James Mcilwraith

also, it would be great to have a similar option for "select same" functions. If you have several artboards, "select same fill colour" will select objects in all artboards, which is not what you always want.
Let's say you want to create colour variants of the same design, you'd want to select all objects with same colour within an artboard and change their colours without affecting objects in other artboards. 
It would be great to have a way to apply the select same to the selected "layer", be it an artboard or a group of objects or multiple layer selection. 

If the images created by the older program are rasters (bitmaps) then you won't be able to edit them as text in Designer or any other program.
Designer can place text on curved paths just like this. Draw your paths with the Pen tool and choose Layer > Convert to Text Path. I think you'll find Designer is perfect for this job.
Cheers
 
 

From the help file...
Edit All Layers and Select Same/Select Object
The behaviour of the Select Same and Select Object commands depends on the Edit All Layers setting on the Layers panel:
When the setting is enabled, the Select Same/Select Object commands will match objects across all artboards. When the setting is disabled, the Select Same/Select Object commands will match only objects on the current artboard.

Also, if you alt+click a layer to isolate, select same (with select hidden objects unchecked) will still select objects outside of the isolated objects

Hello @bananafrenchtoast and welcome to the forums.
AD stand here for Affinity Designer. But back to your question,
There are many videos on Youtube that describe the data merge function of Affinity Publisher in detail. A very detailed video is this one:
 
 

Hi @James Mcilwraith It sounds a bit like you skipped the system prompt to allow each app to "record" the screen.  Maybe you accidentally clicked Deny?

 
Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Screen Recording and scroll down until you find the entry for each v2 app.  I'm guessing that if you tick the check box for each app then you'll be in business.

Yes please - an option in preferences would be nice

Really would love to this implemented PLEEEEEEASE!!!
My mistake, bit just spent a lot of time going through my large project enabling  this 'Scale with Object' 
 
I surprised this not on by default when creating curves????

Many ways lead to Rome. I prefer to avoid pixel selections for such tasks and try to use "automatic" colour calculation instead. For instance…
… a Curve Adjustment to brighten the white & dark tones:

… a Color Overlay Effect + Blend Mode "Lighten" to affect dark reds only but not white:

I would simply use the Flood Selection Tool to isolate the red tones from the text and copy the selection over to a new layer. You can then do whatever you want with that layer to achieve a uniform color fill. Three minute quick and dirty example:

Edit: I forgot to mention that if you invert your selection, you can edit the color of the text in a quite similar way.

I have a simple JPG generated by some software, and I'd like to replace one colour (straight black or white) with another, or make it transparent.  So far, any attempt to use the colour replacement brush tool have not given any result, and my search on the forum found its use to be an as yet unanswered question.
 
I was hoping this brush would act as pick-and-replace tool (if pixel is <colour set> then replace with the colour set as front) but evidently I have this wrong.
 
As I have both AD and AP, here are my questions:
 
- which is the best to use?
- what is the exact process to replace a specific colour x with a colour y? (layer select, any settings that can mess it up, which brush to choose, how to choose the colour to change and set the colour it will be replaced with).
- just in case I come across this later, is there also a way I can control the *range* of colours accepted for replacement (the cat example isn't universally the same orange).
 
I'm clearly missing something simple, but I can't seem to identify what.

I have checked the FAQs and see that performance issues with Affinity Photo after installation of OS Monterey is a known issue and is being investigated,  but I wanted to say, for the record, that the two things I have had the most difficulty with occur when I am attempting to create a gradient or a color overlay in Layer Effects.  Previously, all I had to do to get the color selection to appear was to place the mouse arrow on the selection bar -- the colors would pop right up. Now it is extremely flukey --- I cannot tell precisely  where to place the mouse arrow as  it seems to vary every time I use it -- sometimes it just won't come up,   so this process has become fairly time-consuming and frustrating.    It does take Affinity Photo a bit longer to open, but  the spinning wheel is a minor annoyance compared to the problem of working with gradients and color overlays. I hope this issue can be resolved before too long. And I was having so much fun! 

I agree, this is a strange feature and very unhelpful. 
You would expect a list of standard paper sizes rather than an odd selection of device screens.

Just in case it helps (and in case you're not aware): If you started with an A4 size document, and want an (or another) A4 size artboard, you can just leave it on Document.
But you're right; if you want one different from your current document size that pulldown won't help without some improvement.

Yes. In my case, I have finished designing a business card and needed to design a letterhead in same document and was surprised I couldn't find A4 in the list.

If one is working on a document and needs to create more artboards, the only sizes available in the size dropdown menu are phones. A4 and A5 for instance are not available so one needs to know the size of an A4 to manually input it. It should not be so. 

That is the „drama“ for all users, who expect a new application B working identically as application A. This is not the case, and if, it would be an evidence of incapacity for the software engineers of application B. Copycats seldomly are creative beings …

Protect Alpha won´t work for you?
Note that you don´t need to select anything - just paint over.

 

I guess you want just the shape to carry a new color.
I´d probably go this route: 1. Select layer if its alone in a layer (or flood select for selection of interest)  2. add layer effect-> Color Overlay: adjust color

Hi Tomeric,
cmd click the thumbnail of the pixel layer in the Layers panels to create a selection from its content then use Edit > Fill to fill it with the color you want (make sure the layers is selected in the layers panel). Alternatively switch to/use the Paint Brush Tool with a large brush size (no selection needed), tick the Protect Alpha checkbox in the context toolbar and paint over the object.

That's often the problem. Some people complain that you should search the forums, or "Google" for the answer, before you post a question, but quite often it's difficult to know what to search for, if you don't already know about whatever you are searching for! 🙂

Final image of a clover flower

 
Original image (size reduced for forum)
 
Cropping, obviously (to my taste).
Duplicated original image, cut out flower. On this layer I used "levels" adjustment to boost the black on flower. Next I used "shadows and highlights" adjustment layer to add some contrast. Finally used the "shadows and highlights" live filter to make final adjustments.
On background, simple "curves" adjustment layer.

Hello everybody
I'm both new to the forums here and somewhat new to photo editing altogether - having used Affinity so far only as a tool for texture creation in 3D-modelling, though I want to use more of it and started working a bit with some recent vacation photos I shot, turning them into something actually nice to look at.
As one example, I'd like to share this photo of the castle Pfalzgrafenstein in the middle of the Rhine river in Germany. It's my first serious try so far at editing a photo and I would be very if some people might give me some feedback about it. Having watched several Affinity compositing and editing videos in YouTube recently, I decided to give it a go as well and am satisfied with this as a first result:

If interested, I also decided to upload the original (cropped) photo from my DSLR so the quite massive changes I did become visible:
 
Thanks for your attention and I would love some feedback on this
Kind regards, Toitaan

As the books are produced digitally before the dead trees get involved, it seems rather hard to swallow your argument that they are too complicated for digital publication. I would presume that a PDF version is just an "Export" click away.
Adobe already offer their "classroom in  a book" series of training books  in Kindle, Epub etc so your comments about them are also misplaced.
Having a paper version of a digital product seems very backward to me. A bit like Amazon delivering your 1 hour delivery by horse and cart..
 

Yes the tutorial are very helpful, I have watched all of them since starting with Affinity earlier this year.