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I never really noticed it before, but yes, it's a bit confusing and impractical. Also in GIMP for example you can in- and decrease the brushsize in steps of 1% or, with another shortkey, in steps of 10%. Even this second opportunity is a thing I would like to have in Photo too. But anyway the adjustment of the brushsize even with shortcuts should be reliable and predictable. Don't know if it is a bug or an occasion for a feature request. As an additional annotation: to get predictable in- or decreasement of the brushsize you can at least click into the input field of the brushsize and use the arrow keys to up- and downscale the brushes. Not the most convenient way, but it works.
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I mainly use ArtRage for painting. It has its own freely positionable and rotatable reference panels that are always on top, except you drag the brush across it - so that it doesn't disturb when you paint. So I never used something like pureref (even it sounds interesting) and can't say much about stuff like that and if it is even intended to copy images from it to other programs. That it doesn't work with Photo could possibly have to do with colour profiles, but I'm not sure about that. How is the transparency displayed in pureref? Also as checkerboard? Edit: By the way, also to copy and paste an image with transparencies from ArtRage to Photo works fine. I unfortunatly don't have much more programs to test it out.
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Hi 0xC0000054! Thanx for this hint, but unfortunatly it still doesn't seem to work. I don't know with which version I tested it first, but it always caused error messages. Now, after I removed the old version, I downloaded the version 2.9.7, unzipped it, opened the Default Folder in Explorer from the Preferences of Affinity Photo, copied the 8bf-file and the gmic-folder into it so that it looked like in the installation guide on the G'MIC-site. "Allow unknown plugins to be used" was still active. And I restarted Affinity Photo. G'MIC and "Input/Output Settings for G'MIC QT" are shown in the "Filters"-menu under "Plugins", but they are greyed out, even if a raster image is opened.
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Unintended outlines
iconoclast replied to Gort's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
It's mysterious to me too. But at the end, how does it finally appear on the website? Have you tested it? Maybe it could be helpful to upload the file here, so that we can take a closer look on it. -
I have no experiences with pureref, but I copied from GIMP to Photo some minutes ago, and it worked without problems. What kind of software is pureref? I suggest the problem might be caused more on that side. Does it work with other programs (for example from pureref to GIMP, Krita, paint.net or so)?
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Unintended outlines
iconoclast replied to Gort's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
For me it looks not really like outlines, but like the background bar is looking through. Don't know why it does only at around 100% zoom. Could have to do with the pixels of the zoom are not fitting to the real pixels of the image, so that they appear blurred. But you could possibly solve the problem by overlapping the segments a bit. -
One additional annotation: you can also add pattern layers to the Assets panel. That are layers that will always appear as end- and seamless patterns if you place them on your image and drag it as you want. That is pretty cool. But in this case it will only work with afphoto files or with Assets you added from an opened document, not with JPEGs, PNGs and so on. Just as an additional hint.
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Select your text, doubleclick in the "Textstyles" panel on the Bulletstyle you want. Navigate in the "Edit Text Style" panel to the entry "Bullets and Numbering". There is the entry "Text". On the right there is a button called "More" that you should click on. A small panel appears, in which you can select the font and the character you want.
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Sometimes the discussion about an issue causes much more work than you could possibly spare if what you are longing for would work. But anyway, in this case it might possibly be a bug that there is no "X" in the MAC version to close single images, like there is on Windows. So why don't you report it as a bug or as a "Feature Request & Suggestion"? I don't think that we will find another solution at this place.
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I don't really know why the pencil tool's cursor always is displayed as a pencil symbol. But this is in fact the way also other programs handle this, as far as I know. Possibly because the pencil tool is much more focused on drawing curves (pathes/vectors) than the vectorbrush. As far as I see, you can't draw strokes with certain brushes. You only can assign brushes to the drawn curves after you drawed the curve. This could also be the reason why there is no shape changing cursor. Because this tool initially always draws vectors only, no textured brushes (which depend on pixels). Even though this vectors can have different thicknesses.
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But the app would ask if it really shall be closed down, if there is unsaved data. Could of course cause annoying moments anyway, but I think it is reasonable. And unfortunately you can't have everything. At least there is the opportunity to close the image from the file menu. So this shouldn't really be a bigger problem.
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Shortcuts
iconoclast replied to TimSchüssler's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
The only way I can recreate this is with an undocked panel overlapping the bottom of the undocked layers panel. Could it be that the panels are not docked? -
I haven't any experiences with this filter, but I'm afraid it is limited to what you see there. Possibly you will find some kind of plugin that can do what you want. Or you could even give the free GIMP a try. It offers a huge amount of filters for all kinds of fiddling, but is a little limited for professional image editing (no CMYK support, no adjustment layers...). It also offers a filter called "Displace"(menu "Filters", "Map"), which is a displacement map filter. It offers a little more functionality than the one in Photo. You can also adjust the horizontal and the vertical offset separately. But I didn't test it myself. So without warranty. GIMP is cool software, but for me it's an additional program to Photo, not realy an alternative. Edit: I would recommend the Windows version of GIMP. The Mac version is not so well developed.
