Adalbertus

Thank you. I appreciate it. In fact, I've planned next project to be connected to world of Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck and others, so maybe Ducktales will be the next direction It's something new for me to work on such projects, but it's great way to learn, and of course good fun.

Next stage. Still looking for ideas and solutions to achieve them.

As the new project for training and as just fun, I plan to recreate in Affinity Designer some objects or characters from cartoons or comic books from my childhood. Nothing specially serious. It doesn't have to be perfect and I also allow myself to do some minor changes in original designs. First project being created after hours of my regular job is coming from Disney's cartoon Tale Spin - it's seaplane "Seaduck" which was used by great pilot Baloo. Project isn't finished yet, but I've decided to share it. I know that shadows, details and some other things could be better, but for now it's just concept of the overall idea, and for sure will be still improved in spare time

I don't see any answer after such time... It's really... quite sad... Today I have encountered the same problem as fadings. Some time ago I have seen these prestes and used them without any problem. Toady I've tried to map a 7MB file when app has frozen. By few seconds i 've seen loading presets. After that, app has shut down itself without any message. After manual relaunch, presets are gone. Import = crash. Creating new group = crash. Reseting the tone mapping presets during the launch - with pressed the CTRL button - without succes. System: Windows 7 on Intel Xeon E5450 with GeForce GT 730 and 8 GB of RAM. Until now I hadn't any problems with Affinity apps. My PC spec maybe is a bit old, but as we can see in fadings message, new specs are also in the bug range. Any ideas? By the way - maybe it's good time to move this thread into the BUGS section?

Works well. Thanks for a macro and for the clear description! It seems that Affinity macros are really neat! Just need to spend more time with them

Thanks for your effort, but it seems, that You have created this macro on a Mac version, right? Our test result of Your macro You can see on the attached screenshot - something went wrong, and OS incompatibility may be the reason. But in spare time we'll try to repair this.

We have made a test with macro to achieve that. We have used: Wand Tool with the Tolerance at 1% Delete selected background Deselect Clip canvas Result is just the product image without background cropped to content. cut.afmacro

Ok, word of explanation Yes, I know that I can use that, and Pixel layer as well. It just had to be a quick test macro - mostly to check all ways to do that task Disabling the transparent background instead of playing with layers, had just one goal - to be a fast option in the search the way for the proper canvas resizing. My main question was: The Outline was for me the simplest way to configure it in Macro tool. And by the way.... I was just curious, did the white background colour, which is showed after disabling the Transparent background function, is hidden somewhere or did it depends on some other tool. Yes, John, Your approach is good, when You have time to do such operations. Our main goal is to do it fast as possible. We don't know what canvas will be needed - it would require calculations based on the image size and more precision to achieve desired effect. Simply, our goal is: Load some photo (there may be regular graphics/photos with solid background, or there may be some png files with transparency.) Edit it if needed. Crop to content. Add border along with the fill - both have to be in same colour. Export. Next image... I have created other macro, more complex (but still basic) and allowing to further work with the project. Still using the Outline FX. If we have prepared, cropped to content image, we can play the macro: Enable the Outline FX effect - to be able to resize canvas according to pixel value of this tool by using clip canvas option. Set radius to some pixel value... and this still it's strange, because it must be 39px to get proper width of 880px for bordered image from 800px image. 40px is resulting in 882px image. Why is that? Set FX Outline colour to any colour. Add pixel layer. Clip Canvas. Fill the pixel layer with any colour. Move the pixel layer below the product image. Select first layer with the photo of the product. Disable the FX Outline. Border_40px.afmacro

We are often working with many various photos in a specific way. Often performed operation, after the whole process of photo editing is adding border. Let's say, that border have to be 40px at each direction for 800px image. I have created a macro with using FX Outline option - maybe there are better ways to do it? Change Document properties - uncheck the Transparent background in the Document menu. Enable the Outline FX effect. Set radius to some pixel value... and this it's strange, because it must be 39px to get proper width of 880px for bordered image from 800px image. 40px is resulting in 882px image. Why is that? Set FX Outline colour to white. Clip Canvas. Is there an option to change a default colour of the document background, or it must be white? White is good for us for now, but it's good to know Next question is a little different, but also is close to our specific workflow with these photos. Is there a way to clip a photo as described below? We have a product photo with the white(or other), solid background. We choose some option to crop the image to content with ignoring pixels of the the background. Result is: Cropped solid background to the pixels of the product - It detects solid colour around the different pixels of the product accumulated at the middle of the document. For example, we have such option in Gimp: Image > Crop to Content.

I think that it's very good idea to create the whole independent environment for designing, including DTP preflight and control options. And now it's very good time to talk about it.

I know that similar subjects were posted on this forum before in different places, but now when time to public beta of Publisher is near, I think it's good to remind this. To unleash the whole power of Affinity Range, we need proper pro printing tools, like good preflight, good colour management, ink coverage measurement... Simply, all what is industry standard for this kind of work. I think that all these tools should be quite similiar (at least at some major points) to Adobe products. (For now, people designing for example in AD, must also use Adobe Acrobat Pro, pdfToolbox or other software if they want to print something at pro standard - and to avoid money loss because of wrong printing results) And a quick question, because I saw in some general topics, that such tools, maybe will be introduced in Publisher, and then maybe will be transferred in future to AD and maybe Photo too. But I wanted to create recent, separate topic for this, because this is quite important. So.... maybe my feature request is now ready in some shape (in APub?) or at least You can say something more about this? I have seen video sneak previews for AD 1.7 and all features are awesome and I'm waiting for an update. Also I have of course seen APub short video preview but...it was short and there was nothing about printing features, but I think that this is very important for many of us here. To be honest, already I'm waiting with some shopping and other business decisions to see what you guys have prepared for us and I think that I'm not alone And after AD and APhoto I believe in you guys.