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Do you need vector or line art?

Mac version (Yosemite), both apps, tend to lose toolbar, context toolbar and even toolbox in separated mode. Reset app (ctrl down when starting app) corrects behaviour at least temporarily.

There is no guesswork in document setup, you can give specific dimensions. Artboard tool in in AD work about the same as in Illy. Usually when people ask for cropping tool in vector app there is a workflow problem.

Depends. Photoshop actions do not work in AP, plugins work mostly (?), templates and other file resources mostly..

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/25299-font-persona/?p=122230

Invert selection (cmd-shift-i) works good in my system (mac). It is the actual delete part which is unpredictable. For example often backspace does not affect but cut works. :unsure:

If you generate crop marks in export too you can compare bleed elements to them and estimate if there is enough bleed when you view resulting PDF. In practice this is not too complicated though sure visible bleedline would help.

All modern design apps embed fonts by default.

You have to save it to PDF and import it.

Mac version has a habit of losing context toolbar and not being able to make it visible again in separated mode. That's why pressing "Develop" is sometimes not so easy..

Theoretically 64-bit applications limit pixel amount to 17.2 billion GB. So keep an eye to that pixel count.

Posterino may be the best mac app for creating collages. 20$

If it is printed to vinyl some special profile may be needed. Only the printer knows.

Global colour is really a vector graphics concept and generally it is not used in pixel graphics. Use vector objects if you want to edit them with swatch tools.

I have studied channels a little and it seems almost anything can be done.. but it is not easy or understandable. All kinds of levers must be pulled and manouver work flow followed. Channels operations should be more straightforward, like in PS.

There should be nothing you have missed, any image should be exportable to any format (but you may lose some features in some formats). Alas, something is wrong. I assume you can save native format. Try to save with different name and restart app, try again. Next, copy layers one by one to new document and try that..

That should be done as vector art.

Try arranging the added graphic back, behind all other elements. Might help.

Glyph panel, please.

Basic layout does not need anything special. Just do the few features right.

You are teasing the man. Why don't you link some training videos about basic compositing.

That would be so nice. (Currently it is shift-F5 and select colour option.)

Experienced users do not need welcome screen. The less we see it the better. Open app, use app, that's it.

I don't think you can avoid duplicates (raw-tif or raw-apf) using ADAM either. Though it would be enticing idea that AP would be totally nondestructive and use file format of raw-APmeta combination.

It really is not possible to make any meaningful changes to RAW. Theoretically might be possible to tweak sensor data but what is the use? (Some claim RAW is uneditable so it is good for legal use..) Some minor metadata can be changed. When you develop RAW in AP it is practically an unsaved Affinity Photo file (I guess some of it in RAM, some in disk). It is not a JPEG until you export it to JPEG.