Patrick Bell

Yes that was it. I guessed it would be obvious! Many thanks

I am still learning this app. I have a gif file, I created a new pixel layer from the background and am trying to use the erase tool. I have the circle showing but it does nothing. afaics I do the same thing on a png or jpg and it erases as I expect. Does it not work with gif?

Thanks

I am trying to add a vignette to a png. I can make it black and white but however I apply the vignette nothing happens to the image. Is it because its a png?

Getting there. Many thanks

Yes, though not as blended as I'd like. But how did you get the rounded rectangle to be a gradient?

Thanks thats more or less what I ended up doing. I did find it hard to localise the 4 gradients (4 ides of the image) without affecting the image. Not quite the same as corel - I did it eventually though not completely satisfied with the result. I have attached the "starting point" before applying the gradients. I am trying to merge the 4 edges to the black background but am having trouble doing so without affecting the photo. I can get it so an edge bleds nicely but the photo is brightened or darkened but moving the boundary of the layer so it doesn't affect the image; affects the midpoint (which I can't seem to adjust once I have got to being able to move the edge of the gradient layer. Not too sure if my problems make sense but perhaps someone can have a go and I can see how to do it? header2.afphoto

I want a photo to blend edges with a black background, using a gradient mask. Can I color the background or must I draw a background rectangle?

great, obvious now - knew it was possible somehow.

Firstly, when creating a new topic I seem to be forced to select the iPad forum rather than the root general forum. I have to click off the pull down to see the continue button. I am used to Corel and PS so forgive my ignorance, I am sure I just havent found the funtionality I need yet. . In corel the arrange menu has an option to match widths as well as aligning objects. For instance, in Affinity Photo I have added a column of rectangles and am resizing them manually. I can arrange them to left, centre or right align but how do I make them match widths as well? I think the atached example is alright but not as easy to ensure equal widths as I'd hoped. about q3.afphoto

I thought it would be obvious. Thanks, works a treat.

I have Affinity Photo and designer. Coming from Corel and Photoshop - I am struggling to start creating a photo mosaic. I actually want to put maybe 10 photos (landscape and portrait) in a single image. In corel I would just import them all and resize and rearrange accordingly but whilst designer allows me to create the correct sized artboard I can't see how bet to insert them. Open just opens separate instances. I really don't want to revert to corel so which app should I use and how?

OK the video explained what I needed, mean median etc is how I tweak and yes more images!

This is just an exercise but the two images I have used work well for several people but there are two ghosts. People only in one image but shosin translucently. What would be the recommended approach? _DSC6142-Edit (Medium).tif _DSC6143-Edit (Medium).tif

OK just opened them both from Lightroom now I have two photos open. New stack opens a dialog to locate them on disk. Is there a way to add already open photos to a new stack?

A while back I used Photoshop Elements to remove people from an image. Using multiple shots I did something to merge them but only including common elements. Is there a parallel process in Affinity Photo? All the suggestions involve inpainting (or using a megaphone to shout "get out of the way!"

Yes interesting, I have both Photo and Designer but hadn't grokked the overlapping possibilities.

I think d'oh is appropriate! Many thanks

See attached. I am certain this is my misunderstanding so I welcome any guidance and expect a d'oh moment :-) tia test.afdesign

I imported a graphic from my clipboard and drew a rectangle underneath it. Fill does nothing with it. The I added a text frame ontop of the rectangle and typed text but although I can see the underlined "corrections" it doesn't show either, just the outline frame but the text stays invisible whatever I set the fill or stroke to. I'm a newbie coming from Coreldraw and this seems the intuitive way to proceed, tutorials don't show this starting point so where have I gone wrong?