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I don’t have the book handy but you can Inpaint a pixel selection area using the Filters Studio. Make a pixel selection first, select the Fill filter and set the mode to Inpainting.

Hi @nikolai.ylirotu You have the channels hidden and no layer selected. Select a layer first. Make the channels visible by clicking on the rounded arrow (circled). Right click on a channel. If you want to do it from a mask, obviously you need to create one first.

Why ? There are hundreds of plug-ins that people buy for Photoshop. I bought several, including green screen software because Photoshop didn’t do it. By your measure, Photoshop is hopeless? You could buy Photo, plus a tracing software for a fraction of the cost of Illustrator (or get Inkscape). I have used tracing software from the days of Adobe Streamline and I think Inkscape is better. But none are that good, so I rarely use them. Designer does 96% of what I want for 20% of the cost of Illustrator (which does 99%). Designer is getting better with free upgrades, so far.

No, it's not normal. I have no idea why, sorry

Ah, well if it's a bug MEB has given you an answer.

But what do you mean by transparent Do you mean something like this. Or just a fill, which is not what I would call transparent. It's a fill!

It would be interesting to see if rather than using a Threshold adjustment, maybe Levels followed by Black and white would match the Sketch Drawer result. I am not on a PC at the moment, so can’t try. I must say it was very easy to do in Photo. The hardest thing was knowing which result to go for.

It should work if you just drag the rectangle to the nesting/clipping position of the text layer. (When you get the partial width blue bar, from the thumbnail to the right hand edge.) That worked as soon as I tried Windows 1.6.4. You don’t need to convert anything. If there is a bug in your version, an alternative would be to set the text as solid, use it to mask the rectangle (drag it to the vertical bar on the rectangle thumbnail) and apply an Outline Layer Effect.

I had something similar a while back. It turned out to be a memory module (1 of 4). There is a RAM tester (Memory Diagnostic Tool) built in to Windows, in Control panel under Administrative tools. Search for Memory. That tracked it down and I eventually found and ended up discarding the offending memory chip. It took a bit of trying, removing the chips one at a time and starting Windows again until I found the bad one but I got there in the end. It all worked perfectly after that, despite being down to 12 mb. I suggest you start with that.

You woz robbed, guvnor,

If you use the Fill tool set to bitmap and bring a square object in to a square rectangle the edges will snap, see guides, Set Wrap off and Maintain aspect ratio off. snapping Set Maintain aspect and Wrap back on. There might be better ways?

@Kiarian I isn't really a "synchronise from defaults" What it does is set the attributes of the selected item to be the current settings. "Defaults" is a bit misleading. "Set as current" would be better. If you want to save opacity, set the opacity in here Go, Edit > Defaults > Save When you click on this one, It will apply whatever you saved as the current attributes for everything (including opacity if set in the context toolbar swatch, as shown) for shapes or closed paths. If something is selected, it applies the attributes to that.

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I don't need to do that. Is the original layer locked ? I can Load to Pixel Selection, select the layer I want move the selection around from one layer to the other. I can even Place a new file with the selection in place and put the selection on that (after rasterising) it's all very flexible.

Yes. Select a layer and click on Load to Pixel Selection, and the selection will be on that layer. You can move the selection to another layer afterwards by clicking on that layer. Selections aren't tied to a particular layer.

You seem to have a big chunk missing out of your wheel at the bottom so it would seem to be nothing to do with the file

I suppose that when Serif said summer, they did mean summer 2018 ? Just wondering

If you set the crop Mode to Absolute Dimensions (from Unconstrained) you can set inches on the Crop Tool Context Toolbar and enter dimension in there if you want.

They are all in the miscellaneous section. Can you not see them ? I have them exactly the same in Photo and Designer 1.6.4

"Global colours" ... "Spot on",

1.This is the question forum, so what is the question part of, giving an opinion in favor of Linux. 2. What is the promote your own ideas part of a simple factual statement. like "Serif customers have been *patiently waiting years for Publisher." There, two actual question in the Linux section of the questions forum . Is that a first ? Damn, another question

Hmm, that does only seem to change one layer, although all new items created have noise. Opacity doesn't change either. Not sure if that is the way it is supposed to work or not?

Considering how often Serif have stated in this thread that they have no intention of producing a Linux version and considering that they are very busy finishing the ios version of Designer, writing Publisher, plus goodness knows how many updates they have planned, feature requests, and the odd bug fix. The question has to be, why ? Serif customers have been *patiently waiting years for Publisher. Still, feel free * I might have lied about the patiently bit

Your reasoning sounds very reasonable to be. I thought that was the purpose of a forum. Reasonable people reasoning, not some people trying to impose their views on somebody else. That is trolling.

The results will always depend on what is in the images but another thing you try if you want more of an "edges" effect. The pencil sketch effect might leave in too much grey. I used this image because the black in the bodies makes it a very difficult subject. Go Filters > Detect > Detect Edges Invert the layer, Layer > Invert Adjust the levels. Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels. Apply a threshold adjustment. Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Threshold And adjust until you like the result. The slider makes quite a difference to the output. This is just one outcome, you will need to experiment until you find something you like. Or not! A different setting. Not too bad for a difficult image. Paint out a little bit of the black if you really want to. This is the result from following the pencil sketch approach for comparison. Probably too much grey for your purpose? As I said, it will depend on the image.