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Hallo @philippmn, wenn ich mir Dein Bildschirmfoto anschaue und darin die Ebenen, dann erkenne ich, dass Schriftzug "ECHO" ein Vektorobjekt ist. Und ganz oben hast Du eine Maske, die genau wie dieser Schriftzug aussieht. Also hat das mit dem Erstellen der Maske ganz gut geklappt. Ich vermute, Du hast in den Dokumenteinstellungen (Datei > Dokumenteinstellunge > Farbe) kein Häkchen bei dem Punkt "Transparenter Hintergrund". Bitte überprüfe das als nächstes. Bei mir sieht das Ergebnis mit "Verfeinern > Vorschau: Transparent" so aus: d.

Hallo @philippmn und willkommen im Forum! Im Dialog "Auswahl verfeinern" hast Du oben rechts im Feld "Vorschau" den Modus "Overlay" ausgewählt. Das bedeutet, dass alle transparenten Flächen mit dieser rötlichen Farbe markiert werden. Du kannst in dem Ausklappmenü auch einen anderen Modus auswählen, dann solltest Du die Transparenz sehen. Einfach mal probieren. You selected Mode 'Overlay' in the drop down box called 'Preview' in the top right corner of 'Refine Selection'. This causes the redish colour. Try different choices, one of them shows transparency. Du kannst im Dialog für den Export ein Häkchen setzen, das dafür sorgt, dass transparente Bereiche transparent exportiert werden. Evtl. hast Du das übersehen? Perhaps you missed to check 'Export with transparency' (I'm not quite sure about the correct wording) in the Export dialog? d.

Hello @LeftyAngler and welcome to the forum. Of course you can produce a dust jacket with APub. You need to know that the application does not support spreads with more than two pages. You would set up a one page spread with the size of the entire dust jacket. Then you mark the seperate sections (front cover, spine, ...) with guides. I usually place rectangles with their respective background colour for each segment in the background and lock them. Essentially is to know the exact measurements of the five segments. But to just build a prototype design you can use guessed dimensions. E.g. you could measure them from a book in your library if you have one. Also keep in mind that you have to include a certain amount of bleed around the entire design. You could search in the resources section of this forum if you find a template. But it is not very complicated to set up a template by your own. d.

Hello @beertje53, you may want to look at David Straker's Luminosity Selection Tutorial (there are more on this subject). Perhaps this is what you need? d.

There is no way to adjust a selection with a keystroke as far as I am aware of. Try the Flood Selection Tool or the Selection Brush Tool. Move it around the object and it will create a selection around it. There is no need to do a step inbetween by drawing a square selection. I hope this helps. d. PS: See also this tutorial video (of many on YT) on the Selection Brush Tool:

It is not possible to invert the selection of layers but you can use 'Select Same > Tag Colour'. Select all objects via CTRL+A In the layers panel right click and assign a tag colour to all of them Then select just the few objects you want to keep and assign them in the layers panel a different tag colour Finally select one of the objects you want to delete (with the firstly assigned tag colour) and use menu 'Select Same > Tag Colour'. Then hit delete That should solve your task. d.

@StuartRc, great suggestions. I support the last one. Have a way to keep the pressure graph open ... and to resize it! d.

I agree. Having some kind of 'QR-Code builder assistant' would be helpful. d.

@Return, thank you for confirming. I restarted APub and now it does work. Whatever the reason on my first take was. Looking forward to incorporate this tool into my workflow. d.

Clicking does add a new pressure point but with zero width! To me this looks like a bug. I would expect it adds a point but does not the line's width at that point. d.

OK, correction: for some reason I cannot get this tool to work in APub's Designer Persona. In AD it does work as described above. d.

For some reason I cannot get this tool to work. I do see the line width handles but I cannot grab and drag them. Apart from that, great addition! d.

As I said, if it is not slowing down workflow I think this would be a good addition (as an option). I am saving my work all time even with different versions over time (basically a poor man's incremental save) because I was bitten with lost work several times. d.

Basically I think is a good idea. I've seen this in other software I use and it occasionally save my ... life. Problem with Affinity is that with some projects files can become quite huge. The time to save is not instant but can take a up to three seconds or more. This would interrupt workflow quite considerably. I'm not technically good enough to know if some kind of 'shadow copy' mechanism would work. After all, if there is a way to implement this without interupting workflow I'm all for it. d.

Uh, oh, das ist alles bedauerlich. Jetzt fällt mir zusammen mit den Vorschlägen von @Komatös nichts mehr ein. Deine Hoffnung ist jetzt, dass jemand von Serif noch interne Möglichkeiten hat, die Daten zu retten. Viel Glück! d.