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    h_d reacted to PaulEC in Blur brush foxes me.   
    It's shown in the video: Select the mask then,  "Layer - Invert" (or Ctrl/Command + I)
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    h_d got a reaction from iconoclast in Blur brush foxes me.   
    The blur brush is very very subtle and quite slow. If you want to paint an immediate, strong blur effect onto your image, start off with a Gaussian Blur filter layer masked to the image (as you did to start with), then set an overall blur:

    Screen Recording 2022-04-23 at 11.03.44.mp4  
    In the video above, I invert the blur layer to black, then paint on the blur layer with an ordinary paint brush (not the blur brush) set to white with fairly soft edges. You can make the effect more subtle by reducing the opacity of the brush (Add:  or indeed by adjusting the parameters in the Gaussian Blur layer).
     (I think the bug with the Blur Brush preview has been reported before...)
     
     
     
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    h_d got a reaction from PaulEC in Blur brush foxes me.   
    The blur brush is very very subtle and quite slow. If you want to paint an immediate, strong blur effect onto your image, start off with a Gaussian Blur filter layer masked to the image (as you did to start with), then set an overall blur:

    Screen Recording 2022-04-23 at 11.03.44.mp4  
    In the video above, I invert the blur layer to black, then paint on the blur layer with an ordinary paint brush (not the blur brush) set to white with fairly soft edges. You can make the effect more subtle by reducing the opacity of the brush (Add:  or indeed by adjusting the parameters in the Gaussian Blur layer).
     (I think the bug with the Blur Brush preview has been reported before...)
     
     
     
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    h_d reacted to Old Bruce in [Publisher] Make photos spread cover   
    Further to my first comment:

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    h_d got a reaction from Komatös in Black and White Photos Do I Need to Buy Color Filters?   
    As I understand it, raw files are always saved in colour, and even if you set your camera to shoot in monochrome (.jpg format), the resulting image will almost certainly be saved in an RGB colour space.
    Affinity Photo will convert such images to true greyscale, but there are no specific settings or adjustments to replicate colour filters. There are various adjustments - for example Levels and Curves - that may get you the effect that you want, but would need a fair bit of experimentation.
    It's also quite possible that colour filter settings are available in-camera. Certainly on my Panasonic GX-9 I can set up to shoot monochrome and apply red, orange, yellow and green 'filter effects'. How closely they correspond to a physical filter with black-and-white film I'm not really qualified to say.
    I would say if you want to get the true effect of an orange filter, then buy one, shoot 'pseudo-monochrome', and then use Affinity Photo to convert your images to true greyscale. An alternative might be to buy (at some cost) a dedicated monochrome effects program like Silver Efex Pro.
     
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    h_d reacted to foto-grafic in I cannot store color profile   
    @h_d

    Your advice turned out to be right;
    I exported the file from Photo as .TIFF - I replaced the PNG with the TIFF in Publisher and the result is positive.
    Thanks again for the competent help ...
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    h_d got a reaction from Billy2022 in So slowwww start up of Affinity Photo why?   
    Just for the sake of completeness, here's me launching, quitting and then re-launching all three Affinity apps after restarting my 2018 MacBook Pro:

    Screen Recording 2022-04-16 at 14.15.29.mp4  
    Remember, I bought Photo and Designer from the Apple App Store and Publisher direct from Serif.
    In sequence, I launch Photo (40+ bounces), then Designer (40+ bounces), then Publisher (six or seven bounces). I then quit Photo, Designer and Publisher (the dots in the Dock disappear as they quit). I then relaunch Photo, Designer and finally Publisher. On the second launches, all three apps become active after around four or five bounces.
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    h_d got a reaction from v_kyr in So slowwww start up of Affinity Photo why?   
    Did you buy it from the Apple App Store or direct from Serif? And if the former, does it happen every time you launch or only after a reboot/logout/couple of days' non-use?
    If so, you might want to read some of the 130+ posts in this thread.
    It may be down to an issue with Apple security and sandboxing which Serif never seem to have properly sorted out. (Every other developer on the App Store seems to have managed it, so go figure...)
    It happens to me under the circumstances I've outlined above - on first launch, the application icon bounces 30 or 40 times in the Dock before the splash screen appears and the application interface becomes available.
    It happens with Photo and Designer, which I bought from the Apple App Store, but never with Publisher, which I bought direct from Serif.
    I would say it happens more frequently with Monterey than with earlier versions of macOS. I may be wrong.
    And no, I don't have large numbers of fonts installed.
    And as for "binning the product", that's up to you. Personally it's one of those things I've learned to put up with.
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    h_d reacted to Billy2022 in So slowwww start up of Affinity Photo why?   
    OMG yes! I guess I just buy a skipping rope and jump for each bounce waiting for it to open lol
     
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    h_d got a reaction from Alfred in How to make small indexed png8 files?   
    You've got some bottle.
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    h_d reacted to Alfred in How to make small indexed png8 files?   
    You know I’m going to milk that typo for all it’s worth, don’t you!
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    h_d got a reaction from pixiegirl in Lost a tool bar?   
    Just to expand on @Old Bruce's suggestion:
    Here I've pulled in vertical guides to each side of the image, enabled snapping in View - Snapping Manager, drawn a frame text box snapped to the guides and then set the text alignment to centred with no first line indent:

    Screen Recording 2022-04-15 at 16.22.11.mp4
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    h_d got a reaction from KelRao in Content disappears after importing new page   
    The reason is that your two text frames are on Master A: that's why they have crosses in the corners and you can't change their shapes or delete them. But the text is local to page 1 of the document. When you add a page at the beginning of new-interior.afpub (either your cover or just a blank page), your original page 1 (a right) becomes page 2 (a left). The frames on the subsequent pages are re-created from the elements on Master A, but the text has nowhere to go. The images are on the local page, not the master, so they survive the insertion.
    One solution:
    Before you add the new page, click on the left-hand text frame. Pull down the Layers menu, choose Master Page - Edit detached. Cut the text frame from inside the Master-A - Right group of layers and paste it into the local page layers. Repeat with the right-hand text frame. You'll get something like this:

     
    Now you can insert your cover page at the beginning of the document, and the text frames will behave in the same way as the images - they'll be transferred to page 2:
     

    For a more permanent solution, use master pages for master elements (like page numbers and the horizontal bars) and draw local frames for local text.
     
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    h_d got a reaction from Old Bruce in snapping on Affinity Designer Mac   
    Alt-drag (option-drag on my Mac) ignores snapping. If I option-drag to duplicate and then remove my finger from the option key while still dragging with my trackpad, the duplicated object snaps to the original.
    Add - if you're on a Mac, cmd-drag 'Clones' selected objects and the clone will snap immediately. Might be worth trying with ctrl-drag on Windows.
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    h_d reacted to Dan C in snapping on Affinity Designer Mac   
    As I understand it, CMD + drag was the original shortcut, but certain firms we work closely with had expressed an interest in making this shortcut ALT + drag to match other creative applications they were used to - as to not change the process for our pre-existing customers, our developers decided to allow both CMD or ALT + drag to perform the clone action.
    In terms of differences, the objects created using either key will be the same - the only difference is as you've found, the app ignores snapping when holding the ALT key, including when cloning with the ALT key.
    I hope this clears things up
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    h_d got a reaction from Edward Goodwin in snapping on Affinity Designer Mac   
    Alt-drag (option-drag on my Mac) ignores snapping. If I option-drag to duplicate and then remove my finger from the option key while still dragging with my trackpad, the duplicated object snaps to the original.
    Add - if you're on a Mac, cmd-drag 'Clones' selected objects and the clone will snap immediately. Might be worth trying with ctrl-drag on Windows.
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    h_d got a reaction from RichardMH in Sepia Toning of Black & White Images   
    If your file really is 'black and white' - ie greyscale, like this:

    then you'll need to convert it to one of the colour modes (RGB most probably) before you can colourise it. Pull down the Document menu, choose Convert Format/ICC Profile... , convert the Colour Format:

     
    and you can then use a Recolour Adjustment (and others if desired) to get the effect you want:

     
     
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    h_d reacted to R C-R in "Add to Selection" for Objects   
    Weird. Now I can see & play it. Two hours ago it just showed the black rectangle & slashed Play icon. So the forum does seem to be doing something weird to some videos, perhaps only if they are *.mov files?
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    h_d got a reaction from R C-R in "Add to Selection" for Objects   
    The forum seems to be doing something odd to these videos. I downsampled the second one to 480p and uploaded it in a new post, which was immediately (and apparently automatically) deleted. I can see and play the first two in my attachments, under my forum profile. The third, downsized, version is listed as 'not available'. I'll try again in a further post.
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    h_d reacted to clearnew in Exporting printer ready files from Publisher   
    That's a pretty darn good idea too!
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    h_d reacted to Dan C in Entire book text disappeared   
    Many thanks for providing this!
    It appears you have 'broken' the link between flowing frames from page 3 onwards, hence the 'red eye' icon shown here - 

    If you link this to your frame after the TOC, you will find all of your text is still within the document.
    We'd also recommend keeping regular backup versions of your files separately from the main file you are working on, just in case you experience any further crashing.
    I hope this helps
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    h_d got a reaction from scatterbrain73 in Pen Pressure not working   
    @HolgerCarl I have a MacBook Pro and a very basic Wacom tablet.
    You may need to change the Controller settings in the Context toolbar:

    With the Controller set to None, pen pressure doesn't work for me. With Brush Defaults it does.
    Hope this helps,
    H
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    h_d got a reaction from Blabco in Slow startup (all Affinity apps)   
    The issue is only experienced by those of us who have bought our Affinity applications from the Apple App Store. Windows users are unaffected, and likewise Mac users who have bought their application directly from the Affinity Store.
    I'm on macOS. I bought Photo and Designer from the Apple App Store and Publisher directly from Affinity. I get slow launch (30 or 40 bounces in the Dock) every couple of days from Photo and Designer, and that's it. 
    It would be great if Serif fixed it, but until they do I'd rather sit back and wait for those bounces than pay Adobe. Stop obsessing.
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    h_d got a reaction from Manoj Sudhakaran in CMD+Scroll Rotation is driving me mad!   
    Hi @Caio  and welcome!
    Affinity Photo - Preferences - Tools...

    Cheers,
    H
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