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As you mention Affinity Photo I will assume you are talking about Affinity Photo The current version is 1.6.5 (ish). I don't know if you have a Mac or PC. Note that the Paint Brush tool is in a group and the three brushes in the group are 'sticky' which means the last tool you used is the one that is on display on the Tools panel. So, either the Colour Replacement Brush Tool or the Pixel Tool may be showing which effectively hides the Paint Brush Tool until you open the group.

On the iPad, the brush in use is highlighted with a blue vertical bar, (like Spray 3, above). The size and everything is shown on the Context Toolbar. If you want the Brush studio to remain on the screen, tap the pin icon (arrowed) and the Studio will stay until you tap it again, or you could just tap on the brush Studio while working to bring it up again. Saves space! As you mention, the Desktop does not display an indication when you change the size. About the best thing you can do is to press More, which opens the Brush Editing Panel. That does tell you on the top what brush you are using, such as Spray 2 (below).

If you do a search for Linux, there are hundreds of posts about this very subject. It has become a bit of an in-forum joke The answer to your question is no. Read the previous posts and you will find out why!

If you look down the bottom, on the Context Toolbar there is the option to set the selection mode to, New , Add or Subtract. Then just use your finger or a pen, as normal.

You can't nudge just that node because the rectangle is a dynamic shape. Convert it to curves, which will give you just the four corner nodes, but you can add a node and move it.

I meant that it was hard for me to match Arial font to the scanned image, as posted on the forum. I lack skills

Well, all the tools are there to do the same thing but why would you want to make life so hard? The iPad is hardly the best tool for playing with text. BTW, I think the closest font is Arial but I am using an iPad at the moment so it’s hard to do a side by side comparison.

He did not select the head. The High Pass Filter affects the whole image, but only affects very fine detail, like hair. Because the only part of the image with fine hair was the meerkat’s head, only the meerkat’s head was affected.

Easiest way is to create a blank page 5.5 x 8.5 in the desktop version. Print to PDF and set Printers marks, crops etc as you want using the print dialog options. Place the PDF file in your 11 x 8.5 page and use the crops that were generated when you printed the smaller page. Don’t add any crops to the bigger page when you output or use the iPad version. Just be careful that you place the PDF at 100%. You can even set bleed just by overlapping the dimensions of the smaller page.

Pantone colours. PMS 123 etc

Photo has an option to turn a path into a selection or a mask (the Pen Tool must be selected). If you turn the shape into curves (shortcut Ctrl + return) you can then select the Pen Tool and use that option. Note that doing that to make a selection does delete the path (your shape) so you may prefer the method mentioned by @firstdefence

As @Lee D said.

Works for me on iOS 12.0.1 on a 9.7 inch iPad Air 2 Admittedly, it is a bit harder than a two finger tap (my fat fingers probably) but it does work. If it continues to be a problem, why not put the Undo and Redo buttons on screen It’s not as if Redo is used a lot. Or is it? In Preferences > Interface > Show Undo and Redo buttons

Hi @Ikikuru I think first of all you need to clean up the file by removing everything except the background image, or use a new image. Hard to tell what you are selecting and copying with all those odd layers. Then make sure it is a pixel layer (rasterised). In the Selection Persona, make a selection, making sure the correct layer is selected first. Back in the Photo Persona, go Document menu > Pasteboard and tap Copy. Return to the Pasteboard and tap Paste. Keep repeating Pasteboard > Paste until you get as many copies as you want. As an alternative to using the Pasteboard, menu if you make a selection in the Selection Persona and return to the Photo Persona you can long-press one finger on screen to bring up the Copy and Paste options. There is also a Duplicate option, which is a bit quicker than copying and pasting. Another method is to make one copy, then with the Move tool selected, press and hold two fingers and then drag the selection. That duplicates it too. Note: New copies will always be placed above the selected layer, not at the top of the layer stack. Use the layers panel to select the copies one by one so you can move them with the Move Tool.

Not much use with a rectangle perhaps, but I often make a selection around an object, then use the stroke (or outline) option to adjust the edges. Maybe blur, lighten, HSL or something like that. Very handy sometimes I can also paint inside the selection outline with varying brushes for a bit of selective edge control, the brushes being constrained inside the outline. Not something you can always do by any other method. It works quite well with green-screen photography to remove the green show-through.

Go Select > Outline and decide how much and where you want the stroke to be aligned, Inside, outside or centred Then Edit > Fill for the colour of choice.

I’m not sure about ‘linking’ but you could perhaps use ‘global’ colours. If you set both fill and stroke colour to be a global colour, if you amend the colour, every instance of that colour used in the document changes. So both fill and stroke would change together. In a linked sort of way.

Yes, but it requires a bit of a workaround. Draw the path and fill it with a colour. Ctrl (PC) + click on the path layer thumbnail (in the layers panel). Click on the image layer. That’s it, the selection is now on the image layer. p.s. make sure the image is a ‘pixel’ layer, not an ‘image’ layer, or you will need to Rasterize it first.

Hi @saynotosync It's in the same group as the Paint Brush Tool. Called the Pixel Brush Just tap on the paint brush to open the group.

But how do you deal with the money Apple took as commission, and your use whilst on an Apple, paid to Apple? Not to mention taxes. Bear in mind that AFAIK you don't own software these days, you just pay to use it, like rental. If you no longer want an Apple solution, how do you prevent people doing that to get both Apple and PC solutions. Stealing basically. And your email address solution doesn't deal with the way Apple download and update software from the store Or do you expect a custom solution just for you? I have both Macs and PCs and have no problems paying for two licences. I could install Affinity software on 10 Macs and 10 PCs. If I could afford them. That is a much better solution for me than your two total computer solution. So what makes you more deserving than me?

So how would you deal with the financial aspects? Apple have taken a chunk of money from Serif as commission on the sale. You have had use of the software. Apple would have to refund their part of the commission, less a fair price for the time you used it. They would then have to make sure you uninstalled every version of the software, then refund Serif the difference, taking account of taxes paid. Once that was worked out, Serif would have to charge you the difference, less an administration fee. Unless you expect all that for nothing? If you bought a Ford car, would you expect to take it back after one year and get a brand new Chevrolet? And then there are the technical aspects. Mac installations are controlled and updated by the store. PC installations are controlled by you. What a nightmare all that would be for a handful of users. It's OK maybe with Adobe because they control installations on both platforms and charge you ten times as much. They also only allow two installations, whereas Serif allow installation on any computer you own, which is far more generous than two computers.

@αℓƒяє∂ I suppose that because it is perhaps never actually saved anywhere, only open in the app's memory, you can't actually delete it, only close it? In fact, if you had saved it somewhere, (like the cloud), close would not delete the file.

I must have missed the point

Hello @vtoria That's odd . Both programs normally inform you that there is an update available when they launch. That's even stranger because Mac and PC versions are handled by completely different companies. One Serif, one Apple. Anyway, if you log in to your Affinity store account, you will be able to download the latest Windows version. https://affinity.store/en-gb/sign-in/?r=%2Fen-gb%2Faccount Both apps are up to version 1.65 On the Mac, you will need to log in to your Apple store account, which should offer an update.

And how many Designers do you think that would be using Linux? One of the biggest issues with using Affinity stuff compared to Adobe is compatibility with industry standards. Things like Photoshop Smart objects, the fact some items are vectorised on output, some not, SVG issues and so on. Imagine how much worse it would be going from Linux to industry standards. Nearly all the customers will likely be running MS Office on PCs so you will need to be compatible with that too. Few professional artworkers/image editors can swap because Affinity software cannot currently run some of the essential plug-ins, like green screen software, specialist separation software etc etc. I prefer Photo to PS and Photo's current limitations don't bother me because of the type of work I do. But I recognize that certain types of 'professional' work would force me to use Photoshop. On Linux, there will also be lots of other things missing, imposition software etc, although sometimes that can be sorted with PDFs, sometimes not. There are no printer drivers for dye sublimation printers, or not for mine. Using Linux would create just endless hassle trying to sort these things out when you should be concentrating on making money. Then there is technical support, very few shops sell Linux machines and give support. You have to be a geek just to get a Linux machine running, let alone fix any issues. From what I can see, Linux users only see their own 'off the grid' world, but reality is the infinitely bigger world of needing to work with and be compatible with Mac and PC users, (we call them customers). That can be tough even when using a PC or a Mac. It would be much tougher using Linux. So what is left? A few amateur designers designing small jobs for small local companies, churches etc. Maybe a few specialist companies using Linux but they can usually design their own stuff. Then the designs will probably need to be printed, so yet more compatibility problems. Life would be an endless struggle, so eventually you would need to run PCs too, so what's the point? A common quote for the most important thing about property or shops, is "location, location, location". When it comes to customers, you have to be in the right location, which is where the customers are, and they are in the Windows world, mostly! It's no good being smug because you think your pet operating system is better. In fact telling your Windows customers will only pee them off. Microsoft is in the position it is because schools, businesses and every shop sells it and is familiar with it. Better the devil you know and all that, but it is reality. We all need to face reality sooner or later.