Sunset

If I'd known where my mind was going to take me, I would have used Affinity Photo for this, but it's made with Affinity Designer which was very capable. I have just watched a TV program about the modern movement of Authenticity and Hipster, so this is a blend of three of my photos - a stately home, my garden fence and a wall and some old silver cutlery with some text added - and a little brush work around the edges.

Sierra, yes, Help was perfect before, I was using it a lot :) The first time the asset disappeared behind the Studio Assets Panel I really did think I was on target but I don't recall seeing the blue lines that indicate positioning the asset, as you say it definitely disappears behind the panel if you hit the light grey are - which is a real issue in itself, if you only have one copy of the asset on your canvas to begin with and you 'lose' it behind the panel and the panel is covering the workspace, not the white canvas, and the canvas is in clipped mode, then you really do seem to have lost the asset unless you go drawing boxes over it to try and find it again :) It's a lot easier when I have many categories open as they fill the whole of the asset panel, perhaps if the first category filled the panel it would be easier - I'm thinking that nearly black next to very dark grey is hard to distinguish at times - and I'm one in favour of the dark UI, I actually like it, but in this case I think it's too easy for me to miss the darker area when dragging with the touch pad.

Just two things that didn't seem to happen with the previous beta: Accessing help - the program hangs for a while after typing two letters into the search box, then the help either vanishes or I can type some more letters then vanishes Asset Management - created new category, renamed etc., but sometimes when I drag an asset from the page into the subcategory it goes behind the studio assets panel instead of in the category. When the assets panel is closed the object is still visible on the workspace behind it (when selected) or on the canvas if the canvas was behind the assets panel. I don't remember this happening previously.

Downloaded without issue, long list of fixes including the baby daughter - brilliant and congratulations!

Thank you :)

I quite like watching tutorials on Vimeo on my iPad next to the Mac, it's the modern way to me. I just love modern technology and threaten to name my little traditional 1920s house as "Technology House". But I also have a passion for beautiful shiny books, always to hand, beautiful to handle and to read. I just enjoy the best of both worlds because it suits me. Reading the tutorials on the iPad would be easier to work with, I agree, but oddly perhaps I've picked up more useful stuff from one short paragraph on a page in the book than I would have done from a video, probably because I am more relaxed with the book :) There again I have the advantage of being in the middle of the UK and got my book within 24 hours of it coming on sale, it was almost as instant as online (well, in the greater scheme of things). What would I do if I lived elsewhere? Being me, I'd probably get the book, if the shipping was not too exorbitant, and a shiny new bookstand and continue with the tutorials online. It took consideration, though :)

I had a search around my "office" earlier and found my book rest from years ago, it balances on the arm of the sofa next to me (and will also sit on my desk of course) and it's wide enough to hold the Workbook safely. Works well, and I (personally) still enjoy just browsing through my coffee table book for inspiration in the odd moment. Everyone to their own, though, I accept. :) I would add the picture but there is no option. I might treat myself to a snazzier 'cookery' book rest :)

A lovely, clean and crisp, first upload to the gallery!

TBH, I had not noticed the shadows under the eggshell until you mentioned them (which usually means that they are good). The dark shadows look fine to me, I don't see them which means they are what my brain expects as part of the picture, the fainter outer shading is what I notice so perhaps that could be omitted - I wouldn't be able to say unless I saw two version side by side, it's a personal thing, I think, so don't be influenced by me, I was happy with the picture as I first saw it :)

Inspired by, but not a copy of, the recent screen adaptation of the life of the young Queen Victoria. Sketched on a top layer and painted underneath the sketch on a lower layer, then judicial erasing of parts of the sketch to finish. Made with Affinity Designer for Mac.

Lovely scene with very effective lighting effects.

Two more great tigers! I like the knitted background, too, but the detail on the painting of the tigers is so beautiful.

That is "pretty good"! Especially the shading on the egg shell.

It's lovely to see the tiger in such detail, looks fabulous :)

Lovely paintings, Rosie :)

Lols :D

I'm looking for something similar, although I've used the cropping successfully to make a circle into a witch's cauldron, there are times when I would like to use the knife version in other Serif products to cut an item into two- with a freehand cut, not always a straight line cut - and to separate the cut parts and use them independently.

Sunset's servile cat will sort out delivery :)

thanks for the link - I think I like this one even more than the Surface! Times are a-changing and I like the changes, even if I won't be getting either of these for Christmas :D :D :D

The witch's kitchen, lols, where I stir the cauldron :D

Thanks, I've tried it out and it works as suggested. So the Asset Manager stores the name of every category that I create even though I then delete the categories (because I've exported the category and want to remove the assets from the Asset Manager when I start a new document). I just have to make sure that I rename the category before I export, that stores the name. Then when I import the category later it matches up with the saved name. Not quite what I expected, an extra step which I didn't expect because when I export a category it doesn't fill in the current category name by default, just asks me to choose a name - no indication that a new name will be useful in Finder but will show as another copy of Asset or of the last used category name as appropriate. I can see that this isn't normally an issue as the tendency would be to create a new category, add to it and export it, whereas I was changing some aspects of it and exporting under another name. The Asset Manager has made AD much more relevant to me, a great addition :)

We've had the kiddies round, all lovely, I don't know most of them, but they are all escorted safely by their parents, and I wore my best witch's hat :D

I'm used to doing 12x12inch scrapbook pages, the sites where I normally post them scale them down automatically (with an option to view at a larger size), so it is not usually a problem at all; the forum thumbnails are really too small to be useful (I find) so I need to do things a little differently. Thanks for clarifying the reason for the increased size, definitely an oversight on my part to use CMYK, as I don't create for print :D

That is very helpful, thank you for that. I shall remember to check that next time as I had not realised that it would affect the file size as much as it did. :)

I'm glad you suggested that, it crossed my mind this afternoon (after my last post) as it's a method I use elsewhere quite often. I haven't posted on here for a long while and must have forgotten about the large views if the "thumbnails" are clicked on :D :D :D Thanks - fun is what I do best :)