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Welcome to the forums. What is the file type of your image file? If you downloaded a JPG then the image will probably have no transparency. If you downloaded a PNG or TIF then you could have transparency in the image. Can you share the image or a link to the original image on the website where you downloaded it from?

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Welcome to the forums. You can post feature requests and suggestions in the relevant area of the “Feature Requests and Suggestions” section of this site, see attached image. It might be best to check to see if anyone else has requested a similar thing before creating a new post.

You’re welcome. I’ve just had a look at the Help about the Stock Panel and the instructions aren’t very clear to me. There is no mention that you need to do a search to see any images. Also, there’s no mention that you have to press ENTER to make the search happen. Also, the instructions say “Click the cross to remove the search term and display all images.” which is incorrect as it goes back to the “I Understand screen” when you do so. I think the instructions need to be made much clearer.

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If you right-click on the rotated Image or Pixel layer in the Layers Panel and choose “Rasterise...” from the menu the boundary box of the image will be ‘reset’. The result will be ‘baked’ to the resolution of the document so you might want to do this as late as possible in your workflow if that’s something which could be important.

Have you tried to simply put the number layer inside the triangle layer (as a child layer), as in my attached video? If that doesn’t give you the result you need then you will need to give us more specific information about how you want the number to ‘react’ to changes in the triangle. 2020-06-13 08-49-52.mp4

Welcome to the forums. You should be able to use the photos in the Stock Panel by checking the “I agree” box in that panel, then searching for keywords, then dragging the required photo to your document. If this is not working then you will probably have to give us more information about what you are doing and what you want to do.

If you do a search in these forums for “DXF” you will see many threads where people have asked a similar question. The current answer – as of 1.8.3 – is that you cannot export as DXF and there are no publicly-known plans (as far as I’m aware) for that to change. There may be a way to convert something exported into a different file type to DXF using other software but you’ll probably have to look around to find it, if it exists.

I don’t think this is something you can change as it is an operating system function - not something the Affinity software does - which is used for backups and other things. If you want to keep the old date on the file then you should save a copy of the file instead of overwriting the original.

You would tick the Transparent Background option if you needed a transparent background. Whether you need one depends on what you are doing but there’s no general reason, it depends on the circumstances. What do you mean by “change the icon to black”? If by “icon” you mean the thumbnail to the left of the layer name in the Layers Panel then that should show what the layer looks like. If the layer is black then the thumbnail will show as black. If you have the Dark UI set to ON in Preferences then the thumbnail will look ‘black-ish’ if the layer doesn’t show up well against a dark background. Or do you mean something else? If you told us which tutorial you were following then we could better advise, but just saying “a tutorial” doesn’t give us much to work with.

Select the thing you want to select, then use menu “Edit → Copy”, then use “File → New From Clipboard”, then save that document and post it here. By doing this we will be able to see what you see and can probably diagnose what is happening. If you can also post the original image that would be helpful. Also, can you tell us how you made your selection and what settings you used (a full-screen screen-grab is normally helpful)?

Without knowing more about what is happening I would guess that your document has a transparent background whereas the one the tutor is using hasn’t. Try looking in the Document Setup dialog. If that’s not what is happening then a full-screen screen-shot would be useful so we can see what you can see (and a link to the tutorial too).

You can’t perform a merge operation in that instance as you only have one Curve layer. You have multiple Strokes but they are all applied to a single Curve. You can’t merge Strokes, just Curves. Duplicate your existing Curve layer – modify it if necessary – and then use Merge Curves and see what you get.

Windows 10 Home 1909, Designer 1.8.3.641 (and 1.8.4.650 beta). Expanding the Stroke of a simple line gives unexpected results when performed repeatedly. See video (Designer beta recorded) for two examples, one straight and one curved (AFDESIGN file also included). I know this is a known problem, just thought I’d give some more examples which may help shed some light onto what could be happening. 2020-06-12_09-49-44.mp4 repeated-expanded-stroke-problem.afdesign

You can’t do this. Only text can be applied, in this way, to a curve (or other shape).

As I said a couple of times earlier, you should be able to use the Appearance Panel in Designer to add the three Strokes that will get the ‘tri-colour’ effect. (This is only available in Designer.) I have no idea why it’s not working for you but I have no detailed information on exactly what you have or exactly what you did. If you can share the ‘before’ document then it might be a bit clearer.

Welcome to the forums. A thing that worked for me was to use a Name for the bullet style (making it also Global, see attached image) and use that name for all the styles that need to be ‘linked’. It’s been a long time since I have had to look at this so I’m a bit rusty at the moment and don’t have the time to look into it properly. Try looking at my attached image and see if there’s anything there that will help. The developers changed the way Numbering works for TOCs not too long ago and I don’t know if this has affected other related things, including this. (They haven’t replied to the bug report I posted, linked above).

DutchDude: You can find the “Dimensioning” palette in the Swatches Panel. Open the drop-down menu in that panel (below “Recent”) and you should see it in that list somewhere. uneMule: Thank you.

1. It’s fairly easy, see two ways in my attached video (I prefer the second way in this case even if it’s more work), but there will be others. 2. As I said above, look in the Appearance Panel (menu “View → Studio → Appearance Panel”) when you have the “Wind” layer selected (only available in Designer). Edit: Ah, you’ve removed some of your earlier comments so my replies don’t sound right now. 2020-06-11_13-49-10.mp4

Welcome to the forums. Can you give us one specific example of what you are trying to do and how you are trying to do it, step-by-step? P.S. Designer leans more towards vector drawing and Photo leans towards pixel manipulation. Are you sure you have the correct application for what you want to do?

You can create your own document with the dimensions you want and then save it as a Template which you can use later.

I’m not absolutely sure what you mean. You mention curves and outlines but there are so many mentions that I don’t know which you are referring to at any time. Also, I don’t know what you mean by “remove the curves” as that can be interpreted a number of ways. Anyway, I’ve guessed and come up with one example in my attached image and file. Select the layer called “Wind” and open the Appearances Panel. Also note that the ‘wind’ is two curves that have been merged with menu “Layer → Geometry → Merge Curves”. If that’s not what you want then you may need to be more precise in your description (and/or maybe make a mock-up). wind-in-cloud.afdesign

You’re welcome again. Some inspiration may be found here: https://thenounproject.com/search/collection/?q=weather Also, for snowflakes, try experimenting with the Cog and Star tools, with some Geometry functions thrown in, maybe using Symbols (in Designer) too. See attached file and image. Lots to play with. snowflake experiments.afdesign

Welcome to the forums. We can’t do this at the moment (as of 1.8.3) but it’s something that has been requested before.