skylamar

I haven't purchased Affinity Publisher yet (I do own Designer), but I'd like to chime in and also say I'd also love templates.
I'm not a graphic designer and have only basic design skills. However, I like to create original greeting cards for friends and family and occasionally I like to create short newsletters and other small projects.
For the past few years, I have been using Swift Publisher by Belight Software for my needs. (Belight also has a program called Printworks that's slightly more advanced than Swift Publisher; I've tested the trial version.)
A great feature of both Swift Publisher and Printworks is that they come with lots (hundreds?) of free templates for all sorts of projects.
Belight's programs are definitely made for the average person and not design professionals. However, Swift Publisher and Printworks are limiting in some respects even for the casual user. For instance, their text wrapping features only allow for rectangular wrapping around images even if the images have a transparent background.
I tested the trial version of Affinity Publisher and liked it a lot. However, I haven't bought it yet because I'm not a designer and definitely could use some templates to get me started. If there were some good templates, I would replace Swift Publisher.
Anyway, I realize Affinity Publisher is geared towards design professionals who use InDesign, but I think Affinity Publisher would also appeal to non-professionals who use cheaper programs such as those by Belight. Affinity Designer costs only $20 more than Printworks yet has many, many more features. So I think you (Affinity) could attract more casual users with at least some templates.

R C-R, I agree that my example looks somewhat unnatural, but I didn't play around with it to get it to look more natural and I didn't try to refine the edges. I was just doing a quick example to show how the replace color feature works. The above example literally took me about a minute to do. I would think if Affinity Photo had a similar tool for replacing color that it would also have more options for fine-tuning.

Just thought I'd chime in: I'm not a professional and I've never used Photoshop. I just like playing around with image-editing software. I already owned Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher, but I bought Affinity Photo this weekend because it was 50% off. I've fiddled around with it and watched a lot of tutorial videos and the program seems fantastic. However, I also own Pixelmator Pro, which I bought over a year ago. I haven't used it a lot and it definitely now feels limited compared to Affinity Photo, especially because Pixelmator Pro doesn't have anything similar to Affinity Photo's adjustment-layer masking. However, Pixelmator Pro has a really simple Replace Color feature that works well. You first choose the color you want replaced from the color picker or by clicking on a color in the image. Then you do the same for the color you want as the replacement.
I've attached two screenshots.The woman's sweater was originally red, but I changed it to the color of the blue rectangle.

When I was in elementary school (I'm decades older now), I used to spend hours each day drawing comics. My art skills were mediocre, but I had fun. A few years ago, I bought Clip Paint Studio, the Japanese anime/comic-book software, to play round with making digital comics, but I found the software unintuitive and so hardly used it at all.
Fast forward to today and I own all three Affinity apps. And I realized I could easily make comics with them, using Publisher as the main app for accessing all three.
However,  Affinity Designer's Call-Out shapes, which I would like to use as speech bubbles, are unnecessarily limited. The main problem is that the tail of the shapes can only be moved left and right. I wish the tail could be dragged to any position on the circumference of the shape.
Yes, I could easily create some speech bubbles myself, since they are basically just ovals with a triangle attached. And that's what I'll do. But it'd be easier to use the call-out shapes, especially if I were creating a comic with numerous pages.
 

Actually, I was just wanting to add a stroke so I could see the boundaries of the artboard when it's not selected. But, after posting the above message, I realized I can change preferences for "Artboard Background Gray Level" and that lets me see the artboard's boundaries.

Hi. I don't own Affinity Designer. However, I'm curious about it and I'd love to see a YouTube video showing Designer's vector brushes.
 
I've been looking for a drawing application with good vector brushes for quite a while. Since 2007, I've been using an application called Lineform because I love its implementation of vector brushes — which it calls artistic strokes. However, Lineform is no longer supported by the company which developed it and overall the application feels dated, so I'd love to replace it.
 
Thanks.
 
Skylamar