jmwellborn
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Welcome to the Forums @Maggie21😊 I have just checked. The Basic Panel is not shown if you are in the Photo Persona. You must first change to the Develop Persona (see image below), then you can go to VIEW>STUDIO> and the Basic Panel will be available for you to check. I hope this helps!
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@eejits Your delightful little "Eejits" books, badge, and the Bahoochie card game arrived today, all the way from Scotland in 10 days! A Christmas card I mailed from South Carolina (USA) to New York City (USA) ---a distance of 650 miles -- took 19 days. Amazing. George, your book is charming. All the entries are wonderful. My favorites are definitely Eejitus sphagnum whoosh and Eejitus grimble snort -- both the illustrations and the poem are inspired. (The little knife and fork are such a splendid touch.) And the numbers of inventive little Eejits in the game are a delight. I predict that the gentle whimsy, remarkable drawings, and lovely colors are going to take the world by storm. Even down to those four tiny little fellows on the back cover. Small children should be entranced by the pictures, and their parents will definitely have a slightly r-rated chuckle!
Affinity Designer in the hands of a genius is beyond compare!!
For my own amusement, I had written some doggerel for several of your little creatures over the past several months when bored. I am delighted to know that I wasn't wrong about Eejitus whatyoumeanshareium.
My version, really more for adults than little ones.
This cookie's mine, you silly fool!
Want me to share? The Golden Rule?
Think chocolate chips just grow on trees?
Or in a hive, saved there by bees?
Find your own 'cause I don't care.
Oops, I'm alone. No friends out there?Jennifer
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Welcome to the Forums @Edward Dinep😊 The trial version of Photo does not restrict access to any of the features. Perhaps when you are trying to use the blemish removal brush you are working on a Placed image? If so, you will see in the Layers Panel that the thumbnail of your image will have the word "image" beside it. If you right click on that layer, then go down to check "Rasterize" your layer will now be named "pixel." At that point, you should be able to highlight that layer, select your blemish removal brush, adjust its size in the Context Toolbar, and then click and drag the brush across the areas you want to correct. (When you choose FILE>Open your image is already a pixel image.) I hope this will help.
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@peter Death by bagpipes? Mon Dieu! Them's fightin' words. Bagpipes are the most spine tingling, soul stirring, courage producing sounds ever created by man. As for Scots whiskey only a wee dram of Drambuie can top it. But then I am an umpteenth generation American straight (via a circuitous path or two not limited to but including Culloden) from the Highlands via Lamonts, Murrays, MacDonalds, and MacGregors plus a lowland Scot or two who sneaked at various times into the family tree.🙄
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@Digitally Fearless Nice. The sky's the limit for this non-artist with two thumbs.
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Welcome to the Forums @fritz.schnitzer😊 It so nice to know that you are enjoying Photo, Designer, and Publisher as much as I do! May I offer a suggestion that you delete your email address from any postings that you make? We try to make it as difficult as possible for potential spammers to annoy Forum members. Looking forward to your postings!!
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@Stillwater Welcome to the forums😀 "Who knows what evil LURKS in the hearts of men...(heh, heh, heh) ... The Shadow knows!" That radio program announcement used to terrify small children, who couldn't sleep at night for fear Lamont Cranston would show up in their closets or under the bed. (Shiver, shiver.)
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@eejits Very deep. No, he doesn’t have anything except coal, but with all those deliveries by FedEx, UPS, and who knows who else in this lockdown era, the people who answer the knock at the door are probably expecting something splendid in a package. Poor little fellow!😢
Can’t wait to get the “Eejits,” due to arrive between Jan. 5-20!
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@weegiegrum I am so sorry that you had so many ups and downs and ins and outs with your first book using Publisher! Hopefully it will be like learning to ski -- many slips and slides (first book) before slaloming down the Alps (the books to come)! Designer is wonderful too. And then there is Photo (😀) once you have Designer figured out. And then you will be up and running with StudioLink in Publisher. The sky is the limit! With best wishes for a Happy New Year!
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On 1/16/2018 at 5:25 PM, eejits said:
Here's a lost soul. He's been 'first-footing' around Scotland, hoping to be the first visitor to people's homes after the New Year. Unfortunately, there's no takers for his customary gift of a lump o' coal!
Teehee!!
George
@eejits Happy New Year, George! And by the way, your own poems will be perfect for your little creatures. No-one else could possibly understand them as well as their creator. They are all so alive, so whimsical, and so perfect as they are, that a long "story" might possibly dilute their stunning effect. When the holiday season is over it will be the perfect time to investigate the large book sellers' market in time for next year. Just think! "Eejits" on the "New York Times" best sellers list!! Not to mention being featured in the "Wall Street Journal" section on Literature.
At the risk of being strangled at dawn, here is a last-minute offering for your charming little lost soul with his smudgy face (got any ideas @peter?)
A Lost Soul
A lump o'coal was all I had
to bring this year. I am so sad.This virus thing has done me in —
No pint of ale, no fifth of gin.
No Christmas loaf stuffed in a tin.'Twas coal, just coal, I found for you.
If only you'd believe it's true!Anon.
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21 hours ago, Lagarto said:
I have Nik Collection 3 installed on Big Sur 11.1 on a Mac with an M1 chip, and have the plugins installed under the Photoshop CC 2021 path by DxO installer app (Affinity Photo is not listed as a supported host in this context):
Note too that if you have an M1 chip, you need to force Photo to run in Rosetta mode because NIK plug-ins are Intel-based.
I have tried running Affinity Photo v. 1.8.6 in Rosetta mode on my new Macbook Pro with the M1 chip in order to use a plugin which functions perfectly on my Mac (High Sierra Ph v. 1.8.4). I got as far as 25 seconds of the dreaded bouncing ball before I quit and reset the laptop to ignore Rosetta. Opened Photo again in less than half a second. @jeremyrh will probably need some patience!!
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@Alfred and @peter well here, we are almost done. Alfred has the right solutions for those two stanzas. As for the still-unresolved conundrum, try this:
It’s not as if
He had to clean
That carpet crawling
Needles greenPoetic licence permits omitting unnecessary words 😏. And we are all wildly successful poets, right? The easiest thing with this particular rendition is to hum the original melody. Those 8-syllable stanzas stick out like a sore thumb. (submitted by a sore head? Moi.). Happy New Year, both of you!🙂
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@peter You've almost got it🧐
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That is going to be one sick little kid in short order!
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Welcome again, @P_Monty😀 The tutorials are excellent, and the online Help is really useful. And any time you come upon something that still has you confused, or that isn't working the way you thought it would, do post here in the Forums. (Be sure that in the block called "Title" you enter something descriptive of your issue.) There are so many people here to help and to teach -- they have certainly rescued me over and over again!! Happy New Year!
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@eejits I am so glad you have finished your first book. I have ordered four copies, plus your Bahootchie game and look forward to giving them as special presents. With a few months to go, I hope you will consider a boxed set (4 or 6) of assorted Christmas cards. In the USA they ought to be sold at Barnes and Noble! For a handsome sum.
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@peter as my long-ago journalism teacher would have said “splendid, simply splendid.” If you will pardon me being horridly picky, the trick is to count the syllables of each line to see that they match those of the next. Or that two lines match the total syllables from the one (or two) prior to them. These lines would perfect the meter of your entire work:
“Is ... hard as nuts” (leave out first “as” because it is one too many syllables)
“Another ... tier” (leave out “and” and “new” - same reason - that stanza is then composed of four lines producing two eight-syllable groups) i.e.
“You’ve had enough of Christmas cheer
Face masks slipping another tier”
(count the syllables)The stanza beginning with “it is not as if” employs 8 syllables in the first two lines, and 9 in the third and fourth. If you use poetic license and remove “With” from the last line and say “That carpet crawling needles green” you will not only restore your 8 syllables but get right up there with Shelley and Keats!
The last stanza has 9 syllables in the first two lines combined, and only 8 in the next two. They flow together nicely even so.
No fresh tomatoes around here. With a little sprucing up (no needles please) you will surely become the official poet for the Eejits Christmas Card Collection — premiere launch some time in 2021!!
P.S. I really like your poem!
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On 12/17/2017 at 4:50 PM, eejits said:
i thought it about I created a new eejit, so here's something Christmas-sy?!? Say hello to the newest member of the eejits family: eejitus bah-humbugium A not-so-sweet creature with a disdain for anything festive......
Looking back, I remembered this delightful pre-Covid fellow, and thought he rather represents the world-view these days. So with more apologies to @eejits, here is his ditty. (Maybe)
Well, that was that. Harrumpf -- it's done,
They sang their songs. They had their fun.
The feast has gone, the pud' - oh drat!
Enough I say, they're getting fat.
"Merry..." they cry. I want my jugium.
You want me to smile? Bah Humbugium! -
Welcome to the Affinity Forums, @Option Whisperer
Both Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher will have "a small learning curve like Affinity Photo" for most people. But in my humble opinion it is so worth it!! A suggestion might be to familiarize yourself with Photo, including the many excellent Affinity tutorials, and then when you are feeling comfortable with it, branch out to include Designer in your repertoire! I predict a long and productive Affinity future for you. And don't hesitate to post in these forums if you have a question or are stuck. There are so many highly qualified people here to help. Happy New Affinity Year!
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2 hours ago, Tameez said:
Hi,
I have Affinity Publisher, Photo and Designer and recently purchased the M1 MacBook Air. All three apps used to open and I had no problems. However, since I’ve switched over to the new M1 Mac, both Publisher and Designer won’t open and crash.
Best Regards,
Welcome to the Forums, @Tameez. If you purchased Photo, Designer, and Publisher from the Affinity Store, as I did, you can probably do what I did, and then you will be up and running. I moved each of the three apps from my MacBook to the trash (they had been transferred using Migration Assistant from my iMac) and then went to the website store.serif.com and logged in. From there I then downloaded a fresh copy of v. 1.8.6 for each -- Photo, Designer, and Publisher. They all three now open and function perfectly with my MacBook Pro with the M1. Apparently the problems relate to v. 1.8.6 downloaded from the Mac App Store. I know that @v_kyr has been extremely helpful with those problems!
Both Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher will have "a small learning curve like Affinity Photo" for most people. But in my humble opinion it is so worth it!! A suggestion might be to familiarize yourself with Photo, including the many excellent Affinity tutorials, and then when you are feeling comfortable with it, branch out to include Designer in your repertoire! I predict a long and productive Affinity future for you. And don't hesitate to post in these forums if you have a question or are stuck. There are so many highly qualified people here to help. Happy New Affinity Year!
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