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Well, yes, especially when creating something for a web page. In fact starting anywhere else would be very difficult. You have to choose somewhere and I suppose that top left is the most obvious place, especially as so much design these days needs to be for page and web.

What program, and have you set the Pantone colour as a Spot colour ?

As the above suggestions, assuming they are black and white newspapers? If not (or just as an alternative approach) go Layers > New Adjustment Layer > White Balance Select "Picker" and click on the paper with the crosshairs. Finish off with levels or something.

I can't even begin to think how boolean operations would be affected. And what about gradients on the paths or fills? No. It works fine as it is.

Not 100% sure what you mean by "filtered". If you are doing what I think, it might be easier to clone the good bits onto the bad bits. You can clone at different scales, like 85% and even different angles. Watch these... Affinity Photo - Global Cloning Affinity Photo - Clone Sources If you do want to overlay one image and erase it, just make the opacity of the top layer very low so you can see both layers while you align them. Make a mask layer nested in the top layer by selecting the top layer, then Layer > New Mask Layer. (it should nest inside). Using a black paint brush, set at a lowish opacity you can mask out the top image selectively by painting on the mask layer allowing the bottom image to show through. If you do "erase" too much, paint it back with white paint.

Thinking on this further, and reading the post again, maybe you wanted to make a selection from a rounded rectangle layer? Draw a rectangle, Select > Selection From Layer Here I used the white rectangle to select the rounded selection and moved them both a touch to demonstrate. The selection is there, as is the hole it was moved from and the original rounded rectangle that made it. I've not heard of a Magic Selection tool. Maybe Magic Wand ? but that selects pixel by colour range, so would not work for turning a rectangle into a selection.

Check that the Document DPI is the same in each document... File > Document Setup > DPI

Change your mind about the shape? Just change it. No need to unmask first, just drag the controls. It would even reshape with the fade applied.

Could well be. I might have a go tomorrow unless one of those awfully clever Serif people knows ?? I'm sure they do but they don't always tell

What software are you using? In Affinity photo you can draw a shape, set rounded corners, change the radius, set different corner styles, rounded, angled, concave, even individually on each corner. Then make a selection or a mask. You can apply a shadow, a fade, 3D edges too if you want. That took less than 1 minute. I'm not sure if you can even do that in gimp.

I guess it is to do with where you would start when writing on a page? Maybe Chinese or Arabic versions have a different default

They are for thumbnails. 64p makes an image 64 pixels high 50h makes an image 50 pixels high 100w makes an image 100 pixels wide 32w x 32h makes an image 32 x 32 pixels. 64p x 2 makes an image 128 pixels high And before you ask, I have no idea why a "p" and an "h" both stand for high. I'm sure there is a perfectly valid reason though (could just be a typo?).

View > Studio > Hide Studio or Ctrl + Shift + H

8 :10 is a ratio, not a size. i.e 8 parts wide x 10 parts high.

Changing the dpi does not affect the resolution (pixel count) of the file unless you choose resample. Resample changes the resolution, which is what you want. I suggest you read this. I explained it there https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/36112-rasterize-resolution-in-designer/ and Serif did a video, search for Affinity Photo - Understanding DPI Normally, use bilinear if downsizing, bicubic if upsizing, but if you are upsizing to sell, try lanczos 3 as the final quality can be better, although it is slower. As for Lanczos 3 Separable or non Separable, it really depends on what the picture content is. Sometimes one is better, sometimes the other. You will need to experiment! If you want to upsize, change the pixel size number until you get about 50 mp. Ignore the dpi.

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Yes, but you are using Affinity Designer, a vector illustration program, (like Adobe Illustrator) so why compare that to Adobe Photoshop (a pixel editing program) ? I have Affinity Photo and I can do that sort of thing very quickly and easily, just like Photoshop. For the price of Photoshop you could buy Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher (eventually) and still have a chunk of change. Enough for a weekend away in Southend in a decent hotel, with ice creams and a trip down the pier. Note: Timing can be important !

Try Ctrl + Double Click, Shift + Double Click and Alt + Double Clicking on the layer panel thumbnails too.

If you create a document (like A4) and set the dpi it should affect the size of any bitmap you create, like a line you draw using a pixel brush. It you set the document at 300 dpi it should make a 2" line 600 pixels. If you set the document at 400 dpi it should make a 2" line 800 pixels..

You should get this in develop

What program version, OS are you using?

Only the faintest trace of a "hint", obviously

p.s. I did set my laptop to "metered connection" but I often connect through my phone using USB, and that doesn't work. I have to be VERY careful if I want to turn my laptop off. So I often walk around with it in "Sleep" for days.

I'm not installing anything. It's just Windows 10 forced updating. This is a big issue with laptops sometimes. There are 10 various PCs/laptops where I work and a few at home/with family. Windows 10 forces updates on each Win 10 machine. Turn off any one and it often says (paraphrasing), updating your machine, do not turn off. It then ransoms the machine for sometimes hours (six once), without giving a choice or an estimate of time. Win 10 Pro does give a choice of delaying it to a more convenient time. On two occasions I had to leave my laptop behind or I would have starved . On the Win 7 machines, there is more control but there are often things that stop working. As an example, on 2 machines the taskbar no longer works properly after the last "update". Nothing sticks to it, so I have had to create shortcuts for all my programs, It's no great problem. We expect this sort of thing from Microsoft and work round it. The taskbar will most likely start working on the next "update"

Exactly, it's this strange obsession with inches that causes most of the confusion. How big is an inch when it comes to PPI? A 72 pixel image is going to be a lot bigger on a 52" 1920 x 1080 TV than on 2,560 x 1,440 5" 4k phone. And yet 72 ppi is often quoted as a screen standard