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I would say, that the tree looks like the wind is coming from the right.

It's a little bit better. But I wouldn't let the rain fall exactly vertical. Of course even not horizontal, but with a slight angle. To suggest a little bit of wind, what would correlate with the cloudy sky and the tree in the background. It would even look more dynamic and create more suspense. And I would add more than one layer of rain, because there would be more rain between the spectator and the paramedics in the background than between them and the people in the foreground. And it doesn't make sense, that the falling rain appears as blurred shadow stripes, while the bouncing rain appears as bright drops. Hope you understand what I mean.

I'm still not lucky with the lighting. The fireman on the left is lightened by the lamp in front of him. That's almost OK, I think. Only the shadow on his back could be darker. But the woman that stands a little bit on the left behind him is lightened from the opposite side. That doesn't make sense. Even because the lighting on the guy directly behind her (the one with the umbrella) anon comes from a different side. And the raindrops irritate me too. They would be lightened by the lamp too, and wouldn't be so bright. And they wouldn't be only around the umbrella and the roof of the ambulance. Rain would cover the whole scene as directional blurred stripes. They would bounce of the umbrella and the ambulance, but from the people around too. And if there is no falling rain, there wouldn't be raindrops bouncing of from anything. I think, I would create much less rain, because it would also make the ground and the people wet. That would result in much more contrast in lights and shadows.

Does disabling "Standard Ligatures" in the "Typographie" panel help?

Yes, that's a part of the problem on Windows too. Another part of the problem is that the screen resolutions are much higher today. But I don't understand all technical coherences. It is simply progress, and that is of course good. E.G. that we don't need to ruin our eyes with old CRT-monitors any longer. But on the other hand many of the beloved programs we had great times with, are useless today, and there aren't always real substitutes for it. Yes, you are right, it's another topic.

OK, that's good news. For me as a Windows user it is a very painful fact since Windows 7 that a lot of my good old software doesn't work any longer or only very bumpy (e.G. holes in background textures or missing objects in games). I understand why, but it hurts that I can't use this programs any longer.

To make photos look more "graphic", usually the Threshold (hope it's the right name, in german it is called "Schwellenwert") would be the right choice for b/w. For coloured images Posterization. But I think you don't want it to be so much graphic. Even Sharpening filters can make photos look more graphic. E.G. Unsharp mask. And another thing: I don't know if it may be the actual cause for your problems (I'm not very experienced with Macs), but even if your computer works good with old software, it possibly doesn't with new software, because the system requirements are much higher for new software today. E.G. the software I used years ago was created for 32-Bit-systems. The software of today is almost developed for 64-Bit-Systems. And the requirements for RAM were much lower that days. I invested in a Gaming PC for that reason, some years ago.

You mean that the top and the bottom of the image is cutted? I think it is because the workspace for each page is limited. Otherwise the image would also cover parts of the previous and next pages on the rows above and below. And that wouldn't make sense. That's at least my interpretation of what I see. The short key on Windows in fact is Shift+Ctrl+W. Just tested it to be safe.

Hi christerdk! Did you already try Shift+Ctrl+W (on Windows) or (probably) Shift+Cmd+W (on Mac)?

It's a good alternative to prevent opening the context menu by accident. Good hint, thank you!

You mean the "Transform Origin", that is initially located in the middle of the object/rectangle? Yes, that seems to work too. But it is important that "Snap to Shape key Points" is activated in the "Snapping" menu.

In my version 1, there are the same tooltips in the status bar as in version 2. And yes, I meant the double arrow, not the hungarian fashist symbol. The arrowcross appears if I hover over the rectangle, not the node. And if I press both mouse keys on the node. By the way, this two mouse keys thing doesn't make me verry lucky, because it's fiddly. Ctrl + left click causes "Rotate" on Windows. Possibly it is different on Mac. I don't know.

Yes, that makes sense. Mathematics confused me ever since I can remember.

Ah, I see, I need to hold both mouse keys at the same time to drag without scaling. That seems to work. It's a bit tricky, because, if you press the right mouse key a split second before the left one, the context menu opens. But anyway, this seems to be the solution. Many thanx for this hint! But why "Translate"?

In my case it is the same in version 1. As I use the german translation for my GUI, the status bar says "Rechte Maustaste = Übersetzen" ("Right Mouse Key = Translate"). But that only appears if I hover over the node. And it opens the context menu if I click the node. If I hold Shift, the double cursor appears, if I hover over the node. And if I hold Ctrl, the rotation cursor appears. So far all seems to work as it should. But if I only drag the node without holding anything but the left mouse key, the rectangle always gets scaled, if I drag the node. There seems to be no way to prevent that. Edit: If I don't hold anything but the left mouse key, when I drag the node, the double arrow cursor doesn't appear, even it scales the rectangle. Was that what you was asking for?

The Point Transform Tool. As shown in the GarryP's video above, with the same visible settings, as far as I can see.

No, if I hold the Ctrl-key, the rectangle gets rotated if I drag the node. The entry you highlighted is "to translate" (whatever that means). For that, I have to hold the right mouse key, as the status bar says. But that only opens the context menu. As far as the status bar says, I don't have to hold anything but the left mouse key to drag the node without scaling the rectangle. But that doesn't work. Possibly a bug?

Sorry if I slide into this topic, but that doesn't work that way in my case. If I try it, the rectangle allways gets upscaled. As far as I understand, to scale it with the Point Transform Tool, I usually would have to hold the Shift key. But it does it even without the Shift key. And the cursor doesn't change to the Arrowcross-symbol if I hover over or even click on the node. Am I missing any settings to prevent the scaling? I'm on Windows 10 with Designer 2.2.1.

In case of Image layers it needs a little more time on first click, because the layer must be rasterized first. Possibly it is the same or takes even more time with PDfs, because PDF is not an image file format, but a sort of container format that can contain images, text (as vector data) and vector graphics.

In my case it works pretty good. But I'm on Windows 10. So I can't say if there is a bug on the Mac version.

The Clone Tool works the same way as the Clone Tool in Photoshop does. Even the handling is the same (Alt key to pick up pixels, then release Alt and click to the target point). Take a look at the settings in the Tool Bar too. E.G. in most cases "Aligned" is the best choice. Concerning the Eraser, I think there is no big difference too. But I would probably prefer to use a mask for it, because it is a non-destructive way to erase. You can always restore everything you erased by painting with black colour on the mask, if you repaint it with white colour. I'm not sure at the moment if that would work with the Eraser Tool too (as it does e.G. in GIMP). But you should be able to redo erasing with the Redo Brush. So there are different options to do what you want to.

Hi Walt and thanks for the tip! I was afraid that I did something wrong. Strange enough, I just opened my post to edit it and did nothing else, but it seems to work now. Concerning the second point: I got a Mail from Serif some days ago that claimed that the problem would be solved with the next update and is already solved in an actual beta. And that I shall write a post here if the bug is not fixed with the next update. So that was what I did. But it's no problem for me to wait for the next update. This is not the worst bug I ever met. Thanks anyway!

@Serif Info Bot I installed the update to version 2.2.1 some minutes ago, but the input field is still missing. Windows 10.

Don't think so. Look, the main light on the guy on the left comes from somewhere on the right side. The main light on the woman comes from the left side. And there are no plausible sources for these lights. If there should be some sorts of lanterns somewhere outside the boundaries of the image , they should affect all things around them. You are trying to make a very complex collage. The only ways to get this done are to find images that fit to each other or to retouch, not to say paint a very lot. And that is not easy without enough knowledge about light.

My first impression is that the light angle of the woman in the foreground doesn't match to the one of the man on the left. I think, she will not work. Maybe if you flip her horizontally.