Gerry Fraiberg

As I learn Photo, I'm delighted to see compatibility with Apple's Final Cut Pro X video editing software. When exporting as a Photoshop PSD you can select "Final Cut Pro X". Until now I've been using Photoshop CS5 to create graphics for video projects, which I'm replacing with Affinity Photo. With CS5 I found that drop shadows created in Photoshop didn't translate to FCPX. But with Photo, the transition is seamless. FCPX lets you animate layers to have photos and or text move around the screen by creating keyframes. I like how images can be placed and quickly sized in Photo by selecting Place, click and drag. Aligning images is made easy by guidelines that pop up as you move around the document. The image below is 1920 X 1080 for HD video. Old school collage with drop shadows, gradient background. I sampled the sky reflection in the water and the fungus for the gradient background. The JPEGs are unprocessed, straight out of camera.

Love this. Great word play. And what better proof of concept for Publisher than a finished, printed book in your hands.

Do you have the "Bleed" area showing? If not, from the menu select View, then from the drop down menu select Show Bleed. I think there is a keyboard shortcut, but I can't find it at the moment. Still learning :-)

Make sure you uninstall the Trial version before installing your purchased version when buying from the App Store. After a couple of days of the Trial version of Photo, I decided to buy it from Apple's App Store. After downloading and installing the program to my Mac Pro (2009) desktop computer, I was asked for a Product Key on launch. I tried downloading and installing again. Same thing. Then came the "aha" moment. I moved the Trial version to the trash (uninstalled), downloaded again and installed - et voila! So far I'm impressed with how well Affinity Photo runs on my vintage Mac Pro running OS 10.11.6 (El Capitan) with 8 GB RAM and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 512 MB GPU. Not the most robust system.

By the way, I've just subscribed to your YouTube channel

Thanks. I just figured that out before seeing your reply :-) I also found I can save a version with Transparent Background. Lots to learn about Affinity Photo. This will be helpful as I create a lot of graphic and text screens for my video work.

Is it possible to set and save Guides? I'm coming from Photoshop CS5, which has Video pages with Action Safe and Title Safe guides. Affinity Photo has new Document settings that include Web with a page preset of FHD 1080p (1920 x 1080, 16:9). I'd like to be able to have a default Guides setting so I don't have to enter manually every time. When I imported a PSD, it brought in the Guides so I got the settings: Horizontal - 54 px 108 px 972 px 1026 px Vertical - 96 px 192 px 1728 px 1824 px