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Hi Nathan, Ah okay thanks for letting me know. Thought I was going mad for a minute there!! Hope it gets fixed soon as that was such a timesaver. Thanks again, Mark

Hiya, I may be going mad here so apologies if I am but I swear that I used to be able to select a text layer and then (if on the text tool) go up to the menubar and using my Apple Magic Mouse (2) scroll up or down on the font size to increase and decrease the size. Doing that now doesn't do anything. Did it used to do this or am I going crazy? If it did used to do it then is there some setting I may have inadvertently changed maybe? Thanks, Mark

I didn't no but I have now and that works brilliantly! Thank you so much!! Best wishes, Mark

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone has ever used AD alongside Moho (animation software)? I've exported a drawing as SVG for importing into Moho but whenever I import it most of the design is black and has no colour for the different parts of the design. Having said that a few of the pieces do have colour but most of it doesn't 😞 I just for the life of me can't see where I'm going wrong. Thanks to anyone for any help with this one. Mark

Thank you so much! Exactly what I need. Thanks again. Mark

Hi there, I'm using Affinity Designer and was wondering if there is some way of creating an object and saving it as something like an asset or something (I realise AD has assets and this might not be the correct word to use here) and then be able to use it in multiple instances on a page and if I edit one of the objects then they all update accordingly? Also if I want to is it possible to edit them all but if I then want to 'break' out one of the objects so I can edit it independently of the rest then is that a possibility too? I'd seen in something like Figma something like that where you can place an object on one art-board and then it would update on any other art-boards that it's used on. Hoping that AD has something like that and I'm just missing it maybe? Many thanks, Mark

Oh crikey!! You're absolutely right! Have been adding layers into groups all day. Must have become tired or something and dragged into the wrong place! Now I feel silly!! lol Thanks for the help there, much appreciated. Thought I was going mad for a while. Best wishes, Mark

I may have accidentally changed something or done something silly but for the life of me I can't figure out what. If I create an empty group and move image layers into this group everything completely goes blank. Move the layers back out of the group again and all is back to normal. The app was definitely not doing this about an hour ago so must be something I've done? Any help to let me know what I've stupidly pressed Huh.mp4 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark

Hiya. Yes and no 😉 Have no idea why I ever had them not showing yet totally understand that this isn't a feature currently available so must have been some weird anomaly going on or perhaps I was zoomed to a level where they didn't show. Not so sure which it could have been now though unfortunately. Would be nice to have a setting for that though if there's ever any time to add it in though 😉 Best wishes, Mark

Absolutely no problem at all. Thanks for looking into it. Best wishes, Mark

When you say cursor which tool do you currently have selected? Just that the 'cursor' shows differently when using different tools.

It looks like you have your Affinity Photo document zoomed in to 127%. Try zooming back to 100% to see if that fixes the issue here. Best wishes, Mark

My pleasure. Glad that got you sorted. Can be really annoying when you press something and don't know it's done something then find out at a later date. Have had that happen a few times in apps before. Glad you're all up and running now though. Best wishes, Mark

Try pressing the right arrow on your keyboard once (or possibly twice). Brushes can be tilted by using those keys. May be that you accidentally knocked one of those. Hope that helps. Best wishes, Mark

Only way that I've ever found on OSX anyway to de-activate most (not all unfortunately) of these fonts is by using a 3rd party app called RightFont. As above though I've found there are around 5 or 6 that you just can't delete or de-activate or do anything with. These I believe are used for language support in the system. Would be nice if there was a way to turn that off but have never found anything to that end unfortunately.

I could have sworn I used to do that but obviously not Thanks again for the help, very much appreciated.

Hi loukash, That's great thanks. Could have sworn I used to be able to hold down the space bar in there and get rid of them but guessing I was imagining that. Thanks again, Mark

As per the title, when using Affinity Designer / Photo is there any way to hide the blue lines that surround your layer selection when applying a layer effect? I could have sworn that I used to hold down the space bar and they would disappear much like when you do that just in the document normally? Doesn't appear to be doing that now and maybe I'm mis-remembering but could have sworn I used to be able to do that? I can see it's possible if I hold the space bar down before clicking on the layer effects icon to bring that window up but if I accidentally let go of the space bar whilst applying effects then there is no way to press the space bar again to hide the outlines. You'd need to go out of the layer effects window in order to re-apply the space bar again. Have I by any chance changed some setting unintentionally which is making this happen now? Many thanks, Mark

Thanks everyone! Telemax thanks for that. By bringing down the shininess also I was able to get what I wanted. Hadn't been messing with the controls enough obviously! 🙂 Best wishes, Mark

Hi there, First of all sorry for the title on this one as wasn't really sure how to title it! I've been testing out Affinity Designer today and added a very simple 3D layer effect to a shape (shown in image attached). I was wondering if there is some way to get just the highlight which is on the top right of the shape without the shadow at the bottom left? I tried all the controls in the 3D layer effect but couldn't get it to go and then I thought I'd just mask out the shape to just get what I wanted but that applies the effect to the edge of the mask also so I'm a little stumped as to how to get what I need here? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Mark

As per the title, if you create a fill layer (I created one with a gradient in it - not tried yet with others) and then add say a noise live filter to that layer then the filter doesn't affect the gradient at all. Dragging the filter above the fill layer does then affect it as you'd expect. Not a massive problem but as it's nice to keep things organised in the same way with layers it's a little annoying organising layers one way but then having to arrange others in a different way because things don't work the way you'd expect them to. That is unless of course this is intended behaviour? Have attached a video to show what I'm referring to. Thanks, Mark

There are loads online however something such as the Union Jack (if that's the one you're after and not the George Cross?) would be really quick to make (even trace if needed) in Affinity. Depends on what App you have of course? Designer or Photo? https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/1416664-united-kingdom-great-britain-flag Regards, Mark

If you click on the brushes panel (to the right of the colour panel you have open currently there in that image) and make sure you don't have a textured brush selected then hopefully that should work for you? Difficult to say if it's not that as a static image doesn't really show us much I'm afraid. Hope that helps though. Best wishes, Mark

EDIT - Sorry, please ignore. I was dragging the one layer under the other in the wrong way! Just came across this setting today and also wondered what it was for so thank you for the screenshot explanation. Just wondering though how exactly you got the yellow circle 'clipped' inside the red one like that? Is that Designer that you have created it in as I'm not sure how you'd get two shapes to do that in Photo? Thanks, Mark

As a quick update to this you may also need to update the documentation (documentation link) as it states : "The following options are displayed on the Channels panel" It then does mention 'Reset' but doesn't have the icon shown so not straight away apparent where that would be. Admitted I hadn't read the documentation as Affinity Photo is generally so easy to use that I hadn't bothered however for anyone looking they may not have understood where the 'Reset' function is. Best wishes, Mark