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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.

 

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.

 

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.

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.

Hi @Roter_Rabe and welcome.
Here's one way.
In Publisher, enable View - Show Grid:

Then choose View - Grid and Axis and set up a grid with the Spacing set to your desired 'equal spacing' Here I've used 5mm, not subdivided:

 
Close the dialog, then go to View - Snapping and enable Snap to Grid:

 
Close the dialog and use the Picture Frame Rectangle Tool (F) to design your layout:

 
The shapes will 'snap' to the gridlines to help you maintain the spacing (spot the mistake above).
Once you're happy with the layout, click on each frame in turn, choose File - Place, navigate to your chosen image and select it. Hide the Grid and Margins from the View menu, and check the results:

You can adjust the positioning and size of the images using the Move tool. 
 
 

You have to hit the Close button down in the bottom right of the pane. Your Screenshot shows that you are in the edit/rearange tools panel pane. I forget what it is actually called. There should be a pair of buttons down in the bottom right to allow you to close it.

Arrrg, I just purchased Affinity Photo V2 after seeing Patrick Conner's post about being able to get V1.  I'm stuck on MacOS 10.13.6 indefinitely; there are a lot of us in this situation, can't Serif make V1 available to us, even if in an unsupported form?  It's really important to many new customers!

I often do forget and also have a hard time to find again resources that others or I have contributed over time here in the forum. In former times I've often oriented on MEB's Affinity resources page, which sadly nowadays isn't up to date any longer (probably it's too much work and too time consuming to keep that up to date). - Here are some links to my own resources section contributions, so I have and keep myself sort of an overview for these.
Assets:
A few Paper Effect Assets AI chip logo icon assets Cat-Silhouette assets Common callout assets Hairstyle Assets Halloween I + II Assets Fall assets & styles set I'am Groot - Vector assets Numbering assets OS X El Capitan UI Kit assets Protractors back to school assets  new Ruler back to school assets Some BW arrow assets Some Easter Assets Some Firework assets Some Fruit Assets Some Nicholas/Santa Claus assets Some plain + vintage Badge Assets Some Snowmen vector assets Star Wars - Mandalorian assets Washi Tape assets Xmas cutout assets & sample Xmas silhouettes Xmas cookies/gingerbread Xmas trees vector assets Macros:
B&W play macros Matte Color Macro Rusty Boost Macro Styles:
Div Metal Styles Fabric styles Fall assets & styles set Fire Styles Fur styles 1+2 Knock on Wood Styles Rust Styles Some Metal Styles Valentine texture styles Wild animal texture styles Xmas texture styles 1+2 Tools:
A few Forum Helper Tools (various Python3 scripts) updated afthumbs - Extracting PNG Thumbnails from .afphoto and .afdesign files Affinity Designer Shortcut Mapper  Affinity OpenCL Disabler (Windows tool) A visual shortcuts explorer for Affinity Tools  Delineate - A Raster/Bitmap to SVG Converter Thinning multi architecture Affinity apps under MacOS via Python to reclaim disk space whatFileType - Detects file signatures and tells what sort of file it is Various:
2024 Months Calendar Template & Assets in EN new Calendar day as Affinity template/assets & a daily showup SVG file new Christmas Photo Storyboard Chalk brushes Daily Planner DE/EN localized - Letter (ANSI A) print template Daily Log DE/EN localized - Letter (ANSI A) print template Desk Calendar for 2019 Desk Calendar DE/EN/GR for 2022 Desk Calendar DE/EN/GR for 2023 Prism Desk Calendar 2024 DE/EN/GR new Fall Photo Storyboard Halloween Polaroid Photo Storyboard OS X El Capitan UI Kit Pocketcalendar 2019 Reusing filmstrips as photo borders updated Round Calendar Reminder Stickers Xmas Card & Envelope Xmas cutout assets & sample Xmas FB Cover Xmas mug mockup Xmas Trees And most importantly ...
Quick Tips: for finding Affinity content with Google Search
List of some third party calendar generator tools new
List of some third party vectorization & tracing tools

Here are a few Paper Effects as vector assets (...since some new forum user recently asked me for such things).

The assets file:

paper-effects.afassets A paper effects samples file:
paper-effect-samples.afdesign  
And two curled paper sample files:

 
curled_paper_template.afdesign curled_paper_sample.afdesign  
As mostly all freely reusable, have a nice time!

With the release of V2, Publisher now has ‘word count’ capabilities.
Type word count into the application Help search box to get more information.

The name “AI” doesn’t strike me as even remotely childish. It literally stands for “Artificial Intelligence”, as distinct from real intelligence: that’s what the Turing Test is all about.

Theres a song about this...
"Old McDonald had a real brush AI,AI,NO
and with the brush he made some real art AI, AI, NO
with a real swish here and a real dab there, here a dab there a dab every where a dab dab
Old McDonald had a real brush AI, AI, NO"

It's a piece that you step back from and say "perfect." Just the right amount of thought, design, execution, flair, craft and composition.

@GarryP  Made my day!   

Wow that's some serious cabling, I think that's the right term but by all means correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks very much to all of you who responded and took time to explain the procedure in more detail. I am not sure what I was doing wrong but after carefully studying your screenshots and recordings I have managed to create my collage.
Pete

That picture called to mind my mother taking a good hard look at me when I was in my mid-teens and she said "Well I guess David or Mark is getting a new sweater" I asked her what she meant and she showed me the sweater she had spent six months knitting for me. It was far too small. I had grown about three to four inches since she started it. Can't recall which of my cousins got the 'never-worn' hand-me-down.

@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….

If you select the layer anyway (I assume to get the placed image in the desired layers hierarchy) then you also may use the "Insert inside" option in the Main Toolbar which does the drag-the-image-down directly.
(Unfortunately it is not possibly to place more than 1 image inside this way because the loaded image cursor gets lost if I switch to the Move Tool to select the next shape object. – Maybe it is improved in V2?)

place inside.m4v

Well, they seem to have disappeared completely in Typeface (don't even show up with a de-activated status) but I don't care. Looks like one of the biggest annoyances was solved. Thanks for the hint!

Typeface can do it too. Good to have options. 
 
You can deactivate them in Typeface, but you’ll have to import them manually, takes seconds. 
1. Open Typeface
2. Choose File > Import…
3. Navigate to /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental
4. Import the ’Supplemental’ folder
That folder contains optional system fonts, which can be deactivated by Typeface. It includes the ‘document support’ Noto fonts.
 

Also Typeface can do it. 
 
You can deactivate them in Typeface, but you’ll have to import them manually – takes seconds. 
1. Open Typeface
2. Choose File > Import…
3. Navigate to /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental
4. Import the ’Supplemental’ folder
That folder contains optional system fonts, which can be deactivated by Typeface. It includes the ‘document support’ Noto fonts.

Things might/will possibly change over time ...
Adobes Midlife-Crisis (DE, c't mag 24/2022 Seite 3) ... the above referenced editorial in English (EN) here, via Google translate ...
 

@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….