iconoclast

Yes, Inkscape is cool. But, as in Affinity Designer, I miss some options there too. E.g. a professional colour management with CMYK-support. So it is a very cool app to have, but it is not really a substitute to Designer.

As a workaround, you could use Inkscape (free and open source) to roughen the vectors. There are functions called "Add Nodes" and "Jitter Nodes" in the "Extensions" menu under "Modify Path", you can create similar results with. The filter "Fractalize" (in the same menu) could be worth a try too - instead or in addition to "Jitter Nodes".

Hi Adron! Try Ctrl+J to duplicate (Power Duplicate). Or if you need more duplicates at once, click on what you want to duplicate and press "Enter" to open the Move/Duplicate dialogue panel. Enter the Values you need and press OK.

Eine Methode möchte ich noch nachschieben. Wenn Du ein Bild geöffnet hast, das Du mit einem transparenten Rahmen versehen willst, erstelle eine neue, leere Ebene darüber. Ziehe diese Ebene im Panel "Ebenen" auf das Vorschaubildchen der Ebene darunter (Bildebene), um es darin zu "nesten". Nun kannst Du mit deckender Farbe die Bereiche des Bildes wieder frei malen. Das ist ähnlich wie bei einer Ebenenmaske. Eine sehr handliche und intuitive Methode. Um an der Maske zu malen, muss sie aber auch immer angeklickt sein. Noch ein Hinweis. Damit der Rand im Resultat wirklich transparent und nicht einfach nur weiß ist, musst Du im Menü "Document" immer "Transparenter Hintergrund" auswählen. Jedenfalls in Photo. In Designer musst Du das in den "Dokumenteneinstellungen" (Menü "Datei") unter "Farbe" auswählen.

Hi Simone! Da gibt es verschiedene Möglichkeiten. Wenn Du z.B. einen Rahmen hast, der aus einem deckenden Rahmen und transparenter Innenfläche besteht, dann kannst Du ihn einfach als Ebene über das Bild legen und im Panel "Ebenen" oben den Mischmodus "Radieren" (der unterste im Menü) wählen.

In my experience, it is a classic problem that small hidden selections cause such problems, because you can only paint on areas that are inside this selection, even you can't see the selection. I remember very well how often such tiny hidden selections drove me mad in my early Photoshop-Days. I'm not sure if it is the problem in this case, but as it seems, it is only a problem with one certain document. So I think that a restart of the computer will probably not solve the problem. At least it would be easy and worth it to check out if there is a hidden selection.

Could it be a hidden selection somewhere?

Simply draw a vertical line. Then hit "Enter" to start the dialogue "Move/Duplicate". Enter the values you need ("Horizontal" and "Number of Duplicates") and click "OK". Then repeat the same with a horizontal line and "Vertical" duplicates. If you set the cursor into the "Number of Duplicates"-field, you can also increase/decrease the number of duplicates with the Arrow Buttons on the keyboard. I Think, this is the easiest way.

Hi Bartman! There may be different ways. My way was to open the app. Then I got the notification, that there is an update available and asked me if I want to install it. I clicked "OK". That's all. Do it for each app separately.

The easiest way to get a vector outline for a raster object would be a selection of its contour that gets converted into a path/curve/vector. Unfortunately Affinity can't even do this, as far as I know. But e.g. GIMP can.

Hi Ricardo! Ja, Vektor-Pinsel funktionieren nur in Designer und der Designer Persona, Rasterpinsel nur in AfPhoto und der Photo Persona. Wenn du also alle drei Programme hast (Publisher, Photo und Designer) werden installierte Pinsel auch in den jeweiligen Personas installiert. Sollte aber wohl auch so funktionieren wenn man nur die zwei Apps hat, glaube ich. In den Personas findets du die Pinsel dann in den Pinselpanelen. Die meisten Vektor-Pinsel sind übrigens nicht wirklich Vektor-Pinsel. Es sind Rastergrafiken, die nur an Vektoren ausgerichtet werden. Die Pinselstriche sind also nicht verlustfrei skalierbar.

There is an option called "Import Palette" in the burger menu of the "Swatches" panel.

You could also try the free G'MIC plugin. There is a filter called Grid (Cartesian) in the category Arrays & Tiles, that does almost what you are looking for. This filter segments the text on the text level into squares. Between the squares, it creates transparent gaps, so that the black background is visible there. The edges of the text will be a bit greyish, but you only need to fiddle a little bit with increasing contrast and brightness to finally get a clean result. If you don't know the G'Mic plugin, as I said, it is free (open source) and very recommendable. It contains more than 600 additional filters. And many of them are very good.

This is not unusual. As far as I remember, the same happens with the most applications if you install a new one. The most people e.g. only have one image editing app installed, and they will want to open their image files with it. So these apps change the "Open with" setting of your OS. Its a kind of service. But the files themselves will not be changed. It is only that your OS will open them with that certain app. And as MikeTO already said,you can easily change that the way you want.

Hi Jinnyjinny! Place the dog head on top, select both shapes and try "Geometry - "Subtract". If this doesn't work, probably the dog head shape is not closed.