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Power Duplicate scales by the ratio of the first duplicate's size to the original object's size. It has no knowledge of how the duplicate's size came to be.
Currently, there is no tool for repeatedly duplicating with application of an expression such as "w += 8; h += 8" which would increment the width by 8 and height by 8 for each iteration, but it has been requested.

After a few more tweaks, final version:

Text on a path using Affinity Publisher is the only way I can see how to do it using Affinity menus. But then that's been in Publisher since release.
The only other way I think in Designer is to create the text, convert to curves, ungroup group, add as curve, press A then individually pull the nodes to a projected path holding shift.

It's not fun. Affinity must be holding out until version 2.0. There is no logical reason we should be waiting five years for this feature.

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Coming today, 4 May 2020: Astrophotography workflow in Affinity Photo with James Ritson

 
Join Serif’s in-house Affinity Photo product expert, James Ritson, as he explores a start-to-finish workflow for stacked astrophotography imagery in Affinity Photo, using techniques such as tone stretching, synthetic flat frames, structure enhancement and masking.
James’ special session will be live streamed! on Monday, 4 May 2020 at 4pm BST, or view on demand later.
For this session, James has also provided his astrophotography macros (for personal use only). You can download these here: https://affin.co/LD2020JamesRitson
Plus, he’s written some pretty cool articles about the Affinity Suite on Affinity Spotlight
Watch it HERE
Videos will be available only at the Affinity YouTube channel

According to James Ritson's reply to a similar question on yesterdays Lockdown 2020 YouTube presentation, we will be seeing a significant update for Windows 10 which will be using GPU acceleration. Apparently this is still in the testing stage, but is very quick. Looking forward to the Affinity Suite making use of GPU RAM in the same way other software is doing.

Coming today, 2 May 2020: Colour grading for dramatic portraiture in Affinity Photo with Ivan Weiss

 
In this session, portrait photographer Ivan Weiss walks you through a typical workflow for colour grading and adding texture to enhance a dramatic portrait.
Ivan will be available on Live Chat on YouTube for this session’s premiere on Saturday, 2 May 2020 at 4pm BST, or view on demand later.
Ivan also gives you access to a custom LUT and two custom colour and texture overlays that he uses in his session (for personal use only). These are available at: https://affin.co/LD2020IvanWeiss
  Watch it HERE
Videos will be available only at the Affinity YouTube channel    

Announcing the first week of contributors to the LockDown 2020 series.  Artists, illustrators, designers and photographers who use Affinity invite you into their world to witness their personal creative workflows
Friday 1st May: An overview of the Affinity Suite with Ash Hewson Saturday 2nd May: Colour grading for dramatic portraiture in Affinity Photo with Ivan Weiss Sunday 3rd May: Work from home: creating a 2-colour screen-print in Affinity Designer with Pierre Kleinhouse Monday 4th May: Astrophotography workflow in Affinity Photo with James Ritson (LIVE) Tuesday 5th May: Speed and motion: illustrating a car in Affinity Designer with Chris Rathbone Wednesday 6th May: Editing a landscape photo in Affinity Photo with Matt Donovan Thursday 7th May: How to create a vector skull illustration using Affinity Designer with Matt Searston Friday 8th May: Using Atmospheric Perspective for concept paintings in Affinity Photo for iPad with Paolo Li There is a calendar file here for the all Week 1 events (in Outlook .ICS format) for anyone who wants more details and a daily reminder to watch the Affinity Youtube channel

Nice. Learned a few new tricks, had no idea about the isometric tool!

Nice. Learned a few new tricks, had no idea about the isometric tool!

Nice. Learned a few new tricks, had no idea about the isometric tool!

Coming today, 1 May 2020: the first Lockdown 2020 pro video session, featuring our very own Ash Hewson.

Serif's managing director will give an in-depth overview of the Affinity suite - tune into the premiere at 4pm BST 1st May 2020 for your chance to chat with Ash as he takes you through the apps.
We're bringing you an exclusive free video session every day in May, each featuring an inspirational Affinity artist, designer, illustrator or photographer who'll be sharing their knowledge, answering questions and even sharing free downloads to help you try their project at home.
Watch it HERE
Videos will be available only at the Affinity YouTube channel

I truly appreciated that they kept those examples, which showed some flaws (like, Queen's diamonds on her dress or Einstein's hair "stuck to the chalk board).

But the results look amazing nonetheless.

I received an email from NVIDIA promoting a new technique for converting a 2D photo into a 3D image. Article quotes:

'To convert a single RGB-D input image into a 3D photo, a team of researchers from Virginia Tech and Facebook developed a deep learning-based image inpainting model that can synthesize color and depth structures in regions occluded in the original view.
"Classic image-based reconstruction and rendering techniques require elaborate capture setups involving many images with large baselines, and/or special hardware,” the researchers stated in their paper, 3D Photography using Context-aware Layered Depth Inpainting. “In this work, we present a new learning-based method that generates a 3D photo from an RGB-D input. The depth can either come from dual-camera cell phone stereo or be estimated from a single RGB image."
'To show the potential of the project, a separate researcher from Google has taken the code and developed a Chrome extension that turns every Instagram post into 3D images. Developers interested in setting up the extension can follow the tutorial to set up and run the project using NVIDIA GPUs on the Google Cloud Platform'

Is this something Affinity Photo might have on the horizon? This isn't simply cutting away chucks of an image to then move in a parallax motion, the technique actually looks to give objects 3D properties.

Also see YouTube link using this technique on old historic photos. The results are amazing. The picture comes alive!
Full link as follows:

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/automatically-convert-your-photos-into-3d-images-with-ai/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpaa1l6ZGxPREExTXpsaiIsInQiOiJ1MzBYaDJIbjBIK0JlWHptajFZdCtDWTRQUU81UHVsU0Rhb3JNZTkxMHlCaXZlZnkxTzAzWWF6cDdQRXQ2UnRObVVEMXFZU0pzbVdpckdhXC85MlVOTVIrUmJnVnNBUnlvT0p5UGZ6VklkMHFXcCs0aVI0SVZDSzFOdkdRQWlzeUsifQ%3D%3D

I received an email from NVIDIA promoting a new technique for converting a 2D photo into a 3D image. Article quotes:

'To convert a single RGB-D input image into a 3D photo, a team of researchers from Virginia Tech and Facebook developed a deep learning-based image inpainting model that can synthesize color and depth structures in regions occluded in the original view.
"Classic image-based reconstruction and rendering techniques require elaborate capture setups involving many images with large baselines, and/or special hardware,” the researchers stated in their paper, 3D Photography using Context-aware Layered Depth Inpainting. “In this work, we present a new learning-based method that generates a 3D photo from an RGB-D input. The depth can either come from dual-camera cell phone stereo or be estimated from a single RGB image."
'To show the potential of the project, a separate researcher from Google has taken the code and developed a Chrome extension that turns every Instagram post into 3D images. Developers interested in setting up the extension can follow the tutorial to set up and run the project using NVIDIA GPUs on the Google Cloud Platform'

Is this something Affinity Photo might have on the horizon? This isn't simply cutting away chucks of an image to then move in a parallax motion, the technique actually looks to give objects 3D properties.

Also see YouTube link using this technique on old historic photos. The results are amazing. The picture comes alive!
Full link as follows:

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/automatically-convert-your-photos-into-3d-images-with-ai/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpaa1l6ZGxPREExTXpsaiIsInQiOiJ1MzBYaDJIbjBIK0JlWHptajFZdCtDWTRQUU81UHVsU0Rhb3JNZTkxMHlCaXZlZnkxTzAzWWF6cDdQRXQ2UnRObVVEMXFZU0pzbVdpckdhXC85MlVOTVIrUmJnVnNBUnlvT0p5UGZ6VklkMHFXcCs0aVI0SVZDSzFOdkdRQWlzeUsifQ%3D%3D

Excellent. Count me in on any Betas!

Hi again,
Further to the other things, we are looking to add more support for game art users - can't promise this for 1.9 but we are working on it..
 

 
(I have two documents open here - you can see the texture itself, the other document is the normal map - both are being edited and a realtime preview is being rendered on a .obj model in the new Model panel).
Thanks,
Andy.
 

I don't even know where to post this. Just seen Affinity's Facebook post about giving away the entire Affinity Suite free for 90 days, with a 50% option to buy as well. I'm telling everyone I know to get this, try it for 90 days, or buy it if they want. People trapped indoors during this coronavirus lockdown and having something like this to learn or just doodle about with is a very smart decision by all of you at Serif.
So thanks, and if I didn't already own the suite, I'd buy it again. In fact, might just buy Affinity Designer for iPad as a gift. 

I don't even know where to post this. Just seen Affinity's Facebook post about giving away the entire Affinity Suite free for 90 days, with a 50% option to buy as well. I'm telling everyone I know to get this, try it for 90 days, or buy it if they want. People trapped indoors during this coronavirus lockdown and having something like this to learn or just doodle about with is a very smart decision by all of you at Serif.
So thanks, and if I didn't already own the suite, I'd buy it again. In fact, might just buy Affinity Designer for iPad as a gift. 

I don't even know where to post this. Just seen Affinity's Facebook post about giving away the entire Affinity Suite free for 90 days, with a 50% option to buy as well. I'm telling everyone I know to get this, try it for 90 days, or buy it if they want. People trapped indoors during this coronavirus lockdown and having something like this to learn or just doodle about with is a very smart decision by all of you at Serif.
So thanks, and if I didn't already own the suite, I'd buy it again. In fact, might just buy Affinity Designer for iPad as a gift. 

I don't even know where to post this. Just seen Affinity's Facebook post about giving away the entire Affinity Suite free for 90 days, with a 50% option to buy as well. I'm telling everyone I know to get this, try it for 90 days, or buy it if they want. People trapped indoors during this coronavirus lockdown and having something like this to learn or just doodle about with is a very smart decision by all of you at Serif.
So thanks, and if I didn't already own the suite, I'd buy it again. In fact, might just buy Affinity Designer for iPad as a gift. 

I don't even know where to post this. Just seen Affinity's Facebook post about giving away the entire Affinity Suite free for 90 days, with a 50% option to buy as well. I'm telling everyone I know to get this, try it for 90 days, or buy it if they want. People trapped indoors during this coronavirus lockdown and having something like this to learn or just doodle about with is a very smart decision by all of you at Serif.
So thanks, and if I didn't already own the suite, I'd buy it again. In fact, might just buy Affinity Designer for iPad as a gift. 

I don't even know where to post this. Just seen Affinity's Facebook post about giving away the entire Affinity Suite free for 90 days, with a 50% option to buy as well. I'm telling everyone I know to get this, try it for 90 days, or buy it if they want. People trapped indoors during this coronavirus lockdown and having something like this to learn or just doodle about with is a very smart decision by all of you at Serif.
So thanks, and if I didn't already own the suite, I'd buy it again. In fact, might just buy Affinity Designer for iPad as a gift. 

I don't even know where to post this. Just seen Affinity's Facebook post about giving away the entire Affinity Suite free for 90 days, with a 50% option to buy as well. I'm telling everyone I know to get this, try it for 90 days, or buy it if they want. People trapped indoors during this coronavirus lockdown and having something like this to learn or just doodle about with is a very smart decision by all of you at Serif.
So thanks, and if I didn't already own the suite, I'd buy it again. In fact, might just buy Affinity Designer for iPad as a gift. 

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.8.2
Changes in this Build
The changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.2 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.0) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed a source of instability when enumerating fonts at startup Added "Use Windows Ink for tablet input" preference (enabled by default, disable to use WinTab) Fixed dashed line expansion when used inside/outside of closed shapes Fixed some geometric operations on curves resulting in curves with no corners, but the Corner tool still recognised the corners Fixed flat EXR export to honour layer blend mode Fixed selection problems with clipped groups Fixed failure to export to vector formats when a document contains a flipped object with line style and scale to object enabled Fixed PDF export outputting some 1-bit masks as inverted, leaving them mostly transparent Fixed crash reordering layers via drag/drop when Layers panel is floating  Allow PSD smart object support (like Photo) Fixed crash when switching between artboards with Appearance panel visible Fixed New Document dialog Presets bar incorrectly hidden when switching between Templates and Presets Fixed New Document dialog Template folders with a '.' cutting off subsequent characters  Fixed several boolean operations and expand stroke issues on simple geometry or compound objects Fixed unable to paste text into editors after receiving tab focus Fixed New Documents dialog allowing minus values in Document Size, Margins and Bleed  Improved performance of Layers Panel when updating previews of Artistic Text Fixed input lag (500ms) when drawing with a pen using Windows Ink Improved text responsiveness Fixed crash when dragging asset containing missing fonts Fixed cursor not getting hidden while resizing brush Changed AlignTo option to disable when no Alignment option is set  Fixed parent layer not selected when right clicking an enclosure nodes non-icon area Added 'Zoom' context menu for Pan tool Fixed Enclosure layers not being able to be repositioned to the top level Fixed Enclosure thumbnails being reversed in a collapsed parent row Fixed Node tool Cycle Selection keyboard shortcut not set  Help and Localisation improvements. Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement.
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.