justinpbrown71

My comparison was not so much based on what the softwares are designed to achieve, but rather their different systems for processing. Lightroom doesn't use layers, & there are only 5 cursor tip tools. It has though 8 modules of sliders for changing parameters, & is non-destructive throughout. Also there are many plugin softwares which expand & vary its capabilities. It's complex as far as the creative scope it offers, but not complicated to use.

Lightroom is photography specific. The graphics capabilities of the software are minimal, for watermarking textually. It's not suitable for logo creation or graphic design, hence I'm looking for an inexpensive graphics software tool for creating a business logo. Also, as I work photographing promotional material for performing arts, knowledge of how to create graphic promotional material in conjunction with my photography work would give me a greater package to offer clients.

Wow! Amazing, what a contribution! Thanks a million haakoo!

I 'hate' learning from videos. I have to repeat them so frequently whereas if I have text I can just isolate what I need. Watching videos is so time consuming. The online manual for Affinity has a poor search engine too. Anyway, moan, moan, moan....🤣

Well, I don't know how I got to that situation. My usual creative process is to explore & experiment, working intuitively, but this software doesn't really facilitate that approach. I want to create a logo, but I have no idea what I want, I just want to play until I fond some attractive shape, texture & colour combinations. The same way I create music & photography. But I will have to spend a long time reading & watching videos & remembering all the tool functions & their combinations, before I can express myself effectively with this software. But many thanks for your help today.

Thanks very much for your troubleshooting guys, much appreciated. I'm an advnaced user of Lightroom for many years, but this concept of visual software is radically different & just melts my brain. It's so complicated, & so much of what is happening in the work space is hidden.

What does this indicate G13RL?

Thanks very much for your time firstdefence. 87s Logo #1.afdesign

That's exactly what I did, as I described previously.

I just checked. I think it is not a closed curve. I dragged a triangle shape from the left tool bar, then I managed (somehow) to add a node along the bottom line, & pushed the triangle up from the centre of the line. This is how I created the above chevron shape.

I get all the results you have displayed in the video clip except the top point response. What is a closed curve? I am an absolute beginner with this type of software. I've had a frustrating 2 days. It took me about 4 hours to make 2 chevrons. I'm finding the software painfully difficult to understand.

This is my chevron. The topmost point of this image is the point that does not at all respond to the corner tool. I can curve the other three points, they respond to the tool.

I am trying to curve the corners of a chevron. All the corners respond to the tool except the outer centre point. I have tried it with two chevrons on a design with the same result. Why is this?