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Luddite

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  1. In 2020 I purchased  some fonts (below) Although they are installed I can't access them from my affinity software. I have kept giving up on them as I had assumed that they would automatically integrate in to the fonts drop down menu. It seems a waste not to use them. Can I do something about this. Please note I am elderly and not sophisticated in the use of the software although I love it. Thanks

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    Montebello Typeface by Ian Barnard
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  2. I almost always use Affinity Designer, so all my old files are saved in that format. I am wanting to copy some elements from old posters for new posters in AD but every time I open them they appear in Affinity Publisher (rarely used).

    Even if I close Publisher down and open the document in AD it opens up Publisher ???

    I am not very skilled and only do very basic documents. 

    I am up to date with the new '2'  software in AD, Publisher and Photo

    thank you in advance

    Luddite

  3. Thank you Nathan and Thomaso

    I don't think I described very well what I meant, but your response seemed close to it Thomaso. Nathan I think your suggestion was about creating a style to save and use on a future document. I'm an absolute novice and no real talent to 'design' - although I am watching YouTube to try to expand the huge options Affinity D offers.

    My problem is this. Sometimes, I do a simple poster with maybe several individual lines of text (so I can move them around for spacing purposes). So, if I did the first phrase in font FinkCasual 64 and 3D and wanted the next two phrases to look exactly the same - without going back to Artistic text and inputting same choices (tedious) I didn't know what to do.

    I have just tried what you suggested Thomaso but 'Paste style' is greyed out. 

    I am grateful to you both for the time you have taken to respond.

    Kind regards

    Luddite

  4. Hi to anyone reading this.

    It will seem pathetic to skilled users but I can't work it out. I have looked at what others say - but it seems to be about publisher issues.

    When I use Affinity Designer Artistic Text tool in a combination that I want - it is fine.

    But when I want to use exactly the same combination on a separate line of text in the same document, it defaults to Arial. So I have to go through the selection process of the font I want and any colour or design again to replicate my original choice

    Is there a simple way of applying the same thing?

    Thank you.

    Luddite

  5. Hi

    I am an absolute amateur. Love Affinity Designer, but don't have a lot of talent. I use the software for making greetings cards and Church Posters, so very simple. I have bought additional fonts but finding it hard to choose what to use. It would really help me if I could print off a list of the options. I know it sounds like I should have a stone tablet and chisel, but I am elderly and scrolling up and down for choices is tedious and I seem to lack imagination for the visual. I have tried 'print screen' but I get the whole screen and not just the content of the drop down text window. I have tried Ctrl and A on the drop down window but that doesn't work either. To be fair I know the programme isn't designed for this - but just thought someone might know a workaround. Thank you in advance. Luddite

  6. Hello Alfred again. I'm not sure it is permitted to ask the same person an additional question. I guess the moderator will knock me back if so. I just wondered if there is a tool on Affinity which would cut out a shape on an image that would be a perfect circle ? I have bought the Affinity Workbook which is a fabulous publication, but at this stage it doesn't deal with the simple things for me. Thanks in advance. Luddite

  7. However hard I try, I cannot seem to master the refining tool. I like to put images on the page and 'cut them out'. I have attached a very simple one, downloaded from Shutterstock (paid) that i used to use on Craft Artist cut out studio which separated the rondel from the white background. Whatever I do to it on Designer, if I then put it on a coloured background it still shows a white background.  Could anyone give me a step by step instruction on how to do this? Thank you. Luddite

     

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  8. Good morning. I am having difficulty with the refine process in general. I have watched the serif tutorial until I can almost say it by heart! However, this question is about reducing the size of the Refine panel. Wherever I drag it - it is so big that it either obscures what I am trying to refine - or if I drag it far enough to see my illustration, most of it is off the screen so I only get a corner.. I can only see that panel if I have the brush tool selected - so am I missing an option on the toolbar for adjusting the size of the panel. On serif tutorial about refining the panel is proportionate so I guess there must be a way. I would appreciate guidance. Thank you.

  9. Thanks Gary - sorry not to be clear. I'm working on a PC. I had an image that I was refining using the brush tool. I decided to delete the image and begin again. The brush tool was still operational and I was unable to get rid of it. I have pressed the escape button but it is still there.

    On a previous document - same problem I had refined an image. I then created a rectangle and dragged my image on to it - fine but then I couldn't get rid of the cross that wants me to create another shape.  I suppose in Luddite terms I just want something that I can click 'I've finished with that'.

    I have watched the tutorials over and over again, and enrolled in an Udemy course, but I am not getting very far. I mostly just want to place an image that I have downloaded from a site and to be able to 'cut it out'. So I have been practising over and over again with the refine tool and beginning to find my way around it a bit, but this not being able to get rid of the tool I am using is proving a problem. If this isn't clear please don't feel you have to respond again.

  10. I am a new user and struggling! I am still trying to use the refine tool competently on Affinity Designer. In my early days with Craft Artist (obselete) when I had finished using a tool, there was an arrow to deselect and choose the next tool. I cannot find it on here. Once I am operating the brush refining tool and have finished with it  - I cannot get out of it. What am I not doing? Thanks

  11. Hi Garry and Alfred

    I much appreciate your prompt answers. Yes, quite right it was Craft Artist and there wasn't a workaround I didn't know. But now I am an old person (is that what OP stood for Alfred ) and having bee presented with sophistication I am a bit bewildered. I have attached a file with 3 random things I could have cut out in Craft Artist -- simply wanting to detach the subjects from their backgrounds. I would have been looking for sharp cut outlines. I still make cards as well as posters for a community group, so I am trying to transition from my comfortable  Craft Artist shoes  in to the very smart high heels of Affinity. I would like my posters to look  as though a professional has done them. Hope you can help without it taking a lot of your time or if you can direct me to an online tutorial that covers this bit. 

    Kind Regard and thanks Luddite

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  12. I am a very new user (1 week). I used to use  an archived piece of Serif software that was designed for making greeting cards. Very primitive by comparison to my new Affinity Designer and Publisher. It had a tool called 'cut out studio'. Unbelievably simple. If you had an illustration from which you wanted to cut out an irregular object - say a starfish on the sand - there was a simple brush tool . A quick whizz round it and the starfish was separated out. I have bought two Affinity courses from Udemy, but neither seem to cover the topic. I have also read various replies on here that talk about masques (haven't had this covered on either tutorial) but they seem to refer more to a cropping/punching out kind of tool. I only want to make posters on the Publisher software. I need this type of tool more than any other. Can anyone help please?

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