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Wow, thank you. I spent the weekend watching every video I could on the difference between Rasterize/Rasterise and Vector. While I now understand the difference, I do not understand at all your response--and please, this is a way of saying I intuitively know what you're saying is exactly addressing my issue; I just do not understand how it is doing so. 1) I do not understand what you mean by "Image Layer." (I thought all layers not using vector graphics were image layers.) 2) I have so d*mn many layers in this project. Are you saying that the layer on which I impulsively made the crop is THE layer on which I would be able to Clone, Patch, Paint, Copy/Paste additions to the photograph now "checkerboarded" because the crop threw everything off at least 5 degrees? 3) What is that checkerboard layer called, and why is there a lock on the image that starts a project? Why can/should you work on the Duplicate background layer if you're going to make "yay" many adjustment layers. Thank you again. It is like speaking in a foreign language where I just know you are giving me the right directions but do not understand the words. Maybe I will paste the whole Affinity window.

-- When you have a tremendous amount of layers? I make a new layer for every part of a photograph I edit, but sometimes impatience makes me forget to follow my own standard operating procedure. When starting on the latest edit, I forgot to straighten vertically a photo of a child in deep dudgeon on the long march homeward with a pesky intrusive new infant sibling . Okay: So, after making tons of layers of edits of the most expressive in this series, I realized (thanks to seeing the edit on an IPad) Apple wanted the background rooftops straightened. So I went back to Windows (do not have Affinity for IPad) and Crop-ped the image. I thought I would be able to either 1) Clone; 2) Patch; or 3) Copy + Paste material into all the empty ("checkerboard") pixels that were created from the straightening and "fill in" the empty pixels. I do NOT want to crop this photo; the distance is an aesthetic choice of what I anticipate will be a long work-in-progress, along with others in a series a sympathetic new father took the day his eldest's replacement was brought home. I mention this because no photo in this series was well-composed, all were taken by someone whose Rolleiflex never did such poor work, and I want to honor his memory the best I can. I went to both the Background Image and Background Copy, and tried all the above. Affinity would not allow any manipulations. Attached are screenshots of both the original (sixty-year-old) photograph and of the Affinity-edited photo. Any answers to why I can't Clone, Patch, Paint, Copy/Paste, etc., would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you very much. I think I found the (non)problem. The brightness of the IPad display was set to a level at least three times brighter than my Windows tablet PC. When I zoomed in on the Windows-edited image, I found the exact problems that I had attributed to the IPad's "translation." I solved the problem by synchronizing the brightness levels. (I also have no screen protector on the IPad, while I have a pretty heavy one on the Fujitsu.) Again, thanks!

Working on restoring old color film photographs, I got one result on Windows (quite good). When I downloaded the same edit on my IPad, I was aghast. Half of the edit was-- I don't know how to describe it. In one layer, reserved for browned/jaundiced grass made green (with Affinity), the very natural-looking Windows edit had become a blob of green, at least twice the opacity as on Windows. In another layer, the 50's toddler featured in the photograph seemed to be floating above a black/jaundiced rainy pavement edited with a gradient adjustment layer, while in the Windows edit, the toddler was firmly planted on solid ground. I don't know if the Affinity programs themselves differ or if the IPad's sensitivity shows demerits in my Windows display. I have not bought a stylus for my IPad. I would like to buy the IPad app but resent the price of a stylus. (My Windows tablet PC came with a stylus gratis.) As buying both a stylus and the Affinity app will not be cheap (for me), I'd like to know if some [sic] "glitch" between the two operating systems' displays could be responsible for the awful IOS download. Thank you.

That is a good idea. I just spent two+ hours searching for definitive tutorials on the Lighting feature. Only after private messaging a member here did I find a stunner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyjv7V-XdcA . What I say now will likely result in my getting thrown off the forum, but that's okay. For Americans, listening to sonorous British male voices rapidly narrate in RP videos unquestionably and impeccably brilliant might be...daunting. I wonder sometimes if the video-makers realize this...and it's why for six years, I relied exclusively on the help provided by the work and moderate correspondence of a now-deceased American PhP video-maker. With few exceptions, I always leave here feeling very bad. Alfred consistently responds, and I am always grateful he even notices. I take full responsibility for feeling bad, but feeling bad is not an encouragement to education. Google Groups--or plain "software-loneliness"--is preferable. I had asked for a user forum in different languages because I thought perhaps if I read one in French, there might be a sanguine spirit one does not find here. In terms of kindness and industriousness, certain PhP forum members were/are without equal--truly nonpareil. But as an American, speaking only for myself as an American, I just feel so bad here. Thanks again.

I realized only yesterday that PP (at least the version I had) did not have an interface that would allow handwritten annotations. I thought that buying a Windows-based tablet--whether the millennial denotation of "tablet" or gramma's (or proctologist's :lol: )--would allow writing on anything, including Affinity's predecessor software. But it does/did not. Only Paint allowed scribbling. I am more interested in the scribbling part than screen capture.

Thank you for adding this. I thought quite a great deal about why tutorial videos and help sections, while explaining something step-by-step, never..."sink in." But my explanation might sound too political for this forum, so I will keep it to myself. I think it's politically correct to say, however, that a certain part of students of any discipline learn best when there is personal interaction. For years, an online "friend" from Affinity's predecessor forum posted videos on Youtube that were very chatty and, well, maternal, for lack of a better word. I learned so much from him. There is now on Youtube what the British readers here call a "trainer" (but we would call something like "mentor," or some other trendy word). That she is female and makes little off-topic comments while she is doing an Affinity video makes her extremely watchable. When I post on the forums, it's because I have to master a certain tiny (tiny) piece of the daunting breadth of Affinity/photo-editing facts and simply cannot do it without personal interaction. My mind operates differently than other people. Above, one of the posters created a list of five things intended to help me with this (now solved) problem with Text. I read only two of the five responses and jettisoned the rest of the post because it seemed as if, while well-intentioned, this poster was not appreciating I had already attempted to do what he/she was suggesting. I (present tense) reread and reread responses...and finally my aged and possibly ADHD mind read what he/she said about Text not being Selected or Highlighted while applying FX. For nine hours, not counting sleep, I thought it was the exact opposite. So, with sincere gratitude for your temperate answer, some of us--maybe just a small amount of us, but maybe, too, many more than you would think--do not learn by memorization. Such interactive learning does not indicate that those of us, even those of us born the son of a poor sharecropper :) --are stupid or unintelligent. Finally, since photo-editing is an avocation for most of us, not a paying job, the carrot-on-the-stick of "social networking" helps many of us to feel our fledgling attempts will result in at least the boon of some friendly interchanges with the sentient being responding to and helping us. Even the suspicion that there is a wish to be helpful makes the undertaking worthwhile.

SUCCESS!!!

But Ingrid's :lol: Fujitsu is a touchscreen tablet PC. Paint won't let me write like the cool Affinity dudes :P write. I am going to try to make a screen capture with Photo Plus and see if I can scribble on that. I will report back anon, as in demain.

V-kr: I think the majority of administrators or moderators must use an Ipad Pro. I have the use of such a device, but it does not have Affinity. "They" should give Windows buyers a deal on buying Affinity for IOS... The program must be for an IOS, because only the Pro has a stylus.

R-C-R: Since you are a Texan, and hence my countryman, I am just amazed at that ad hominem response. I don't know when you started using Serif products. I started in early 2005. Have a wonderful day in Texas... And consider that heuristic devices (look it up, my dear) vary in efficacy from person to person--or from red-blooded American to red-blooded American, as you surely sound to be. Happy Motoring.

Now, more than an hour later when I tried to Like your response, I still couldn't! I've spent an hour+ on lag-time on the Refine Selection tool on the Dark-and-Wintry Night trees! My processor is an i5; why this should be taking SOOO long, I don't know. I don't even know why I'm Refining the Selection, to tell you the truth. Someone said it would be a good way to do an inverse of my Never-Ending-Tree-Mask from last fall (BTW, where are George, William, and Richard? Every WW1 video I watch, I think of--was it William's?--videos). All I want to do is to select the d*%n bare trees and make them darker. I don't see how refining the selection of the sky will achieve that. My dear friends' old Polaroids will have to wait until next week, unless the hellish wind and snow continues. "No Likes, Please, We're British." :o

Thank you, both. I got my knuckles slapped when I tried to Like both your answers (see screenshot). Why on earth Likes should be disallowed is just beyond me. Perhaps the forum is showing me the door; and I was going to post one final question about the best way to edit old Polaroids. I have watched videos and searched Affinity for "Polaroid," "yellow," and "old." I searched the internet for "affinity photo removing yellow from old photographs" but found nothing pertinent. I would dearly like to scan old Polaroids of elderly nursing home friends, but the scanner will not recognize half of them, so I tried to use Affinity to change Brightness, get rid of the jaundice, etc., but since the forum is scolding me, I will wait until next week.

I thought you all thought I was imagining my Text problems (Joseph Cotton attempts to drive Ingrid mad in "Gaslight," my millennial friend). Thank you for clarifying that Drop Shadow now is Outer Shadow. I watch many photo-editing videos, which, including those made by Affinity, are related too fast and which for that reason are hard to follow. The last resort is to "go American" here on the forums and shout and holler in bold neon capitals. I wish I would say that it does not work, but it does. And I take time to thank and Like every thoughtful answer. So--thank you again.

I use Microsoft Paint now, since Affinity has no Screen Capture (at least none I could find). I have a Fujitsu Lifebook TABLET laptop. I notice that some of the posters here have handwriting on the screen captures they attach to uploads offered in answer to or assistance with my questions. I tried to use my Fujitsu stylus on Microsoft Paint--which should have worked. But it turns handwriting into text. I do not have Affinity for Mac, so using pen-friendly Apple devices is not an option. I would just like to scribble on my Affinity for Windows screenshots the way you all do. If anyone knows how to do this--or how to make screen captures with something better than Paint--I would appreciate a response. Thank you.

Thank you, Alfred. This forum is mostly male, I would imagine. And I am not Ingrid Bergman. And you are clearly not Joseph Cotton. Thank you again. After 13 years of using Photo Plus, I do not know what snapping is and therefore apparently do not need it. What happened to Drop Shadow? Thank you. That is because I have the luck of Job and just happened to choose that FX willy-nilly, with the value set with no attention paid to it. Maybe you or someone can make a Youtube/Vimeo video about Text (the basics).

I just saw this now. OKAY. FX is working now. Can these forums start a "Case Solved" or "Best Answer" feature? I STILL NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GET RID OF ALL THOSE GRID LINES WHILE WORKING IN TEXT. And also what replaced Drop Shadow.

Thank you, Alfred. Nearly eighteen hours after I created this Text layer, the clicking-and-dragging (a la Photo Plus, same-old same-old Text Selection) is finally working. I am sincerely happy for you that the only way you could revert to the layer beneath the Text Layer is by using the Move tool; and I do not ask you or anyone at all to believe that until just now, the same was not true for me. Now--for the first time since I created this Text Layer 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, U.S.A., March 10--clicking and dragging is working. Similarly, the double-clicking is now also working. By "white work space," I mean the white handlebars (?) that appear when a user chooses the Text Tool. Is there any way you can do away with that red horizontal bar and for that matter ALL of the bars? It is annoying and impossible to see what you're working on with a red bar blocking it. I still cannot use FX on the Text. Attached are two screenshots of 1) when I select the Text, and then 2) when I choose Effects and click any of the manipulations within any of the FX choices.

No, no--this does not work on my Affinity! This is why I cannot apply any FX to the Text--or do anything at all. When I try to Select text by dragging over the Text, the layer reverts to the original file. The white "work space" entirely disappears. Double-clicking does the exact same! I know how to Select Text. I cannot Select it on my Affinity.

Thank you! Please see attached screenshot. The questions are self-explanatory.

Thank you. I will look at/download them both.

It was great to see a tutorial that doesn't depend on the Affinity user speaking English. It was a very helpful video in many ways but left me wondering how long an interval was needed to find every minute (as in mein-oot) speck of blue sky to Clear. If you could venture a guess as to how this procedure might help me darken the trees (because the video is concerned with the sky changing), I would be grateful to hear from you again.

PLEASE help. I cannot get the FX to work on my Text layers. I CANNOT Select the Text AT ALL. I tried to work on the Text layer because Text helps you blow off steam when the other tools are either too hard or you need a break from them. What used to be called "FX" on PhotoPlus does not work on my text. Nothing worked at all. Possibly I'm doing something wrong, but this time, I really don't think so. I searched this forum and found few threads on this subject, so that's why I'm posting. If there are any Vimeo videos or videos on Youtube on Text, I would appreciate the URLs. If not--is there anyway I can open an Affinity file in Photo Plus, or would I just Export as a .JPEG and open in PP? :) Thank you.

Is there a tutorial on all the new horizontal red and green (and maybe blue) lines that appear in Text boxes now, and what they mean? Or a video? Where exactly is the Move Tool supposed to appear? I just spent twenty minutes circling around and around the text, and lots of different icons appeared, but no old-fashioned four-pointed Move star. And how come you can't Bold text anymore? You used to be able to Bold any text at all in PP, right?

Thank you very much. This will give me something to do snowbound this weekend. (I appreciate replies that require beginners to get the hang of more than one action or Affinity tool/procedure.) EDIT: OMG. I just did the Brush/Exposure step. Can't believe my eyes. Is this the difference between editing in RAW and .JPEG? Question 1: How come the brush tool works so naturally on the big thick branches but not on the very top? The exposure is harsh and picks up the dawn sky pixels, not merely the tree pixels. Question 2: I don't understand what Tool I would use for the Master layer. When I chose Master layer, all that happened was that I got something that looked like the Inpainting Brush. Is there a way to adjust the exposure of the entire RAW file if I choose Master? Thank you. (And how would I make the distant bare deciduous branches darker, not lighter?)