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Or do you mean a mobile graphic tablet like an iPad? As far as I know, Wacom doesn't offer something like that. I personally have a Cintiq 16, so a graphic tablet with display, that needs to be connected to a computer. Wacom offers additional content to make it wireless, but I don't have that and can't say anything about it. But the Cintiq 16 is very good for it's price. I don't know the Wacom One. It is much cheaper, but I'm afraid possibly the screen will become scratched after a while. My Cintiq has a scratch resistant surface. I think it is better to think about such things before you buy a tablet.

I think, that will not work exactly the same way as in Illustrator. But you can create separate curve objects and then subtract or add them to the single characters, using boolean operations ("Geometry"), and you will get similar results. You can do that with the pencil tool too, if you want, and it will only take one additional step each time: the boolean operation to add or subtract the objects to each other.

I just tested it on my Dell XPS 8930 with i7, 8 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB RAM), and the start of each app needed 17-20 seconds. But I remember that the first starts after the update took much longer. I suppose that could have been caused by some new features, that must be registered first. But I can't judge it in your case.

I'm not sure about that, but I have a similar impression. The apps start a bit slower than the former versions. Most of all I noticed that a problem, I already had with Photo's Brush Editor in the last version, became much worse in some cases. Sometimes, if I changed something in the Brush Editor in the last version, it took very much time to compute the changes and the app was greyed out during that time. Now in some cases the app freezes and I have to shut it down. But that happens not so often. I'm still investigating this problem. Possibly I only have installed too many brushes and other stuff. I'm on Windows 10.

It would of course be nice if that could be done in AfPhoto too, but I don't think that it has a bigger priority to the majority of users. Serif is not such a big company as Adobe, which built it's market position over decades. So they have to make clever economic decisions to stay alive. Even because GIF-animations are a bit outdated since there are other animation formats like PNG-, SVG- and WebP-Animations that have a better quality (e.g. more than 256 colours). I think the most users will be interested in to be able to edit photos and paintings in a high quality, and Serif should focus on this first. All those special interest things would of course be nice, but not that important. Even because there are in fact many apps out there for tasks like that. You can e.g. create very good GIF-animations with GIMP and Krita, for free.

The Vector Flood Fill Tool is just for easy recoloring segments, the other one is to make easy boolean operations with segments. That's at least how I understand it.

OK, you're possibly right (I was afraid of that there might be at least one good reason), but that's a minority of users, isn't it? Should a default setting be made for such a minority of users? While many others seem to suffer?

@ lepr OK, I think it is not a problem that the Automatic Grid is a pixel-grid. The question is: Why is it a 1-pixel-grid? A pixel-grid may make sense, but who will need a 1-pixel-grid and for what? Pixels are in fact already a grid. Why should anyone mark the edges of the single pixels with grid lines?

I think, good solutions would be if everyone could create his own basic grid and set it to default or if Photo would remember the grid one used last, as other apps do. I don't use grids very often in Photo, but I think a 1x1 pixel grid doesn't make much sense. I suppose that happened by accident. On the other hand, it is not too heavy to simply choose a preset or even create a grid after creating a new document. So it is nothing at least I really suffer about. It was only a little bit confusing initially.

Try it with a bigger brush. The strength of the blur effect depends on the size of the brush in relation to the pixels.

Another workaround could possibly be to use Assets. Some time ago someone uploaded some Assets for measurements here on this forums to the Ressources section. Maybe you can find it there (or create your own). They can be simply dragged from the Assets panel, placed where and at what size you need it. And you can read the values in the "Transform" panel if the measure lines are selected.

I'm not sure if I correctly understand the topic, but could a screenruler be a workround? There are some small apps on the market that offer such an option. E.g. "PicPick" - even the free version (that also exists as portable app). Edit: Of course, the screen ruler will not zoom and move with your image, because it's an external software.

Yes, it is of course annoying that this bug still exists, but that's the current state. I only tried to offer you a workaround. And that worked for me very well - even it is of course a bit more circuitous as if it would work in AfPhoto directly. And if you have created your LUT, you can load and use it in AfPhoto as intended. The bug only concerns the export of the Master Channel to the cube file, it's not a general LUT-problem in AfPhoto. Probably this function is not on the top list of the developers to fix it, because it is not one of those functions that are important to the majority of users. I'm sure they are busy, but a software like AfPhoto is a very complex thing. I personally use GIMP anyway for a lot of handicraft. Even it is not really a serious substitute for AfPhoto, it has some functions that AfPhoto and other image editors doesn't offer. So GIMP - especially in combination with G'MIC - is a very good supplement.

Could it be a problem with the mouse? I had similar problems several times during the last years. My mouse was damaged in that cases and often made double clicks if I made a single click. And if you double click on a text frame with the move tool, it will change to the text tool.

There existed a Workbook for earlier versions of Publisher, that is very good. I purchased one shortly before Serif stopped selling it. I think it was an economic decision. Maybe you can get one somewhere. But I'm not sure if the downloadable content, that belongs to the lessons in the book, is still available. To be honest, I didn't really use it very often, because I learned layouting about 20 years ago with Quark XPress and also worked with InDesign for years, and Publisher is not so different. But I think the book is very helpful for beginners. Edit: As I did a quick Google-search, I found at least some german versions of the book on eBay and Amazon. I think there should be some english ones somewhere too.

Of course. PNG is a raster graphics (pixels) format, not a vector format. So it is no longer vector. Export it as SVG, and it will stay vector. I like it anyway. But as GarryP already said, you should remove the thin outlines.

I was afraid you would say that. What about trying GIMP with G'MIC for this task, as I mentioned above. The LUTs can be used in AfPhoto and other apps too. You can edit target image with AfPhoto, export it, open the source image in GIMP, simply drag the target image on it as a second layer and then apply the filter. For me that worked pretty good.

I already had a similar problem with the Levels Adjustment and LUTs in Affinity Photo 1, a long time ago (LUTs created from adjustment...). As far as I remember, the Master channel adjustment wasn't inherited by the LUT-Export. As an Admin told me, it was a bug. I'm not sure about it, but possibly it isn't fixed yet. I can't remember if it is the only filter that causes this problem. Possibly it will work with the Gradation Curves. But without warranty. Edit: as an additional hint - I used to create LUTs for a long time using GIMP with the free G'MIC-Plugin, that has some filters concerning LUTs. G'MIC also exists as 8bf-Plugin for Photoshop and Affinity Photo, but it is not fully compatible with AfPhotos layer system, as I experienced. Most filters also work with AfPhoto, but a few don't, like this one. In G'MIC, there is a filter called "CLUTs from after/before Layers" in the "Colors" category, that is very useful to create LUTs from two images, loaded as layers - one in it's initial condition, one in the final condition. Edit: and another additional hint. There is also a filter called "Color Presets" in the same category, that already contains a huge amount of very good LUTs. This filter should also work with AfPhoto, I think.

@firstdefence OK, I understand that I didn't understand. 😊

I'm not sure if I correctly understand the problem, but if you want to create a seamless pattern, there are different ways to make it - depending on the pattern you want to create. The usual way to create a seamless pattern is to cut the basic texture or image in it's vertical and horizontal middle into four pieces, so that you get four tiles. Then interchange the two tiles on top, so that their outer edges meet each other in the middle of the document. Merge that two layers to one. Then do the same steps with the two tiles at the bottom. Then interchange the top tile with the bottom tile. These steps can be substituted by using AfPhotos function "New Pattern Layer From selection " and then dragging the edges to the inside of the document. Now that the inner edges are on the outsides and the seam is in the middle. Use the Clone Tool to retouche the seam away. If you used the "New Pattern Layer From selection " function, you will have lost the endless pattern functionality, but you can easily use this function again to get it back. I used to create patterns in GIMP for years. GIMP has some functions that make it easier in some cases. E.G. there is a function called "seamless Tiles" (if I remember it right - in german it is called "Nahtlos kacheln"). It works pretty well in many cases, but that depends on the texture you use. You can also use the "Resynthesizer" Plugin for GIMP. That allows seamless tiling too, but more complex and often in a better way. But it needs longer to compute the pattern. If I misunderstood the topic, simply ignore me.

If you have an object, e.g. a rectangle or a label you placed as a separate layer (e.g. the label you want to wrap around the cylinder), and you activate the Mesh Warp Tool, the object will get a frame around it. You can add nodes to that frame. E.g. if you double click in the middle of the top of the frame, you will get a node there. If you drag that node, it will warp the object. Every node has handles, like Beziér Curves have. You can use them for modelling the objects too. Every node will also create an axis with an opposite node on the other side of the object. If you select both, you can drag both at the same time, to warp both sides of the object simultaneously. Just test it out and you will understand. Those are the basics about it. For closer informations follow anto's links.

Hi km.au! Probably it is already open somewhere, so you don't see it pop up. Just take a look at the panels that are on screen, if you have checked "Text Styles" in "Windows".

If you want to place the rectangles precisely, use the "Transform" panel: first click on the layer of one of the rectangles, then enter the values into the fields in the "Transform" panel. By the way: that the rectangles are on different layers is the precondition for to be able to move the rectangles separately. You could also create rectangles by dragging rectangle selections and fill them with colour on the same layer. But in that case they would be one object and can't be moved or handled in another way (rotated, scaled...) separately.

No problem, that's why we are here.

That's not a bad idea. But it will not be the same anyway, I'm afraid. But that might be individual. Another point is that many people out there don't respect art that was created on a computer, because they think that the computer did the most work. Even the creative work.