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Creating vector squares by duplication is easy but indeed there is no paintbucket tool to colour them easily.

cmd-shift-0 (mac) With space-option (mac) it not possible to draw marquee, drawing translates to zoom directly (left out, right in). Yes, option-scroll works as zoom in mac and zooms to cursor.

Yes, option-shift-7

If you mean White balance panel there is no picker tool. But there is White Balance Tool on normal toolbox (in Develop module), which behaves normally. I think we are mixing here white point and white balance. White point usually means lightest pixel in image, white balance is metered/set in medium gray area.

Yes, kbd shortcut zooms to page center. Zoom tool (space-cmd) lets you zoom anywhere you like, also by drag. But yes, kbd-zoom to selected object would be useful behaviour.

Rather AD should remember last setting and follow it in new docs.

Export to some common image format?

Looks that path can be changed to text frame (works ok), but text frame not to path. Ideally we should be able to edit text frame like a path directly. Consider this a feature request.

That is old and unnecessary thing.. in the net no one knows you are 72 dpi.

Ok here it is as request :-) 1-bit bitmaps are used as line art (printed cartoons, illustrations), in silk screen printing and copydot printing systems. They also can (should) be used in coloured comics, where colour plates are overprinted with 1-bit black key colour. Possibly there are other technical purposes also (please list them in this thread!) There is not many apps that support 1-bit but for these uses 1-bit is crucial. 1-bit ensures that black image is NOT rasterized, resulting fuzzy outlines. Technically 1-bit colour space should be easy feat. You can convert greyscale image to 2 tones (b & w) by thresholding image where light areas convert to white and darker to black. Threshold should be adjustable so you can select how black or how white image is. (Scanners can scan directly to 1-bit but I think it is much better scan to greyscale and set the threshold manually.) Alternative to thresholding is dithered image – that is, using something like grain mask or stochastic raster or Atkinson dithering to build the greytones. I am not sure that is so much needed as it is just a special effect (imho). Besides, there is excellent HyperDither app available. There are some angles that are worth considering. Colour images are best at about 300 dpi when printed. 1-bit images display jaggies in that low resolution, optimum res is 1200-2400 dpi. Ideally 1-bit pixels would map 1-1 to device pixels but above 1200 dpi that is academic. Details are not needed in that high resolution range, meaning that true 1 pixel resolution is not needed. Resolution is needed for avoiding jaggies, making lines and shapes smooth and clean. That also means that you can upsample image to smooth jaggies out. It is perfectly ok (even when not really hi-fi) to take 300 dpi greyscale image upsample it to 1200 and convert to 1-bit. In photoshop you can upsample in convert dialog (doing 300>1200 AND 8-bit to 1-bit) but I think Photoshop did it wrong and resulted jaggies. I do not know if they have corrected that bug (I use PS CS5). I hope AP would upsample and convert at one go and do it right. There are some massage you can do to makes 1-bit appearance better. You can play with local contrast to make darker parts lighter so there will be more meaningful black and white areas in image. You can do it manually, or you can use filter (I think high-pass filter is used here?) I am hoping Affinity team would find some quick and easy slider here to apply in convert dialog to reveal more detail in final 1-bit image. Tools: there is not much need for any special tools. (Or is there?) You can paint pixels black or white and that is it. One simple effect/usage mentioned also in Affinity forum is that 1-bit image is placed in page layout app and coloured with front and back colour tools. Last, you might want to consider comix artists' work flow. Old school draw black&white, scan b&w original (1200 dpi) and hand a copy to colour artist for colouring. Colouring is done to separate layer (well, sometimes physical "layer" with brush and paint). Coloured version is set in place in page layout and higher res lineart version is set in register with it and overprinted. Should colour image be CMYK? Or would it better be CMY, resulting brighter colours and less ink coverage, considering there is still black key 1200 dpi image being overprinted? How do you do CMY separation? Also, there are artists that draw with colours so that final artwork is coloured physical art board, and the either take the easy way out and do normal 300 dpi art production, OR filter out the 1200 dpi black key from full colour scanned original (not easy process..). Possibly Affinity can troubleshoot this process to simple and easy colour sep system for comix artists.

Not sure tree example explains anything... Sharpening looks for differences/contrast in areas next to each other and and enhances that contrast. That way borders get emphasized. Clarity looks for micro contrast within areas and boosts texture. Think human skin in portraits -- it is bad idea to boost clarity as skin pores and imperfections will stand out. Structure... now that one is hard...

Yes, the uploaded image above was 970 px -- it may well be that retina display makes complications.

Seems AP cannot handle 1-bit art. I am writing a feature request about it. Meanwhile I guess it is Photoshop or possibly Photoline which can use 1-bit colourspace. Why do you resample copydots? Target device resolution differs from original? I expect there will be problems just like moire.

So far there is little information about Publisher, probably because project is complicated and takes time. And I would think even developers are not sure what features will make to first release. I would think PDF export is sure thing, but making it robust takes effort. (I would like PDF export to have image scaling (to optimal size like in Adobe products) BUT INCLUDE SHARPENING ROUTINE to ensure optimal sharpness.) Epub export would be nice and it is probable. What version, that is the question. Epub3 is not as easy as 2. (Epub2 is mostly very simple HTML. In creating it most trouble is TO GET RID OF too complicated code, not writing it.) Master pages and paragraph styles everyone consider to be a must in page layout app. I would say booklet export is not something professionals use very much, on the other hand I would think it is easy to implement. I heard paragraph level H&J (HZ-algorithm) is not included, which is bad. After all, all we ever want is beautiful typesetting.

Zuzana's image is 970 pixels wide, and cropped to intended are is still about 888 pixels wide. So final 450 pixel wide graphic is viewed 200% and it is no wonder it looks fuzzy. That is, if these uploaded images are true.

As like I am option-clicking the object and then dragging it without releasing mouse button app knows perfectly well what is being duplicated. Now, option and alt is supposed to be same key in Mac. BUT. I can COMMAND-drag an object and it duplicates perfectly! Now this is weird. That SHOULD be alt-dragging behaviour. Command-drag is generally not used in Mac and there is no guidelines for its use. In Win-side control-drag is duplication action.

Here is 450X89 JPEG @ Q50: looks normal to me. I kind of suspect that OP is looking graphics at 200 % and original art looks better because it is hires. At 100% they would look about the same.

Yes, but why? In InDesign you can easily option-drag an object and get a copy.

Would not this be better as a plugin? (BTW, does Filter Forge plugin work in AP?)

There are lots of gif animator apps. Unfortunately I don't know which one are any good, so far I have not found any. Someone recommend a gif app which can animate a layered PSD file?

Do you want to ROTATE guides, or do you want FREEFORM guides? If there would be "Convert to Guides" command for lines/curves it would cover this case.

It is more likely a problem with the file than path?

Also http://www.decksetapp.com/ maybe http://slidedog.com/ would be useful. or even https://www.haikudeck.com/

Now what is the difference between Image layer and Embedded document layer? I would think that in ordinary work flow these do not differ any? AP images are seldom exported as PDF I think as it is pixel images that we want to export.

Is it worth getting a pc laptop? You need a separate licenses for Affinities, and anyway the production environment is not what you are used to. Chances are that a tablet would be enough (for browsing/notetaking)