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Is there a key command to fill a selection with the foreground color? Particularly need to do this with mask layers and I've never found a way to do this in AF. I end up having to go back to photoshop when I need to do a lot of this kind of work. I'd love it if there was a way to do this in AF. Thanks for any help.

Yes I tried toggling show toolbar it didn't help. I do sometimes have a second monitor connected to my laptop but I don't have one connected at the moment. Yet I cannot get the toolbar back. Are you saying the beta will fix this issue? Thanks.

I have been using Affinity Photo for a long time. Today I opened it and the inspector/tool bar was not there. I mean the panel at the top of the screen that lest you choose photo persona, develop persona etc... Its no longer there. I like to work in separate mode. If I untick separate mode the inspector/tool bar does reappear. Is there a way to get it back in separate mode? I have tried toggling shoe tool bar to no avail.

Ah! Fantastic, that works! Thanks Merde!

I would like to request that Document resize includes percentage as a value for resizing. I often zoom an image to the size that looks right, and in photoshop I could easily just type that value into the Document resize. A real time saver. Also Document resize does not currently remember your previous setting for resample type. The default type bilinear looks terrible for resizing photos, bicubic looks a lot better and the only one I would ever use so it would be great if that could be remembered once I selected it (as photoshop does). Thanks for listening.

I wish the the zoom tool was always available with a key command at any time, even when other dialogs are open. This is a function in photoshop which I really miss. For example the ability to zoom in while using the crop tool or setting a stroke width.

Thanks!

I've tried searching the help but it comes up with nothing if you put in "fill" or "fills". In photoshop it's CMD backspace to fill with foreground colour or ALT backspace to fill a selection with background colour. How do I do that in Affinity Photo? I've tried using the fill tool but that doesn't do it if there is anything already on the layer. Also if you choose a foreground and background colour at the bottom of the tool palet, AP forgets it as soon as you change to a different type of layer - like form pixel layer to text layer. This is infuriating as I am used to relying on having having these always available (for myriad reasons) in photohop. Is there a way to stop this happening? Thanks for any help.

In photoshop filters and other dialogs remember your last used settings, even after a restart. This is such a time saver. For example, document resize (where I would never want the default "nearest neighbour") or sharpen where I usually want roughly the same settings after an image resize sharpen. Thanks.

I just got Affinity Designer and it looks good. I have a feature request. Mac Preview app is capable of displaying fonts which are not on my system as vector information in PDFs, such as musical notes and related score markings. This must mean the vector information is in the PDF. Illustrator is incapable of importing this vector information, which I've always found irksome. Preview can see it, Photoshop can see it and import at any resolution, but Illustrator can't, never understood that. It would be great if Affinity Designer could do this. At the moment it's like illustrator, it just looks for the font and when it can't find it gives you the option of replacing it. The same is true with Affinity Photo. So if you don't have the font (like a music score font) you're stuck. It would be great if both Designer and Photo could import the vector information (which both Preview and Photoshop can see) as an option to importing the font information. Thanks.

I'm having a lot of problems with files created in photoshop open in Affinity Photo. I've attached screen shots of a typical example. Some files open fine, others are just a complete disaster. Much as I would like to, I can't really work seriously in Affinity Photo until it can open photoshop files dependably.

No one else having this problem? Thanks.

I've just tried flattening it and the result when saving as jpg is a completely white canvas.

Hi MEB, Thanks for having a look. Here's a link to the file: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A593ACF28C5B7CBA!1233&authkey=!AKQ5kBSe7mPDBYk&ithint=file%2czip

That solved it, thanks!

I have an image of a map over which I have created another layer with vector based shapes. It all looks fine in Affinity Photo. However if I export this as a jpg the result is the vector shapes on a white blank canvas, the map is gone. Is this a bug? Or am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

There is a bug where by the transform panel will not show up when chosen from the menu. I really need to be able to numerically transform a layer and can't find another way to do it. The only think I can think of is trashing Affinity Photo prefs to make the transform panel re-appear. But the com.serif files in the prefs folder don't do it. Can someone tell me how to reset Affinity Photo control panels to default, or alternatively another way to numerically transform a layer? Thanks.

Just getting to know Affinity Photo, it seems like a really fantastic app. Coming from Photoshop there are some things I miss, though I also can see that Affinity Photo has a bunch of great things which I find an improvement over Photoshop. Feature request: It's pretty essential in my business to be able to resize and image by percentage. There are lots of reasons why this is useful, but the one we use daily is to zoom the image until it looks the right size next to, for example a web page it will end up on and then look at the percentage of zoom. Then go into image size, type that in and your done. Thanks.