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Sorry for the misunderstanding. However, if you mean mixing & grouping tools from different Personas into one Tool panel, it is unlikely that will ever be supported for three reasons: 1. A primary design feature of the Affinity apps is to split functions into the different Personas. This is done to reduce clutter in both the Tool panel & in the main Toolbar & to allow the apps to run on smaller screens without the need to do excessive scrolling or resort to other means to cram everything into one UI. 2. Many of the tools & main toolbar items only apply to one Persona, so mixing tools from different Personas would mean a lot of items were greyed out unless you were in the appropriate one. 3. Splitting functions into different Personas allows various "under the hood" optimizations in the code that reduce memory & CPU requirements. This is part of what makes the Affinity apps responsive enough to provide realtime previews of effects, blend modes, etc., to handle extremely large files without taxing the system, & to run on relatively low powered hardware.

Rasterize nothing won't preserve the 3D effects on the letters, so the SVG export will look something like this: Also, reimporting the SVG export back into Affinity Designer I get this: With the layers panel expanded for the lower section, there is a cropping mask, a crosshatch image, & a tan rectangle, but they do not combine to form the same texture effect as in the first image above: However, using Quick Look or Finder to view the exported SVG (with or without rasterizing) the texture looks fine.

You can't mix tools from different Personas, if that is what you mean, but you can customize which tools appear in each Persona & how they are arranged in the Tools panel: • From the View menu, select "Customize tools ..." • In the window that opens you can choose how many columns the panel should have & drag & drop any of the tools onto or off of the panel, as well as dragging the ones in the panel to different positions. • Note that some of the tool icons contain multiple tools but each individual tool also has an icon, so you can mix & match & arrange them in any way you want.

FWIW, I checked a number of different PDF's from various sources. They were created with several different apps, including Illustrator & Distiller on Windows or Macs. All of them show the same thing in the Info window, what appears to be the pixel resolution of the (preview?) thumbnail. So this seems to be a bug or weird "by design" choice in the Mac OS, not something caused by Affinity.

On my system, the swatches in both the panel & the dropdown show as a named list if "Show as List" is checked, otherwise as squares. But only the Swatches panel has ever had a search field, & it is working fine. Do you see something different?

Click on the four line "hamburger" menu icon next to the "Library" tab name. You should see a menu pop up with "Import Macros" as a choice.

How so? Are you aware you can set the appearance of the swatches from the Swatches panel menu (red arrow points to it):

For general info about the JPEG format, you could try https://wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG. The most important things to understand about it are: • it does not support transparency so there will always be a colored background • Normally it uses lossy compression so there will be a loss in details proportional to the reduction of the "quality" setting • It is a single layer bitmap (raster image) only format, so all layers be 'flattened' into a single bitmap image

I am not certain but I think "Authorize Global" is only needed for Macs (because of sandboxing requirements in the Mac OS). If you are running Windows, you may not even see a button for this or need it.

As @Aammppaa said, put the Pen Tool in Polygon Mode. Use snapping to co-locate adjacent nodes.

In the video, new nodes are being created at the same location as ones in existing triangles, but no node is being shared by two different triangles -- each one is an independent shape.

From your export setting screenshot, you are exporting everything to a single massive GIF file, 24791 px by 19295 px, & because it is a GIF everything must be reduced to no more than 256 colors if you output an RGB GIF, or to 256 shades of gray if you choose greyscale. That is unusually large for a GIF & I doubt Affinity has been optimized to do the reduction very efficiently on something that size. Is there some reason you don't want to use another export format, like PNG?

Thanks! I think that explains it, although I am not exactly sure why when I select the #Envelope layer with the Move tool the bounding box & the Transform panel don't show anything larger than the 100 px square.

1. Please don't post the same images more than once to a topic. There is no need for that & it just makes it harder to scroll through the replies looking for anything new or different. 2. Size for size, the text in both thumbnails are about the same. The 'New York Times' text blurb is maybe just a bit easier to read, but it also slightly larger type than you used & has higher contrast than your angled text. 3. As @toltec mentioned, these are just thumbnails, which are much lower resolution (have far fewer pixels) than full sized images. Text in thumbnails will never be very clear unless it is very large (uses many of the available pixels) -- for example note how "PAWNS" looks fine, even better than "DIVERGENT" in the other thumbnail.

The file in question is the free "Nice Things Icon Set" from SmashingMagazine.com. The readme in the download specifies it may not be offered for free downloading from websites other than SmashingMagazine.com so please download it from the source at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/11/01/freebie-nice-things-icon-set/ The download is a zip file containing PNG versions of 128 icons plus a "nice-things-x128-pack1.ai" file of all 128, which I imported into Affinity Designer. Each icon is imported on its own layer at 100 px X 100px layer size. However, when I switch to the Export Persona Layers tab, select all 128 layers & click "Add Slice" 127 of the slices are the expected 100 px size, but the "#Envelope" layer is 122 x 122 px, & is off center. This doesn't make any sense because if I select the layer in the Draw Persona the Transform panel says it is 100 px x 100 px like all the others. I can also copy it to the clipboard & 'new from clipboard' also creates a 100 px layer, so I am at a loss as to why this one layer behaves differently from all the others. Any thoughts?

Could you explain a bit more about where you see the this?

And more natural if there were reflections of light sources, but I am not sure that is the desired effect.

I am seeing the same thing. I choose CMYK 8-bit as the format & no matter if I enable embedding the ICC profile or not, or use the document profile, or choose another ICC profile from the popup list, the output is always RGB tiffs. I also noticed that the default Pixel Format is RGB 8-bit, & when initially changing that to CMYK 8-bit, the ICC profile choices in the popup are the RGB ones. Clicking to close the 'three dot' window & opening it again after setting the format to CMYK 8-bit then shows the expected CMYK profiles. But it doesn't change anything -- the tiffs are always RGB. I am using the OS & AP version shown below in my sig.

If you mean a specular highlight, you might play around with the Lighting filter. These settings produce a small round specular highlight that might work as a starting point:

I do not know of any way to do that automatically, or for that matter what exactly you mean by brightest color. Two or more colors could have the same HSL lightness or LAB intensity so it is somewhat ambiguous.

Unless I am missing something, the only thing you uploaded were two JPEG files, both of which look good to me. It would help if you would either upload the .afphoto file or at least a screenshot of the export settings like in the reply from @toltec that you quoted. That seems to be normal. I'm not sure why the type changes but it doesn't mean anything -- as long as the dimensions, color, etc. setting are appropriate for the intended use, there is nothing to worry about.

The Apple menu in the corner of your screen shots was a pretty good clue.

How are you viewing this image outside of Affinity Photo? Quick View & Finder window views on Macs will not show transparency -- you won't see the checkered background like you would in Affinity or Apple's Preview app. Try either opening the exported png file in Preview.app, or in Finder select the file & use "Get Info" from the File menu (or with the CMD+i keyboard shortcut) to display the "More Info" section. If you see "Alpha Channel: Yes" there, the file has a transparent background.

I do not currently have a camera that shoots RAW so I have nothing to compare your results to. Sorry.

I know nothing about using Lightroom, but from your screenshot its sliders go to "100" but there is no "%" indicated, so perhaps that does not directly compare to the % values for AP's sliders? If instead of using those numeric values you try to match the histograms in the two apps, does AP good any better?