[Is Publisher deliberately imposing a white background on text blocks?]

Back in the Publisher Persona check the Text Frame panel and make sure the Fill colour is set to transparent (i.e. not white)

[Delete extra text box.]

It could be an inline object?

Try Edit > Defaults > Revert to see if it goes away

Alternatively, if you copy a text box to a new document does that grey box still appear?

If yes, please save that test document and upload it to the forum

 

[Select Sampled Colour whole marquee selection shifts 150px up and left when Apply clicked]

23 minutes ago, Artworkzzz said:

The doc is 1830mm x 680mm with a 20mm bleed all around @ 192ppi. RGB/8.

I think it's a known issue when bleed is added

Switch off the bleed and try again to see if it works

[Weibel install for Photo]

1 hour ago, jcinaz said:

(The spelling might be wrong)

It may be "Weibei TC", which is a font

Can you restart APhoto and screen capture the message?

 

[Print document changed to web stays print (including units)]

6 hours ago, eobet said:

similarly, even though units does say pixels, when I go to a previously created object, the stroke width says points.

Edit > Settings > User Interface

Switch off... 

Show Lines in points

[Photo 2.3.0: Please critique my result / technique]

1 hour ago, christerdk said:

I don't expect a detailed list of feedback, I'd just be very happy with a few pointers of what to look into to move forward. 

The foreground looks out of focus compared to the background. If you can only get one part in focus, I would expect that to be the foreground. Alternatively, look into the Focus Merge function in APhoto to get it all in focus

On the image with the red background, you can clearly see what looks like scratches (or a cobweb!) in the center of the image. If this is coming from your lens, you should try cleaning/polishing it to cure that

 

[Feature Request: please provide a dedicated 'crop to selection' function in the Edit menu]

From the help....

       To crop an image to selection:

1. From the Tools panel on the left, select any Selection Tool.
2. Draw out the selection to set the prospective crop area.
3. Select the Crop Tool.
4. (Optional) Adjust the context toolbar settings.
5. (Optional) Drag a corner or edge handle on the grid to resize the grid to suit, then reposition the grid by dragging within it.
6. From the context toolbar, click Apply or press the Return key to commit the crop.

26 minutes ago, stingray said:

Currently, I see no way of doing this in one move.

It's 2 moves but much better than not being available at all

[[feature request] "rotate canvas" tool]

Depending on your tablet and if you have a spare button available/unused you can assign that button as the Mouse Wheel then in conjunction with the ALT key that button will allow for canvas rotation using the tablet

 

[Flood fill / Freeform lasso keyboard shortcuts?]

4 minutes ago, Bk1 said:

Sorry, should have specified: I’m using Photo 2 for iPad.

Actually it's my mistake I should have noticed you posted in the iPad forum

Someone with an iPad may be able to assist you one way or another

[Flood fill / Freeform lasso keyboard shortcuts?]

If you are using Designer make sure you are in the Pixel persona to see those tools...

 

[Convert curve to selection]

56 minutes ago, lrzf said:

once I am in Pixel Persona what do I do to only cut and isolate the page

Use the Selection Brush Tool for this and then hit the Refine button to tweak your selection (if needed) then output as a new layer. (You can switch-off/hide the original layer at this point

Lots of tutorials on the Selection Brush Tool on YouTube etc for cutting out objects.

[Flood fill / Freeform lasso keyboard shortcuts?]

You can set shortcuts for "all" the tools in....

Edit > Settings > Shortcuts (Tools section)

[Remove Backgrounds in Affinity Photo 2.3]

16 hours ago, deepblue said:

I cropped all the images point by point using the freehand selection function.

Unsure what you mean? But you should be using the Selection Brush Tool for this and then hitting the Refine button to tweak your selection (if needed) then output as a new layer and add whatever background you want

Lots of tutorials on the Selection Brush Tool on YouTube etc for cutting out objects. Once mastered it's very easy to use on images like yours

APhoto file attached so you can change the background if you want

 

 

 

 

HoHoHo.afphoto

[Remove "noise"]

In APhoto try the Live Dust & Scratches filter with Blend Mode set to Vivid Light 

 

[dodge and burn with inverted layer]

Check the Blend Mode of the Brush (in the context toolbar) is not set to Darken, it should be on Normal.

There's been a lot of that lately

If not that please supply a full screen screenshot at the point it does not work

[Upgrade of PC to improve Affinity Photo Processing Speeds]

58 minutes ago, jaykay21 said:

but when I apply filters or do any form of focus stacking

I would have thought that applying filters and focus stacking were more CPU and Memory tasks rather than disk I/O

But you can monitor all 3 to see what exactly is being used and if there are any bottlenecks

 

[Flexible Shapes behind Text]

45 minutes ago, deinTobi said:

If I need a trapezium as background shape, I have to go back to manually changing every shape behind every line of text:

Alternatively...

Create your trapezium then Layer > Convert to Text Frame

Add your text & set shape background colour 

If adding more or less text just change width of shape to fit

See attached file...

 

shapetext.afpub

[Affinity Designer: fast way to clear all guides?]

 

2 hours ago, Lintrezza said:

Interestingly, it only clears the guides on each page for me, not all the guides on the doc

 

1 hour ago, Lintrezza said:

I thought of that. But I do want to retain some 🙂

Error: Does not compute!

What exactly are you trying to do?

You can't delete all guides in the document but retain some of them

If some or all of the guides are the same on all pages you can place the guides on a master page and then just delete them from the master when you no longer need them

[Affinity Designer: fast way to clear all guides?]

24 minutes ago, Lintrezza said:

I'm going to have to put up with them or remove them page by page...

View > Show Guides works across all pages

You can also make all Guides invisible by changing their colour in the Guides manager (View > Guides...)

[In Affinity Designer 2 how can I rotate the canvas?]

The Rotate (canvas) commands are in the View menu

[applying master in publisher suddenly not working anymore]

With the Master Page field having focus but without activating the drop-down list in your screenshot can you select the required Master page by using the up/down arrow keys?

[Every Publisher files are corrupted!!!!]

On 9/28/2023 at 9:10 PM, gianni.brienza said:

even if the folder is synchronized with Pcloud.

If you are still getting file corruptions on NEW files (not previous ones) disable pCloud synchronisation for wherever you store you Affinity documents locally

Also, don't store/save your Affinity documents directly to pCloud (if that's even possible)

Then see if you still get file corruptions on documents created from that point forward (we need to eliminate pCloud synchronisation as a possible cause)

 

Don't forget to periodically backup your documents to another drive (not a synchronised cloud service) just in case you need to restore something later 

 

[APub detaching from master page for ever]

34 minutes ago, thomaso said:

I expected this would be possible with the option to "Apply" > "None" in combination with "Migrate"

Me too but it doesn't

But if you create a new blank master, you can apply that with Migrate and it works. Then delete that blank master (optional)

Bear in mind Migrate only seems to work for Frame Content (e.g. Text Frames or Picture Frames that have had content added on the corresponding regular page) It does not work for stuff like shapes or images just placed on a Master page

 

 

 

[APub detaching from master page for ever]

Select the pages in the Pages panel

Right-click and select "Clear Masters" 

Is that what you did previously?

Or do you want to promote all existing Master page content onto the normal page? (for several pages)

[Corrupted File (Recover)]

1 minute ago, EPriuli said:

I think would be great if the technical support could take a look into it, to see if it could be recovered. 
 

Did it open for you?