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@augustya I did not use ALT. Just the Move Tool. I’ll make a video a bit later.

Yes, they will also work with V1. Just tried it.

If you are trying to preserve folds, shading, etc. another way to do this is to use FILTERS>DISTORT>Deform, and then create a closed area where you want to move things by making a series of dots with the Move Tool. Then click on each dot with the Move Tool and drag. The image may need some cropping at the end to straighten the edges. Just a thought.

@augustya I may be really stupid, but are you sure your image layer is a pixel layer?

Welcome to the forums @P_Bellefeuille !! Your in-depth knowledge and past experience will be a great asset in these forums as people learn to use the Affinity apps — particularly Publisher. InDesign may have been fine in its day, but for those of us who thoroughly despised the idea of being forced to “rent” our own work from Adobe, when that company changed to the subscription model, I am sure that Affinity was (and continues to be) a breath of elegance and fresh air. I don’t care if there are some things that Photo, or Designer, or Publisher “can’t do” exactly the way they did with Adobe’s stuff. They can do so much so smoothly, and there is almost always a way to accomplish the same thing by different means. Most of all, the developers and support staff at Serif, are uniformly courteous and helpful in an old-fashioned way that has unfortunately widely disappeared in public interactions. The world would be a much nicer place with many more Serifs!!

I can give you a very rough estimate. Each time I have tried something new, or something I didn’t understand while learning to use Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher after years with InDesign and Photoshop (and disliking both) I have made a “HOW TO…” example and printed the page. These are very sophisticated apps, each offering so many ways to accomplish a single result. I now have about 1500 pages of stuff and I am not finished. And new stuff crops up every day, learning more from posted questions in these forums. Can you imagine the problem — if I tried — indexing all that? Or creating a useable table of contents? Even so, since I learn more easily by reading and doing, rather than by watching videos, my reams of paper have served their purpose, although I keep them around for the occasional search. But I don’t suggest it to Serif as the solution — defies logic and common sense.

The crash in the Beta has happened here immediately — four times in rapid succession in Designer Beta (1903) and the first time I tried it in Publisher Beta/Designer (1903). Could be my version of the MAC OS versus yours.

@TrentL Thank you! I don’t suppose I am the only person on Earth who usually learns more rapidly by reading than by watching a video whiz by in a minute or two or three or six. You take the time to show the in’s and out’s with such clear explanations and demonstrations! As I watch there is no hitting Pause, scribbling some notes, then Play, then Pause, etc. while trying to spot “which icon on the Context Toolbar was that?,” or “where is that box he unchecked?” Or etc. I am hugely appreciating your tutorials and the information sticks!!! As for the Knife Tool, it is one of my favorite things about Designer V2, but I easily learned things I hadn’t figured out by myself from this tutorial.

Just testing to see how many filters, adjustments, blend modes, etc I could use before crashing the latest Photo and Designer Betas. Couldn't!

@MmmMaarten It is charming!

You can also do this in Photo quite easily, if you are using the Text Frame Tool, after you have increased your radius parameter and the stroke appears, by changing the Alignment to Inside. Although this will reduce the radius of the text somewhat.

For what it is worth, I am using Big Sur, and all of the V2 apps are performing flawlessly, including the latest Betas 2.2.0.1903. One step beyond Catalina but not venturing into uncharted territory! (At least for me. IOS 16.5.1 (c) did a number on several of my iPad and iPhone settings for which I am not a happy camper.)

No, I wouldn’t logically want to apply the macro to the whole text. Just reporting an anomaly. Why doesn’t the strange issue apply to all macro categories? Or why does it only apply to certain Macros in one category? And why did it crash Photo 2.1.1? Not only that, but if the text layer is above the image layer but beneath the macros layer (not shown in the video) some of the macros (i.e. Charcoal) apply the macro to the text but it still types correctly.

It may be something I am doing, but while testing whether the new Beta is working smoothly with macros, I have found a very erratic — and odd — reaction when using the Frame Text Tool after applying some of the JR Filter Gallery 2 macros to an image. In some cases the macro is applied and subsequent text is fine, in others it causes the text to hesitate as it is being entered. I think the video shows this best. I used only two examples within the macros Edit: Not having tried this before in v.2.1.1, I went back just now. Same thing, but even worse. It ended in a crash and complete shutdown of Photo. Screen Recording 2023-07-15 at 15.31.40.mov category for brevity.

I quoted your comment, because I wanted to keep mine in this same topic, just in case others have been having problems too. Just wanted to report that with the updates today to Beta 2.2.0.1903 in all three apps, the original V1 Parchment Styles (which could not be imported into V2 and V2.1) have just imported perfectly. In fact, the entire Styles Panel is importing almost instantaneously and absolutely flawlessly. I had been having a great deal of trouble trying to import new Styles — often the wheel of death would have to be stopped with Force Quit, only to discover that a new style had actually been imported. At other times, a new Style (not a v1 vintage) would import with only some of the icons visible. At all times the panel was sluggish. Thank you so much for this fix. When 2.2.0 comes out, I predict a lot of Very Happy Campers — er, Customers.

YES!!!!!!

Welcome to the Forums @Joyce D. There is a lengthy document (rather than a video) with many helpful illustrations, written by James Ritson of the Serif staff, which I found exceptionally useful as a starting point. When I did a web search for it just now, I also found a number of other possibilities that you can explore. You might like to check "Jump into Affinity Photo" out. It was written using V1, but other than slightly different icons and more possibilities, you should be able to learn quite a bit about navigating the apps. If you print it out, and then follow along on your MacBook Pro, I predict you will be surprised at how much you have learned!!

I hope you are feeling much better. Picture frames can wait . . . Your health and your transportation are REAL issues!!

Welcome to the forums @krisw8. I am on MAC, using Designer 2.1.1, and the knife tool is working perfectly. I do have Open GL and have disabled Enable Metal Compute Acceleration in my Preferences/Performance settings. If you are on a MAC, could you try checking these settings to see if that helps?

@Return I could not get your method to work, using the quick grid option, but did find that if the Guides are set up beforehand, and Snapping is on, the process is quite easy. Screen Recording 2023-07-09 at 12.42.09.mov

@Return Love it!! So elegant.

@Barry Newman Welcome to the Forums! My son also became a lawyer several years ago. At the time, a medical doctor friend of ours said "In a few years you will never recognise him!" In some ways that is true, but in others not. He still asks "What is the real reason?" just the way he did when he was 4 years old, when we told him to please do something or other, or else.

@R C-R Got! Not as quick as apparently Photoshop does it, but possible, all the same. First set up VIEW>GUIDES with the number of columns and lines you want and the spacing between. Then perform the placing steps plus moving the frames/shapes with the arrow keys held down to approximately the space you want. Then make a vertical marquee selection of each set of frames (top to bottom) and slightly adjust it to the Guides. Each frame will now fit to the horizontal Guides. (If you need to, you can create a group for each, and then drag the outside to fit.) Repeat for each vertical group. Then make a horizontal marquee selection of each line of frames and slightly adjust to the Guides. Each frame can now be made to fit the vertical Guides. Repeat for each horizontal group. Same thing about grouping. Dead-on accuracy. Hopefully, if it is what one wants to use again for another document, one exports it as a template!

Just tried it too. It is a pain in the neck! I have noticed that there is a tiny individual movement each time the picture frame (or shape) moves either horizontally or vertically. If one can manage to get to CMD +1 or CMD +2 while still holding the mouse button down (🙄) one can actually count the movements for one direction, then count the same number for the next direction. Currently, I think eyeing it is easier. If absolute precision is needed, one can place guides afterwards, and individually drag the frames to fit.

@R C-R You are right. I think you would have to place a series of horizontal and vertical GUIDES and then hold the arrow keys down until the frames reach them. I will try it out and see.