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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?

Perhaps an obvious question, but since the AP sliders allow 200% changes, did you ever try adjusting both to 100% & comparing that to the LR 100% result?

From https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html So basically, for personal use the only restriction is "own or control," but it is not entirely clear if or how this applies to others you permit to use these devices, also only for noncommercial purposes. Family Sharing is covered in section D of the same legal document.

Hi @Jon1 I noticed that in both your screenshots, your Background layer is locked (indicated by the lock icon in the Layers panel). This means you cannot select it by clicking on it in the canvas, although of course you can by clicking on it in the Layers panel. To unlock the layer, click on the lock icon in the Layers panel. The layer probably was locked because this is the default, but if you want you can change that in the Preferences:

I think it is time to paws this discussion.

I did not mention that. It is two bears too many for me to bear thinking about. I don't even like thinking about the whole 'right to bear arms' thing -- why would anyone want to have bear arms, anyway? Human arms are much better suited to design work.

In the Export dropdown window, click the "More" button & make sure the rectangle next to "Matte:" has a red slash through it, like this: If it does not, click on the rectangle & from the popup color picker, click on the tiny white circle with a red slash through it. (It is just to the left of the eyedropper icon.) The red slash indicates 'no color' -- anything else, even an all white matte rectangle, will override the transparency & fill the background with that matte color.

How specifically did you combine them?

On Macs, in the "Get Info" window you can check the "Stationary" box for a template file you have created, & Affinity Photo will create & open a copy of it in the same folder as the original -- the original title will be appended with a " Copy" suffix (or "Copy 2" & so on if there is already a copy). Not ideal, but usable as a workaround for the missing template feature. Alternately, checking the "Lock" box will open the file as read only with a " [Read Only]" suffix, which disables the Save option. To save it, use the "Save As" menu choice. For color palettes, you can always create an application or even system palette, which will become available for all Affinity Photo or all documents that can use color palettes, respectively.

Or just enable this button in the Context menu bar: I realize some might consider it a huge amount of effort to click that button, but it is 'sticky' so you only have to do it once per session. You can take a short break afterwards if needed to get enough energy to continue.

I do not completely understand what you mean about adding a fancy border color as a child layer. Is there some reason you can't just set the stroke color of the shape to the desired color independently of its fill color? I don't understand your last question at all. Are you talking about a pixel selection saved as a raster file or what?

You can also use the snapping options for this if you find the extra effort of holding down the Shift key too much to bear.

Affinity Designer is not a replacement for software used to create web pages. You can use it to create images that can be placed in your web page designs, but it does not generate the HTML code to do that. You must use software designed for that purpose to build your web pages. Google Translate: Affinity Designer ne remplace pas les logiciels utilisés pour créer des pages Web. Vous pouvez l'utiliser pour créer des images qui peuvent être placées dans vos conceptions de page Web, mais il ne génère pas le code HTML pour le faire. Vous devez utiliser un logiciel conçu à cette fin pour créer vos pages Web.