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dominik

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  1. Hello @EnryDraw and welcome to the forum. A nice glossy spiral indeed. I myself am impressed with the versatility of this new tool. So far I was not able to make it crash. d.
  2. Hello @Elwen, in addition to what @steday suggests you do not neccessarily need to pin the image. You can simply copy and paste it inside the text. It then is treated like a letter. Baseline shift is the value to adjust accordingly. d.
  3. You are welcome. The time I spent is due the fact that I did not pay too much attetion to detail. In contrary I left some flaws on purpous to demonstrate where the automatic selection lacks details with a photo like that. It all can be fixed with manual tweaks. d.
  4. Please look at the toolbar of the Contour Tool. There you can choose from three different types of contours. I used the right one 'Bevel'. This way you end up with two nodes that can easily selected and deleted. Afterwards you just have to edit the remaining two nodes so that they are a 90° angle. This is done with the node tool. It's not automatic but a relatively easy edit. d.
  5. I looked at your file and I suggest you try the Contour Tool. Just make sure you add the same amount of contour on both elements. After you've added the contour you 'bake' it a.k.a. turn it into a vector shape. Then there are some additional nodes which you can quite easily remove with the Node Tool. The rest ist just cleanup of the angles. d.
  6. I gave it a try and try to explain, what I did: There is hardly any contrast in the area of the guy's right shoulder. This is why I a drew a vector curve guessing where the shoulder and arm might be. There is a very faint shadow where his right sleeve might be. I gave this vector shape a 1px stroke and a solid fill to make it visible. Duplicate and rasterize for later combination with the automatic selection. The rest of the two persons I roughly selected with the Selection Brush tool. I manually corrected a little in the area of the woman's left shoulder because there is also too less of contrast. Refine selection of the Selection Brush. There are still some oddities but I left them in for demonstration of the problematic areas. Create mask from selection. Then go back to the pixel layer from #2 and CTRL+click on the layers thumbnail. The hide the layer. Switch to the mask layer created in #5 turn to the Fill Tool. Select black as colour and fill the selection with black. This should unreveal the part of the photo that is supposedly the person's right shoulder. I attach my workfile and the result. Note: it is a rough take but should demonstrate how to combine different techniques. It took me about half an hour. d. two-persons.afphoto
  7. Hello @vpkumar, I would guess even an AI supported mechanism would have problems to detect the border between the background and the white shirt. There simply is no contrast. Eventually you'll have to mask this with a combination of several techniques. For the most part a selection brush should detect hair and clothing. In the area where the shirt is you could look at different channels if there is any contrast between the shirt and the sky. Event though the file seems to be black and white there is a chance that the file itself is in RGB. If you find any contrast try to enhance that with a levels adjustment and use this for an additional selection. If everything failes you could just draw a vector line where you assume the shoulder of the person is. Then add this as an additional selection to the rest. d. PS: I'll give it myself a try and report back.
  8. Hello @GeirSol, you can apply masterpages to masterpages. That way you could have only one masterpage with the footer on it. This applied to all other masterpages lets you change the footer in just one place. Question re. '4 projects': do you mean these are in seperat APub files? Masterpages work only within one file. You could look into the book feature if that will let you syncronize across multiple documents. I haven't tested that, though. d.
  9. Hallo @peant, gut zu hören, dass Du eine Lösung gefunden hast, die für Dich funktioniert. Tatsächlich ist das Drehen mit dem Mausrad auch eine der Methoden, mit denen ich sehr gut und genau arbeiten kann. d.
  10. Kann gut sein, dass das ein Unterschied zwischen den Plattformen ist. Ich glaube auch, dass das nicht zu 100% so gewollte Verhaltensweisen sind. Z.B. bewirkt ein Klick auf den Schieberegler im 'Posterize'-Effekt keinerlei visuelles Feedback, aber der Regler läßt sich mit den Pfeiltasten (links <> rechts) bewegen. Das funktioniert aber nicht bei allen Einstellungsebenen. Bei den meisten Eingabefeldern funktioniert es, dass man auf das Label vor dem Schieberegler klickt. Das ist ja eine bekannte (wenn auch etwas versteckte) Funktion. Aber z.B. nicht beim Feld 'Opacity' in den Einstellungsebenen. d.
  11. Ich verstehe. Du kannst die numerischen Werte auch ändern, wenn Du nicht vorher in das Feld klickst. Klicke einmal auf den Schieberegler, drücke dann die Leer-Taste und dann die Pfeiltasten. Die Werte ändern sich dann in 0,1 Schritten und die blaue Auswahl ist verborgen. Ist zugegeben nicht sehr intuitiv und etwas umständlich. Könnte aber mit etwas Übung funktionieren. d.
  12. Hallo @peant und willkommen im Forum, bei mir in Affinity Designer 2 werden bei einem Ebeneneffekt die blaue Auswahlkante und die Knotenpunkte ausgeblendet, sobald ich einen Regler bewege. Welches Werkzeug meinst Du, wo das nicht funktioniert? Kurzfristig kannst Du diese Linien ausblenden, indem Du die Leer-Taste drückst. d.
  13. Hi @DonC123, if you get the chance try out an iPad with an Apple Pencil. Even used (re: older) iPads do perform quite well. Perhaps you can borrow a device for an afternoon? The only drawback might be the feel of it because the screen is made of glass. But @thomaso already has a suggestion for that 🙂 d.
  14. I was just hesitant to call it a bug since I never read anything if that is by design. Anyway, moderators confirmed it is a know bug, so we can look forward for a fix. d.
  15. Always save your work! I learned this the hard way. Admittedly, there should be a prompt to save an unsaved document before starting an update. This is worth a feature request. d.
  16. Hello @FrankL0, all layers in your file are pixel layers. You can use a mask on the bottom layer and this will 'remove' the white background of the shape. With 'remove' I mean the mask will just cover it. You might as well delete these pixels. In AD do the following: switch to Pixel Persona select the bottom layer in the layers panel use the Selection Brush Tool move around the border of the shape and you will see it finds the boundary between white background and golden line by itself make sure you have all the white background selected use the menu entry 'Select > Invert Pixel Selection in the layers panel click at the bottom on the icon 'Mask Layer' (it's the left of the middle three icons) This should remove the background. See attached file. d. Wellbeing with mask.afdesign
  17. This would be a very usefull enhancement. Especially if it were possible to place all kinds of vector objects as guides. d.
  18. Hello @GeirSol, there is no way to move guides from a spread to a master page. All you can do is note down their positions and recreate them from scratch. Alternatively you could place lines exactly where the guides are and copy them in one go from spread to master. Those could be used as 'dummy guides' to recreate the real guides visually. Afterwards you remove those lines. I am not aware of a way to move master-guides when editing a spread. This could be a feature request. d.
  19. Hallo @chrleon, currently there is no linked import of text files to APub. And no Story Editor. So there is no way of workflow that will automatically update text changes that were made outside of the app. You could reimport the entire text but most likely you will loose some of the formating that was done in APub after the import. Maybe others may come up with a workflow they have found. But in this regard APub has to evolve a little more. d.
  20. As far as I know this does not work. What works, though, is to select all other that are not selected in your image and then delete them. But it is far more easier to use the shape builder tool if you are on V2. d.
  21. Hallo @m_ko, willkommen im Forum. Blöde Sache mit Deinem Dokument. Häufig können die Leute von Serif helfen, wenn sie das Dokument von Dir erhalten können. Momentan hat auch eine andere, Englisch sprechende Person ein ähnliches Problem und bekam eine Antwort von @DWright. Schau mal in diesen thread rein, dann bekommst Du hoffentlich auch einen Link zum Hochladen Deiner Datei. Viel Glück! d.
  22. What tool are you using to paint in? I would always put the pixel layer immediately above the original image. Thus all retouching gets the same processing by all layers above. That at least is my workflow. I am not sure but it might be that some of the masks above the pixel layer are masking your painting away. Can you perhaps post your workfile to look at it directly? d.
  23. Hello @augustya, from you description it is not easy to tell what is going wrong. If you are using the Stamp Tool to pick up colour from surrounding areas make sure you have selected as source 'current layer and below'. Otherwise you are picking up colour from an empty pixel layer. Otherwise you might post a screenshot of the whole app window so we can try to see your situation. d.
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