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History is wiped on close/reopen, yes? If my guess is correct, I'll have to wait for another crash to get the history. Attaching the file anyway. Also attaching crash files from the OS. Affinity Designer_2020-12-05-224003_Galway.crash Affinity Designer_2020-12-05-224248_Galway.crash Affinity Designer_2020-12-05-224621_Galway.crash 20201205.afdesign

Not sure what info will be helpful here, but I've been having endless crash issues since the Big Sur update (Mac Mini 16GB RAM dual screen setup). The most recent was last night. Every time I hit the CMD-Z to undo something, Designer died instantly. I'll start tracking what's happening when and attaching the work in progress where practical.

Yes @ClaireIsaac they can. Love to see how you use them and hear what you think of them.

It does. Excellent. When I'm not suffering from oatmeal brain, I'll ponder why 'exclusive or' is behaving like this. But thanks, @Alfred

Resurrecting this again: what if I have two closed loops and want to make them a single object? Say, the outline of a bold/black letter A, and the outline of the counter inside it? Two individual lines, closed, but a single object. Is grouping them the only way to make them behave more or less like a single object?

I made a set of 8 similar grass brushes for my landscape doodling and thought someone else might find them useful. First time making and sharing brushes, so feedback on usefulness and improvements is welcome, even solicited. JoelDCanfield-simple-grass-brushes.afbrushes

I did it by hand, one at a time. Still interested in knowing a better way if there is one. Coming from a programming and CAD background, I love command line and scripting access to otherwise visual tools. I hope Designer matures in that respect.

Doing some logarithmic(ish) divisions and I have a list of 124 guides I'd like at specific pixel locations. I really (really really) don't want to type in each of the 124 numbers. Please tell me there's a way to turn my list into 124 properly positioned horizontal gridlines.

1. Always love coming here and finding an answer I really need, even years after the thread happened. Thank you, @v_kyr 2. Re: @Alfred's comment: depends on how long. My wife was in hospital for 4 months, flat on her back the whole time. She came home 1" taller, and remains so 15 years later. (Which makes her 1" taller than me instead of exactly the same height, as when we married.) But perhaps my personal life is just slightly off-topic here ;)

Super. I couldn't find it in the known issues threads so I wasn't sure.

Great googlymooglies am I glad I found this. Spent an hour trying to change the color of my IMAGE brush. This distinction seems impossibly and unnecessarily arcane. Why not "static image brush" and "you can change the color h'ray image brush" ? Thanks infinitely, @carl123

Well poo. Sure enough, first change goes as expected. Anything subsequent fails, even with different text.

Forgot some meaningful info: this is Designer 1.8.4 on Mac Catalina (Mac Mini 16gb ram)

As discussed in this thread and summarized here: Horizontal distribution by center is erratic. If items are almost aligned, it seems to tidy things up. Usually. But if items are scattered around the page, they are NOT consistently distributed by centers based on order of creation, layer order, or any other criteria we can determine. distribute.afdesign

I'm going to go flag it as a bug. There's no way anyone intended it to work in such an obscure manner.

Any thoughts, @Old Bruce or @Alfred or any other resident experts? It may not work the way I expect, but it would be nice to know exactly how it DOES work.

Downgrading to 1.8.4 worked fine for me.

Doing it now. Didn't realize the upgrade was focused on the M1 chip, which I ain't got. I'll wait for 1.9 or maybe the miraculous and ethereal 2.0

Mac Big Sur and AD 1.8.6 update update yesterday. Nearly no issues; biggest thing I've noticed is that when I click the font dropdown, it no longer changes the font as I hover over a font. It used to change in a sort of preview-y manner which I loved. Now I have to click the font and commit the change to see the text in the new font.

I was ready to accept the Distribution tools as refiners rather than heavy lifters, but @GarryP that is strage indeed. I am assuming the tools are intended to work the same in Photo and Designer, by the way.

So you have to have the ALMOST aligned before it works? Why would it not go by layer order, like every other tool I've ever used? I'd like a tool to not only do the fine adjustments, but the heavy lifting up front. Not very satisfying.

I would assume that if I select, say, 7 items stacked vertically on my page as in the attached file, and position ONE at the top left and SEVEN at the bottom right, select all, and click Distribute Horizontal Centers I would get a staircase effect from ONE at top left to SEVEN at bottom right. Instead, I get (depending on the humidity in my fridge or the phase of the moon) ONE through THREE in a staircase, FOUR on its own, FIVE and SIX in some odd configuration, and SEVEN right where I left it, so at least it's not lost. Vertical distribution behaves as I would expect (except of course for fonts, where "center" is taken literally instead of using the font's midline as it probably should, y'know, for alignment.) Am I doing something wrong? Is it intended to produce some other result? distribute.afdesign

Thank you so much, @Izzy I'll let you know how it goes. EDIT: It goes well. Very well. Thanks again.

@Izzy Long time ago, but I'm curious what you found. I love PS's reticulation filter, but I'm all Affinity all the time these days.

Simpler still, just use Split Toning. First image, all the fussing of the tutorial, second image, mask text to photo and add a Split Toning adjustment layer. Slightly different colors, but the same effect (with a bit of fiddling as I learn to use it) without all the extra steps.