Alfred

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Sara. That’s because only the basic brushes produce pure vector strokes. All other ‘vector’ brushes produce vector paths with raster textures laid down on those paths.

JPEG files can be either RGB or CMYK, but the PNG file format only supports RGB. However, a PNG image with alpha transparency uses 8 bits for the alpha channel, so that’s a total of 32 bits.

Why is the trial period so short now? The standard trial period used to be ten days, and many prospective users felt that wasn’t long enough (especially for those who have a full-time job); even if you add on the 14-day money back guarantee period for purchases from the Affinity Store, you’re still talking about less than a month in total.

The ‘Purchase options’ page at https://affinity.serif.com/affinity-pricing includes an ‘Upgrade from V1’ link which takes you here for 25% off the regular price of the V2 Universal Licence: https://affinity.serif.com/store/upgrade-offer

Which would in turn necessitate extensive testing to make sure that those changes don’t break anything. All in all, a huge investment of time and effort (and therefore money).

Yes, it is, on both OSs. In version 1, an unclosed curve is automagically closed before the ‘Add’ command is executed, so the result is very different.

Bedankt

Confirmed here. And it doesn’t work in version 2 on iPadOS, either.

Menus don’t have buttons, they only have entries or options. Can’t you simply post a screenshot? Why are you so reluctant to show us what you’re trying to work with??

At 96 ppi, 168.6 mm is 638 px (i.e. 2 px less than 640 px). Maybe that means something, or not!

@NotMyFault has pointed the way:

It will be a Curve object rather than a Curves object, because it will consist of a single closed path. Neither do I, for what it’s worth.

Select the object, go to the Layer menu and choose ‘Geometry > Add’ (or instead of going to the Layer menu, click on the ‘Add’ button in the Geometry section of the main toolbar). The selected object will be Boolean added to itself, maintaining its shape and orientation but resetting its rotation to 0°.

Set the ‘Left’ indent to a larger value than the ‘First Line’ indent.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @vanbrandenburgf. Check the options on the Context toolbar to be sure you're making a new selection.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @cinew. You can use the Rectangle Tool to create a flexible cropping window. Draw a filled rectangle anywhere on top of the photo, make it semi-transparent so that you can see the part of the photo that lies underneath, and then alter its size and position (zooming in or out as necessary) until it covers the target area of the photo. After changing the fill to fully opaque, drag the rectangle layer in the Layers panel and drop it onto the thumbnail of the photo layer to execute the crop.

People seeing your links will either ignore them or click through to view the linked posts. The first of those scenarios guarantees that they won’t see the backstory, the second doesn’t guarantee that they will. By using links like mine (the default mode here) you automagically give the reader the first three lines to pique their interest.

Why send the reader chasing off to the other thread to view those posts, instead of displaying them (at least partially) here?

You can find many examples in the ‘Share your work’ section of these forums, and also by searching on sites such as Behance and Dribbble.

Please post a screenshot of the Character panel as it appears when the top ‘Sue Hughes’ is selected.

Do you perhaps mean a Drafting persona? The word ‘Planner’ conjures up images of something to do with calendars and timetables.

Maybe I would understand immediately if I were a Mac user, but please explain what you mean by “they still open as TIFs”.

There should be! Serif’s legacy ‘Plus’ applications offered an option to either set the period between automatic update checks or disable them completely.

Nor should you be! What you’ve posted here is hugely impressive.

Duplicate of this thread.