Mr Lucky

Is there away to get a curve like this? (Photoshop lower arch)

I agre, I am using EasyFind and Find Any File, but often I just want something dead quick to access, and Spotlight would be great if it worked nicely

Ah yes, but I normally would not want "other" ticked. Even so it still shows the .psd with the same filename as the top hit. Surely it should be under Images, not Other

When I do a search with spotlight, it won't return any results for files ending afphoto Can anyone help please?

Any news on this yet? Please!

Found it! nesting. Thanks to the helpful video on vimeo. :rolleyes:

I have just two pixel layers, one is an object, and the other (behind) is the background. I have added some adjustment layers over the object and create what I want using levels and shadows. However those also apply to the background of course. My question is how to have those layers only act on the object layer, not the background that is visible behind it? Thanks

Also in my case the files need very few colours, they are scans of photocopies of maps - so maybe a few greyscale colours. using the restrictive palette in the Photoshop "save for web" gave me much smaller file size wit good enough quality than I can get from Affinity. I agree that in general and for other purposes I tend to use 8 bit png or 24 bit png if transparency without a fixe matte is required

Yes, but my question is in regard to my scenario, where I need gifs. Hotlinking is a reality whether or or not webmasters discourage it. I even use it to my advantage if I have hotlinked images from my own site on various forums. So I think my original question is valid I believe, whether or not pngs may be better than gifs. Sadly it seems there isn't an an answer except for me to go back to Photoshop for this purpose

Where you already have a gif online, and there are lots of links to that gif, but you want to replace it so it has to be the same file name or else you have to contact all those sites linking to it and ask them to change the link because you changed the name of the file. And you don't want to do an .htaccess redirect because (a) it's a faff, and (b) some SSL sites will not display it via proxy image if there is a redirect. Does that make sense?

I don't know. Options look the same as gif to me.

The one thing I miss with photoshop is the ability to get smaller file sizes that still look OK, I'm finding this especially with gif files. I could get them really small for the web without too much serious quality loss. I would export from Affinity to tiff or high quality jgp, then further reduce for web uploading with a dedicated compression app. Can anyone recommend a good (inexpensive) app that I can use for this. howver, ideally, Affinity would be able to do this (with an export preview)

When I bought Affinity from the Appstore, there was no option to put in my GB VAT number. This means I was charged the Luxembourg VAT rate on top of the price, which I should not be being UK VAT registered. I presumed therefore I could reclaim it however my accountant says it does not work like that with EU VATand that the supplier should not be charging VAT to VAT registered UK individuals or companies. Is there a way to retrospectively get the VAT reimbursed if I supply my U VAT number?

Why is it in the menu for Photo but not for Designer?

Thanks, I suspected as much.

My test pages file is attached, many thanks test.zip

I have exported a PDF from mac pages. I then import to Designer, and there is no font warning when opening, and everything looks fine apart from a couple of things: An icon using Font Awesome imports as the wrong icon. It was a star instead of a mortar board, although when I tested a second time it is an exclamation mark. The page numbers are totally screwed as they have a chevron (or exclamation mark) superimposed over the first character The chevrons (or exclamation marks) also show up randomly before and after some images. I am only using helvetica, Arial and Font awspome (which is installed on my computer) Does anyone know what is causing this and if there is a fix? I have attached my test PDF. Thanks test.pdf

Another (clunky) fix (if you have both applications) seems to be to edit in Designer, adjust margins, then back to edit in Photo.

Thanks, yes I have seen various sites with barcode rules. They give sizes and placement, which I have done correctly and I know there must be contrast but i can't find anything where actual colors are mentioned. I will ask the printer. My green color is CMYK 70 33 100 40 against white so i think it should be OK. I've seen a lot worse on milk cartons. Maybe there is an online barcode test, I'll look into that. Hmmm, PNG-24 preset export is very low quality ????

You are correct it does seem to be 72dpi. However changing that to 300 (without resample) makes no difference. However if I click on Edit in Designer (while at 72) it looks fine. But if I change to 300 in Designer it becomes a lot smaller If I change to 300 in photo, then open in Designer it is fine at 300 I'm now a bit confused.

here is how the EPS looks PDF looks the same, (Once I install the font)

I think this should be easy, but I'd love some advice from people who have done this as it would be a disaster to publish this and find it is wrong. Basically I have received the barcode in several formats bmp, eps, jpg, pdf and tif So my first question is what format to edit? The EPS looks awful i Photo, the PDF has embedded fonts that can't be found. Then, what is the process for adjusting the black to another colur (I want a dark green) Thanks.

I second this . It is very useful to see the effect quality changes are having, e.g. the % of jpeg compression or reduction of colours in a gif or png. It's crucial for web images if file size is important. I think this will probably be the only feature of Photoshop that I miss.

I'd like a small notepad within Photo to write notes on to remind myself of various things when I come back to a project, or for when passing a project on to somebody else. Logic X has this and its incredibly useful. (of course there is a work around to write text on a hidden layer)

Nope, nothing in timeline either. I'll keep looking around though.