that part, but I just thought I'd share the first sign of blurring, your thoughts welcome! It feels like I have this problem whenever I do any edits, I can't work out if its copy/pasting layers that is doing it, or erasing, cloning....or all the above Cheers rocky.afphoto

Hi there, I have noticed the problem occur over my time using affinity photo, where the image loses quality the more I work on it. From what I can gather, the work is doing lots of erasing. The remaining parts f the image are noticeable more blurry and less crisp than the scanned original artwork that I set out with. I shall try and pull some images together to show what I mean, but if you have. any thoughts in the meantime, be great to hearr them. Affinity is a life saver for me, but this little niggle is getting in the way of it being my one and only choice of software moving forwards.... Boo to adobe! With thanks

I just tried it again and it worked fine, very bizarre. I was simply going to merge visible. I'm had the problem before, but seems to have fixed itself into this occasion. Thanks for looking, apologies for the time wasted, I'll be in touch if it keeps recurring

just uploaded the artwork now many thanks for taking a look

When I try and merge multiple layers, to then export as a flat image, the effects on the image as a whole change. I'm guessing it is something to do with adjustment layers on top of the chain affecting those below, but it seems strange as I presumed you would be able to just render the artwork as you see it. Can anyone help?!