Sid007

Thanx for your input, Wonderings. I think I need to be a bit more specific, so, I’ll amend my post for greater clarity. Sid007

Are any of you guys using an external keyboard with AP? If so, please consider the following questions: —— What is your take on the new Apple Magic Keyboard? —— What is the brand of your keyboard? —— Does it attach physically to your iPad? —— Does it have its own power supply? —— How does your AffPho life benefit from it? Thanx, good people! Sid007

DM1, thanx for the perspective. I went over to the Apple iPad Forum and learned from an apparently quite experienced fellow that the line is coded into systems that do not have a “Home” button, such as my new Pro 12.9. He claims that the line is there to indicate where to swipe up to open the home screen. I questioned that by pointing out that it didn’t make any difference, that an upward swipe from anywhere along the bottom opens the screen. The bottom line for me right now is to continue to seek the absolute answer to this question before I get stuck with a defective iPad.

A NOTE TO EVERYONE ELSE: Okay, folks, Callum, Cecil, and I would love to hear what YOUR take on this is so please step up to the plate and let us have it!

Cecil, I was using the 10.5” iPad Pro, too, until it lost all its wifi capability. No annoying line for me either with that rig.

Thanks, Callum. But, the same gesture (upward swipe) w/o the line is a long accepted way to invoke the bar. Doesn’t it defy logic that the wizards at Apple would even consider such a redundancy? Perhaps you see something here that I am missing. Thanx, again, Callum for the suggestion.

Oops! I probably should add that I hadn’t seen (been aware of) this prior to my new iPad Pro 12.9 running iPadOS 3.2.2 .

Any idea why one would be getting the distraction shown in the attached shot?

DM1, you never cease to amaze me with your grasp of this app’s intricacies! Time after time (as here) I find myself silently asking “...how the hell did he know that??? ...”. You really should write a book! NOTE: I am aware that this thread is over a year old, just as so many such postings by DM1 are. He really does need to write that book! Better yet, two books, one for the desktop, and one for the iPad.

I just revisited this entire exchange and there’s a possible issue that I want to shed more light on. The iPad Pro (Affinity) appears to have no issue regarding local storage of AP files (as in the Documents App on that IPad).

Thanx, guys! Always enlightening to hear your thoughts and suggestions. It is a 10,5” Model MPDY2LL/A with the serial number DMPTVD3UHP50. It has a 256 gig storage capacity. The problem first appeared at, or near, the updating of both iPads to IOS v.13.1.3. A couple of days ago I updated the Pro to v. 13.2 with no improvement. Later that day I reinstalled the update a second time with no change. Dan, glad to hear that the file finally transferred properly. My iPad issue surely seems local to that particular one. Both it and the iPad I am typing this on were purchased simultaneously about two years ago. This one is the same, but is the non-Pro version. This non-Pro has no issues. Nor does a Windows 10 laptop. All three are located at the same point relative to the router (in an adjacent room). I even placed the Pro right next to the router and it still either times out or takes about ten times longer to complete a wifi task. Most often it just times out before a connection is completed. Again, thanks, guys, for your feedback and insights. I keep gleaning new ideas from your comments and info that help to clear the fog. P.S. The Pro seems entirely normal in all tasks other than wifi.

Well, fellas, my entire quandary may be caused by my iPad Pro’s ever worsening ability to send and receive internet activity. Internet connections are now so poor that it is only with the very most patience that I am able to use that tablet at all for anything but local stuff. I have applied all the classic fixes to no avail whatsoever. After I post this I will be looking at what I can expect from a system reset. Very annoying!

Yeah, DM1, I'm sure I did turn off the Affinity Layers option because I wanted to follow your earlier suggestion to do so.

Hey, Dan, I just uploaded the afphoto file (the date in Texas is November 1st and the time is 6:20 p.m.). We don’t switch to DST until this Sunday night.

Dan and DM1, finally managed to get the correct file posted (please see afphoto at end of my post to Dan, immediately above). Many thanks, DM1 1, for the guidance on this. And, thanks to both of you for your great patience.

Thanks for responding, Dan. Here’s a screenshot of the export settings, but, I haven’t figured out how to send the actual image file. If, and when I do, I will attach it to this post. DM1, is this screenshot helpful? Water_Buffalo_-_S._Africa.afphoto

DM1 and Dan, I have yet to figure out (newb here) how to attach an actual image file — unless you might be referring to the image, itself, which would be a relative no brainer. OK, so, just in case, I will go ahead and attach the image and hope that it will help you help me. As an aside, this iPad Pro has just recently become very slow for some reason that I am working to resolve. It is my “main” iPad that gets the most use, which is, no doubt contributing to the problem. P.S. Still not able to even attach a reduced res tiff of the file! But, continuing to work on it.

Hey, DM1, what's your take on this? Please!

When I am finished editing a tiff photo in Affinity Photo and go to save it to Documents as a full .tif file at around 50M file size, the app appears to save it, but, will not, then, open it or show a thumbnail of it. But, saving it as a jpeg of around 16M works flawlessly. My question is, is this because the Documents ap (Readdle) has a size limit somewhere between the two?

DM1, you make several very sound suggestions here and I will put them to use right away. In the interim, I got around the “freeze up” by moving back in the history until I got to the point where the anomaly manifested. A cursory look at the next steps gave no clue as to its cause. DWright, good idea for another reason, as well, that will preserve the original background layer. Many thanks, fellas, I am greatly appreciative of your support.

Simple situation. I am editing a photo of an elk to removal all the detail that is not “elk” and replacing it with solid black. Began by creating a pixel layer with mask and then painting in the entire canvas with black (after turning off the selection layer, of course). The last adjustment I was then able to make was a minor clone correction. Now, despite my best efforts, I am unable to perform any further edits, What on earth could I have done to get myself into this mess? Thanks, guys!

DM1, I can’t thank you enough for the Documents by Readdle suggestion. It is by far the best file management app I’ve ever seen or used and you must be it’s match as a contributor here at iPad Forums. Thank you very much. Sid007

So happy to hear your comments, guys. They are certainly informative and helpful. And, with the introduction of the very first version of iPadOS (v. 13.1.2), it would appear that the two (iPad and desktop) might be closing the gap even further. Sid

I just paid close to fifty bucks for Frank Walters fine book, The Affinity Bible Part One , and was disappointed to quickly learn that it is entirely devoted to the desktop version of Affinity Photo. I, of course use the iPad version and have zero experience with the desktop version of Affinity. This got me wondering if some fine soul might have put together a table or other guide showing the relationship between the two versions implementations of the various tools. Has anyone done that and, if so, where might I find it?

I just found the problem. I had turned “on” show touches in Preferences. Turning that setting off cured it. Surely comforting to know that you folks are here to help the needy. I will be back soon with another question regarding setting up additional file locations for images (since the iPad lacks the desktop’s “File” function).