Lilium Atratum

I just had the following scenario: I was working in Affinity Designer, created some paths, rasterized them I wanted to save the rasterized object in a separate file, but didn't really know how to do it. At some point I ordered to edit it (I thought: the selected object) in Affinity Photo I realized that it imported the whole document into the Affinity Photo. So I clicked cancel and quit And then... I realized that Affinity Designer (which was open all the time) no longer holds the document I was working on if I was more careful I would have noticed what is happening. Still, I think it is bad bad behavior of the program itself if one can trip on it this way and just lose everything.

Found it, thank you. Also: I used to select just the end points - or at least I thought I did. I was moving one endpoint over another and then drag-select both endpoints. (in hindsight - maybe even with drag-select I was not selecting both endpoints with this) Turns out I need to first select both curves and only then their end points. That feedback why things do not work... not so very good...

I cannot join curves either. I press the join button but nothing happens. Could it be that because it is formally a single object, just segmented into pieces? test.afdesign

The steps above seem to me a bit overcomplicated if you want to fade out all four edges. I tried doing it myself in a different way, I think it should work; but for some reason - it does not. Here is what I do: Import my photo Create a white rectangle over the image (of the same size) Use inner glow effect on the rectangle. Blend mode: normal, color: black, radius & intensity depending on whatever is needed Rasterize the object. Now I have a nice white rectangle with fading black borders. Use the obtained fading white rectangle as a mask to the image below: right-click the object in the layers window and select "Mask to below" I would imagine it would treat the white color as a full opacity and black as transparent. That's how usually masks work, don't they? but this does not seem to work for some reason. What am I missing?