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You didn't say Photo or Designer I'm guessing Photo as the tools are pretty obvious in Designer These are the marquee tools in Photo. The little triangle indicates that other tools appear when you click. The last tool you selected will be on display on the Tools panel. Freehand in this case.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/45439-any-tips-for-editing-milky-way-photos/#comment-228734

You don't say Mac or PC and it matters! There are videos for each, so search for Affinity Photo - Installing Nik Plugins and choose your platform.

I just tried it and it works for me. Windows 1.5.3.69 I tried a few tools, Move, Pen, Node, Pencil and Brush. Every time pressing the spacebar swaps to the hand and straight back to the tool I was using when I release it. You do not need to press any key. The spacebar only temporarily select the view tool whilst the spacebar is held down. Immediately you release the spacebar, the tool you were using reactivates, or should. Maybe you need a reset? Hold down the control key whilst you launch Designer.

A little bird in Serif was going to tell me. I've not heard from it recently ...

Shift click on a PC

True, but the OP mentioned Firefox and Firefox also has a lot of web developer tools, which makes it better than Chrome IMHO.

Heavens knows what it will be like when Publisher turn up

Firefox displays PDF files. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox That is probably the best option.

Not 100% sure I understand but could you not just fill the shapes with white?

Yes. The foreground is always selected for a new document. But that would be normal behaviour, surely. Not everything has a foreground and background colour. If you are using the secondary colour as your main colour, and expecting Affinity to default to a secondary colour. Surely you would be better off painting only in the primary colour? Then it seems to keep selected, no matter what. So if you are painting in hundreds of colours, you would be fine in the main document and the normal Affinity defaults would suit you. At least I think so. It is not very hard to just press X and swap colours for a new document if it does not default to primary for some reason. Still, at least you found a solution

In that case, remember to save your custom shortcuts! See the Save option in the Preferences box. Otherwise, there is always the risk of losing them if you reset or install an update. You don't want to do it twice

Just go File > Open and double click on an SVG file. Same for PDF

I though it meant the shortcut worked on ALL Personas ?

It doesn't do it when I try. The foreground is always selected ? It must be in something you have set. Try resetting maybe? Hold down Ctrl when you launch Affinity and Clear Data. You will lose custom brushes etc, so be warned.

You can press down Alt and drag with both mouse keys down (PC) to resize the brush and change hardness. You can change the [ ] shortcuts, Edit > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts. Then Paintbrush tool as shown Type the new shortcut in the box. If you get a yellow warning triangle, the key is already in use. Hover over it and it will tell you what for.The x on the right deletes it. Click "Close" to save. Ctrl + the . / ; ' [ ] - = keys are not currently used, or Ctrl + Q, K, H, or F (on an English keyboard).

It will stay put if you select the foreground colour (bottom right) first, then the colour picker tool. If the background colour (top left) is selected when you select the eyedropper, then it will keep swapping around. Ah, maybe not between documents. The foreground should be selected, but not the colour. Yes, I just tried and the foreground stays selected, but defaults to white. Interestingly, the colour I picked was still in the small well in colours

Photo programs all work in pixels, it's us people who use inches or millimetres. In the Document settings, it is best to think of the dpi setting as a calculator. If you set the size in inches, the dpi setting calculates how many pixels are needed to make (for example) a 2" wide image at 300 dpi (600). If you set the image size in pixels (600), that is Affinity's native "language", so it does not need to make any calculations and the dpi is totally ignored (when it comes to resolution). DPI will not affect the number of pixels (image resolution) in any way, shape or form. However, you may want to put the image into a page layout program like Designer (lets say, set to 300 dpi) and based on pages using inches. In that case, if you set the image to 2 inches at 300 dpi (rather than just 600 pixels) the image will be the same resolution but, Designer will know your 600 dpi image should be 2 inches wide and will size it accordingly. If you just use pixels and don't set a dpi setting (or use the wrong one) the image will be inserted based on number of pixels, screen resolution etc. So you will have to resize it to 2 inches manually. That is the main benefit of matching inch sizes and dpi settings.

Glad to help. And don't call me Shirley

I don't know if this will help. If you select the brush tool and make sure the foreground colour is at the front (important) you can press "i" to select the eyedropper. Pick a colour and press "i" again to reselect the brush and paint immediately in the selected colour. You can assign a different shortcut, rather than "i" in preferences if you want.

I must admit I've had a few issues with the way this tool works. Partly because of using a tablet. It works in two ways, sort of. 1 Click and drag and it starts at 0% and increases as you drag right. As you discovered, not easy to get it how you want. 2 Enter a value, like 20%. Then click. Do not move the mouse or it will revert to 0% again. You can play around with contiguous and keep clicking if Add is on. Add to the tricky bits with the selection brush or freehand tool as you go along. You can swap between tools as long as Add is selected in each. To be honest, the Flood Select it is not much use by dragging except for selecting sky. I don't use it much. I normally use the selection brush tool. That is good!

Yes. Very well done, it works, even for us poor Windows folk. That will actually save me a load of time on a little project I am currently working on. Thanks very much. Isn't this forum great ?

How do you assign a keyboard shortcut to a studio panel ?

When it comes to getting the perspective right look up this in the help "Perspective projection" To be honest, I am not sure what you are trying to achieve with the logo. It is split into layers, so you should not need to do much masking. If you can do a very rough mock-up maybe I can help more. Or someone can

I was going to have a look but 200mb? Is it the whole van life size ???