NapaArtist

Thank you! I missed (that very large) button. Too bad affinity doesn't have useful presets for social media.

I keep running into the problem that the custom cropping presets don't seem to be set up for social media. For example. Instagram has gone to 4:5 post ratio, but the preset under the cog is backwards- 5:4. There are instructions on how to load presets in a file.aftoolpreset, but are there any such files available? Specifically for something useful like IG or FB posts, videos and reels? I tried the add ons area of the website, but that seems to be full of custom brush sets.

After playing with the settings, I THOUGHT I discovered what the issue is. When you save a Preset, you have the radio button choices "Custom" or "Print Job". I'm not sure what "Print Job" will do for. you, but if I choose "Custom", I am able to start creating a list of Presets for my printer that persist as expected. I am attaching two screenshots showing 1). the Print Preset dialog menu and 2). the list of presets that I've started creating. However, when I went back to actually use my presets, they went right back to not working again. If this forum allows, I will attached a short clip of what happened. Essentially, when I went to use my Preset that I tested once, it reverted to Glossy paper again which for some reason seems to be the default. Preset DIalog still fails.mov

I am still having this issue; I did not see here that this bug was resolved. I'm on macOS Sonoma 14.6 since I still have an intel macBook Pro. Using Affinity 2.6.5, it's hit or miss, usually miss, to save the Print Dialog presets. I have a fine art print business, and I have to check the Printer Settings every single time to make sure I don't have the wrong paper type selected for my Epson SureColor P800. I'm seeing two problems: 1). The Preset displayed is, for example, Epson Cold Press Natural, but the Printer Settings are for glossy paper. Sometimes, just clicking the mouse over the same preset gets the Printer to switch to Cold Press Natural, or 2). I cannot get the Preset to save for Cold Press Bright at all. I set the Printer for Cold Press Bright, save Preset as Cold Press Bright, but it always returns to glossy. It's especially annoying that I have to set as a NEW preset every time- it wont save over a pre-existing name for a Preset- so I have Cold Press Bright, Cold Press Bright1, Cold Press Bright2, etc, and they are ALL wrong.

Good point! I did not think about the potential conflicts.

Thank you so much for all of your suggestions! I think I like the simple "select all layers and copy, then paste into my collage". I think I might have done this accidentally previously, which was why I was a bit confused as to why the pasted image had the adjustments sometimes and not others. But it looks like there are many different ways to do this without losing the non-destructive edit capability.

I tried searching here, but there are 5,000 plus unrelated results. I'm sure this must have been asked, but I can't find it. I have never understood the adjustments being on separate layers. It seems to make the following impossible unless I flatten or merge, and which should it be? I often bring in a photo and adjust it before copying and pasting it to a collage in a separate document. But if you copy a layer, all the other adjustment layers are not included. So, am I supposed to Flatten? Merge? Group? Please advise. All layers do seem to be included if I export and create a new file, but those clutter up my disk. I am using Affinity Photo 2 on MacOS 14.5. I am happy to say that I have completely eliminated Adobe products from my current setup.

Hello, I really want to stop using Photoshop, but I can't find the equivalent to selecting a fixed size. My task is to create a sketch that I can trace to my watercolor paper by taping together US letter sized paper. In other words, I need to break up my sketch into US letter sized prints. In P/S, I can use the Marquis tool in Fixed Size Mode, as shown in my first screenshot. The Affinity help seems to indicate that you can get a fixed size using the Crop tool in Resample Mode, but as you can see from my second screenshot, the I set the crop boundaries to 8.5x11 inches, and it is much bigger than my 12x12 document. So, how am I supposed to do this? FYI- I am way back on Photo version 1.10.8 since I have an old iMac that can only run macOS 12.7.4. The only workaround I could find was to use the Affinity Photo Crop tool in Custom Ratio mode of 8.5x11, which also initially is too big, and then resize the crop outlines to match the correct size on the rulers.

As I mentioned, I was just following the instructions that worked in Photoshop. Since Photo has the same filters and adjustments, I had hoped I could also create a sketch with it. I have no idea why the particular blending modes mentioned actually work. Photoshop has aways been a bit of a black box to me. To desaturate, I chose Black and White in both. I also chose Invert in both apps. With the Color Dodge blending mode after the Invert, the image goes entirely white. In photoshop, the next adjustment, Gaussian Blur brings back a sketch all the way to a value study depending on the slider position, but in Photo, nothing happens. Gaussian Blur does not bring back the image at all in Photo. If anyone has a different approach to creating a sketch, I'd like to hear it. I just need something I can quickly create to trace for my watercolor paintings.

So, I found these instruction for Adobe photoshop to create a pencil sketch, but I don't know why they don't work in Affinity Photo. Simply, you create layers to Desaturate, Invert in Color Dodge blending mode, apply Gaussian Blur, and the slider can give you anything from a faint sketch to a nice value study. Plus, another adjustment layer - levels helps strenghthen it. But I can't get past the Gaussian Blur step with Affinity Photo. Here is the link to the instructions if you'd like to try it: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/photo-to-pencil-sketch.html . I've been trying to avoid using P/S, but I've had to keep it on my desktop since there still seem to be things Affinity can't do.

My searches of the Forums are not finding anything recent on standard templates for Avery labels. Do such things exist, and if not, why not? Avery address labels are industry standard and it seems odd to make eveyone recreate their own. Specifically, I'm looking for the two major Avery templates for Avery 8160/5160 Address Labels and Avery 8871/8371 Business Cards. These templates exist on the Avery website so is there a suggested way to import them into Affinity Designer? They have pdf, ps, .ind Adobe formates available. Thank you, Ann

Is there a place to set the default units to inches? I'm constantly changing all the tools from pixels to inches.

I'm just wondering if there is a manual. I'm excited about Affinity Photo, but I really hate video tutorials. They take way too long. I just need to quickly read how the crop or gradient tools are controlled, being an advanced Photoshop user. Thanks,