Gianni Becattini

I have the same problem and I am not able to fix it. In mac, the three red, yellow and green buttons disappeared and don't want to come back. In Photo the works normally. Thanks Gianni

Wonderful, thanks!

I understand that this depends on Artboards. But can I go back from an Artboard-design to a non-Artboard-design? Thanks

Normally I crop the canvas by using from Designer the "Edit in Photo" command. It works and I am satisfied of that. Then I go back in Designer. But now I have a Designer file that, when I pass to Photo, gets the crop tool disabled (greyed). Why? Thanks

I never had this kind of trouble until today, after updating to 1.9.1. It crashes very often with existing files. If I try again, eventually it goes OK at the second or third try. Any suggestion?

Thanks, I already did it. I believe that the perspective filter and the smart objects limitations are the worst part of AP that do not allow to leave Photoshop or Illustrator. Hope that they will add soon.

I have a simple rectangular image and apply it a simple black outline. It seems that the distort filter works only to the image but not to the outline. Am I doing something wrong or is a limiti of AP? Thanks

I like be fair: the books arrived today. 14 days for the delivery in today world are a long time... but eventually arrived. The are very nice, I recommend you them.

That's is exactly my case... @firstdefence: I am not sure I understood the purpose of what you said. You say that when you had the warp filter you would not to require PS, right?

Hi Friends! Thanks for your help. @GarryP: I tried but my skills are not enough to do that in that way. @carl123 : templates give some extra functionality that I did non understood? @Ray S.: I did not discover that by myself, very interesting indeed. But AP imports the warping effect as a perspective distortion, so it does not work (not by chance the example is for a "flat" book...) I am not a graphics expert but i was a software developer. It seems that converting the mesh warp tool in a non destructive filter should not be so difficult and would greatly extend the capability of AP.

I have often the need to produce images like the one in attachment. With Photoshop it is very easy. I have a template where the two pages are smart objects. I just change the smart objects with two rectangular page and it is done. I tried in many way to do it with Affinity Suite (even the beta) but I could not succeed. Any idea? Thanks

Thanks for your comment, I would not to be unkind. I am the managing director of a technology company and, yes, I know even too well the problems of today. But in our Company we try to demonstrate what I hope is some respect toward our Customers, informing them BEFORE and asking the money AFTER. Serif is doing the opposite... My hopes are for a company that is not so customer-indifferent like Adobe. One is enough... It is not a big problem for me, I can live without the books.

Thanks for reply. I don't use it very much, but also if I need it only seldom, I need to keep a Photoshop license. Hope that smart objects will be one day implemented.

OK, but 3 or 4 weeks are however really too much. My suggestions: tell honestly in advance the delivery time when the user place the order; as Apple itself does, charge the credit card only when you ship, not immediately But perhaps you did not need my suggestions. It is a point of fairness. You have or do not have it, disregard the virus. I sincerely hoped in a Company not so similar to Adobe...

I see an automatic answer from Serif support that states "we know we are late, allow two extra week for shipment". I find this behavior really unfair. They should have told me that they were late at the moment of the order (surely they knew). Serif is late shipping the books but they seem very quick taking money from my credit card. I believe myself as a supporter of Serif but this is not a nice commercial practice.

If I have correctly understood, the mesh warp tool is only destructive, right? So, if I want to modify the warping (or if I want to apply the same warping to another image), must I to start over. OK? And this only in Photo, because Designer has not it, right? That seems to be a huge limit. Thanks.

Thanks for your kind attention. This file was rather simple and I just copied it by hand to recreate a new one in AD. It is not a professional approach but enough for me...

Here are two samples. They come from commercial templates. All of them have the same problems, so with AD we are not able to use them. Thanks 3554-1.ai 3554-1 1.ai

Hello, I am trying to import a drawing from Illustrator to AD. I have tried and tried (previous versions, pdf...) but the shadows are imported always as a full black (see attach). Am I doing something wrong or it is just so? Have I to manually redesign it? Thanks

I am using version 1.8.6 and the problem seems still there. It seems that white or black it is the same (they make the effect apply). Only transparent make the effect not to apply. Am I doing something wrong?

I am sorry I was not clear. I fully agree and nobody asks that a Company supports its products for ever. But my case is different: I am using the original hardware and the original operating systems. Adobe does not make any longer possible the activation process that fails without a reason and says "contact Adobe" (that does nothing to solve the problem). According my opinion that is not by chance but a precise decision. For some of them I could find a pirate copy... to do what I payed for (and for a "perpetual license", by the way...) From my side, I decided to start canceling Adobe licenses in my Company.... I am evaluating if it is possible to use instead Serif products. Up to now I already switched globally to Affinity Publisher and will do the same for Affinity Photo. The only really missing function for us is "select subject". We will keep a CC license just for editing old documents. For Designer I am still thinking but it seems possible, because we never pass outside the documents that we use only inside our publications or inside PowerPoint. So the ai format is not critical in our case. Furthermore, when you can forget years of practice with Adobe, I find the Affinity UI in general more modern, logic and intuitive and hope that they in the future correct the oddities and the problems that they still have, so as Affinity products have also improvements that we too often forget.

I understand that this is off topic. Please ban me if you think so, but this question was really fun. I still have everything: CDs, DVDs and keys. My licenses are still on the Adobe site. I have the original boxes and invoices. Simply the products cannot be activated. You could say: what should it be for? They are old and cannot any longer be useful. Besides that that is a matter of mine, I am a little, stupid Mac collector. I own more than 30 of them and I should like to equip them with the original software that I expensively BOUGHT... At first they said that I had stolen the software. But how do you explain that I am on your web site as a regular user? Ehm, ehm... perhaps you... I had a very long interaction with them but at the end I... simply lost. In Italy we have thousand of laws but no Law and a legal suite against them would cost an unreasonable amount. The point is not my insignificant problem, but the fact that big software houses have no respect at all of their Customers and, albeit a newbie user, I think I feel that Serif/Affinity is somewhat different.

I understand the problems, however I sincerely appreciate Affinity products, especially for their spirit behind. I am a rather particular case: I am the managing director of a technology company. I am not a professional graphic designer but I personally manage all the graphics of my Company with some results. It is something like an hobby, started because no professional could meet what I expected from her/him. I have no budget problems for the software and I obviously pay the license for the Adobe suite. But since I have the Affinity suite, I try to use only that. And in some way, at the end of the day, I could do everything that I wanted. I understand that for a professional it can be in some way expensive to have a less powerful tool, but from my point of view Affinity has a very big potential and I believe right to encourage this Company in its adventure. Furthermore, every time I had any relationship with Adobe, I finished angry... I also have some old (payed) CS suite: they no longer work and no one in Adobe would help me.Not so important but... shows total customers contempt. On the contrary, any time that I need something about Affinity tools I place a question here and I immediately get a friendly, kind and competent reply. Not bad at all.

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I am trying to draw on the layer mask but as World View said "the rectangle doesn't appear on the mask. It gets its own layer, masking off EVERYTHING, not just the layer on the mask." In AI it is very simple: I select the mask and I can write on it normally. What am I doing wrong?