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@jmwellborn I went for the 27” i5. Just a little perturbed as I got a couple of Catalina updates and then saw this Big Sur update which I am ignoring. Bit much when you buy a new iMac and then one of the first updates that comes is for a whole new operating system which I believe has still got bugs. BTW do I need anti virus for Mac? I was advised they are quite secure but not sure and will I have to update to Big Sur - I thought that was only for M1 chips? Not far away from you I believe.

Thank you so much ! I feel like an idiot. After 30 odd years so used to Microsoft I can’t see the wood from the trees. But getting old and start of cataracts doesn’t help. But I am a stubborn old goat so won’t give up. Thanks again - your help is much appreciated!

Old Bruce. Thanks for this. Never investigated the traffic lights. New to Mac so still getting to grips with it as well as AD. R C-R. Thanks for this. Finding it very useful

I am following tutorials on AD and inadvertently clicked the Blend Ranges cog and a Blend Options panel appeared with the graphs. Unfortunately there seems to be no way of shutting this. There is no x to shut and I cannot close it with cmd W. Even Reset Studio does not get rid and when I quit the app and open again it is still there. Any way to do it?

To R C_R. Thank you. I guess I will have a whole lot of re-learning to do when I get the desktop and AD installed. Hopefully it will help me as I have early signs of cataracts and no chance in UK at the moment or for a long while of getting an operation if they get worse. Not that I’d want to go into hospital at this time anyway. Know too many people who went in with one thing and came out with Covid and died. Sorry for misunderstanding that you meant desktop and not ipad version.

Sorry but I can’t find this on my ipad version which looks and operates fundamentally differently to desktop version from tuts I have seen. Thanks for the thought though.

I am going to use Affinity Designer for graphic designing in layers as an aid to my hobby of making greeting cards - no photo manipulation and a minimum of pixel painting. Thanks to everyone for their help. I guess if it can work on an ipad successfully for me the lower specs would be ok if money is a problem. Main problem is seeing the toolbars but I suppose as I learn it I will know where they are but some of the context icons are virtually unreadable and therefore unrecognisable.

Can anyone please advise me. I have Affinity Designer on the iPad Pro 2020 12.9”. However, at 74 I find seeing the icons difficult as they are so small. I want to invest in an iMac. The options I have are :- 1. 2020 Apple iMac 21.5 All-in-One, Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 21.5” 4K, Silver Mac OS 2.2020 Apple iMac 27 All-in-One, Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Radeon Pro 5300, 27” 5K, Silver MacOS 10.15 Catalina 3. 2020 Apple iMac 27 All-in-One, Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Radeon Pro 5300, 27” 5K, Silver MacOS 10.15 Catalina 4. 2020 Apple iMac 27 All-in-One, Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Radeon Pro 5500 XT, 27” 5K, Silver MacOS 10.15 Catalina Quite a difference in £ GBP but it’s the smooth operation of Affinity Designer (yes I will have to buy programme again for Mac) on the iMac that matters and so I won’t regret buying a less powerful machine at some time in the future. Any advice would be a great help. I have used PC’s for 30 odd years but Microsoft which I no longer have so it makes sense to have a desktop compatible with my iPad Pro.

Thank you so much - just discovered this myself by experimenting and found that it was the middle of the layer you want to make a child under - have now finished my giraffe tut - see below. Thanks again for the prompt response

I am following a tut for desktop affinity designer and making spots on the body of a giraffe. Some of the spots have to overlap the body shape in order to become partial spots. the tut tells me to select a spot and double tap one the layer and then drag below the body layer and slightly right to make a child layer so that the portion of the spot that was outside the body disappears. Whatever I do I cannot make a child layer using this method in ipad. I have looked at the Affinity Designer Tut for layers and a child layer is mentioned and appears but it is a pixel layer he painted on. Can anyone guide me how to do this as i have searched tuts and can find nothing to explain how to do this on ipad. Wish they worked the same. Had a problem last night with arranging patterns around a circle - again a tut for desktop - showing a handle to move which does not appear on ipad. Finally managed it by moving the turn. Anyway any help would be appreciated with my giraffe spots!

Thank you! When I looked at your image again I realised that I had not created a subcategory in Assets. When I did that, magically the menu option save from selection appeared. thank you so much! This now saves my assets and I can use in another document. Thanks again!

Thank you for this suggestion, however I have created a new category in Assets, highlighted one tree to save, pressed on the hamburger menu and I have no option to save selected - see screen shot below.

Thank you. I have now found the save and the app has created a file for me in my icloud. The christmas tree file is .afdesign. I open in affinity and select a tree and save to symbol. My problem is then that I cannot used this saved symbol because when I open a new document it is no longer there. Only there when the trees.afdesign document is open. I presume that I could not import to assets because it is the wrong file type. I am more concerned about saving a symbol and being able to use it again in another document. Maybe if I Save the .afdesign file it will save my symbol ? Thanks for the other explanations which have been really helpful in lessening my confusion - would be grateful if you could answer the query about symbols please. Thank you again.

I recently purchased Affinity Designer and have been following the tutorials. I saved some Christmas trees from the resources file. Not sure if these were for the desktop version. I have ipad 9.7” Retina model. I can open the christmas trees file and then select one and save as a symbol, but I cannot import the file. Also when I close this christmas tree file, and open a blank file to use the symbol for a design, it is no longer there. Also, I immediately on downloading the app set my preference to save to icloud. But although I made a test document and closed it has not saved to cloud neither is there a Designer folder in icloud - which I would have expected. Can assets created in desktop version be used on apps? Are they they same file extension. What’s the point of assets if you can’t use them in new projects? Please enlighten me as this seems such a super design programme and I only just purchased it and am already a little disappointed that it doesn’t behave.