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Hi gang, just purchased a Huion Kamvas Pro 16. While testing brushes in mirror mode I can see that I cannot scroll brushes on the pen display. I have to return to the main display M1 iMac to scroll and select a new brush and then return to the pen display to continue working . . .

Hi all, I'm looking at the following and I'm moving up from a tablet (which I hated) . . . Artist Pro 16TP (4k) and Artist 24 Pro (2.5k) Q1 - I would appreciate any feedback on use with Affinity Suite products, especially on the Mac as I have a M1 24" iMac . . . I am a print designer and not an illustrator. I do mostly vector work and strive to roughen up lines and do not plan on reproducing any physical, real-world brush techniques at this time. I've attached a few examples of work (for t-shirts) that I need to learn how to change the perfect quality of vectors. I have purchased some brush sets for Designer. In essence I'm a rookie at making vector art look more realistic . . .

I have a function question about pixel persona in Designer. When switching to the pixel persona are the changes that are made non-destructive? Does Designer split the saved portions of work in the designer and pixel personas? I'm of the mind that I should create in Designer and then filter/brush in Photo in order to keep the vector work preserved. Sorry for the stupidity. If there is a link that will save somebody warped fingers, please let me know . . .

Is it possible to switch keyboard commands for text only? I have a feeling the answer is no . . . Is it possible to take Command +V for "Paste" and assign it to "Paste without Format" and vice-versa? Or is this a general action that applies to everything rather than being contextual? To me it is a more useable than the existing setup . . .

As a graphic designer I have never tried detailed illustrations. I'm more of a text/photo/artwork assembler, working daily in print, that creates simple things when I can. I have attached a couple of images of styles I am interested in learning. The yellow car style seems pretty straight forward. The corvette style seems extremely intimidating . . . Can anyone recommend a good book or website as to how these are created. There are some time-rushed movies on YouTube with no explanation. Some artists seems to create filled objects and build layer upon layer. I saw another artist that creates their line work and use a layer mask to color it in. I'm curious as to why he does it that way. Any links or recommendation would be highly appreciated . . .

THAT WAS EASY! MANY THANKS! Results below . . .

I'm making a casket icon and I don't really don't know how to approach this unless I use the coffin outline repeatedly to remove every individual stripe, field, and star. Is there a way to unite all the elements of the flag so that I can use the subtract tool to remove all the excess at once? . . . TIA. I have attached the file as well. iconCasketFlag.afdesign

I somehow was able to do this correctly once but was unable to recreate it. I went to transparent pngs . . Thanks for trying.

RCR - FWIW when I place the file in Keynote the text has no color. I've included the files. Perhaps the font is screwy but I'm not going to change it. I will use transparent pngs if I have to . . . LibreFranklin-Bold copy.ttf 59 copy.afdesign

Again I am working in Designer, not Photo. I don't use Photoshop anymore. Photo cannot export a transparent eps file. The stroke of the hole in the nine will not export to eps or svg, no matter what I do, even though the hole is transparent. This is a png file exported from designer . . .

your file was a photo file and not designer. EPS files from photo don't support transparency

Sorry if I'm dense here. I tried this in designer with the art text tool and the inside stroke of the 9 still won't export to eps. It won't export to svg either. What is this quick shape tool you're mentioning? No such tool shows up by that name. I'll repeat what I've done with the art text tool and see if something works . . . thanks

I have tried multiple things to no avail (expand, convert to curves, etc). What do I have to do to get the interior outlines of a typeface to stroke properly when I export to an .eps file? This is for Keynote so I can't use an svg. Funny . . . Apple abandons eps files for svg in the macOS but Keynote still uses eps files. TIA I would hope that the file could remain as an editable typeface so that it could be duplicated easily without have to do redo all the steps for each number I create

are you saying that a non-standard form of each of these formats could be causing the trouble?

Is there any way to do a simple edit, such as cropping a photo, and "collapsing" (for lack of a better term as there are no layers at all) a photo without having to export a new version and then deleting the original? There are no other data, color changes, effects, etc. that affect the photo. Why can't I just crop a photo and save it? I even tried restoring and trimming the photo to no avail?