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Hi, on Windows 11 version 10.0.22621 build 22621 if I open any Affinity program whether beta or not and select a piece of text, hit the font dropdown and start to type a font name the program just crashes and disappears. No autobackup, nothing. This happens on both my laptops. Are others seeing this too? I can scroll through fonts but cannot type the name of the font I want. Thanks! Phil

Hi. I'm having trouble because when I choose a DAUB Blender it changes the paint brush to the smudge tool. What brush did you use in the first place? Thanks!

That's amazing but I'm not seeing how you made the mask for the face, am I missing something? Thanks!

Thanks all, I'll try this and let you know.

Thanks. I tried that. I think it's a little better. What do you think?

Hi all, I have a client who wants American football paint on his face like the attached but my efforts aren't great. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks! Phil

So it does. That's crazy. Thanks!

Thanks, I see that the bottom one now works but I'm just not seeing what is different in terms of the gradient.

Hmm. I may not be understanding something. I tried to do what you said but it still does it. I'd love to understand why this happens rather than just use a workaround. Thanks for sticking with me on this. Phil Flex and Drugs and Rock and Roll2.afpub

That makes a lot of sense. I have put a single gradient on the object but you're right. If I create a new object and add a gradient then rotate the gradient goes with it. I'll attach the source file and perhaps you have some sort of insight? A workaround would be to put two objects nested inside. Thanks for your help so far! Flex and Drugs and Rock and Roll.afpub

If you look at the screenshot you'll see what I mean. Is there a way to make the fill rotate with the object? Thanks for any help! Phil PS I'm doing this in Publisher but could just to Designer. I know I could rasterise is but I'd like to keep it editable if possible.

Thank you. I took the photos. As you can tell, I am more of a photographer than a page layout person!

Thanks but how did you know it would be in Pantone Color Bridge? I don't even know how to get that far!

AHA! Pantone 287 IS 0.48,135. That MUST be it!

This is the bg image along with a sample card she sent me as an image. I wonder is RGB(0,48,135) is it. Thanks! Oh, how do I find Pantone 287? I have never understood Pantone stuff. Is it one of this list of Pantone books? I couldn't find it. Phil

Hi, I have a client and I need to reproduce a blue color. This is what she has sent me. Does this make ANY sense to anyone and can anyone help me reproduce the color? Thanks for any help you can offer! Phil

Not sure what you mean but this is what the Windows dialog looks like.

Thanks for that but I don't get it. I select all the items I want to align and then I hit the Center button and it puts them all in the wrong place. Am I misreading you? Oh! I have to hit Center then Selection Bounds then center again? That has to be a bug, right?

Hi. Are others noticing in Publisher, that the align box has options greyed out (see screenshot)? I can't make items center to one another but only to the page because I can't change that option. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks! Phil

Oh duh! Thanks. And using the fill tool I can change the size and rotation.

Hi all, I downloaded a bunch of styles and they all have bitmap fills (see screenshots). Is there a way to change the fill without affecting the FX and so on? In particular I would like to shrink or enlarge the images and rotate them without changing the size and rotation of the container. I can do this in CorelDRAW. Is there a way to do this? Thanks!

This is so weird. I just restarted my machine and now all the images that were fine are showing the corruption in ACDSee. It must be a problem outside of Affinity or something. I dunno,

One more addendum. I see that, if I add an unsharp mask and leave it white (affecting entire image) then it exports fine. It's only if I invert the unsharp mask live filter layer and then paint white on top of it to sharpen certain areas that the issue arises.

I just wanted to post a link to this thread here so that there was a maximum chance that people see it. Files with a Live Filter Unsharp Mask are exporting to JPG looking like this as long as Enable openCL compute acceleration is checked in Performance preferences. If it is turned off this doesn't happen. Thanks and I hope this can be fixed!