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1. You should have received an order confirmation email with your order number, a summary list of the items ordered, & the text "This is a free complimentary order" in it, but there are no product codes for the bonus content, & none needed. Check your email for an item from "Affinity Store" (no-reply@affinity.store). 2. There is no need to use a third party utility like the Unarchiver to unzip the files. The Archive Utility app built into the Mac OS will unzip zip files without asking for any user input. If you have set the Unarchiver app as the default to open .zip files, you can unzip the dirk-wustenhagen-fine-art-texture-collection.zip file by right clicking on it & choosing "Archive Utility app" from the "Open with ..." item in the menu that pops up.

View > Studio > Show Left Studio

Is the Swatches tab selected when you click on the "Colour:" rectangle, or is it the Colour tab that is? For me on my iMac, it always defaults to the Color tab, thus requiring a second click to display whatever Swatches category I last used.

Do you have a Mac with AD and/or AP on it that you can use outside the organization? If so, you could try accessing the Welcome screen(s) from there. Otherwise, maybe talk to your IT people & explain the situation. If you set up an Affinity Store account from work, they must be allowing some access to that site, so maybe they can help you figure out why accessing the offer page from the Welcome screen is being blocked.

They won't appear there until you access the free content offer from the Welcome screen of Affinity Photo and/or Affinity Designer. Please go back & carefully read MEB's first post in this topic, particularly the first several paragraphs.

Rotate in the View menu does not rotate the content on the canvas. It just rotates the canvas on the screen, much like rotating a physical canvas on an easel to make brushing on it at some angle more convenient. To level the horizon, you can use the Straighten button in the Context toolbar of the Crop Tool. When you click it, the pointer turns into a bubble level icon. Use it to click & drag a line along the horizon in the image.

What version of Affinity Photo is currently installed on your Mac? Unless it is version 1.6.6 you won't see anything in the Welcome window about this content. If it is version 1.5.x or earlier, open the Mac App Store app to the Updates tab, where you should see AP listed with a button that will do the update. If you have already updated AP to 1.6.6 that is what is supposed to happen. You need to open the Welcome window in the app itself to see the slide with the link to claim the offer. Note that this offer is not made by Apple but by Serif/Affinity, & is distributed through the Affinity Store, not the Mac App Store. The content itself is owned by the various people who created it, not by Serif/Affinity. It is up to them to decide how it can be distributed for free, to whom, & for how long.

AirPrint is a Wi-Fi based Apple technology that does not require printer-specific drivers for a wireless printer connection but does require either a printer that supports it or connecting the printer directly to an intermediary host that does. Judging from the list of models that support AirPrint on the Apple page, it appears that none of the Epson SC series printers do.

It is not as direct as it seems. In effect, to do this Corel must switch to a mode that emulates a 32 bit app. This involves converting 32 bit data structures into ones usable in a 64 bit app environment. As you might imagine, this is not an efficient process. It adds considerable overhead & complexity to the code, & must be done very carefully to avoid instabilities that can crash the app. As @DWright & @toltec mentioned, where possible it is preferable to either use the software that came with the scanner or a third party equivalent.

After you unzip the downloads, you should see QuickStart_Guide.pdf files in each of their folders that explain how to use them.

You can avoid the cycling by removing the "b" shortcut from all the other brush tools besides the Paint Brush Tool that share that shortcut by default. However, you can't avoid the 'last tool used' feature that toggles between the brush & the previously used tool if you press "b" again when that brush is already selected.

You won't get things provided by the Mac OS (just like Mac users won't get things provided by the Windows OS) but anything that is provided by the app itself that you don't currently get is an omission that could be fixed in an update, particularly if <ahem> you report it in the bugs on Windows sub-forum.

@N'Awlins Contrarian I think part of the confusion may be because you are using "adjustment layer" in a generic sense while in Affinity Photo "adjustment layer" refers to one of the following specific kinds of layers that allow you to make non-destructive corrections and enhancements to documents or their individual layers: LUT Black and White Brightness and Contrast Channel Mixer Color Balance Curves Exposure Gradient Map HSL Invert Levels OCIO Posterize Recolor Selective Color Shadows/Highlights Soft Proof Split Toning Threshold Vibrance White Balance The builtin help topics Using adjustment layers & Applying adjustments (links are to the online US English versions of these topics) explain how they can be used. Note that unlike the cloning, healing, blemish removal, & other brush tools, none of them actually replace the pixels in any layer they are applied to -- they non-destructively change the appearance of those pixels, but do not contain any pixels of their own that are independent of the pixels of the layers they affect. So basically, to do what you want you must use one of the methods that replace or create pixels on pixel layers.

What you are seeing in the video is the Mac OS Application Switcher, a quick way to switch between apps, in this case between Finder (displaying the folder with the jpg files in it) & Affinity Photo (where the file selected in Finder is then dropped onto the Affinity Photo canvas). It is a feature of the Mac OS, not Affinity Photo. I do not think Windows has a similar feature.

I assumed when the OP said "on an adjustment layer," he meant that literally. @barninga describes something quite different from that, but regardless there is no way to make it independent of the pixels of the layer(s) of the current document or applicable to other documents, which I believe is what the OP wants.

I am not sure what you mean about what the View/Studio/Library shows (I am not a Windows user) but the cloud image files are just jpg files that can be opened or placed in Affinity Photo documents like any other jpg files. You just need to know where they are stored on your drive to do that.

It seems to me that could result in a very large number of presets that could become harder to manage than just applying the individual presets, but I guess it all depends on how it would be implemented.

Healing, cloning, & the like are implemented as brush tools that interact directly with the pixels of layers, not as separate adjustment layers. There is no way to make them independent of the pixels of a layer or of their individual x & y pixel coordinates. So for example, since it would be extremely unlikely that two portrait photos would have faces in exactly the same position in the photo frame, exactly the same facial blemishes, & exactly the same backgrounds, there is no independent adjustment layer that would produce the same or even similar results for both of them, much less for a larger number of photos.

The terms of the various EULAs differ. For example, the Uplift Epic Skies EULA allows unlimited use in personal and/or commercial projects, while the Frankentoon one restricts commercial use to a single commercial project for you or a client.

How would that work for the lens presets?

I just sent you a private message about this. It may help you recover his Apple ID password.

FWIW, "Apple Photos Document" is the same title I get with Apple Photos v2.x. But for me, if the original file is in any supported RAW format, it always opens in Affinity Photo's Develop Persona. Otherwise, it opens in the Photo Persona.

If you really are exporting all 100 or so layers to separate files as you said in your first post, the recolor adjustment layer will be exported as a separate file as well. It will be useless because there is nothing for it to adjust. That is just the way layers work, as @toltec already said. If you do not actually need 100 or so separate files but some smaller number, you can organize them into groups, & apply the adjustment separately to each group, but there is no way to get one adjustment layer to apply separately to each of the other layers.

We don't even know if the OP is using Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer, so I am not going to make any assumptions about anti-aliasing, foreground & background colors, zoom levels, display quality settings, or anything else that might be involved in whatever the "it" is that needs to be "fixed." Too many unknown variables for that.

In version 2.x of Apple Photos, the extension appears as "Edit in Affinity Photo." Photos always keeps the original version when any edits are done & applies the edits to an internally stored copy. RAW format files passed to Affinity Photo through the extension open in the Develop Persona. If the file that is developed in Affinity Photo exceeds a 16 MB limit (set by Photos, not Affinity Photo) when it is passed back to Photos, there is a notification at the bottom of the Photos edit page that the file will be "flattened" if the "Save Changes" button is clicked. Flattened or not, the file will still show the RAW extension in the Photos Info window -- that applies to the original, not the copy containing the edits.