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Hi @SourBeerFan, welcome to the forums. Since it's Refine Selection feature, You have to create a magic wand or lasso or other kind of selection first, then you can refine it 😉 I am sorry, the first image showing marching ants selection loaded after I posted my answer, weird. Must be connection issue at my end etcg. This is weird, a moderator should look at it trying to reproduce. My 1.8.3 works as expected, I haven't updated to 1.8.4 because since 1.8 I always wait watching the forums until I'm 100 per cent sure it's safe to update.

Hi everyone, I would like to thank all the staff at the helpdesk for their incredible work they do on the forums. I know I'm probably not the easiest person to deal with, but seeing how much work those guys, namely @Patrick Connor, @Callum, @Chris B, @Sean P, @Adam, @MEB, @Lee D, @DWright, @Gabe and @Leigh, put in servicing customer request is stunning. So thank you all, and thank all those I haven't mentioned above (sorry, guys). Please, keep your good work up.

Same here 😀 Amigas were so ahead of its time! I loved the first DTP I ever used - Page Stream. Later I've bought quite cheap Atari ST with a colour monitor and moved to Calamus, which was stunning at the time, with a quite similar concept to Affinity Studio Link btw... It was slower and way worse than Amiga, but way cheaper and did its job, Calamus was also available, but only in TOS emulation. Oh, sweet memories.

This is yet again a classic example of a bad and misleading Affinity ux, sadly. "Layers" and "layers" - erm! Just renaming "layers" to objects would do the trick and clear the confusion easily. And you're not alone. Serif should really do something about this.

Same here. I really love to watch what *real users* do. The test groups would be very suprirsed knowing how many people with laptops and cameras are watching them through one-way window during the testing. And we do that even for simple packaging designs, poster and banner designs, corporate identity tests and even for custom font tests.

Indeed. Good UX designers also perform A-B testing on different user groups when they don't have conclusive data (the case @carl123 mentioned above). They also use scientific methods like Eye Tracking and so on. The worst case are self-appointed UX pseudospecialists and when coders/programmers attempt to create UX for their own apps (see Gimp or original Sodipodi for the best example).

Hi @Adam, It seems to be working now, thank you 😀 So, I've picked some random picture just to check out, but now, when I try to upload the new one I wanted to, I'm getting following: -200 See the screenshot here. I'm currently on Windows 10 ver 1909 computer with lastest version of Firefox if that helps.

Thanks for an answer, @Alfred, I'm browsing the forums everyday and didn't noticed any such reports, but it might be related to me selectivelly skipping such posts in Activity Stream when scanning thread titles.

Hi, sorry if I posted this to a wrong forum, but I wasn't able to find any other forum that would suit following: there is probably something wrong with avatar uploads, I'm attempting to upload a valid avatar (file size and format fits the requirement), however I'm getting following error: https://imgur.com/a/KbgBcei So that's what I'm doing. Now when I attempted to post a screenshot of the message, I've found that I can't upload attachments to my forum messages as well. Both images were exported to jpeg from current production version of Affinity Photo. Thanks for your feedback.

This explanation should be set in a stone. Thank you so much @NoSi.

Hi @MEB, thank you for your response. You are right, you didn't say that, it was @Chris B over here: I apologize, I was confused and didn't really bother to find it before "quoting" you. Sorry for putting @Chris B's words in your mouth.

Well, @MEB said that "there must be something unique about my system" because they are not able to replicate the issue. Weird.

Hi @Hokusai To me it's still an issue, and I'm not alone. Sometimes it unstucks after some time, sometime switching to another persona and back works, sometimes I have to restart the app just like you. I wish this got fixed since it's quite annoying.

Same for me here. Also this is quite annoying and happens once a while (not that often in 1.8 though) Both Windows and macOS version, but macOS version seems less buggy to me.

Well, it's more like Actions set from Photoshop. There is more info in Photo's help section, it's kinda broken into two sections, you record Macros in Macros Studio, but you "play" them from the Library Studio. A bit confusing ux imo. Feel free to check it out.

Hi @Al Edwards. I believe there is a macro set by @Paul Mudditt that allows you to use Text on Path in Photo as well, if that helps.

+1

I am sorry but I have to disagree. Publisher is marketed as a professional publishing software by Serif. Pricing policy is also Serif's. Thus, it should be judged as it's marketed, and not by its price, or am I wrong?

Hi @Eyewaves, without changing any default keyboard shortcuts, try following with your German keyboard layout: Option+[ and Option+] (the original keys as they are placed on the English keyboard, just with the Option modifier). It works with whatever different keyboard layout for me. Hope this helps. Sorry, this no longer works on Mojave nor Catalina

On my MacbookPro 15" 2019 with 32GB RAM it's quite comparable to Affinity Designer. That's enough for me tbh.

Is any of the mentioned features present in AD compared to AI? Is my list somewhat incorrect? Is my reply somewhat unrelated to op's question? Or should I compile a complete list of those features to be more precise? Tbh, the complete list would have over 700 items. You might've missed op's question entirely I guess?

Hi @Ouabrou From my perspective, this is a list of top 10 things that are missing in AD compared to AI: Envelope distortion Mesh gradients Mesh warp Select by same... Offset path Vector blending Ability to export file to PDF "as is" without embedding colour profiles/converting colours Possibility to see the contents the bleed area in multi-artboard mode (you can setup bleed, work with it, but you don't see its content) Possiblity to drag multiple colours in colours panel, rearrange them and work with multiple colour swatches at the same time Possibility to convert any colour to a spot colour (you must create a new swatch to do that) Bitmap tracing Saving/Restoring workspaces Edit: I had to add #11 and #12 since they're major things missing in this comparison.

Thanks. Wow, VectorStyler looks really promising.

That's not up to me, but the affinity devs. And I don't want to hijack this thread fyi. I would certainly be happy if it would be possible, and many Illustrator switchers as well. It would certainly help the ux there. Currently, people who are used to do it this way (used to Illustrator's path system need to duplicate the layer, hide the duplicate, then select the original that will disappear, and that's a bit tedious process). I have renewed my CC subscription and use Affinity just for fun once upon a time now, since it's enormously buggy and featureless. I will be happy to get back to AD once basic features like Select by attribute, Offset path, Envelope and mesh vector distortions and vector blending are added since I need those features on a daily basis. Even the bugs I've reported nearly a year ago were stil not fixed. I'm not mad and understand that there are other priorities, but I'm encountering such bugs nearly everytime I use the apps and can't waste my time anymore. Fingers crossed I'm looking forward to some maintenance update that will address all the annoying stuff and allow for a reasonable workflow. Best regards.