toth

Is Affinity themselves seriously just silent on this...? I'm trying to do work, some simple photo masking - and my entire PC freezes. Several other programs had stuff going on, now lost. IS THERE ANY SOLUTION/WORKAROUND AVAILABLE NOW, THAT I CAN USE WHILE THEY FIX IT?

You're right - for some reason several layers are set to passthrough, though I have no idea why. is "erase" still ok to use as a blend mode? That I'm using on purpose, for cutouts. EDIT: After testing, seems erase too is causing rasterisation

I use Export as PDF(for print) all day, because I design colorboxes, labels, hangtags etc - 99% of the time it's fine, and all text and shapes is kept vector. But for a specific brand it keeps being rasterized(without me knowing), and I get it returned from the customer. Have to export again but change settings to "rasterize nothing"(normally not needed). Does anyone know why this typically happens?

you're probably on to it, they do not have the same dpi - however this has been part of my workflow since affinity 1, so I', 100% certain this is a new issue. I copy/paste several layers/items between documents all the time, and this just started happening in the newest release. Also, font size is pretty universal all over windows - 20pt is 20pt, it should never change without me asking for it.

Screen 07-01-2024 15-13-25.avi See video - when copying text between 2 documents, the font size changes, while other objects stay same. Both docs are in same units and same formats. Started happening after updating to 2.5.3

Ah sorry mate, I forgot a word - edited. What I want is to scroll with my mouse-wheel without opening the drop down. Hover your mouse over "paragraph leading" and scroll your wheel - you'll see the spacing between lines change. That's what I want, but for font type and size too.

Used to be able to hover mouse on drop downs - specifically font and font size - and scroll with wheel. Now it only works on paragraph leading. I use this constantly to see what my text will look like in different fonts, instead of the preview in the drop down. Can we please have it back? All drop down menus scrollable on hover?

Ah, clever! Thanks!

Thanks man! How did you get a good selection though? I'm struggling with either too much or too little selected. What's your tolerance setting - do you use several samples wit low tolerance or just one sample with high tolerance? This is my best attempt, sampling all the shades I can without affecting the surrounding black:

I found I still had PS Elements 11 - this is after literally 10 seconds of adjustment of Enhance>Color>Replace Color

So the replacement color tool doesnt seem to work with greyscale for some weird reason. I need to make grey parts of a mainly black image darker. Like this, trying to get the "tips" blacker/darker, without affecting the other parts. The magic selection brush does a bad job, so does the "select sampled color", the replace color-brush won't do it, and I can't find an adjustment that will do it. I remember the "replace color" function from my Photoshop Elements 11(!) did this easily. Just adjust feather and replace any shade of gray with any color of my liking(including black). There must be a quick way/filter I'm missing?

Hm, I thought the apps used mostly the same "engine" behind the tools, but maybe not. I find it really hard to warp correctly without guidelines, so now I just draw a grid out of curves in a rectangle, warp that first and then put the actual object in the group, but that's more of a workaround. I'm assuming we all(users) agree that it's easier to warp good when we see the visual of a grid?

I find the grid essential to applying a correct perspective on anything but rectangles: However in AD i can't find where to turn it on? Just the nodes and outer frame is visible.

Yeah this is how I've always thought of layers(coming from PS) - but this isn't special, that's how they're supposed to work, and should still be selectable/deselectable like normal.. So what is the other type of "layer" you guys mention?

Sorry guys I'm not sure what you mean - what is a Layer Layer as opposed to a Layer? I've only clicked "new layer" as normal..