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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..

Yes, the "deselect" is greyed out after i hit "esc", but the layer is still partly selected - see the "diecut" layer, and select menu open. Here I've hit esc 3 times and clicked outside the canvas:

I'm trying my hardest to deselect a layer, to not have anything selected when inserting a stock photo or making any sort of new curve/text/whatever. After clicking outside the canvas and hitting escape repeatedly, the last used layer still has a dark blue highlight. How does one fully deselect, so any new element comes in on the "root level", not under that last used layer? (Designer by the way)

I see - so what's the difference/relaitonship between the stroke pressure and brush pressure? Or what does brush pressure curve do? When you mess with it the preview changes as expected, but not the actual result.

Isn't that what I have open in the screenshot? A pressure curve from 0 to 100 left to right?

Hi, when changing pressure curve/size variance/opacity variance in brush properties, nothing actually happens. The preview in the properties window reflect the changes correctly, but it doesn' actually affect the curve stroke.

All fixed, thank you so much @N.P.M.! I googled "affinity clear cache", "clear settings" etc, but never found the ctrl-click result, wonder why it's so hidden.

Yes, I held ctrl and clicked, like you said first "Hold down the control key and click the program shortcut". But is it the shortcut in windows startmenu I should do it on? Or somewhere else? I'm on win10 pro if it matters. EDIT: Thanks, got the clear menu now! Restarting to see how it works. Also clicked "yes" on "would you like to import personal stuff from v1".

Also tried from the account/store now, Grade UI - also error:

Thanks! I'm not sure where you are talking about - in the startmenu, the program folder or on windows desktop? CTRL+click on the shortcut in start menu just opens the program, no menu pops up.

My apps seems to be broken - when I try to import assets, it just says error. The assets panel is also empty, and I cannot create new categories(nothing at all happens when I click "create new category", the drop down just closes). I've restarted my PC, deleted Photo/Designer and reinstalled, and the assets are still empty. Worth mentioning, assets and libraries DID work yesterday - we had a blackout while both apps were open, and my PC shut down of course. After getting the power back, assets where gone, I couldn't import them (or install from account menu), so I uninstalled everything and reinstalled to no avail.

My app seems to be broken - when I try to import them, it just says error. The assets panel is also empty, and I cannot create new categories(nothing at all happens when I click "create new category", the drop down just closes). I've restarted my PC, deleted Photo/Designer and reinstalled, and the assets are still empty.

Has Anyone tried importing these in Affinity 2? I'm getting errors on both designer and photo..

Thanks Richard!

Hi All, Before I download the trials, can someone confirm it won't update/wreck the v1's I have installed? Meaning, if I install the trial and decide not to upgrade yet, can I still just open V1 from its normal shortcut and use it as before, or will V2 "destroy" something in the V1 program?

Thanks Chris, waiting to hear back 👍

When I have no idea what font I want to use for a project, i usually type out what I need, then scroll while hovering over the font selector to get some inspiration. I also use hover+scroll on font size, stroke size etc, but lately it seems to only work for font size and character style, not the others. Can I fix this somehow?

Hi, not sure if it's just me or everyone, but move, artboard and node tools are duplicate in the tools-section: Is it supposed to be like that?