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@mangauniversity and @Raf23 You could try going to your Apple System Preferences> DIsplays> and turn off Automatically Adjust Brightness. This definitely helps with lagging and spinning beachballs. It might also help with your crashes. James Ritson has a lengthy forum post about this. Sorry I can’t find it at the moment. I will try, and then add it to this post when I locate it. Located.

I am not on my Mac at the moment, so cannot test this, but could you try opening Time Machine, go back several days before you downloaded V2, and then see if you can use Spotlight? If so, enter .afphoto and see if you get a screen with all of your photo files. If so you should hopefully be able to restore them. Then do the same by entering .afdesign. If this works it won’t matter that the logos don’t show. This may be impossible. Hopefully it will work!

@Gail Eberhart Welcome to the Forums! Nothing so sophisticated as the solution provided by @firstdefence! (am I on the right track?) If your earring shape is a vector object, then perhaps these are two other ways. You can copy the two Curve Layers (shown in the video) and paste them into any other document, or you can make them into a pair of Assets. Note that each tear drop layer has to be its own asset. Drag your earring and background shapes on the canvas from the Assets Panel. For the fill layer, select the Gradient Tool, then on the Context Toolbar, select Bitmap from the "Type" box. Navigate to your files where you have your background patterns, select one and Open. It will fill the teardrop shape (example on the right). You can then use the "handles" to move your background pattern around. From there you select the two layers and put them together. If you have saved your background patterns as Styles, then you just click on the fill layer, click on your chosen Style (example on the left.) You can also do this from the layers panel, as shown in my video. After you have created the two shape layers, click on both layers and go up to the Context Toolbar and click on the Geometry option DIVIDE. That gives you the teardrop shape with the hole in the middle. I hope this helps! Screen Recording 2022-11-29 at 15.18.07.mov

Welcome to the Forums! Could you please log on to the Serif Store, enter your user name and password, and then in the screen that opens, scroll down to the entry for your purchase (Photo Designer Publisher or Universal ?) You should find your product key(s) listed there. Note, the example I have shown does not show the order number, or my own product keys. Hope this helps!

If used as the final step in preparing an image for export and use elsewhere, your solution is wonderfully elegant!

@dpeddicord You are very welcome. I am so glad you have your Styles again!

@NotMyFault Works like a charm!!

@dpeddicord Welcome to the Forums! When you opened V2, was there a window which asked you if you would like to migrate your content from V1? Did you check that? Did all of your brushes, assets, and palettes migrate to your V2? If so, then if you have saved your V1 you will be better off exporting your styles from V1. (This is because you would get a second copy of everything if you followed the steps described in the second paragraph below.) It will be a tedious process because you can only export one Style category at a time, but you can go to the V1 Styles Panel hamburger icon, select Export Style, and save each category on your desktop. If you create a Folder for these, then when you are finished you can close V1 and open V2. Of course, if you have a backup folder already with all of your Styles, then you are well ahead in the process. The good news is that you can import more than one Styles category at a time into V2. I recommend no more than 5 categories or so at a time, though, because depending upon how intricate your styles may be, you could be looking at the beachball of death for long enough (a minute or two) that you may think you have stalled out. Be patient. If you did not check the migrate content option, then you should be also missing your brushes, assets, etc. as well. There is an easy way for you to try again. Close your V2 application. Then hold CTRL while opening it again. Release CTRL after the app opens. There will be a Reset Menu. Untick all options. Then click on Reset Content Migration Prompt and then hit Clear. This should force the prompt to appear again. This should make it possible to import all your brushes, assets, styles, and palettes, from V1 — again if you have saved your V1. I hope this will help!

@Stepaan Both DAUB Bristles and DAUB W&W Bristles are also working perfectly on my MAC. As are every DAUB category I have tried.

Very reasonable. Thank you! Here is what I get on my Mac now. With Visibone 2G the best alternative is with 16 blocks. With Visibone2 the best is 18 blocks and the colors are much more scattered.

@2good Welcome to the Forums! Your addons should transfer to V2 in all three - Photo, Designer, and Publisher. When you open the New V2 for the first time you should see a prompt which asks you if you would like to migrate content.

@eddietheone There should have been a prompt asking you if you wished to migrate your content from V1 when you first opened V2. If you did not migrate your brushes, assets, styles, macros, and swatches from Photo 1 to Photo 2 when you first opened it, you can close Photo 2. Then hold CTRL while opening Photo 2 again. This will make a reset menu appear. Uncheck all of the options. Then only check RESET CONTENT MIGRATION PROMPT and click CLEAR. You should then have the prompt to choose to migrate from your Photo 1. NOTE: If you had already installed any files in any of these categories from V1 to V2, you will get duplicate files. I am not sure this will work for plugins, however.

@drkanukie Doesn't come out the same way here. Top row: 20 squares on the left, 19 squares on the right. Bottom row: 18 squares. Fewer squares are just a jumble of colors. Anyway, 20 squares is pretty workable. Thank you!

You are welcome! I like those two very much!!

And here is a Kool Kat. Maybe. Or since he is switching his tail, a . . . the possibilities are limitless.

@fde101 Maybe it is the proverbial Wall Street "Fat Cat." For anybody who is interested, there have actually been four Affinity Cats. Here is an Asset for three of them in case anybody would like to have a choice of one of the older felines. Affinity cats.afassets

Mine looks very different from yours. Is this how it is supposed to look on Mac?

@Songbird12 I have made you a Styles folder from the images that you posted, using the procedure I described in my first post and the video. If you like it, you can import the category into Designer, or Publisher, or Photo, or all three. Just download the attached Songbird12 fabrics.afstyles file, then go to your Styles Panel, click on the hamburger menu, and click on Import Styles. Navigate to your Downloads folder, check OPEN, and the new category will appear in the Styles Panel. Give it a few minutes, in case you get the coloured beach ball, because your files are quite large. If you are using the V2 apps, you can link the category so that it will appear in all three apps. It took a little while to import the JPGs and export them to PNGs, but it really wasn't that onerous! Hope this will help. Songbird12 fabrics.afstyles

@PaulEC We are “great minds on the same path.” @Songbird12 will have to create these swatches as Styles, if the purpose, as stated, is “to color other boxes, triangles, etc.” with the patterned images posted here. And no, there is no way to create multiple swatches (or Styles) at one go by clicking on a folder containing a bunch of images. I tried it. Not possible. Hopefully, once Songbird12 makes a few Styles, the procedure won’t seem so onerous.

@PaulEC How did you turn that into individual swatches with the various fabric patterns visible? In Publisher it was easy to place all of the images in the picture frames, but turning the entire thing into a palette of figures vs. solid colors is beyond my pay grade! 😕

Not from a Folder. But from a group of individual images in a folder. And if your color swatches are solid color. First make a document that includes all 20 swatches, being sure that there is no white space between the different colors. You need to do this so that Designer (or Photo or Publisher) doesn't interpret the white spaces as more colors. Group all of the layers. Export this as a PNG, so there is a transparent background. Then repeat the steps I showed you in the attached video. Be sure to move the slider to the exact number of swatches (i.e. 20). Please note that the RGB values of each of the 20 swatches may be very slightly different than those in the placed image. This will take a little work, but it is easy to do. Open your image from which you made the palette, then for each color, drag out a Shape, fill it with that color, then use your color picker on the Swatches panel to test the color of the Shape and the color from the image. Example below. You can then right click on the color in the Swatches Panel, choose Edit Fill, and correct the colors (I have corrected them in the image below). This is a bit fiddly, but it works. Screen Recording 2022-11-21 at 10.51.09.mov

@Ldina Beautiful! Couldn’t have created this if my life depended upon it. That said, is it just me, or is the shadow of the fingerboard from the opposite light source than those behind the strings?

I does work for me. It is perfectly possible that @aswsimpsonmight have missed it, since it is greyed out.

@aswsimpson Just so you don't have to go through all of the posts in the ultimately very helpful solution in the link shown above by @markw, here is what seems to have been the relevant solution for several people who had the same issue.

@aswsimpson Have you checked your Preferences? In each app, click on Affinity Photo 2, (or Designer or Publisher) at the very top of your screen, select Preferences from the Dropdown menu, then choose User Interface. Look for the UI Style and click on Light button. You may want to adjust your sliders to suit your preferences for the level of whiteness you wish. This should make it possible to see what is on your desktop much more easily. I hope this helps.