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You can assign a keyboard shortcut to get black and white as default colours: I think X will toggle the background/foreground colour.

I think most of these videos are the same as on Vimeo https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQZN-kIrZUQyoTnexM3jJAw/videos

Congratulations! Well done! :)

Thank you all. I managed to import them now. -And a big thanks to TamasCs for the nice gradients. :)

I don't know how/or if you can change the preferences/settings on your tablet, sorry.

I can't open the gradients. I get the message that it's not an affinityfile/document.

I'm out on a limb here, but can you do something in the preferences of the tablet?

If you click in the picture, you will get a double circle. That it's double indicates that it's selected. And thus can be altered by the sliders. To make more "handles" click in the picture. There will be a handle for each click. The active handel is the one with 2 circles.

I see. I don't think you can change part of a text(layer) like that. But when the text layer is selected, you can change to the move tool (V) and change the font without any disturbing colour. I think you have to have the selection going if you want to change just a part of the text. Maybe the workaround can be to make to text layers?

I don't know much about it either, but I found this in the Help menu: About the Field Blur filter Against a uniformly blurred image, one or more selection handles can be added, positioned and edited to control the extent of blurring at that handle position, i.e.the focus origin. Multiple areas of focus can therefore be created. Handles are independent of each other and can be repositioned and edited individually. This filter can be applied as a non-destructive, live filter. It can be accessed via the Layer menu, from the New Live Filter Layer category. Settings The following settings can be adjusted in the filter dialog: Global Radius—controls the intensity of the blur across the whole image. Type directly in the text box or drag the slider to set the value. Selected Handle Level—controls the amount of blurring at the selected handle. Decreasing the value brings the image under the handle increasingly into focus. Selected Handle Power—controls the extent of the transition out from the area under the handle between sharp focus and blurring. To add additional selection handles:Click on the page.

I'm not sure if this apply to Windows, or that I understand your question right, but on my Mac it's just H, no ctrl/cmd.

Chintan, your questions are so comprehensive/complex and almost impossible to answer in a forum. I would advise you to look at i.e Youtube and search for tutorials. Most tutorials for Photoshop will be useful. And the tutorials for Affinity are excellent. Scroll down to the Retouching section.

Stunning! What a beautiful scene with the morning fog making everything otherworldly. And with the sun painting the fields golden.

Also (beside a lot of practise) you can begin with the sliders at max and work your way against minimum. It's also very useful to learn about histogram.

Thanks! Brilliant! I haven't thought of that before. :)

I'm so, so sorry, I just thought the concept of a stuff-tool was funny to think about, not that you didn't know what the stuff tool is. (I don't know either) Please accept my apology!

I was thinking of getting on the Adobe-train, but then I discovered Affinity. The price and the video-tutorials convinced me. I've been learning a lot from the (very friendly) forum... THANKS! :)

On the context toolbar, when you have the paintbrush selected, you can press the icon on the right of the "more" button. It looks like two circles with a paintbrush on.

Funny. :D

I'm glad it worked out for you. :)

Happy easter!

There's more than one way to Rome. I find the suggestions here very ingenious and inspiring. What also could work is to draw a draft of the streets with the pen tool. Set the stroke to an appropriate width. Then fill in the blocks with various shapes with strokes. Then you can delete the draft of the streets. You would have to "delete" the end blocks by breaking the curves though.

I'm sorry that you have such difficulties, and that I couldn't help. I'm sure there's a logical explanation and that one of the saff can help. Does this happen to all the files, or is it just this one? Once this happened to me, I found that I had the some "odd" brush selected together with the inpaiting brush. Have you tried to reset the tools?

I'm sorry I couldn't help. So it didn't make any difference to tick the colour well? And did you make sure that it's a pixel layer you are working on, not an image layer or adjustment layer? Have you checked the context toolbar of the brush? Opacity, blendmode and so on?

The first document of the single beer can, did it originally have a mask of some kind?