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Yeah that's another approach, wasn't aware of that, thanks.

@Frances Proctor and @pruus thanks so much for your help. Frances your method was what I had in mind because it remains editable. I've been playing around with it and it's def what I had in mind. The only issue I have so far is that, when I need it, I have struggled to get an (approximately) even distribution between inner and outer curve, as in example below. Using the corner tool though, it's a piece of cake, although as you mentioned it's no longer editable. Pruus your method was effectively what I was doing, although I didn't realize you could edit the outer and inners simultaneously. I was laboriously shift clicking the the inner nodes, rounding the corners, then doing same for outers. Now so much quicker! I guess the most efficient way to proceed would be to use the star Smart Shape, but when necessary make different configurations with the corner tool and save them to a new category (seals, badges, whatever) in Assets.

Using the shape tools, does anybody know how to create a shape like the one attached, with both inner and outer rounded corners. I have tried the most likely suspects but can't seem to get what I need. I made the attached using the star tool and then rounding both inner and outer corners using the corner tool. Trouble is it's then no longer editable. It's been converted to curves and I can no longer change either the inner radius or the amount of 'points'. Or am I missing something? Is there an easy, fully editable way to get this shape? I'm an Affinity Designer noob so that is entirely possible

Aaaah, ok. Sorry my bad. In my defence I'm still learning this software. Thanks

Using Windows 10. This file was originally created in Illustrator CC on a Mac, saved as a PDF and brought over to my PC and opened in Affinity, so I guess there was always some potential for crazy to happen. I had been working on the file quite a while when these circles started appearing. At first I tried getting rid of the circle by using a boolean operation, but you get rid of that part of the shape that is affected and it just turns up elsewhere on the path. Persistent little sod! Anyway I managed to copy all the layers I needed and paste them in a fresh AD document and all has been well with no issues (so far). Thanks. BUG13jul21.zip

Hi everyone. This is my first post. Shame it's a negative one. I am fairly new to Photo and thought regarding this brushes issue I might be doing something wrong. Sadly it seems not. Speaking personally, using Photo for art/painting this is not a small thing. Fumbling around trying to work out my brush is a massive block to workflow and for me a deal breaker. I think Photo is on the whole excellent and I will use it for photo based stuff and general image manipulation, but for art creation, sadly no. People may argue that that's not its prime purpose, but however you use it, the fact that such a large workflow issue has gone unaddressed in 3+ years I find frankly mind boggling.