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I can confirm having experienced this just a few days ago when trying to apply a gradient to multiple fills.

Try this: launch Affinity go to  menu → System Preferences → Displays and temporarily change the display resolution

I don't know the old Serif apps, but in Affinity you can go "backwards": shrink the text frame to fit the text by double-clicking a center handle on the bounding box drag the "extra" resize handle at bottom right

I had the same thought this morning upon looking at the Canva website, having just watched a Picard season 2 episode last night…

The question here being if all those juicy items in the timeline under the "Beta" and "1.0" headers still belong to the "2025" section…

Have you also looked at the roadmap timeline?

System Events UI scripting via Automator or Shortcuts.app or a 3rd party macro tool like Keyboard Maestro.

If you want to be using the color picker anywhere outside the main Affinity window, you definitely want to allow this.

Agreed. In another "concurrent" forum thread I also mentioned two positive examples from the music business: Apple acquiring Emagic (Logic Pro), and Yamaha acquiring Line 6 (Pod and Helix amp/effect modelers). Those products only got better over the years. Caveat: From what I've seen and read so far though, Canva apparently doesn't have the professionals' credibility that Apple or Yamaha have.

Agreed. As designers, many of us have been burned. FreeHand and iView Media, just to name the two major victims I used to be using. But not every such acquisition ends up that badly. Some examples from my alternate musician-self: Apple buying Emagic Logic 20 years ago? What an amazing tool Logic is today! And apparently still developed by the same Emagic team. (Alright, Apple going subscription model with the new Logic for iPad smells fishy though…) Yamaha swallowing Line 6? Buying their HX Stomp amp and effect modeler was my best music gear investment in literally four decades being an active musician! Hard to tell if the Line 6 company had all the resources without Yamaha backing. So, also with Affinity it still can continue pretty well.

@Bryan Rieger, I get that. So… personally, I still have a few years ahead until official retirement, but I've been already slowly withdrawing from all this design business anyway. I may be a designer by profession, but I've always been a musician at heart. That's what I'm definitely gonna do for as long as my fingers and eardrums will allow. For the design work that I will choose to do, Affinity 2 will still do a good job for many years to come. I mean, as of 2024 I can still be creative using Affinity 1 on a MacBook Pro from 2008 if necessary. It's a bit slow but it still works. Will I pay any subscription, should this happen with v3? No friggin' way. Will I pay for a v3 perpetual license now that Serif is being owned by a huge company? Thinking of it today, unlikely. I'll wait and see.

Nowhere. Has Affinity 2.4.1 suddenly stopped working as of this morning?

An astounding prophecy has been made in this post: And one half of it has now become reality.

Same here Frankly, in late 2019, early 2020 it was the time when I was finally ready to leave Adobe CS5.5 behind and switch my workflow to the Affinity Suite. Don't worry, occasionally I have such moments too… In fact, it already happened that I had to search the forums for my own advices I gave others years ago. Yesterday I actually noticed some odd color picker behavior when attempting to pick a color for a gradient stop. Looked like a bug to me. But I didn't investigate it any further since I was actually focused on something else.

Yes, that's possible: click the preview to open the gallery mode ctrl/rightclick and select "Open image in new tab" (or similar, depending on browser used) to download, drag and drop the image to Finder (on Mac) Yep, I'm getting the same result with Focus Merge. Not exactly "great". Using New Stack and then fine-tune-align and mask manually will probably give better results. But frankly, I'm no expert on this kind of tasks as I've never had any "real world use" for those two features yet. Usually I'm making a lot of use of the Panorama mode which may work in this scenario just as well by simply masking/unmasking those parts I want to show or hide.

Why not actually start at the source? affinity.serif.com/learn/photo/desktop And from there go directly to youtube.com/@AffinityPhotoOfficial/search?query=focus stack

This is interesting though. I didn't know that. Given that 5 years later, those platforms still work as expected within Affinity, this gives somewhat confidence that Serif knew what they were doing when accepting the offer. Unless it was "an offer Serif couldn't refuse"…

At first I thought this is an April 1st joke that accidentally fired off too early.

When learning to use a new complex tool like the Affinity suite, watching tutorials and reading help files in advance can save hours, sometimes even days of one's life… I remember when I started to work with QuarkXPress 3, it was so different from PageMaker 4 which I already knew by heart. I was quite lost at first. Then I went out and bought the "QuarkXPress Insiderbuch" by Samuel Hügli. It took me perhaps two nights of my life to read it through and to make notes. But for the years to follow, the knowledge I gained from it saved me so much time that this investment was worth it.

@Manuel217, just out of curiosity I tried to create similarly blurred vector shapes using gradient mesh in VectorStyler which is technically possible, but I got stuck due to the complexity and Featuritis™ issues of the app (my patience for figuring out how tools works is sometimes limited…) In any case, if gradient mesh is something you'd need right now, VectorStyler can do that – if you can actually figure out how, that is. You can't always copy & paste everything from VS into Affinity but you can always place a PDF exported from VS. The app is currently on sale, which is a pretty good offer. I'm using it sometimes as a sort of "Affinity plugin".

Layer effects are pixel based and will always rasterize. If you want vector gradients to transparency, you must use vector shapes with gradient fills and opacity values. This can become difficult, however, because Affinity still doesn't support gradient mesh or gradients along a curve. But it is possible to work around by using multiple stacked fills and blend modes via the Appearance panel, as long as the object isn't too complex. ^ Actually that will likely not work, as it seems… In theory it could, and I vaguely remember having experimented with something similar, but I can't reproduce it right now off the top of my head…

Your image is an "Image" type layer which is kind of a "smart object". When you make a marquee selection and try to copy it, it can only copy the whole layer again. To copy an actual pixel selection, you must first rasterize the selected layer (or a copy thereof).

In the mythical "perfect world", yes. In the real world, however, e.g. even Apple has totally messed this up, as we have noticed just recently upon my bug report to the PixlPath developer: https://pixlpath.com/blog.html#2024_03_05 From my (limited) experience with a few cross-platform apps, XnViewMP is pretty good at writing metadata losslessly. It can be even configured not to change the modification date while doing so.

I think that's to be expected. APh is no metadata editor by definition.

I still think that the only "bug" here is that the help content hasn't been properly updated from v1. v1: v2: See the difference? Yep, there's none… Because what's the point of adding a single image as a "regular child" to a picture frame, of all things? That's exactly what was confusing me many times in v1: I always thought that the picture frame was "broken" while I was only dragging the image to the wrong spot. V2 fixed that. For me. But that's just me, as usual, I guess. Meh.