ZVK

Good stuff.

If you spend most of your time on Facebook I just created an affinity designer group there. Share your work, tips and resources!
 
Here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/351282005040403/

A lot of value-adjusting sliders in AD max out at a certain value. But, for some of them, you can enter values into the input boxes that are greater than the slider value. For example, if the Inner Shadow Radius slider max value of 100% isn't enough, enter a higher value in the text box.
 
This doesn't work with all parameters of course, 100% opacity is as much as you can expect for example. Nice software.

Thanks ZVK and Sunset: for the fonts I used Photoshop. There I feel more confident, than with font working in Afinity designer.

Quick (very) Cheatsheet of the available shortcuts.
 
This is lifted straight from the "Help" section.
For those who like to pin it to a physical wall - might help a few people get up and running.
 
Affinity Designer Shortcuts.pdf

I love AD - simple changes are so fast :-)
 
https://www.facebook.com/eBook.Cover.Design.Service/photos/a.444516152258334.108831.440272832682666/816511118392167/?type=1&theater

A little update on my card design.....The cracker got canned yesterday as he wasn't working for me, Ive built in a popper to cover the idea of the office Christmas/new year party.

hello friends of this wonderful group
I want to share with you the joy I feel in using this program. Unfortunately I can not draw well, I've never succeeded. But this software is really fantastic and so I challenged my imagination and I created some draft (I found on pinterest a few items that have inspired me) blending them with my imagination .....   I share them with you, thanks and good day to all !!!!    

Another doodle. Mostly simple shapes in affinity design help create this guy.
 

 
 
Update:
 

 
update: pixel brushes used to add some texture to his clothing and hat
 

http://www.cgtextures.com/
 
I have used this resource for years.  They have a large, easily searchable catalog.  I have never failed to find something I can use for a background, overlay, texture etc.
 
With a free membership you get a much larger download limit.  I find that I have never bumped my limit.  Of course, with paid membership one gets an amazing download limit.

Hello Friends,
 
I am thinking to launch a website with Affinity Exclusive resources. As a user, will you be helpful to contribute beautiful resources for other users? And it will be an blog type interactive website with resource download link. 
 
Question to staff :
- Can I use 'affinity' name as a part of domain? 
- Any suggestions? 
 
Please suggest domain names in comment.
 
Thanks,
Nimit 

Hi. 
This is my second update for my Work in progress. 
i add some product, and motif, i also change the background for green. 
 
I have to do some improvements with products integration. but the idea is here !
 
Thanks for watching !
 
P. S. 
i put hi-res version to better watching !
 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23024144/Charte%20graphique.jpg

Hi everyone. I am new to Affinity Designer. I really love drawing in flat color vectors at the moment, so this is my first attempt at using AD. I didn't realize there was anything in the help files at first so it's mostly just trial and error. The interface is fairly intuitive but I admit I am having some challenges figuring out how to keep line & fill colors consistent.
 
I'd love to be able to select a line or shape and simply eye-dropper from an existing one. And I can't seem to figure out how to drag colors into my swatches palette and there are a few things I'd love to see added but I'll look for a suggestion thread here :)
 
I really love the software already. I hope you like this. Thanks for looking!
 

First, this program is incredible.
It has exactly what I need without being bloated.
This price is incredible.
I'm using the trial version on my Imac at my job.
I know there's going to be Windows version in 18 months.
It is well worth the wait.
 
The original image is copyright Joe Madureira. All rights reserved.
I just used it for this test.
 
And for those who doubt is was produced in Affinity, I attached the Affinity document.
 
Please let me know what you think.
 
Cheers

Gali-test.zip

Okay all, here's what I've been up to: it's 35 pages, almost 100 images, tutorial on beginning to use Affinity Designer. It one of my "In Action" tutorials, where we start right off creating new documents and learn all kinds of stuff along the way. It's not just a "How to do this" tutorial, it's a "How to do this because..." tutorial. Sometimes it's good to get the whys of things as much as the how. Hopefully, this tutorial begins to do it.
 
Here's the link to the box folder where all the files live:
 
https://app.box.com/s/gltgu7u2wscuxxra1e1y
 
It contains the PDF and PNG file and the ZIP file, which contains the pdf and png, incase somebody doesn't like to download ZIP files from an unknown source.
 
this tutorial was written for newbies, but old-hands at Vector apps may find it good.
 
I"ll be working on finishing it as the week progresses, but I gotta get working on my comics. Daddy's gotta make money.
 
 
Any comments or such, post 'em here or send me an message via this board. 
 
thanks!
 
 

So tonight I was working on something else then started doodling this character and then it ended up turning into a rabbit and then I just ran with it and this how it turned out. I am not even sure whats it about but maybe you know haha.
 

A little bit too rude for me hahaha.

Thank you very much Neil, that's a good gesture of yours.

Thank you very much Jobalou. I've watched almost all the videos and
i'm sure they will help me so much, very useful tips. Here's one of my
tracks if you want to use it on your videos https://soundcloud.com/zvkpr/cuack
it will be an honor if you want to use it.

The second elephant i've made in AD. I have some problems with the texture of the skin and ears, so i hope someone can help me with that, thanks in advance.
http://bit.ly/1EdviXf

Hi to all,
Another tutorial of mine to teache you how to make a basic prism with rainbow colours. Easy. ±10 minutes.
http://youtu.be/l2VaEOKqcyc
:)

This one just covering the basics of the fill tool, also covering using a repeating texture with a bitmap fill...
 

Hello all!
 
Since I've only just yesterday downloaded the Affinity Designer trial, and just this morning joined the forum, I figured I'd go ahead and just make this an introduction as well as showing my first work in progress using this program.   :)
 
I cut my teeth on vector art with That Other Software version 8, just by fiddling through what amounted to a Dummies guide to it.  I realized I loved doing line work using vector art and the pen tool because it could become so perfect and beautiful with practice!  My career was in the commercial arts industry, so I was lucky to have the chance to incorporate vector design into my work on a near daily basis.  Now I'm just a hobbyist who sought out this program to be able to create patterns for quilting.  Using a vector program is perfect for that, since you need to design quilts with your background shapes blocked out first, and then build on top of them, whether with stitching, notions or applique.
 
This image is part of a very large quilt I am designing.  It's an image of my dad, and me as a little girl, standing in front of the Baha'i House in the Chicago area, which we had visited once together.  The image I'm posting here is what I managed to get done today.  As much as I'm dying to add gradients and get fancy with it as though it were an illustration, I have to keep in mind that I'm going to need to make sure the shapes are uncluttered and easy to see and separate, so that I can eventually print out each piece as a blueprint to build by hand later.  Since I won't be relying on line art, I have to make sure each shape makes a nice silhouette that'll be a quick and easy read (working on that!).  Best I can hope for for some line definition will be some fat stitching in another color here and there, and I've managed to begin adding some of that to this image before stopping for the night.
 
I'm having a little trouble adjusting to some of the rules of the pen tool thus far, but otherwise things have been pretty smooth sailing!  I'm open to learning these new things, so I'm happy to continue on getting used to how the program works.  I expect I'll definitely be buying a copy once my trial runs out.  Hope you like it so far!  There's still much tweaking and building to be done on it.
 

@ZVK,
Hi! There's no shortcut for rotating the shapes. When the mouse approaches the corners or limits of objects, then the symbols of rotation or shear appears. Its easy.