Old Bruce
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10 minutes ago, Louise Cloutier said:
I'd like to try your suggestions, however...
I'd rather not use the lasso tool, since it never accurately selects all the stray hairs in an image. I've spent far too many hours manually repairing that. Tying to draw in stray hairs, painting in between them to match the background color, etc, etc.I will use the Lasso tool because I can go outside of the canvas / picture area. You can use the Marqee tool to drag from outside the area as well.
I select an area (the smug fellow on the right) and cut it (Command + X). Then I deselect the area, clear the selection is another way to say it (here on Mac it is keyboard shortcut Command + D). Then I paste the cut area (Command + V)
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When I first open your file and select the Sjerrie layer I see a Stroke of 100 points and Clear Colour. If I select a colour and a one point width then I see a more normal result.
1 hour ago, GerritJordaan said:... It stroked just fine when I applied a stroke directly on text. After that I converted the file to curves and the stroke just dissapears.
Did you convert the file to curves or only the Text Layer? Converting everything at one go may be the cause of this. I added some text and put a stroke on it and converted the layer to curves and the stroke was still there.
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Make a document of the appropriate size, Place the image and rasterize it so it is a Pixel layer not an Image layer. I would then slice the pixel layer, so I have one face selected, using the lasso tool or the Marquee tool. Cut and paste the selection, I now have two pixel layers. Use the Move tool to move either Pixel layer left or right.
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Try Window > Studio > Reset Studio
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1 hour ago, michalmph said:
Are the scripting features available to betatesters?
The scripting features haven't yet been built for betas. So, no.
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8 hours ago, ianrobertdouglas said:
... The curve of the J was created with the Corner Tool and then baked.
Did you actually need to bake the appearance? If I use the corner tool and then Expand Stroke all is well.
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1 hour ago, hexophile said:
Adobe offers a gradient preset dropdown and quick add button which allows you to load and save gradients across any gradient selection area with the click of a button.
The lack of this puzzles me.
1 hour ago, hexophile said:Another lacking area is the gradient and fill tools. In PS, you have a separate dropdown to select blend modes for each use of these tools within a layer, or each gradient object in Illustrator. This means you can stack multiple blended gradients without having to create a new layer for each. The brush tool in Designer / Photo has this option and it should be available for the fill and gradient tools as well.
One of the first things I look for in each beta.
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My experience with the snapping is good, until I have too many candidates set. I made a preset called All Off and choose that then turn on only what I want / need. Also sometimes I find using the Node tool can help by utilizing its candidates.
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20 hours ago, BadgerM said:
- .... do all the fields have to be filled for it to generate?...
- in our case some people might just want a name printed on, and others might want their name and a job title printed. Can this be done?
- can we have different text positions based on which fields are filled?
- No you do not need any data in the data field.
- Yes it can be done.
- Not easily, see the excellent video from anto.
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13 hours ago, fysmworld said:
Something weird started happening just today. Whenever I go to edit an adjustment layer (double click on the thumbnail of the layer),
Why double click? Here on Mac OS I just click on it to open the edit window. Is this double click necessary on Windows?
Regardless, a double click shouldn't merge the Adjustment Layer.
Do you have any third party utilities running? Does the mouse you use require special drivers?
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I would start with the Perlin noise set to something like this
Then maybe add a levels Adjustment layer to bring up the contrast. I might also use a Blur Filter before or after (or both) after the Adjustment.
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On 1/24/2023 at 12:50 AM, stokerg said:
Hi @tatanka,
This is also working for me. Are you still having trouble?
Just a bump to say that now this does not work for me. I upgraded my Mac OS to 12.6.8 and now I have the same problem as @tatanka. This occurs in the retail version 2.1.1 and the beta 2.2.0 (1931) It is the exact same setup as tatanka's screenshot.
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3 minutes ago, Matt James said:
So is there a way to keep increasing the noise beyond 100%?
No.
4 minutes ago, Matt James said:I want it to look more 'grainy'
One thing I will do on occasion is use the Perlin Noise filter on a pixel layer and choose a darken blend mode.
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13 hours ago, jimh12345 said:
I actually don't have a lot of complaints, I'd have to say that Export is at the top of that list right now.
18 hours ago, jimh12345 said:It's too limiting; it doesn't save my settings, it just does one export at a time. Typically, I want to export 2 or 3 versions at different sizes and locations. I'm so tired of pounding in my dimensions, and hunting around with File Explorer, 2 or 3 times, on every export.
With a bit of work you can set up various sizes and locations if you use the Export Persona. Locations is going to take more time than various sizes. You can have three file types (JPEG, PNG, TIFF for example) and various sizes for each type. Then it is a simple click on the Export slices button and you're done.
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Area = H x W.
Square root of .5 is 0.7071067811865481 square metre is 1 x 1
or .5 x 21/4 square metre is .5 x .5
or .25 x 11/2 square meter is 0.707106781186548 x 0.707106781186548
or 0.353553390593274 x 1.414213562373096 -
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When you choose Selection you have to choose a Slice (Tranche) to see, change and apply the export choices. When you choose Defaults (Parametres par default) you are simply setting up what you want the Default export Preset to be. This may not affect the Slice's export format.
If you want a TIFF then Choose the Slice in the Slice window and Choose from the Presets and further alter the properties to your taste. If you always want TIFFs to be the default then set up a Preset for the TIFF format the way you want it and make your own preset, name it My TIFF preset then choose that in the Defaults tab. Going forward you'll have that as the default.
First Select Selection instead of Parametres par default
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9 minutes ago, mvadventures said:
I hope to eventually get good enough with Affinity to make the newsletter more sophisticated, but for right now, I'm just struggling to get the workflow right as a new Affinity user.
I would be tempted to just add the text and apply the appropriate Paragraph styles then go and place the images (in Picture Frames) with Text Wrap applied to the Picture Frames. This would continuously push the text past the end but a Shift Click on the overflow icon would add more pages.
I took the liberty to make a very very basic file you can use to learn. There is a heading style with a Right Tab for setting the line the way you seem to have it set in your PDF. There are no Picture Frames, you can add those as you go. I copied and pasted your Masthead from the PDF, you may want to rebuild that with the tools for Shapes and Art Text.
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We can see the "actual" values if we use the Character and Paragraph panels and select the desired Text Style.
Having said that I too would like some sort of indication of the values but I do also realize that for some things like Decorations or Drop Caps this could be perhaps confusing in implementation. Text colours could also be massively weird looking.
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9 hours ago, mpstaton said:
Would love to scale by area, rather than scale through width and height.
I have irregular shapes. They represent some number, usually a population. I need to be able to scale by area rather than by width and height. So, if 3 million people live in some city, and that city is represented by a random shape, and what I am proposing affects half the population, I want to scale the whole shape area by 50%. Using width and height doesn't have the right visual effect.
Just a bit of math required. The width and height multiplied by the Square Root of the increase or decrease.
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1 hour ago, Kent Davis said:
I am show you File > Export not work for me.
In Blender you have to first covert the object to a Grease Pencil object before you can Export to SVG.
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16 minutes ago, Kent Davis said:
I hate that. Developers need to fix feature without too much work Blender 3.6.1 render to .svg then .svg to other app then save .svg then .svg open Affinity Designer. Too much
I did an export from Blender 3.6.1 to SVG (converted the Cube to a Grease Pencil thing). The exported from Blender to SVG opens fine here on Designer 2.1.0 and 1.10.6.
I also opened the original file you posted using Inkscape and exported it as a plain, not Inkscape SVG, but a plain SVG. It too opens fine here on Designer.
I don't know why the original doesn't open at all here with Designer.
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I am a bit confused. Here on my Mac i get an A with a gradient/transparency yet there is no gradient/transparency applied. I cannot get the A to be a solid colour. Yes I am removing the blend
I wonder how the A was created. If I type an A it is solid white from top to bottom not fading from Clear to White top to bottom.
how to insert space in the middle of an image
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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This means you have an Image Layer. Rasterize that layer. Or Duplicate it hide the original and rasterize the duplicate. This rasterizing will give you a Pixel layer. Image layers are useful for many other things but not cutting selections out.