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Windows 11. All three apps used to be just above 1GB each, and now they're 108, 112 and 167MB for me. [edit] I don't know why this was split out of the New Features discussion as a "question"

I should be focused on the new features, but I'm most impressed by the way these apps take up a tenth of the space on my computer compared to V1.

I desperately want this. The videos in my post versus the misery of path work in Designer are painful

Oh. That's a shame. I hope they add it one day. Thanks for your reply. It seems that the reason it had flummoxed so many AI veterans is that the facility has been in there pretty much forever, so I suppose there must be a technical/patent reason why Affinity couldn't do it in Designer.

You may have seen this video doing the rounds, in which James Barnard Learns a Thing: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiMy3Bcj5QO/ He later added clarity to this, since it won't happen unless you adjust some key settings first. These are specifically for the Pencil tool: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiZViwcjls5/ Of course, Designer has Pencil settings of a sort, but not these. Does anybody know how I'd do this in Designer without Convert To Curves and Node tool, or Pen/Pencil tool and merging shapes? Thanks!

Thanks for the reply. You're right, I hadn't spotted it inside FX! It's not an ideal place for it to be, still. I'd rather have it next to Opacity so that I can balance the two at once, rather than having to open and close a sub-menu to tweak each one separately. @Murfee - Sorry for repeating the topic. I did search first, but I guess I was searching from the wrong end of the idea to pick up those threads.

I appreciate that the Settings cog gives the very powerful Blend Options which arguably give even more control, but I miss the simplicity of Photoshop's Difference mode. In PS, next to the Opacity slider you have a second one for Fill. It's just the absolute quickest way to fine-tune the Difference mode, and I'd love to see it in Photo. Thanks for reading

Re: Glitches in Photo exports with Open CL If it is not working *yet*, why is the default to have Open CL hardware acceleration ticked *on*? It would make more sense for it to be off by default, and for a dialogue box to inform the user that it's off and why when they first open in package after installation. This is absolutely baffling to me. Not only does it cause me problems (I'm an infrequent user, and by the look of things updates must be re-ticking the box because I have to Google and remind myself what the problem is when I know I've fixed it before), but I also have friends to whom I have recommended Affinity products who complain to me that Photo leaves glitches in their files. Does the company not understand the terrible impression this gives to customers, and then potential customers by word-of-mouth? I understand the problem may lie with Windows rather than Serif, but few users will find that out, or accept it. All they will see is that even with the latest and greatest Nvidia cards, they have to turn off hardware acceleration, and that's if they find their way to the solution. If not, they will be left with the impression that Photo is unusable.