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Yes, it definitely does. 

Yes, it definitely does. 

If you use Spaces in macOS, you can assign individual apps to individual desktops via the Dock.
EG - go into Spaces, create a new desktop and give it a grey background. Launch Photo, then ctrl-click its Dock icon. Choose Options... and then Assign to This Desktop.
Next time you open a file in Photo, you'll automatically switch to your grey desktop background.
However...
I discovered while experimenting with this that assigning Photo to the grey desktop also assigns Publisher and Designer to it. Whether this is a bug or a feature or either macOS or the Affinity Suite I do not know.

You beat me to it, @h_d!  I checked the updated video and have noticed that James now says SELECT>Alpha Range>Partially Transparent.   In my directions below I have the version I have used, which was SELECT>ALPHA RANGE>SELECT FULLY TRANSPARENT.  Both settings seem to work. 
Anyway, Welcome to the Forums @Moreteavicar.  @carl123's instructions are correct.  You need to click APPLY,  on the Context Toolbar, not Save or Save As, after you draw your line.  And the line you draw can be angled, either vertically or horizontally, but when you draw across the angle (say up on the left and down on the right) when you click Apply it will become horizontal.  The grid of smaller squares can then be adjusted to fill in the corners of your image,  as perfectly described in the video, and as shown below.  Please forgive the home-made "How To" instructions!  Hope this will also help.
  

I would create a second, blank master page for the 'chapter pages' and apply it to them.

Some ideas (not a tutorial). Photo is definitely the right program to use for it.
Start with a white fill layer and rasterise it. This will give you something akin to Bob's liquid white background.
Use the Paint Mixer brush with different colours, sizes, shapes and strength settings. Experiment!
Use muted colours - Bob paints with pigments, whereas Photo paints with light. Using the RYB setting for the Paint Mixer brush will help with blending.
 
Auto Load Brush will also help. Clicking Clean Brush will make you feel like Bob whacking his brush on his bucket and spattering the film crew.
The rest is just happy little accidents... and I'm not showing you mine 😆
 

Hiya @Ohls and welcome! Hope you didn't feel you were being ignored 
Not that I'm aware of, but it may vary depending on hardware and OS. 
I don't think so, no.
Yes - with the curve selected and the Pen tool active, just select all (Cmd-A on macOS, Ctrl-A on Windows I believe.)

Yes - Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts, Designer, Layer menu, scroll down to the Geometry commands and type your shortcut into the box.

(Same procedure for macOS and Windows.)
Cheers,
H
 

Not quite right. There is no one "correct interpretation" for how a RAW file should be developed. While that may sound absurd, why this is so is explained in great detail in the Spotlight article RAW Actually.

In Publisher, switch to Designer Persona.
From the Select menu, choose Select Object > Embedded Document.
In the Layers panel they will all be selected. Change the blend mode to Darken.
Switch back to Publisher Persona.
Hope this (or a variation) works for you.
If only... (sobs quietly in a corner).

Nah, I figured most people would miss the post.
 
Thank you so much for the help. I feel quite stupid now to not realizing I could just select all to get all the handles 😅!

Hiya @Ohls and welcome! Hope you didn't feel you were being ignored 
Not that I'm aware of, but it may vary depending on hardware and OS. 
I don't think so, no.
Yes - with the curve selected and the Pen tool active, just select all (Cmd-A on macOS, Ctrl-A on Windows I believe.)

Yes - Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts, Designer, Layer menu, scroll down to the Geometry commands and type your shortcut into the box.

(Same procedure for macOS and Windows.)
Cheers,
H
 

Invision (the provider of these forums) recently released a version 1.0.1 'Community' app, that allows for Invision customers to add their forums to a 'directory of communities' that you can access through their app.
This requires the Affinity Forums to be using Invision 4.5, which is the version we've just recently updated to - however I don't believe we have any plans to add our forums to this 'community' app at this time, though I will raise this with the relevant teams to see if it's something we might be interested in, in the future.
In the meantime as mentioned above, the Affinity Forums are a responsive design and should function fully from any mobile browser.
This 'title' directly under your username (Member) is set automatically by the forums and relates to the number of posts you have made. If you wish to change this you can do so by visiting your Profile page and selecting 'Edit Profile' in the top right. The first option here is Member Title and you should be able to change this as you wish.
The second 'title' under your profile picture (Members) relates to the 'Group' that your account is assigned to for the forums, this cannot be changed and is set automatically by our Group Promotions rules in the background.
I hope this clears things up

All I can tell you, having recently reached it, is that you get four blobs at 1000 posts. (Where has my life gone?)
At some point (certainly on three blobs) you can customise your title on your profile page.
The version of the website on my phone (iOS 14, Safari) has a different layout from the desktop version and works quite well, although it's not an app as such.

You had me worried for a second...

@h_d nevermind. I found the changes. I've never used that history feature before. You're teaching me a lot. Ha

@h_d Thank you for this. 

... One of the problems with following Photoshop tutorials using Affinity Photo is that you have to be pretty familiar with both programs in order to understand the concepts - and the differences between them. Not saying it's not possible, it's just an added layer of complexity, which may not be ideal if you're of an impatient persuasion. 

... One of the problems with following Photoshop tutorials using Affinity Photo is that you have to be pretty familiar with both programs in order to understand the concepts - and the differences between them. Not saying it's not possible, it's just an added layer of complexity, which may not be ideal if you're of an impatient persuasion. 

Some ideas (not a tutorial). Photo is definitely the right program to use for it.
Start with a white fill layer and rasterise it. This will give you something akin to Bob's liquid white background.
Use the Paint Mixer brush with different colours, sizes, shapes and strength settings. Experiment!
Use muted colours - Bob paints with pigments, whereas Photo paints with light. Using the RYB setting for the Paint Mixer brush will help with blending.
 
Auto Load Brush will also help. Clicking Clean Brush will make you feel like Bob whacking his brush on his bucket and spattering the film crew.
The rest is just happy little accidents... and I'm not showing you mine 😆
 

... One of the problems with following Photoshop tutorials using Affinity Photo is that you have to be pretty familiar with both programs in order to understand the concepts - and the differences between them. Not saying it's not possible, it's just an added layer of complexity, which may not be ideal if you're of an impatient persuasion. 

Aloha @h_d,
So it was just staring me in the face. 🤦‍♂️ Thank you very much for your reply and helping me resolve the issue.
 
Mahalos again,
 
Sayre

Hi @Sayre  and welcome!
It's your bottom margin setting. It looks to be around the same depth as the page, but it needs to be in a similar range to the other three margins. With similar settings I get exactly the same as you. To illustrate, here's a Guides setup with the bottom margin approximately half the depth of the page:
 

The bottom margin is measured from the bottom of the page.
 
Cheers,
H

Absolutely not @MEB. My comment was just a rather feeble attempt at humour, which I should have remembered tends not to translate well over the internet.
I've attached an .afphoto document with the history saved. The original isn't heavily pixelated and at anything up to 100% magnification the lines are quite smooth. I also reduced the size of the screen shot in the forum software which may have contributed to the smoothing.
Anyway, it's not the effect @Gregory Dubus wanted in any case 😃
Best,
H
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You all have offered a lot of useful insight, thank you. I will probably have to end up doing a combination of shrinking the whole field and applying some text wrap. Can't overstate your helpfulness here, friends. Thank you.

Ah yes, hadn't thought. If you're on macOS you can export as PDF and then use Automator, without sending your text to be read by an online converter: