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Hi chris82, Once Affinity Publisher is ready for beta we will make an announcement letting everyone know and where can sign up to beta test. However we don't have an eta yet on when this will be,

Hi bsitler, Welcome to the forums. Affinity Designer will work on a Surface tablet , we have one here for testing. As it's Windows 10 the UI is the same as the Desktop. Our trials are currently being updated to include new features added into the 1.5 updates. These will be available soon from our site for both Mac and Windows.

Hi John, Welcome to the forums. It sounds like you are using the selection tool and copying the object correctly. When you switch to the other photo and use Edit > Paste, a new layer will be created. You want to make sure the new layer is checked as this makes it visible and highlighted, if you can't see anything you may need to zoom out as it may be out of view. Once zoomed out you should see the bounding box, using the Move Tool, move it back over the image and you should be able to see it and then resize as required.

Hi Petar, You didn't mention it, my understanding is that you want to use the Common folder to store third party addons such as brushes. What I stating is that folder is removed if the apps are uninstalled from the system. Basically that folder wasn't designed to be used as storage for other items apart from the files it contains by default. This is why I also mentioned the method I use to store/organise third party addons and any extras.

Hi calenchen, Welcome to the forums. Which OS are you using? if you go into the apps Preferences > General, is Automatically Hide Extension checked?

Hi shingiku, Welcome to the forums. Affinity Photo has automatic lens correction included, since the 1.5 update was released. We use Lensfuns database for our auto corrections and this is always being updated. This can be turned off in the Develop Asistant so you have to manually adjust the image in the Develop persona.

Hi Petar, The Common folder would also be removed if you uninstalled the app from the system, unless you had both installed. Then it will only be removed if both apps where uninstalled. Another potential issue is if any of the files in the folder get deleted by mistake, you then have to go through the trouble of replacing them. My personal approach is to have a "Affinity Resources" folder sitting in my Documents folder or the root of my HDD. Within this I have other folders for each resource such as Brushes, Palettes, Macros, Stock images etc. that I may use and I copy or move the folder if needed to another system.

Hi bajqo, If the file is now showing as 0kb they may not be anything of the file to recover. If the app had crashed, on reopening it would restore a version from the temp folder. Do you have a Time Machine backup you can revert to?

Hi MikeThinks, Welcome to the forums. I've having trouble reproducing this on my system, I may be missing a step or two. I've started a new document, setting the Colour Format to CMYK/8. I then inserted a quickshape on the page and set the colour by using the CMYK sliders on the Colour tab. With the shape still selected I click on the Fill window on the Context toolbar, revealing the dropdown, switch to the Colour tab and CMYK sliders and the colour values are the same the other Colour tab.

Hi Graham, Are you able to provide a link to the images you are HDR merging so I can take a look to see if it reproduces on my system.

Hi shiphayhill, Welcome to the forums. On my Windows 10 system Affinity Photo takes around 7 to 8 seconds to load to the Welcome screen, which isn't too bad. My system is nothing special Intel i3-4130 @ 3.40 with 8GB of RAM running Windows 10 64Bit. Have you noticed when you get the "Not Responding" if you are doing something particular in the app or using the same tool, are there any other apps running in Windows that may be interfering with ours.

Hi Graeme, Welcome to the forums. Start a new document, don't forget to check the Transparent Background option. Now design your watermark, when you have finished you want to use File > Export and Select PNG as export format. It's then just a case of providing a filename and a location to save the file to.

Hi LimelightTile, Welcome to the forums. I've opened your exported PDF's in a few programs to check them: Adobe Reader displays a blank page, this is due to a page size limit Adobe has, if you do a quick internet search you'll get plenty of results with the same issue. Adobe Illustrator opens the PDF file and displays the contents Foxit Reader this PDF viewer doesn't have a page size limit and opens and views the PDF. My advice would be to download and install Foxit Reader or to design your PDF files so they can be scaled up. This would allow you to view the PDF's in Adobe Reader but also print them at the size you want.

Can you follow the steps below, this will create an installation log for us to look into. Press the Windows Key + R to bring up the Run Dialog. Drag the downloaded setup file e.g affinity-photo-1.5.0.45.exe into the Run Dialog window. You should get the following – my downloaded file was on my desktop, be sure to change the username section to your Windows username excluding the brackets. After this add /log to so it reads C:\Users\{yourusername}\Desktop\affinity-photo-1.5.0.45.exe /log and then press OK – the installation will start as normal. You can access the install.log by navigating to %TEMP%/AffinitySetup/ from the Run Dialog. You will want the folder with the latest Created/Modified Date.

Hi gswartz, Welcome to the forms. You can copy a layer from one opened document to another, with the layer selected, right click and copy. Now just switch to the other document and Edit > Paste, this works for multiple layers. To transform a selection, make the your selection using one of the selection tools. Now enable the Quick Mask mode, now switch to the Move Tool, you can now adjust the selection, then just turn of Quick Mask mode.

Hi dogcow, At the moment we have a simple option in our apps Preferences to enable/disable Touchbar support. As development continues more features will be added and customization of the Touchbar for Affinity apps will hopefully be one.

Hi kedesol, Welcome to the forums. I've just done a quick test in Affinity Designer (Mac) using a font named Saumil_guj2 and typed "asd". You can see the result in the attached screenshot, can you confirm if this is correct. Can you also attached the font files you're using so I can do some further testing on Mac OSX and Windows. Do the same fonts work as expected in other apps you have installed, such as Textedit or Pages?

Hi American, Welcome to the forums. If when you "paint" with the Inpainting tool, it should highlight the area red. If it doesn't highlight please make sure you have the correct Layer selected on the Layers tab. If you've just opened an image to edit, this will be more than likely the Background layer.

Hi Azizur, Welcome to the forums. At the moment which version of .Net Framework does your system have installed? Our app requires .Net 4.6.2 which you can download an offline installer from here. If this installation is rolling back, it may suggest an issue with Windows, try the suggestions on this support post I found with a similar rollback issue with .Net Once you have confirmed .Net 4.6.2 is successfully installed in Windows, run the setup for Affinity. If our installer gives any messages, please let me know what they say. Also which version of Windows are you running?

Thanks for the screenshot, but I need it to show the email address and password entered, so I can check them. **Send an email with the screenshot to affinity@serif.com with the subject FAO Lee D-Product Key.

Have you tried any other RAW files from that site? try opening some JPEG or PNG files. Which OS are you using and can you confirm the version of Affinity Photo you have installed (Help > About)

Hi Gio44, Welcome to the forums. Affinity Photo for Windows can be installed on more than one Windows system, as long as it meets the system specifications. Can you please PM me a screenshot of the message you receive, showing the email address and product key entered. As I don't want your information to be available for everyone to see on here.

For whatever reason the issue seems to relate to your system and not an inherent issue with the app. Try resetting the app, hold down the CTRL key and click the Affinity Photo icon and select Open, once a new window appears release the CTRL key. Now click Clear the program will continue to open. Could you upload one of the NEF files you're attempting to open to Dropbox or something similar and provide me with a link, just so I can try opening it my system.

Hi VectorCat, Only Designer and Photo can open our files, perhaps make a copy of your file and then export it to a format that one of the iOSs apps do support for you to continue working on. However you then will have two files out of sync with each other or one in a format that Designer may not open correctly.

Hi Lindsay, I've tested NEF files from a Nikon D610 and they load fine for me on both Mac and Windows versions of Affinity Photo. NEF files from my Nikons also load fine (D800 & D300). You you have access to any other RAW file type, do other formats such as JPEG open OK. Try downloading a few sample RAW files from this site, go to Camera Reviews, select you make and then model, when the review loads click Sample Images at the top and then scroll down the page until you come to the RAW files. Also just make sure the camera you select in on our supported RAW list. Also are any other programs running when Affinity Photo crashes, where are the RAW files stored, if on an external drive, try moving afew to the Desktop and then opening.