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In Designer, switch to Pixel Persona and use the Selection Brush Tool (W) to select the white area and then press Cmd + X to remove the white. https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_selectionBrush.html

Yes, I saw the video, just uploaded a screenshot showing the effect of sharpen with the top two sliders at max, clearly showing excessive sharpening, well more just noise enhancement really.

I get similar on Mac with Auto, it's subtle, but it is there, less is more springs to mind. I think if it was a face and the focus was off slightly it would be a nice tweak. The sample image blur is quite extreme and could be easily over sharpened. Manually it can be too obvious and garish This is the effect I see @400% zoom in TS Ai this is sharpen at Max (1.00)

I was talking about the 750px x 10px rectangle Walt, the stroke exported just makes sizes up depending on which cap, butt and align you use, you could use the export persona to manually create a slice but that kind of defeats the object of the slice from layer approach. This is a manually drawn slice in export persona, the stroke is pixel aligned so snapping is accurate. This can also be used on layer slice creations and as long as the stroke is pixel aligned you can quickly modify the layer created slice to fit exactly, so although it's a bit of a bind to have to post edit a slice it's a doable workaround.

@Johnny Chin It's NOT possible, they will be rasterised. You would need to create those shapes with shapes. If, as I suspect, they will be used repeatedly, they can be saved as Assets that you can drag onto the artwork as needed. You can create the arrowhead with a triangle slightly stretched and the arc can be created using the donut shape, pie shape etc, you can create a 45deg arc convert it to curves, break the three node points and delete the straight curves leaving the 45º arc. Here is an example of what you can do: Origami fold indicators.afassets

Actually the second one is slightly different to the first image, there is some sharpening that can be seen as enhanced grain if you flick between the images on the forum image preview window.

Do you use a font manager?

Best solution is to reset the studio as @Rossjackson01 posted earlier, that way you get it back to where it started just after install, simples.

This would probably be the best place: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/65-feedback-for-affinity-publisher-on-desktop/

It would be easier to draw a rectangle 750px x10px or you could use (main menu at the top of the affinity app) Layer > Expand Stroke. Also make sure the rectangle is pixel aligned so in the transform panel, in the X: and Y: boxes make sure it has integer numbers i.e. 80 not 80.3

What was the jpegs original dimensions?

Adobe Photoshop CC reads the "what the color actually is" file as RGB 43,43,43 What is the process to get this colour swatch which I assume should be RGB 5,5,5

The trouble is you are using a raster image (PNG) to create a "Vector" brush so it's going to be rasterised no matter what you do. These are not true vectors but raster images on a vector curve/path. Mapping a raster image to a vector curve gives a few advantages in so much as you can bend and stretch the raster image but it is still a raster image regardless of it's attachment to a vector curve, and that is where it all falls apart. Affinity need to sort this out very quickly or stop calling it a vector brush.

Are you talking about the software install to get the plugins or are you talking about plugins working in Affinity? If software install, you should be talking with Topaz support?

There was a post recently about a similar issue:

Hi @Rossjackson01 Are you talking about the image that will be seen on posts like my eye image? Try setting the dimensions to 225.7 x 300 @72DPI and export as a jpeg at 60% quality.

Create a document like the one in the screenshot and upload the afdesign file.

Yes, I know Garry, I used Affinity Designer so that I could use the Outline view to show the components, I refrained from using the appliance panel and it's options to avoid confusion with the lack of that feature in Affinity Publisher, well in directly at least unless the OP has more than just Affinity Publisher. Either way gets the job done eh!

As far as I am aware On1 RAW cannot be used as a plugin in Affinity Photo, the plugins On1 produce don't locate in the plugin folder for Adobe Photoshop CC they sit under File > Automate, so, Affinity Photo will not know how to handle that. There is an option in On1 RAW to send to an application for further editing this can be accessed from the File menu to "Send to another application..."

I did this in Affinity Designer but the method is just the same in Affinity Publisher I just wanted to use Outline view mode for a visual explanation. Publisher

Which On1 software are you talking about RAW or Effects? Also which Operating System are you using?

I'm more interested in what the paid services are

I've just downloaded your file and had the same result as Walt, so, I deleted your text frame and text and did my own. I coloured a paragraph with R242 G175 B13 and did a format find and it found the format and when selecting replace changed that font colour to pink. What it doesn't do is find paragraphs, or selected words with the same colour after the initial search, it seems to just stop at the first find and think that's it. even if you move it on it will not work after the first find. After a bit of tweaking I found that the colour of the individual words and the second paragraph was off slightly: R242 G175 B11 and that's why it wouldn't pick up the rest of the words and paragraphs. After changing them to the correct colour format: R242 G175 B13 Find worked as expected. In this document the last paragraph looks identical to the one above to a glancing eye but will not be selected as a find because the colour is: R242 G175 B11 Affinity Publisher find and replace text color tweaked.afpub

I've seen websites with text like that I once had to tell a "spiritual" woman to stop telling people to stare at an image on-screen for 20 mins to heal them.

I agree you also get subtitles overlaid with credits about 5 mins into a TV series "The Blacklist" is one such show, not to mention all the TV logo's splattered over the screen. I generally don't watch TV but it's hilarious how daft some TV series are, the reaction from my partner to the lack of logic and the Americans insistence on walking into danger when a normal sane person would run is a scream, she goes from Prim and proper to a scene from the exorcist in seconds lol!