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Why are you opening the exported SVG in Photo if you already have the original design in Designer?

Photo always shows you the document at a document-pixel-level so many things may look pixelated, but that’s normal.

This FAQ should help:

There is a “Select Hidden Objects” toggle in the “Select Same” menu which can be switched OFF to not select hidden layers. I don’t know if it’s possible to limit the selection of layers to only those which are in the same Group as the currently-selected layer.

One reason why some things ‘go missing’ is when someone tries to update the software by downloading the newest version and they choose a different installation type to that which they were previously using – e.g. MSIX versus MSI/EXE on Windows. See here for details: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/180014-how-do-i-download-affinity-v2-windows-msiexe-un-sandboxed-versions/ By doing this they get a new installation of the software which doesn’t contain their old ‘stuff’ because that ‘stuff’ is still installed in the old version – they end up with two copies of the software installed, one with their ‘stuff’ and one without. The way to rectify this problem is to uninstall the newest ‘stuff-less’ installation, and then download the ‘proper’ installer for the software and use that to update the software. I realise that this doesn’t seem to be the case for you as you say you hadn’t upgraded the software but I’m writing it here for anyone else reading this in case it’s relevant to them. Unfortunately I don’t know what happened with your software, but it’s good to know that you have been able to restore it to your satisfaction. If the problem occurs again (fingers crossed that it doesn’t) then please report it here and someone can try and help you to figure out what happened.

The message also says that your machine needs to be Apple Silicon-based (rather than Intel-based). Is your machine Apple Silicon-based? If not then the machine-learning-based selection functionality won’t work for you.

Assuming that “using the Mesh tool in Affinity Designer” means that you went to the Pixel Persona and applied a Live Mesh Warp Filter to an existing layer, I tried that and my Styles and Assets seem to be unaffected. I would not expect that applying a Live Filter (or using the Warp Group functionality, if that’s what was used) to have any effect on the Styles or Assets so what you seem to have reported would be very unusual. Would you be able to give us a step-by-step recipe by which we can re-create the problem for ourselves?

You’re welcome. It’s very easy to have CAPS LOCK switched on before using a brush, or to accidentally press that key, without knowing that it changes what the tool shows on screen as there’s nothing in the UI to tell the user that it might be in effect. It might be better if the Context Toolbar contained a toggle for this (or even just something in the Status Bar) so that the user was made aware of it without having to ask (or ‘root about’ in the Help), but I think that’s been requested elsewhere.

The term “graphic arts” is such a wide subject area that I think it would be very difficult, if not practically impossible, for anyone to cover at all in a set of tutorials. If you could narrow your requirements down a lot then someone might be able to point you in the right direction. Otherwise what you are asking is: “Can anyone tell me how I can make stuff with the Affinity suite?”. My first recommendation would be to have a look in the Tutorials section of the forums and see what’s there.

I’m not sure whether what you have described is further explanation of the problem or if it’s something to do with a solution. Have you been able to do what you wanted to do?

I don’t use Photoshop but I suspect the Blemish Removal Tool, or Healing Brush Tool, or Patch Tool or Inpainting Brush Tool might do what you want depending on what you have got and what you want to do with it.

If you didn’t purchase a licence for Affinity Photo, or if you didn’t purchase a Universal licence for the whole Affinity suite, then a licence for Photo would need to be purchased if you want to use the tool you are enquiring of.

Welcome to the forums @PJS4 The main problem might be that you saved the file to cloud storage, which is something that is not recommended for the Affinity applications for various technical reasons. If you can share the file with us (in public) then someone can look to see if anything can be recovered from it. If you can’t (or don’t want to) share the file in public then a staff member might give you a drop-box link where you can share it privately.

That looks fine to me – you seem to be using the Erase Brush Tool to erase some pixels leaving some of the transparent background – but I don’t know what you are working with, or what you expect to happen. Can you give more details about what you have got, what you are using on it, and what you are trying to do? Note: Full-screen (whole application UI) screenshots are much more useful than limited-size screen grabs.

Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by “accidentally right clicking when leaving a layer”, particularly the “leaving a layer” part?

Welcome to the forums @Old Farmer Guy The first thing to try here is to press the CAPS LOCK key.

The “+ Strong” part tells me that the “Strong” Character Style has probably been applied to the text you have selected, and maybe other characters. One way to remedy that is to select the text which has been formatted as such and choose “[No Style]” from the Character Style drop-down on the Context Toolbar. When talking about Styles it’s useful to know about the differences between Paragraph Styles, Character Styles, Group Styles, and Styles which are different things.

I’ve tried, just for the heck of it, to deliberately put Publisher into a state where the Window menu items are mostly disabled but I can’t quite figure out how to do it. I thought that maybe having no document open might be an option (even though the OP looks to have a document open) but that’s not it. I tried opening an image file, just as an experiment (didn’t think it would do it but worth a shot), but that’s not it either. Going into Customise Tools doesn’t do it either. Opening a read-only document doesn’t do it. If I open a modal dialog then I can’t open the Windows menu, so that can’t be it. Tried while editing some text but that’s not it. I can’t think of a way to deliberately see what the OP is seeing so Carike, as already mentioned, please give a full-screen screenshot so we can see all that you can see on the screen rather than just a little bit of it. (A quick forum search for window menu disabled didn’t give anything relevant that I could see.)

The Move Data Entry functionality was introduced (I think) after this thread went into quiescence but it’s not a ‘grid builder’, as such. Apart from that, to answer your question, no.

You're welcome.

Try pressing the Apply button before pressing the Delete key, otherwise you don’t have a pixel selection yet and you are deleting the layer.

Are you sure that you are using the Rectangle Tool and not the Rectangular Marquee Tool?

Welcome to the forums @Ryps Can you give us a full-screen (whole application UI) screenshot of you using the tool you are using, immediately prior to you deleting, so that we can see what you are doing and what you are doing to it?

If that’s true then it seems that I’m unable to understand at least part of the situation so I’ll probably ‘duck out’ of the discussion at this point so that I don't cause any further confusion (either to myself or anyone else).

Welcome to the forums @Carike Which “text panel” do you mean? The Text Frame Panel, or the Character Panel, or the Paragraph Panel, or something else? If you can supply a full-screen (whole application UI) screenshot (with the menu "Window -> Studio" open) then we can see what you can see and hopefully give you further advice.