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This picture should show you what I mean. I'm trying to print a musical score but keep getting this gray background tone. I've adjusted levels and gamma but results are inconsistant and not well visualized by the software. Is there a way to simply turn off this tone? It seems to be an automatic adjustment but I can't find any way to change it. I'm printing to PDF and then to my HP Laserjet printer. Thanks

I wish I hadn't opened this topic, especially with such a provocative headline as "Where is Everything." Seems I've aroused members of this group into defensive postures where all you want to do is argue. Please understand that I will not read any more posts on this matter. I think Affinity has provided a wonderful alternative to Adobe and I'll certainly keep using it. Not likely to revisit this forum, however.

People seem to get so pissed off when you criticize their favourite app. But all I’m asking for is a simple bit of information placed at the beginning of each help file. E.G., “Saturation: the saturation level is controlled by a slider than you will find here (arrow highlights the app). This is how it’s done in most other applications I see. I was able to find the saturation slider but only after 5-6 Youtube videos, which never seemed get around to this rather important fact. But don’t take it all personally. It’s a fine application. I’ll keep using it and eventually I’ll have watched every Youtube video they have and have learned the location of most sliders and buttons.

I love having a real alternative to Photoshop but here's one major beef: your "help" file never tells me what I need to know. I wanted to know how to reduce the saturation in an image. That's all. Do you think I could find out where the tool, filter, slider, button, gizmo or whatever actually is? No! I remember this from Designer. Never could find anything. Had to hunt and peck and slowly gave up and went back to Illustrator. It's appalling that the builders of what looks like a fine graphic design tool should be so ignorant of their newer customers needs. I've used Photoshop since it came out. I know about digital images. I don't want a course and I don't want a long-winded tutorial. I want a simple step-by-step procedure right up there at the front that says: Here's the Saturation Tool. Select the image or part of the image and move the slider left, to decrease saturation or right to increase it. Is that so hard? What ever happened to common sense? I switched to Affinity from Adobe partly because of cost. I'm still glad I did but I don't want to watch a long-winded tutorial with some bore blathering on about everything they don't want to know before finally, incidentally, revealing what I really want to know: where the button is.

This program is excellent but your help files constantly leave one thing out. Whatever gizmo it's talking about it NEVER says where it is. There are never any simple instructions like: to do this, click the menu item here and then select the submenu item here. Instead you go on a long technical discussion about how everything works. This is illuminating but useless. So my question right now is WHERE IS THE BLEND MODE gizmo. It's supposed to be a pop-up menu item in the "context" menu related to the layer you're selecting. Where would that be, pray tell? I can't find it. I can't find anything. Instructions from Adobe can be painstakingly specific. Why can't you be more like that? This is getting so bad I look to Google and Youtube first because I'm more likely to find a quick answer. Having said all that I really like the program!

Are there any good brush tutorials? The ones supplied by Affinity don't tell me what I need to know, nor do any of those on Youtube or Linked-In learning. What I want to do is illustrate rivers in a marshy area of a map as per the illustration attached. I thought I'd be able to just draw a wiggly line which got narrower in width over distance, but I can't figure out anything about that and there is a lack of any information on this technique either in the help files, the tutorials or Youtube or Linked-In.

I'd like to thank everybody for their replies but this is more about the lack of a manual than how to do a specific task. The online help files rarely provide enough detail and there are very few Youtube tutorials because this program has a smaller user base.

I did at least an hour of research. There is nothing out there. The link you provided leads to a similar discussion but there is no 3-d info in it.

This sort of thing here:

It didn't occur to me that 3d was so impossible since you actually have a pie tool. The flat pie graphics that I created served the purpose especially with drop shadows, but I really wanted to create something like the attached. Illustrator can do it but I prefer Designer despite my complaining.

I'm trying to make a 3-d pie chart on this new (to me) program. I can find zero information in your tutorials, zero information in your help files, zero information in Youtube tutorials and there is no manual. Why did I buy this program?😡 Because it's cheap and intuitive for the most part. But I also have access to Illustrator. But it's unnecessarily complicated and I don't like having to interrupt my creative flow to look up techniques on Youtube. But at least I can look something up. You're not Adobe. There is no well-established group of people offering instruction for Designer. And you don't even have a manual. So how am I going to make my 3-d pie chart? I'm going to go back to Illustrator. Not because I like it, but I have to get something done in a hurry and you're not helping. I'll keep using your program because it has a lot going for it, but when it comes to the crunch I can always rely on Illustrator for the information I need to do a job in a hurry. So. You are number two in a field of two If you could ignore this problem you could become number two in a field of one. Or you could have enough respect for the people who have put their faith in your program to support them with a well-written and thoroughly indexed manual and a free online support system that includes telephone call-backs. Your customers will feel valued and you will grow like Apple. Thank you for allowing me to vent.

Illustrator has a terrific pie chart tool. All you need to do is add some numbers to a text box and click create! It just figures out the angles you need automatically. Looks like Affinity Designer doesn't do that. I've looked through lots of tutorials and the authors seem to concentrate on pretty charts with nice colours but I haven't found one that says how to convert a set of numbers into a pie chart directly. Do I have to do my own calculations then convert them into degrees or is there an easier way?

Doesn't tell me what I want to know. LIke the guy who started a similar post, I just have a quick question that is not answered by your help file, which also refers to functions and menus that aren't in your help file either. You're relying on an incomplete electronic file and a user forum with unpaid users as contributors. Not the company I'm going to rely on as I build my graphic design business.

Illustrator has a manual. If a developer doesn't offer a manual it's because they think user forum will do the job for free. So Affinity, you want to pay me to hang out here fine. Otherwise, its back to Illustrator with all it's bloated complexity, hidious interface and greedy subscription rates.

Seems like you have a nice product but you don't seem to have a manual. I don't want to watch a dozen tutorials or purchase a large, illustrated workbook. Your online help files don't tell me what I want to know. If you don't publish a manual I'll just go back to Illustrator.