j3rry

Generally the resize step will do something, but will do it in a way you won't like. It would distort any image you apply it to that does not have the same aspect ratio as the image you used when recording the macro. And that probably is not what you want.
The usual recommendation for resizing images using macros is to use Filters > Distort > Equations which will not have that problem.
You can find more on doing that in the Resources section of the forums: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=macro resize&type=forums_topic&quick=1&nodes=11&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy
If your macro is truly doing nothing, I'm not sure what might be going on.
 

Make sure that Resample is ticked in the resize document dialog

Aha, cannot change dimensions if resample is off so Plan B
Use the transform panel with the Lock aspect ratio chain clicked on
Type *2<enter> in the width box then Document/Unclip Canvas
Both approaches work here

Thanks @walt.farrell, I will study the link you have replied. All the other steps are working in my makro, except resizing. 

Hello everyone!
This is a simple gradient set '.afpalette' I created to share with the community. Let me know if it was of any help to you in your projects!
Great places to use will be Website and App UI development (loading bars, background etc) and logos if you'd like.
Have a great day

Sivadharshan Affinty Pallette - Gradient Set 1.afpalette

And a watercolour illustration done as a black and white sketch.
Books illustration.mp4

Another mosaic-style painting which I have created using DAP and Affinity Photo.
Based on a photo on Pixabay. The video was rendered in DAP using time-lapse and edited in VideoProc AI.
Title "If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words Then Many Letters Speak Volumes."

Man of Letters.mp4

Although Affinity has merged with Canva and might plans to incorporate AI to gether with Canva, they still have a long way to go to match Adobe's progress.
Adobe has eg FireFly AI, (https://www.adobe.com/nl/products/firefly.html) which allows users to alter parts of images and integrate with Photoshop.
Most impressively, Firefly is continually improving through generated images and text input. Currently, for me it performs better than both Midjourney and Dall-E, making Adobe the dominant frontrunner again in the image creation market. Personally, I am now using Photoshop again since a year and started with Capture One a couple of years ago after Affinty keeps ignoring good color correction options and good raw import. I started to use Photoshop again more intensive while using Affinity less due to its lack of professional progress and strong features like quality raw conversion, precise color correction, options to calibrate with colour corrections cards, good visual masking and AI.
Although I really appreciate Affinity's speed and inutitive setup, it fails to compensate for necessary essential features. 
For me it's not about free from licenses, but speed and essential pro features to enable pro workflows.
 

I created this sacred geometry figure in Affinity Designer, called the Dodeca Fractals. I hope you guys like it.
 

Luminosity Masks are a way to dynamically create masks based on levels of dark and light. In this video, we’ll look at this feature from the ground up and see how it can be applied to your photographs. 
 

We are pleased to announce Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and Affinity Publisher 2 are now all updated to version 2.4.2 (for all existing customers on all platforms).
Here is the changelog for the whole suite
And here are the release notes for each application including how to access the update
Affinity Designer 2.4.2 for Windows               ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store [as sandboxed MSIX and unsandboxed MSI/EXE] ) Affinity Designer 2.4.2 for macOS                  ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store ) Affinity Designer 2.4.2 for iOS                        ( Apple iPad Store )
  Affinity Photo 2.4.2 for Windows                    ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store [as sandboxed MSIX and unsandboxed MSI/EXE] ) Affinity Photo 2.4.2 for macOS                       ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store )  Affinity Photo 2.4.2 for iOS                             ( Apple iPad Store ) 
  Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 for Windows              ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store [as sandboxed MSIX and unsandboxed MSI/EXE] ) Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 for macOS                 ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store ) Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 for iOS                       ( Apple iPad Store )  Please follow this thread here to get notified when any new releases are made.

One final image inspired by the Knight vs Dragon vector art, included with DrawPlus X8, this time in acrylics. Further developed in Affinity Photo.
Video included and final image.
An SVG of the vector art transferred from DrawPlus to Affinity Designer, then recoded as an SVG for export also included. You might want to play with the vector yourself.
Knight and Dragon Acrylic.mp4
KnightvsDragon.svg

Hi All,
We have just made a build available of a 2.4.2 beta live - version 2.4.2.2356 - This was created to address issues found after the release of 2.4.0 & 2.4.1  This is now available to you on auto update (except for 2.4.2 betas on iPad which are in review with Apple and should be available in the next 24 hours).
The fix list for this build is here 
There is one significant change to the Help on macOS that is described here
 
 
We are planning to start a larger beta of 2.5.0 that will include new features and improvements, but this new 2.4.2 build is just for these bugfixes.
Ash

Here is a pastel rendition based on the vector artwork created by Ken Cope and featured in the DrawPlus X8 distribution.
Never Forget
Painted in DAP and tweaked and developed in Affinity Photo version 2.
 
Never forget.mp4

Wormwood in chalk based upon a Drawplus vector image.
 
Finished off in Affinity Photo.

 
Chalk it up to Prophecy_2.mp4

Now...THAT's a tree! I just love Nature.

Yes, I know how it has always been said that people with a very specific profile (Serif counted on a bunch of very high profile from previous developments to Affinity) are hard to find. And I believe it to be true. But! Loads of cash go a very long way to find them even under a rock.    That and contacts, professional networks that the new almost-giant has.
About the time... we have had recent events (avoiding specifics to not open that can of worms) in the world which demonstrated that while it was believed that "certain thing" could be only be developed in 10 to 20 years, with enough money and common effort thrown at it, not only one, but a bunch of several "brands" solutions were "up and running" in just one year (not talking about AI... this time ) . 
I believe in the power of money  . Realistic enough?      (doesn't mean that I like materialism, quite the opposite. But it is what it is)

Thanks @Patrick Connor and @Ash for your professional responses. Really appreciate your contributions and clear explanations here on the forum. Although I, like obviously several others here and on other channels, have a difficult time in believing corporate ways after take overs (by multiple experiences) and only believe it when it's a few years later, it's of no use to stay negative (for nobody. That's just a waste of energy) and it's best to give it the benefit of the doubt and just go with the flow.
 
Thanks a lot for taking the time to respond thoroughly. It shows that you are involved and that's really something. It's also well appreciated that you didn't sensure this thread and kept it open. At least as far as possible for what I can see. As that sometimes must be hard for you I can imagine.
Let's hope everything works out well for everybody here and this turned out to be just a bump in the grand scheme of things   (Which it probably is anyway, as are most things in life! haha 😀) and turned out to be groth in the end everybody is happy with!

Checked and it seems to be behaving as desired.
 

One final image was created in DAP 8 and edited in Affinity Photo.
Northern Lights in the style of Benson.
Does anyone remember Vision On and Take Hart? I hope the video brings back memories. Not to mention Serif's Learn to Draw CD-ROM.
Artwork.mp4

Lovely @j3rry ! Makes people smile and melt!
Happy eastern to you all too!

With all the hype surrounding Canva's acquisition, let's not forget it's Easter.
Have a great Easter.
 
Made with Affinity Photo, assets from @v_kyr.

A fundamental theme in life is that events can change circumstances we otherwise take for granted from one day to the next. The best thing one can do is to be prepared and not to be unnecessarily dependent. Therefore, any dependence we must live with should be based on trust or written agreements. One must be more than naive to believe in mercy and eternal stability within (and outside of) market forces, but here are some fundamental points you can monitor Affinity's development and much else in life by.
Trust between two parties, A and B, where A is dependent on B, rests on several critical foundations. Theoretically, the most essential are:
Reliability: A must be able to trust that B will fulfill their obligations and act as agreed. This includes consistency in actions over time. Honesty: B must be truthful in their communications and actions. This means that B must be transparent about intentions, capabilities, and limitations. Competence: A must believe that B has the necessary skills and abilities to meet A's needs or expectations. Goodwill: A must feel that B has A's interests at heart and will act in A's favor, even in situations where it is not specifically agreed upon or expected. Ethics: B must demonstrate behavior that is in line with moral and ethical standards, implying fairness and respect for A's rights and dignity. These foundations are interrelated and reinforce each other. A lack of one can undermine the overall trust between A and B.
As you can see, I think Serif excels in several of the points mentioned above, but there are also a couple where it falls short. Let's see if Canva can assist there on the more mechanical points. And will also tomorrow and in 5 years.
But... it's your responsibility to assess that, and choose products based on what you judge in relation to your own production, income in terms of risks. Personally, I don't think price will be the biggest issue; I'm more concerned about form or, in the worst case, continued existence for the products. And there, I can't trust pledges and words more than 25 - 50%. I'm starting to look more broadly at vector tools as of 2024.

This is the most balanced take I've seen in this thread - thanks 👍

This announcement was a shock. While Version 2 was oversold, and the recent slow pace of bug fixes and limited feature updates is concerning, I understand there was a lot of V2 under-the-hood work. Regardless, we were more than happy to pay for the Version 2 ‘all options’ package, even though we don’t (at the moment) run Windows machines and the iPad apps remain something to be explored. The value from V1 was so great that buying version two was both a V1 'thank you’ and a V2 encouragement.
The new ownership compels us to examine of our continued use of Affinity software.
Background
We are a small publishing operation creating image-rich print and multi-media ebooks, based in regional Victoria.
We used PageMaker and then the Adobe Creative Suite from its inception until it went subscription. It was not cheap software – $AU600 to $AU800 a seat with half-price updates that, particularly toward the end, were of diminishing worth. We always had the option to skip an update, over the nine years we probably skipped half – skipping more often towards the end. The Australian pricing was at times up to twice that Adobe charged in the US after allowing for the $AUD/$USD exchange rate. It was very expensive software, but as we purchased outright we could partially control the cost. When the subscription ‘model’ was introduced it effectively doubled our already high costs (again charged at much higher prices than to US users), and the moment we stopped paying we would have lost access to our files.
We limped on with CS6 for publishing and drawing while we pivoted photo processing to Apple’s Aperture – based on this being flagship software from a major corporation. This prove to be a major mistake. We also started producing multi-media ePub projects in Apple’s iBooks Author. Another mistake.
Affinity journey
As CS6 faltered, we waited impatiently for Affinity Publisher for our print-based work, taking part in the beta testing. The moment it launched we moved some projects across, even though key features were missing (compared to In-Design) and there were strange bugs. The killer aspect for us was/is the seamless integration of the three apps. This more than compensated for missing functions and ‘managing’ bugs.
When Apple abandoned Aperture we moved to Photo. The first in our string of abandoned software experiences.
For ePub we are still, just, managing to use iBooks Author but expect that ability to ‘break’ any day. We were hoping Publisher would have a robust ePub capability before that final break.
Continue or abandon
The sale is forcing us to review the place for Affinity in our workflows.
We need software longevity. It is not uncommon for us to revisit projects across a decade. We have just spent weeks updating a project from 2014 where the hundreds of photos processed in Apple’s Aperture have to be redone. So my overriding concern is: what are the odds that the Affinity apps will still be viable in 2034?
Our other requirement is perpetual licence software we can to continue to use.
Unfortunately, ‘wait and see’ isn’t a option as we are due to begin several major projects. Do we continue to pour time, effort and capital into projects based on Affinity software or do we look for alternatives now?
This is a summary of our thinking.
Adobe takeover
One of the concerns raised in this thread is the potential for Adobe to buy Canva – given the mood and direction of Australian competition regulators I think this is so unlikely that it does not figure in my calculations.
VC cash grab leading to enshitification
Two of the three Canva founders are on record as holding 18 per cent of the company each, I guess the third also holds 18 per cent – that would give the three a controlling holding. For short-term VCs an IPO allows them to cash out, so there is a path for control to remain with the founders – parties to the assurances we are receiving today – while VCs can grab their cash.
Institutional shareholders
Two of Canva’s institutional shareholders are Australian ‘industry’ superannuation funds that together manage $250 billion of investments. We have two types of super funds – the commercial ‘for profits’ run by financial institutions etc. who make profits for their owners (and generally lower returns for their member) and ‘non-profit’ – the much larger group – of ‘Industry’ funds run only to benefit their members, often union-controlled, and generally long-term ‘ethical’ investors. That Canva’s institutional shareholders are in the second group provides some comfort.
Entrepreneurs with social conscious
Australia has a small group of billionaire entrepreneurial software developers with strong public conscious. Reports suggesting the Canva founders fall into this group – the pack leader is Atlassian co-founder Mike  Cannon-Brooks, a major driver of large renewable energy projects.
Serif’s fate
A few posts have pointed out that Canva acquired Pixabay and Pexels five years ago to support their offering. Both continue to operate as they had pre-acquisition – as stand-alone organisations with previous management – while providing that support to the main Canva product. It is not a leap to see Serif treated this way as the professional offerings would not make sense being folded into the current Canva 'anyone can design' offering.
The driver for Canva is adding ‘professional’ capabilities. In buying Serif, Canva has paid a lot for that capability. Canva senior management are very astute – they have built a $26 billion business from scratch. Dismantling or compromising Affinity software is not an ‘astute’ path, while strengthening it is. And knowing that a very large part of the attraction to Affinity users is perpetual licences, why would you change this major selling point over Adobe?
However, offering AI or cloud-based services requires a subscription to cover the ongoing costs – the template for that is Luminar Neo – you can by perpetual licences with optional AI-based ‘add ons’ with a subscription.
Much of the angst in this thread is around assurances being given by people who are/will not be in a position to deliver/honour those assurances. On reflection, I think there is a reasonable chance those people will remain in positions where they can honour those assurances for several years beyond an IPO.
Our decision
Making the wrong choice – stay or go – will have a substantial financial and resource impact on our business/operation. It is not a decision to make lightly.
For the moment that decision is to delay the major projects until 2.5 is released, see if there is an improvement in bug fixes and ePub features. If so, we will tentatively begin one of our major projects on Affinity software and remain watchful until Version 3.
If not, the search for alternatives will begin.
There are paths for this to be a net positive for Affinity, and we who use the software. I really hope this is the outcome.