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I'm still using El Capitan. It sounds like Sierra has set an OS System Shortcut to Shift+F5. In System Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcuts>Mission Control, "Show Desktop" does what Shift+F5 is doing for you. If you want to use Affinity's Shift+F5 for Color Fill, then you can reprogram the Mission Control Shortcut. In Affinity Preference, Shortcuts, I have programmed the single letter "f" to bring up the Fill tool, which I can use to apply the primary color to a selection. That's short enough for me. Hope some of this helps.

I'm always in favor of Options and I agree that an Option for each of us to set our own defaults would be very nice. Bar that, I'd be happy with just having sticky settings so that my copy of the app remember my preferred settings.

Cool, Alfred! I like that. You and smadell have both been extremely helpful. It's people like you guys...and others, of course...that make this forum such a great place.

Oh my! I do apologize! I spent too much time reading various posts and threads trying to find this again and wound up not paying enough attention to whose advice I was quoting. Thank you very much, smadell!

Thanks, James. The ability to use FX on the sig offers all sorts of artistic or just plain fun possibilities.

Adobe may have assigned defaults; it's hard to imagine that every Adobe user wants the same defaults. Actually, Affinity has a default mode; that is to leave it up to the user. :) But again, sticky settings would allow each user to choose their own defaults.

I'm using an iMac keyboard and Shift+F5 brings up a dialog box that lets me choose either a Custom color, Primary color, Secondary color, Inpainting, or History. I'm kinda' puzzled by that History option but applying the Colors works as it should.

It's hard to imagine a default setting for any of the effects that we could all agree on. But sticky settings is something that is greatly desired by most if not all of us. I think they're on the roadmap but I'm not sure when we'll actually get them.

Huuuuh! I tend to use mine as black always so I hadn't realized that you couldn't just treat it like a regular brush and select your desired color. Got a kind of klutzy work-around that you could use till someone offers a better solution. Apply the signature on an empty pixel layer. Select "Protect Alpha" in the Tool Options bar so that only the sig will be affected Then use a regular brush loaded with the desired color to paint over just the signature. If you make the regular brush a fairly large size it will only take one swipe across the signature Maybe someone will come up with a more elegant solution but that's the best I can do on the spur of the moment.

Are we beginning to nitpick here? And for what it's worth, I'm currently using a 2007 iMac, one OS back with El Capitan, that still handles everything I need to do...plus with Snow Leopard on a partition, it runs legacy programs that the current OS has left behind. I will have to replace it eventually but not until Affinity stops supporting El Capitan.

Bring your scan into Affinity Photo then under Filters>Colors, select Erase White Paper. That will give you a transparent background and you can then Export it as a PNG and your brush should be a black signature on a transparent background.

Thanks, Andy. That resolves my issue then. I'll simply use rasterize and be happy with it.

To clarify, Andy, is that what is happening in other programs that do provide a "destructive crop"? That those programs resample and rasterize without saying that's what they're doing?

Thank you for the update. This makes getting the most out of new features so much easier for those of us who are print-oriented.

I use an older version of the Huion H610 Pro and I'm very happy with it. I'm not a professional user so my needs may be different from yours. There have been other threads on this subject. You might want to do a search for those other opinions.

Or you could click on the app icon in your applications folder and do a Get Info (Cmd/I) Not as easy as a hover would be but quicker than actually launching the apps.

An option to Crop or Inpaint or Leave As Is would be a nice addition. But please, please, no Automatic Crop! Having just been given a work-around to create a "destructive" crop, I do not want to have to go back to exporting an image to Photoshop to perform a simple straighten action.

Simply view it as an indication of how important the light UI is to those of us struggling visually with the dark UI.

Very happy, MBd! I would be thrilled to see a light UI in 1.6. I was afraid that we'd have to wait for Photo/Designer 2.

Thanks for all your hard work on these, James.

Thanks for adding that, R C-R. It does make the Quick Look option much easier to use efficiently.

I haven't found any way to enlarge the thumbnails but Quick Look via the spacebar does work in the Open dialog window. Not perfect but better than trial and error to find the exact one you want.

I had the same issue when saving my sig scan as a jpeg. You need to save it as a PNG in order to have a transparent background.

Thanks, James. That's what I needed to know before committing to the Rasterize option. And thank you MBd for your help.

Uh...what is revamping? What I am doing is developing a raw image, using the Crop tool to rotate the image to level (I can do it better and quicker by eye in Crop than I can with the string-type straighten tool) then Cropping it to remove the unwanted area. At that point, what I am currently doing is Exporting it as a Tiff (lossless) and then bringing the Tiff back in to APhoto for further editing.