thedrumdoctor

Every label you see on a supermarket shelf started out on a graphic designer's computer. Every pattern you see on a dinner plate or the design on the table cloth it sits on came from a graphic designer's mind and into a computer. The phone you might be reading this on had its physical attributes and aesthetic features designed by a creative mind working with computer design software. As long as the human eye keeps desiring attractive things to look at, graphic design will always be a process helping shape and idea into reality.

Or Canva will add it in future, at a rental cost....

I do stuff in the music industry and some artwork tweaks I’ve put through Serif desktop applications has been done for some quite big artists. No one cares what you work on, they’re only interested in the result going to print.

Yes, I tried that which did help. I got there in the end but visual guides would have been a time saver. Being able to snap on the diagonal also helped.

@walt.farrell Thanks for steering me towards that one. Hopefully they'll implement it at some point. I tried the different types of guide and set snapping up to take diagonals, but it's not quite the same as having the visual guides, which I had to create via the pen tool (an exercise in time wasting) 😒

I've searched this forum for "diagonal guides" but can't find anything, so here's my vote for the addition of diagonal guides across the suite. I wanted to segment a circle in Affinity Photo and looked in the guides settings to set up some diagonal guides, but computer says no....

Aha…it’s not really a true ‘cloud’ sync service then. I have other apps on the iPad which do use non-iCloud sync services to backup work. I use apps like Nebo and Noteshelf which do this very well. Hopefully Affinity can develop that level of integration in the future.

I’m late to the party here regarding cloud sync….so linking Dropbox in Designer doesn’t create an automatic background sync when edit have been made to a document, it just allows the user the option to export directly to Dropbox?

Seconded.

I’ll upvote OneDrive as well.

THANK YOU! I don't know how to make bushes for paths like in Illustrator and your brush download with the teeth shape has just saved a lot of grief! This application still has a long way to go to equal Illustrator but it beats Adobe's rental system.

Unfortunately, to do anything with Linux, I needed it run music recording software and virtual instruments, plus Affinity design tools and regularly organise and update the music library on my iPhone. I often upload recordings I've made to listen to in the car etc. The only good thing I've got from Linux is discovering the Insync cloud management app which destroys Microsoft's OneDrive app on so many levels. But if I could get my everyday workflow stuff going on it, I'd have no qualms shifting over and paying for software.

Yep....that's about the top and bottom of it. No way could I get the iPhone to sync music or do anything else, other than to appear as another storage device. Total non-starter and put an end to my Linux experimentation (well, along with not being able to use the design tools I can use on Windows and Mac).

How do you cope with integrating iOS devices with Linux, or did you give up trying that one (like me)?

Windows 10 has become the new Windows 7….