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Re: Evenly-spaced concentric circles using a grid and subdivisions This isn't scientifically accurate, but it may be useful where artistic rather than absolute microscopic accuracy is adequate. I used a grid and drew the initial circle so the top, bottom and extreme sides cover the respective subdivision borders of the grid; copy/paste, expand the concentric copy to the next square of subdivisions, etc. I've tried other methods (e.g., building progressively larger circles on adjacent layers of the Layers panel, but that "grew old" pretty quickly). So this will work for what little concentric circle work I do. Of course saving your best construction for future use would avoid having to "re-invent the wheel" each time.

Hi. I'm using Designer 2.3.0. The tutorials for rotating an object around a central object don't seem to apply when I attempt it. What's changed in 2.3?

Thanks, Walt. Will do.

Affinity Photo (Mac) repeatedly froze today. I uninstalled it and now need advice on how to download new copy.

Before I retired I used Adobe Illustrator on the job, and one of my favorite effects was "contouring" text almost instantaneously to conform to a shape; the effect is called "Envelope Distort". The only method I've found in Designer involves pulling line points into place (very unsatisfactory, to say the least). I'm hoping that a near-future version of Designer will will include this feature. I've attached a screenshot from an Illustrator demo.

I'm not sure that I'm replying in the right box but... I can see where my illustration might have been confusing. I'll try to clarify my original post: I simply selected and copied the text "The House voted..." from a web news site. Went to Affinity Photo and pasted. I didn't add any background. I then duplicated the layer, but changed the blend mode to "Multiply" and the white bg disappeared, as it's supposed to. In my illustration, the layers are shown with the same copy of the text pasted into them. The top layer is Normal blend mode and corresponds to the text above with white bg; the second (selected) is in "Multiply blend, corresponding to the text above with no background.

I've had the same problem (copied text retaining its white background when pasted into Photo or Designer), until I recently had a DUHHH! moment. Copy the text, then paste it into text EITHER a Photo or Designer document. Change the blend mode of the pasted text layer to "Multiply". The troublesome white bg will drop out, rendering the previously white background transparent.