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  1. I "placed" an image and tried to practice using the knife tool. I'm new at this. Once I dragged the knife tool across the image, the image disappeared completely. Does anybody know where the image went, and how I can see it again? Affinity Designer V2 on Windows 10 PC. Thanks!
  2. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I changed the gradient to just a white fill. That's all it took. I really, really appreciate your help on this.
  3. I uninstalled 1.10 and reinstalled 1.9 and still had pdf export problems, (which I never did before) so I upgraded back to 1.10. Maybe because I only did Designer, not Publisher too.
  4. I didn't have problems at first, until I clicked on "print-ready" as a PDF export option. Now I can't export any PDF. I did revert back to version 1.9.2, but now it just says "An error occurred while exporting to: (folder name), and it never finishes calculating the file size. It never even gets to the Adobe preview page telling me about the drawing error or previewing a blank page. I have rebooted the PC several times. I am using Windows 10 Pro. I upgraded back to 1.10.0, but still no pdf export for the tour poster. Here's the weird thing. I took a screen shot of the error notification and exported it as a pdf with no problems. Then I made a new, sample poster, and it exported as a pdf just fine. However I cannot get my Tour poster to export as a pdf. I have removed all links and email addresses. I made the graphic into a curve. I converted the text frame to artistic text. Still not able to export it as a pdf. RightOnTheRoadTourPoster.afdesign RightOnTheRoadTourPoster.pdf export error.pdf No Text Tour Poster Designer.afdesign
  5. I am having the same problem with Designer & Publisher since the upgrade. The PDF exports are completely blank. The Adobe preview error says "a drawing error occurred". I need to get these pdf's published today. Can I go back to the older version of Designer for now? If so, how? Please help.
  6. Wow, that guy has some fantastic tutorials. Thank you for posting the link @DesignCat
  7. I didn't know about the quick mask! It does make it easier. I'll have to work with it more to get it figured out. I really like your idea of placing the white background farther away and lit up more to avoid shadows. I think that will really help me remove the entire background with a few clicks and drags. I am going to do that for all future photos. I will need to get a few more lights. One thing I really liked about the Cutout Studio in PhotoPlus, is that you can set the tolerance. I truly appreciate your help on this. Thank you so much!
  8. I am hoping someone can recommend the best settings for the Selection Brush so that it can see the edges of an object better. Recently the Selection Brush Snap To Edges grabs way more than it should. I used to be able to remove the background in a few clicks, but not any more. I don't know what I did, or what I changed. I want to get it back to how it worked before. I sell wood slices, and photograph them in front of a white sheet so that it is easier to remove the background. I used to be able to just select the white background by running the selection brush close to the wood slice, and delete it, and only occasionally had to turn off Snap To Edges to fine-tune, mostly when shadows were involved. I never had to "refine" anything. It just found the edges. I did notice that it makes a difference how big the brush is, and where you start dragging from and to. I tried changing the brush, but didn't notice much difference. I don't know what I changed, or what I did, but I sure hope somebody can help me figure it out. I have a ton of new photos that I need to edit the background out of. I have attached some screen shots. Otherwise I'm just going to use my old Serif PhotoPlus8 because I really liked the "Cutout Studio", as it makes it really easy to remove backgrounds. I truly appreciate any help you can offer. Thank you in advance.
  9. That could be Joachim_L. I enlarged the screen and the cursor is directly on the line. It is hard to see. I also noticed that there were two red dots indicating that there was overflow. I expanded the text frame and it was packed with red words (in a different language) and filled the whole page. I didn't put those words in there. When the height of the text box is shorter than the height of the text, no words show, and that's why I thought it was empty. Thanks!
  10. I hopped on here tonight hoping to find a thread going for Affinity Publisher. I don't see one. Prior to this I searched in Affinity Publisher Help to find out how to add text to a text frame. I have left-clicked, left double-clicked, and right clicked into the text frame, and so far have not been able to get the cursor to go into the text frame box so I can type something in there. I put a text frame on a master, and it shows on the other pages. I just can't enter text into the frame. I don't know if it is something on my computer or what. Typing/keyboard is working everywhere else. I tried Reddit, and yes they have one for Publisher, but it wouldn't let me post there even after I joined. I enjoyed Serif Publisher for many years, and never had a problem with something so simple. I used Serif for all of my publishing needs...ebooks, pdf's, product manuals, etc. If anybody has had the same problem and solved it, please let me know!!!! Also let me know if there will be a category for Publisher some day. Thanks!
  11. I was also expecting a link for the update when I opened the programs. I use the Windows version of both. I logged into my account and clicked the 1.7 download links under Downloads and Product Keys section and it worked great for me. I pre-ordered Publisher and can't wait to try it out! In your email, after you say "As usual if you already own Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer you can download the updates right now for free", you should have also provided instructions on how to do it.
  12. I am very new here, but trying to learn. I just cropped a photo in Designer, and now I have an empty (transparent) space on all sides of the photo. How can I change the document size to the same size as the cropped graphic? Thanks!
  13. If I change my desktop theme to the blue windows theme in 7 Affinity works. If I switch back to the theme I like, I get the error message for both Photo and Designer. I guess I'll have to switch themes when I want to use Affinity, or just stick with the boring blue windows theme. Thank you for your reply.
  14. Ok, so Affinity has been installed, and working for months......with no changes made to my PC's theme. Why all of a sudden am I getting this error?
  15. I purchased Affinity Photo and Designer many months ago. All of a sudden the Windows Aero is not enabled came up. Now I can't use the programs. I changed my desktop theme, and Affinity worked for a little while. Now I'm getting the same error message and can't use the programs I paid for.
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