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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Serif’s recommendations are for re-posting requests for things that were requested for V1 but where the thread has now been archived.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

Another method, depending on circumstances, but only with Designer, could be to: use the Quick Grid functionality with the Rectangle Tool to draw a grid; resize the grid accordingly; set the Stroke (not Fill) for the Rectangles to None; use the Vector Flood Fill Tool to add a part of the image to each rectangle; use the Export Persona to create new Slices and export the individual images. See attached video for an example. 2024-04-22 08-57-59.mp4

Ah, I see, thanks for clarifying. Sounds good to me.

One possibility, if the Convert To Curves was working better, would be to: ungroup the group inside the Warp Group; duplicate the Warp Group twice; remove the contents of the duplicated Warp Groups; move one Group layer from the original Warp Group to each Warp Group (in the correct display order), leaving one group where it is; use Convert To Curves on each Warp Group. Unfortunately, currently, this still makes the curves a bit ‘wobbly’, but I don’t know why.

Converting the contents of the Warp Group to Curves probably isn’t what you want to do on this occasion as it would set all of the Curves to the same Fill/Stroke as each other. To check this, Release the Group inside the Warp Group and then use Convert To Curves on that released Group to see what you get.

You can double-click a Panel name in a Panel Group to minimize the Group and then click on a Panel name to view the group again. You can also double-click the Panel name of a floating Panel to minimize the Panel and then click on the name again to view the Panel again. See attached video. If that’s not what you want then more detail might be required. 2024-04-21 12-23-39.mp4

You should be able to, with the Move Tool, on the canvas, double-click the image which is inside the Frame to have that child layer selected and then use the Transform Panel. (This night not work depending on which Auto-select option(s) you have set.)

There isn’t, and has never been, as far as I know, a rotation slider in the Navigator Panel of any Affinity application on Desktop. (There’s nothing mentioned for that in the Help for the Windows version of Photo, Designer or Publisher.) Are you sure that you're looking in the right place for that?

Welcome to the forums @Page1 It’s nice that you found something to help you. It might be useful if you also shared a link to the tutorial so that other people looking for the same information don’t have to search for it.