Paul Mudditt
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On 11/10/2020 at 3:59 PM, molink said:
Thanks for replying, Lee!
I have done that but I only get the dimensions for the whole image, not the number of pixels in the selection.
Draw a rectangle shape, look in the transform studio you will see the size of the rectangle. If you want to see the size in pixels use document - resize and on the context bar change to pixels. When you have got the size you want convert the rectangle to a selection by selecting the pen tool then to selection
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On 11/6/2020 at 4:32 PM, Ashcat_ said:
Yesterday I’ve got a new iPad Pro 12” and today I started Affinity Photo and made a drawing. I saved the file as a psd as I always do. Put it in the Cloud at al the other psd files. So far so good. I searched for an other psd file I made at the older iPad and wanted to download this file in Affinity Photo but all the psd files are “dark” and are not downloadable. Also the file I made today is dark. I’ve checked the preferences and they are the same as at my other, old, iPad 12”. At that old device I can download and use the psd files as usual. Please, please help me!!!!!
i’ve just checked at Affinity Designer and also here these psd files are not downloadable. I’ve tryed ProCreate and I can download the psd files as usual.
Can you save your files in .afphoto format ok? Did your problems start after you installed an Adobe app? If so try removing the Adobe app or use the Affinity native .afphoto format for saving your work that you want to return to.
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On 10/30/2020 at 9:00 AM, Stephen_H said:
I found this discussion because I was looking for the same thing. I was just wanting to put cut lines on an A4 page to cut it evenly into 30 strips. In Illustrator, I'd just draw a 30 row grid with the grid tool, or blend 2 lines across the page with 29 divisions. (30 seconds to do it). Designer has forced me to manually duplicate a line 30 times and then align & distribute them. A real pain, especially since I seem to be constraining my movement to a 15 degree angle and I can't find out how to change my move angle contraint settings.
Anyway, here's a simple work around for your particular challenge. It uses the appearance panel to layer multiple strokes on each other. I made a video because it's a mission to try explain it.
Use the guide manager and enter directly the number of rows you require as a start perhaps?
Alternatively use Power Duplicate and the transform studio for exact measurements and angles.
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7 hours ago, Jrope135 said:
Hi Stokerg. Thanks for the welcome. I discovered that some of the problem was operator error. Somehow the document dimensions were set to 11x15” and auto-scaled when printing on letter size paper.
I corrected that, and printed the pdf from acrobat reader on my laptop instead of from the iPad and the scaling issue was much improved. From Acrobat the part of the image outside the print margin was clipped rather than the image being sized to fit, but it’s still still not printing 1:1. Unable to attach the actual file at the moment. I’m going to try print a few simple test files today and will get back to you. Thanks for your willingness to help!🙂
Try printing via Epson iPrint app from the app store. i.e. don’t use ‘print’ use ‘export’. In Affinity use Export -> Share -> Epson iPrint.
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On 10/27/2020 at 4:21 AM, JT2307 said:
Hi Callum,
That’s heart broken... I am new to iPad drawing. I thought the auto save will do the work for me. So next time if I save a copy and accidentally delete again, am I able to find my drawing in my “recently deleted” folder? Thanks for your response, Callum!
Cheers,
Joyce
No, you must save your work outside of the app in an external folder. The Home Screen is like tabs on a web browser, just a temporary sandbox which auto saves while you work. You should always use the various save options if you require a physical file that can be managed as such.
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On 10/8/2020 at 9:46 AM, GarryP said:
While the generated face is interesting – and quite striking – I feel it is necessary to give a warning to anyone thinking of using this sort of ‘face generation’ software.
Since the face in the ‘enhanced’ image is generated as a ‘guess’ by the software it cannot be guaranteed to be a good match of the person’s actual face and, as such, may create mistakes/confusion/problems in the future.
For example, someone looking at the photo in a few years time may assume that it was the actual person’s face and not think that it was ‘generated’. This could lead them to mistaken conclusions about who is actually in the photo. Do they have their father’s eyes or those of Uncle Bob who we always thought was hanging around their mother a bit too often?
Or, to take that a bit further, imagine that the generated face closely matches that of someone who has committed a crime. The person who has been given the generated face in the ‘enhanced’ image could be accused of that crime even if they have no involvement in it. And all because someone had a bit of fun getting a computer to guess a face.
Obviously this is a stretch of the imagination, but it’s something that I think should be taken into consideration.
Yes, that was my concern initially but results of using this free app for the past year on the openly restored Facebook group have shown the results to be good/excellent and fairly accurate according to family members, if used carefully.
It is important to repair the image first in Affinity and be prepared to help the AI by increasing the resolution of the image and for multi person images slicing the image first then recomposing afterwards. Sometimes I’ve found better results by colouring first before using the AI. Skipping these steps can give horrific results.
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Columns guides do not work in Guides Manager. They are also now broken on Photo and Designer on PC, MAC. Also broken in Photo beta on iPad and Publisher on MAC.
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Column Guides do not work in this 801 beta.
They are also broken on Photo and Designer on all platforms, PC, MAC and iPad.Until this release, Publisher was the only V1.9 beta that had column guides working so I suspect a common library module that you have just updated to on Publisher.
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Column Guides do not work in this or any V1.9 beta on Windows, Mac and iPad.
It is also broken in Designer for Windows and Mac. Likely broken in Designer iPad but since there is no beta cannot report.
This has already been reported against the iPad version.
Extra Note: Publisher is the only app that still has Column Guides working on PC & MAC. EDIT: Now broken in Publisher build 801 on MAC
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3 hours ago, IPv6Freely said:
I have no idea what Appearance Studio is. So maybe that's why.
https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Panels/appearancePanel.html
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On 10/18/2020 at 1:22 AM, IPv6Freely said:
Googled "offset path affinity designer" and came across this. This is seriously the only way to do an offset path in AD? I'm a designer of bags and backpacks and I use that tool more than just about any other in AI for quickly adding seam allowances to my patterns. I found out about AD today and downloaded the trial. I guess for now I'm going to have to keep paying the ridiculous Adobe tax...
I don't know why people are not using the Appearance Studio, you can add as many strokes to a curve as you want in there.
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@Chris BBUMP 2: This is nothing to do with iPadOS beta, Column Guides is non-functional on all of the available betas on iPad, Mac and PC for Photo AND Designer, note On Publisher beta column guides still works however.
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BUMP: Update to iPadOS 14.2 beta 4 came in last night, column guides still not working.
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1 hour ago, VectorCat said:
Your scheme sounds good, and I assume it could also be done ON the iPad?
I am not interested in using iCloud, and I hate the feeling of being slowly corralled into using it.
Sure but to be honest the biggest innovation about the iPad is iCloud. I use now the 2TB option, the file optimisation means I have nearly 400GB of files and 40’000+ photos on my 128GB iPad Pro, with plenty of free space. The way infrequently used files are offloaded but accessible anytime I need them is great. Plus this is a secure backup so if I lost my device I won’t ever lose my data.
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2 hours ago, VectorCat said:
I just rebooted the iPad, re-launched Affinity. File not there. Tried to open from the Files app. File not there.
Something is gravely ill here. Files app shows the file is there, inside Affinity Designer folder. Affinity Designer can not open it because it does not see this file which Fill app shows as there, modified yesterday afternoon at 3:20pm.
Where could the file have gone and why am I being shown non-truth as to where this file is, and how many instances of it there are?
PS: I was able to move the file from Files to a USB Drive, then back to files. From there the file opened in Designer.
I’m mystified as to the origin of this problem.
Once I realised that iCloud files is just like a hard disk drive, and you can create your own folder structures from the root upwards, that is where I now store all my files and generally ignore the auto-created folder that apps create in those locations. So I have a 0-Affinity Photo, 0-Affinity Designer, 0-Raw, 0-Slices, 0-Affinity Resources etc folders and manage all files my self. The 0 means I see my folders first alphabetically. My home screen in the app only has the files I am currently working on, nothing else to avoid problems like you are seeing.
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18 hours ago, VectorCat said:
I mean that in the Affinity "home" folder - within Affinity Designer, I see 2 tiles of the same drawing. They have the same name, and when I open them, they contain the same things I drew. That seems puzzling..I did not knowingly duplicate the drawing, not sure how it could've happened.
Thank you, Dan
Think of the Affinity home page like having Safari browser open with two tabs both looking at the BBC web site. The Affinity home page is just a temporary sandbox, a tab on a web browser not a storage location. Just like with an open web browser you can move forwards and backwards in your file history like your browsing history so long as you have the tab open. Always save your work outside of the app in On my iPad or in iCloud folders and remember to close the temporary file on the Home Screen.
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On 10/18/2020 at 8:01 AM, JohnCP said:
Hi Affinity team,
Pls. bring back ability of Affinity for iPad to import .cube LUT’s instead of having to rename them to .cub then import?
thanks.
It’s not Affinity, I can import .cube files no problem, you likely have an Adobe app installed which causes the problem for Affinity and any other app which wants to use .cube files. Uninstall your Adobe apps, you may also need to remove and re-install Affinity after removing the Adobe apps.
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5 hours ago, Fazpe said:
hi,
i've got affinity photo on ipad pro, when I import a file and print it comes out on a much smaller size, if I make it larger it cuts the image.
If your printer has an iPad app then use export -> share -> printer app to get better control over printout. This works with my HP printer anyway.
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+1 on this one, I’m forever toggling snapping on and off whilst restoring old photos. Magnet please !
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2 hours ago, Bees said:
Right now my iCloud won’t backup, and I’m giving Affinity designer dirty looks.
At this time, Affinity Designer claims to be taking up 146gb space while my iPad is currently 145gb full. If I search, I can find conversations I’ve had complaining affinity designer was taking up “66+GB” of my 64gb ipad. (which I outgrew - and blame the outrageous amount of space AD takes up). Even further back, I can find comments of me wailing and complaining my iCloud is was 5gb without AD but AD alone takes up 32gb.
I’ve come to assume this issue has to do with the raster photos I have within my projects. I work in Procreate - screenshot - trace/modify in AD. Ideally, I would keep the original images within my projects for reference, but because this increase of file size, and the number of projects I have open at any given time - I can’t. I don’t have the attention span to check settings every little change I make, but when I clear files It’ll sometimes drop 40gb like it may have been just one bad file.
I’m slowly saving and removing projects, as well as deleting the raster photos within the projects - it dropped down to 132gb, and now it says it’s 181gb despite the iPad still being 145gb??? I’m so fed up.
I would search the forums for previous threads, but I’m unsure how to go about it or what words to search.
Help me understand. Do open files take up more space than saved files? I may save/close 1gb of files and AD may claim to have dropped 10+gb. Why is it my app claims to take up more space than it really does - despite the saved file being a few kb, or mb(with raster images)?
I love AD but this is the thing I hate most about it. Is there a way for me to include my reference photos without massively increasing the file size?
Just before hitting post, I checked again, and now it’s claiming to take up 126gb. I have not changed or modified anything between the 181gb and the 126gb screenshots.
I likely have HUNDREDS of things open in Procreate - while maybe only 100 in AD. Why - even if the strange (what I assume is) false inflation is AD taking up SO much space?
I apologize if any of my message seems hostile. I have an unrelated issue with my brand new iPad. I have an appointment tomorrow with Apple, but I can’t get my iPad to back up because it claims my cloud doesn’t have enough space to back up despite updgrading to 200gb. I lost months of work on my previous iPad because my iCloud was too full to back up (was paying for 64gb at the time). The 64gb’s ipad is too full to boot, and crashes - and I stubbornly hadn’t upgraded my iCloud because I know AD is the main issue, and never expected to run into such issues. I just don’t want to lose more than I already have.
I should add this is why I have not welcomed any other Affinity programs into my life.
Feel free to move this to bugs. I don’t know, honestly.
1.You never mentioned your project history’s which will make each project quite large, deleting layers won’t make any difference as they will still be in the project ready for you to backtrack in time and recover them. In fact the file size could grow as you delete layers and add to the file history.
2. You should not keep your project files open in the app. Projects are like tabs on a web browser, they are meant to be saved off, with or without project history, by default without to reduce the file size.
3. Turn on optimise photos will save as it suggests several GB. You can still download your full res versions at any time. My 40’000 plus raw photos occupy 210GB of iCloud but only 9GB on my iPad memory.
4. Your iPad is 256GB, 200GB of iCloud is not big enough, either save your projects off your iPad on external storage or consider upgrading to the 2TB. That is what I use, its a lot cheaper compared to the expense I have spend previously on external backup drives.
5. After saving all your projects to iCloud or external remember to close them all.
6. There is a delay on the iPad re-calculating free space so you I get not see then space freed up straight away.
7. It is worth turning your iPad off and on or doing a forced restart occasionally to re-initialise memory.Maybe others can add some other ideas, hope these help.
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1 hour ago, p_mac said:
Problem is that if you forget to turn it off and you open another image that may require some delicate, not even delicate work, there is this annoying blue dot and the only way to get rid of it is to close the image, open settings to turn it off and then reopen the image. Or if you are working on something and you notice a problem, turn the screen record on to capture it, and you don't have the blue dot, there is always someone who complains that it would be easier to follow with the 'shows touches' on. And yes that is so. To me if the devs want to see the problems or bugs this should not be so difficult to turn on or off. There are lots of times where I could have used this but decide not to just because it is a pain so I let the app crash and send the info thru TestFlight.
Ah ok, I have just got used to it now, I forget it’s even there mostly. Well if they add that as an edit icon option I hope they add the Designer snapping Magnet icon too as I am always toggling snapping as I work and even though it’s in an edit menu it’s a pain too.
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3 hours ago, p_mac said:
I know that this is not the correct forum to insert this in but I have left this as a suggestion. Not sure if these suggestions get a look but this is something that should be incorporated into the iPad AP.
As a matter of fact, there are some key settings that should be able to be turned off and on within the editing persona. Please, before you move this out of this area, please take this suggestion into consideration as this is, in my opinion for what it is worth, a bug. It may not crash things but it definitely interrupts the flow of work.
Not sure why you would need this, generally I only use that when I want to do an explanation as a screen recording. It serves no other practical purpose so turning it on of off from preferences doesn’t seem like a hardship or have I missed something?
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45 minutes ago, DM1 said:
@Paul Mudditt hi Paul, you must have had a pixel selected somewhere. I just did a change to Selection Persona and tapped Deselect from menu. Then paint brush worked again. I’ve been caught out before. 😀
Ha lol !
EDIT: Dave you are correct as usual but this is going to bite a lot of people. I inverted the pixel selection then found it, however it is completely invisible when I invert once more. This behaviour is identical on PC too.
@Affinity Photo team:-
Developers need to see something interesting here, invert the pixel selection and zoom in on PC or iPad to these 2 problem pixel selections.
Now invert selection and they disappear.
Using smart selection brush with a very small brush add to the selection a few more pixels which appear.
Now invert selection and the original problem pixels re-appear, invert once more and they vanish but the new ones don't. Seems to be a sweet spot in the maths maybe somewhere.
Designer - stroke is broken/dashed
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
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Does it do this if you draw with your finger?
If it is an Apple pencil have you tried unscrewing the nib then screwing it back on again?
Are you using a screen cover?
Have you tried restarting your iPad?