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Hi there! You're very welcome, and thank you for watching! Have you checked out the KZbin page Affinity Revolution? They do a lot of tutorials on Affinity Photo and I am pretty certain they have some that go in to topics like that. Unfortunately, I don't have any on my channel but you might try there!

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Hi there! This is specifically about importing V1 to V2 vector brushes in Affinity Designer. Are you referring to the clone stamp in Affinity Photo? Designer never had one so there isn't one missing in V2. If you're referring to Affinity Photo, the clone stamp existed in both versions so there is nothing to move over. If I'm not understanding your question, please let me know. Thank you!

Hi there! Could you please share a bit more information? What is happening when you try to use Command J? Anything? Or is it simply not duplicating? There isn't missing information in the video, but I would like to help, if you could please share a bit more. Thanks!!

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Hi Amy - Is it happening in one canvas and not others or is it happening no matter what canvas you’re in? If the former, it’s usually a corrupt file and you need to start a new file. I have heard of issues on multiple canvases though haven’t experienced it myself. My understanding was there was supposed to be some sort of fix but I am not sure if and when that happened. I would recommend going to Serif’s forum and searching for the issue. If you don’t see a post about it, you could contact their help desk to see if they could take a look at it. I hope that helps!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage I ended up joining the Beta program and downloaded version 2.6. That solved my problem and I was able to complete the frame and bring it into Canva. Thank you. Does this work the same for brush strokes? If I wanted to add a brush stroke to the outside of a circle?

@@amygatto8106 unfortunately, you can't expand a brush stroke in to a fill so your inner fill (with the vector flood fill) would extend beyond the inner bounds of the stroke on top. You could use it, but you would need to temporarily move the brush stroke out of the way in the layer panel in Canva, add the picture to the frame, then move the btush stroke back.

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Thanks so much! I'm learning so much from you. I really appreciate the work you do!

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Hi there! Unfortunately, I have never found a way to set the opacity up front on the Blob Brush, and I find the same thing as you do, about it reverting back. Sorry!

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@@Tracey-CreatorCollage keep up the good work, much appreciated, take care. thanks.

@@TeraJeeja thank you very much! You take care as well! Thanks!!

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I'm so happy to hear that @RedDeltaProject! Thank you for watching, and for taking the time to comment. Thank you, as well, for the Super Thanks!!

You're very welcome! I'm so happy to hear you found it helpful! Please don't apologize for the questions. You might be asking something that will help someone else too! :) You can create the rectangle by selecting the rectangular shape tool from the tool bar then just drag that layer behind your drawing. You can change the color of it by selecting that shape layer and choosing a color from the Color Studio (the color dot in the toolbar) When it comes to the selections, you can select anything you want to keep and then invert your selection and delete it. Otherwise, if there are tiny spots that you want to get rid of, you can also use the inpainting brush (it's one of the tools in the drop down when you tap and hold on the clone tool) This one can get a little tricky in tight spaces though, as it samples the area around it. The final option is just using the eraser tool. Please let me know if you have any additional questions! Thank you for watching!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage thank you, I’ll give it a go. Actually, there are a couple of things I forgot to ask. When you were adjusting the black and white levels early on in the tutorial, you mentioned that if you go a bit too far with the white and the black lines get a bit faded that you can fix this later… how do you go about doing that? Then, when you’re using the Free Selection tool around the main image, if you make a mistake, is there any way to pause it and go back to save starting the selection from the very start again? Thanks once again and I’m so very appreciative

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Thank you for watching, and taking the time to comment! Just to clarify my understanding of your question, are the blanks within an overall image, in other words, they're sitting within a background but are blank so someone could add their design? If that is the case, turning them in to a picture frame wouldn't be the way to go because it would turn the entire image in to a picture frame, including all of the space around the object. Even if it was an isolated png, and padding around the object would be included in the frame. You're better off isolating that individual item, within the image, and creating a mask around that layer, so that when they drop and drag anything on top of it, it confines it to that individual object. For that, Photo would be a better option, or, using StudioLink, within Publisher, to jump in to Photo to use selection tools (you would need to have Photo on your system to do this). I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions about the above. Thank you again for watching!

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Thank you for watching, Linda! Thank you, as well for the lovely compliment, I appreciate it! Are you deselecting all of the L2 numbers that you don't want to change before changing the number using the "Start Numbering At" field in the Paragraph Panel? For example, if the trailing numbers at the end of the month (in other words the dates from the upcoming month) are correct and you don't need to change them, are you deselecting them before you change the starting number in the Paragraph panel? If not, that's going to change everything. At about 24:55 on the timeline I deselect the last day in January before I change the first three leading days to the 29-31. If I'm misunderstanding, and it's actually changing everything to the same number, can you please let me know the exact steps you're taking to change the number? As long as you use "Start Numbering At" in the Paragraph panel, it shouldn't give you the same number in each cell. Thank you again!

Thanks for the quick response, Tracey! Yep, I've deselected all the ones I don't want to change, but it's not only changing both the beginning and end dates, but it's changing the ones in other tables too! 😕 Everything that's L2 changes to the new starting number.

That's so strange! Did you make sure that the entire grid was Level 1 first by selecting all the cells and adding the L1 paragraph style to it before you selected individual dates to change to Level 2?

I did. The whole table as L1 to begin with then selecting the bits that sound be L2 (beginning and end of month separately) and changing the setting for those. It's very weird.

@@lindarobshaw hmmmm. Go to the Text Styles panel, click on the burger menu on the L2 style and choose Edit the style. Make sure that Level in the Bullets & Numbering is actually showing Level 2 and not one. If it's showing No Change or something like that, just set it to Level 2 and resave. See if that helps!

You are so very welcome! I'm so happy you found it helpful. Thank you so much for watching (here and on Skillshare!) and taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate the compliment on my teaching style!

I'm so happy you found it helpful Jenny, thank you! I will definitely be adding more Fresco tutorials in the near future. If there are particular topics you would like to learn more about, definitely let me know! Thank you for watching, and taking the time to comment!

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Thank you for the suggestion! I have added it to the list. Thanks for watching!

Thank you so much for watching and commenting Lily! I'm happy you found it helpful. Definitely more Affinity to Canva tutorials coming!

Thank you Amy! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I don't have one specifically about that but it wouldn't be that much different than creating a frame from a shape. If you're trying to create a single word frame (in that the entire word is a single frame) you would just need to add a raster fill to the word and export it as a PDF, just like the other frames. Hope this helps! (ps- the one thing it doesn't seem to want to do is create individual frames from a single word. In other words, if you convert your word to curves so it breaks all the letters out individually. Even if you add a separate bitmap to each shape, for some reason, Canva breaks the first letter out, and fuses everything else together. Not sure why)

Hi Joan! Thanks so much for watching! I was going to include info on using this in Designer if you didn't have Canva but didn't want to add too much to the tutorial. I have another one coming out that will go in to that. In the meantime, in Designer, whether it's for a shape, or your background, you can use the Gradient tool to add an image to a shape but you need to have a shape in place first. The default of the Gradient tool will always be Solid but if you use the drop down in the contextual menu and choose Bitmap, it will take you outside of Designer so that you can add an image. But yes, you do need to have a shape in place first in order to do that. There isn't a Fill Layer from Photo option like there is in Photo. I'm confused by the question about the thumbnail background. Do you mean the thumbnail in the layer studio? If so, you can lighten it by going to the burger menu at the top of the layer panel and under Thumbnail Background, choosing your setting. I don't think this is just in a Mac. If I'm misunderstanding any of your questions, please let me know! Thank you again for watching!

@@Tracey-CreatorCollage Yes, thumbnail background in thr layer section. Thank you, I didn't find this option! Now it's finally visible!!! Great 🥳

Wonderful! Glad you're all set!

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So glad to hear that Yukon! Thanks so much for watching, and taking the time to comment!