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Jaffa

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  1. Yes, RNKLN, that does work thanks. It is rather more convoluted that I would hope for!
  2. No, dutchshader, I pointed out the problem in my initial query, it does not become a layer. Certainly not, in the procedure that I follow, unless I am missing something?
  3. Thanks Walt and Dutchshader, for responding. However, I think we are at cross purposes. When I am working on a project and have layers on screen, then I do know to click on 'Add Pixel Layer. What I am trying to convey is a situation where there is nothing on screen at all. In that circumstance, the options you suggest are greyed out and not available.
  4. When I take steps to get a new document to start on, it does not show as a layer. It cannot, at that point be rasterized. I find myself wasting time going through a protracted procedure. Am I missing something perhaps, is there some simple way to do this?
  5. I say, dearth, because if you google, there is not much mid-range. I have gone to some of the very good, tried and true, video tutorials, but am disappointed. James Ritson's "old" tutorial seems to do everything on one layer (it is not clear, because the layers are not shown). Affinity Revolution is somewhat similar. I have older material, but when I do as instructed and add a 50% grey layer, with a Blend Mode of "Overlay", then choose, say, mid-tones, opacity 100%, flow 14% and Hardness 19%, can see no results. There are quite a few more advanced tutorials, about using gradients and curves, but since I have trouble at the moment with basics, this becomes somewhat academic. Any suggested tutorials?
  6. Thanks Walt, it seems that I have been trying to overthink the process. At least, in the meantime, our little group of seniors can now confidently use that method. Nevertheless, in due course I will try to work out how sometimes I managed to set the font size, etc, to speed things up - it did work just great.
  7. I am loving using Paul Mudditt's Mud's Macros V3, however, sometimes I get there ........... and sometimes not. Despite a few hours, I have not worked out what I may be doing wrong (some of the time). It seems to all come back to the beginning of the sequence. I create a New Document, then create a shape (usually a crescent). I place the Text tool slightly to the right of centre of the Curve - which is crucial as I understand --- (a) to identify the start point (b) to identify the size of the font. Then I invoke the macro. At this point the flashing cursor often disappears for whatever reason. It may be because the layer is not rasterized, or because of there is no (coloured) background. However, I have tried fixing both, but still get the problem most times. A couple of times, I have realised that the text and background colour are the same, so obviously the lettering does not show, however, even when I have the text as black, still the problem persists! This is doing my head in, so if you can suggest what to do??
  8. Many thanks, Walt! I had not read all of the posts in that thread, so had not seen the link, first time around. Got it now. Just got to learn how to use it!
  9. Greetings Walt We are a small group of 9/10 Seniors, here in Auckland, New Zealand, who regularly meet once a week, to jointly learn Affinity Photo. Four of us now take turns in tutoring. One of our little group, who is 88 yrs, likes to make his own Christmas cards. In doing so, he puts in a curved text. Nowadays, he only feels comfortable in doing this in Photoshop Elements, which we moved on from a few yearsback. I would like him to learn how to do the same in Affinity Photo (plus learn for myself and others). I have checked as thoroughly as I can, but unfortunately cannot locate the very lastest macro from Paul. I have Version 2. Please, how can we get hold of Version 3? Probably simple to do, but I have not worked this out. Tried to send you a private message, but got response that messages could not be sent to you. Many thanks in anticipation Jim
  10. You are exactly right, Walt, thanks. I should have checked the forum, before I spent quite a lot of time this afternoon figuring it out. Funnily enough, when I tried today, I kept getting it all correct and it took me ages to duplicate the problem. Mind you, sometimes you learn a lot more from errors than from always getting things right, I find.
  11. A group of us, here in New Zealand, were using the “Affinity Revolution” video tutorial yesterday (on Windows). Here is the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK4HVcWLcS8&t=85s However, things did not work out, which seems not to be a fault in the process. However the makers were using an earlier version of Affinity Photo (and on an Apple Mac). All of us had the same problem, when we had selected both the Average Selection and the Target Skin Tone, we then chose the Picker and started to move the values of the right hand of the Info Panel. However, seemingly because we are using V 1.7.2 it seems to be a flaw (bug) that the values on both sides of the Info Panel move. This did not happen with just one of our members, but seemingly all of them. Later in the day, I further checked this and it happens on our home PC too.
  12. That's great news, Walt! Just after I posted, I had the thought that I should experiment and find out if that was the case. I am presuming that it carries over even to the next time you reboot your desktop.
  13. I, more and more, frequently am using PNG files with transparent backgrounds. If I want a transparent background then I tick accordingly. However, is it possible to change this to be my default?
  14. I have just been working at the very initial stages with a pixel layer and duplicate. I have found often both at home and at our tutoring sessions (where we can have up to eight desktops and two laptops working) that Affinity Photo frequently shows the layers, in the Layers Panel, completely black or completely transparent, when they patently are not! Sometimes this comes right later ................... and sometimes not. Attached is an example from today. My suggestion is to have a refresh option for the layers panel to prompt Affinity to do the job again and fix.
  15. I have an image (ie not pixel and not therefore rasterized). I selected a part of the image and did a Cntrl + j. Affinity Photo did not duplicate the part selected, but instead duplicated the whole image. The assistant did not step in and rasterize. Seems clear that you have to rasterize before you can do what I attempted. Am I correct please?
  16. I have a selection made with the Selection Brush Tool. Went to add a bit to the selection using the Freehand Selection Tool and it refuses to do anything. Tried multiple times in different ways, even tried subtracting (whereas I really want to add). The Tool refuses to do anything! I have the background layer in blue in the Layers Panel. Things I have tried 1. In Customise Tools, I have done a re-set. 2. I have closed down Affinity Photo and restarted. 3. Shut down the desktop and left for a while then rebooted Windows. 4. Have deleted all adjustment and other layers, so only left with the Background Layer. 5. I have saved the (incomplete) selection as a Spare Channel and done "Load to Pixel Selection". That works but the Freehand Tool is still on strike. It is hard to see what else I could try.
  17. Glad to hear sorted. The history is also very good for going back a step or steps.
  18. Thanks Hubert, but I have sorted out this particular problem, but not the other two. I had not rasterized the background layer, which was a 'new' file with a paste. Appreciate your responding.
  19. For whatever reason, this afternoon, my Affinity Photo misbehaves in all kinds of ways. I have rebooted my desktop with Windows 10. Keep having all kinds of problems. Two have been posted slightly earlier. On this occasion I have an image, made a selection then went Ctrl + j, but instead of just the selection appearing in the layer above, the whole image appeared. Additionally, whilst making my selection an area that was too unclear did not work with the selection brush, so I thought, aha, just use the freehand selection tool, which I made sure was on add. Nothing happened! I tried all kinds of ways and checks, but still the same. I rebooted my desktop, but again the same problems. Disastrous afternoon!
  20. I have also tried shutting down the whole desktop and after booting up Windows 10, had another try, but still the same result.
  21. I have changed my thumbnails in the Layers Panel in Affinity Photo to show as Large. More and more I have layers that appear transparent, but are not, because when I switch off the other layers, there is the content. Now, through experience, I have found that sometimes you need the program to catch up. However a recent layer remained transparent for about ten mins. I had to go back for it eventually to work. Lost time and work. Prior to this I did try shutting down and starting Affinity again, but that did not work.
  22. Have never had a problem with this before. I have a single base layer, took a selection, then duplicated the selection, Chose "Arrange" - Flip layer horizontally, however all four options to do vertical, etc, are greyed out. At one point I thought the problem was that I had not deselected, but not to be, still did not work. As an experiment, I duplicated the base layer, because the one I was using had transparency in it, however using a full duplicate layer did not work. Have shut down Affinity Photo and tried again with the same results.
  23. Use Windows 10 for my devices, desktop and laptop. I thought I would investigate some of the lesser-used tools (new?), in the "Customise Tools" area. Two of the ones that I settled on were the ones in the title above. The Custom Blur Tool, I take it is used to add blur. It brings up the panel shown in the file attachment. However, despite googling on the internet with inverted commas, could not find anything about it at all. Likewise, in the Affinity Photo Help Manual. It is not even listed as a tool in the list in the Manual. How does it work please? I used the High Pass Tool, which just seems to do the same as the High Pass Filter and is destructive. Am I understanding this right please? Okay if that is the case, then it is just an alternative way of proceeding.
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