[Affinity Designer opens and then closes alone]

Happy to hear it! If you do discover which specific font is causing the issue then please do let us know so I can inform our developers  

[Affinity Designer opens and then closes alone]

I see, do you have a font manager installed? Could you provide me with the fonts that you have, so I can test them here for any incompatibilities? You can upload them to the link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/Ge6F9LPyTaHY4BDTsKem

[Designer Files no longer associated with Designer]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

I have no idea how there could be anything in the badged folder with that name other than .afdesign files that would always open from iCloud Drive in Affinity Designer.

Me neither currently! Equally as strange is that one .afdesign file is marked as an Affinity Designer Document under Kind in the video, and the other is marked as an Affinity Openable. I'm more of a Windows man myself, have you seen this before in MacOS?

[Affinity Designer opens and then closes alone]

Obrigado, por favor me avise. Já tivemos relatos de que certos gerenciadores de fontes ou um número excessivo de fontes instaladas podem causar falhas no Affinity, você sabe quantas fontes você instalou?

[Affinity Designer opens and then closes alone]

Thanks for that, could you please check the following list to see if you have any of these programs installed?

Do you have a font manager, or a large amount of fonts installed on your machine?

[Affinity Designer opens and then closes alone]

Hi airtonmaia

Sorry to hear it! Are you running the standalone versions of the software, or do you have them installed through the Microsoft store?

When the apps are closing, do you see any error messages at all?

If you right click on a compatible file (such as a .afdesign, jpeg etc) and open with Affinity, does the app open correctly or crash?

[Designer Files no longer associated with Designer]

Hi gregspiral

I've never seen anything quite like in your screen recording with our files, I'll certainly keep an eye out for this with the Publisher beta and if I can replicate the issue I'll make sure our dev team are aware.

In the meantime, you can right click on an .afdesign file, select Open With > Other... then choose Affinity Designer from the list and select Always Open With at the bottom of the window. Hopefully this will fix your defaulting program!

12 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Select (in the finder) an Affinity Designer file and get info. Where it says Open With select Affinity Designer and then hit the little Change All... button.

Unfortunately this isn't possible for them, as in the provided video the Mac Apps list isn't allowing him to select Affinity Designer before selecting Change All!

[RAW Suport Lumix GX9]

Hi Vinther

We've got no official eta currently for a RAW engine update, although I'm certain our devs are working on it.
Unfortunately this means I can't current provide a guarantee for specific cameras, or a release date at this time, my apologies.

[Docking studios]

Hi MickRose

Please see the following -

[Pencil 2]

Hi Oval

Our devs have confirmed we'll implement some double tap functions, but no word on quadruple taps yet! Once we've got our hands on one we'll see what we can do

[Affinity Designer for iPad/Mac]

Hi Bonnerway,

Welcome to the forums

I'm happy to confirm that that work can be transferred between platforms, check out the following video on interworking for more! (Designer and Photo work similarly )

 

[Affinity Photo crash in open]

I wasn't aware of this, but I've done some research and it certainly does seem to be the case. We can't replicate this on our build here, but it appears to only be affecting some users.

Could you please try following the suggestions at the following link? Hopefully this should resolve the issue  

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-networking/microsoft-edge-and-other-microsoft-store-apps/75ac54dd-cd56-41d8-a205-7948e54f39be

[Sharp pixels then using mask with inward stroke]

Unfortunately we've got no eta for when precise clipping may be implemented into the iPad version of Affinity Designer, my apologies.

[Partial Image (RAW)]

Thanks for that info, unfortunately the Fujifilm X-A10 isn't compatible with Serif Labs RAW engine, however it is compatible with the Apple Core RAW engine which can be implemented by Affinity.

You can switch between RAW Engines by first opening an image then going to menu View > Assistant Manager > Develop Assistant and changing the engine from the drop down. (you have to reload the image again for the new setting take effect). I hope this helps!

[White edge on overlays and selections]

Thanks for that

I've created the following using the overlay paint tool in the Develop Persona, set to 100% hardness with edge detection on and then dropping the exposure level of the sky area painted. 

This still created some white haloing, and I much prefer the workflow in the Photo Persona for this style of editing.

I used the smart selection brush to select the sky area, then duplicated this pixel area. I then inverted the selection and repeated the duplication, so I have 3 pixel layers total, the main image, a sky layer and a land layer.

With the main background image at the bottom of the stack, I set both the ground layer and sky layer to Multiply blend mode, changing the opacity of the ground layer to 50%, producing the following result:

I've attached a copy of the .afphoto file with history so you can pan back through my document to see this in action. (Ignore the adjustment layers created and deleted, I was playing around to see what produced the best result )

2018_09_13_6964_AP_trial_copy photo.afphoto

[Questions about the changes history]

Snapshots are used with the undo brush to paint in early versions of the documents pixels, for example using the burn brush tool changes the images pixels, so if you select a snapshot (the camera icon) in the history panel and then use the undo brush, it will revert the pixels in the image to before the tool was used, without undoing all of the pixel change. I've created a quick screen recording showing this in action-

[Partial Image (RAW)]

Hi RMole,

Welcome to the forums

The Affinity Trial is the full version of the software with a 10 day limiter applied. Could you please confirm the source camera for your RAW images, the OS you're using and provide a screenshot showing the loading issue?

[Photo to laser engraver]

Hi LucidSurf

Affinity Photo can't currently export to the .bmp (bitmap) format, however the phrase 'bitmap' is occasionally used to describe a raster image of a different format, such as .JPEG. What specific file type does the laser engraver require?

In terms of a B&W photo 'with dots' you can use the halftone effect under Filters>Colours>Halftone. I hope this helps!

[affinity photo download problem]

Thanks for trying that Trev. Could you confirm what operating system your computer is running? Is it 32bit or 64bit please?

[Export color distortion]

Thanks for that! This is caused by the 2 pixel layers with 'Soft Light' blend mode set, we're aware of a bug currently where this does not display correctly in 32bit and produces these export anomalies.

Rather than converting the document to 16bit, I changed the 2 layers to 'Normal' blend mode and set them to 22% opacity, which gave me a very similar look as the Soft Light blend mode and then the document exported without the colour noise - 

I'll pass your file through to our devs against the outstanding bug report and hopefully it will be fixed shortly. I've also included the edited file below for you

Zoltán Bodó - JBT_norm.afphoto

[Questions about the changes history]

Hi Nadar

I recommend you watch the following video - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/photo/ipad/video/286486578

The camera icon is for Snapshot work, such as when using the undo brush tool. I hope this helps!

[affinity photo download problem]

Hi Trev B

Sorry to hear you're having trouble, could you please try closing the Affinity Installer, installing the .NET framework from the following link, restarting your PC and then trying the Affinity Install again?

https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/dotnet-framework-runtime

[Affinity Photo perspective display problems.]

Thanks for that, I've exported your file using the above settings on both Windows and Mac and I'm not seeing the same results, I've provided a copy of the JPEG in the zip file attached.

Please open 'More' settings under the export dialog and then set the Pixel Format drop down list to RGB 8-bit and then try exporting again. Do you see the same issue?

Artur Wagnerowski - pudelko_zgrzewarka_3d.zip

[Export color distortion]

Hi Zoli1989

I'm sorry to see this, it certainly shouldn't happen if you've rasterised or flattened the document before exporting.

Could you please provide me with a copy of your file to the following link, as well as a screenshot of your export settings? I can take a look into this for you!

https://www.dropbox.com/request/4AgDD8pwfLiwQQr72irF

[Cannot open any file]

It sounds as though it may be an issue with the Windows user itself, be it a setting or a program installed but it may be difficult to discern which.

Could you please create a new Windows admin user then download and install the trial here, so that it's your only third party program installed. Can you open/create documents here?