Jeremy Bohn

Did you try the 1.9.1 update released today? The beta version is a completely separate app, including settings etc.

Well that's for Serif to figure out and I'm sure they can and will. Designer has the artboard concept that's not in the other 2 apps, I think? At some point each of the apps needs to deviate in places. Why hold back one app feature just because the other 2 can't handle it?

Yes, that! In my work, I often have the same layers but different content on each page. Each layer sort of works as a "category". For example, a background layer and a content layer, which I find really helpful to lock the background down when I need to focus on the content (text etc) or vice versa. Someone else said it here but I'll repeat it - it's about structure.

Exactly. There's no reason to re-invent the wheel here. Most items in the Layers panel are technically not even layers - they are objects. Then when you create an actual layer (it starts off blank) that layer should be global, and appear on every page. Adobe apps go a step further and actually require that objects be bound to a layer, but I don't think it's necessary.

You can turn off the setting for using the command key to rotate the artboard. Check Preferences.

The "colour picker" in the colour panel is not a tool, it just shows you the color that you've picked.

You don't appear to be clicking on the color picker tool, that's why. The tool is in the toolbar on the left, third from the top.

I posted it regarding the Tabs studio because that's where I really started to notice the problem.

Yes, please fix this. When I choose a zoom level, I expect the choice to stick. No tool or other operation should affect the zoom level EXCEPT when I change the zoom level myself.

Day one of using Affinity Photo I looked for a setting to turn it off. It's super annoying. I posted here too.

YES. I had recently posted a suggestion on that specific color tab issue. I tend to use swatches and don't need to mix new colors each time.

This happened to me before. I had to delete the Affinity apps and re-download them from the App Store - not the betas, the released versions. Then open each one and close them. Make sure you keep them in their default locations. At this point, the beta versions stopped asking me for a product key.

In the Account window, the following do nothing when I click the Affinity icon to open it in the web browser: - Free Macro Pack - JR Macros All others work correctly, linking to the website account.

Thanks for that thomaso. That's basically what I've been seeing occasionally.

Okay whoops, I see now that link was missing. As soon as I relinked it, the frame fitting worked. But it does seem odd to me that it couldn't figure things out when it appears that the photo was fine. So this has nothing to do with my original post.