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I have quite a few Ron Devine brushes and there are certain brushes such as overlay brushes and flourish brushes that don't require hardness, although it would be nice to have a choice to make for yourself.

Maybe you need to look if there is an issue with the wacom or that it is using sticky keys, maybe it's a toggle on/off switch process?

If it is a child layer to a parent layer, try Ctrl on Windows or Cmd on Mac Clicking on the object.

Never heard of sage thumbnails but a mate uses: https://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/ on his windows system.

If you aren't obsessed with gaming get a second-hand Mac, it will be more than adequate, an intel 2017 - 2019 with maxed out RAM or 32GB at least and reasonable CPU, GPU will run better than 90% of windows systems and you get a delicious 27" retina screen to boot, oh and the life saving Time Machine. I paid £350 for a 27" 2015 with 32GB RAM a 1TB OWC SSD, 2GB AMD GPU and an i7 CPU, it was boxed with keyboard and magic mouse and was in mint condition. "Me a Mac fan, whatever gave you that idea Ke-mo-sah-bee?"

With every release Affinity apps get better and better with new features such as texture fills coming in the 2.1 release, the Affinity team are working hard with lots of fixes and improvements to established tools coming in the 2.1 release, maybe it's not everything you want but they are moving in the right direction and I'm sure measurements will turn up at some point. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/138-21-new-features-and-improvements/

Similar to Thomas but with bends. example.afdesign

Probably because Affinity was predominately Mac and then they made a Windows version. Personally I like the configuration but I am a Mac fanboy

The image with the sparkles, (dog and girl) if you added layers to that image in Affinity Photo and then exported it as a jpeg, the export process would have effectively flattened/merged all the layers into one layer and exported it as a jpeg file you cannot unhide those layers unless you saved the edited image as a Affinity Photo file, that would have kept all the layers.

lol no I downloaded that logo from a website: https://seeklogo.com/free-vector-logos/amsoil

So there is no other information, that's the complete error message? (An error has occurred retrieving content file validation.) Are there other error messages?

There you go Amsoil.afdesign

Also run First Aid from Disk Utility

Move the layers to where? Which version of Windows are you running?

Morning @albertkinng Ok, I took a butchers at the file in Illustrator and I think the primary reason for the perceived rasterisation of the fill is because the shapes are filled with Illustrator patterns and Affinity doesn't know how to handle them. The dotted shapes are simple compounds; simply ellipses subtracted from a shape filled with black, the rest are compound paths filled with ai patterns. I have extracted what I think are relevant swatches as SVG files, probably the first four but I also extracted the lines as well. SVG.zip Got dragged away before I finished the post, so with the SVG patterns, you can replace the raster patterns with an array of each pattern element using Power Duplicate. Until Affinity can handle pattern creation better and create arrays it's pretty much the only method in Affinity Designer, Unless anyone knows a better way. You can control colour and the components that make up a pattern element using the symbol panel and you can amass a collection of pattern elements by saving them as Assets. You can also save symbols as assets to use in other documents. See the file attached for how I made patterns within the compound paths that are now scalable. HONDA TRX450ER.afdesign I've also noticed the AMSOIL is a mess unless it's intentional? it's a mess in Illustrator so it's not a consequence of opening in Affinity Designer I know the Hinson logo is supposed to be a bit scrappy

That's a bitmap fill by the look of it, did you expect it to be a vector pattern? Is the original a vector fill? What file type is this? PDF, Ai? I have Illustrator and can look at it in Illustrator if you like?

It's probably because it's a straight curve, so when you created the shape and used either straight curves drawn with the pen tool or used a shape such as the diamond or rectangle, it maintained the sharp node and extended a handle to allow the curvature of the ellipse to be maintained. The problem is, when you change the sharp node to a smooth or a "not so" smart node, it distorts the curve above instead of maintaining its status quo. Even if you change the nodes of the diamond/rectangle shape to smooth or smart when you add/unite the curves at the point they intersect the nodes become sharp. I have no idea why this happens maybe it's a bug or there is an issue with joining curves.

It's like a terminator node, it's where the curve/path is closed, there is also a red line that extends from it, this indicates the direction the curve was drawn in and you can click on the reverse button in the Pen and node tool context menu to see it change: https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_node.html

What are you trying to achieve?

Pressing Esc should remove the selection. The thing you call nodes, that is just a bounding box with handles and it's because you have a layer selected and the move tool.

It will work with this file, I've coloured the white border. I think this may be a bug, because whether I drag it into the workspace or open it it does what you have shown in your video. I can replicate it, and the only way to get round it was to colour the white border in with the same dark salmon colour RGB 196 103 103 , either using a basic brush, or the flood fill tool like I did in the video.

Slightly modified version. Untitled 4.m4v

Yes I have both version 1 and 2 and I primarily use v2, the crib sheet was done with v2, I can make a video for you if that will help.

Affinity Photo does have Quick Mask using the keyboard toggle key 'Q' You can select any brush you like and toggle painting onto the quick mask or erasing area's of the quick mask using the 'X' key, the X key toggle foreground and background colours, you can see this by having the Colour panel/palette in view as you press the X key. Exiting quick mask Affinity can invert the selection using Select > Invert Pixel Selection or using Shift + Cmd + I https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Selections/editSelectionAsLayer.html You will find a lot of ex Photoshop/illustrator users on here. Download the trial: https://store.serif.com/get/universal-licence-2/trial/ it runs for 30days.

I'm making a few assumptions... The button is the document size 96px x 30px and not a part of a larger document. it has multiple layers it has rounded corners so you don't hurt yourself and its Orange, (fav colour) With a pixel image... Draw out a rectangle shape that is 32px x {height?} maybe 32px Position it centrally both vertically and horizontally Click on the shape layer icon while holding Cmd on Mac/Ctrl on windows down (this makes a selection using the 32px x 32px shape) Click on the buttons background layer and press delete Turn off the rectangle shape layer to see the erased space created The reason for using a rectangle shape is, accurate dimensions and can be snapped into place easily. Making a button with Shapes... Create a rectangle 96px x 30px Create a rectangle 32px x 32px Select both layers and subtract one from the other using Layer > Geometry: Subtract