LyricsGirl

Hi LyricsGirl,
Have you changed the Context dropdown to Stroke? See the screenshot below the dropdown(s) marked in red. Can you attach the file with the object you are trying to add a bitmap fill to the stroke - there may be something I'm missing (you can delete all the rest from that file). Thanks.

The Awesome Affinity Bundle $66 worth of styles clipart and more only for Affinity! To celebrate the Trifecta of Affinity programs Hurry! limited time only! The Awesome Affinity Bundle brings together a unique range of amazing style sets and designer kits, ready to be used in all 3 Affinity programs: Designer,  Photo and the just-released Publisher. This bundle contains $66 worth of design kits – now for only $17! 12 style sets for Affinity– Including lifetime commercial license   Includes:  Leadlight Designers Kit - includes transparent and opaque GLASS textures and leading texture! Fruity Metallics styles Set Enamels Styles Glitters Designers Kit Ancient Civilizations Styles & Palettes Coffee & Kisses Coffee Time Style Set Rose Petals - See how realistic this texture is! Tiny Hearts Romantic Hearts Ooh! La!La! Styles set for luxury designs Romantic Glitters   https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/the-awesome-affinity-bundle/

Hi LyricsGirl,
Regarding using Bitmaps for the Stroke: select the object with the stroke, switch to the Fill Tool, set the Context dropdown to Stroke in the context toolbar and the Type dropdown to Bitmap (immediately after the Context dropdown you set in the earlier step). Select the file/bitmap you want to use as a texture for the Stroke from the dialog. This will be saved with the Style for the object.
Regarding Metal effects (gold, silver etc) you can achieve them using some Layer Effects - in particular the #D and Bevel / Emboss (with and without textures as explained in the section above).

That’s too funny. Thanks for sharing, Rick! 
A true incentive for Serif for adding color font support! 

Don't know if this post is allowed if not, with apologies.  I stumbled across these free brushes on the internet, Can be used with AD and AP.  Cheers John. https://www.photoshopsupply.com/brushes/comic-book-sound-effects-brushes-for-photoshop

Yay!! yes!!! That's what I meant!!  Aah that really makes me feel good to know Affinity had it there already! futuristic I say! Thank you for taking the time to  let me know!!!!

I think, as @carl123 suggested, that Isolation Mode might satisfy your request:
https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/LayerOperations/isolating.html

Doesn't Isolation Mode do what you want?

Got them all installed. Just had to wait a bit longer. Here's one I made with the leaded glass styles. Once again,

Tried waiting a little longer and installed the coffee kisses style. Did the same thing, but after a couple of minutes, it installed. I will try the others and see how I make out. Thanks for all of your help

A ‘Not Responding’ message on Windows doesn’t come from the program itself, it comes from the operating system. Windows is simply reporting the fact that when it attempts to communicate with the program it fails to get a timely response, but that may just be caused by the program being too busy trying to do something useful.

I am surprised that nobody replied to your generous gift yet. I love it and appreciate it very much.

Hey guys......so I was working on my new course...and got the the lesson on making brushes.....sooooo I had to amek some brushes. 
 
I made a set of fog/ smoke brushes in raster and a set of silky smooth stroke brushes for your vector applications. 
 
I have learned so much from the people on the site....I wanted to give back, so here ya go . I am working on new blog post and some new art using them....so I will keep you in the loop 
 
Feedback on them is always appreciated, I love making these sorts of tools 
 
Jeremy , www.7thseasonstudios.com
Stroke brushes -7th season studios .afbrushes
Smoke and fog brushes -7th season studios.afbrushes

Got it and thank You. Can't wait to try them.

The Awesome Affinity Bundle $66 worth of styles clipart and more only for Affinity! To celebrate the Trifecta of Affinity programs Hurry! limited time only! The Awesome Affinity Bundle brings together a unique range of amazing style sets and designer kits, ready to be used in all 3 Affinity programs: Designer,  Photo and the just-released Publisher. This bundle contains $66 worth of design kits – now for only $17! 12 style sets for Affinity– Including lifetime commercial license   Includes:  Leadlight Designers Kit - includes transparent and opaque GLASS textures and leading texture! Fruity Metallics styles Set Enamels Styles Glitters Designers Kit Ancient Civilizations Styles & Palettes Coffee & Kisses Coffee Time Style Set Rose Petals - See how realistic this texture is! Tiny Hearts Romantic Hearts Ooh! La!La! Styles set for luxury designs Romantic Glitters   https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/the-awesome-affinity-bundle/

Yes Alfred. I am having  so much fun and Affinity has given me an opportunity to earn some money... My way of Giving Back.. so anyone ..please SHARE so I can  make more kits and  and do anothe rSpecial Bundle next year as I will have something very special to celebrate!

Thanks, Angela. Given that you leadlight kit on its own normally sells for $15, that’s a pretty generous bundle.
 

And here's how to install Filter Forge 7 or 8 on AP 1.7.1 on Windows. Note you can do it only manually now cause unfortunately we can't get the answer from the nicest guy Mark Ingram since the version 1.6
 
1. Open C:\Program Files\Filter Forge 8\Plugin\x64 .
2. Copy there both files: right-click and Copy (or Ctrl+C).
3. Open AP and go to Edit -> Preferences -> Photoshop Plugins.
4. Click on the "Open Default Folder in Explorer..." and paste there two files from the Clipboard using right-click and Paste (or Ctrl+P).
5. Then open "Filter Forge.config" file in NotePad and change the IndependentUI value="false"/> to IndependentUI value="true"/>. Save changes (Ctrl+S).
6. Tick the Allow Unknown Plugins.
5. Close Preferences and Restart Affinity Photo manually.
6. Now you can find Filter Forge 7 or 8 in the Filters -> Plugins -> Filter Forge and use it.
NOTE! Progress bar is still not working, so if you render a large image or the filter has complex structure, please wait. Fitler Forge is not frozen, it works.

Sooo, here's how to install Filter Forge 7 or 8 on AP 1.7.1 on Mac. Note you can do it only manually now cause unfortunately we can't get the answer from the nicest guy Mark Ingram since the version 1.6
 
1. Open AP and go to Affinity Photo menu -> Preferences.
2. In the Plugins Search Folder area click Add button and choose Applications -> Filter Forge 8 (or 7) and press OK.
3. In the Plugins Support Folder area click Add button and choose Applications -> Filter Forge 8 (or 7) and press OK.
4. Tick the Allow Unknown Plugins.
5. Close Preferences and Restart Affinity Photo.
6. Now you can find Filter Forge 7 or 8 in the Filters -> Plugins -> Filter Forge and use it.
NOTE! Progress bar is still not working, so if you render a large image or the filter has complex structure, please wait. Fitler Forge is not frozen, it works.

Hi Callum, I am posting this for a couple of  users.I have FF8 and Photo 1.7 and they work OK.  One user I know has Win 10 ., another i am unsure of. I am awaiting further info from him.
 

Hi,
 
I'm Longhost,
Just discovering AF Designer with windows port and want to share you my first contribution:
 
UI Faces asset V3

 
Take from https://randomuser.me/photos based on http://uifaces.com/
Where people let you use they twitter avatar for prototypes (I did it last year :)  so it's why I search this specific asset).
 
Design Safe,
Longhost
uifaces-v3.zip

This time some Fire Styles (a few of them have transparency, though most do not) for those who might have a use for these things. - [NOTE: that these styles work best when used on very dark (preferable deep black) backgrounds!]
The compressed AD styles file ...
Fire styles.zip  

My first play at Photo 1.7 late last night my time...Enjoy!
So far Gobsmacked at the changes.I feel like a kid in a lolly shop! Thank you Affininty!
 
Yes! One Day I may even get to Spelling Affinninty correctly!
 
Photo: Courtesy of NASA...

My first play at Photo 1.7 late last night my time...Enjoy!
So far Gobsmacked at the changes.I feel like a kid in a lolly shop! Thank you Affininty!
 
Yes! One Day I may even get to Spelling Affinninty correctly!
 
Photo: Courtesy of NASA...

Just released!  A Leadlighting kit for Affinity!  Styles are all 300 DPI tileable  textures Great for Both Digital and Print projects!
 
https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/leadlight-designers-kit-for-affinity/