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Thank You very much!!  These are great!

Thank you sir.  These will come in very useful.

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There are several different possible ways to do that.
Don't apply any fill style, so use just two stroked hexagones. You can also add the overlapping part, aka the intersection of both, as a third one on top then. Select both and perform dsitribute, you will get three parts. Group them together. And so on ... Hexagon_methods.afdesign

Added some plain + vintage Badge Assets.
Some plain + vintage Badge Assets

Here are two of my Badge (Label) Assets sets, these assets are plain (silhouettes) + vintage (grouped) vector curve(s) based badges/labels. The two sets do contain various forms of these. NOTE that the assets for the below shown vintage badge set don't include any preapplied text, it's below just shown this with text way in order to give you an idea how they could look with some used/applied text on them!
 


 
The corresponding assets files:
Badge_Assets.afassets  
- Have fun with these free to reuse badges!

Here are two of my Badge (Label) Assets sets, these assets are plain (silhouettes) + vintage (grouped) vector curve(s) based badges/labels. The two sets do contain various forms of these. NOTE that the assets for the below shown vintage badge set don't include any preapplied text, it's below just shown this with text way in order to give you an idea how they could look with some used/applied text on them!
 


 
The corresponding assets files:
Badge_Assets.afassets  
- Have fun with these free to reuse badges!

Here are two of my Badge (Label) Assets sets, these assets are plain (silhouettes) + vintage (grouped) vector curve(s) based badges/labels. The two sets do contain various forms of these. NOTE that the assets for the below shown vintage badge set don't include any preapplied text, it's below just shown this with text way in order to give you an idea how they could look with some used/applied text on them!
 


 
The corresponding assets files:
Badge_Assets.afassets  
- Have fun with these free to reuse badges!

That's pretty trivial to do and handle either way via reusable vector assets via the Affinity assets panel!
 
And related to Photoshop custom shape (csh) files, you can convert those to SVG and then reuse the SVGs in Affinity via making your own asset sets with the Affinity assets panel if needed.
Online CSH to SVG Converter  

Here are two of my Badge (Label) Assets sets, these assets are plain (silhouettes) + vintage (grouped) vector curve(s) based badges/labels. The two sets do contain various forms of these. NOTE that the assets for the below shown vintage badge set don't include any preapplied text, it's below just shown this with text way in order to give you an idea how they could look with some used/applied text on them!
 


 
The corresponding assets files:
Badge_Assets.afassets  
- Have fun with these free to reuse badges!

Like your latest made tutorials! - Just one hint, also tell something about the expected resulting color behavior when using certain tools. Further it also might be helpful for people to always know, if certain tool usages will keep plain vectors on exports, or are instead yield to rasterization then.

The Shape Builder is a welcome addition to the Affinity Designer toolset. Learn how to use this versatile tool to speed up your workflow when creating vector artwork. 
 
 

If you want to take your outline effects to the next level, then the Contour tool is must-know feature of Affinity Designer. This simple little tool can have some surprisingly powerful effects and we’ll review a bunch of them in this video.
 
 
 

D.h. es soll nur die Leinwand (den canvas) erweitern und somit nicht das Bild selbst mit skalieren/verzerren? Wie soll das Bild selber dann gehandhabt werden auf dem erweiterten Canvas, immer mittig zentriert eingefügt?
Falls ja (mittig zentriert), da hatte mal jemand ähnliche Anforderungen und ich hatte für so etwas mal ein Python script gezeigt was so etwas bulk mässig machen kann ...
Padded images Oder aber Du benutzt halt ImageMagick für soetwas ...
https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#pad

I doubt that, as the OP want's a solution which autdetects the longer side (w or h) of an image and then squares it accordingly to the longer side value. And the images can initially have different sizes and orientations here. At the end the whole should be saved as an 2k x 2k px PNG.

See related older discussions about "Export Persona" and "User Variables" there, they possibly never really fixed those things so far ...
export persona user variables site:forum.affinity.serif.com ... and so on !

An update on installing the free Google Nik Collection on "unsupported" systems like MacOS Ventura on a brand new MacBook Air M2 15" (yay!). 
While the original installer application will refuse to proceed with installation – babbling something about "requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later" (duh!) – you can still use the Niks if you already had a working installation on your old Mac:
copy the following folders/files to the same respective locations on the new Mac:
/Applications/path_to_you_nik_apps_folder (I have renamed mine so I don't remember its original folder name)
optionally the Nik PS plugins folder if it was stored elsewhere (mine was in the apps folder since I can't run PS CS5.5 on Catalina, obviously)
/Library/Preferences/Google (folder)
/Library/Preferences/Nik Collection.plist
/Users/your_user_name/Library/Preferences/Google (folder) check all the standalone Nik apps first if they work (they should) quit APh Get Info in Finder on the APh app check "Open using Rosetta" launch APh (may take quite some time the first time) do the usual known procedure to enable 3rd party plugins for APh don't forget to select the layer you want to apply the plugin on, otherwise the plugins will be grayed out… Works for me.
Since I don't use the Nik plugins very often, I'll be runing APh natively, only switching it to Rosetta mode if I'd actually need one of the plugins – which is usually only the Analog Efex. 

Vectorization and autotracing software for Win + Macs:
Where * = "the more the better"
Super Vectorizer 2 (commercial, Mac) ** TracedLines (commercial, Mac) Intaglio Vectorize (free to use, Mac) DragPotrace (Mac) + Potrace (free, Win + Mac) * Potrace (free, Win + Mac) * AutoTrace (free, Win+Mac) * Inkscape (free, Win + Mac) ** Illustrator (commercial, Win + Mac) CorelDraw (commercial, Win + Mac) MS Expression Design 4 (Win, nowadays free) OpenToonz (free, Win + Mac) Image Vectorizer (commercial, Mac) Trace (free, Win+Mac) Vector Magic (commercial, Win + Mac) *** vtracer (free, Win + Mac) * Vectorize! / Legoist (commercial, Mac) VectorStyler (commercial, Win + Mac) ...etc... Online tracing tools:
autotracer vectorizer vectorizer.ai ** vectorization Vectorize Raster Images Online (online Photopea, free) VTracer * Online SVG Converter (by Potrace) Svgco Svgstorm SVGConverter ...etc... Online centerline supporting tracing tools:
Rapid resizer fConvert Online Vectorizer ...etc... iPad tracing tools:
Adobe Capture Vector Q Vectornator Vectorize! ...etc... Some forum threads about tool based bitmap tracing/vectorization:
Image Tracing in Affinity Designer? Image Trace to Vector Path Converting Pixel drawing to Vector? Auto Trace In AFFINITY DESIGNER Best Image Vectorizer for Mac with Affinity Designer Good vector tracer or vectorizer ... and so on ... See also:
Awesome PNG to SVG (GitHub) Comparison of raster-to-vector conversion software (Wikipedia) ...etc...

I only suggested TextEdit because a) it is adequate for this simple task & b) it is an app that every Mac user already has installed. IOW, I wanted to keep it as simple as possible for Kent.

All of the above methods to place/add an asset still need a manual/custom size adjustments. - Though the double click placement might be the best here, in order to quickly adjust an asset to a desired size. Where the Ctrl/Cmd-Drag, which then in contrast gives a preview of an assets initial size and look here during a drag operation, can't be abandoned during that dragging state, in order to get just a preview without applying the drag.
The Assets Panel itself might be missing some sort of zoomed preview functionality here for a selected asset, in order to get a bigger quick look of an asset before dragging/placing it into the document. - Actually one always has to place/drag and remove it afterwards, if it is probably not one with the wanted look.

I know what you mean, but that's overall too complicated and unnecessary to show up a warning message in a panel and asking after using UTF-8 instead etc. - It's much easier for them to fix it by adding into their SVG parser the recognition of "UTF-8 | ascii" tokens and that's all about it. It's usually much easier & quicker to do!

Well there aren't many workaround possibilities here, either you try out via PDF capable ebook creation tools (like Calibre), or you use copy/paste for texts and other contents etc. between Apub and some ebook authoring/creation tools (like Apple's macOS iBooks Author, Pages ... etc.).
Due to it's overall limitations in this area, I don't think Apub is the right tool yet for ePub creations and thus I would personally use other more predestined tools for such/those tasks.

Yeah another Alfa! Just showing where I started blocking in and doing a few bits all over the place and then a week later. Can't decide on the lady so not quite finished either, perhaps a different pose, facing the car? Not sure. Anyway will update when I've decided and I'm done.

Related to LibRaw & Affinity see also ,,,
Panasonic Lumix S5 ii

Scripting was and still is essential in the DTP world too. - What you descripe reminds me partly to what I've recently read about the former times and nowadays ways of creating a popular german IT-magazine, where they also tend(ed) to use a bunch of custom scripting for their specific workflows.
For those interested in a read of those article, how it was in former times ...
Drei Äpfel für ein Halleluja: eine DTP-Geschichte der c‘t   (DE - original former times DTP usage article) Three apples for a hallelujah: a DTP story from c't  (EN - Google translated article of the above) ... versus nowadays ...
Wie entsteht ein c’t-Artikel?  (DE - original nowadays DTP usage article) How is a c't article created? (EN - Google translated article of the above)

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Should be possible, there are different ways to do so, though I didn't used the crop tool on v1 ...

 
Though on v2 apps I would do that probably with the Knife tool, cutting away and removing what stands over, see therefor ...