Yasir

I just watched the video from christidu toit, i don’t get any banding horizontal lines, like his. I have flickering issue, iMac 21” (late 2015) 16GB Catalina. i think it happened after I connected to a dual screen monitor. Yesterday I updated my Publisher, and it was doing the same flickering as it did in AD. My observations: on my display, the whole screen goes black real quick with certain tools, the text tool is the best to test it with. Upon selecting the text tool and double click on active text or scroll to select it,or just hover text tool over a text box; once moving the text tool to another text box, the flicker happens, only one flicker. I tried it with the rectangle tool, but no issue with that. same as Affinity Photo, only when selecting the Text tool as well. It seems there is something with the text tool that is causing this quick flicker I have the whole Adobe iCloud installed, not sure if it’s a glitch from that. I don’t think it’s my graphics card, because it didn’t happen before, I use AD on daily basis. I would ditch the whole Adobe product, but I’m a freelancer and if I was sent an Ai file to work with, at least I have illustrator just handy, a costly handy. I read all those posted on this subject, was not clear if any mentioned having a dual monitor running. I will have to disconnect and see if that is an issue, but I have some work to finish off in another software. thanks yasir

I wonder if I could take screen shots of a series of graphics (about 30) I created in AD, but it has to be a fixed size (1920x1080), to use later in a video editing software, DaVinci Resolve to animate. the screen shots from a Mac, either option-command- 3 or option-command-4 will not determine a fixed aspect ratio, I wonder if AP, has a capability like Photoshop to automate several shots as an action? thanks.

In order to check your fonts, if you are in a mac, open the PDF in Preview. Sometimes in AD if you open the same document that you made a PDF from n exporting, when opening it will ask you about fonts if they were corrupt. Also, a workmaround as mentioned is to convert the fonts to curves and then export, but remember to go back to document before you close it and command-z to step before converting to curve. Also, upon importing a new font to Font Book - default font utility on a Mac- it will give you a warning wether the font is corrupt or an acceptable.

I am using AD, the Slice feature, I think it is a bug in AD, I wanted to create 4 PDFs from an oversized document, so I used the slice and exported each slice, but when I decided to redo, commmand z, all the way to the beginning of the document, it seems the 4 slices I created on that document have trimmed the at the slice position; so if you select one area, it will select 1/4 of the document, and does not remember that we are starting from scratch. I was trying to print an over sized poster by tiling it when printed and later tape it, considering the bleed area, gave an extra half inch on all sides. Any feed back? Thanks

You can still recreate the whole graphic using AD, mind you in Adobe illustrator your fonts will be vector to use with Mesh Tool. I normally place that PDF file on lower layer, locked and redraw what I have, if you know the name of the font and you have it in your system, then you can size the letters - convert curves- to match your PDF. Remember in AD you can skew top to bottom and left to right only. This is a work around only. I look forward to see how Mesh tool work in AD.

As for the font, try Kudos Book SSi, or any of the Kudos font family. Speaking of fonts Whenever I go down the arrow key to see how the font looks on a selected title, once I see one I like, as in Kudos, I hit the enter key-on a mac- and the font is already selected. But if I decide to go back the list from where I left off, I have to start from the top again, leaving the area of favorite fonts and type the first few letters as in Kudos, otherwise from favorites area it will take me to the top of the letters of fonts that start with K and then scroll down to Kudos. Anyone had the same experience. Thanks

That is a good idea. If it not possible, I have a partial solution: to point with an arrow the name of tool the narrator speaks. For example, if the tutorial mentions how to move a layer to the top, by selecting it and drag it to where you want, then show the arrow and "select and drag layer" should come on the screen.

Yes, you can draw anything you want with the Pen Tool, it takes a little practice, and then you would become a pro. Here is a good toturail on the basics of the Peb Tool and Corner Tool. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_lSHZv5y0 Also, you can draw one leg and make a copy and reflect it to the other side, so both will match, just like the arms, in illustration you provided. Good article by the way about from the link in your post.

You need to use Affinity Photo, not Affinity Designer for this task, I know you mentioned it's not a stacking focus question, but for what you are asking, you would achieve those results with stacking in Affinity Photo. I just did that a couple of weeks ago with flames, I took 200 shots of flames burning in a fires place, my camera was on the tripod, and I got good results. In case you did not see a tutorial on stacking, here is one, it's simple and to the point. - Video Tube for YouTube - iPhone/iPadI hope this helped.

Here is a menu I am working on, the flames, which I shot, I found Stacking in AP helpful, as I shot on a tripod and took about 200 flames in different exposures and F stops. I had to cut out some of the flames, I found the best was the pen tool. All other photos, I had to cut around them to knock off background. My methods after cutting around ( or as some know it as clipping), if I were in Photo I just copy the mask and file and bring to Designer. I'm not sure if this keeps the file much larger than saving an eps and place from Designer. Thanks. Yasir

I have been using AD & AP for one year now, most of my work is in graphic design and food photography, which I use AP to cut around an image, the choices are either the lasso tool or brush tool; I'm used to the pen tool being an illustrator user for 20 some years. Most tutorial videos utilize the brush tool combined with the refining method, I was wondering is it possible to convert the marching lines in the Freehand Lasso tool to vector lines, this will be really ideal to fix certain spots. And would like to hear other opinions what is the best method to cut around in a photo, I'm sure Freehand Lasso tool in AD in the pixel persona will do the same as AP, lasso tool. Thanks.

Hi jateyaert It's seems that the fonts have not been loaded, they are pixelated. Also the art looks pixelated. Though the second PDF Jared looks much better. Did you creat the art from scratch, or did you created in another application. Somehow the background has to do with the images not looking so bright. I wider how it looks if you took a screen shot opposed to the PDF. I'll await to see what moderator MEB has to say. I would like to look at the original file though. Yasir.

Just moved from Adobe Illustrator last December and have been using both Desiger and Photo, didn't need illustrator until yesterday. I still have my old CS3 on the older iMac and mangled to import both Ai and eps files to Designer and I had to edit few object which have fallen apart when importing. Will Affinity Designer have such a plugin or a tool for extruding to a 3D. I know of the perspective tool, but this is in Photo and is not victor.

I am thinking you have a combination of blacks, what they call a rich black, having all 4 CMYK colors mixed together, and a 100% Black. Even though you have an RGB on your document. Check what are the colors on the black glow? another possibility, some monitors do not preview the color correctly, like some Dell monitors, but I assume you are in a Mac or iMac, which should be accurate. Also, make a PDF and open in Acrobat or Preview and see how the colors of they changes form your document. I hope any of this helps.

Or you can utilize Preview, a free app from Apple. I use it all the time, I shoot raw, upload to my desktop then open as many as 100 raw photos at a time, I go through them and decide which one I want to deal with in Affinity Photo. BTW, apple' default is Photos, once you insert a card, Photos will open it. But Preview is a great tool, you can open and edit PDFs, and export PNG files with transparency with alpha channel for web or video editing.. Preview is a Swiss Army knife. It has multiple uses.