toltec

You don't need to flatten it. Just save it with layers.
 
Make two new documents, one 4 x 6 and one 8 x 10. As Alfred says, keep it at 300 dpi (as shown below).

 
Go File > Place and position and size the placed document inside the page area. That does it all for you. Crops, sizes, everything.
 
 
 

You don't need to flatten it. Just save it with layers.
 
Make two new documents, one 4 x 6 and one 8 x 10. As Alfred says, keep it at 300 dpi (as shown below).

 
Go File > Place and position and size the placed document inside the page area. That does it all for you. Crops, sizes, everything.
 
 
 

You learn these thing when you have a "where the heck has it gone it" moment 

Go in the menu. Edit > Preferences > User Interface and set it to Light.
 

Go in the menu. Edit > Preferences > User Interface and set it to Light.
 

Inches are such a flaky measurement when it comes to screen images, I don't see how you could ever use inches as the default
 
Take a 1920 x 1080 display.
A 2" image on a 50" TV contains about 88 pixels
A 2" image on a 24" monitor contains about 180 pixels
A 2" image on a 5" phone contains about 880 pixels, and of course some phones are much higher resolution.
 
If you use inches, you would always have to tell Affinity (or PS) how many pixels in an inch. Or should a one inch crop contain 44, 90, 440 or 880 pixels? So many variables! That applies the other way too, if you get a 880 pixel image, do you intend it for a 50 TV (2 inches) or a smart phone (1/5 of an inch) when you crop in inches. It would go badly wrong if you didn't get the settings right.
 
At least with pixels, one quantity is constant. The inches size is always going to vary because of different displays and/or printers. And then there are millimetres. Affinity uses pixels but whenever you select inches, it translates them into inches on the fly for you.
 
You can us inches with documents you create, because you have already told Affinity how many pixels per inch you want in the dialogue box.
 
 

Hi momsthewordus,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Go to menu Affinity Designer ▸ Preferences, Miscellaneous section and click the Reset Fills button.

Assuming you are using an adjustment layer, it is all about layer position.
 
The boat on the left is a duplicated layer.

 
If the adjustment layer is above all the layers, it affects both layers.


 
You need to drag the adjustment layer so that it is nested inside the layer you want it to adjust, then it will only affect that.
 
Drag it to the nesting position below the layer.

 

 


 
 

Damn, beat me to it again 

Assuming you are using an adjustment layer, it is all about layer position.
 
The boat on the left is a duplicated layer.

 
If the adjustment layer is above all the layers, it affects both layers.


 
You need to drag the adjustment layer so that it is nested inside the layer you want it to adjust, then it will only affect that.
 
Drag it to the nesting position below the layer.

 

 


 
 

A bit hard to be definitive without seeing the afdesign file but if you design a logo using type and vector shapes (like curves or shapes) it should not become pixelated if you output as a PDF. That is the way to go for printing, such as stationery. If it does become pixelated, something is wrong.
 
If you export as a JPEG or PNG it will pixelate. The size you export it at (how many pixels in the document) deciding how pixelated (or not) it is but that is usually decided by the website design. Just something we have to live with.
 
e.g, this is a simple logo, created from a circle (shape tool) and two letters. 50 mm in diameter.

 
The exported as PDF file can be sized up without any problem. It can go much larger!
 

 
That is because PDFs export type and shapes as shapes, not pixels.
 
The export at JPEG will pixelate if enlarged.
 

 
I have attached the .afdesign file if you wish to try it.
ta.afdesign
 
also the resulting PDF so you can see how much it can be resized.
TA.pdf
 
If you open a PDF, it will come in as an editable vector logo, not an image. That might be important if your friend needs to import your logo into something else.

Cheat ?
 

 

A bit hard to be definitive without seeing the afdesign file but if you design a logo using type and vector shapes (like curves or shapes) it should not become pixelated if you output as a PDF. That is the way to go for printing, such as stationery. If it does become pixelated, something is wrong.
 
If you export as a JPEG or PNG it will pixelate. The size you export it at (how many pixels in the document) deciding how pixelated (or not) it is but that is usually decided by the website design. Just something we have to live with.
 
e.g, this is a simple logo, created from a circle (shape tool) and two letters. 50 mm in diameter.

 
The exported as PDF file can be sized up without any problem. It can go much larger!
 

 
That is because PDFs export type and shapes as shapes, not pixels.
 
The export at JPEG will pixelate if enlarged.
 

 
I have attached the .afdesign file if you wish to try it.
ta.afdesign
 
also the resulting PDF so you can see how much it can be resized.
TA.pdf
 
If you open a PDF, it will come in as an editable vector logo, not an image. That might be important if your friend needs to import your logo into something else.

If you are designing for stationery and websites, no. Just do it.
 
UI design is more about pixels and aligning pixels. If you design a logo as shapes (vectors) and type, there are no pixels.

I owned Android for 6 years including a Samsung Tocca and a Samsung Note. The Tocca took awesome images and even survived being chucked off of my van at 50mph and then run over by an 18 wheel Articulated lorry unscathed, I couldn't believe it  
The lack of App space (Not total space) was a royal PIA having to remove apps to put more on was just tedious. Also a lot of the apps were poorly designed or just didn't work properly, there were some good apps but it was very hit and miss. Lag was a big issue and the device got choked up very quickly, constantly having to clear caches, moving "bits" of an app to an external Micro SD was also very messy, if you wanted basic common-sense functionality you had to jailbreak the device. If I had to sum up Android now, it would be "Messy, clumsy and laggy." Maybe things have improved a bit but I much prefer iPhone.

A similar thing in the UK. Acorn computers dominated the education market but everyone went and bought Windows PCs. And if you worked in an office and needed to run accounts software or type a letter, would you use a phone?
 
Besides, how many phones or tablets could actually run a complex resource hungry application like Photo?

If I understand you correctly, you want identical size final pictures, with different zoom levels and different cropping from the original photos.
 

 
I made an Affinity Photo document 200 pixels by 300 pixels. I then "Placed" the pictures (File > Place) one by one and zoomed them in to achieve the crop I wanted. That is easy to do when placed by just resizing the placed image layer. It will crop the image to the page (or canvas) size, no matter how much it overlaps the edges.
 
Because the document is 200 x 300 pixels, all pictures output at exactly 200 x 300 pixels, no matter what the original size of the picture or the zoom or crop ratio. There is no need to fiddle about with dpi setting or resolution, Affinity Photo does it all for you. Just concentrate on getting the zoom and crop right. Those four pictures took about one minute.
 
The final quality is decided by how many pixels there are. So a 200 x 300 pixel image will always be 200 x 300 pixels. Nothing you can do about that. That is just websites for you.
 
 

Cant you just select the shape with a selection tool and duplicate it ?
 
Such as the seeds below.
 

 
Once it is on a separate layer you can place it (clone it) and resize it and duplicate it where you want, as often as you want.
 

The problem is, that is a very old fashioned and inflexible concept. Today's market is global and small companies need marketing partners. Those partners will want to impose their own terms.
 
These days many items, such as software and especially music are sold by marketing companies. The days of music stores have gone, as have software shops.
 
With Affinity, Apple are the suppliers for Mac Store products, Microsoft are the suppliers on Windows Store products. Only if you buy from Serif are you dealing with Serif. That allows Serif to market to/reach a much larger market. This is the same if you buy music from Apple, Sony whatever. You are not dealing directly with the music studio.
 
Does anyone seriously think that Apple and Microsoft could work out some sort of licensing deal together that would be favourable to Serif? Would you want one mega huge global company that controlled the whole industry? I certainly wouldn't.
 
Serif stuff is incredibly good value to start with and the licensing is very generous. Just how cheap does it need to be? I doubt many people have both Macs and PCs (I have) but am not bothered by buying both licenses. It is still cheap compared to Photoshop and I can use it on as many computers as I own, per platform. I have both Cyberlink and Movavi video software that only allows installation one computer, so I would need to buy three copies. Serif allows me to install on all three PCs (more if I had them).
 
Losing thousands of sales by the Apple Store to please a handful of people who own both Macs and PCs (and want it for nothing ) is hardly good business strategy.

Untick "Use automatic grid"

Some people need a bit more help than that Alfred.

 

Some people need a bit more help than that Alfred.

 

Have you tried Layer > Expand Stroke ?
 
It makes a double line/border from a single line.
 

Or you could just use the grid and zoom in.
 
I changed the grid colour for clarity.
 
 

 
 
It is easy to mirror the points.

Or you could just use the grid and zoom in.
 
I changed the grid colour for clarity.
 
 

 
 
It is easy to mirror the points.