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"Unsafe" often only means that the linked webside still uses "http", not "https". That is not good, because it is not an encrypted connection, but it mustn't mean that it is a bad or infected webside. For example, I often get this warning when I visit the german GIMP-Forum, which also still uses http.

Habe es überprüft. "Gaußsche Unschärfe" gibt es ja mindestens drei Mal in Affinity Photo: destruktiv im "Filter"-Menü, unter "Unschärfe", und non-destruktiv als Live-Filter und in den Effekten. Bei mir funktionieren alle drei wie sie sollen, soweit ich feststellen kann. Kann es vielleicht sein, dass in diesem Fall der Gaußsche nicht auf eine Bildebene, sondern auf eine Anpassungsebene angewendet wurde? Dann würde nämlich natürlich nichts passieren.

As I found out just a minute ago, also Scribus is a good solution to test fonts. You can create a special folder for that whereever you want and connect it to Scribus in it's Preferences. Works pretty good.

Many thanks for that hint! Works pretty cool, even with Opentype as it seems. The only thing that is a little bit disturbing is that I have to fill in my admin-password, everytime I add fonts there. Would be cooler if the folder could be created on any place on the hard disc and being connected to LibreOffice in the Preferences. But this is better than nothing.

LibreOffice.

That's interesting. But where can I find this folder? Couldn't find it. Does it also exist on Windows?

Yes, I absolutely agree with you, Rene. I'm searching for some kind of solution for font management too, that allows me to use a bigger repertoire of fonts without worrying about having too many fonts installed. By the way, I'm Windows-user. And font-management isn't really the most comfortable thing under Windows.

Yes, you're right. Didn't think about it.

What seems a little bit odd to me is that the preview of the layer in the layers panel is black. The image I have on my screen, that has a transparent background and a white layer with black lines on it, is white in the preview, with the checkerboard looking through the transparent areas, and verry thin lines. Could it possibly somehow have to do with the channels? Maybe you find some clues for the problem in the history/protocol (don't know how it's called in english).

If you want to remove all white pixels on your image, have you tried removing it with blend modes? It's the gear at the right top of the layers panel. In the Blend Modes Panel you just need to drag the right point of the left window to the bottom. That should blend out all white - presumed there is no technical problem that impeds that.

Hi lavender! Affinity programs don't content fonts, as far as I see. So the fonts that appear in your Affinity programs must already have been on your computer. If they are free for commercial use depends on their individual licence restrictions. It's the same with additional stuff for the Affinity programs, but the ones you can buy from the Affinity Store and the free ones you get with updates are normally free even for commercial use. The artworks you create with Affinity software will be free for your commercial use anyway, except you made it with the demo-version.

This could possibly be caused by the certain brush you are using. Brushes are based on images. If the brushstroke on that image is shorter than the width of the image, it will in some cases not create closed contours. Doubleclick on the brush in the "Brushes" panel. At the bottom of the panel that appears then, there is a window where you can see the image. There are two vertical red lines. Drag them a little, so that they cut the brush.

As I saw on your screenshot, you reduced the horizontal scaling of the text to 25%, possibly to get a condensed style. That could be the reason for that strange result. You shouldn't do that, because you will only get a false style by this way with destroyed proportions of the letters. It is a typographic no go. Hope I'm understandable. My english is not verry good.

If you draw the wench, and then the hammer overlapping it, make a duplicate of the hammer. Then subtract one of the hammers from the wench, so that it will get a gap where the hammer is, while one of the two hammers disappears (- because it is subtracted). But the other one is still there. And whatever transparency you may choose, there will no longer be the lines of the wench looking through. And if you group the hammer with the wench, they can get the same transparency i n the same step.

If you export your Perlin-Noise-Image as f.e. PNG, load it as Bump-Map into the Lighting-Filter, that you apply to the same image, and then play a little with the Texture-Ruler, it will look like this. The 3d-Extrusion-Filter in G'MIC wasn't a good tip (Sorry!), but there is also an Emboss-Filter in G'MIC (section "Details") that looks somehow similar to this. Is this what you are looking for?

Are you sure that it doesn't have to do with rasterization? If you open an image, it's already rasterized (see screenshot1). The layer name contains (Pixel) then. If you drag an image into a document, the layer name says that it is an (Image) (see screenshot2). So it has to be rasterized first, before you can start G'MIC. As I said, I can't tell you more detailed things, because G'MIC doesn't work in my Affinity Photo anyway. Here is a LINK to the thread about my problem. Don't know if it will help you.

Is your image rasterized? If it is only an "Image" ((you can see that in the layers name), G'MIC will not work. In that case you must rightclick on the layer and click "Rasterize" first, before you start G'MIC.

In case of images with 32 Bit colour depth, the plug-in is greyed out because G'MIC only supports 8 and 16 Bit. But in fact if you use the Affinity Photo-Version from the Microsoft Store, G'MIC will possibly not work. In that case you will get an error message. That unfortunatley is the case for me. I use G'MIC with GIMP.

You could try the free G'MIC-Pllugin. It has more than 500 filters, and in the section "Rendering" there is also a "3D-Extrusion"-filter, if that is really what you are searching for. Even check out the filter "3D-Elevation" in the same section. Possibly even the "Bump Map"-filter of GIMP could be interesting for you.

Looks good in the video. But it is not easy to say if it will also work so nice in practicing. And as far as I could see, it's only drawing with two vanishing points, not with three as in reality. The painting software Rebelle also has an interesting solution for perspective drawing. Didn't test it, but it looks verry good in the demo-video. And it uses three vanishing points, as far as I remember. I think a usable solution for the meantime could be to have guidelines that are rotatable freely, like f.e. in Inkscape. With that and a little knowledge about perspective, you should be able to create perspectivly realistic scenes.

That's absolutely cool. No doubt about it. And I think that it's obvious, that even germans and french would want to align their quotation marks by default. But I think it should also be possible to do your own general adjustments, not only for one document, but even for all documents, if you want. And you should be able to choose then which way you would like for your actual document. That would be extremely cool.

Is "Autoscrolling" in the "Preferences" ("User Interface") activated?

@ Gnobelix Thanks for your help, but this option for hidden folders is already activated.

The only "WindowsApps"-folder I can find is under Users\myName\AppData\local\Microsoft. I can open the folder, but there isn't anything in it that I can faithfuly ascribe to Affinity Photo (screenshot_3). .

If it helps anyway to get G'MIC working in Affinity Photo without ruining my system, I am interested verry much.