JFisher

Hey Allsop, is it a Canon Powershot or another type of bridge camera by chance? These generally have cropping/correction instructions written into the exif data (I presume you're shooting raw?) in order to discard the edges of the frame, which as you can see are unusable. At the moment Photo doesn't read or use these instructions, so it just processes the entire image frame.
 
There are some ways around this:
Coming from a glass-half-full perspective, because Photo isn't discarding any pixel data, you can at least determine exactly how much to crop out. For example, you might want to crop out just some of the edge detail, then use inpainting to try and replace the remaining unusable detail. As Jack has mentioned, in the Develop Persona (when you first open the raw) you can move across to the Lens panel and use Scale to scale the image up and gradually remove the unusable areas. If you're on Mac, you can switch across to Apple's Core Image Raw engine rather than SerifLabs, and this will automatically crop into the image so you'll never see the unusable areas. To do this, in the Develop Persona, click the tuxedo icon on the top toolbar, and change RAW Engine to Apple (Core Image RAW).  
Hope that helps! (Apologies for the bolding, just wanted to highlight key areas of the UI)

Hi Geminitiger

Once you have selected 'Edit in Affinity Photo' from Photos this will open in Affinity directly, once you have made your edits just save the file and close the document in Affinity and this should update in the Photos app for you. 

Thanks Alfred! Still need my morning coffee.. :rolleyes:

Hi Laura
 
Welcome to the forums.
 
The bleed does not show on the preview at the moment, this is being worked on please see the road map from the following link  https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/842-affinity-designer-feature-roadmap/
 
If you increase the svg size by the amount of bleed you require so it overlaps the page by the amount of bleed you are looking for, also when on the export to PDF click the more button and make sure include bleed is selected, this should give you the result you are looking for.

Something I created for the upcoming 40th Anniversary of Star Wars

Hi affbenny, could you provide the image you're working on so I can test this?

Hi Everyone,
 
Its been a while since I posted here! Here is my latest doodle using our apps :)
 
 
All feedback is welcome! 
C

Hi Marco,
 
With the current release driver installed the Pascal architecture supports OpenGL version 4.5 I am running Affinity with my GTX 1070 with no issues and Nvidia is very good at updating there drivers to keep their cards relevant with any future changes to OpenGL and DirectX standards.
 
Regards,
Darren

Hi sportsound,
Welcome to the forums.
 
Once you have opened your main image you can use File > Place, you can then select the background you wish to use. Next with the correct layer selected it will be a case of moving the background into position, if needed you can then use tools such as the Perspective/Mesh warp to adjust if needed.
 
When finished you can use File > Export to create a new file.

Thx for your reply!
However by searching through the other questions I found something related and tried that.
And..... it worked :) .
 
Solution: Hold CTRL+CMD and left (or right) click.
Then you get the option to rename or delete the custom preset.

Hi All,
 
I would first like to welcome Groupy, CDXP and JMM to the forums and say that this is not typically how new users are received on the forum. I am sorry to see this thread has descended into people arguing amongst themselves. I am going to lock this thread to prevent any further bad comments I apologise to any new users that may have wanted help and posted in this thread and encourage you to make a new thread or private message me regarding your issue.
 
 
C

No screenshot! Fixed.
 
The EXIF Studio panel is also available in the Photo Persona. Add it from the View > Studio submenu.

It sounds as though you're working on an image layer, not a pixel layer. Image layers are treated as single objects, so you can only perform global operations such as rotating the image or adding layer effects: you can't work at the pixel level (e.g. for copying a selection). Go to the Layers panel, right-click the layer and choose 'Rasterize...' so that the designation changes from  '(Image)' to  '(Pixel)'.

Hi Greiggy and Welcome to the forums 
 
To copy a selection to a new layer, it should just be the case of making the selection and then CMD+C to copy the selection and then CMD+V to paste.  The selection should get pasted onto its own new layer.
 
I've attached a small screen recording to this reply which shows copying a selection from one picture and pasting it into another.
 
If you are still having trouble, let me know the steps you are taking and i'll be happy to offer further advice.
copy selection.mov

Hi Kasper-v,
 
The first example you have given should be quite easy to reproduce :) If you take a picture of yourself with an empty frame you should then be able to continuously lay the photo ontop of itself using the File > Place functions then use the perspective tools to make it fit within the frame. 
 
I have attached a sample of this below with my beautiful smiley face in it  :P Mine is a little sloppy you may notice I cut my fingers off and instead of a picture frame I'm using a whiteboard but you should get the idea!
 
I will look into possibly recreating the second effect in Affinity and get back to you.
 
 
Thanks
C

Sometimes I can be very lazy in a negative way. Instead of directly checking it out from help. Came online to ask. Too much use of social media. :)
 
Thank you! I will check out the help.

Hi Zunaid

We have quite a lot of information in the help about the function of both the Artistic Text Tool and the Frame Text Tool. This should answer your question for you but if you need any more info let me know! :)

Hi Bobtographer,
 
One thing a lot of people don't understand is we haven't designed a PhotoShop clone we've designed a new app. I'm sorry to hear you couldn't get along with Affinity Photo. If you need any help getting to grips with the app please let me know.
 
Thanks
C

Hi singer_painter

You can install the app on as many machines that you own/control for personal use :)

I solved it myself
  Thank you

problemm solved..many thanks

Hi calerius,
Welcome to the forums.
 
There doesn't seem to be a limit in place, my finger got tired after 350 :) Obviously the more artboards, the more space and resources will be required.

Happy Easter to you and yours from me and mine.

Good afternoon.  I seem to remember somebody posting a design in the resource area of a FB cover size document.  I cannot seem to find it now.  Can anybody provide the link please? John.  Update sorry to post so soon, have now found it.

Hi AHM Photography,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Besides checking if you have a layer selected as JFisher pointed out, make sure you are working with a (Pixel) layer type. You can identify it looking at the label between parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel. If it's labelled as an (Image) layer, right-clik on it and select Rasterise.... You can then use the Blemish Tool as usual.
Image layers are considered an object layer type. They retain all original images attributes and can be transformed globally (scale, rotate, skew) but cannot be edited at a pixel level. You will get a layer of this type when you use the File ▸ Place... command, use the Place Image Tool (Affinity Designer only), or drag an image from Finder or File Explorer to your document in Affinity Photo/Designer.