DuncanL

Acquisitions almost never end well for the acquired product. I've been part of several such buyouts and despite all the "no plans to change" they always mean the buyer gets bored of the thing they bought after a few years and can't now work out how to sell. Having been with Serif for many, many years I'll stick with Affinity for now; because that's where all my work and skills are, but I rather suspect that any v3 will never happen; and if it does will certainly become a subscription product. Shame.

Pleased to say that this is fixed in the 2.4.0 Beta - I have successfully exported my book with the bleed.

This is fixed in the 2.4.0 Beta - I have successfully exported my book with the bleed:

Thanks. I think I've worked round it by using PDFSam - https://pdfsam.org/download-pdfsam-basic/ - to merge the individual chapter PDFs. My numberings are all within each chapter, I have no links and the ToC looks OK. Now I will have to see what the printer makes of the merged file - hopefully they won't complain! Looking forward to the 2.4.0 beta to do it properly!

Is there any chance it will be sooner than that? I have just encountered a bug (unable to export a book with bleed (REF: AF-1349) ) and I will need to send this book off to print soon (yes - I should have tried before now, but all my tests were for visuals and so didn't need the bleed!) Or can I somehow "publish" a book with chapters into a single afpub file; which will then print with the bleed? Thanks!

How soon is the beta, please? I've just encountered this issue with a book that I need to send off to print soon. Thanks.

Genius! That's what I wanted - works automatically with the frame content in a non-destructive way so I can change the content and it just reflects the change automaticcaly. Thank you very much! Not exactly an obvious solution, but makes sense now I know

Yes - so it seems I'll have to fake it with a separate layer that I merge all my frame elements into a single curve, make that black and use the vignette inside that that, layering that over the real frame layer. and tweaking the transparency... Bit of a pain, since if I change the frame I'll have to regenerate the fake mask frame oject, but at least it works!

Ah ha! OK. So that's the effect. I'm just trying to work out why that works and how to apply it to my actual case (where the frame is more complex and I can't just add all the bits together. Thanks!

Yes, but that then effects the central image area as well whic I don't want. That's the key here.

Hi. Thanks - but that's the opposite of what I want to do! That's applying the vignette to the picture - I want to apply it to the frame only, and not effect the image in any way.

I want to add a vignette to a frame, but not to any content shown behind the frame layer (i.e. to not affect the photo "in" the frame. I'm sure it should be possible, but I'm failing to spot the technique. Simple example - I want the vignette to darken the red frame bits, but not the stock photo behind. Suggestions welcome, please Thanks! FrameQuestion.afdesign

Just wanted to say thanks for the upcoming standard installer - I have now pruchased the upgrades after holding off to see how it would all work out!

Looks like marketing has got ahead of the actual deployment of the updates...

I've just been rummaging in the menus and help to find this basic option - only to come here to find it doesn't exist... Three plus years to not add something this fundamental seems... disappointing. Affinity Photo, you're making it very hard to like you! I'm comparing this against Paintshop Pro (my tool of choice for many years) and the number of missing simple usability features is driving me away again (for example many dialogs forget their last used settings - which is madness!). I don't want to be a misery and not give it a chance, so I'm going to use it until the trial expires and write up a list of missing things I find. I imagine that anything will just go onto a big pile of "we'll think about it someday in the future" but at least it will make me feel better!

Thanks - that works but is hardly intuitive or quick! I like the drag tolerance feature - it's great when it works, but this just breaks it. So to go back to my original question, what does the tolerance key off? Based on that workaround, I'm guessing RGB colour as displayed (so any transparency messes that up). This seems like a bug; or at least a big usability failing?

I understand that - but surely the idea of a tolerance is to allow it to work with those differences? The tolerance setting has no effect right up to 99% - which seem rather pointless! 😕 This works just fine in PSP.

I'm evidently missing something - why does the flood select on this image only select the area shown in the attached image, even if I change the tolerance right up to 99%, then jumps to the whole image at 100%. It was working how I would expect on an image yesterday; but this one just ignores any tolerance. Also; I'm evaluating this against Paintshop Pro and there the selection tolerance allows you to match against opacity, brightness, RGB colour and more. What does Affinity match against? And is it possible to select it (I'd rather work against opacity for some things) Colouring - Test.afphoto

Create the image as a square at the original resolution of the source images and scale down to a 32x32 PNG with transparency. This site will do most of the work for you - just give it a large square image and pick your options: https://realfavicongenerator.net/

Please make the Grow\Shrink selection dialog remember the last used value - it's tiresome when you want to repeat the same expand action over and over on different selections. (And any other dialogs I haven't used in my testing yet that do the same thing and default back to zero! ) Thanks!

That's the thing! Trust Windows to hide a setting in the depths! Thank you.

Download the pictures and insert them as normal. When viewing a photo in Google Photos on the web, just press Shift+D or select Download from the three bar menu at the top right. If you want to select multiple images from the thumbnail view, click the ticks in the top left of the image thumbnails, and press Shift+D or select Download from the three bar menu at the top right. That will download a ZIP of the images.

Just trying out Affinity Photo (after using the Publisher beta ages ago); and the left aligned menus are driving me mad already! Is there an option to use standard Windows aligned menus, please? I can't see it in the settings. I'm pretty sure I'm just missing it somewhere and it was in the Publisher beta? Or was that some other software that decided to mess with 30 years of UI memory and mess me about!? )