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Ah. Sounds nice! Bon appetit!!!!

You have lost me on this one. I am an American, and haven't a clue about millimetres. I do know that cookie dough only 1/12th (plus or minus) an inch thick (or 1/2 of a pica!) would never make it from the counter top to the cookie sheet. Too thin. Further, that cookie would burn in very short order in the oven. Got to have thicker dough, when rolled out! Are we having fun yet??

@CleanLivin I just did this in Photo 2, but if you don't have that, then Photo 1 would work the same way. I don't have a tablet, but I have an occasional tremor in my writing (left) hand, so use my right hand with a mouse. The "signature" I made for the sample was using a Basic brush with a hard round setting. I should have worked harder to make it look less wiggly. You would definitely do better with your tablet. Here is what I did. 1. Open a new document, drag out a rectangle Shape. Give it a white fill, so it won't disappear on the canvas. 2. With the Brush Tool, write your signature in black. 3. Change to the Move Tool (black arrow), click on the Layers Panel to highlight the rectangle layer and then on the canvas, reduce the size of the white rectangle layer so that it just contains the signature. 4. Highlight the signature layer only in the layers panel. It should be on top of the rectangle layer. 5. Export > PNG > Selection only. You should have your signature in black on a checkerboard background. See the first screenshot below. Save it with an identifying name (i.e. "my signature"). Now when you want to add this to your work, just create a new document (FILE>NEW) with the dimensions you want (sample in the third screenshot shows 14 x 12 inches "my letter*"). I just wanted to show you how you determine the size of your document. If you don't have rulers on your workspace, click on VIEW on the top menu and be sure that Show Rulers has a checkmark beside it.Then go to FILE>Place and choose the photo that you want to place. You will get a funny looking icon which doesn't show up on your Tool Panel. It is used to place the photo. Just drag with that across your canvas and the image will appear. Adjust the placement of your photo by using the Move Tool. When you have your image where you want it, go to FILE>Place again, and locate the signature file you created (steps 1-5.) Use that funny looking icon again to place the signature on your image. There will be a blue bounding box around it. You can use the corners to make your signature larger or smaller. Click in the middle and you can drag the signature to any place you want over the image. The little blue line at the centre of the top part of the border has a white circle at the top. If you want to tilt your signature you use that little white circle to do so. I hope this helps!

I set my Mac to the very same User Preferences, except that I used Icon Style Colour, with the same result as @loukash. Very hard to read.

@AdamStanislav Ah ha!! My sugar cookie dough is rolled out to a 1/4 to 3/8" thickness for cutting. Otherwise those Christmas tree branches, points on stars, and heads on snowmen would fall off before they reached the cookie sheets. Don't know about millimetres, but isn't that 6.35? If your cutter has a total thickness of 4 millimetres, then isn't that about 1/8" thick? My snowmen would turn into headless goblins! The jello suggestion was actually just being whimsical, by the way. I do like the shape itself!

@AdamStanislav In theory it is a wonderful idea. In practice (and I should know because in years of yore I have baked about 3,000 cookies that needed cutting first) the edges need to be sharp. Otherwise the cutter will be gummed with raw dough stuck in every point. Your plan is very clever, though. Maybe a jello cutter?😊

@SeymourWillys Welcome to the Forums! It is charming. I love the waves on the wiggledy ocean!!

@Wayne Burrows I am so glad that you are on your way. When you have some extra time, do go through the Resources section of the Forums, per @Komatös posting above. There are masses of free styles categories that have been contributed by Forum members, which you can download and then import to Designer (and Photo and Publisher). Do scroll through page after page in the Forum. You will be very surprised. Now that we are in the holiday season, you might try putting “Christmas trees” in the Forums Search bar. You should find @v_kyr’s magnificent Assets there. (If the Assets Panel isn’t showing, go to WINDOW on your menu bar, and put a checkmark beside Assets.) The panel should pop up on the left Studio. You download Assets in the same way and import them into your panel the same way as you do with Styles. Once there in your Assets Panel, you simply choose a tree icon and drag it over to your canvas. (This was the first happy surprise I discovered the day I bought my first Designer V1. something, a few days before Christmas that year.) Hope you learn to love Designer as much as I love all three!! Edit at 13:24 hours: Here is how to find the various panels which you may wish to put on your workspace. Note that both the Left Studio and the Right Studio should have a checkmark. Another tip. When you have your workspace arranged the way you would like it, you can add a Preset so that each time you open Designer, everything will be lined up the way you want it. (Or if you move some panels, then lose one or two, you can quickly restore everything the way you would like.) You click on WINDOW>Studio>Add Preset and a little popup window will appear, asking you to name your preset. You can make as many presets as you would like. As you can see, I have the very boring title of "my generic setup" as my first chosen preset in Designer.

If you are both using Publisher, if you export via PDF from your V2, couldn’t your friend open the PDF in Publisher V1, as “editable?” I am on my IPad right now, but will try that here a bit later today to see if it will work. Edit: 13:54. You can. Just tried it. I first used Publisher 2 to open a copy of an 18-page all text .afpub document, which had been created with Publisher V. 1.10.5. I fiddled around with the number of lines per page, and changed the font from Regular to Bold in a few places. Exported it as PDF for Print. All Pages. Opened the PDF in Publisher V 1.10.5 and set the parameters as shown in my screenshot below. When the file opened, everything was there where it belonged. I then rearranged some of the lines per page, and changed the Bold portions back to Regular. Worked fine. I could have added more text or deleted some, but I didn't bother. Saved the file as an .afpub file. Then I went back to Publisher 2, opened the newly saved V1.10.5 .afpub file. It opened perfectly and was entirely editable. I also tried this with 2 pages from a 24-page chapter of another book that has a great many images. This time I needed to link all of the images, so I was able to do quite a bit of work replacing images in picture frames and selecting the various properties to fit. Also changed some captions and moved some images around on the page. Again I exported those two first pages as a PDF. They opened perfectly again in Publisher v. 1.10.5. And I was absolutely able to edit anything I wanted. My conclusion is that unless you have used StudioLink and have created something in either Designer 2 or Photo 2 that is not a part of V1's repertoire, you can easily edit/alter/add/delete/ or whatever you and your friend could wish to do, using this procedure. Just one little step added. I hope this helps!

@Mindsome Extraordinary!

@monzo I would definitely suggest that you purchase the Universal App from the Affinity website. My Photo2, Designer2, and Publisher2 are all performing without a hitch or a glitch. They came from the Affinity website. And if you do decide to purchase, be sure to keep your V1 on your Mac until you have installed V2. That way you can choose the option to Migrate Content from V1.

@Gregory-CJ I am getting instantaneous responses with the Liquify Tools, both using the Liquify Persona and the new Live Filter feature in V2 (New Live Filter>Distort>Liquify). All tools work with exceptional speed and fluidity. I can Save, Export, and Import very quickly too. I am using Big Sur, which may be different than your OS. The one thing you may not have tried is a fix described by James Ritson. In your System Preferences>Display turn off Automatically Adjust Brightness. That could very conceivably speed up your Mac. Worth a try!!

If you are perfectly happy with Gimp and Inkscape then why not just use them? Personally I am thoroughly enjoying all of the new things in Photo2, Designer2, and Publisher2. To each his/her own.

All panels for Palettes, Text Styles, and Assets populated with the same categories, etc. as in Publisher 2. Only 2 Style categories appeared. Re "Light UI Improvements" the clear white background for the Styles Panel and the crisp black text is very much appreciated! Just wish we had the same thing for the Layers Panel. It would be wonderful if the Layers Panel could be as clear as the Styles Panel. The Layers panel is quite difficult to work with; dim colors and badly faded layer names.

Welcome to the Forums! Could you please let us know which operating system you are using? Windows or Mac?

Don’t know about Windows, but be sure that you have backup files for your V1 add-ons first! BRUSHES, ASSETS, STYLES, MACROS, PALETTES. A clean system means a clean install, means default entries in all of those Panels. “Forewarned is fore-armed.”

This may have already been reported, and is not urgent, but two of the icons in the Photo 2, Help, Quick Start Guide (Workspace, Photo Persona Tools) are incorrect. The Guide uses the Gradient Tool icon for the Flood Fill Tool - it should actually be the bucket icon The Guide shows a Gradient Tool icon which is not in use. It should be the icon that is shown as the Flood Fill Tool. Examples: Quick Start Guide on the left; Tools Panel, Photo V2 on the right

@kamelus Spectacular! Could be a bronze sculpture!

@GarryP OH my! No system requirements for Mac. How can I put this on my Christmas Wish List to find the 50 morphing objects?😏

When you try Save or Save As, have you first checked “Save History With Document?” If not, could you try creating a new document, add some content, and then save this way, then see if you can open it and make changes?

Welcome to the Forums! You can continue to use your V1 apps as long as you choose. And you may have noticed that a new update (v.1.10.6) has been announced today in these forums. However, V2 is not an update. It is an upgrade of the three apps with many new capabilities, and improvements. As such, Serif should no more be asked to provide all of their development work and creativity at no charge, than Honda Motors should have been asked to hand me a brand new Honda Accord with all sorts of new bells and whistles, when my previous Honda Civic was in perfectly good condition. It was my option to pay for the upgrade or keep the older car.😊

Perhaps you could send an email to affinity@serif.com to ask for their help in sorting this password problem. But please be patient while waiting for an answer. As noted in the red banner at the top of these Forums sections, the Serif staff is swamped with questions. In the three weeks and two days since V2 was launched on November 9, almost 5,000 people have joined the Forums for the first time, along with the 164,000 already here, with comments, questions, and general discussions. Also, in case it may be of any help, here is what one Forum member did to solve his verification problem.

@DarkClown I may be the village idiot, but can't you just group your three curve layers to a single object? Then if you want to use it as a logo, export your group as a PNG so that you have a transparent background?

In your case, let's have many more examples of your artwork! I love those tiny stars so far away, and that huge moon!

Looks like it to me too. The C.I.A. and MI5 could definitely use you!!😎