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True, but there are color half-tone options there, so there is some logic to it, if not a lot.

So the obvious question is if only happens with those wide focal lengths, doesn't that suggest it is inherently that combination of lens focal lengths & adapter that is causing the vignetting, not some programming error in AP?

See for example https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/layerImage.html for more about this special layer type.

Same for me on my Mac, both for the builtin & online help. I think the OP must somehow have opened a Serif-supplied online(?) page for Affinity Publisher or possibly a third party 'how to' web page that did not make it clear that Affinity Designer does not have a Pages panel.

It might help the documentation team (or other users also confused about this) if you could supply the URL of the Designer online help page that said that, or maybe a screenshot of the builtin help page showing that if that is where you found it. As an aside, note that if an Affinity format document made in Affinity Publisher has multiple pages, you can open it in Affinity Designer & navigate page by page using the navigator bar (not the Navigation Studio panel) located at the bottom of the app window to the left of the Status bar. If the document only has one page, it will not appear. This 2 pages.afpub example shows what I mean.

I don't have any 360° image files to test with but as I understand it, 'selection only' for exports applies only to selections, not to the field of view of those files. So if I j=have this right, you may be able to make a 'marching ants' pixel selection of the panorama & use that option to get just that part of it. But if I have this wrong, hopefully someone else with more experience with these images will reply with something more helpful.

It isn't clear, at least to me, what you mean by "selected view." Are you talking about viewing the document at some zoom level or something else? Also, please tell us which Affinity app & version you are using & on which platform (Mac, Windows, iPad).

Please keep in mind that some users who regularly use multiple monitors want only the document window view to appear on their main monitor & everything else, including all dialogs, Studio panels, & so on to appear on the others. So they would be very unhappy if they could not do that. That said, I think most of us hope that the developers will find a better way of handling this when the other monitors are either not connected or because they are not powered up are connected do not signal that to the OS.

While it is something I do when new to an app, I can't really agree with the idea that not doing so is just laziness or a lack of desire to learn. For instance, when a tutorial video doesn't match what the app shows, it can make one think there is something wrong with the app installation or how one is trying to use it.

One thing that changed in that respect is the addition of a Window > Text submenu with the show/hide options for the Character, Glyph Browser, Paragraph, & Text Styles Studios. In V1 they were in the Text menu ... & Text Styles appeared redundantly both in the Text & in the View > Studio submenu. So I guess it is fair to say that more than a few menu items have been moved & reorganized in V2 vs. in V1.

I have not given it much thought but I think the only things of significance that have been moved are menu items like those to show/hide the Studio panel windows. They are now in the Windows menu while in V1 they were in the View > Studio submenu.

In Affinity Designer you can use artboards as a substitute of sorts for pages, but unlike in Affinity Publisher they will all be in displayed in one workspace window large enough to show them all. In Affinity Publisher, there is a Pages panel that shows a list of all the pages (& master pages) in files that have them, displayed one at a time in the workspace view.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean but in Settings > Tools if you enable 'Use Shift modifier to cycle tools, does this help? I'm not sure what you are doing but for me a layer is not deselected after I do something to it, except for 'quick' shapes like Rectangles or Stars if I disable "Keep Selected" in the Context toolbar.

Apparently, the "hotel size" ones are meant for cleaning large industrial type kitchen equipment like those in restaurants, hotels, & similar establishments.

It is probably a lot more complicated than one might think, considering it has to be supported seamlessly on 3 platforms & 3 operating systems.

Maybe, but the question is when or if it ever becomes enough of a priority for them to develop the necessary code in a way that the Affinity code base will work with, cross-platform & supported in all the Affinity apps. Basically, I doubt we will see anything close to that for many years.

A really useful Dimensioning tool, like those found in some (most?) CAD apps, would not only include dimension lines with a choice of arrow/bar end caps & such but also the ability to dynamically change dimensional values as objects they are attached to are resized or moved, plus things like the ability to dynamically reposition and/or change straight dimension lines to ones with 2 angled segments and/or move the numeric dimensional value from inside to an end of the line as needed to get every dimension to fit without any overlapping lines. I doubt anything like that would ever be added to Affinity but we probably will eventually get a far simpler one based on the currently Measure Tool.

You won't need to "connect" to Publisher V2 to do this in the Pixel persona of Affinity Designer but you will need to at least upgrade to Affinity Designer V2 to use the Live Perspective Filter because this feature is in V2 but not V1 of AD. Otherwise, if you have Affinity Photo (V1 or V2) you could open the file in that because it includes the filter.

No, I get a 'file appears to be corrupted' error message.

I meant what tool in AD was doing this, or was selected when you saw the vectors, but I think you already have the answer; namely, that the file of the type you opened already included vector objects. There was no tracing, auto or otherwise, happening in AD.

That is up to you, but keep in mind that the Affinity suite of 3 apps offers much more than just developing RAW files, so it may be worth using them in combination with a RAW developer that does support your camera.

No, while it may be typical, it is not invariably the case that frame text will always use smaller point sizes than art text. But regardless, if there is any use for snapping curves drawn with the Pen Tool to nodes/edges of a selected art text object, then it should be equally useful for frame text objects. And of course, even if the point size(s) of a frame text object is very small, you can still zoom way in to see its snapping candidates, just you like you could with art text. It's just one of the many inconsistencies that occur for certsain Affinity's functions & it needs to be sorted out ... & well documented, too!!!

What does that have to do with the ability to snap to nodes/edges of frame vs. art text objects? If it has any value for one, why not the other?

Any version that explains why it is different for frame text vs. art text would do nicely.

OK, that makes sense, but then why doesn't it also apply to frame text? Aren't users just as likely to want to snap to the same things in frame text when using those snapping options?