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Frances Proctor

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  1. I will wait and see what happens but I won't hold out much hope they will add features and content that will be subscription only that is what a subscription is all about Canva will make changes its their company now and they call the shots I truly hope I am wrong but I saw as a member of the forum team at Xara and had access to info that wasn't public that what went down with Xara and Magix was not good I can easily see the same thing happening here So to Ash, Patrick and the rest of the Affinity team I truly would love for Canva to prove me wrong let's hope they do
  2. Another Software company that sells out I came to Affinity because of the crapshow that become Xara and its product line when they sold out to Magix Now Affinity have done the same just wait til canvas start bolting on their crappy add ons Canvaffinity here we come Just wait til Canva starts cutting costs whereever and whoever they can Just wait til there is a subscription fee snuck in first as an optional thing but before you know it you will need that subscription to get the best new features and new content So where do we go now ? For me I am now a hobbiest and once the crap show begins just like magix did with Xara I will find a new hobby I have seen this before now we are about to see it again Apparently the folks at Affinity didn't learn from Xara's mistakes Because no matter what you promise now You are no longer calling the shots the software, the company and your loyal customers are now at Canva' s mercy
  3. show as list greyed out and auto selected and no nozzles show on preview in vector brushes in pixel persona it works just fine is this intended/expected behaviour?
  4. messing around with the vector warping this time I warped text around a sphere one thing I found and this may be already known but you select the warp group and apply effects it only applies the effects in the original bounding box however select the text layer within the warp group and apply the FX to that and all works fine
  5. these cookies have zero calories! some brushes that paint cookies on your document! chocolate chip, double chocolate, gingersnap and sugar cookies! cookies.afbrushes
  6. I am able to repeat this but I'm not sure if its known or not any way here is exactly what i am doing 1. create 2 vector shapes with the shape tool and add them to make a compound shape 2. clip a bitmap into the shape as a child layer 3.apply 3Dfx to the shape and add a colour overlay fx with 50% transparency 4. create some text and place on top of the shape 5.apply bevel fx to text and set transparency to 50% 6. group text and shape 7. layer menu >vector warp group >mesh 8. add extra nodes to mesh beta crashes
  7. so was playing around with the beta version and it crashed went to open it again and got a notification of a new version available and decided to try the exe format. when I try to install it my av software blocks it saying it contains a threat GenVariantFragtor.206121 so I went to open the stable version and it wants me to activate it which i did do before as i have used it for a while now. anyway filled in my info and it now says wait a moment and try again which never goes away and if I close it and try again i still get the same thing. I am going to close everything down and restart my computer see if that changes anything Edit: after restart exe versions of stable 2.04 apps working fine designer 2 beta exe (latest build) still triggers av software (Bit Defender) after temporarily disabling bit defender beta exe installs fine
  8. There could be lots of uses for spirals from plant illustrations to Greek meanders to logo design
  9. You could also add Xara designer pro X to that list Sadly though theirs is part of their subscription and with out keeping up an increasingly expensive subscription you lose access to it They implemented theirs as a shape tool which would a great way for affinity to add it too! Just imagine being able to drag a spiral on to your page and be able to quickly edit it with some of those special nodes! And no subscription needed!
  10. ok I guess tomorrow I am going to install the exe versions and decide at least i have only installed the designer beta so far thank you for your help
  11. will it actually be easier to uninstall and reinstall all my affinity apps? if i could just point my keyboard software to the proper files is all I need. I miss my g keys
  12. I have a logitech g710 gaming keyboard it has six programable keys that i had set to quickly do things like open a new document, export, and a few other things to speed my workflow however the keyboard software doesn't pick up the msix files its looking for the exe file where are those files for version 2 once installed?
  13. hi been playing with this and I'm not sure why but I cant get the bitmap fills to work with the vector flood fill every time i try the whole thing fills not the desired area. I select everything then select the vector fill tool then drag a bitmap from my assets panel to the active colour on the toolbar just like in the video but the whole thing fills not sure if i'm doing something wrong or what is wrong I have attached my file and the assets file These wood fills are my own designs they are procedural textures created in filter forge my wood assets.afassets vector flood fill wood fills.afdesign
  14. I am sorry I know this isn't really the correct place for this but I don't know where it would actually go ? In this area you have separated out v1 and v2 related posts which is good but there are other areas where the same re organization would mke the forums much more user friendly. for example resources and tutorials And questions about the software. more subforums would make easier navigation for example some one looking for an answer about Designer v2 doesn't want to surf through hundreds of v1 posts
  15. Been playing with the vector warp and its great! I do have a couple of suggestions to make it even better warp a gradient fill allow us to select a node with in the mesh and apply a colour or a transparency
  16. how do I download the file when I go to copy the file all I get is copy link but if I click on the file it just opens the file no download ? I just want to easily download the file. Is there a download link somewhere?
  17. Hi Garry, Thank you, I will have to have look and tweak my template and fix that join issue. the little white areas are because I used a vector brush on this one to kind of hand colour it. I am experimenting with different ideas and techniques with these. Its actually quite relaxing doing these.
  18. Mandala # 2 this one I did in an orange brown colour like that of henna. I experimented with adding a colouring layer but decided I liked it better just like this
  19. I have decided to take up doing mandala art. I created my own template using symbols and layers for drawing and colouring. This is my first one, there will be more
  20. Yes Xara is fast and intuitive but Xara is not without some issues. Affinity has better brushes already and better Svg export. Affinity is missing some basics like blends and the contour tool is just a beginning but the main thing is Affinity is putting more work into its vector art tools and Xara has all but abandoned the art side of things favouring its business layout stuff. And if you have publisher you can set up a picture frame that is a container for a photo. you can drag and drop a photo into a frame once you have your frame set up in Publisher you can save it and use it in Designer and Photo.
  21. I would love to see them do this by giving us a special guidelines layer we could easily add to our documents and anything placed on this layer would automatically be converted to a guidline and this layer would also be automatically set so it did not export or print. And guides dragged out from rulers could also be automatically on this layer
  22. I would love to see a blend tool like the one that Xara has it works so simply you just drag from one object to the next and it creates a basic blend then they have options to set the number of steps, how they transition and how colours transition. It is one of the few things I still use Xara for.
  23. When I create an intensity brush using the "create brush from selection" method all shades of grey create the same opacity level when I use the export png create new intensity brush method then it works as you describe. hmmm...... I'm using the latest release version, perhaps I've found a bug? I think I will test this out further in the current beta and see what I find. if it still happens in the beta I'll post full steps and screenshots in that forum In the meantime, yes I was hoping that there was a way to create the brush so grey scales could be set to saturation values instead for example black would be fully saturated and white would be fully desaturated. but I suppose could get the results I'm after by creating full colour image brushes
  24. Hi ennuied I know that coming from Using Xara Designer Pro into the world of affinity is a learning curve. But not a huge one. One thing to consider Affinity is not an all in one program like Xara Designer Pro. Affinity Designer is mainly for vector graphics but you can do some photo tasks in the pixel persona. You can mask out the white background. Go into pixel persona, use the selection brush to select the rubik's cube. Once you have the cube selected press refine on the info bar a new panel will come up and you can see a red overlay showing the areas that will be masked out. here you can use the brush that automatically comes active to brush over any areas of your selection that still need work like fine hairs or branches. you can use the sliders as well. Once you are happy with your mask go down to the bottom of the refine panel and you will see a dropdown menu under the label output. choose new layer from that menu and click apply. You will now have your cube cutout and on a new layer of its own. and the original photo will still be there on it's layer. You can simply keep the original turned off by making sure it's check box in the layers panel is not checked. and you will always be able to go back to it if needed.
  25. Hi all maybe this has been asked before but I couldn't find it But I would like to create an intesity brush using different greyscales so that when painting with the brush you would get different shades or saturations of the colour so say a brush made from 3 dots one black one a dark to mid grey tone and one with a lighter grey would yeild a brush that when you painted with it in your chosen colours say a brown tone you would get a brush that painted in three shades of brown based on the greytones in the brush texture. Is this currently possible?
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