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Had a go at the tutorial and this is the result. The tutorial teaches you more than just getting the end result, you have to think on the fly and be curious. I think some of the measurements are out, like the wand length and hair dimensions, so you have to adjust to suit (pun intended) Picking colours can be done a few ways, one is to use the finished image from the web to create a palette, or use the colour picker to create a swatch, the former is the easiest, the latter will get you a more concise set of colours but it is slower. It would have been nice to have a downloadable palette, this would have brought into the tutorial how to import swatches, also changing the unit type "mm" to 1 decimal place and the nudge options to 0.1mm and 1mm would also have helped but these are all part of experimenting and learning.

Yes it would be nice to "group" all of the style attributes into a single Panel. You can't do this like Adobe does at the moment but you can create multiple shapes and have them layered in a group to get a similar effect. Again, you can layer and group the same shape and add different fills, then use blend modes to get effects. Maybe show an example of what you mean here?

Or use Crazybump

You'll get used to it, its a good system, has some quirks but its better than windows IMHO. plenty of people on here with Mac's so you'll get plenty of help.

You have Affinity Photo in separated Mode, Go to Window > Separated Mode and if you see a tick and the side of it click it to make the tick disappear.

You can also make the blue circle a child of the red rectangle, which is a kind of grouping. Child of the red rectangle Grouped

Just group them instead

Supported Minolta Lenses (This is for the native Serif Labs RAW engine only)

Help isn't a useful title, especially for people searching for issues, so please be more specific in your titles, secondly, which Operating System are you using and thirdly which Affinity app are you using? ...and finally, try to Create a new Document or open a file

A few settings that will make it easier to follow and draw with the Card tutorial. I also set the nudge options so I could nudge to the units being used

The font used for the Q is here: https://www.dafont.com/fha-nicholson-french-ncv.font I couldn't get the heart top to register with the tail of the Q to show 2.1mm (odd gap really when 2mm looks just as well) but with regard to spacing, I sometimes create a small box 2.1mm x 10mm and use that as a kind of block tape measure, you can then snap the block to the bottom of the Q tail and snap the hearts top to the base of the little box.

To get the Black and white image to be a mask, put the Black and white image above the colour image, right click on the Black and white image and select Mask to Below

There is an option in the Stroke Panel to Scale with Object

The only people who complain are the ones with issues so it may seem like a lot of people have trouble but compared to those that don't it's a very small percentage. I have an XP-Pen Deco 03 and its Excellent and for the money it is great value. You can buy a Wacom and still have problems with both hardware and software. If you look at how complex these devices are its amazing they work as they do and in most cases very reliably. I had a old serif branded tablet and it worked flawlessly, the only reason I bought the Deco 03 was because I couldn't get Drivers for the tablet anymore. I think you were just unlucky and its a shame they are out of stock but I wouldn't lose faith and I've always known XP-Pen support to be very good.

I don't see the "creating a shape and cmd + clicking the layer" as a workaround, I just see it as an alternative way to make selections, you can adjust a shape more easily than you can using the Selection Tool, just drop the opacity and tweak around say your watch, build complex shapes add them and then cmd + click to get your selection. You can also group shapes and get a selection from the group instead of adding the shapes together. It's just one more way to get the selection you want.

Have you looked at the Panels on the right?

Could you upload a CR2 file?

@- S - I think you've nailed it.

Under Snapping Try turning off Only Snap to Visible Objects.

Some screenshots would be helpful in visualising what you are dealing with but in the meantime, is the dog symmetrical or asymmetrical, is it a silhouette or coloured? Could you not just duplicate the dog after flipping him and apply text to the duplicate flipped dog instead.

I suggested it because I wanted to see if by converting it the issues would be alleviated, a bit of a troubleshooting step more or less and a way of possibly focusing in on the problems and possible fixes.If by converting to a DNG file any one of your issues are alleviated that would be a move in the right direction, at least for the time being.

Ah! the old transparent rectangle trick, yes I remember it well, I think it was "gdenby the great" vector magician and mystic guru to the masses who first displayed this wizardry, we all felt a great affinity with him. Did it with a brush stroke just to work it out lol!

Feather or smoothing is too much?

Open the file in Designer. Select the layer highlighted in the image below Go to File > Export... Select the SVG Tab and from the Area: Dropdown list select Selection without Background Click Export Name the file and remember where you saved it. pat ya self on the back and have a celebration dance You should have a file like this: lash.svg

Also see if anyone has the Keyboard and Affinity on the Logitech forums