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That @Andy Somerfield post from 2014 is confusing in several respects, not the least of which is this: ??? CMD-9 is currently called "Pixel Size" in both AD & AP. I don't see either "Print" or "Physical" size listed anywhere on the View menu.

It is possible to use multiple criteria for a Finder search, including several related to dates. They can also be saved for future use. Apple refers to this feature as "Smart Folders" but they really are just saved searches that display all the found files in one Finder window, like is shown here. However, for one-off, single criterion use the results can be sorted by creation or modification date, which should be good enough for @spb_61 to locate many of the folders most recently used to store his MIA .afphoto files.

I think "random" is your word-of-the-day today.

Searching the Resources forum on "macros" will find several useful ones, for example JR Macros (Workflow Aids, Tonal Effects) from Affinity's James Ritson & 38 Gradient Maps for Color Grading from user smadell.

No, there is no Random folder option on the Mac, but by default the Affinity apps save files to the same folder that the last save or open operation used. So for example, if a file stored in the Apple Photos app's library was the last file accessed, the next time the File > Open menu item is accessed, the folder the open dialog defaults to is going to be one buried deep in the Apple Photos Library folder. Likewise, saving a newly created .afphoto file will default to that same folder. This is a bug (or at least undesirable behavior) I have reported before, because users should never save anything directly to these folders -- doing so risks corrupting the support files that the Apple Photos app uses to manage the original "master" photo & the edited version. Even if that doesn't happen, .afphoto format files stored to these folders won't show up properly in Apple Photos, so there should be some kind of exception or override that prevents AP or AD from ever offering to save an .afphoto format file to any Apple Photos Library sub-folder. That is a Mac-specific issue but I believe the 'last folder default' one applies to both Mac & Windows. Basically, the Affinity apps need to store default folder locations for save, save as, & open operations separately. Most Mac apps do this -- it is one of the things Mac users expect when they talk about "Mac-like" app behavior -- but I don't know if that is also typical of must Windows apps.

Yes, there is. But recents or 'saved as' items could be in any of several different folders, which is why I suggested doing a Finder search.

Your link is to a support page about iTunes so I am not sure why you included it. Regardless, if you open the "App Store..." item from the Apple menu, if you can't find your Affinity app listed in either the "Updates" or "Purchased" tabs, try signing out & back into your store account.

No, you have to buy separate licenses for the Mac & Windows versions. The Mac versions are sold through the Mac App Store ("MAS"), which you access from the "App Store..." item on the Apple menu at the top of your MacBook's screen. The Mac versions have no product keys; like all MAS apps, they are keyed instead to your Apple ID.

You are probably right about that. Since I do not use a Windows PC, I just assumed this worked the same way on both.

You misunderstood what was meant by this. The new Affinity apps (Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer) use the same file format, but this format is different from the file formats used in the Serif Plus (or any other) apps. So your old files will not work with AP or AD. The best you can do is to export to a format Affinity can import like PDF, but there will be some differences.

There is no "affinity folder" created by default for saving Affinity documents, so this must be a folder you created yourself. If you know how to navigate to it in Finder, you should see at least some of your .afphoto files there. But there is no default location for saving .afphoto files, so they could be in many different locations on your computer. One way to find them is to type ".afphoto" without the quotes in Finder's search box. Choose "Affinity Photo Document" from the one item kinds list that popups up, & most if not all of them will appear in the results.

I assume you mean the "Import Macros..." item on the Library Studio panel. When the Explorer window opens, can you navigate to the folder where the unzipped content files are located? If so, look for items with an .afmacros extension. You must drag the .afmacros file onto the application icon, not onto a document.

You must click on the mask itself, either its thumbnail in the Layers panel or if the layers are expanded so everything is on a separate line in the Layers panel on the layer with the "(Mask)" label.

There are many new & improved features in 1.6. One I would not want to do without is rotating objects around any rotation center set in the workspace using the R: field in the Transform panel. That makes it trivially simple to set precise rotations, including by using expressions to enter values that would be impossible to get otherwise, like 360/11. This also applies to skew angles. There is also the new light UI option, quite a few bug fixes, Metal acceleration support for qualifying Macs, the glyphs browser, & a bunch of other stuff. If you do not update you won't be able to get any new or improved features in future updates, nor will you be able to open most Affinity documents included in these forums in the 1.6 file format, which is not 100% compatible with the older one.

I assumed that was more or less what he meant, but I do not see how a reasonable price could be determined now or until the 2.0 versions are nearing their release dates. There is also the logistics of the Mac App Store to consider for Mac users.

As you probably know, DNG was invented for that purpose but several of the major camera makers have shown little interest in adopting it. This is probably at least in part because they feel their ever changing proprietary raw formats give them an edge over their competitors. If they all used DNG, they would be forced to reveal info in what are now private tags that in some instances they have heavily encrypted to make that very difficult to do.

I am not entirely sure what you mean by that, but as far as I know they have not even begun development work on the 2.0 versions or set prices for them. We only got the version 1.6.x updates a few days ago, around 7 months after the previous 1.5.x ones were released. The roadmaps for the 1.x versions still list quite a few as yet to be implemented features, so presumably it will be another year or probably more before the 1.x version development cycle is complete. So it is somewhat premature to consider free upgrades for life licenses because I doubt anyone at Serif knows what fees would be appropriate for that.

I noticed that in my ~/Library/Group Containers folder I have three folders beginning with a 10 character alphanumeric identifier followed by .com.seriflabs. One of them has a .beta suffix similar to "1ABCDE2345.com.seriflabs.beta." There is also one with an identical name except it has no .beta suffix. The second one has a creation date back in 2014 when I first bought the Affinity apps, & has a minor amount of info in its subfolders. The .beta one has no info in it, just some subfolders of zero byte size. Deleting this beta folder causes a new & just as empty one to be created whenever I launch AP or AD, but it never contains any info or is otherwise modified. The non-beta folder is also largely empty but contains two files in its "appinfo" subfolder, com.seriflabs.affinityphoto.appinfo & com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner.appinfo. These are small files but their modified time stamps are updated on each launch of the respective app. So what I am wondering is if the .beta folder has any actual purpose, or is maybe something that should have been removed from the code when the 1.6 versions went live.

The free content is available through a link in the Welcome screen of the 1.6.x retail versions of the desktop apps, but the desktop betas are now obsolete & should not even run.

Even if scrolling with the mouse wheel is not working, you should be able to move the object & scroll the view by dragging the object to the edges of the document window & hovering it there. For example, try dragging an object to just below the Context toolbar or just above the Status bar at the bottom of the window, or if you work in Separated mode to near or just beyond the edge of the window. Personally, I have enabled the "Use mouse wheel to zoom" & "Use 'scrubby' zoom" preferences, which allows me to interactively zoom the view to any zoom level centered on the mouse pointer's position with the wheel, including at the same time I am dragging objects around. So instead of scrolling the view when I want to move something out of what the screen currently displays, I just zoom out to show more of the workspace, drag the object to the general area where I want to drop it, & if required zoom back in to a higher zoom level to place it precisely. It sounds like it might be a bit awkward, but in practice it is very quick & fluid, & all but eliminates the need to resort to scrolling the workspace.

Something in the real world looks shiny in part because it reflects the surroundings like a mirror does. In your second screenshot you can see that clearly on both the bumper & the radiator grill, & to a lesser extent on the other shiny parts like the headlights & fender. It is very difficult to recreate this using vector objects, which is one reason why bitmap (raster) image overlays are sometimes used to create the effect. You can suggest shininess by using small whitish or yellowish (for sunlight) vector shapes that look like specular highlights, sort of like what you did on the headlight cowling, but without reflections this will never look very realistic.

Just some things to consider about this: 1. There are three different metadata standards commonly used to embed info in photo files, including copyright info. They are Exif, IPTC, & XMP. It has become common to refer to them generically as "Exif metadata" or simply "Exif tags" but this is just for simplicity's sake -- they are different & unfortunately in some ways contradictory. 2. The Exif standard alone lists many different kinds of metadata tags that can contain copyright info. It is very complicated, but if you want to slug through the details, go to http://www.cipa.jp/std/documents/e/DC-008-2012_E.pdf & use your browser's search function on "Copyright" -- you will get around 70 hits! 3. The main purpose of ownership, rights, & copyright metadata tags regardless of the standard used is to make it easy for those wishing to use copyrighted material legally to contact the appropriate people to get permission to do that. It does not protect owners from illegal use, although it may (but not necessarily will) be considered should legal proceedings become necessary to stop illegal use. 4. Copyright laws vary around the world but in general you do not need to formally include a copyright notice for your original work to be considered copyrighted under law. As above, an included notice may help in a court case but defense of copyrights is the owner's responsibility. 5. It is simple to delete or change embedded metadata including copyright & owner info using many different widely available applications. So in this sense, embedding copyright info offers no practical protection from infringers. 6. Digital watermarking is an alternative to embedding metadata that is more difficult to detect or remove. If you are concerned about infringement, this may be something for you to consider. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor am I representing the above in any way as equivalent to or a substitute for consulting with one regarding the legal protections you have or how best to preserve them.

Just to avoid any confusion about this, the offer for the free (until Nov. 16) content downloads appears on the version 1.6.x Welcome screen, not the splash screen that briefly appears when an app is launched. If you have previously unchecked the "Show this Panel on Startup" box on the Welcome screen, it will not show unless you go to the Affinity Help menu at the top of your screen & click the "Welcome..." item. Note, Version 1.5.x does not show the offer, so update first. On a Mac, you purchase the Affinity app through the Mac App Store ("MAS"). Apple does not share individual buyer data with any third party vendor selling through MAS, including Serif/Affinity. This is done for security & privacy reasons. Because of this, Serif/Affinity has no way of knowing if you qualify for the offer, other than through the Welcome screen. The offer is made by Serif/Affinity through their own Affinity Store, but the content itself is owned by whoever created it. They determine the conditions of the offer, not Serif/Affinity.

From your screenshot, you are running Safari 11.0.1 & El Capitan 10.11.6.

Sometimes for me as well Font Book gets sluggish and/or won't update the listing of newly installed fonts until I quit & restart it. I don't know why.