Sivadharshan

Hello everyone!
This is a simple gradient set '.afpalette' I created to share with the community. Let me know if it was of any help to you in your projects!
Great places to use will be Website and App UI development (loading bars, background etc) and logos if you'd like.
Have a great day

Sivadharshan Affinty Pallette - Gradient Set 1.afpalette

Hello everyone!
This is a simple gradient set '.afpalette' I created to share with the community. Let me know if it was of any help to you in your projects!
Great places to use will be Website and App UI development (loading bars, background etc) and logos if you'd like.
Have a great day

Sivadharshan Affinty Pallette - Gradient Set 1.afpalette

Hello everyone!
This is a simple gradient set '.afpalette' I created to share with the community. Let me know if it was of any help to you in your projects!
Great places to use will be Website and App UI development (loading bars, background etc) and logos if you'd like.
Have a great day

Sivadharshan Affinty Pallette - Gradient Set 1.afpalette

Hello everyone!
This is a simple gradient set '.afpalette' I created to share with the community. Let me know if it was of any help to you in your projects!
Great places to use will be Website and App UI development (loading bars, background etc) and logos if you'd like.
Have a great day

Sivadharshan Affinty Pallette - Gradient Set 1.afpalette

Hello everyone!
This is a simple gradient set '.afpalette' I created to share with the community. Let me know if it was of any help to you in your projects!
Great places to use will be Website and App UI development (loading bars, background etc) and logos if you'd like.
Have a great day

Sivadharshan Affinty Pallette - Gradient Set 1.afpalette

Hello everyone!
This is a simple gradient set '.afpalette' I created to share with the community. Let me know if it was of any help to you in your projects!
Great places to use will be Website and App UI development (loading bars, background etc) and logos if you'd like.
Have a great day

Sivadharshan Affinty Pallette - Gradient Set 1.afpalette

@SrPx Thank you for the suggestion, my issue is solved. Whenever I double click on colour picker it kept crashing but once I set the scaling back to 100%, it started working. You are a saviour!

@Ron P. I've reset the fills as well as per your suggestion just in case. What does "Reset fills" do?

Thanks for the info! But when I posted this, affinity publisher didn't have data merge.

Have a nice day!

Hello!
I believe power photoshop users would know that there is a way to batch process files using data set from a txt or a csv file. Those type of options allow us to create large number of files say: ID Cards or Visitng Cards with different names with ease. It would be amazing if affinity people can add such possiblities to affinity suite, especially designer or photo.
I sometimes have to do such work and it is a big headache to create everything one by one manually. I know affinity templates can make your work easier but that is sort of a manual task too. I feel there is a lot more affinity templates can do with such dataset and variable connection capabilities. Hope this is the reason why affinity thought of implementing affinity templates since there isn't a great deal of difference between a normal file and a template file.
Hope this is a valuable input. (People who agree can react to this post and show support for the request of this feature!)
Have a great day!

Hello all!
Contrary to usual belief that only Adobe XD, Figma, Invision are great at UI design, I have a strong feeling that Affinity Designer has more scope to grow because it has a lot more to offer. Designer is intuitive, has WAY MORE control over curves than the popular UI design tools and is a complete design software while the others just barely are one. Affinity sure doesn't have prototyping, but otherwise it is a killer application for UI development, because I get to work with things as small as the pixel perfection of icons in the UI to something as broad as having symbols, constraints and even re-usable assets.
According to me, Adobe XD, Figma, etc., are "Tools" but Affinity Designer feels like a (end-to-end) "Solution" to all UI design needs.
But I believe there are two little things that Affinity Designer currently needs to do to make the life of a UI designer better:
1. Auto Layout: Affinity's Constraints feature is amazing. It is simple yet very effective when it comes to UI design in Affinity Designer. But it lacks when I add text, that will be changed at different instances, as an element inside constraint group. The text flows into the group and there is no option to set the basic padding beyond which the container resizes according to the height/width of the text that is set to auto layout. Same thing happens when I need any design element to resize according to the padding and not just as a relative size of the parent container.
2.Design System Library: This is a simple one. I'm not sure if this is very important but here I go. I know .afassets, .afpalatte & .afbrushes exist. But it will be awesome if we can combine those files and send it out as one file, a .aflibrary for example, that when loaded, loads up the .afassets, .afpalatte & more at once. This could also mean something to other designers as well. Say the designer develops a icon system, brush style, color palatte and a highlighting system (quotations and more) for a book, he/she, just has to send the ".aflibrary" file to a co-designer (or even if he/she sells that design system) that loads all the required assets into the respective panes at once.
Hope this is a usefull suggestion.
Have a great day everyone!
EDIT: Also, it will be great if the above mentioned ".aflibrary" file also gets saved along with the normal affinity file unlike the other asset files like afassets afpalatte and so on. This saving together could be an option like saving history.
 

Hello everyone!
This is a simple gradient set '.afpalette' I created to share with the community. Let me know if it was of any help to you in your projects!
Great places to use will be Website and App UI development (loading bars, background etc) and logos if you'd like.
Have a great day

Sivadharshan Affinty Pallette - Gradient Set 1.afpalette

Hi @Sivadharshan,
Thanks for spotting this. Issue logged. 

Hello all!
Contrary to usual belief that only Adobe XD, Figma, Invision are great at UI design, I have a strong feeling that Affinity Designer has more scope to grow because it has a lot more to offer. Designer is intuitive, has WAY MORE control over curves than the popular UI design tools and is a complete design software while the others just barely are one. Affinity sure doesn't have prototyping, but otherwise it is a killer application for UI development, because I get to work with things as small as the pixel perfection of icons in the UI to something as broad as having symbols, constraints and even re-usable assets.
According to me, Adobe XD, Figma, etc., are "Tools" but Affinity Designer feels like a (end-to-end) "Solution" to all UI design needs.
But I believe there are two little things that Affinity Designer currently needs to do to make the life of a UI designer better:
1. Auto Layout: Affinity's Constraints feature is amazing. It is simple yet very effective when it comes to UI design in Affinity Designer. But it lacks when I add text, that will be changed at different instances, as an element inside constraint group. The text flows into the group and there is no option to set the basic padding beyond which the container resizes according to the height/width of the text that is set to auto layout. Same thing happens when I need any design element to resize according to the padding and not just as a relative size of the parent container.
2.Design System Library: This is a simple one. I'm not sure if this is very important but here I go. I know .afassets, .afpalatte & .afbrushes exist. But it will be awesome if we can combine those files and send it out as one file, a .aflibrary for example, that when loaded, loads up the .afassets, .afpalatte & more at once. This could also mean something to other designers as well. Say the designer develops a icon system, brush style, color palatte and a highlighting system (quotations and more) for a book, he/she, just has to send the ".aflibrary" file to a co-designer (or even if he/she sells that design system) that loads all the required assets into the respective panes at once.
Hope this is a usefull suggestion.
Have a great day everyone!
EDIT: Also, it will be great if the above mentioned ".aflibrary" file also gets saved along with the normal affinity file unlike the other asset files like afassets afpalatte and so on. This saving together could be an option like saving history.
 

+1 for live mesh warp! It would be awesome to see it!

Hi Sivadharshan,

Thanks for letting us know - I've passed this over to development to be investigated.

+ 1 for AutoLayout. This is one of the top features for web and UI design. 
 

Hi @Sivadharshan,

Thanks for letting us know. I'm getting this here and will pass it on to development.

Merry Christmas guys 🥳

Hello everyone!
This is a simple gradient set '.afpalette' I created to share with the community. Let me know if it was of any help to you in your projects!
Great places to use will be Website and App UI development (loading bars, background etc) and logos if you'd like.
Have a great day

Sivadharshan Affinty Pallette - Gradient Set 1.afpalette

Hi tsivadharshan,

Copy as SVG will place a SVG object into the Clipboard (evidenced with FreeClipboardViewer). This can then be pasted in some applications that support that object type such as Illustrator and Inkscape.
However it was reported to us a while back that this wasn't working with Figma. When I looked into it I found that Figma only likes SVG data stored as 'text' on a clipboard, which I imagine might be the case for the other applications.

The good news is that this has recently just been resolved by development and Copy items as SVG will now copy the SVG code onto the clipboard as text allowing you to place inside Notepad etc.

This fix should be in the current 1.9 beta if you would like to try it, however be aware you should work on copies of your files in 1.9, as saving them in that version will stop them from being opened in 1.8.
 

Hello Thomaso,
Thank you for explaining. But this is something I am already aware of. What i'm asking for could be better understood if you read the whole line:
 
When saving as a package, if I have all images as embedded, they continue to be embedded eventhough an empty folder called "images" is created by default. I'm saying, it will be great if the save as package option automatically converts all the images into linked images and puts them in the images folder. This way I wouldn't have to collect/make linked all the embedded files before saving as package. This would also reduce the size of afpackage file that is created which currently becomes high because of embedded images that aren't automatically converted to linked. This option need not be default, it perhaps can be checkbox that shall be ticked when needed.
Also, another input to the affinity team. If all files that are created during packaging can be saved as a zip file by ticking a checkbox, that would be super awesome since I would have to zip it manually if I have to send it to someone, and naturally we would package mostly if we had to send/deliver it to someone.
Have a great day!

Hello Thomaso,
Thank you for explaining. But this is something I am already aware of. What i'm asking for could be better understood if you read the whole line:
 
When saving as a package, if I have all images as embedded, they continue to be embedded eventhough an empty folder called "images" is created by default. I'm saying, it will be great if the save as package option automatically converts all the images into linked images and puts them in the images folder. This way I wouldn't have to collect/make linked all the embedded files before saving as package. This would also reduce the size of afpackage file that is created which currently becomes high because of embedded images that aren't automatically converted to linked. This option need not be default, it perhaps can be checkbox that shall be ticked when needed.
Also, another input to the affinity team. If all files that are created during packaging can be saved as a zip file by ticking a checkbox, that would be super awesome since I would have to zip it manually if I have to send it to someone, and naturally we would package mostly if we had to send/deliver it to someone.
Have a great day!

Hello!
This is my work for Vectober 2020 challenge.

This is the first time I am participating in the Vectober Challenge. However, I have been using Affinity programs for a very long time. I think Affinity Designer is the best thing I used for illustration. (I used to use Adobe and Corel products earlier). Throughout the Vectober 2020 Challenge, I will be happy to share all the original files of all the illustrations that I will do. I think it will be useful for all beginner illustrators to learn my source files to understand how the magic of artwork is done in Affinity Designer.
Just follow the link to my website: http://nodeus.ru or instagram: https://instagram.com/nodeus
Also i`m share all source files for my patrons on Patreon and Gumroad.
I will update the topic as the work progresses.