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Mark: Thanks for your answer also. I've been using the V2 editions since they came out and I installed them. I don't recall right off-hand but I would have migrated stuff to V2 that I had in V1. And if I didn't for some reason, I have got brushes, etc., that I can put back in V2 should I want to. I'm on Win10 Pro (I refuse to go to Win11), so the Mac AppCleaner doesn't apply to my situation but would be useful for others to know. Thanks for your reply!

Sweet!!!!! Thank you for your super-quick answer; appreciate it!

Can I uninstall pre-V2 of Affinity suite? Am perpetual lic user of V2 suite. Just want to make sure uninstalling prior version doesn't mess up V2. Thanks for answer.

I kind of thought somebody would say that's what I should do. And I actually had already decided to go back to the 1.8 versions and I guess I just wanted somebody else's view. I "get" that Affinity's programs are having growing pains and problems are to be expected, but I'm not liking the issues I'm reading about on here. Thanks for your answer, Clayton. Guess what I'll be doing this afternoon?😁

I purchased Photo, Designer and Publisher a couple of years ago from Affinity, and they have been working fine. After putting on the 1.8.5 versions and using them with no problems, I put on the 1.9 updates for all three. I haven't opened any 1.8.5 files in Photo or Designer and after reading the last few days of problems with each, I'm wondering if I just should go back to versions 1.8.5 (after uninstalling v 1.9, as I read in a post yesterday) and then wait for 1.9 to be more stable and bugs fixed. What say you, gurus?

You're welcome, phendee. Having edited my camera raw photos and scanned printed pics for years and years, doing negatives/slides is quite another matter! And the reason I have negatives to scan is that I started in photography when there was only roll film (the early 1980's, and then went to digital cameras), so here I am wanting to get negatives digitized - even if I don't do anything else with them. Ya can't go wrong with a dedicated negative/slide scanner or a flatbed negative/slide scanner, and if you have a lot of them to do, it's worth the money for the dedicated equipment. And just one more point - after scanning in the negs, you can then pick and choose from the contact sheet what pic you want to do something else with, such as printing. Good luck!

I have tons of b&w and color negs to scan - literally, decades worth of pics - and what I decided on was buying a Kodak Slide 'n Scan, which I got on Amazon. It's a dedicated scanning method that is independent of a photo program and you wouldn't have to have a plug-in for Photo, and it converts your image to a positive. That being said, Amazon has many slide/negative scanners and my Kodak one is middle-range price but there are others that are waaaay more expensive. It has worked flawlessly but as with doing anything like this, it is time-intensive (in other words, you're not gonna scan in 10 sheets of negatives [24 pics per roll] in five minutes. This Kodak one will scan normal-sized negs as well as slides (as most of them do). Once I scanned in a roll of negs, I made a pdf contact sheet of that roll and there are several image viewing programs that will do this for you; it's easy-peasy. One other caveat to this negative scanner is that I am only able to scan in at a 72dpi jpeg format and that means that if you wanted to do something further with the image, like printing, you would need to bring it up in your photo editing program and save it as a 300dpi png. Being a photographer and graphic designer, this is absolutely not the dpi I would scan something in at on my Epson flatbed photo scanner, but I don't have a choice with the Kodak negative scanner. There are flatbed negative/slide scanners also if you wanted to check them out on Amazon. As with most things sold there, read the reviews of the product before you purchase it. Hope this helps on your negative scanning adventure.

Thank you for your reply! Yes, I am (was) making my series of docs in inches (4.5x6) at 300dpi. After seeing your reply, I made a new artboard in pixels instead of inches, drew a few brush strokes that I'm using on every doc I'm making in this series, just for grins, and the stroke showed in pixels in width both in the stroke panel top right and the top left-hand area. Who'd a thunk the picking of the artboard in pixels instead of inches would be the issue and affect how a stroke width shows? Apparently, it is. Well, now I know. Thank you!

Since yesterday, I've noticed that in Designer, a brush that I duplicated/edited in one document has inexplicably changed width units in a new document I'm working on and I want to use the duped brush in the new doc. In other words, the brush went from pixels to inches for stroke width. What the.....???? Really? Have latest version of prog, and it wasn't doing this before. No, I didn't change anything in preferences :). Thanks for any explanation and possible fix.

Thank you for replying! I was pretty sure I was right on not being able to edit a pixel (raster) brush without doing what you explained. And that ain't gonna happen!! This kind of insanity with raster brushes is why I work in vectors. I've got a lot of vector brushes for Designer and I'll see what I can use that is similar to my screenshot above, but I'll go -- again! -- and see if there's any vector brushes for Designer I might have inadvertently missed. Sometimes I don't download brushes or textures because they're not specifically what I'm looking for at the moment, but from this point forward I'll download what I like for possible future uses. Thank you again.

Thank you for asking for clarification. Here goes...... What I'm making is in Designer because I prefer to work using vectors and their editability factor. Some of the angel's wing I'm making calls for a wash-type brush, which I thought I'd try in the Pixel Persona from Designer. While in Pixel Persona, the program tells you any brushes you use will be on their own pixel layer because they are raster brushes. Okay, I get it. See attached screenshot. My question is really pretty simple: once I've made the washes using the paintbrush tool in Pixel Persona, are those washes editable any more in Pixel Persona? Apparently not because they're raster brushes and not like the vector pen, pencil or vector brush tools in Designer which you can endlessly edit the nodes to get just right. Maybe I've answered my own question. If there actually is a way to edit the raster brush layer and any brushes on it, I'd sure like to know how to do that. And barring getting the raster brush exactly right on the first try, maybe I should just stick with vector pen, pencil, or the vector brush tools in Designer.

Am working on a personal project in Designer. On part of an angel's wing I've used a brush in Pixel Persona to make some of the colored washes and those brushes are on their own pixel layer. Having not done this before, my question is: can the pixel layer be edited, i.e., say I wanted to change a wash color or size. If this is possible, how is this accomplished? If it's not possible....oh well, I guess. Some of this stuff you don't know you need to know how to do, until you're actually trying it! Thanks for help....again! Nikki

Thank you, MEB and Walt, for your expanding explanations on my question. Having used Adobe's products for many years, and it's what my school used for my graphic design degree courses, once Adobe's gratis use of their programs while I was in school ended (gee, whod'a'thunk?), I looked for alternatives to their subscription insanity and went with Affinity products (but got Gimp, Inkscape, and Scribus, just in case) and have not looked back. What I love about Affinity is being able to get to the other personas from within the program I'm in, instead of having to have several programs open at once. And I'm sure y'all realize that Affinity products are *always* at the top of the list as great alternatives for graphic designers and photographers (I'm both). At any rate, the brushes extension question didn't occur to me, for some reason, until now. Thank you both! Nikki

Thank you ever so much! I thought as much but wanted to make sure.

I haven't seen this anywhere for Designer/Photo, and I apologize in advance if somebody has asked this and it's been answered. I have latest version of all Affinity progs. Is the brush extension - .afbrushes - used in Designer applicable to Photo also? What about Styles palettes? Thanks in advance for your answer(s). Appreciate your help. Nikki