carl123
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18 minutes ago, MW1887 said:
For your information. I want to extend my background not to fully fit the new canvas but to make my rectangle photo squared.
Affinity products do not have content aware fill (as yet) but that's a relatively new thing
Depending on your image there may be other ways to achieve what you want but we would need to see the image to determine what's best
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All I know is that's the price listed (at the link above/below) for V1 users to upgrade to the V2 Universal Licence
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/store/upgrade-offer/
What confuses me is if V1 users only need one V1 product to qualify for the V2 Universal Licence offer or if they need all 3 of the V1 products (APhoto, Designer, Publisher)
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All across the known universe further than any Star Trek vessel has ever travelled there are people in all alien races that write Help files and are asking themselves...
"Why do I even bother doing this job?"
Edit All Layers and Select Same/Select Object
The behaviour of the Select Same and Select Object commands depends on the Edit All Layers setting on the Layers panel:
- When the setting is enabled, the Select Same/Select Object commands will match objects across all artboards.
- When the setting is disabled, the Select Same/Select Object commands will match only objects on the current artboard.
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10 hours ago, purvistv said:
This is an absolute MUST HAVE feature! I bought all three v1.0+ Affinity products, but I will not upgrade to v2.x or beyond until at least Affinity Photo has this feature
Serif has just started its Black Friday sale so you can upgrade now from V1 to V2 for £71.99 which covers all apps on all platforms and is traditionally the largest discount you get throughout the year. It's possible that macro keyboard shortcuts will come in the free V2 updates and also scripting (which we know they are working on) but there is no guarantee on any of that.
It's a bit of a gamble but V2 also has lots of additional features, bug fixes etc that it may be worth upgrading now to get the discount rather than missing out and then find they add the shortcuts in the next free update for V2 users and you have to pay the full price at that point in time.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/store/upgrade-offer/
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6 hours ago, Wayne Burrows said:
I'm working on a project that I created in AD a few months ago and every layer has a Layer Effect that I would like to delete from each layer
Can you be more specific, there are too many variables in your question
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7 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:
As you are using Designer instead of Photo you will need to rasterize the Curve you made. Make sure there is a fill to the Curve.
In Windows you can switch to the Pixel Persona and CTRL+Click the shape/curve's thumbnail in the Layers panel to make a pixel selection of that shape
Does that not work on Macs?
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Hard to tell from your initial screenshot what you want to apply this to but maybe a Textured Line Style for the stroke could be made to work.
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2 hours ago, caroline daniell said:
I doubt I can get a recording but will give it a go
If all else fails you can use your mobile phone to record your screen and upload that footage. Sometimes that actually works better because you can also narrate what you doing and seeing, if it's not obvious in a screen recording
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7 minutes ago, bobdobbs said:
What is the equivalent workflow in Affinity Designer 2?
It's basically the same
What part are you having trouble with or what happens when you try it?
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9 minutes ago, GarryP said:
the only opinions that really matter are those of the Serif staff - it's their party and they choose the music.
In business, the only opinions that really matter are those of your target audience. For a successful party you have to play the sort of music your guests like, or they won't come back
And if you don't like the music they are playing, you need to tell them
Like the Pixel Grid Blues saga....
...they implemented it, we didn't like it, we said so, they changed it back.
So, now we are all back chilling out with the Classical grid we all knew and loved.
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4 minutes ago, Charlie Bucket said:
What I'd really like to know is what is an easy way to regularly back up and save the afpub document in case the dreaded word "corrupted" rears its ugly head or the hard drive implodes etc.
The simple answer is to invest in a dedicated backup app
If you are a hobbyist then you probably want to look for a free version
If you are a professional invest in a paid version
Ideally your backup app should be able to save different versions/revisions of your documents. Because if the app just backs up the last version, then if that document was corrupted at the point of saving it then the copy on your backup will also be corrupt.
To prevent fire/theft etc from ruining your life (and backups) your backup should be done to an offsite location (i.e. cloud backup/storage)
For easy access you can also do an additional backup to one of your local drives. Retrieving a backup from that is normally easier/quicker and can be done if your internet goes down for any reason.
Personally, I have 4 different backups for all my files that run every day/night to different locations. Two on-site and two off-site (the cloud). One of those backups is defined as a "continuous backup" which means that every new file I create or when I edit an old file, that change is immediately detected and the file is immediately backed up (to the cloud). My setup is probably overkill but my clients are not the forgiving types
Bottom line, invest some time in implementing a proper backup routine -
15 hours ago, jackamus said:
position an image on an A4 page so that only the part showing will print?
I'm also unsure of what you want exactly
But if you just want the image printed but none of the other stuff in the document...
Right-click the image layer in the Layers Panel and select Hide Others
Print the document
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When I save an untitled document. I immediately know I am saving it for the first time and "have" to give it a name
Currently, when I "save" a document that already has a name and are presented with that name in the save dialog screen I immediate think I must have accidentally hit the Save As... menu option rather than just Save (because they are next to each other in the menu) so I just continue to save it.
12 minutes ago, GarryP said:Whether you name the document when you create it or whether you name the document when you save it you will still get the same dialogs, and the same options, and the same choices,
If I am going to be presented with the same dialogs, and the same options, and the same choices, therein lies the risk that I could accidently overwrite an old document by mistake by assuming I hit Save As... and not just Save, when in fact I had named the document with the same name as another document when I created it
14 minutes ago, GarryP said:I really don’t know how to explain this any better than I have already done so.
I know.
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Software design should minimise the risks involved in its usage
When you save an untitled document, you are presented with the screen to name that document
Adding an option to pre-name your document just adds another layer of risk in overwriting an existing document and adds no benefit to workflow as cited by the OP. The workflow is the same time wise, it's just the risks that are different
It's like the decision to have Hardware Acceleration on as the default. How many users have had their documents crash and lost work because of this being enabled. Only to have to be told to disable it by other users (and even support staff) to stop losing their work. Like it was somehow their mistake to trust the software to make the right decision for them, when we all know hardware acceleration can make you lose a lot of work if it is incompatible with your computer configuration.
Serif even disabled this setting for all AMD graphic cards in the early days as they knew there was a particular problem with them but then reenabled it (as the default!) even knowing it would still cause crashes on some devices.
Software changes that introduce another level of risk need to be evaluated carefully and not just willy-nilly to appease someone that previously used Photoshop or some other software.
1. Customer Service: How can I help you
2. User: I just opened an old document from last month and it now looks like a document I created yesterday.
3. Customer Service: Did the two documents have the same document name?
4. User: Yes, they did
5. Customer Service: Looks like you used our new supa dupa ability to name your document when you created it, not when you first saved it, like you were previously used to doing. You must have misunderstood the warning telling you were going to overwrite a previous document not the one you specifically named at the time you created it
6. User: WTF. How do I recover from this mess. I need that old document back now!
7. Customer Service: The only way is to restore it from a backup. If you don't have a backup then I'm afraid you are totally and utterly screwed.
8. User: I am going to lose my job over this!
9. Customer Service: Not my problem pal, we introduced that option to save you 0.002 seconds in your workflow. It's not our fault if you just blindly accept the inherent risks involved when you use our software....... Is there anything else I can help you with today?
10. User: Yes, sometimes when working on documents they crash and I lose all my work
11. Customer Service: Sir, just switch off the Hardware Acceleration option we enable by default - for Christ's sake don't you users know anything
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I'm talking about inexperienced users in my previous post
27 minutes ago, GarryP said:(The scenario you describe already exists with the Save As functionality and I’ve not heard of anyone who wants to get rid of that because it might let them make a mistake.)
Save As is different, it implies you are saving to a different file name that the document currently has, so the warning would/could be expected
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I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.
I'll let someone else continue with this or the official support staff will be back on Monday for you
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6 minutes ago, Kahrkura said:
but it seems to have done nothing in resetting my brush back to default in the app itself.
Can you elaborate a bit more on exactly what you mean by "resetting my brush back to default"?
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So, I give a document a name when I create it, do a lot of work, then save that document, get a message that states... "That file already exists".
I, on a deadline and without thinking, select "Yes" to overwrite it and loose a very important document with the same name
Way too risky for me and inexperienced users may run into issues with it, losing/overwriting previous work in the process
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12 minutes ago, caroline daniell said:
It indicates that the elements are grouped but when I go back to the actual group on the canvas, each element is separate.
This may be due to a new option in V2
With the Move Tool selected you should see an option in the context toolbar call Auto Select if you change the dropdown next to that to Groups, does selecting an item on the canvas then select the group for you
If not we may need you to upload a full-size screenshot of what you are seeing with the Layers panel in view and the Move Tool selected
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If you select (highlight) 2 layers in the Layers Panel and do Arrange > Group in APhoto
...what happens?
Or Layer > Group in Designer
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Close all Affinity apps
Enter %appdata% in File Explorer then navigate to
....\Affinity\Common\2.0\user\raster_brushes.propcol"
Renaming that file to "raster_brushes.old" will force the app to recreate it when you next start the app
There is also a vector_brushes.propcol file for the vector brushes if you ever need to do that one as well
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in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Many of the components are just the same component resized/rotated/flipped etc so duplicating/reusing those components will reduce the time considerably