PaulWilliamson
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On 5/11/2020 at 4:35 PM, walt.farrell said:
As far as I know you cannot have a global color unless you have a document palette. Although, I see from the Help on Global Colors that Affinity will automatically create a document palette for you if you create a global color when a document palette does not exist.
So, look for a palette you don't recognize. If I had to guess it will probably be named "Unnamed", by default.
You are right Walt! Thanks!
-paulw
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Hi,
Those art palette icons do not appear like that in my version. Just the ones with the square and plus sign.
I did figure out how to make a color global in a document palette.
Thanks.
-paul
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If I take a screenshot with a dropdown open, it disappears. Here is what I did take.
I am using the latest version of Publisher.
Thanks!
-paulw
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Hi,
I do not see the little palette icons though. Just a couple little squares that say Add Current Color to Palette As a Global Color. And the first one says Fill instead of Color.
-paulw
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Okay thanks! I will mess with this tomorrow. I do see Unnamed when doing this but I do not see the global color I created. It is under Recent but I can't tell if it loaded apalette is just showing the recent colors I used. I will do a test by creating adding a crazy global color and see if I can tell the difference.
Thanks!
-paulw
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Hi,
I do not want the color to just be used for the pen tool. I went to the swatches tab, clicked on the little menu on the top-right and selected Add Global Color. Now I cannot find it. The palette choices all seem inappropriate (Add Application Palette, Add Document Palette, Rename Palette, Delete Palette, Set as Default For, Create Palette from Document, Create Palette from Image, Import Palette, Export Palette,...).
I followed the instructions from https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-stylish-magazine-layout-in-affinity-publisher--cms-31847
The person simply creates a Global Color (step 6) does not use a palette and simply selects the color from the character tab but I do not see mine there unless it is a recently used color. I thought it would be visible somewhere with a little folded corner on it as I read in a Google post I found (but the author does not say where it lives).
Thanks,
paulw
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Hi Walt,
Where do I select the Global Color? I can't find them anywhere. Not under Color, Swatches, or Stroke on the right-hand panel. When I go to set up another "Kelly Green" Global Color I am told it already exists and select another name but yet I can't find the existing ones!
-paul
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Hi,
I set up a Global Color. How do I use it?
I draw a line with a pen tool and when I let go of it with the mouse, it disappears.
How do I use both?
Thanks!
-paulw
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I seem to always overthink things. At least once in a while 🙂 I guess it comes from writing software systems in my previous years.
Attached is what my printer gave me.
Thank you so much! Excellent information from people answering my post for help!
-paul
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Hi!
Thank you both for your help!
Good points and Wosven thank you for that diagram!
The printer sent me what she needs for a PDF document, including bleed and margins, but I need to look it over and see if I can relate it to what AP can do in document setup.
I do not understand how these examples I follow, whether from Affinity-Sefif, or on YouTube, automatically adjust the page setup to an older version and how the page set-up has changed so much that makes it so hard for me to learn.
-paul
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Hi!
The only tri-fold example in the welcome screen leaves a lot left out, as are the YouTube videos that I have watched.
They ALL are using an older version than myself (1.83).
For instance, that sample and the videos I have seen do NOT use the same Document Setup that I have!
There is not a New Document setup in those that has the new interface about selecting A5 and the *actual size* size of the document, ...! NONE that match the version that I have!!
It is very confusing to a newbie like myself. Sure I can pick the sample document apart but it does not tell me how to set up a new document that matches the example that Affinity supplies or the YouTube videos that I have studied.
I just want to make a tri-fold brochure for a friend. The specs from the printer told me this:
page is 8.5x11inches
margins=.25 inches
Margins between columns = .5 inches
Bleed= .125 inches if you have a bleed, the red line indicates the bleedI have the only workbooks from Affinity: Photo and Designer.
Why is there not a one for Publisher? Is it too easy to not have one??
I have spent countless hours watching and studying the videos for Publisher on their website, and also Photo and Designer, and especially others concentrated on Publisher.
-paulw
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Thanks! I thought I clicked on them before but I guess I did not wait long enough.
-paulw
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Hi,
I downloaded both of them. Where do they go? How do I open them?
Thanks
-Paulw
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But here it is!
I am using dropbox links to my public folder because uploading files to this forum rarely works.
-paul
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Hi,
SquareSpace.com - lots of artsy stuff there
Wix.com
Weebley.com
The above are drag and drop.
Flikr
FotoMotocom (click the Designers tab). Designs and Illustrations can be sold through them
Those are the ones that I know about, but I have not tried any.
For some reason (s), I have stayed away from WordPress even though it is available through BlueHost (where my website is hosted) and GoDaddy (where a couple clients sites are hosted). I use Adobe Dreamweaver CC and extensions that I have purchased. DW CC is a monthly subscription.
I am not sure if Adobe Creative Cloud is a paid subscription, but their Portfolio product is free (https://portfolio.adobe.com/). This looks very easy to use and may be perfect for what your daughter needs to do.
-pw
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15 hours ago, firstdefence said:
See the screen grab Fig.1 below, set the layers to look like they do in the screen grab, the erase brush layer is actually your relighting layer and as you can see in the screen grab I've set it to blend mode: overlay and opacity to 35%. This gives you approx the effect you should have. You need to neaten the Erase brush layer up to follow the path better so it doesn't show those overlapped edges.
Fig.1
Set a Basic Erase brush up like this in Fig.2 and tidy the erase brush layer to look more like Fig.3
Fig.2
Fig.3 I've changed the blend mode and opacity to show you how it should look, just change it back to Overlay and 35% opacity after you have done tidying it up. It should now look more like Fig.4
Fig.4
Hi,
How do I get from fig 3 to fig4 (not have the erase brush effect show)?
Because if I export it to jpg, the path is highlighted like it is in your figure 3.
In a previous reply, I said it exported correctly but I did not use the erase brush on the sides of the path and probably did not do the "Brushing over the stone path to brighten it." step correctly.
Thanks
-paulw
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16 hours ago, PaulWilliamson said:
I did the tutorial again (https://affinityspotlight.com/article/jump-into-affinity-photo/?utm_source=SpotlightEmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter) but this time I did not erase the sides of the path because I did not have to (I was more careful when highlighting the path) and it looks like the export to .jpg is the same as the .awphoto file.
I saved the image after each step so I may go back and mess up the path touchup so I have to erase the overflow onto the grass and see if that change shows up on the export.
Thanks you.
-paulw
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I didn't notice them until you pointed them out!
-paulw
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35 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
No luck.
Retail (1.7) says it's an unsupported file type. Beta (1.8) says it can't be parsed.
I'm not sure if that means it uploaded incorrectly, or if it means it is corrupted. If it still opens in your copy of Photo (or if you still have it open in Photo) try File > Save As under a different name, and upload that. Also, if you have an account with DropBox or any other file sharing site, you could upload there and generate a sharing link to give to us. Sometimes that's the only way to move such large files around successfully.
Links to my Public Drop box folder:
.afphoto
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zuwrgz1n0nj7z2j/JumpInTutorial_Paulw.afphoto?dl=0
.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gvnh4zl2wyrtr4g/JumpInTutorial_Paulw.jpg?dl=0
.zip with both
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nfnbbeyqkbv1xd/JumpInTutorial_Paulw.zip?dl=0
Sorry this is being such a problem. Thank you for hanging in there Walt!
-paulw
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18 minutes ago, R C-R said:
I cannot open your file, either with the retail or beta version of Affinity Photo. The error is 'filetype is not supported.' Are you sure you uploaded an actual .afphoto file & not something else with just a renamed extension?
ACDSee Photo Editor somehow took over the association of the Affinity Photo .afphoto file. I changed Win10 to associate it with Affinity Photo. But I was able to open it with Affinity Photo regardless
Let's see if this works now.
-paulw
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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:
It appears that your .afphoto file did not upload correctly. Please try again.
Okie Dokie. I am trying again Walt.
-paulw
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9 hours ago, carl123 said:
Can you attach the finished APhoto file, because that should not be happening
Okay, attached is the .afphoto file
Thank you.
-paulw
7 hours ago, walt.farrell said:Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Paul.
What tutorial did you follow?
-pw
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Hi,
I just completed the Photo tutorial. When exporting the file to jpeg, the relighting, erase brush, HSL adjustment, curves adjustment etc... all show in the jpeg. I can see the erase brush and relighting (?) after touching up the stone path in the jpeg file.
There are no instructions in the tutorial, search engines, help file, etc.. to not have them display in the exported file.
I have attached the jpg file.
Paul Williamson
Exporting an Affinity Publisher file to a format Adobe InDesign can import
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Hi,
Is it possible? I have someone flinching because I am not using Adobe InDesign to do a brochure for him. I told him that I could export to an InDesign format but that statement of mine doesn't look like it is true.
I am using 1.8.3
Attached is what I see when exporting a document.