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This thread is about global layers. Those issues you mentioned should be addressed in one or more different threads so that the discussions don’t get mixed up together.

I think a good answer would depend on which six levels of grey and which colours/tints relate to which of those levels. In the meantime, you could add a Posterise Adjustment (with 6 levels) and a Black & White Adjustment to the image/layer – see attached image.

I think the limitation is simply that encoding=’ascii’ isn’t yet supported, either partially or wholly. Serif don’t usually supply us with timelines for fixes, changes, or new functionalities: all we can do is wait and see.

It’s unlikely that this will be fixed in V1 so, while the developers can look at it to try and make sure that it doesn’t happen in V2, you are probably stuck with the problem while continuing to use V1, unless you can figure out a way to get round it happening. If you can come up with a reliably repeatable workflow that the developers can follow to replicate the problem then that might be useful for diagnostic purposes.

This is related to known issue AFD-5595 I believe: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=AFD-5595

Welcome to the forums @MikeDD That functionality, if I’m remembering it correctly, was changed/merged into the newer Auto-select functionality. It can be a bit tricky to understand how it works so some experimentation might be necessary. There are explanations in the forums so a search for auto-select might help.

In addition to the advice above, when you have a Frame Text layer selected, the Colour Panel, Swatches Panel and the Stroke Panel affect the text inside the layer, not the layer itself which, as has been said, is controlled by the Text Frame Panel. If you had any text in the layer you would have seen the colour change. It’s very easy to be confused by this at first but you get used to it after a little while. Note: You can tell that you have a Frame Text layer selected if the blue selection/bounding box has an extra little handle at the bottom right just off the corner of the usual bottom-right handle.

You might like to try the Freehand Selection Tool, setting the Type to Magnetic – see attached video for an example. In the video, all I am doing is clicking to start and then (roughly) moving (not dragging) the mouse pointer around the shape, then clicking to complete the selection. It’s not as quick as just pressing a key but it’s fairly quick. 2024-04-24 08-35-45.mp4

How far ‘down the tree’ would the indicator be 'valid' for? Would it be just the immediate child layers or any child layer of a child layer of a child layer, etc? For instance, if the example below were the layers, where a dash means a parent-child relationship (layer G is a child of F, which is a child of D, which is a child of C, which is a child of A), and layer G was deactivated, where would the indicator be shown? A - B - C - - D - - - E - - - F - - - - G And what would the people who don’t need/want to see the indicator, for whatever reason, do about it?

Some might say that you dropped a bit of a clanger there, which is no yolk, but the thought doesn’t appeal to me. I think you managed to dodge a bullet but nothing changes much, just another one to put in the family albumen. I think I’ll let this lie now before I go hunting for more eggs-cruciating bell/egg-based puns.

Try the post by Ron P. just before the post where you asked this question.

I’d forgotten about it until I saw your post and thought "That rings a bell..." I’m not sure what Serif’s recommendations are for re-posting requests for things that were requested for V1 but where the thread has now been archived.

You’re welcome. Note: You need to have a Pixel Layer (not an Image Layer) or the contents of a Pixel Selection, before you can use it in a Pattern Layer which is why I Rasterised the image at the start of the video.

My attached video should give you some idea of one thing you can try. 2024-04-23 09-37-34.mp4

I’m pretty sure that there has been more than one request over the years for the user to be able to specify that the bounding box is not displayed for the selected layer, mostly because it can sometimes ‘get in the way’ of what you are doing. For some tools, there is an option on the Context Toolbar to temporarily hide the bounding box when you are performing certain tasks – see attached image – but there’s no option to hide it ‘permanently’.

The blue rectangle which can be seen around the “Presents” Frame Text layer is the bounding box of the layer. It shows you the extents (for the most part, with some exceptions) of the layer you have selected. This is almost always displayed on-screen for the layer which is currently selected. You cannot (in most circumstances) make this invisible for the selected layer. If you don’t want to see the bounding box you can deselect the layer.

If you had a license for V1 then you should be able to install it again (from wherever you installed it before, if it’s not already installed), and then export the Styles from V1 and import them into V2.

A quick search of the forums for egg shape tool brings this to the surface:

Search the web for “mouse click speed <os>” without the quotes and where <os> is replaced by either Windows or macOS, with maybe the version number. For example, mouse click speed windows 10 Or, mouse click speed macOS sonoma

No harm done. You should still be able to import the brushes you need into the beta software to continue testing with them.

(This should probably have been posted in the beta section of the forums rather than here.) I believe this is expected behaviour as the beta software is a separate (temporary) installation from the commercial release, rather than an update.

By they way, welcome to the forums @tanjap

Yeah, it was more like “here’s something that might be of interest” rather than “here’s something that will do exactly what you need”. Another interesting possibility could be to: create two (or more) overlapping circles; use the Shape Builder Tool to make them into one shape; use the Contour Tool. See attached video. 2024-04-22 14-25-18.mp4

Without being able to see the image itself it might be difficult to give the ‘best’ method without (lots of?) guessing. One quick method you can try is shown in my attached video – make two copies of the selected person, and when you use the Flood Fill Tool on the lower copy make note of the settings I used and remember to keep the pixel selection active when you use it. 2024-04-22 13-00-21.mp4

An alternative to the above method, in some circumstances, especially if you aren’t particularly bothered about the exact size of the circles (and/or some other geometry), might be to use the Star Tool. See attached video for an example of use. To get something like the ‘club’ in the original image you might have to use a combination of the two methods. 2024-04-22 12-46-07.mp4