Ratty

Hello everybody! What does this little chain in the Affinity Photo brushes panel mean please? Thanks!

Thanks! I'd tried that before without much luck, but your tutorial helps. I'll practise it a bit more.

That's a shame! I love Affinity, and it has helped me so much with this kind of work. I'll just power through and do things the slow way for now, I guess.

Unfortunately, you can't power-duplicate (or copy-paste) slices. You can build a slice from a rectangle, then power-duplicate the rectangle - and it will also duplicate the slice - but that returns to the original problem of the slice not including the background. I didn't know this before trying your advice though, so I've still learned something!

I've done some messing around, and found another technique, but it's still a bit clumsy: If I rasterise and use the Pixel Persona, I can select-cut-paste each row out onto its own layer. Once I've done that, I can repeat the process for each column - if I select all layers (each row is now its own layer) before cutting/pasting, each card in my column will be cut and pasted onto its own layer (ie, Affinity Designer will cut the column simultaneously from all row layers and paste each resulting unique card onto its own layer). But I'd still love to know if there's a more elegant solution - I tend to brute-force my way to results!

Thanks for your answer. I can make the grid, but what do I do next? If I make slices from the grid, they are blank. I can copy/paste the background into each square of the grid (pictured), but again this can get pretty time/consuming. Is there a way to automate this? The other thread had the 'fill bmp' technique, but this seems to work better to divide one big picture up (as opposed to 'cutting out' lots of separate pictures)

Unfortunately, they're often a lot more complicated (pictures, long sentences, etc). Eg I might download a set of flashcards with pictures on one side and descriptions of the other, but I'll need to convert them into separate jpgs for an online flashcard application.

Hello, This post is related to the one linked below, but I wonder if it's different enough to warrant a new post. If I have an image that features multiple aligned squares (with spaces between), is there an efficient way to slice and export them? For example, if I want to export the flashcards (attached as an example) individually, I can create guides that divide them up, but then I can't slice the guides. I could manually slice each (snapping to guides), but with larger grids that is very time consuming. I could use the technique of creating multiple boxes and bmp-filling them (in the linked post), but it was a lot of work to get the image to line up accurately. I could also create multiple boxes, then post the image individually into each and slice them, but again that is very time-consuming. If there's no way to do this quickly in Affinity, fair enough (there are lots of competing feature requests), but am I missing something simple? I'm a teacher, so spend a lot of time manually cutting out flashcards for online work! stcasefs.jfif

Hens, Pšenda and ,,,, - thanks, those are sensible improvements to my technique!Hens, Pšenda and ,,,, - thanks, those are sensible improvements to my technique!

Hello, No problem, it doesn't affect me very often so I'd kinda forgotten about it. Yes, I'm using the latest version of Affinity Photo. I've looked into it a little more, and it's NOT about canvas size, as I thought, but about zoom. It's about how big the brush appears in the window. In other words, the brush looks a lot smaller on a large canvas than on a small canvas, so large canvases work more smoothly. If you zoom in so the same brush takes up the same amount of space in the window, a big canvas lags too. CPU and brush details below. The brush is a True Grit Texture company one, with all dynamics off. Canvas is 5,000x5,000px, 300dpi. If I zoom in so that the brush preview cursor takes up all of the visible canvas (brush size 2500px) move the cursor onto the canvas and click 3 times, then move off the canvas and select a different tool, with the mouse the whole process works instantly, or almost instantly. With the stylus (tapping 3 times), it can take several minutes. Just now it took about 4 minutes (I couldn't use Affinity in this time - it was 'thinking') and froze up the whole computer for about 30 seconds. If I zoom out so the cursor looks tiny on the canvas, the stylus works with very little lag. Again, it's not a huge deal, I can use the mouse, but maybe it's worth your knowing about.

Hi all, I have a template with various text frames in. Sometimes these frames will contain just one line of text, sometimes they might contain a paragraph. Is it possible to have the text automatically resize to match the frame? So if I paste in a few words, they will be automatically be relatively big and if I paste in a whole paragraph it will automatically be relatively small? Thanks!

I posted asking how to deal with flipped-text when the bubble is upside-down. There are some tips I got for that here: Text in upside-down speech bubbles? - Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows) - Affinity | Forum (serif.com)

Hi, When I make a speech bubble, it only lets me put the tail at the bottom. If I flip the speech bubble upside-down (so the tail is at the top) and then use the text tool to put text inside it, the text is also upside down. Is there any way round this (ie, the bubble upside-down, the text right-way up) without having to use a separate bubble and text frame? Cheers!

I succeeded using affinity designer by making the grid of squares (I made a series of rows, then columns, then used the divide boolean operation), then copy-pasting the background into each to clip it. It was a fair bit of effort, but easier than many other alternatives.

Hey everybody, I just had a massive headache with Affinity causing a crash to desktop whenever I created a new file, opened an old one, or opened the brush panel. I've worked out that it seems the update might have been enabling 'Hardware acceleration > Use OpenCL...'. (I assume it's the update because I didn't change any settings in Affinity, but maybe something changed in my comp?) If you're having a crash to desktop, check that this option hasn't been automatically enabled. I hope that might help anybody out there.