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I am instructing a photography class, and I installed Affinity Photo on our iMacs in our lab. My laptop opens both Photo and Designer immediately. However, even though both my laptop and the iMacs share the same wireless connection, the iMacs get a pop-up window that says "verifying" and it takes between 5-10 minutes to open Photo. While the iMacs are older than my laptop, all are running "macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6. Security settings are the same as well "App store and identified developers" is checked. Anyone have any ideas?

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I am having an issue with placing .tiff photos in designer. If I save an image as an .afphoto it comes in at the size and resolution that I saved it as. However, if I try to place a tiff, instead of coming in at 2.12" x 2.12" @ 300dpi, it comes in at 636 pixels x 636 pixels @ 72 dpi. I have come to realize that this is because every time I export a tiff (or a jpeg for that matter) it converts my measurements over to 72 dpi regardless of what I determined. Is there any way to keep this from happening? Also, is it best to just place the .afphoto and then export the designer file as an .eps or .pdf for printing?

I am presently trying to make the switch to Affinity. After twenty years of working with the competitor's products, I am finding this a little difficult. Please forgive me if I'm putting too many questions under one topic. I am starting to embrace the differences, as much as possible. However, the export function does not appear to be my friend. I am starting to get the gist of it, but I am confused as to why my images dimensions get resized when working with jpegs and tiffs when I export. With the jpegs it appears that no matter what size I am working, it defaults back to 72 dpi and changes the dimensions accordingly. My cmyk tiffs appear to be changing the dpi to 180 with the dimensions shifting as well. Is it supposed to work like that? Also, how is it best to work between Photo and Designer for printing? Do I need to export a tiff or eps to place in Designer or just use the native file? I initially had some trouble with parts of the images going grey when I tried to print a Designer layout with a Photo image. Does this have something to do with the embedded profile? I would really appreciate a video, or some sort of instructions, on best practices to place an image from Photo to add to a Designer layout for printing purposes. Lastly, I am struggling with the gradient tool. Is there anyway to go from a solid color to transparent? I just can't figure that one out. Thank you.