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The easiest way to rotate the content inside a document for export is: add an artboard. All content is automatically moved inside Rotate the artboard (move tool / transform panel) Export the artboard only (not full document). The artboard should be active layer, and change in export UI form „whole document“ to „Artboard“

Hi and welcome to the forum, SteveFogel. the vectorscope depends on the colors in the rendered image. As faces other areas with human skin are normally the only areas of this color, normally there is no need restrict the diagram to specific areas. If you need, you must create a mask so that other areas are not shown. well, the vectorscope does exactly this, it shows where the colors in the image are as light colored points. Look at the scope panel. Use any of the selection / masking tools which works best for the actual image. You can select by color/hue, lightness, or use a brush to define areas. Then add adjustments which work best for you, e.g. hue, curves, selective color and adjust them, and try to get the scope to match the I line. You may go hardball and use the gradient map, this will remove any natural hue/sat variations and enforce advertisement colors. there are tons of tutorials in youtube guiding you through the process. Search for skin tone vector scope affinity btw using the I bar for color grading is discussed controversially, so some argue to use other appraches.

I paid for Photo, Designer, Publisher V1 for Windows I paid for Photo, Designer, Publisher V1 for Mac (even before owing a Mac, just to support Affinity) I paid for Photo, Designer V1 on iPad I paid for V2 universal license (upgrade) i Paid for all 3 Workbooks. I raised ~100 bug reports, 50% serious bugs. Do I expect to get every reported bug solved, with priority status? no. i‘m very sorry you got an eyelash in your eye and nobody sends emergency doctors by helicopter.

While i fully understand the (probably) good intentions, i have seen to many apps from other vendors going to total disarray because older versions lost attention and help get totally out of sync. It really helps nobody if online help works reliably only for the bleeding edge release of the app, and provides misleading or completely wrong results for slightly non-current releases. The help documentation is an dedicate deliverable accompanying the app releases. It s no „optional“ or „if we find time“ low priority thing. As Affinity updates UI and features in every minor update, we need a perfect fitting documentation for every minor release. The offline help can include links to additional online-only resources like videos. This is never a reason to go fully only only.

Best results: highpass with 1px radius to eliminate colors almost completely curves to boost global contrast hsl to desaturate again exposure to boost light colors

This seems to be very tricky. I tried on iPad live hue range mask, hsl, channels mixer etc. combined with blend modes likes add, not getting a good result or suitable workflow. Will try again later on Mac. Essentially you need to seperate the color correction into 3 parts, with some complex combined filter criteria (hue and luminosity) which is nothing easy to do in Affinity.

We had some older reports about rendering issues affecting specifically iPad Pro M1 models. This looks like a minor redraw annoyance for me, especially as it self-heals within a blink. Lets the moderators decide if this is rated as bug. BTW on my Mac Mini M1 designer is totally unusable for zoom levels of about 100-400%, this causes a major issue as the rendering is broken and does not self-heal.

There are two cultures clashing. Affinity apps are „creative“ tools, not CAD, 3D, math, architecture, etc tools. One culture wants and insists of smooth layer blending using anti-aliasing in the pixel / bitmap dimension. Another culture needs perfect physical units like mm, inch etc. Some need pixel perfect design. Some only care about vectors. you can’t have it all at once. If using affinity apps, you need to learn what works natively, what works with some compromise, and where you need to switch to a different tool.

It will not magically solve the issue in an instant, but it is a required step to understand the issue, then Analyse the root cause, and finally get a fix. Or just check the guidelines: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/129-v2-bugs-found-on-ipad/

A screen recording showing the issue would help to understand the issue. Affinity needs to redraw the canvas, and this causes some interim artefacts due to mipmaps rendering (first in lower resolution, full resolution takes a bit, noticeable in many cases)

If you try to distribute multiple layers in both x and y direction, the tool resets always if you switch to another tool. The result is lost. RPReplay_Final1712863765.mov

Nice shots. new stack choose all images deactivate alignment go set stack mode to maximum use move tool to arrange layers in suitable distance on a diagonal use crop tool to get nice crop

Bonus: applying a fill to a group of vector layers (tiles of any shape like rectangles or puzzle pieces) partitions the fill to every member, which stays even when removed from the group and repositioned.

This opens another can of worms and unfixed bugs. You can assign fill and/ or stroke colors to groups. Those get applied to all child layers already inside the group which can come handy. but: pixel layers get filled by the color, too. And both fill and/or stroke color will fill pixel layers vector layers distinguish fill/stroke correctly layers added later to group won’t get impacted layer fx applied to to group affect all layers inside group, even if add later.

Maybe related https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39616667/nsremoteview-generates-a-strange-message-in-the-log could be a permission issue for sandboxed applications to read files nothing for users to do.

fractional positions or size of layers? If you upload the actual afdesign file we can check.

I appreciate your effort trying to find workarounds, but the complexity and fragility only emphasize the need for a real solution (far easier, less fragile, file format compatibility with PS) And we ask for the combination of groups and clipping, not masking. Both are similar but there are relevant differences.

Most important: deselect all. And active selection is the top reason.

Please search the forum for older post with topic “brush not working”. you need to check all brush parameters like: brush color color opacity layer opacity wet edges which brush you are using. Select a fresh basic round brush to start with blend mode of brush are you using the brush tool or by accident color replacement brush tool or undo brush tool? channels panel, all channels active? try solo mode to see what is happening more directly Add a new pixel layer to check if the brush is working there and some more to check if the steps above do not help.

Please add the option to start the grid from the center of the document instead of upper left corner. E.G. For Triangular Grid i found no way to set the grid accordingly. It is essential to create symmetric hexagonal tiles for repeated complex patterns including e.g. mirroring and rotation of tiles. You need a starting point zero in the center. In principle, th grid should simply follow the point of origin in rulers. The workaround mentioned below does not work on iPad.

There is one important detail in between these steps: If you drag sliders, and still hold the mouse button without releasing, space has no effect. Mouse movements will adjust slider settings. If I release the mouse buttons, then press space, I can pan the canvas. Can you please check again, and provide a screen recording for 2.4.1 similar to 2.3.1?

I just tested 2.4.0 (before update) and it allows to pan around even in case of an open filter layer UI. As 2.4.0 introduced the new space keyboard modifier to the move tool (toggle lock children) I checked this, too and it works. But you must always start dragging in the canvas (not pressing space key first!), then press space key.

The issue is that the info panel does not convert LAB to RGB colors "corretcly" and used different rendering intend and or color profiles that used in Document->Convert and Color Panel. You will spot deviating color information in info panel vs. color panal even inside one document of the same color format (except the simplistic case RBB/ sRGB) As Ldina has shown, every color format conversion has a bunch of parameters (rendering intend) and only when converting a document you can choose the parameter. When using Info panel or color panel, undocumented default rendering intend is used. Another factor to play in is RGB color profile. As far as i remember, Affinity use the profiles defined in assistant for some of the conversions, andmay use undocumented defaults for others.

I cannot reproduce any cyan tint when using curves adjustment. You must use numeric input for the nodes. If using mouse, the numeric values are rounded for UI and you may create the node at a slightly off position. a better way is channel mixer, and enter 0% La/Lb plus 50% offset. This gives exact values.

There are better methods to desaturate an image than using a lab curves adjustment in non-lab documents. Curves in LAB mode require double conversion, depending on blend mode 4 conversions. Minor issues can stack up. It starts with the encoding of lab colors in 16 bit integers does not allow to represent 0.5 La Lb values exactly. It is off by 1/2 least significant bit.