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Tied yourself in knots here lol! Not sure why you are locking layers on a master page in Affinity Publisher, when any object on a master page will be tied to the master layer anyway and edits can only be done on when the master layer has focus. Logically, if you lock layers on a master page in Affinity Publisher, you cannot unlock a layer from within designer because designer does not have access to Affinity Publishers master page. Well this is my understanding, although I have been wrong before (Waits for @walt.farrell gulp!) Be gentle wiff me walt, I have a hangover "the like of which, world has never seen the like of which" 🥴 Going to play with Affinity Publisher and prove myself wrong lol!

I have to say being part of the everyone collective I also thought it was IP. Once you know what it is supposed to represent you see it but on first glance it does look like IP and at smaller sizes it looks more like IP because you cannot see the nuances of the design. I noticed the latter when I popped over to your Doug-peters website.

Did you launch FF directly, not as the plugin feature? I think I've found the reason, I opened Filter Forge (FF) directly instead of via Affinity Photo, when I Saved the render as BMP it posted the popup you see below (fig 1.) the BMP option is automatically set to 32bit, changing the export option to 24bit allows the texture to render in Affinity. Fig 1. This option isn't seen if FF is launched via Affinity Photo as a plugin and export is used although you can use File Save As... and you will then be able to set the bitmap to 24bit. 24bit Knurl seamless as plugin.bmp 24bit Knurl seamless.bmp

Any reason why you have chosen BMP to export to over PNG? I can reproduce the transparency issue, I opened in Preview, exported to TIFF and it opens fine as a TIFF in Affinity Photo v2 knurling_seamless_7.tiff From Filter Forge, I used File > Export and left the export settings to PNG, all the files open as expected.

Any chance you can upload the the bitmap for us to look at?

Excellent

No, there is no listing for any of the sigma Art lens

Welcome to the forum @Fernando E No, the Trial version is fully functional for 30 days I believe. What does it say or not say when you try to export to Jpeg? Can you export to other formats? What Operating System are you on?

You can always explore the folder, subfolder and files in E:/PortraitPro but if the 8bf file isn't in there maybe a reinstall is required and read each step of the install carefully to see if it mentions plugin files and locations.

That would appear to be the problem, if you don't have a 8bf file, which is a plugin file, you don't have a plugin and that's why it's not showing up in affinity photo. You could try to do a search for a .8bf file on E:\ and you might also want to search on C:\

Ok Go to E:/PortraitPro in Explorer and look for a file called PSFilterPPLauncher64.8bf if you can see it right click and select Copy. Now go back to Affinity Photo, under Preferences > Photoshop Plugins and click on open the the default folder or whatever it says on windows and Paste the copied file to that folder.

No this is from Affinity Photo...

Ok you probably need to point Affinity Photo to that folder, it should have a plugins folder inside or have the plugin within that folder, so, from Affinity Photo, under Preferences > Photoshop Plugins, under Plugin Search Folders you need to add a link to that folder.

Ok, so it's not a sandboxed app which helps. Do you have the program installed at the location in C:\Program Files?

Ok, so you have installed PortraitPro, was the installer an exe, msi or msix file?

You appear to have been thorough and exhausted all the obvious options. Some background info like Windows or Mac, which version of Affinity are you using would certainly help? Would you be willing to upload the document here or if possible have a MOD provide a private dropbox link so they can take a look, no promises on timescales with the latter though.

Welcome to the forum @Laser Lady Here is a bit of a write up on the AMD Ryzen 7040 series mobile chip: https://www.pcgamer.com/amds-new-ryzen-7040-series-laptop-apu-has-special-ai-sauce/ that may help you decide. There has been talk of AMD downgrading the clocks on the 7040 series CPU's. Personally I've always favoured the Intel chips.

Found this on the anthropic website, I assume it will apply to v23 as well, so just replace 19 with 23. "Follow the instructions in Affinity to browse to a folder that contains plugin files.PortraitPro 19 will usually install them to these locations:C:\Program Files\PortraitPro Studio Max 19OrC:\Program Files\PortraitPro Studio 19Restart Affinity and PP19 should be available in the Filter menu."

Are you on mac?

Mac I can get it installed because I have photoshop and Affinity is linked to the PS Plugin folder but Anthropic PortraitPro crashed Affinity Photo on Monterey. I had to run the PortraitPro app first. Adopey Photoshop CC complained about not finding the path to the app but after I directly ran the PortraitPro app the plugin stopped complaining and worked. Affinity Photo also started to work after I ran the PortraitPro app first.

lol!

Yet another method is to add nodes, break curves and reposition added nodes... Wrap stroke around curve completely.mp4 This will work for a lot of brushstrokes but not all of them, in the video I've shown yet another workaround to this problem.

There is no simple way to get a wraparound. One way is to duplicate the shape and rotate it 180º and overlay it on top of the original shape. Even then if you change the brush style you may have to fiddle with the brush cap settings to get a decent look. Another thing I do, is to group both layers, duplicate the group and flip it horizontally, then the upper most group in the layers panel I change the blend mode, it can give you some nice effects.

Do you have a sample image?

Have you tried the Live Lens Distortion filter?