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So what happens when you try to open one of these files from the "Open Recents" item in the Affinity (important!) File menu? If it opens, on the File menu choose "Reveal in Finder." Where does it show that file to be located?

There is no such thing as a "standard-palette," just the document, application, system, & Pantone ones. You can choose to use colors from any of them. A document palette is just that -- a palette saved with a particular document. It is not shared by any other document.

LOL! I meant QuickTime.

That looks interesting (& you can't beat the price) but it lacks the ability to convert a series of still image files to a GIF. As a clumsy workaround for that, I could use the Quicklime Player 7 Pro feature File > Open Image Sequence to create a mov. file from a folder of numbered image files, but there must be a better way to do it. Any idea of a free or low cost app that can do that?

Only the developers can give you a definitive answer for that but I suspect it may be in part because there is no autosave so even if there was a close all feature you would still have to review every document with unsaved changes before all the documents could be closed.

I do not understand what you mean by this. What are you duplicating that becomes a 'static filter' rather than a pixel layer with an adjustment layer & a live (?) filter layer attached to it. Why? In the first screenshot the group containing the adjustment & filter layers are being blended with the single Background pixel layer below it using the Vivid Light blend mode. In the second one they are applied to one copy of the Background pixel layer & that (the combination of the pixel, adjustment, & pixel layers) is being blended with a second copy of the Background pixel layer using the Vivid Light blend mode. The number of pixel layers is & how they are blended are different, thus so are the results.

There is no 'close all' feature in either Affinity app, so no keyboard shortcut for that either.

I am not sure what you mean by back sign or adjustment sign. If you mean for example an icon in the Layers panel for the popup adjustments menu, it has that. It does not have an undo icon if that is what you mean by back sign. Can you be more specific about what kind of icons you mean?

Use "Edit in Affinity Photo" instead of "Edit with." There is a bug with the latter that as yet is unresolved.

I assume you mean you want to remove the green screen background, leaving the children on a layer of their own & not the other way around. If so, select the green screen with the Selection Brush Tool or Flood Select Tool, use Select > Refine Edges... as needed to clean up the selection, & then delete it.

Since you mentioned the Pen Tool, I assume you are trying to create vector shapes for the idealized versions of the teeth. It would be very difficult to make them look realistic because you would have to use a combination of gradient fills & probably multiple shapes for the ridges & highlights. This would be much easier to do using raster images & the raster based tools in Affinity Photo. You did not mention which app you have, Designer or Photo. Please do so.

1. Just open each document & they should appear in their own workspace window. Is this not happening for you? 2. Affinity uses whatever fonts are installed on your system. It does not include any fonts of its own. 3. There are plans to add a DAM app eventually, but not anytime soon.

That is normal. Only Document palettes have that option. Since you can only add global colors to Document palettes, I do not know what you mean about the chosen palette getting closed. Are you confusing System, Application, & Document palettes? Colors can be global but palettes can only be one of these three types or one of the Pantone types. If by "app-wide-global-palette" you mean a System or Application palette, export it using the last item on the hamburger menu. Then use the "Import Palette > As Document Palette" hamburger menu item to import it. Again, are you confusing palette types with global colors? That is normal. It means only that palette will be set as the Document palette for new documents or that type, populated with whatever color swatches appear in the panel. It does not automatically select it as the palette shown in the panel -- you can still select any palette from the popup list & use colors from that palette in your document.

Try this: 1. Open a Finder window. It does not matter what it is showing. 2. In the search box at the top right, type without the quotes "afdesign" 3. Wait a moment for a dropdown to appear & when it does, choose the second item, "Affinity Designer Document" 4. Wait a few seconds & the Finder window should show you all your saved Affinity Designer files.

As I understand it, this is a known issue with the development of RAW files from your camera model in Affinity Photo. If you search this forum on its name you should find several posts about it.

By any chance, in the past have you used a multi-monitor setup with some of the panels on different screens? There may be an issue associated with this that attempts to display some of these items on a monitor that is not currently connected, which of course makes them unaccessible. I am not sure of the fix for this but I think it was suggested that reattaching the other monitor temporarily & dragging all the panels onto the primary screen might work. Another possibility I have read something about is the panel's window somehow appearing behind the workspace window but I do not know of the cause of or a fix for that. In earlier versions I discovered what may be a related issue that probably only applies to Macs: some adjustment windows included an active yellow 'minimize into the Dock' window control (one of the three colored dots you see on some screenshots posted by Mac users). That would in fact minimize the window into the Dock but the problem was there was no way to get it back out again. AFAIK, that has been fixed, but maybe there is a similar issue on the Windows versions?

The Affinity apps are not file managers, nor do they store project info in some special internal library folder or database like Apple' Photos app & a few other do. So to delete a saved Affinity file, that can be done in the same way as for any other ordinary file, like through the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer.

If you don't change the color profile then how exactly are you doing that?

Filters menu > Sharpen > High Pass. Everything on the Filters menu is destructive, including any on the Plugins sub-menu.

I think what he meant was just to use a horizontal guide suitably placed as a reference for rotating the Background layer, which he shows as selected in the Layers panel in his screenshot. That allows the use of the Transform panel's rotate field to rotate that layer. It actually can be used to rotate things well beyond 3 decimal places of precision -- you can even use Expressions for field input to input things like +=0.0002 or 360/2100 to rotate things at the maximum internal resolution of the app, which I think the developers said was something beyond 8 or 9 decimal places.

There is that, plus that parent group objects with long names will push the (Constraints Group) label out of the visible area of the Layers panel, & that it does not seem to apply any special layer name to some container types (like the rectangle shown in the video tutorial). I'm not sure if a Symbol-like indicator would be better, or maybe yet another badge for the thumbnail might be, but as it is now it seems both inconsistent & iffy.

Either my eyes are too old to see it or I have misunderstood what you meant (or both), but I do not see any indication that constraints have been applied to a layer on the Layers panel. What kind of indicator should I be looking for?

The regular (destructive) High Pass filter should remember the last setting applied. The Live version does not.

No offense intended, but you also seem to be unwilling to give up. The developers have made it clear that at least for now they have no interest in developing Linux versions of the Affinity apps. Three pages of user comments debating the pros & cons of doing that have not changed anything: it still boils down to the relative market demand for new Linux versions vs. for improvements to the existing versions & for the development & release of the other Affinity apps for the three platforms they currently support. Determining that market demand must be based not on how many Linux users there are or how good an OS it is, but on how many of them are doing the kind of work that would be likely to motivate them to buy Linux versions to do that work vs. the same thing for Windows & Apple users. The rest of it does not matter.

For what it is worth, that is because you can't invert a rectangle -- it is a shape, not a raster image. Note that the Layer > Invert menu item is greyed out when a shape (or a text or other object) is selected, indicating this. In effect, Layer > Invert does the same thing as the Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Invert Adjustment (Affinity Photo) or Layer > New Adjustment > Invert (Affinity Designer) menu item does, which is to create a 'negative' of the layer by inverting its color channels. Masks don't have color channels so an invert adjustment layer can't be applied to them, but it can be applied shapes, text, & raster images, which you might find useful for some other tasks. As an alternative to the methods @toltec mentioned, for a different kind of 'hole' effect you might try experimenting with stacking the masked 'underneath' layer above the 'top' one instead of creating a mask in the 'top' one to let the 'underneath' one show through. (IOW, do what you described in your first post, but reverse the stacking order of the two image layers & apply the rectangle to the other, now top, layer.) Doing it this way may not always get the effect you want but you can use the rectangle as a mask as is, without having to create two rectangles & subtract one from the other or change the layer blend mode.