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@PaulEC Ah ha!! I got the same thing, but was thrown off because V2 named it Default 2. Hope @TopRobRoy sees your post for the solution!!!!

So am I, but he attached an .afstyles document.

@TopRobRoy and @Old Bruce I must be missing something. The document TopRobRoy has included is an .afstyles document. Which should be importable in the Styles Panel, but won't. The document Old Bruce has included is an .afpub document, which opens in V.2. But it refers to the Text Styles Panel. Something odd here.

@TopRobRoy I have tried to import your file with both Designer V.1 and V. 2.6.0. In both V.1 and V.2, I can go from IMPORT to FINDER>Downloads where I find your file. But when I click on it, It doesn't download at all on either version! But I have absolutely no problem importing other V1 .afstyles files. If you still have Version 1 do you think you might try exporting that .afstyles file again in v.1 and give it a new, simpler name? Then check to see if you still get approximately 3.6 MB file size. Then post it and I will try again.

@Ron P. I am so glad it worked! When I do a CTRL + Open, I always uncheck everything and press Clear, to see whether I can’t sort out whatever the issue is without changing anything I have previously organized (tools, toolbar, etc.). It almost always solves the glitch. If that doesn’t work, as a last resort I grit my teeth and leave the top three checkmarks on.

I am probably the last person in the civilized world to figure this thing out, but by George, I’ve got it. The “before” picture is one I found in The Times of London several years ago, except that the deer wasn’t there. Instead there was a man wearing a Lumber Jacket, trekking through the woods. Got rid of him, and saved some of the footprints. Subsequently, I found a lovely picture of a deer, standing alone on the top of a very craggy, dreary hill in Scotland. I removed him from the heather and bracken and plonked him into the woods. At which point, he had been shivering away ever since. Yesterday I happened upon “the Orton effect” and figured out how it works. Behold!

@Ron P. and @carl123 I used 2.6.2.3228 Beta to try this. I am not getting that extra prompt here either, and I am on MAC. I tried with the Selection Brush Tool, with the Object Selection Tool and with SELECT>Select Subject. With each process I tested both "New Layer" and "New Layer with Mask" as my selection choice. I then went back to 2.6.0 and tried everything again. Same result. One click on Apply and the selection layer pops up on the Layers Panel. Do you suppose a CTRL + Open on Photo might solve this? Just a thought.

Parkinson’s Law of triviality: at a corporate board meeting the members spend the most time arguing about the size of the wastebaskets.

@Meliora spero which costume designer has lost his data?

I think it may be possible that the developers decided that because there have been numerous occasions in the past where people have not saved their work, but have subsequently lost it when using EDIT IN (whichever) and then reported it on the Forums with a plea for a rescue from Serif, it would be more expedient to require a Save. If it is a "be sure to eat your Wheaties" reminder, I predict that we will get used to it.🤔

@Medical Officer Bones You are slightly in error. Adobe didn't create InDesign from scratch. Adobe bought Pagemaker from Aldus. Pagemaker was a superb product and Adobe renamed it as InDesign and added a few bells and whistles, which for many of us made an unnecessary mess out of some formerly wonderful software. Having used InDesign with loathing (after using Pagemaker) with my publishing corporation, I was thrilled when Affinity Publisher arrived on June 19, 2019 and have used it consistently ever since. Nothing is perfect — but Affinity comes pretty darned close in my estimation. There are real people working very hard to make it better and better, and since I (and I am sure many if not most others using it) am not capable of creating The Perfect Software, I am happy to work around the odd glitch here and there while people at Serif who can, do. Another nice thing about Serif: I haven't had my login identity compromised by hackers as did Adobe a few years ago. Several million people, all forced to scramble, because a company that is so "expert" couldn't maintain proper security on its own website. Didn't enlist much confidence in the brand, especially once they cheerily announced that we would now all have to "subscribe" while they kept all of our work in the cloud. To each his/her own. Perhaps the disgruntled should simply invest in Adobe. Perhaps the happy and optimistic should stick with Affinity, and their elegant and uniformly considerate staff at Serif — My plan.

Maybe it is a MAC thing, but for me, it isn't a round trip. It is all the time. Each time I use EDIT IN (Photo, Designer, or Publisher) I have to Save first. Even if I don't change or modify a thing, I get the message no matter which app I choose. Publisher>Designer or Publisher>Photo; Photo>Designer or Photo>Publisher; Designer>Publisher or Designer>Photo. A new wrinkle is that if I open a new document in Photo and place an Asset on the blank canvas, then select EDIT IN DESIGNER I click on the Save message and get a crash. No recovery file available. Tried it twice. Happened twice. I have the crash reports, in case anybody is interested.

@aspqrz, @Pg two projects, @Glenst0rm, and @Daniel Gibert There is a simple solution that works perfectly for me (see my OS below). If, as I presume, you are using Publisher v. 2.6, just crop your image to include what you want, then change to the Move tool, right click and choose Rasterize and Trim. You will immediately have an image without the extra borders, which you can shrink or grow using the corner handles, or then change if you so choose with the Transform panel. It is a destructive action, but if you change your mind you can always cycle back in the History Panel to remove the rasterization. Naturally you also lose everything that you did after that rasterization.

@VectorWhiz Stunning!!!

@Bobbie Gee I have discovered that using MAC Ventura, there is an easier way to do this. Following @MikeTO's instructions: 1. Select image in Apple Photos 2. Click on IMAGE> Edith with> 3. Select Affinity Photo 2 (or 1 if that is what you have) 4. Repeat MikeTO's steps 4 through 6 7. In Apple Photos you will find that the image is already changed and saved.