I have posted this one in the what are you working with Affinity in July thread but after all the discussion over here I post it here as well. Maybe is using 2 different threads not such a good idea after all. Initially I was mere playing with some stuff from the big Anna Aspnes bundle and tried if I could figure out the 2 ways to make a cutout. The first one where you cut the paper was really simple, the second one took me a bit longer until I realized that I had to use a duplicate from the bottom paper and but that on top. It is so nice to see that it is possible to use those techniques not in exactly the same manner but with the same effect.
I'm so happy for you that that ugli problem is solved now! I have ditched one drive as soon as it came on, because I have all my stuff on different external harddrives including a backup. On my laptop are all the programs like PSP and Affinity installed but the rest is on the external drives. The only problem I had, just a couple of weeks ago, was that the hub that connects them to the pc was burned out. Now I have a more powerful one. The only cloud service that I use is the Apple cloud where all my iPhone photos go as soon as I take them, when I have a WIFI connection that is. When I'm visiting in the States I always take a lot of photos and this way they stay safe until I get home and have them on the computer, where they are backed up.
I'm brought up with classical music, my dad played the violin and my aunt had a piano and almost the whole family went to concerts and had tickets for the whole season. Occasionally someone was unable to attent and if I was lucky I could go. My parents took me with them since I was 6 or 7 and could sit quietly for the whole concert. I was a "fan" of the break where I got a soft drink and some cookies from whichever aunt or uncle was present. In those bygone days there were no pop concerts where I lived and the modern music was looked down upon by the family. No worries, when I grew older and had some pocket money to spent I bought my first single from the Beatles to my dad's utmost horror. But all their efforts to give me a solid music education have not produced a love for classical music. I can appreciate it now and recognize so many works by a wide range of composers but my heart isn't in it. I like the Beach Boys, Peter Paul and Mary, the Carpenters, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel to name a few.