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I want to add that it might be usefull to leave a little of the shadow in to make the image look more convincing. Human eyes can easily and intuitivly tell that something is wrong - even if they can't explicitly say what it is. The mountains in the right half of the pictures do have shadows and do not fit well with the manipulated mountain. d.

Perhaps you want to take into account that there was a holiday break and the developers deserved some time out as well? d.

These are heavily processed images. One of the effects looks like motion blur. But I assume there are more things involved to the blur(s). Like partially masked Gaussian blur and perhaps things like chromatic aberration filter used in a 'creative' way. I also assume there are vignets or layers to emphasize contrast in certain areas. There is saturation and vibrance (or the like) applied. And at some point he may be using sharpness to achieve a certain crisp look. These are just guesses to give you a couple of keywords with what to play around and see how far you come. d.

Hallo @Tini78, im Druckdialog findest Du unten links die Einstellmöglichkeiten für "Anschnitte und Marken". Hilft das? LG, d.

Hello @christerdk, pattern layers are currently pixel only. Once something is painted into the pattern layer it cannot be changed. Unless you erase it or paint something different on top. If you want to have the flexibility of working with vector objects that can be altered after their creation you'd have to look into APub's Date Merge Layout Tool or in AD's symbols. With both you can create patterns that are fully vector (and pixel, too). d.

Do you mean a curve from a pixel selection? This is to my knowledge not possible. d.

Hello @chrisb123, you do not have to use a seperate mask. All adjustmentlayers do have a built in maks themselves. To accomplish what you want you make the Selective Colour Adjustment active and paint with a black brush on it. This will reduce the effect of this particular adjustment. d.

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.

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.

Thank you. I haven't thought of that 🙂 d.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Das beobachte ich unter Windows auch manchmal. d.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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