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Fixx

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  1. There is valid reason why Photo should not merge image layers. After all, it merges image layers happily if you select "Merge Visible" or "Flatten".
  2. Activity Monitor does not display much useful information as OS is designed to assign ALL free memory to applications, and free it not until it is needed elsewhere. Thus part of the memory is assigned but contains only unnecessary data. Basically you would be just fine with Mac Mini 16GB RAM, or similar iMac. Apps you use are not too demanding. If you want be safe you could buy M1 Pro 32GB instead but I am not sure you would see much difference. I kinda wish next Mac Mini version would be M1/M2 Pro which might be my next upgrade.
  3. Once upon a time when computer generated images did not always produce antialiased images there was an application called JAG (Jaggies Are Gone). It did have a really good algorithm for smoothing jagged edges to smooth but sharp antialiased edges. I have not seen as good antialiasing solutions since. Have to say that demand for separate antialiasing solution is not so urgent nowadays.
  4. All Affinity 1.XX.XX apps run in Mojave just fine, but I have no idea if Nik plugins still work. That should though not be a question about 32 or 64 bit software if Nik has no 64 bit only limitations.
  5. Old Adobe Dimensions was wonderful 3D program, and was later rolled to AI, rather unsuccesfully. I wish Designer would adopt some of its features, like rotate vectors in 3D. It would not need be real 3D but create the appearance.
  6. No you don't. Printing works just fine (RGB print mode can present some tonal problems though). If your printer machine supports booklet mode in-printer you can do that also. If it does not, Create Booklet 2 helps.
  7. I prefer Designer – repurposing and digi-mining old PDF files has become so trivial a task.
  8. AI files usually have PDF "stream" embedded (it is possible to disable this in AI) and Designer reads the embedded PDF instead on true AI format. That said, many graphics apps can read older/simpler AI files as format was originally not very complicated though it was proprietary/not published. Affinity cannot do that.
  9. Did you get styles with the import? Right way would be to adjust styles.
  10. When I open in Apple Preview and copy paste to Mail window – lines paste without linebreaks, as long normal text, real paragraphs though are as they should. Text format as in original. That is like it should be, like original text. When I open in Adobe Reader and copy paste to Mail window – lines paste with linebreaks, real paragraphs as they are. No text formatting. When I open in PDF Expert and copy paste to Mail window – lines paste without linebreaks, real paragraphs as they are. No text formatting. No P line-ends anywhere. Try another PDF reader?
  11. When you paste an image to an existing document it appears as *image layer. It is essentially a self-contained object, which can be manipulated many ways without losing its image quality – final image is rendered only in export or print. If you need to manipulate pixels directly you have to *rasterize* the layer to a pixel layer. Cutting can be done after that.
  12. I have just copy-pasted to InDesign. Should work fine and have vectors, but result in embedded and non-editable. Exporting and placing PDFs may be safer workflow.
  13. When you export to PNG you should get just what is visible in the file when you have it open. Layers and objects do not matter, they all convert to single pixel image. That 3840px x 3840px file is without any compression 44,3 MB. If you need to get smaller file and can accept lossy compression you can export to JPEG. It can compress noisy images but can introduce some artifacts to image. Of course you have to decide what the file is for and select file type, resolution and compression accordingly.
  14. You should get full mask when you enter quick mask – that is, you see rubylith red. When you drag across this with gradient tool it should give you gradient from "white" to "black" – that is "white" is no rubylith and "black" is full red rubylith. Gradient ends (nodes) show white and black. I guess it is possible that grad tool has some other values than 0K and 100K but for me it works reliably. It has not always been that way with grad tool..
  15. For proofreading I think the text should be in the layout for checking hyphenation etc. If you are worried about the file size you can set dpi to 1 and quality to 0 in PDF export. This will get you a low resolution copy PDF. But as for now there is no simple way to print graphics as "boxes only".
  16. I usually use the old Photoshop technique, very simple: enter quick mask pressing Q draw a gradient mask by pressing G and dragging from white to black press Q, returns to normal mode activating the mask use curves (cmd-M) or levels (cmd-L) to lighten the nonmasked side.
  17. Some photographers prefer to have neutral grey card or guaranteed grey object in their shoot so they can instantly set colour balance by eyedropper. I have used this time to time. Eyes tend to adapt to any lighting or colour cast so eye calibration can drift a lot...
  18. You could try open the attached Designer file in Photo. I think if bleed is set in original Designer file it carries over to Photo too. card.afdesign
  19. when I press cmd-option-i the resulting window magically tells me size and dpi!
  20. I have Topaz Sharpen AI and I think that that is meant for special cases and for premium quality work flows. Affinity can do basic sharpening just fine. Noise removal in AP is nothing special but again, most shots do no need extreme quality noise removal. If you shoot very high ISO then Topaz, DXO or ON1 may be the way to go.
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