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Paul Mudditt

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  1. 7 hours ago, Lettus Leaves said:

    Hi. I am no longer able to drag layers up and down in the layers panel of AD V2 with my trackpad on Mac OS desktop version. I closed the document and reopened it but problem persists. I went back to V1 and created simple document of 3 shapes in different colours and reordered the layers by dragging them. It worked perfectly. I went back to V2 and recreated similar document with 3 coloured shapes but can’t drag them. Have I got a different setting in V2.  I can’t see a difference in Preferences.

    Can you help please? Thanks

    Welcome to the forums!

    Very strange, works perfectly on my Mac Mini and even on my iPad version with trackpad on the magic keyboard.

    I assume it still works with a mouse attached or is that the same?

    Did you check if restarting your Mac made any difference?

  2. 8 hours ago, Gingertheorangecat said:

    Although the Nikkor Z 40/2 is included in the list of lens profiles, when I click on the Lens tab in the Develop Persona Affinity consistently misidentifies it as a Meike 25/1.8. Consequently, the 40/2's profile is not applied automatically so I have to do it manually. Please correct this bug.

    Running Ventura OS 13.1 on 2017 MacBook Pro

    Also, a LOT of Nikkor Z lenses are not included in the inventory of lens profiles.

    Thank you,

    Varien Tilton

    Are you using Apple Raw or Serif Raw, try changing to the other.

     

    https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Raw/raw.html

  3. On 1/9/2023 at 1:50 PM, Nadar said:

    Happy new year to all of you 😉

     

    I have two objects selectionned in the same selection square.

    What is the way to separate this square in two ? 

    To be able to move one and not the two of them in the same time ?

     

    Thank you

     

     

     

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    In Affinity Designer on a pixel layer you can use the smart selection tool to select the gloves one at a time, then copy and paste them to a new pixel layer, remembering to deselect between steps, repeat with other glove.

  4. On 12/18/2022 at 9:23 AM, patti said:

    lorsque je veux lier des images via l’application iPad, le document plante. Ce n’est pas le cas sur ma version ordinateur mac.

    Désolé pour le long retard à répondre à cette demande, mais l'équipe Serif et l'équipe de support secondaire composée simplement d'utilisateurs comme moi ont répondu au plus grand nombre possible le plus rapidement possible.

    Où êtes-vous lié à iCloud, Apple Photos, Dropbox ... ?

    Je pense que ce problème a peut-être été résolu dans la dernière mise à jour, pouvez-vous faire un enregistrement d'écran s'il se produit toujours et le poster ici ?

    Encore désolé pour la réponse tardive.

  5. 9 minutes ago, Nadar said:

    Hi 😉

     

    -I have drawn that letter and I cant get it red with a yellow outine.

    Then you can see in the color studio there is a red full circle and a yellow empty circle…

     

    -I actived "Beveled" and "3 d" in Fx option

    But I cant find the way to enlarge the side of the letter

    Can someone help ?

    Thanks

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    See if this helps, you have to double tap the effect to bring up the context toolbar in Designer V1.

  6. On 12/5/2022 at 7:56 AM, iuli said:

    As I work with both raster and vector elements, many times I need to export various slices of the same project as I work on. The Slice Export panel is missing from APub so I had to save the document in APub, open AP, import and save the slices there — and then go back to APub (where I have access to more features than I would in AD) and continue working. I hope you agree that this is not ideal.

    So I respectfully asking Serif if there’s any chance to see more features already available in the individual apps finding their way to StudioLink, like Slice Export, Select Sample Color or Pixel Brush Tool in AD persona.

    Kind regards!

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    On the desktop the work around in Publisher is to use Edit in Designer or Edit in Photo to use the external applications directly so access those features not available in the Studiolink versions.

    Because of the walled garden that Apple used in IOS/iPadOS applications were not able to share information between applications like they can on Windows or macOS, however with iPadOS16 the use of shared resource areas is now allowed by Apple which is how the brushes and other resources now only have to be loaded in a single Affinity app and are now available to all.

    Therefore I am hopeful that the 'Edit in Photo', 'Edit in Designer', 'Edit in Publisher' are at least now theoretically possible on the iPad versions using a shared file resource area where open documents can be fully exchanged automatically. Whether Serif choose to implement them is another story however. Fingers crossed !!

    Apologies again for late response.

  7. On 1/6/2023 at 5:08 PM, Marcelo_ said:
    Hola tengo que enviar un archivo a imprenta. en la imprenta solo tienen adobe illustrator. 
    el archivo de  Affinity   dos capas. una capa para impresion y la otra capa con la guia de corte en linea roja (adjunto imagen)
    ¿como hago para convertir el archivo a illustrator manteniendo las dos capas?

    ---------------------------- Inglés por chatgpt :) ----------------- -----
    Hola, tengo que enviar un archivo para imprimir. En la imprenta solo tienen Adobe Illustrator. 
    El  archivo Affinity  tiene dos capas. Una capa para impresión y la otra capa con la guía de corte roja (imagen adjunta). 
    ¿Cómo convierto el archivo a Illustrator manteniendo las dos capas?

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    Perdón por la gran demora en responder a esta solicitud, pero el equipo de Serif y el equipo de soporte secundario de usuarios simples como yo han estado respondiendo a la mayor cantidad posible lo más rápido posible.

    No estoy seguro del mejor método, pero vale la pena probar el uso de PDF como medio de exportación, ya que es un formato de documento en capas bien estructurado. Otro que podrías probar sería PSD o incluso la posibilidad de exportar SVG a Adobe Illustrator.

    Disculpas de nuevo por la respuesta tardía.

  8. On 12/2/2022 at 2:29 PM, VectorCat said:

    Video shows that Snap to Nodes is on / active. Handle never snaps to the node…I end up settling for as close as I can get manually.

    Thoughts?

    Thank you

    EDIT: “Snap Handles” is the relevant choice in this example, and it works.

     

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    Thank you for editing your post and highlighting the solution, I am sure it will be of interest to many users.

    Apologies again for late response.

  9. On 1/4/2023 at 5:41 PM, TwangerMan said:

    How do I see (and thus edit/change) which brush that I used, like when I select a one of the many curves/objects/layers in my project?

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    Only in the pixel persona can the brush used be identified by tapping a small brush icon on the layer in question but as far as I know only on the desktop version, this is a feature that never made it to the iPad versions.

    Apologies again for late response.

  10. On 12/14/2022 at 3:53 PM, Mike Swartzbeck said:

    I've just bought the v2 of Designer for iPad, but the App Store won't let me "get" it.

    The v2 Photo download went OK, but now when I go to the Designer download link, it keeps sending me to an AppStore preview page with no "get" link. I've logged out, gone back to zero, but the download link in my account at Affinity's site keeps throwing me over to a "preview" page with no "get" or "install" link.

    Updated: Finally tracked the issue down. It was IOS Firefox, being a dog again. Switched to Safari, went like a charm. (I still keep a copy of Firefox handy on here because of all the sites that Safari gags on).

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    Thank you for editing your post and highlighting the solution, I am sure it will be of interest to many users.

    Apologies again for late response.

  11. 2 hours ago, ThirtyFiveThousand said:

    In the Text Studio of all my Affinity apps, the font names are all replaced with Chinese characters. The new appearance still includes the last letter of the English font name, so I don’t know if this is a glitch or a viral attack. 
     

    The other apps on my iPad do not display a similar problem. 
     

    My iPad language defaults to English. 
     

    *I assume based on the Chinese characters I have experienced previously. 

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    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    The developers are aware of this issue which has been reported before.

     

     

    Apologies again for late response.

  12. 19 minutes ago, Kennarenae said:

    No worries at all, thanks for responding back. It hasn’t happened since but I’d still like to get to the bottom of it in case it happens again or someone else finds this bc they have the same problem. I have an iPad Air 4th gen, running iPadOS 16.2 using the original Affinity for iPad, and I’m not sure exactly what version but I know it’s the latest one bc I have auto updates turned on. 

    Ok, some of the issues users have faced in the past 12 months have been to do with how Apple have been changing how virtual memory is claimed and released as quite a few defects were fixed in Affinity simply by upgrading from iPadOS15 to iPadOS16 without any changes made by Affinity. This could be another example so please report if it occurs again.

  13. On 11/10/2022 at 10:56 PM, Fatts_Henry said:

    @Paul Mudditt @Lee D

    Gentlemen,

    This is a followup to my problem of importing images from the photo gallery.

    I have found a work around for my problem. I am still working with Designer and have recently installed and currently testing Designer2.  Even with Designer2 when I try to import from the Photo gallery Designer2 Crashes.  My work around with both Designer and Designer2 is this. I have moved all my photos and videos to a folder on my icloud Drive. Now when I want to place a photo on a document, I select Import from Cloud. This works without a hitch. Now I can start to refine my workflow. The bummer here is, I have to be online to import from the Cloud. But I can always setup a Hotspot on my phone if I'm in a pinch.

    Fatts_Henry 

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    This is so weird, after you tried all the previous suggestions I guess there is a possibility that something more serious went wrong with your beta version  iPadOS installation. Now this is a bit awkward to fix, assuming you are still on beta you will be in 16.3 beta. When 16.3 is officially  released, remove the beta profile and update to 16.3 official. Then take a full backup either iCloud or on a desktop. Then do a full iPad erase and then restore from your backup. I have had to do this several times over the years since I also always use the beta versions and Apple warns you that sometimes things can go very wrong and need a restore cycle to fix.

    Apologies again for late response.

  14. On 11/11/2022 at 8:59 PM, Fatts_Henry said:


    See my Previous posts to: Can't Load More Images

    @Paul Mudditt@Lee D I seem to have stumbled upon a true fix to my 'Import from Photos' problem. After I put my small collection of pictures and videos (257) into a folder on my iCloud drive, I deleted them from my Picture Gallery on my iPad.   As I began to work on my designs again, I started adding pictures one by one back to my Gallery.  There are currrently (20) images in the Photo Gallery.  Now Designer and Designer2 will both 'Import from Photos’.  Maybe these two apps have a limit on how big of a Picture Gallery they can access. Or perhaps there is something about one or more of the images or videos that caused the apps to crash. I just don't know but, I would be interested to know what was causing these apps to crash.

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    This is so weird, after you tried all the previous suggestions I guess there is a possibility that something more serious went wrong with your beta version  iPadOS installation. Now this is a bit awkward to fix, assuming you are still on beta you will be in 16.3 beta. When 16.3 is officially  released, remove the beta profile and update to 16.3 official. Then take a full backup either iCloud or on a desktop. Then do a full iPad erase and then restore from your backup. I have had to do this several times over the years since I also always use the beta versions and Apple warns you that sometimes things can go very wrong and need a restore cycle to fix.

    Apologies again for late response.

  15. On 11/11/2022 at 10:55 AM, Gibney said:

    Does the ‘Layer States’ Panel exist in Affinity Photo 2 (on iPad)? If so, how do you access it?Tthanks,

    Bernie 

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    Unfortunately Layer States is only available on the desktop versions of Affinity Photo.

    Apologies again for late response.

  16. On 1/3/2023 at 11:32 PM, addisonk said:

    Hey folks…

    Could someone please take me through the process steps in order to replace a sky using the asset feature ? (I got through James atmosphere pack) I’m new to Affinity iPad 2. Really frustrating, trying to work with proper layer technique as it applies to where/how I create the settings to enable proper placement of the sky asset into the mask. Thanks so much in advance. This would help so much!

    Addison

     

     

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    You generally have to make a selection of the existing sky and remove that from your image. You can then place the sky replacement from a folder image or from an asset pack you may have and place it on a layer below you foreground image.

    Although I could not see a specific sky replacement tutorial for V2 there are many on you tube for V1, which so long as you have watched the Serif tutorials you should be able to follow some of the V1 versions. I find Affinity Revolution very good for people new to Affinity.

    Apologies again for late response.

     

     

     

  17. On 11/20/2022 at 5:42 PM, jeffreydevey said:

    Can the Affinity team elaborate more on the decision to remove the "Save/Save As" menu items from within the document?

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    I think this was just a temporary measure whilst issues are being resolved with iPad file handling, I expect at least the “save” option to re-appear in the menu’s. Save and Save As and Duplicate are still available on the Affinity home screen as an alternative until the re-design settles.

    Apologies again for late response.

  18. On 11/15/2022 at 5:19 PM, HarryMcGovern said:

    I can’t import brushes into Designer on iPad. They just don’t show up.

     

    In fact there are no brushes showing in the iPad brushes panel at all. Nobody's. brushes install, and there appear to. be no 'native' brushes installed. It's just plain empty.

    Harry/Robert? Don’t forget to check under the pixel persona and Designer persona separately as the brushes may have been Pixel Brushes or Vector Brushes and will only appear under the correct persona. 

  19. On 11/15/2022 at 3:54 PM, kurikin said:

    When using the node tool of Designer 2 with a finger on my iPad generation 9, 
    if a circle appears where it is hidden by the finger, the operation will not be smooth.
    Restarting the iPad and reinstalling the app did not help.
    I have installed app on other iPads such as mini and Pro, but the problem did not occur.

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    I think this problem may have been fixed in the last update, can you confirm this is the case?

    Apologies again for late response.

  20. On 12/15/2022 at 9:14 PM, TwangerMan said:

    Bought some resources that include .afselection files (masks).  Would like to use them, if possible.

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    Unfortunately the iPad apps do not have the import and export of .afselection files which are only available on the desktop versions of Affinity Photo.

    Apologies again for late response.

  21. Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    The grid and guides settings have been moved to a new location shown here:-

     

    Hope this helps.

    Apologies again for late response.

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  22. On 11/11/2022 at 7:14 PM, nomi02118 said:

    Is it possible to save custom pdf parameters for export on iPad? I have several printers that require specific settings so have a custom settting saves a lot of time and minimalizes errors. 

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    I do not think this is possible on iPad versions but is a very good idea to be able to save your print presets especially on the pdf export which has so much customisation. Requests for new features are best posted to this section:-

    https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feedback-suggestions/

    Apologies again for late response.

  23. On 11/14/2022 at 3:57 PM, AlessioFB said:

    Problem:
    I have a file with liked pngs on my PC, in a iCloud folder.

    I open my file on iPad pro. The files aren't linked anymore, because it's using PC paths (C:// etc.).

    I have to reconnect the SINGLE pngs (not even the folder directly). But then they don't work on PC anymore.
    EDIT: they actually then work on PC, if they have been connected on ipad. I think it's because the path "com-apple-CouldDocs/etc." works on both devices. But this very iCloud specific I guess.

    Solution would be to have an abstract path, like in most softwares: "*/likedFiles" for example.

    Is this possible in Affinity Designer? Can this please be implemented?

    Sorry for the long delay in replying to this request but the Serif team and the secondary support team of simply users like myself have been answering as many as possible as quickly as possible.

    I think there are likely only two possible solutions,

    1. the one that you discovered which is iCloud references and keep all of your resources and files in iCloud (this is also what I do so that I can work on iPad, Mac or PC versions) or the other alternative, 
    2. if you have the universal license with publisher, is that you can “package your work up on PC, save the resulting exported “.afpackage file to iCloud or via any other medium such as USB drive and then open on the iPad and vice versa. An .afpackage file is like a zip file that contains all the resources a document require including images, fonts etc that might not be installed on the other system.

    Hope this helps.

    Apologies again for late response.

  24. I added a second technique which more closely mirrors the pixel brush method.

    1. First I create a rectangle same size as page
    2. I make it transparent and convert it to a symbol
    3. I then duplicate it
    4. I then use transform panel to rotate it by  360 degrees / number of copies required
    5. I use power duplicate ^J if you have a keyboard to create 4 more copies.
    6. Then draw onto first rectangel.
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