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  1. Thank you for your patience with me and your suggestions! 
    It appears that I was sloppy / crazy / not paying attention and created a new PIXEL Layer and then moved the VECTOR layers within it to act like a group. 
    I am quite tired and this project has been going on for months and I made a mistake and couldn't see it - I even said to myself, " Huh, that group icon looks funny."  You can see that I repeated this mistake several times.  The bummer is that even though I saved a backup, I saved the backup after I messed it up.  LOL  Oh well, off to fix things! 
    Thank you!

  2. I am baffled.
    I drew a foot in Affinity Designer 2.  It doesn't show up at all unless I select the layer, then an outline of the foot shows.  It should have a black stroke and a grey fill.
    I moved this group to the top of my layers and I turned off all of my other layers to try to see what the problem is. 

    This layer may have been marked Passthrough - I can't remember  - I have changed so many layers from Passthrough to Normal

    I looked up Passthrough since I had never seen it before (I've been using Affinity for decades and V2 for months.  I am using 2.0.4 now) and it says that it preserves the fidelity of imported pdf items.  I have not imported a pdf into any of my documents that now show so many layers as Passthrough. 

    So, Why won't my foot show and what is this Passthrough layer setting that is making things not show and is driving me crazy?
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  3. In AD1 and AP1, my new document window defaulted to showing me my personalized templates.  I chose one and went on with my work. 
    AD2 and AP2 show me a new document window that defaults to presets, many of which I will never use, and doesn't default to only showing me my favorites. 
    What I really want is for the new document window to default to showing me my templates, instead of having to click templates, then click on the folder icon for my templates, then choose my template. 
    I have looked for a setting to change what New Documents opens by default, but haven't found that. 
    I have text and some lines in my templates, so I think I can't turn them into presets. 
    Is there a way to just open my templates when I want to create a new document?
    Thanks!

     

  4. Yesterday while working on a png, Affinity Photo 2 stopped showing transparancy.  I didn't notice the exact moment (It was between 11:30 and 1:30) because I put in a color layer so I could more clearly see while I was erasing the background. 
    Through testing multiple transparent pngs, the checkerboard that signifies transparency does not show in AD1 or AD2 or AP1 or AP2. 
    Here is the really strange bit - transparancy shows on my main monitor, but not my Wacom Cintiq 22 or my 3rd monitor which is the same brand and model as my main monitor.  Other people in my zoom meeting saw the transparency when I couldn't.
    Other drawing programs show transparancy on all 3 monitors. 
    Because I was working on the image, I wasn't updating anything on purpose. 
    Because it affects my Wacom and my LG, and not my other LG, and Because other programs show transparancy on all 3 monitors, I don't think it is the monitors. 
    So only Affinity programs are the problem, and only on 2 of 3 monitors, and only while I am viewing them not sharing in a webinar.  
    I am really confused.  Any thoughts?
    Thanks! 

  5. I want a plant to wind around a stake and I haven't been able to easily accomplish it with vectors in Affinity Desgner.  In Affinity Photo, I would just erase parts of the stake.  Easy!   So I may be thinking about this the wrong way :)
    Knife and Scissors will cut up the stake, but the edges are strange and don't match the plant, or the pieces won't fill, or I move a node and everything goes crazy.  I have tried Shape Builder to delete the stake where it intersects the plant, but it deletes both the stake and the plant. 
    What I did to accomplish the plant and stake on the right is completely redraw each bit of the branch so that it is 6 separate parts.  I can certainly do that, but I think there must be an easier way, I just can't see it. 
    Thanks for your advice!

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  6. On 12/12/2022 at 8:30 AM, walt.farrell said:

    Are you saying that installing V2 has affected the asset thumbnails in V1? I've never seen or heard anything like that, and it should not happen.

    On the other hand, there are many assets that are hard to see if you're using the Light UI, and others that are hard to see when using the Dark UI, and it's always been this way in both V1 and V2.

    Is there a solution for this? 
    It seems that a slider for the Assets panel like the Background and Artboard have would solve the problem.

  7. I have been using Serif products for many years, but I only recently started drawing with a pen on my Microsoft Surface.  After some experimenting, I have turned the stabilizer off which is best for me at the moment.  I have 2 different pens for my Surface, and have found that the hard plastic tip does a better job than the soft rubber tip.
    I have been struggling with drawing an oval for an eye in one line - the line moves around when I pick up my pen.  I can draw a decent oval, but when Affinity Designer does it's thing, the oval is no longer the oval I drew, but can become egg shaped, or have areas that are more flattened or more rounded than the original line that I drew.
    When I go back and look at the nodes, sometimes an oval will only have 3 nodes - beginning, end and more often than not one close to the beginning, with the rest of the shape relying on however the bezer curves are decided by the software.  My ovals can have up to 10 nodes.  It would be nice if something like this could have a more consistent number of nodes.
    In short, Affinity Designer is "helping" to create a worse oval not a better one.  Sort of like when autocorrect gets it completely wrong :)
    I do want some of the smoothing that software can help with and not have shaky lines and tons of nodes because I am a beginning artist  :) 
    Perhaps there could be a setting that would create a number of nodes per inch? 

     

  8. I created text - Antiqua 96 pt, selected it, used Edit > Defaults > Synchronize from Selection , then Edit > Defaults > Save , opened a new document and my font is still Arial 12pt.

    I tried some more things.  If I open a new document using a template, the font settings don't change to the new one - makes total sense now that I think about it - the template must have also saved the settings.

    If I open a new document using File / New and change the document size, my font becomes Arial 96 pt.  So it keeps the old font, but changes the size. 

    I don't think Antiqua is one of the websafe fonts, so I tried Trebuchet 72 pt, which has now changed my new default font to Trebuchet 72 pt.

    So my conclusion is create a new document - don't use a template (I will go back and remake my templates), and find a font family that will save as the default.

     

     

  9. I would like to change the default font and font size, but I don't see a setting to do that.

    Also, I was watching a tutorial video where their font selection window was as tall as their whole window (showing 40 or so fonts), not just the 3 or so inches (10 fonts) that I can see.

    When I search the internet for font settings, I find all kinds of info on how to set up fonts within the current document.  I want settings for how how fonts appear in all documents. 
    I don't see anything like that in Edit / Preferences and I don't see a 3 bar menu that would apply.

    Thank you!

     

  10. The Shiznizzle brushes say they have been imported but are not in my list
    I purchased Shiznizzle and Concept Master today.  Everything installed fine to Affinity Photo windows desktop except the brushes for Shiznizze.
    I tried import twice (because I thought I forgot to import them on the first go), and I tried drag and drop the 3rd time.

    I got notifications each time that the brushes had imported successfully, and the second and third time it added 2 and 3 after the name of the brush. 

    New brushes always appear at the bottom of my list, but I went through my list of brushes multiple times anyway. 
    So, how can I use these missing but installed brushes?

     

  11. 1 hour ago, - S - said:

    there is a limit on the IPTC 'CopyrightNotice' field, which is limited by the IIM (Information Interchange Model) format to 128 characters.

    I thought that it might be limited by something like that.  Thank you.

    Thanks for the Creative Commons link

    I had exported as a png.  I exported again as a jpg and my information showed up.  Thanks!  I didn't realize that about pngs.

    One more question I forgot to ask earlier - Is there a way to save some of the fields?  Is there a way to save a template? or would a macro work?
    Thanks

     

     

     

     

     

  12. I was excited to learn about the metadata editing feature.  I have a standalone product that does it, but it is really cumbersome.

    However, there are some things that Affinity Photo 1.8.0.585 (currently the most recent version for me) isn't doing, and I am wondering if I am missing something, or if it is just not there yet.  I am using a Windows PC.

    I have entered data in all of the fields on the File page, I left EXIF alone, IPTC (Image) I entered my name for Credit, IPTC (Contact) I entered Country and Website. 
    For the Rights, I don't intend to put this image in the Public Domain, nor allow Creative Commons use.  So I did not check Public Domain and set CC to none.  I did fill out Attribution URL and Attribution Name.  In the Statement box I tried to put my entire copyright notice, but there is a field limit size so it doesn't all fit. 

    When I look at Detail, it seems to imply that I have given this image Creative Commons rights, not left it at none.  All of the other data seems to be what I entered, only the problem with the short Statement field in the Rights section.

    I exported my image, which was not nearly instant as usual, I had a progress bar and it took 30 - 45 sec or so.  (I have only one layer)
    Right click / Details of the image shows me none of the information that I entered in Affinity Photo.  It looks exactly like the Details from the image before I added the metadata.  I did check that when I re opened the image with metadata in Affinity Photo, the new data was there.
    In comparison, my other metadata editor (Using a different image) shows about 3 pages of information, including Title, Subject, Rating, Tags, Author, and Copyright. 

    Is there something that I missed to get all of this information to show when someone checks the details of the image?
    Do I just have to leave the rights page blank so that my image is not assumed to be creative commons?
    Can the Statement field be longer?

    Thank you!
     

  13. Hello!
    I have imported some brush categories into Affinity Photo - they always appear at the bottom.  I would like to change the order that they appear in because of the categories that I use the most one is at the top and the other is at the bottom.  If I add more categories, the one currently at the bottom will be hard to find, as it will be somewhere in the middle. 
    I have tried the little squares at the top right of the brush menu and I can't find anything that helps. 
    How can I rearrange my brush categories?

     

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