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Make sure you have a transparent background: Then use the Flood Select tool. Click in each bus window to create a selection, then press delete/backspace: Cheers, H

Should work the same for both of us. It's late here in Ipswich & I may not answer very succinctly, but... Paragraph spacing: I didn't make any modifications to the styles in the small index I created in the shots above, so the default index style, which is based on Base, is picking up a "Space After" (not leading) of 12pt from the Base style. If I edit Base, changing 12pt to 0pt, then the paragraph spacing of my index closes up: Indentation: If you apply your own Body text style directly to every element of the index, then any incremental indentation will be overridden. You need to start by defining Base, then Body from that, and then generate the index - the indentation of the automatically named and numbered Index Entry [x] styles will be applied automatically with your own font, spacing and alignment settings carried through. You can then modify the individual index styles to adjust the indentation. I'll try to put something together which describes the process, but it won't be tonight. Meanwhile, look at the "Based on" element of the numbered Index Entry styles and track back through the original Index Entry, then Index, to find where the additional spacing is coming from: Numbering inconsistency: Looking at your screen shots, the page numbers in the index panel don't match up to the entries in the index on the page. That would explain why double-clicking on an index entry takes you to a differently numbered page, but I don't know what you have done to make that happen. It could be to do with section numbering, (the consistent difference of 16 pages between index panel and index may be significant), but without seeing the entire document it's impossible to tell. Cheers, H

Hi @skytop and welcome! What happens if you search for it, either using Spotlight (Cmd+Space by default) or a Finder search (Cmd-F)? If it runs from the Dock, then it's somewhere on the MacBook. Also, did you buy it from the Apple App Store or direct from Affinity?

How are you creating the sub-topics? If I set up an index and add sub-topics through the Index panel, my Text Styles panel automagically creates new numbered "Index Entry [x]" styles which are incrementally indented: You can of course edit these styles by clicking the 'hamburger' menu button to the right of each one and modifying the settings, including the indentation. Cheers, H

What I believe you're seeing there is the Adobe Colour Themes extension. There's nothing exactly like it in the Affinity apps in terms of pre-defined colour combinations, but you can create a variety of colour chords based on current fill colour and add them to a palette:

Out of interest how are you achieving that Walt? I get this (with both yellow above blue and blue above yellow), top layer set to Vivid Light, bottom layer set to Normal in both cases: (Affinity Photo Beta for Mac 1.9.0.199)

Red, blue and yellow, as in @Renaki_022's example, are primary colours in terms of pigments and painting on paper, but not on computer screens. On computer and TV screens, based on the light receptors in the human eye, the primary colours (aka additive primaries) are red, blue and green, as in @GarryP's example. (The subtractive primaries cyan, magenta and yellow are used for colour printing - along with black.) Colour theory is a huge subject, but basically mixing colours on a computer screen doesn't work in the same way as it does on paper, and the only way to achieve the 'on paper' colour wheel in the OP's request is most likely going to be to create a complex shape with a separate fill for each segment. (Try mixing yellow and blue on screen to achieve green, for example, using any blend mode.)

If you're having to press backspace to close up the gaps, the chances are that there are extra return characters between the paragraphs. To check this, pull down the Text menu and choose Show Special Characters: This will display paragraph breaks as a sort of reversed P:: One at the end of each paragraph, one in between. To remove them quickly, do a Find and Replace (Cmd-F on Mac, probably Ctrl-F on PC). In the Find box, click the magnifying glass and choose Special Characters - Paragraph Break: . Do this once again in the Find box, and just once in the Replace box, then double-click in the Find box to show results:: Then click Replace All: This has removed my double paragraph breaks, but I still have space between the paragraphs because my text styles are set up that way. If you need to remove more space, or the above doesn't work, post back. Cheers, H

Hi @Kahuna and welcome! This is absolutely the correct place to ask this! Make sure that the green and red pointers are at the top of the circle, then use the Paragraph panel to set the alignment to Justified:All Cheers, H

Screen Recording 2020-10-25 at 14.03.47.mov Don't use the Adjustment panel...

You can hide the presets by clicking on the word "Levels" in the Adjustment panel: Alternatively, you can close the Adjustment panel and use the pull-down menu in the Layers panel, as suggested by @GarryP

Not that I'm aware of, trick or no trick

There's a risk that anything you've created and/or saved using the 1.9 beta won't be openable using 1.8.4.

How to capture a screenshot. (Apple Support website) The file should be saved to your desktop. On this forum, you can then click choose files, and add it to your post:

It sounds to me as though you're trying to edit the images directly from the Apple Photos database. This is a bad idea as it can corrupt your Apple Photos database and make it unusable. If you need to edit pictures in Affinity Photo without using the "Edit in Affinity...' command in Apple Photos, then either export the images from Apple Photos to your Documents folder (or elsewhere) first and then open them in Affinity Photo; or don't import them into Apple Photos but drag them from your SD card into Documents (or elsewhere) and then open and edit with Affinity Photo. Also, if you can't see "Documents" etc when you try to export, you may need to click this button: Hope this helps - post back if you need more info. H

I feared as much.

I don't think Affinity/Serif has any control over the size or layout of the NIK interface. And there's nothing in the NIK interface settings that lets you increase the size of the text or the panels: Perhaps click the "Improve the NIK Collection" button and make a suggestion to the NIK developers? The only other thing I can suggest is experiment with different monitor resolutions, but that will affect all your other apps as well so it's not an ideal solution. Cheers, H

You can import styles from an existing document via the 'hamburger' menu in the Text Styles panel:

Nothing if you've got a backup. But don't hold me responsible

You can, but it will be somewhat complicated, and I don't know if it will carry over to the TOC. I can only see it working if your original document is not set up with facing pages. Suppose you have a 12-page document, and you insert a new page after page 3. It is actually page 4, but you want it to be page 3A. Edit the page number for this page - change it to Previous Frame Page Number and type an A after the number. Now use Document - Section Manager to create a new section starting on page 5. Restart the numbering sequence at 4: Page 5 of the document is now numbered 4, page 6 is numbered 5, up to page 13 which is numbered 12. You can repeat this as many times as you want, remembering that every time you create a section the difference between the number of pages in the document and the page number on the last page will be increased by one. I don't know what effect this would have on the TOC or index. At the end of the day, if you increase the number of pages the underlying page numbers will also increase.

My suggestion would be first to make a backup copy in case things go pear-shaped. Then open the document, zoom quite a way out, drag all the unwanted frames off the pages into the pasteboard area, and make sure you've flowed the master text frames: Then click into one of the unwanted text frames, Select All the text, Cut the text, click into one of the master frames and Paste: You can then delete the unwanted text frames. Hope that helps, H

Hi @pkmanuel and welcome! First possibility is that she may have closed the Brushes palette. Has she tried View - Studio - Brushes?

It may be down to hardware specs rather than OS or application version. I selected all the layers (click on the top layer, shift-click on the bottom layer) and then ran Merge Selected (Shift+Cmd+e), and got a SBOD for about 30 seconds, but then it did merge: Lieutenant Commander Scott has been there before you:

You can drag whole pages around the Pages panel to re-order them, but AFAIK you can't drag individual content items between pages in the Pages panel, as it appears the OP requested. The best I can suggest is to reduce the view to a very small percentage (depends on your screen size, I went down to around 6.5%) so you can see all the pages, and then drag items on and off the pages, using the grey background as a pasteboard: Screen Recording 2020-10-23 at 15.54.48.mov Hope this helps, H