AntiqueFlaneur

@Wosven Damn! I wish I knew that from the start. Can you tell me how I would go about doing that if I was starting from the beginning? And is there any way to go through and change everything over?

Hi guys. Thanks for all your help over the last few weeks as I've started to learn Affinity Publisher. Would you be willing to critique the layout of the first chapter of a book I"m laying out? I'd love feedback on font choices, layout, and any other factors you think need improvement. Thanks! I've added the project's .afpub file to google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rglcSB3VGTVghF6vvon6jObluPB3SB2y/view?usp=sharing I'm attaching the PDF below. FOFCLayout.pdf

Looking for a great course on Publisher. Any suggestions?

@firstdefence I just put it on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rglcSB3VGTVghF6vvon6jObluPB3SB2y/view?usp=sharing Thanks for taking a look.

I'm trying to upload my afpub file and this forum keeps giving me the error, "-200" and then says "upload failed"

When I export a book chapter I'm working on as a PDF, I notice that on page 18, 22, 24, and 34 — all left-side-of-document pages — the image is partially darkened. I'm attaching the PDF and a screenshot of one of the photos in the PDF. How can I fix this? FirstChapterPDF.pdf

I have photos and captions inserted into my text, and I'd like both surrounded by a black border. I have a stroke of 1.5 pts set up for the picture frame the photos are in and the text frames the captions are in. But for some reason that lines do not display with a uniform thickness. See picture below. Anything I can do to even this out?

I'm laying out a book, and have my master set up to auto-add the page number, beginning with chapter one. However, there is a preface and forward before chapter one as well as other content. Is it possible to have a master set up to auto insert roman numerals for these?

I've got numerous images with caption boxes underneath them in a project. The boxes are surrounded by a border/stroke, which you control through the text frame menu (View -> studio -> text frame) by turning on the stroke. But how can I add a similar outline to the whole image, so the caption does not stick out so much? See attached pic for an example. Thanks!

I'm attaching a screenshot of a scanned photo I'm trying to remaster. I've straightened it out, done FFT denoise, and am trying to use a curves adjustment layer to improve the image quality. The problem I'm having is that one side of the image is extremely dark. Most of the photo needs to be darkened a bit via curves, but when I do this the left corner turns very dark. Any way to deal with this? I'm also attaching my .afphoto file of the image as well. Thanks! DarkSide.afphoto

@v_kyr or anyone else - Is there a way to get the numbers or Roman numerals to sort of float, as shown in the attached screenshot?

Yes, I had to rotate it when I first opened it. Thanks for your feedback. Much appreciated.

Thank you. So is this just a bug, then?

Thanks! Fig2.afphoto

You guys were correct in that I had not rasterized and trimmed, so that was part of the issue. Once I did that the excess parts of the photos were gone. I also found that once I did that I could export the photo as a .jpg and place it in publisher without any problems. But the photo is still not displaying properly when placed as a .afphoto file. See screenshot. It's weirdly placed in the frame and will not stay proportional.

@walt.farrell When I do this without shift I still get a distorded image that seems to have elements of the original unedited photo. The page fold you see is part of the original scan that I edited out of the photo previously.

I'm trying to place the attached photo into a Publisher document. I click on the place image tool menu bar item, select this photo, hold down shift and attempt to drag it to the right size while maintaining the aspect ratio. The end result looks like the screenshot I've attached. It doesn't maintains its aspect ratio, and also adds in weird bits of the original unedited photo. What can I do about this? Fig2.afphoto

I understand Publisher doesn't have footnote/endnote/annotation capabilities, but I'm wondering about work arounds. The book I'm laying out has 3-6 annotations per chapter, and I think putting them at the end of each chapter is a better option than cramming them at the end of the book. What's my best bet for creating the "endnote," style numerals to note that the end note is available at the end of the chapters? Anything else to consider when creating the frame texts for the endnotes? Any good guides been written on workarounds?

@markw Thanks!

@markw I noticed that you managed to crop the image in an oval. When I look at the history log, it mentions a "raster crop." Is that how you made the ovular crop? Can you explain how you did that? I've only seen the rectangular crop tool on the left-side toolbar.

That's done while exporting the finished image, right? So you select 16bit TIFF or Photoshop PSD? Are there setting I need to change to 16 bit inside Photo as well? If so, where is the menu to do it? I did find this, but I'm not sure if it's relevant.

I followed the tutorial video posted in the other thread. I've attempted to click on all the specs of light except for the center one. I zoomed out. Attached is a pic of what the filter screen looks like when I'm done. Is there something else I should be doing with the filter? Thanks so much for including the pics with the editing history. Very helpful

Just exploring this now. Definitely gives more control than the Multiple option. Thanks.

I'm new to photo editing, and trying to maximize the quality of old photos which have recently been scanned. The photos do not have any rips/blemishes. So far, I have found that FFT denoise filter makes a small but solid improvement to the photos by reducing some graininess. I'm not sure if I'm right about this because I don't really have an eye for it, but it appears to me that using the "multiply" layer effect seems to darken my photos a bit and makes the detail easier to see. Are there any other level adjustments, filters, or tools I should play around with to improve this further, or is this likely the quality I'm likely to get? Most of the tools I've looked at don't seem to affect B&W photos much. I'm attaching an original unedited photo and what it looks like after going through FFT denoise and the multiply effect.

I'm putting a caption below a picture and would like to surround the text frame with a solid black line on all sides. I'm sure this functionality is in Affinity Publisher, but I just wasted a good 30 minutes looking through menus and searching google with no luck (probably don't know the right words to search). Can anyone help me out? Thanks!