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jmwellborn

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  1. 22 hours ago, R C-R said:

    I guess they changed it for macOS 11 (or maybe earlier) but on Catalina when set to list view there is a 4 line button icon that opens a submenu.

    From your screenshot, it looks like for you on V11, the equivalent is the 4 View icons, with the 1st one being icon view, 2nd one being list view & the 3rd one being the Columns view. Not sure what the 4th view is. Maybe a tooltip will tell you more about that?

    Nice to see that I am not dense after all.  Thank you.

  2. "At the top left of the Finder window in recent macOS versions you should see a button icon that looks like 4 horizontal lines. Click on that & you can choose from 3 "Show items as" choices, one of which is "Columns." If you use that you can see very large previews of the documents, albeit one at a time. This also displays more info about the file"

     

    @R C-R  Help.  I must be really, really dense.  There is nothing to the left of the <> Back/Forward option.  Here is what I have on the rest of the Finder window.  Where is the button icon with the 4 horizontal lines?  I am using Big Sur, v. 11.7.

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  3. @Mel-ba  Here is what I did.  The rectangle is filled with white, although it doesn't show in the screenshot attached below.  Step 1 was the Blend Option suggested by @Komatös, although I altered the slider adjustments in the Source Layer Ranges.  The second was the HSL adjustment suggested by @thomaso.  Then, because the background was still a little bit off-white, I added a Levels Adjustment.   I did a Merge Visible, exported the image as a JPEG, and then opened it in a new document, placed a a rectangle shape with a selected color underneath the image layer, then did some Levels and Curves adjustments, plus changing the opacity of the coloured rectangle.  Voila.  Blue background.

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  4. There is no special place in these Forums in which to say how heartbroken we are here in my part of America at the passing of your dear and wonderful Queen.  Your sorrow is ours, your mourning is ours, and your prayers for her eternal rest are ours.  There was never before, nor will there ever be again, anybody like her.  The world is very empty today.

  5. @Glennsart  I purchased the 24" iMac with the M1 chip right after it came out.  I was told by the Apple techs that 16 GB RAM would probably handle anything I could toss at it because of the M1 chip and it has.  I also went for the extra storage.  I have never needed 2 TB, so I opted for 1 TB.  I can have all three Affinity apps open — flipping back and forth between them — plus Safari, plus Photos, plus Mail, plus Finder, plus who knows what else and everything is smo'o'o'o'o'oth.  I don't do gaming or any of the other things that might slow me down.  By the way, I chose Silver.  Very easy on the eyes!☺️   

  6. @Glennsart  I have the 24” with M1 chip and Big Sur.  All three apps (v. 1.10.5) are as smooth as silk.  Incredibly fast, no crashes, no fuss.  Wonderful.  It is the best Mac I have had.  I won’t update to Monterey because I am not so sure about potential glitches.  Haven’t a clue about Ventura, but if you are seriously thinking about a new Mac, it could just possibly be an idea to buy now, before Ventura is installed, and see how it goes first with Monterey.

  7. Several years ago, I was notified by Adobe that, among about 10 million other of its customers, my account had been hacked by outside sources.  I needed to change my credit card, notify my bank, etc. and keep an eye on my credit rating for the next year.  It undoubtedly caused an enormous world-wide disruption.  I was unamused, but stuck with them, because Adobe had bought out Aldus Pagemaker.  Adobe then killed Pagemaker and replaced it with InDesign, and in order to stay current, we old customers had to pay $700.00 for the replacement software.  Fine.  When I upgraded my MAC in 2015, I discovered that I could not install my purchased copy of InDesign.  Adobe refused to recognize my registered serial number.  But I could always subscribe to their silly Cloud program.  So much for a “reputable software company.”

     

    In the meantime, I had clunked along with Photoshop Elements, which I could still install  — unwilling to be suckered into the Cloud subscription to “rent” my own attempts at working with images.  How I hated that software!  Tickety, puckety, back and forth, file this, lose that, try to change this, “what do all those silly little boxes do?”

     

    On a wonderful day in November 2017, I stumbled across Affinity Photo through Safari. It took just three how-to videos to know that here was an elegant company with a truly elegant application.  James Ritson, saying “thank you for watching,” at the end of each video was so gentlemanly and so courteous.   So unlike much of what passes for customer relations in the current era.  I originally bought Photo through the Mac App Store, but repurchased it in March 2019 directly from Affinity, as I wished to have everything “in-house.”

     

    When Affinity Publisher was introduced I ordered it on June 3, 2019, the very first day it was available.  I transferred all of my publications from InDesign (and some iffy other publication software) to .afpub, and have not looked back since.  Publisher has done a spectacular job.

       

    I have learned more than I could possibly have imagined in the last 5 years with the endless patience of so many of the Forum members as they respond to countless questions about the three apps, as well as to the never-ceasing efforts of the Affinity team to make their software better and better.  I have even learned the rudiments of Designer, although it will never make me an artist, no matter how it tries.

     

    So why am I writing this?  Because, unlike the recent postings in Is AFFINITY dead? I believe that Affinity is very much alive and well.  For which we could all be extremely happy.   When I joined the Forums there were approximately (if I remember correctly) 47,000 members.  As of today, there are slightly over 164,000.  That is a 350% jump in people who may potentially post each and every day.  Not to mention the millions of people who are using the apps, who can potentially join at any time.  Serif has a posted list of 60 staff involved with Affinity. This means that if each team member were to spend a bare minimum of 15 minutes per current forum member for an 8 hour day, and if every one of the 164,000+ persons had a posted question requiring attention, Serif would need 5,129 employees just responding on the forums.     

     

    Instead, we should wish that those same 60 very talented people are free to work each day, perfecting the existing apps as well as sorting us out when something is definitely going wrong.  Just like the rest of us, they have been working under horrible Covid-19 restrictions and conditions for the last 2-plus years.  Now, they are probably just as stressed as we are over the current inflationary and highly unsettled state of affairs around the world.  Their consistent courtesies to us all have been nothing short of remarkable.  To say the very least.

     

    Just because “I want this!” or “You want that!” or “Everybody wants such-and-such,” is easy to post, does not mean that because we might not personally be getting just what we want when we want it, and we want it NOW, we are speaking for everybody.  Rather than suggesting that Affinity doesn’t care about its customers or that it is dead, wouldn’t it be refreshing if its customers let the Affinities know, just once in awhile, how much we care about them?

     

     

     

       

  8. @R C-R  Your compromise would be an excellent idea.  It is that first time the app is run that seems to surprise some people (including me back then, having been used to all of the blather that appeared with InDesign) and that first time that a person accidentally hits the Tab key and is faced with a blank screen that has so often resulted in cries for help on the Forums.

    As for common sense, don't know whether I have any, but I did belong to Mensa many years ago, before I got really, really bored with their meetings, where everybody was bragging about how smart they were.  It seemed sensible to stop going.

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