CRWillow

When I open one of Affinity programs, it asks for my email and password and a verification number. Maybe I clicked something that said that was what I wanted but I didn't know it was an every time I opened any of my affinity programs (Photo, Designer, and Publisher). After typing the email, password, and number a new window appeared with a new License Agreement. This agreement says I bought serif through MS store which I didn't. And this window won't let me use my programs unless I agree to everything. Everything worked fine until this last update. Once again an update caused more trouble for the customer than any improvement that it's suppose to make.

I hate having to sign in to programs I own that are on my personal computer. No one else ever uses it or has my PC code. Isn't there a way to always stay signed in when ever it's opened?

So could you tell me which one should be used - MSI or MSIX and does this mean I have to uninstall all three programs? I don't remember having to make a choice when I downloaded any of the programs. I downloaded from Serif. I read some about MSI and MSIX but didn't understand which one was important to my computer or why. I'm sure they are both important, at least I would hope that they are. I think I should have MSIX x64 but maybe I'm wrong. I would guess I have to uninstall AP and try to redownload the program from serif? or is the MSIX X64 a choice I don't remember seeing it in the .exe folder? Processor AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics 3.60 GHz Installed RAM 8.00 GB (5.91 GB usable) Storage 932 GB HDD TOSHIBA DT01ACA100, 119 GB SSD KBG30ZMV128G KIOXIA Graphics Card AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics (2 GB) Device ID 7E73E226-816B-4557-B3CE-DE7BB0EFE693 Product ID 00325-81911-10548-AAOEM System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch Pen support

I don't see doubles of my Affinity programs in settings Apps. I only update when Affinity asks me if I want the new ones.

Yes, thank you for helping with my greyed out issue, I needed to get that explained and fixed so I could ask this question. I'm sorry for the confusion. When I updated to the 2.6.3.v my presets for my document dimensions disappeared and unfortunately I'm left with a lot of choices that I'll never use. I know that keyboard shortcuts can be saved but never found a dimensions save. Is there a way to get them back, a folder that I could search for, maybe somewhere in settings? I never considered that I'd lose them with an update. I'm on a HP PC Windows 10 Processor AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics 3.60 GHz Installed RAM 8.00 GB (5.91 GB usable) Storage 932 GB HDD TOSHIBA DT01ACA100, 119 GB SSD KBG30ZMV128G KIOXIA Graphics Card AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics (2 GB) System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch Pen support

After the last update Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher removed all my personal document dimensions presets and I really need for someone to tell me how to get them back. Is there a save button like for shortcuts because I can't find one or I would have used it. Next time I'll take a screen shot or two. Help. help

It seems to have fixed itself. I turned the PC off for a day and seems to have fix itself because I just checked it and the >Affinity on Desktop Questions isn't grey anymore though the Pre-V2 is but I don't think I need it. We were having some internet connection issues however I didn't think that should have interfered with it. I'll try to remember to take a screenshot of the +Create area if it happens again. Thank you for your help.

I don't mean to bother anyone but this website page has greyed out the Affinity support choice and will only let me choose a couple topics under create (question), it always has before. Is there something new that I need to do? After the last update Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher removed my presets document dimensions and I really need for someone to tell me how to get them back. Again I know this isn't the right question area but I don't know how else to ask.

It worked! Thanks so much. Happy Holidays to England!

Good news it's working , bad news don't know why. It's set for RGB/8. I checked that before, but forgot to say so. I inserted a shot of what the Convert window looks like. Honestly don't know what the highlighted sRGB is; it's just want it defaults to. I had tried it on a stock photo from Pexel when my stuff didn't work and it was grayed out for it too. Maybe it's something in my PC because I restarted the computer this time not just AP and it stopped being gray, at least for the moment. I really don't know why this happens. But thank you. I'll probably have to bug you when it happens again - because it always does

I have Affinty Photo,Designer and Publisher 2. Working on PC. And I have the grayed out problem too but my image is already rasterized.I tried reinstalling the plugins and nothing said they wouldn't work because I'm using Af 2. Their showing up but and say they're working but not on the working screen. I'm sure it's something I'm not doing right but can't find out what it is. Any ideas? Small rant here, feel free to ignore- I don't use plugins much because it's always a hassle to figure out why they work occasionally and others like this grayed out not at all. I would like to get more familiar with their uses but not when I have to take hours search for why they are working this time.

I don't know if this is a bug but I've looked all over but can't find why this is happening. Publisher Edit>Settings>General> Document> Reopen document on startup won't stay checked so I have to use the open recent option under File, not a huge deal but My Designer and Photo programs stay checked. Thanks

Thank you so much; the always open with Microsoft didn't help so hoping this will.

My Publisher documents keep opening in Photo. They're saved as afpub but I have to keep choosing open with > publisher instead of just clicking on the file. Does any one know why. Affinity just updated to the my software when this started. I use Windows 10.

Sorry didn't see the update in my email. I am still experimenting with the suggestions, thank you all by the way,. I was hoping to find/make a PC macro, so I could try out different quotes. Your perspective warp came out much better than mine and I'll keep experimenting/playing however I don't get consistent results and it takes me more time than I'd like. The constancy and speed of a macro is what I'm hoping for but I haven't made many and don't seem to have gotten it right yet.

Thank you for checking into it. Just so you know I've tried using an old studio preset as well as saving a new one however all the windows change except for the swatch panel. Thanks again.

I seem to have a similar problem with that my swatch panel keeps reverting to one I made and it appears to have a lock symbol on it like the colours and greys panel. So it's not just me. Thanks for looking into it.

No it's not solved. I had written about another issue too, that I decided not to bother people with it which was that Affinity V2.3.1 has been changing settings like my shortcuts or the angle on the clone tool which I can easily adjust when I figure out whats messing up but I can't figure out why it blends out side of the selected area sometimes. Today it's working fine.

Maybe someone can help me figure this out. This doesn't happen all the time and restarting occasionally helps, not this time though. I use the wand to select an area, here I didn't use refine (but sometimes I do). I used the selection brush to clean up a bit which takes some time, then I add another layer to fill in selection to see how it will look. Then I select the paint brush tool, this one was hard round basic brush. Then as shown in the images the brush feathers/fades outside of the selection.Cloning tool doesn't feather. The wet edges is off. I have the right layer selected. PC Windows 10 Home AMD Radeon (TM) Vega 8 Graphics Affinity Photo 2.3.1.

I guess I'm having a dense moment because after reading this, I can't tell if this was solved with something that can be adjusted. I have the same issue. One unsharp mask seems to work until it's merged then it's looks much the same as without a mask. I've resorting to duplicating the mask a couple times and merging one by one until the image is sharpened to what is acceptable. I'm cleaning up old comic book covers and between the wear and tear, the bad print jobs and the not great download quality, they need to be sharpened quite a bit.

Thank you all for confirming there's a problem, I'll play with and make copies so as not to restart from scratch.

I did as you showed and it worked as long as I had a fill and stroke color and the two small circles are together on one layer, which you divided. However I tried it again without a fill or stroke and got the following results. The steps I took were - Draw a large circle, add donut with 35% hole at the top of circle, duplicate and place at bottom of circle. Select all layers, clearing fill and stroke. (Capture 1) Click shape builder while all is selected, click the +/ add button and draw through the outer donut and the left side of large circle. (Sometimes the piece stays empty as in Capture 1a, Sometimes it goes grey as in Capture 1b) Now a double small circle appears on the first shape created. Plus as you see in 1a the second shape lost the small circle and left the outer part not joined to the large circle. In 1b the first shape changed to grey, gained a circle and the other side stayed clear without a fillable circle - just the hole. Now on something simple like this I can clean it up but on a more complicate design I can see a headache arising. Are the shapes and lines suppose to have strokes and fills?, I don't remember reading that they needed to be plus most of the tutorials I've watched aren't filling the shapes until they finish the design.

Hello Gurus, I have a question about the shape build and see others are having some issues too. I'm just play around with it trying to get the idea of what works and doesn't so this could definitely be a me problem and not a AD problem. I was following a YouTube demonstration for a ying and yang which I thought worked but when I started filling the shapes I find that both little circle end up together instead of where they are supposed to be. I used the donut and ellipse tools as shown in the copy. You can see that the black circle is under the white one in the layer's panel instead of filling the empty space on the white yang? shape. I tried it several times and depending on which shape I add to first is where the circle disappears. If I start on the left, the circles are on the bottom, start on the right, they're on the top. So they're sticking to the last shaped added to. Any thoughts?

Thanks, at least I know I didn't shut something off by mistake. (Which probably would have been better since then I could turn it back on.) I'm using V2 and don't see according palette selected in the swatches panel. I noticed the swatch stayed highlighted if I didn't apply it to anything, not terribly helpful.

Is there a way to highlight the swatch that's in use? When I'm using colors or gradients that are very similar, I have a really hard time identifying which is being used. I'm trying to renumber the swatches but it would be so much easier to see the swatch highlighted. I can't find it in the settings maybe it's there and I'm not seeing it?