John Rostron

Hello @jonasgruner, and welcome to the forums. What is the Quality factor in your Export dialogue? This should fairly accurately reflect on the chances of getting compression artefacts. But it will very much depend on the type of image that you are exporting. For example, large areas of graded colour may be susceptible to banding at low quality. Could you upload a typical problem image for us to try. John

I loaded the two stamp images into Photo. I used the Rectangular Marquee tool (M) to select the flawed area, then copied it (Ctrl-C). I then moved to the Master stamp and pasted it there (Ctrl-V) and used the Move tool (V) to position it. No problems. John

Hello @Hradcany, and welcome to the forums. When you create an image (note the small 'i') in Affinity Photo it could be either a (Pixel) image or an (Image) image. (Confusing I know.). You can tell what sort you have by looking at the image layer in the Layers panel. An (Image ) file will have (Image) as part of the layer label, A (Pixel) image will have (Pixel) as part ofthe layer label. Image files can only be manipulated an a single entity. If you want to cut and paste parts of the image, it needs to be a (Pixel) file. To convert an (Image) file to a (Pixel) file you need to Rasterize it. Use Layer > Rasterize or Layer > Rasterize & Trim. Once you have converted your image layer to a (Pixel) image, you should be able to cut out bits from one image and paste them onto another. Hope this helps, John

When learning a new technique, I much prefer using a written tutorial to watching a video, so when I first used Data Merge to create a set of mailing labels, I turned to the Publisher Help system. It told me all about how to describe my data layout with rows, columns and gutters etc, but not how to actually create the layout on my page! I had to resort to watching the video which indeed demonstrated how to do it. Easy when you know how, but I would never have guessed from the Help file. I was not sure where I should be posting this, but it ended up here. John

As far as I can tell, once you have imported the macros library file then Photo will remember it. I don't know if it simply remembers where it found it or if it makes acopy for itself. John

On June 18th 2020, @Patrick Connor said here: John

The last mention was 9 hours ago. The last of over a thousand messages. John

Presumably this is intended for a public notice board. If so, would it be an attention grabber? The multi-coloured line seems just garish and unnecessary. John

You don't need to re-post. You can change the title of your thread by editing your original message. Use the Edit link at the bottom. John

That is because all photostack does is to pass over an image which Affinity will open. To open an Affinity file, photostack would need to know Affinity's internal file organisation. Plus thefact that Serif is no longer developing the Plus range. John

You will need to convert your image to RGB. See here for how to do that. John

Difficult to advise without seeing the scanned image. Could you post this. I would suggest you post a smallish version, about 500px would be fine as a png file. I would guess that you are wanting to render the background transparent. You could try the flood fill tool to select the background and then delete the selection. John

What you can do at present is to write the macro to do your sharpening etc, then save it into a library. If you now create a new batch job, it can load files from a chosen folder, apply one or more macros (from library files) and then export these to your chosen folder. John

Hello @Bob Eason and welcome to the forums. First, could I suggest that you change your post Title to something meaningful, such as "Colouring the sun". Many new users get confused by this "Title" label. For your image, try adding a fill layer (Layer > New fill layer) with a suitable yellow colour. This will be placed over your image. Then try changing the blend mode to Darken. Or you could try another blend mode, or swap the position of the layers. I am assuming here that your image is in RGB, not greyscale. John

Hello @Chiller55, and welcome to the forums. By library, here, I think you are looking for a DAM or Digital Assets Manager. Afffinity do not offer such a facility. In the past, they have made noises about producing a DAM, but all has gone verg quiet on that front for the last year or so. So, don't hold your breath waiting for one. John

As @Dan C says, the Serif staff are extra busy at the moment. However I am surprised that one of us ordinary users did not pick it up. Sorry about that. You could have bumped your question after 48 hours, which would bring it to the front of the listings. John

H @cosmospacemonkey, and welome to the forums. Your images here are named ScreenShot... what magnification were these on screen? To compare images you should always be using 100%. For us to assess your images, it is always better to post the original images (rather than screenshots) so that they appear 100% on screen. You can crop them first to reduce the pixel dimensions if necessary. I suggest this because I cannot see much difference in the images posted here. John

You could try inserting a hard (non-breakable) space between the 'I' and the rest of the sentence. John

Unfortunately, that is the way macros work. For example, if you record a Copy , Paste acrion in a macro and then apply it to another image, then what gets pasted is a copy of the original image (as recorded). Not a satisfactory action! John

Format usually refers to the way the image is stored on disk and, as such, is not relevant here. Photo will pass on the image to a plugin in the current bit depth. Some plugins will not accept 16-bit images, but I believe the Topaz ones do. I have seen reports that, like you say, the Topaz AI plugins do not perform effectively in Photo. I have not compared them myself (perhaps I ought). Topaz has commented that its plugins are not guaranteed to work in Affinity. Mostly they do so. John

@Conneri2311, you cannot do this in Designer, but you can do it in Photo. In Photo you can use the Liquify Persona, or the Shear tool ( Filter > Distort > Shear ). There is a discussion of this here. You will need to scroll down to get to the Shear posts. John

From my days in programming I know that if something is a minor issue it does not necessarily mean that it requires a minor effort to resolve it. However, in this case, I suspect that it may well be the case. John

I did the same thing with these two as I did to your earlier images, with the same result. At 100% there was no detectable difference between the two. At 300% I could just discern a difference, but not to say one was better than the other. Here is the stack as an .afphoto file. abc2.afphoto John

As a tedious, long-winded method, try this: Create a rectangle that covers your existing shapes (or use the geometry operations on a copy of your shapes). Convert this rectangle to curves and shape it to the desired S-bend. Use the node editor to drag nodes from your shapes to fit withing your distorted rectangle. John

I downloaded the two images, the original from Afffinity and the final one from Corel Draw. I loaded them into a stack with alignment (they were both the same size) and ungrouped the stack. By changing the visibility of the top layer I could quickly compare the images. At 100% I could detect no difference. At 300% I could see that they were different, but I could not say that one was better than the other. John