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I don't like the way the layers stack, from bottom to top, especially when having text that has been converted to curves, its... and This makes more sense to me. and

Yes, FastStone Capture is an awesome little app, I used that all the time on Windows but I suggested Snagit as its multi-platform.

A few questions that may make your life a lot easier... Do you have the Whatsapp Desktop App installed? If you do the magic is about to happen... You can use Snagit to do Panoramic Captures This will make your life a lot easier, less stressful and about as cool as "The Fonz" "Heeeeeey"

Find the dimensions of the screenshot/s Create a document to the screenshots dimension/s, you can make the document smaller later so over estimate the height. Drag and drop all of your WhatsApp screenshots into the document Now you need to align them so it looks like a continue screenshot. You should have the starting screenshot at the top. Turn off all of the other layers so they are hidden. Select the next screenshot in the Layers Panel unhide it and reduce its opacity to 75% ( this will allow you to align the image with the one on top) Repeat 7. until all screen shots are aligned. Choose the erase tool and pick a Basic Brush and set the Opacity to 100% Flow 100% and Hardness to 90% Erase any unnecessary overlaps. Export to your desired file format If you run out of document space or you have too much you can expand or reduce the Canvas by going to Document > Resize Canvas

Excellent, always a learning curve eh! glad you got it sorted

Turn Off the other masks and Adjustment layers, better yet delete them. Deselect the selection Turn Off the Locked background Layer Select the Unlocked Background Layer Load the Selection as a Mask by right clicking on the Spare Channel in the Channels Panel and choosing Load to Pixel Selection Invert the selection Press Delete Select the Erase Tool Choose a basic Brush and enlarge it to about 1000px Now run all over the image to erase the marks. Press Ctrl/Cmd + D to deselect. You should have a clean image now. The marks may have been a consequence of using a soft brush, either less than 100% flow or Opacity. You might want to redo the selection, its not as good as you think, this maybe be down to the opacity of the masking, consequently when erasing the marks there will be some erasing of the sculpture. When selecting with a brush make sure its at 100% opacity and the flow is also at 100% the hardness can be less than 100% to get a fine edge. Go slow and zoom in a lot, be prepared to change the brush size a fair bit and use the X key to flip between Black and White.

and to merge psenda & Alfreds input, angle is constrained to 15º increments by pressing the Shift key as you rotate. Tick Tock, lets make a clock

The AI version of that shape looks softer, so they are probably applying some antialiasing or something like that to eliminate the perceived gap, Affinitys shape looks much sharper

Can you show the Refine Panel, even though you haven't used it, it would help to see it, also might be helpful save your selection as a Spare Channel and to upload the afphoto file

Welcome to the forum @FlightCo

Some excellent creative thinking going on here How would having +1000 Assets affect Affinity re load times etc, is that a concern?

Welcome to the forum, The brush sets are different in Affinity Photo (APh), there is never a reason not to buy Designer You can import Brushes, such as ABR files: Wreaths or you can create your own. From Affinity Photo (APh) Help files: Creating custom pixel brushes You can create a custom brush from a preset or from scratch using a raster image. To create a custom preset brush stroke from scratch: On the Brushes panel, click Panel Preferences and then select: New Intensity Brush—creates a brush stroke based on the opacity values of a raster image. In the pop-up dialog, navigate to and select a file, and click Open. New Round Brush—creates a brush stroke based on a circular shape. New Square Brush—creates a brush stroke based on a rectangular shape. New Image Brush—creates a brush stroke based on the colour values of a raster image. In the pop-up dialog, navigate to and select a file, and click Open. The new brush is added to the selected category using default settings. To edit the default settings, follow the procedure below from step 3. To create a custom preset brush stroke from a preset: On the Brushes panel, select a brush and click Edit Brush. In the dialog, click Duplicate and then Close. Select the new brush at the bottom of the panel and click Edit Brush. Adjust the settings in the dialog. See Modifying brushes for more information. Click Close. Additional options from Panel Preferences allow you to create, rename, delete, import and export brush categories. Move brushes to any created category by -clicking and selecting a category name from the Move Brush to Category menu option. Custom categories adopt the naming convention 'Brushes', 'Brushes 2', 'Brushes 3', etc.

have you tried removing the drivers and installing the latest drivers, even if you have the latest try removing the drivers and app and reinstall.

Drag icon to the Canvas. Click on the icon and then click Edit Document Embedded icon document opens, while the icon is still selected, click on the 3bar icon to get the Asset Category Dropdown Menu. Click Add from Selection. Icon added to Assets, either close the embedded icon document or do some work on it. \\

Why not export as an SVG and open in Affinity? ¿Por qué no exportar como un SVG y abrir en Affinity?

Image type? PNG, SVG? Upload an example Affinity Designer (ADe) version? Operating System?

The way I demo in this gif I have only 2 layers left so I don't know whether that is better...

There are some shortcoming to using a brush as I have just found out. Scaling the object up totally messes the brushes look and everything goes to pot, to say I was traumatised was an understatement, The Glitch never happened OK? oh and you have to create a large brush to get some vectorness in the brush: My Textured Image Brushes.afbrushes

Another attempt while I wait for a delivery.

I thought a Brush would work quite nicely, I tried a circle but that didn't look right so I tried an oval. and It comes close to the design, it also gives a nice finish on the bottom point of the heart.

@AammppaaNice bit of lateral thinking

A really cool feature for Affinity Photo (APh) would be to save the history as a macro

I have saved this file with history so you can scroll back in the History Panel to see how this was done: SVG Works in all apps.afdesign exporting this to SVG imports to Omnigraffle and Logoist correctly. The main difference with this file is I created the bar as a rectangle not a path, I also joined that rectangle to the inner circle so it becomes a single entity. test 3.svg

I've found 2 apps I use that open the file improperly; Omnigraffle and Logoist3, regardless of which app they are from Affinity or Sketch they both open the file like these... Logoist 3 Omnigraffle.

This is the code for the same image created in Sketch: <svg width="420px" height="420px" viewBox="0 0 420 420" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <!-- Generator: Sketch 49.1 (51147) - http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch --> <desc>Created with Sketch.</desc> <defs></defs> <g id="Page-1" stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"> <circle id="Oval" stroke="#979797" stroke-width="20" fill="#D8D8D8" cx="210" cy="210" r="200"></circle> <path d="M143.489254,192 L277.510746,192 C279.133294,197.890327 280,204.093949 280,210.5 C280,248.88379 248.88379,280 210.5,280 C172.11621,280 141,248.88379 141,210.5 C141,204.093949 141.866706,197.890327 143.489254,192 Z" id="Combined-Shape" stroke="#9B9B9B" stroke-width="20" fill="#D8D8D8"></path> <path d="M110,191 L310,191" id="Path-2" stroke="#979797" stroke-width="20"></path> </g> </svg>