ericwedde

Lol yup that's me! Trying to update from the stone age.

I've been drawing painted maps, for instance a map of Europe with borders and such, and I frequently need to add text to label cities and whatnot. Trying to do this in Affinity Photo, frankly, stresses me out. I really need an option to rasterize text instantly instead of creating a million layers for each label, and I have this annoying issue where every time I use the text tool on the image, it drops to the lowest layer with content on the spot where I clicked, but it doesn't create the text layer. This means not only am I creating a bajillion text layers that I don't want, but they're scattered all between the other layers at random. Why does it not create the text layer on the first click when I have the artistic text tool selected? Ideal behavior: Toggle SOMETHING that lets it rasterize text the moment its finished and merge it with the current layer that already has a bunch of text labels on it. At the moment this gives me such a headache that I feel compelled to export the whole thing into another program, build the text layer there, and then import it back over my map. It feels like photo software is trying to handle text like publishing software. If I wanted that, I'd use Publisher.

I'm working on a painting that is about 11000x9000, which is roughly 38x30" at 300 DPI for printing on canvas. I did another painting recently at 6000x9000 DPI which turned out very well. I'm doing this on a Windows 10 Lenovo Flex 3 with a touchscreen and stylus. However since updating to 1.9 I notice Affinity Photo is a bit laggier (and crashes more) than it did before. Now every brush stroke on this large canvas has a brief delay before the brush initiates which makes it very difficult to say, write text between brush strokes. Painting on a small canvas, such as 1000x1000, has no delay with brush strokes. It makes no difference whether there is one layer or twenty layers. I don't know if this a bug, a fact of life, or if there is a setting that I can adjust to correct this? I was having no issues painting with earlier versions on the slightly smaller canvas.

1.7.0.162 Exporting a document with a bleed of 0.0625 on all sides results in bleed lines that look like this: This clearly isn't aligned properly. Exporting from InDesign CC with bleed and slug of 0.0625 shows: I'm not a publisher, but given a paper cutter I'd rather be cutting between the InDesign lines.