MmmMaarten

This time I've made a Cargo Van with interior for my Animation Short Film! 😊
Everything 2D (Textures everywhere and of course the Onscreen Titles) happily done in Affinity Designer again! Love vectors.
((logo-)Design, 3D Modeling, surfacing/texturing, rigging, animation, lighting, VFX, camera in Blender. And Sound Design/Foley. Also made the music for the sliding door demo video).
 
   
 

 
And for who's interested in the 3d side of things: A closer look at the sliding door mechanism rig:
 

I only like to export the layers inside the groups with certain layer colors. But in the Export Persona to my surprise these layer colors aren't displayed.
Please display layer colors in the Export Persona's Layers-tab of the layers panel

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Aminmahmidi.
The Linux discussion is already very fragmented. Instead of creating yet another thread on the subject, please post to a firmly established thread such as this one:
 
 

My apologies for omitting the [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags.  
If I would travel all the way back in time, I have been also "indoctrinated" by Aldus PageMaker, Aldus FreeHand, QuarkXPress et al before even entering the Adobeverse.
It always takes time to make a switch from a tool you were able to handle in your sleep. There was a time about 30 years ago when I knew QXP v3 and v4 inside out, off the top of my head. Everything. Some of my custom keyboard shortcuts in Affinity are still based on that.

Well, some of us Affinity users (like yours truly) have even wasted years at art schools to learn the basics of graphic design first.  
Or, some others (also like yours truly) have been so indoctrinated for decades by the Ubiquitous Adobe Cult that it took them another few years to switch their mindset to fully understand what they're now dealing with as Affinity users. (Spoiler: it worked out fine for me )
In other words:
Take your time. Be patient.
Also, please don't be rude on the forum to "make a point".
If only there were a trial version of Affinity to check everything out before the purchase… 
Oh, wait!
https://affinity.serif.com/trial

I only like to export the layers inside the groups with certain layer colors. But in the Export Persona to my surprise these layer colors aren't displayed.
Please display layer colors in the Export Persona's Layers-tab of the layers panel

The RTX50 series is problematic
https://www.google.com/search?q=RTX+50+site:forum.affinity.serif.com

Thanks Bruce. Great idea to look at the cursor. That sounds like a believable cause. Honestly though I find it a little hard to believe I accidentally selected the full canvas so many times without knowing. I wouldn't even know how to accidentally do that, and without even noticing it (although I'm zoomed in often, so that might make it easier to not noticing it). Not saying that it isn't that though, It could pretty well be the reason this happens.
It might also be related to me temporarily (because of an injury) working on an older Surface laptop, which is a lot slower than my main desktop PC. While working on this pretty substancial file it makes Affinity struggle a bit sometimes (especially when also running OBSStudio).

'Unfortunately' the weeks I was daily slicing an image here for an upcoming animation are over (all done for this project), so that makes chances low for me to bump into this issue again soon to see if this is indeed related. But this is a good one to keep in mind and keep my eye on it when I bump into this again in a new project.
@NotMyFault Great tips! Especially this one: " Use the channels panel, and inspect the „pixel selection“ thumbnail. There you can see what is selected."  Thanks!

If you are using these images for print I personally would not use PNG as PNG is RGB only and will have to be converted to CMYK after. CMYK does not have as wide a gamut as RGB so depending on your artwork you are going to have colour shifts when it is converted. 

And the file formats that are supported are shown in the Affinity Store pages before purchase. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/full-feature-list/
 

You could have asked here before making the purchase, and/or you could have found out during the (woefully short) seven days of the trial period.

Thanks, MmmmmmmmmmmmMaarten!
 

In the example you have recorded you most likely have a selection already made. The cursor shows that it is in Move the selection. Probably the whole canvas is selected, regardless, just use Command + D for Deselect.

Use the channels panel, and inspect the „pixel selection“ thumbnail. There you can see what is selected.
the marching ants are invisible when everything is selected. 
another test is to switch mode to subtract, or invert selection.
or create a mask, or switch to quick mask mode and choose black or white.
all these methods show what is really selected. 
Marching ants show only crossing of 50% transparency line, often giving false impression.

Hi @MmmMaarten,
There is a similar historical issue logged in relation to merging adjustments in a hidden group layer losing the adjustment, so on this basis I've logged this with the developers for further review.

This time I've made a Cargo Van with interior for my Animation Short Film! 😊
Everything 2D (Textures everywhere and of course the Onscreen Titles) happily done in Affinity Designer again! Love vectors.
((logo-)Design, 3D Modeling, surfacing/texturing, rigging, animation, lighting, VFX, camera in Blender. And Sound Design/Foley. Also made the music for the sliding door demo video).
 
   
 

 
And for who's interested in the 3d side of things: A closer look at the sliding door mechanism rig:
 

Great work! Love the cartoon style proportions

Hey, you're right. I tried that several times and was sure I didn't see a change, but when I retry that now on some layers I see it working now. Wow. Thanks for being consistant!

It is. Just rasterize one single time again in the current rotation, it will 100% solve the issue - at least the issue that I could read out of your description without having access to a sample document.

Strong ego? 
you don’t need to share any production file. Just made up something roughly same shape. What looks like a perfect description of facts from your perspective might be not sufficient for readers/readers. A sample document is always great.

"Ungroup" is not only in a group's right-click menu but also as a button in the Context Toolbar and in the main menu (with shortcuts):

That is a know bug AF-1761 when cycling the selection box on a group.
In Designer and Publisher you can get around that issue by placing your objects into a Layer instead of a group, however in Photo that is not available.

You can try ungrouping + regrouping the Group to get a straight bounding box for a rotated Group layer:

group rotation box.m4v

This time I've made a Cargo Van with interior for my Animation Short Film! 😊
Everything 2D (Textures everywhere and of course the Onscreen Titles) happily done in Affinity Designer again! Love vectors.
((logo-)Design, 3D Modeling, surfacing/texturing, rigging, animation, lighting, VFX, camera in Blender. And Sound Design/Foley. Also made the music for the sliding door demo video).
 
   
 

 
And for who's interested in the 3d side of things: A closer look at the sliding door mechanism rig:
 

Looks like the function will still show the bounds of the original base box, I don't think this view can be turned off unfortunately.