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Several pro developers were quoted as saying: "Why bother creating a graphical interface with a recycle bin to delete files or cursors you have to click to open them. It looks like an interface for children! We already have all the necessary commands in MS-DOS that allow us a more precise control of our data". The rest is history....

@PaulEC I really appreciate your willingness to help me remove backgrounds. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the reason for this post, which instead is more focused on the fact that other competing companies are introducing brand new and useful tools, based on new algorithms and gaining a strong foothold in the market. If Affinity does not adapt to the technological change taking place, it risks being left behind. Certainly still a good graphics application, but no longer an innovative one.

I see your point, but it would be nice to have the option to use the 'easy' mode natively, especially when in a hurry with a bunch of logos, vectors, etc. I already have a lot of bg removers in my arsenal, but I just wanted to emphasise that the world is changing fast. Especially with regard to the AI revolution! IMHO Affinity used to be considered an innovator in the world of graphics. Now it is becoming increasingly 'obsolete', like other well-known applications of the past. Professional users will find comfort in using the old workflows, but young people will avoid it because it is too 'slow' for their way of thinking. Just my 2 cents...

Not native in Affinity Design and 8 minutes video to explain an operation other do in 1 second. Watch https://punto-rosso.d.pr/iFhGnx

Hi, there is one thing I do not understand. Any graphic application for children has in 2022 a simple 'Remove Background' button. One click, done! Why does one still have to do 50 operations in Affinity Designer to remove a background? Best

@Dan CThanks! That really helped. So I have to rasterize every single added graphic, before I resize them? I have also the feeling that text fields looks better when using your hint. But should Affinity Designer take care automatically of the rasterizing process? @David in ЯuislipI have tested with different export settings, but didn't help. The width/height of the exported jpg is the same as the Designer document. I view them in Preview (MacOS).

@David in Яuislip Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. I create a document in designer, sized 677 x 62 px, place my graphics so that looks great at zoom "Actual Size". Export this document as pdf = looks great Export this document as jpg = blurry I don't get what has to do the fact that the cola logo is smaller as the spotify one. As long the original it's bigger than the actual size used, it should look fine. By the way, even the Spotify logo looks better as pdf than in the jpg version.

I've put together a rough test. Here you can download all the files (designer and jpg/pdf exports) https://punto-rosso.d.pr/FUONwn And here a screenshot of what I mean https://punto-rosso.d.pr/7yQApl The important part is that whatever I send to print, it comes out even "blurrier" as you see in this test screenshot, especially fonts and pictures. Thanks for your help.

Hi Dan C, thanks for your help. - As stated in my first message, different sizes. - jpeg or png - use it on websites or social medias Sorry if my answers doesn't really help mush, but I have this blurry effect on almost every graphic I export. The only way to keep the same quality is to export as pdf. Also transparent png have black backgrounds when exported from Affinity Designer. The same graphic, exported as pdf, reimported in Photoshop and re-exported as png works fine.

Hi, I have problem exporting a Designer Artboard as jpg or png. It doesn't matter which size, it looks alwys blurry. Documents is 300 DPI and I have tested with bilinear, bicubic.... Even if I create/export the graphic 2x and resize it by printing, it looks blurry. I export now everything in pdf because it's the only way to keep the same quality I have in Designer. Do I miss something? Thanks for any advice.

Thanks @Pauls, please let me know when a solution has been found.

At the end, I have rasterized all single elements and it seems to work. Let's hope it was a strange anomaly of this specific document (even if wouldn't be bad when Affinity's team would have a look at it) Thanks @Hangman and @thomaso for your help.

@thomaso Copying the single layers is almost the same procedure I did to extract the single objects from the original Photoshop file. It's also difficult to say if that helps or not as, also noted by @Hangman, the bug happens randomly. The bug appears in this specific document and for all the objects copyed/pasted from it. I cannot speak of other documents, as this is my first one in Publisher. (Used a lot Designer before) Rasterizing the full group, of course makes a difference, as there's only one object to position. This is also how I am going to finish this work, but this limit the editing and layout's possibilities. Additionally to the file I have already uploaded, I would be happy to share the original psd with the dev team, if needed.

The graphics come from a Photoshop stock file https://graphicriver.net/item/columbus-day-party-poster-vol2/17767670 I cannot upload the full original in this forum, because of Envato's Terms.

Thanks Hangman! I thought I was going crazy! And to add even more madness, multiply this behavior for all objects I have in my documents, with multiple Master pages I modify something in a Master page and suddenly everything move in the others, all the shadows spread in different positions..... I 'll never be done with this work, it's like a barrel with 4 holes, and only one cork..... @thomaso: rebooting doesn't help.