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Yes, that way works fine for me as well.

Symbols are only available in Affinity Designer - it seems from the title that the OP is using Publisher. In my limited testing on macOS 10.15 running .afpub 1.7.3, if I place (link) multiple original Publisher documents into a second Publisher document, as described by Callum, and then double-click on one of them in the destination document, I get an Embedded version of the source ("small") document, not the Linked original. Any changes made to the Embedded version are not reflected in other iterations of the linked document. In order to update all iterations of the source, I have to open the original Linked document separately, via Finder (on Mac, I guess Windows Explorer on Windows), and edit it. I may be wrong...

Hi @Chris B Sorry for the delayed reply, only just seen your post. I'm afraid I'm still seeing the same behaviour with build .166 It also affects vector masks created with shape tools (eg a rectangle). Below I've masked with a rectangle, I move the rectangle around and I have to zoom in and out to update the mask. I then convert the rectangle to a curve, modify the shape with the Node tool and then move the curve around. Again I have to zoom in and out: Screen Recording 2020-02-19 at 18.36.21.mov Catalina, Metal Compute enabled. MacBook Pro 2018 15", Radeon Pro Vega 20 4GB, but the graphics card doesn't appear to be kicking in with this build of Photo.

No-one knows (except possibly Serif staff), but you can check out the latest betas here. If you have purchased the retail versions, you can run the betas in parallel without affecting your original installation.

Hi @Patrick Connor Yes, this appears to be fixed for me in 1.8.0.166. Best, H

Your original question was about rectangles and didn't mention pictures. Sounds like you're on your way to solving it though. Cheers, H

Presumably you're switching from Designer Persona to Pixel Persona between deselecting the rectangle and using the Flood Fill Tool? (There is no Rectangle Tool in the latter, and no Flood Fill Tool in the former.) If so, the simple answer is don't deselect the rectangle. When you click the colour swatch, the rectangle will be filled without any need to use Flood Fill. If you do deselect the rectangle, by default Designer will assume you mean to use the Flood Fill across the entire document, and create a new Pixel layer be which will be filled with your chosen colour. You can change this default behaviour by going to View - Assistant Manager... and changing the first option: You can reselect the rectangle while you're in Pixel Persona by clicking on it in the Layers Panel.

Hi @Carlton picture and welcome! 😀 What happens if you click the 'hamburger' at the top of the Library panel and then choose Create New Category?

Hi @GeekyGal and welcome to the forums! 😀 You can't quite do that, but you can use guides. First pull down the View menu and make sure Show Guides and Show Rulers are enabled. You can then drag in editable, adjustable guides from the left ruler (vertical) and the topic ruler (horizontal). You can also use the Guides Manager and Snapping Manager to control how tools work with guides, adjust guides precisely and more. Cheers, H

Hi @Dan freeman, this is the Affinity on Desktop forum and we're talking specifically about the current macOS beta of Affinity Photo. I don't know if it's been rolled out to the iPad version yet. Cheers, H

I don't know if this will work for an imported PDF, but this is how you find and replace coloured text in a Publisher text frame: In the Find and Replace panel, click the cog next to Find and choose Format: In the Choose Format dialog, click Colour & Decorations and then Text fill: Specify the CMYK values you want to find using the sliders, then click OK. Back in the Find and Replace panel, click the Find button at the bottom to make sure it's working: Then go through the same procedure in the Replace with box (click cog etc..., specify your replacement colour), and finally click Replace All. Hope this works - Publisher isn't primarily a PDF editor, it's a page layout program.

Hi and welcome to the Forums! It would be worth checking here to see if your camera is supported. If you're able to upload a .raf file it might also help others to resolve the issue, and possibly a screenshot of your settings before you develop. Cheers, H

Err this is an Affinity forum, not Capture One...

Standing on the shoulders of giants here, but a doughnut as the background to the cog would give the same effect for a little less effort.

Use the Stroke panel to set the stroke (or outline) to No Line style (the white circle with the red line through it):

Another possibility is to display the Swatches panel. At the top of that is a list of recent colours. Highlight the B, then click the red swatch. Cheers, H

@Andy Somerfield, with these betas you are really spoiling us

Hi, Thanks for the latest beta😀 I'm seeing intermittent white rectangles when using a High Pass live filter. Screen Recording 2020-02-17 at 08.29.18.mov MacOS 10.15, MacBook Pro 2018 15", Retina display, Metal enabled. Image viewed at 99.4%. Cheers, H

Have a look at the Retouch Tools in Help, especially Burn, Dodge and Sharpen. . But you can also select the area you want to modify (the Selection Brush Tool works well for this) and then add an Adjustment Layer. This will be masked to your selection, so you can deselect and then modify the adjustments, which will only affect the area you selected. Additionally, you can apply an Adjustment Layer to the entire image, invert it and paint white onto the Adjustment Layer to apply the adjustment to your painted area.

"You're only as good as your last save," feller say.

Routers have come on a bit since woodwork classes!

Pull down the Layer menu and choose New Layer. Alternatively, click the little chequerboard icon at the bottom of the Layers panel: Either of these methods will give you a new empty pixel layer, labelled (Pixel), above the currently selected layer. You can drag it down to the bottom of the layer list if required: If you use any of the painting tools in a new doc without any layers, a new pixel layer is created automatically. Click on the layer in the list, Select All from the Edit menu, press delete. One possible source of confusion with Affinity Photo is that if you open an existing image (say a .jpg), the initial image layer is named Background. This isn't the same as the transparent "Background" you can see behind the image (chequered pattern) if you delete parts of it. Can you post a screen grab of your image including the layer list? It would make it easier to understand what you're trying to accomplish.

If you start with a polygon and type in the number of sides at 100 or so, you get something so close to a circle that I don't think anyone's going to fault it. You can drag that down to four sides to get a square, but it's on its corner and would need to be rotated.

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