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Can you elaborate on that? I'm not sure I can follow. I do know what bit depth is, but somehow it doesn't make sense to me why something like color shades or an intensity slider shouldn't also work at lower bit depths. Thank you!

Nice! Thank you, that works! And it explains why I've never seen this before since I almost exclusively work in 8 or 16 bits. Why are these options exclusive to 32-bit color modes?

Hi everyone, you probably know that when you click on one of the big round color selectors in Affinity (e.g. in the Tools panel or the Swatches panel), the Color Chooser opens. Please have a look at these two versions: The left-hand window is the one we all probably know. The right-hand window show up when you close Affinity with the Color Chooser still open, then restart the application with no document being opened on launch. At least that's what happens on macOS with the current Affinity betas. I don't know if this also works in the retail versions and I can't test this on Windows. Note the additional options on the bottom of the dialog like the Intensity slider, the 32-bit section and what seems to be a shade modifier. As soon as you open a file, the Color Chooser reverts back to the version seen on the left. I have not been able to make the additional options show while working on an actual document. I suspect these are leftovers from development that weren't supposed to be accessible at all by the user, but that's just a guess of course. Has anyone ever noticed this? Can these options be actually used?

Hi everyone, I've been trying to track down the issue further and have noticed that it's more complicated than I initially thought. Long story short: I cannot reliably reproduce the bug anymore. It did show consistently when I wrote my initial post, but now it doesn't. I've neither updated my system nor any of the Affinty apps. When the bug shows, it usually helps to restart Affinity Photo. Also, because of this, I'm not so sure anymore that Designer and Publisher are unaffected. I haven't seen the problem there, but maybe I've just not triggered it yet. Unfortunately, I've ditched the non-beta versions of the Affinity suite quite some time ago and exclusively work with the betas. In the Mac App Store versions that I used, I don't remember having seen the bug. I reinstalled the MAS version of Affinity Photo just to answer your question, and the Cancel button is indeed there. But like I said, that's also the case in Affinity Photo beta, at least most of the time. The Cancel button still does disappear occasionally, but I have not been able to figure out the circumstances under which this happens.

Yes. It's Sequoia 15.4.1.

Hi everyone, in the current Affinity Photo beta 2.6.3 (3322) for macOS, it's impossible to cancel the deletion of a color swatch. That renders the confirmation dialog somewhat useless because you aren't given the option to change your mind anyway. The only thing you can do is click the "OK" button which inevitably deletes the swatch. It's also not possible to exit the dialog via the Esc key or something like that. Steps to reproduce: Open Affinity Photo, activate the Swatches panel, right click a color swatch and choose "Delete Fill". This will result in a dialog similar to the one illustrated below. Note that the same dialog does have a Cancel button in Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher.

There should be no doubts about this at all. Serif have stated multiple times that Linux support for the Affinity suite does not and will not exist.

I would probably choose less harsh words to describe it, but I basically share your observation that Canva is mostly used by people who have no idea about design. That probably their USP: democratising design, as you and others have pointed out. The part that I don't agree with is where you say professional design is going extinct. There will always be people who value good design and who are willing to pay for it. Professional design won't disappear so quickly. It seems that the people at Canva think so, too. At least that would explain the acquisition: They already have their share in the amateur sector. Now they want to expand their customer base to professional designers as well. I don't know to what extent that's true. But it makes perfect sense to me.

That's not true. All three Affinity apps including Photo do run on Macs with Intel processors. The only features that are not available on this platform are the Object Selection Tool and Select Subject because the underlying AI models require Apple Silicon. Everything else will work just normal.

Your best chance to get the problem solved is upload the Affinity file here so others can look inside and try to figure out what happens.

For macOS, there's Skim which I can highly recommend. For Windows, have a look at Sumatra PDF. Both applications are free and open source. It's true that for simple PDF viewing, today's web browsers already do a pretty good job. But if you need a standalone application with some more features, these might be what you're looking for.

For those who actually work with Affinity, picture frames are not a workaround. They are the preferred way of placing images in layouts in the majority of cases because they are much more flexible and feature-rich than vector crops. The latter do have their justification. But with picture frames, we get automatic scaling behavior, inline zooming/positioning controls and smart master page layouts. If your "not just as a hobby" argument implies that you consider yourself part of the professional user base, I think you should know. By the way, none of this has anything to do with the fact that the OP of this topic is right! Of course, the current behavior in Affinity Publisher is not how snapping should work with images that have a vector crop attached, so I'm not sure what you're arguing against.

Yes, I mean simply. While I agree that it involves one more step, it's far from being complex or difficult.

You get the desired behavior by simply placing the image inside a picture frame.

Are you 100 percent sure they're bugs rather than incorrect tool settings? If Affinity Designer was really that buggy, chances are more people would have noticed this when trying to accomplish a similar task. That doesn't seem to be the case. If you describe what you tried to do, how you expected Affinity Designer to behave and what happened instead, people here in the forums might be able to tell you what went wrong and offer a solution.