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Welcome to the Forums @OliverBuckland and @harsadamar !! It is so nice of you both to bring this to everybody's attention by adding to the original comment made in 2017. So that others can see that the subtitles have now been added, I have added (solved) to the Topic Name so that others may also notice that the subtitles are there.

Very elegant, @GarryP. Your method creates all sorts of possibilities.

@GarryP I had no success whatsoever when I tried your step 3. "People can change the gap between the ‘disk sectors’ (“segments” are a different thing, mathematically) without needing to add a stroke (which might ‘get in the way’ later) by manipulating the Tooth Size and Notch Size and using the snapping available within the tool." It worked beautifully to create a perfect gap between each segment. But it made it impossible to create curve layers thereafter. It did remove the inner circle, but left two layers: one layer with the circle, above another layer with the cog. There were no curve layers at all. I tried several times, in Photo 2, Designer 2, Photo 1, Designer 1, and the Betas. Nothing. With the Notch size and Curvature set at 0% (as specified by @ChrisProton) I was easily able to use your Step 2, which works perfectly. There were now 14 curve layers and each was able to be removed and/or coloured any way I like. So I could not access the appropriate Context Toolbar options again to adjust those cog shape settings. Dragging each curve layer to create a gap worked, but was a "drag." Using an Outline effect (FX) on each curve layer was too, but had far better results (as long as one wants a border around the entire segment). What have I missed?

@firstdefence it would be very nice if you could add your very sensible Books category addition to the Feedback and Suggestions section! Old (users, not persons) and wise hands are far more likely to achieve results than those very few who occasionally enter the forums to howl and threaten. A Books category would be much appreciated here, as I work on my books. In Publisher.

You are very welcome. Lots of new things in V2!!

Welcome to the forums! The new location is WINDOW>PAGES. All of the panels have been moved there from VIEW>STUDIO. You will find some panels as extensions, such as TEXT>

@v_kyr Lovely!! Merry Christmas and peace on earth!

@smadell Nothing so sensible as Clip and Unclip around here. I am creating my own hard copy versions of HOW TO . . . In Photo, Designer, and Publisher. I learn far better with written instructions than with videos, and find that after I have done this, the solution “sticks.” Usually. So when I am going to work on something new — to me — I place an image for my example so that I will have space around it to start writing the steps I have taken to achieve the desired result. If I am simply working with an image to restore it (thousands of old slides) and hundreds of iPhone images, I should just open them. Old habits die hard!! Maybe 2023 will finally bring me into the 21st Century. 🙃

I usually place images instead of opening them, because I never know what goofy thing I am going to do with them beforehand. It has become a habit. I like that picture too. It is from 1973, taken with an Olympus OM1 camera (the old-fashioned kind) and developed as a 35 mm slide. Scanned in recent years and adjusted in Photo.

@smadell What an elegant Christmas gift to us! Thank you so much! And thank you also for the PDF file. Your instructions are beautifully detailed so that they are a breeze to understand. On my first attempt, I immediately discovered that FILE>Place won't work. (My usual route.) FILE>OPEN is the way to go. But with that sorted, here is my first attempt. Apple trees in bloom on a cloudy day in May.

Time to bump these up again. They are so lovely!!

Almost all of the panels in the Light UI are now wonderfully easy to read in 2.0.3, and very much appreciated! The Layers Panel is still very dark, and has a very strange characteristic. Unless one changes the name of each layer, the words are very dim and grey. But just double-click on the name and even if it is the same, the replacement name will be a nice clear DARK black. (This is also the case in Designer and Publisher.)

@DGeeAll three downloaded perfectly here just now by opening each app and responding to the popup notice.

Five hundred cookies and 128 rum buns out of the oven (not all at once) and here is my feeble attempt at a Christmas card. Since I couldn't draw my way out of a paper bag, I decided to use the Paper Cut Woodlands Assets with Designer 2 and the wonderful Warp Group, for this year's magnum opus. Hooray for the eye dropper! Thank you to all of the wonderful people at Serif who have worked so hard to give us all the new things in the three V2's. And best wishes to everyone for a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

I think you are both right. Too much effort spent in trying to get the beta downloads of Photo 2 and Publisher 2 to stick, and too little time spent on an actual test document in Publisher 2 Beta. I was checking to see whether an earlier bug in the Text Styles panel had been fixed (it has) with creating a new style, and used the little icon on the Context Toolbar, rather than opening the Text Styles Panel. Had I gone the long route, I would have spotted a number of my own styles. Needless to say, it is my own spelling error. Back to baking rum buns.

@erdemoo welcome to the Forums! Please be patient. This is a weekend, and even the Serif staff are entitled to a little time with friends and family. They have all worked extraordinarily hard for so long, and do deserve a little time off. Someone who can help you will surely respond during the coming work week. Unfortunately I cannot help, as I am using Macs. I hope you will not give up so easily on Photo 2. It is wonderful, once you are up and running.

Just found this when attempting (unsuccessfully) to add a "See" reference. I don't know whether I am late at the post, but thought I should report this, just in case. "caption" is incorrectly spelled as "caaption." Is it possible that this error is across the board (Windows, Mac, iPad)?

Nice to hear. Don’t hesitate to post on the Forums with any questions you may have, or when you are stuck, as you become familiar with Affinity. The learning curve gets easier each time as you learn new things. @firstdefence , @thomaso , @Old Bruce, and @Palatino are four of several people who have sorted me out over and over again as I went from “total idiot” to “maybe she’ll get there some day.” Always patient and always kind. I hope you will quickly learn to enjoy the Affinity apps as much as I do!! Merry Christmas! Jennifer

If you have many Styles, Brushes, Palettes, Assets, and Macros in your V1, you may want to have them automatically installed in your new V2. If so, be sure to at least keep your V1 long enough so that when you open your V2 for the first time you can accept Migrate Content. It is painless this way!!!

@GarryP Made my day!

@firstdefence To be perfectly honest, I really do know how to knit. But I couldn’t compete with your Aunt no matter how hard I tried. My latest effort….

Your image is about one trillion times better than my sorry conglomeration! I can create the child layer either way. Like yours better! Think I'd better take up knitting!!

@hubbsy Welcome to the Forums! I have made a perfectly hideous collage with whatever popped up on my desktop, but never mind that. Here is how you can do this. First make your rectangle shapes and separate them to your desired width on your canvas. Then fill them one at a time, as I have shown in the video. The trick is to click on one rectangle, drag an image on top of it on your canvas, then go to the layers panel and slowly drag the image down to the very right of the thumbnail of the rectangle, so that you will see a very faint vertical blue bar on the very right of the thumbnail. If you will look at the video, I have hesitated there so you can visualise it. Then click on the little v arrow to the left of the thumbnail for the rectangle layer and that will show both layers. You can then click on the child layer containing your image, highlight that layer and then adjust your image inside the rectangle. I started the video with some of this already done. When you have your rectangles filled, create your ellipse, and give it a STROKE (Context Toolbar) width that suits. Color the stroke black, for the time being. Place your final image over the ellipse, and then on the layers panel repeat the steps you did for each rectangle layer. Now click the little v to the left of the Ellipse icon on your layers panel, and right click Group. With the ellipse group selected, drag it on top of the four filled rectangles Adjust the size and location. Then go up to the Context Toolbar, and in the Stroke color box, change the color from black to white. If you want to change the width between the various rectangles, repeat the grouping step for each rectangle, so you can drag both image and container at the same time. I hope this helps visualise what @Palatinohas so neatly explained, except that it looks as though he is using V1, whereas you and I are using Photo V2, so that the dragging location is a wee bit different. Screen Recording 2022-12-14 at 14.38.53.mov

@cgidesign This is on the Affinity home page, under Photo. The offer would be the same in the Designer or the Publisher section. So you have some more time to test after your new parts arrive. On my Mac, V2 is lightning fast and no glitches. Photo2, Designer2, Publisher2 from the Affinity website, not the Mac App Store.

@Wayne Burrows "How do I go about populating 'Assets'? Or is it really necessary?" Assets are very personal. Often it is really handy to have things readily available on your workspace, rather than digging through one's backup files somewhere in the recesses of one's computer to find just the right thing. One nice thing about an Asset is that you can double click on the little icon and then move over to your canvas and drag your mouse to size the asset any way you like. If you single click on the little icon instead and then drag over to the canvas, you may get one huge layer (depending upon the individual asset) which you must then resize. Just for fun, here is my Affinity Cats asset, which you might like to download and try importing into your Assets Panel, just to see how it works. Click on the little hamburger icon at the top right of your Assets Panel, and choose Import Asset. Then go to your Download location and click on the Affinity cats.afassets file. You should now have a new Asset Category "Affinity Cats" in your Assets Panel. The cats, by the way, are the three cat shapes Affinity formerly used. You can colour them any way you want, or apply a style to them, just the way you would with a Rectangle Shape, an Ellipse Shape, etc. Affinity cats.afassets Here is what a much-populated Assets Panel can look like (personal choice). Many of these were very generously offered here on the Forums in the Resources section.