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Hi kckbxr259, The Layers panel should always show all objects, if you're referring to the area around your canvas. You may have Clip to Canvas enabled, click View > View Mode > Clip To Canvas. If not, if you can send me a screenshot, I'll take a look.

Hi gaboraa, Affinity Photo's Refine Selection panel doesn't have a Contrast feature like PS. It may be worth posting in our Feature Request section of our forum so the developers can look into it.

Hi gorschten, If you select Pantone 234 CP from Pantone Colour Bridge Coated V2, you will get the same CMYK values (18,100,6,18) as the Pantone site is quoting for 234 C & 234 CP. The conversion is using the files supplied to us by Pantone so they will be valid. The values can also be checked once you have exported to PDF. I checked this using InDesign and that uses the same process as we do.

Hi Alex_M, It's not the same as PS but to get a straight line using the Brush Tool, click the canvas first, then holding shift, click another area of the canvas, it will create a straight line between the two points. A feature similar to what you describe has been previously requested and may be something added in the future. Another requested feature is to use the arrow keys to move a crop frame as they do with the Marquee Selection Tools.

Hi cyclicopath, Welcome to the forums. Like most photo editing apps, Affinity Photo has a dedicated section for processing RAW files. The Develop persona allows you to make basic adjustments to your image before switching to the Photo persona for more advanced adjustments. You also have access to tools, such as the Develop assistant which can automatically apply certain adjustments, like lens corrections or they can be done manually from the Lens panel.

Hi Dieter, Deleting these may cause the app not to function correctly, some files such as macros if deleted are recreated by the app on startup

Hi Korbiart, Welcome to the forums. Grouping your layers and then selecting Layer > Merge Visible, this will create a new Pixel layer, while retaining the group.

Hi jbeglaw, Welcome to the forums. When exporting what was the Preset and Resample options set to? Have you tried changing the Resampling to Lanczos? Does the same occur if you export to a different format?

Hi Tuuru, Welcome to the forums. Have you setup a spot colour correctly, on the Swatches panel under the Document palette you should have a swatch for the Pantone colour with a small spot in the bottom right. Are you also exporting to the correct PDF preset, such as PDF X-1a?

Hi David, Welcome to the forums. The option on the File menu can be used to easily import an ICC profile into Affinity Photo. The profile is stored within Photo and isn't available to other apps, it also adds the profile to the Convert and Assign ICC options on the Document menu and the Soft Proofing adjustment. Convert allows the current profile to be converted to another and you can Assign a colour profile as you create a document or at any point during the session. The lists are made up of profiles available to both OS and the app.

Hi Claas, If you place the same Designer file into a document multiple times each one is independent of the other. Improvements such as an option to link documents are planned for the future.

Hi Bento, The search will only apply to the subcategory that's being viewed/open, a general search may be added in the future. Can you try using the current beta of Affinity Designer as this doesn't seem to crash or have any issues when switching subcategories.

Hi Gary, Welcome to the forums. One method is to toggle the Quick Mask, using the selection tool select your object and then click the Quick Mask again to show your selection. Now use Select > Invert Pixel Selection and then apply a Black & White Adjustment then Select > Deselect.

Hi Belmont, Welcome to the forums. It's an issue we are aware of with the Windows version of Affinity Photo. This has been resolved internally and should be in the next available beta for testing.

Hi David, Welcome to the forums. The RAW files are still the original ones, they have been set to open with Affinity Photo by default. If you right click the file and select Get Info and check the Opens with dropdown, try changing it to Preview. The thumbnail may change to a default one, this may be due to macOS not having built in support for that RAW type.

The .DNG file that you uploaded opens in Affinity Photo (1.5.1) in around 10 seconds, and I can apply adjustments without any issues.

Hi Bumblebee, Welcome to the forums. I've tested the current builds on Lion (10.7.5) installed on an older mac we have and they install and open fine. Can you confirm that you downloaded the trials and double clicked to start the extraction which once finished then asks you to drag the icon to the Applications folder. Try holding down the CTRL key and opening the app, a new window will appear, select Clear and then see if this allows the app to open.

Hi BatteriesInc, Using the Colour Replacement Brush Tool in Affinity Photo, you first need to select the colour you wish to change to on the Colour Panel. I'd stick with one of the Basic brushes, you'll have options to adjust on the Context Toolbar like Width, Opacity etc, you can also adjust the Tolerance level. Remember this process will replace the targeted colours hue with the replacement colours hue while retaining lightness.

Hi psycleworkz, Welcome to the forums. The print dialogue in Affinity doesn't have an option for colour separation, this may be added in the future once we've released Affinity Publisher. You could setup spot colours and export to PDF.

Hi Jojoba816, Welcome to the forums. If you aren't seeing thumbnail previews of RAW files when using File > Open for example this will be due to the OS not having built in support for that file type. The supported RAW list for Affinity Photo, lists all the different RAW files that Photo can open, but we don't create the thumbnails for these on the open/browse dialogues.

Hi JJI, Welcome to the forums. I can't seem to reproduce this issue using my MacBook Pro running Sierra, with Affinity Designer open. Once I close the lid wait a few moments and reopen I'm greeted with my password prompt, after that, Designer is still running. Is this happening with any other apps and can you confirm the version of Designer you have installed.

Hi Husbandman, Currently Affinity Designer only supports embedded documents, linked documents may be a feature thats added in the future.

Hi RWells, Welcome to the forums. Affinity Photo doesn't have that feature available, if you think this would make a good future feature. Please post in our Feature Requests section on the forum.

Hi Ronan1888, Welcome to the forums. Are you sure they are PNG files as that format standard doesn't support layers, some apps used to save as layered PNGs but it was unique to those apps. How are you seeing the layers displayed using Preview? Do you have a PDF version of the file which was used to create the PNG file?

Hi darita, If you're printing direct from Designer, you shouldn't need to do anything. Some users export to PDF and as part of the export, everything can be rasterised depending on the option you choose.