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In the "View" menu under "Studio".
You need to select the text and then set the "Language" to "English" (or whatever you need). -
Have you set the language for the spell checking in the Character Studio Panel?
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Maybe the forum doesn't like Alpha Channels? Have you tried a png without transparency?
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I tried it several times typing u+20bf (for Bitcoin sign) in Arial, but it didn't work the first times. Now after several tries, it suddenly works. Don't really know why. I changed in the meantime to my Verdana, that doesn't contain a Bitcoin symbol, but it worked with the Rubel sign. After that also the Arial showed the Bitcoin sign. Possibly a bug?
I'm on Windows 10, by the way.
Edit: Don't forget to type the Plus sign: "u+20bf" then "alt u" (without + and even without space).
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If you are talking about Publisher, I suppose you know that there are options in the "View" menu to hide guides and grids, also using short keys (Ctrl+; and Ctrl+, on Windows). As far as I know, there is no short key to hide all at once, except the Preview Mode (Short key Ctrl+Shift+w). In case of the Preview Mode, it will still hide guides and grids if you create a new document. But at the moment you drag a new guideline from the Ruler, the Preview Mode will be deactivated and guides and grids will become visible. The same of course if you click on the Preview Mode button or press the short key (Short key Ctrl+Shift+w).
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From the Plus range, I only checked out Photo Plus years ago, on Windows XP, as far as I remember. Unfortunately, even I liked it, it was a bit slow on my computer. I also worked with Quark XPress 3 - 5), Photoshop (5 - CC), Freehand, Illustrator, CorelDraw and InDesign. And also GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. I also used Photo Impact for some years, that had some fine features, especially for GIF-animations, but I didn't like its layer management, as far as I remember. Somewhere in the 1990es I also learned Pagemaker for a short time, while I studied at the Art College. But I can't really remember how it worked. At the moment I'm very glad to have Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher. I still work with GIMP and Inkscape too, but the Affinity apps, besides ArtRage 6, that is my fave for painting, are the ones I work with the most time. Damn cool software! Hope it will never go the same way as Adobe, Quark and Corel did.
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Is that a folder on your local hard disc or on an extern media (extern hard disc, USB-Stick, Cloud, local network...)?
Affinity often has problems loading data saved on extern media, as far as I know. Never had that problem myself, but often read about it here.
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If you simply want to create a house that consists of a square and a triangle, why don't you simply draw a square shape and a triangle shape and add them to each other with the Geometry function "Add"? You see, there are many simple ways to do the job.
Edit: One additional hint. If you hold the Shift key, the Nodes will snap to a horizontal/vertical axis while you drag it. You can also drag more than one node at a time that way, if you first selected them holding Shift too. It is the same with shapes if you drag them with the Move Tool.
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19 minutes ago, V_rob said:
Of course !!!
Thanks a lot!
But a way to do it more simply would be great in a future version
Have a great day
You could select the Node Tool, then select single nodes and enter precise values into the coordinate fields of the "Transform" Studio Panel. This should be an easy and precise way to do what you want.
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I don't know this package and how the Assets are meant to be used, but you can e.g. simply invert black clouds to white ones by using the Adjustment Layer Filter "Invert". And you can recolour them with the Adjustment Layer Filter "Recolour". Be aware in that case, that to change only the hue of a black cloud will have no effect, You also need to lighten it to grey to be able to recolour it. You can do that with the bottom slider of the "Recolour" Filter.
You can also apply black clouds to a background using a Blend Mode like "Subtract" (fine tuning it with the Opacity Slider), so that they will become white. Just check it out.
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There is something that confuses me in your video. At first, it seems that you have opened two instances of Affinity Photo. I didn't know that this is even possible. I'm on Windows too, by the way.
The second thing is that you obviously have selected a Brush Tool. So it is surprising to me that you can move your signature with it. In my experience that should only work with the Move Tool (the second one from top of the Tool Bar - that one with the Arrow Symbol), as carl123 already said.
That's all a mystery to me.
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To compensate the spacing, I would first select the whole text and then adjust a global Tracking, that almost fits good (Studio Panel "Positioning and Transform"). Then I would do individual Tracking line by line. But take care that the single characters don't overlap or are aparted too much. Also take care that the Trackings aren't too different, especially consecutive lines. In combination with a good Hyphenation Setting, this should work.
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If you want to neutralize the dark areas, you could also duplicate the layer, convert the top layer to greyscales and apply the blend mode "Subtract" to it. Haven't tested it, but I think it should work. As an alternative you could also invert the greyscale top layer and apply the blend mode "Luminosity" to it. As I said, I didn't test it, so without warranty, but something like that should work. And you can finetune the result with the Opacity slider.
However, there isn't just one way of doing it.
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At least if you want to give your work to a print shop, you should be aware that they can only print what they get from you. If they print images that look very well on your bright display, they will of course not look as well in print. They will look darker. Parts of your images will possibly sink in black. So you should better calibrate your Hardware as good as possible to get good results. Think of that printing is expensive and can't be reverted.
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Doing it the way you suggested works, but because I'm using positional jitter and the tiles are not supposed to touch or overlap this involves a lot of trial and error. I have to make hundreds of rows of these tiles and creating them this way would be too time consuming.
You could create guidelines for the tiles or simply use a grid.
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You could try the following (maybe a little nonorthodox): pick the colour of the lighter areas and fill a separate layer with it. Place that layer below the image layer. Open the Mix Modes on that image layer (Cogwheel symbol on the top right of the Layers Panel) and drag the left curve point of the left window vertically down as long as you need. This should make the darker areas let the background shine through.
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Hi All Media Lab!
If you mean an outlined circle, it should work by first creating a shape circle, as you did, then open the Contour flip out menu from the context bar of the brush tool or the Stroke Studio Panel and click on the brush symbol. Adjust the stroke width you want. To remove the fill of the shape, open the Fill flip out menu or the Colour Studio Panel and click on the struck through circle symbol .
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In my experience, the Dynamic "Rotation Jitter" with "Random" should cause this minimal rotation that is shown in your Photoshop-Sample. But 83% may be too much. Think about: if you rotate a square 50%, you will see no difference to a square that isn't rotated or that is rotated 100%. Something like 10% should be enough, I think.
That the start point of the second line is connected with the end point of the first line may be caused by that you hold the Shift key. If you click on one point and then click on another, holding Shift, you will get a straight line, as far as I remember. So click without holding Shift to start the second line.
The Shape Jitter only works with Basic Brushes, in my experience.
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1 hour ago, Artbuck said:
Apparently I gave you more credit than your due. If you know your program well and are proficient at it you should be able to answer the question without all the screen shot baloney. Just don't answer if you don't know, simple !
If you are asking for help, you should be a little more friendly and cooperative. R C-R knows the Affinity Apps very well, but he is not a soothsayer. If only a part of an image document is pixelated, there must be some reason in the way you edit the image. To assess what possibly causes this result, we need more information. E.g. what and how many layers and sub layers are in the Layers Panel. I don't think that it is a bug or some kind of issue, because usually the program doesn't distinguish a sky from the rest of the image.
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51 minutes ago, Rottcodd said:
My query is so simple I can't find an answer or video anywhere! All I want to do is make a selection, copy it, paste it and move it to a different location in the same image - duplicating it, if you like.
I make the selection
Press CTRL C
Press CTRL V (new layer created)
Select the move tool
Place the little hand on the selection, hold the left mouse button, drag and .....
The whole image moves rather that the selection. It doesn't matter which layer I'm on - same result! Is it me! It seems so simple but I must be missing something fundamental to Affinity Photo. Either that, or I've a software fault.
Any help would be GRATEFULLY received! It's driving me mad 🤪
If the cursor shows up as a small hand, you haven't selected the Move Tool. The Move Tool is the one with the Arrow symbol.
The Tool with the Hand symbol is just to move the canvas on the desk. It doesn't have any effect on the document.
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1 minute ago, tudor said:
For Reset.
On macOS, the canvas can be rotated using the trackpad, or using Cmd+scroll wheel. On Windows I presume Ctrl+scroll wheel should work. All these shortcuts can be enabled/disabled in Preferences.
Yes, Ctrl+Scroll wheel works on Windows. I forgot that. I prefer the Modifier key + dragging Stylus/Mouse method anyway, because you can reach the degree of rotating you want quicker and easier and even very precisely this way. Rotating with the Scroll wheel is very slow, in my opinion. Rotating in steps with short keys is okay, I think, but it is a little bit slow too.
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6 minutes ago, tudor said:
On macOS the default shortcut is Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-R.
Ah okay. For Reset? Or for Rotate Right?..
I like my customized settings. They are very handy and quick. But I still would prefer if it would be possible to rotate with a modifier key and dragging the stylus/mouse like in some other apps. Hope that will come in future versions of Affinity.
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By the way, this Rotation feature is often very helpful for drawing, painting and retouching. It is only a View option, it will not change anything in the document. I'm not sure at the moment if there are standard shortkeys for it. Probably you caused your "problem" with a gesture ore so. I created my own shortkeys for it [(Shift+)">" for one step to the right, "<" for one to the left and Shift+Ctrl+"<" for Reset]. That works pretty good. I'm on Windows. So you may replace Ctrl by Cmd.


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But you see "Character"? The panel must be somewhere on your screen, because there is a hook, that says it is activated. Inside this panel there is a section called "Language".
If you can't see any panels on your screen, you possibly have hit the TAB key by accident. Press it again and the panels will reappear.