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@chriscaldwell Also, if you click on the little dot beside the slider in the color panel (white in your example) it changes from Opacity to Noise. Then you can move the Noise slider all the way to the left to delete the noise. Two different ways to slay the dragon!

I haven’t tried it with anything before CS6, but apparently the trick is to save the INDD file as IDML, then open it in Publisher. Hope this helps

Spectacular colors!

Welcome to the Forums, Neil! Since there are so many questions about the new upgrades, might I suggest that you post your topic again, but with a new and more descriptive topic heading? I am sure that there will be people who use Windows who will be able to help you, if they spot your question. 😊

Winnie is obviously a free spirit (his right ear). His eyes and the wrinkle above his left eye are wonderful. So alive!

Found 'em! Lovely!! Thank you!!!

Couldn't resist.

Thank you so much @h_d. Thought perhaps I was losing my mind … or what is left of it!! Dark Mode and I are at daggers drawn.

I wonder whether it has something to do with the MAC OS version I am on? I am using Sierra 10.12.6. Anyway, I edited my post above, to include screenshots. Glad you have it worked out!!

@dchristman have you either opened a new document or an existing one? On MAC those shapes are gray if no document is open on your canvas. They should be blue if s document is open. Without a document opened (or new): With a document opened (or new)

@GarryP do you think @inJEANious_671 might not yet have discovered that VIEW>Studio>Swatches Panel includes the palettes? When I was first learning I kept having to remind myself about that. Just a thought?? Think it might help?

I used Pagemaker for years, starting in 1988, and then InDesign after Adobe bought PageMaker and killed it. I then used InDesign for a few years. I am now happily using Publisher, which can do just about anything InDesign can, minus perhaps a bell or whistle or two. There is a slight learning curve, but you should be able to get up to speed quite rapidly. Why not try the free trial version? https://affin.co/publishertrial

@- S - You completely miss the point. The original poster was asking a question about editing images in Photo, not about using the iPad. I edit images in Photo too. And create things using Designer which I turn into images. Whether they are edited on my iMac or my iPad, it is the way to accomplish what is desired, not the hardware on which the deed is to be accomplished which was answered by both @GarryP and @DWright. And since @TessaB is very new to the Forums, it seems rather sad to relegate her to the Users on IPad part of the forums when she may find solutions to many other things she may wish to know in the future. One person's "disdain" is perhaps another person's "suggestion."

Although I have created a macro which is identical to that demonstrated with the Affinity Photo: Macros tutorial, when I try to use it on an image to which the correct crop/straighten steps have been applied, instead of the macro working as set up with the first step LAYER>Rasterize and Trim, when I click on the macro I get a full canvas of transparency. The image also vanishes from the layers panel. But if I crop and straighten the image, and do the LAYER>Rasterize and Trim step first, then click on the macro, the other three steps work perfectly. What am I doing wrong? Since the macro contains the Rasterize and Trim step, why won't that apply? Also, even in the tutorial, the first step is "Rasterize" rather than Rasterize and trim. @James Ritson could you help???

Except that then those of us who don’t use iPads — or very rarely — would not have the benefit of @DWright‘s solution. Which is of decided help to me, at least, and surely to many others who have populated these forums with white background questions in the past.

@dangerous2a Perhaps this may work for you too, and further to @firstdefence instructions, I have tried this way, in case you wish to alternate between single column and 2-column page layouts. I did this without using a master page. Start with a single page, draw a single text frame to fit within your desired margins, and then go to VIEW>Studio>Text Frame and be sure that Text Frame has a check mark beside it. Then open the Text Frame Panel and in the columns section change from 1 to 2 and choose your gutter width. That will automatically change that first page to 2 columns. Place your text file on this first page. Then click on the red arrow at the bottom right of the 2-column page, and your entire document will continue with 2 columns on each page. All properly linked. After this is done, for any page that you want to go back to having a single text frame, click on that page icon in your Pages Panel, highlight its 2-column text frame box on your canvas, and then go to your Text Frame Panel and change the columns back to 1. This way you can go back and forth throughout your document without worrying about breaking the text flow links.

Wonderful expression!

@patamystic It may not work, but if the rusty hinge is clear (and large) enough to isolate into a separate image, you could try using it to create a Style. Then you could simply apply that style to your text. Should match perfectly. @GarryP If this would work, perhaps you could make Patamystic — being brand new — one of your very helpful videos?

With the artistic ability of a flea, and an elderly and very shaky camera hand, but also as a very-retired publisher and author, I have had the most glorious time since early 2017 with first: Photo, and then -- starting with the Betas -- Publisher; and last with Designer. With Studio Link it seemed the fun thing to do to learn all three at once. Maybe "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" and I am most certainly a very elderly specimen, but I have still learned so much and have had a glorious time in the process. It could not have happened without the wonderful people at Affinity who have not only created these beautiful Applications, but who have also been consistently patient, extraordinarily courteous, and so quickly responsive to the questions I (and many others) have posted in these forums. So thank you, @acapstick, @AdamW, @Andy Somerfield, @Ben, @Callum, @Chris B, Dan with the duck, @Dave Harris, @DWright, @Gabe, @James Ritson, @Jon P, @Lee D, @MattP, @MEB, @Patrick Connor, @Pauls, and @stokerg. If I can learn -- anybody can!! There are also so many Forum members who have taught me so much, either by responding to my howls for help, or by helping others. So here is a feeble attempt to create a valentine for you all, using my trusty inpainting brush tool to rid the water of various and sundry floating stuff, one of Multi4G's 80 LUT's (Shade King's Ink at 100% opacity with a blend mode of Pin Light) to alter the swans' originally too-bright orange beaks and to mute the water color, a Live Filter> Unsharp Mask with a radius of 2 px, a factor of 0.5 and a blend mode of Normal to draw out the swans' neck feathers, and most of all, v_kyr's extremely generous envelope.afphoto file, which was so kindly shared with us in the Resources Forum. I know that my image won't fit inside the envelope, by the way. It was fun flipping back and forth between the three apps! Perhaps this is progress, after my original Designer donation over a year ago and about 5 minutes after I purchased that app!. Anyway, thank you everybody, and Happy Valentine's Day tomorrow to you all!

The process on MAC is really simple. Open Finder, choose the JPG you want, right click>Open in Publisher, then in Publisher right click on that Image Layer and unlock the image. You can then do anything you want with it. Please don't throw the baby (MAC) out with the bathwater!!😢

They are all charming. Especially the little garlic! So whimsical.

Perhaps you should first wait for version 1.8. Also, instead of checking with the Windows Store, why not just look on the Forum for News and Information. As for daily updates, it seems rather unreasonable to expect that the Affinity developers should send out a daily or weekly tweak to Photo, or Designer, or Publisher, before they have thoroughly checked for the integration between the three apps. After all, StudioLink is one of their great innovations. As for me -- and I suspect many hundreds of thousands of other happy users of these wonderful apps -- when the three Affinity apps are ready for the next update (v. 1.8), I will be very glad to have it. In the meantime, I can always find a "workaround" that does the job, without having to "rent" my own creations from a behemoth like Adobe, who could care less about anything but how much the company can extort from its captives. As for the "payment/business model" offered by titus 01UNIT, it might possibly be better for people who prefer that to stick with Adobe. As for the rest of us, I would be willing to guess that we are delighted with the pricing plan. Just a thought on a cold winter day.

@Dan CWilson to the rescue!!

Looks to me as though Nessie is just beginning to surface in the original image. Never can be too careful!🦕

@Frozen Death Knight that is one fearsome fellow! If the knight isn’t very careful, his steed is going to make a run for it, minus the bridle! Never mind. Nice horse -- even though his right foreleg might be a tad long. But who am I to quibble? Can't draw a straight line with a ruler!