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P.S. Can you upload the owl. I’d like to try something.

Absolutely not!!! Refine (as in Refine Edges) is designed to separate hair and improve edges after you cut something out of the background. It would probably make things worse! Watch this

Why did you click Refine after scaling the Owl?

I’m sure it’s a bug. I noticed a few times that bleed doesn’t bleed. From memory it’s normally when objects are 2 up, side by side, but there might be other times it doesn’t work. Try a few options and list the results. You can then submit a bug report so Serif can fix it. I’ll try a few myself. It’s an important feature for professional printing.

I don’t think it’s a f. I think it might be a rotated j with a bar through the middle. One of those fancy fonts .

Wot ‘e said.

There are many times more galaxies in space than there are pixels in your star. Does it have to be at such a low resolution? I think that’s the root of your problems.

It’s a lot easier if you make the outline selection then go Edit > Fill.

I applied a positive and negative vignette to a bird image. The grabs show the settings for each. Hope that helps otherwise I don’t know why it isn’t working for you. Was the file opened as normal? All the controls worked as expected for hardness, exposure , scale and shape. Original bird. A rather exaggerated Negative exposure. An equally exaggerated Positive exposure.

Designer has grids

What opens files is determined by the settings in Windows, but most apps like to take control and change the settings! Right click on any picture (like a JPEG) and all the way down the bottom, click on ‘properties’. There is an ‘Opens with’ bit and a ‘Change’ button. Click on that and set the JPEGs to open with whatever program you want. That will apply to all JPEG files. You will have to do it with other file types too, like PNGs I suspect. Then whenever you double click, the program you chose should load the file types you set it for.

There is a way that you might find easier. It works for me First thing, run Affinity Photo, or Designer. Drag up from the bottom of the screen to get the app bar. Tap (give it a moment) and drag up Photos until the window floats above Affinity Photo (see below). Go to Export in Affinity Photo and you can just drag the ‘JPEG’ icon (a generous term for it) onto the Photos window. It does seem to like to be dragged on to an album. The Photos window can be dragged off the screen to the right, and should remain there. Just drag it in by swiping in from the right hand side of the screen every time you need it.

Select the image layer, click on the fx Studio and it does put a border around the image. Like my bird image above with a contour fx border. But it could have been solid.

If you go Edit > Preferences > User Interface, you can turn them off.

Very clear, and concise answer @R C-R

The Business edition of Silhouette Studio saves in PDF and SVG So If you need to do this often, it might be worth upgrading?

As far as I can remember, in Photoshop, stroke path creates a border selection around a selection. It’s not what I would use for a border. In Photo, you can add a border to anything by using the fx (layer effects) Studio. Select Outline and put a solid line or gradient border. I’m not sure that’s what you mean, or want?

I expect it is because you are thinking in ‘physical’ inches whereas your intended software programs are thinking in ‘quantity’ of pixels. If you are looking at the document sizing option. 2.5 inches at 600 DPI is 6 times bigger than 2.5 inches at 100 DPI as far iPhoto etc is concerned. When it comes to pixels, quantity matters!

The undo brush undoes to a particular step in the History. i.e. before you adjusted the brightness of the image. To choose a history step, click on on the camera icon in the History panel. The brush will then undo to that point. I selected the Curves adjustment step. There is no such thing as an undo layer. I think it means select a layer (camera) to undo to?

The difference between Print and Press Ready is that Press Ready is CMYK. I think that’s the only difference? If you want to show your designs on a website too,I would suggest using Print (RGB). There are other considerations too, depending on the type of printing process. Some fabric printers use more than the four CMYK colours to increase the range of colours they can reproduce, such an additional red and a green. Both hard to reproduce with just CMYK. Using CMYK limits the range of colours in the file, hence the reason RGB is better as it contains a wider colour range. If you are creating vector images? DPI is irrelevant. It only applies to bitmaps, not vectors but set 300 dpi anyway.

You haven’t masked the white rectangle to the image layer. Put it above the image layer, right click on it and choose, Mask to Below.

You must apply the Gaussian blur effect to the mask, not the image. Once you have masked the image with the rectangle, expand the image layer (the mask layer will be nested inside) and make sure only the mask layer is selected when you apply the blur effect. Click on the mask thumbnail to select it. See my first post.

I expect it’s a “lost in translation” thing. Printers use CMYK as the basic inks because mixing them gives you most colours from inks. Mixing RGB inks just would not work, as I said, you cannot get yellow. What they might mean is that their printer has additional inks, as well as CMYK. It is not uncommon for printers to have 6 or more colours to increase the range of colours they can print. I have a Canon inkjet printer that has 8 inks. As well as CMYK, it has red, green and a lighter ‘photo’ version of Cyan and of Magenta (for subtle toning). The red and green inks really help because oranges and greens especially, are very hard to produce with CMYK. The green ink is obvious and the red mixes very well with yellow to make orange. That would explain why they use an RGB workflow. The wider colour range of RGB can be translated into CMYK+RG (might be more colours) to give a much wider printable range. If your image has already been converted to CMYK the extra colours of RGB have gone forever. For that, calibrating your monitor and using Soft proofing layers should be ideal.

Go to the Layer FX Studio and select ‘Outer Shadow’.

There is no such thing as an RGB printer. RGB is light. CMYK is ink. If you mix Red and Green light, you get Yellow. If you mix Red and Green ink, you get Brown.