Dan C

Welcome to the forums!
You can check out this thread which is a feature request for the tool, but also contains many alternatives of how to achieve the same effect without the specific tool. Hope this helps

Hi All,
Stairs Down To Heaven,
Done with Affinity Photo.
See you with nice photos
Klaus
 
 

Thanks Dan,
Very disappointing! So I will have to revert to what I have been doing for years - scan direct into PhotoPlus then move the result to Affinity!!! I might just as well do my simple editing requirements whilst already in PhotoPlus! 
A couple of days ago my first posting here was about doing 'Cut-outs' in Affinity. I know I have a steep learning curve ahead, but in PhotoPlus the 'Cut Out Studio'  was/is almost automatic to use - in Affinity - whilst I appreciate the many advanced facilities available - getting quick results seems to be much harder.
Me thinks I had better sit down with a cup of strong coffee . . . 
Thanks again. Pete.

There are several utilities that work very well with Photo.
I use and can highly recommend Faststone Image Viewer (free for non-commercial use). It scans directly and can be set to launch the scanned image directly into Photo, with a shortcut. For scanning, there is effectively no difference from a typical image editor opening a TWAIN panel but there are many other benefits, like basic cropping and editing plus screengrab and DAM. Although not yet Affinity native format.

http://www.faststone.org
Another one is Vuescan 

Using the Dodge and burn on a mask layer is handy when using to affect only shadows, midtones or highlights. Eg. Dodging a lighter sky through a dark tree.
Tx

Look what decided to check me out while I was working today, he got real close and just started eyeballing me, I always carry my camera with me so I slowly got the camera and he just stayed there. going to get some better photo's tomorrow hopefully.

 

In a word, no. The Affinity apps cannot yet interpret fonts embedded in a PDF file, so they have no way of knowing what the text should look like unless the fonts are installed on your system.

Hi @szymon_zdunczyk,
Welcome to the forums. 
We provide free updates for 1.x builds, regardless of the purchase date. 
Thanks,
Gabe. 

Hi Ian, that´s it, the background layer must be selected. I never looked at that, or thought it is allways done.
Thanks
lars

Thanks for the update, I'll inform our developers as such  

It's because they're using a 'Tools Bar' with two columns instead of a single column.
If you go to View > Customise Tools > and change 'Number of Columns' at the bottom to '2', the foreground/background colour selector will appear in the Tools Bar.

ciao ..... ti faccio vedere alcuni lavori in AD

That underscoring is telling you the app thinks the word is spelt incorrectly or it doesn't understand the word, generally this shouldn't happen on web addresses. Go to Text > Spelling and untick Check Spelling While Typing and the underscoring will go away. You can also right click on that web address and choose Learn Spelling and the next time you type that address it will ignore it. If you do untick Check Spelling While Typing you will have to manually check spelling if thats what you need.
 

Dear All
My dear friend Tom Cargill from Satori Graphics UK designed this great font and gave it for free to his friends network.
Because it's Free and i really like his work which have helped me to improve my workflow, i chose to share it with this great community.
May you enjoy it and... Design your Futur Today !
Satori Sans.zip

Here is a clean template to make a mandala in a super simple way.
Just open the file, select the layer "Draw the Mandala here", start to draw and have fun !
Mandala template 12.afdesign

The following types of palette exist within Affinity Designer:
Document—these palettes are saved within the current document. Application—these palettes are saved within Affinity Designer. These palettes are available to any Affinity Designer document. System—these palettes are saved to your operating system. These palettes are available within Affinity Designer and other applications installed on your system. PANTONE®—these palettes are based on PANTONE® Colours. These palettes are available to any Affinity Designer document.  

Hi, Hubas,
The Affinity suite makes vector objects by a series of co-ordinates from the 1st to the last. That series of co-ordinates may then be given "fill" and "stroke" attributes. So many people mis-take using the pen tool as something that can create a network of lines, when in fact it allows on to make a series of geometric shapes that may share the same space, but do not connect logically. "Pen" is just a convenient term, but is better called "bezier curve node maker."
In short, and as you experienced, one can only draw an outline, and branches from that cannot happen, and the outline cannot be closed, except by joining w. the first point.
I didn't notice you mentioned using Photo, so opened your file in Designer, which is what mostly use. It has features that are better suited for schematic renderings. The attached file can open in Photo.
1st, I used the pen tool in polygon mode, with it set to no fill and a solid stroke. I traced over your example from view points 1 thru 28. I then made separate lines for the extensions and pass thru connection on the tour. All were grouped on a single layer.
I then drew an Ellipse, and duplicated it by command dragging it to each waypoint. These I also placed on its own layer above the line path. If you were using Designer, the circles could be made into symbols, and have color and shape changes applied all together, making design changes so much easier.
I then duplicated the line layer, selected all the lines. I used the menu command "Layer, Expand Stroke." That turned all the strokes to polygon shapes. I then did a geometric add for all of them, which makes a networked shape that has adjustable attributes of its own
Hope this helps.
schemaVT.afdesign

No problem at all  

I've found a slight workaround, if you need this workflow in the future.
If you export the .psd from Affinity Photo iPad, open in it Photoshop Mac and simply save it as a new .psd file (ensuring maximise compatible is checked) then it will open as expected on Procreate. I understand it adds an extra step, but I have so found it to work on my test files!

Thanks a lot for looking into this :-) Hopefully it’ll be sorted out and a solution will appear as soon as you get time! :-) 
if you need anything else, let me know :-)
thanks again, appreciate the good service! :-) 

I've managed to re-create this issue, creating a .psd on Affinity Photo Mac brings up an error on import to Procreate rather than a crash so I suspect this to be related. I'll have this raised with our dev team straight away, thanks for letting us know!

Interestingly enough, an image opened in Affinity Photo (iPad) without any edits will export and open fine in Procreate, as soon as any object or filter is added, it crashes on import.

Sorry, it's been on my to-do list but admittedly slipped through the cracks, I'll get on it now  

Spotted and moved, thanks!

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt 

You have to walk for 10 days to test the software, For the love of god man why! WHY! 

Hi YAR Oracppl,
Welcome to the forums

I'm sorry to hear your camera isn't yet supported, our devs work hard to update the supported cameras as often as possible, but unfortunately I can't provide a timeframe on when this may be.
You certainly can use TIFF format in the meantime, just bare in mind that your photos will have no automatic corrections applied to them when importing. 
You're welcome to give our free 10 day trail a go!