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Hi,
 
My name is Richard Floyd and am new to Affinity Photo & Designer. Contemplating getting the new iPad Pro and was wondering if there are plans for Affinity Designer for the iPad in the near future. Thanks, Richard

Hello, 
 
Please, apologies if this type of video has been done already....
Is just the old technique of overshooting strokes, and later on deleting what is not wanted, as permits more confident lines and in certain way a faster work. is not a technique for everyone, is just one of the many ways to ink. I am using this without pressure, in this specific case, what you see is just the use of pencil, with a pre-set pressure profile (so it always starts thin, goes thick, ends thin) .The ideal thing is of course to do it with pressure sensitivity, but I just wanted to do a fast tut. 
 
Also, please don't judge the quality of the drawing, is extremely fast done, not caring about.. anything xD
 
And a last thing... I made a dumb mistake, I did not explain the main step, haha. :D  . After you draw your overshooting strokes, you need to pick the MOVE tool ( V key ) draw a marquee selection around ALL your line art piece, then go to layer top menu, and click on Expand Stroke. What this does is it converts the brush strokes in shapes with contours. Alowing so the later on applied technique. Oh! And don't forget to convert to curves any shape that was done with actual standard shapes (circle, star, etc) as those are that, "shapes" yet. For this, just select the shape, go to Layer at the top menu, and click on "convert to curves". (Alfred contribution --- > ) If you're a keyboard shortcuts person like me, you can convert to curves by pressing Ctrl+Enter on Windows (or Cmd+Return on a Mac).
 
(then you would do the selecting all by doing a rectangle selection with Move tool, and then 'Expand Strokes'. )
 
In the operation, I use the node tool making rectangle selections, but, as we don't have yet lasso for this, what I do is use quite "shift" to add to selection, and perform it in 2 or 3 additions when needed (only a few times needed). That but doing clever rectangle selections : You want to leave some dots in the middle of the crossing stroke, so that you leave no empty gaps.
 
This deletion of unwanted segments, like in other applications, requires you to use the node tool (not the move tool, now) , and go clicking on each segment to work on it. Is faster done than explained ;D. You could select all curves in the layers panel, and so, having all selected, but trust me in that doing so, would be much harder. :)
 
Oh, BTW, you wont see anything unless you maximize the video to full desktop   :)
And for that, you would need to click on the "VIMEO" white text down below, and once in Vimeo, hit the 4 directions cross icon besides the "HD", to see it in full window. Sorry, I don't have the pro version of vimeo   ;)
 
EDIT : Also, i know the eyes are not done properly, I mean, not applied well the technique, but was just for showing the general trick. Just for completeness, the eyes, being circles, they have to be converted to curves, first (done in the second one, but not its iris, just sent a stroke to front to cover it, lol) . And it would get its curves expanded to contoured shapes, like everything else, in the select all with move tool, and expand strokes. Also, you will si that, yet with node tool, I just click in some points to add a vertex or two, when there's none inside the crossing stroke. Very fast to do, though, as you will see.
 
Edit 2: For this to be comfortable like it is in other apps like in AI, what I do first is set in preferences the nodes and handles to have the smallest size there. It makes it doable. As this does not require a restart, I would change back to medium for , for example, making a logo.   :)
 
Edit 3: (last one, I promise) . You will see in his right eye (left side in the canvas), a sort of glitch, a straight diagonal crossing his eye. is not an AD glitch. I did the thing so fast that I hadn't yet cleaned well some stuff. Is just a shape badly closed by me, there's a pause (I needed to figure out a thing and also a phone call, so, paused the video there) , after that the glitch is gone as I fixed it. Nothing magic or trying to hide anything ;)
 

The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

And VirtualBox for Linux...

Hi Chris B.
How do I download the Beta version?
Many thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
 
Many of my images can be seen at www.cbphoto.co.uk
just in case you fancied a look ;)

Hello Fellow Affinity users! :)
 
I am a long time graphics artist, cartoonist, and caricaturist.  ( 25 years )
I have been using Serif products for many years now.  I work on Apple Mac computers and iPad pro.
 
I have to say the the AFFINITY line of products are a trend setter and I believe it will revolutionize the photo and graphics world.  Especially with Adobe forcing people into monthly payments.
 
I currently use Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo for MAC and iPad Pro.
 
I am happy to say that I have been Adobe FREE for 2 years now and I am not even looking back.
 
I am very honored to be part of this wonderful community.  Everyone in the forums are very helpful, talented, and fun!
 
Best Regards,
Bill

Hi Guys,

This is a known issue when using a Brush with Stabilizer enabled. It is currently with development to fix.

Hi, no chance of a port to Linux anytime soon, sorry.
It's your choice to stick with Windows 7, but you should be aware that in 2.5 years time, Windows 7 will reach end of life support from Microsoft.

Congrats, as a windows user I'm a touch jealous.  :D
 
Tethered persona anyone......

Affinity Photo for iPad – the first fully-featured, truly professional photo editing tool to arrive on Apple’s tablet – is now on sale.
 
We were proud to be able to launch it during the keynote at Apple’s WWDC in San Jose on 5 June – the highlight of Apple’s global product launch calendar.
 
If you saw that, or if you use Affinity Photo already, you’ll understand why it’s the choice of thousands of professional photographers, retouchers and editors around the world. 
 
We think Affinity Photo for iPad redefines photo editing once again, by bringing almost all the features in the Mac version to your iPad, so you can take all that photo editing power with you wherever you go.
 
The new version is tailored to harness the explosive power of the iPad’s hardware and touch capabilities, and is compatible with iPad Air 2, iPad 2017, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, iPad Pro 10.5-inch and iPad Pro 12.9-inch. Please note this is not the list of iPads that the App Store suggests it will work with, see this post for an explanation.
 
We expect this to be the biggest launch we’ve ever had and even better, Affinity Photo for iPad is priced at an introductory discount of more than 30 per cent in the App Store – so for now, you pay £19.99 / $19.99USD / 21,99€.
 
Watch the video: https://vimeo.com/220098594
 
See more: https://affinity.serif.com/photo/ipad
 
Watch some tutorials: http://affin.co/ipadtuts
 
Here's a clip of our MD presenting Affinity Photo for iPad which is 100 minutes in to this WWDC video

That last one... you should title it :  "Aquarium in the magenta galaxy".  ;)

Feature requests to make most users switch from InDesign to Affinity:
1 advanced otf support, so people can easily see what stylistic or other alternates are available
2 data merge or something similar, now without bugs
3 grep based search and replace
4 grep styles
5 multiple page sizes
 
While 1 and 2 are horribly buggy/confused in InDesign and would attract frustrated InDesign users, 3, 4 and 5 are such a delight in InDesign as to be nearly necessary.
 
Thanks for creating these powerful apps and finally offering some resistance to Adobe.
 
I've lived through the demise of Quark and am seeing the same telltale signs in Adobe's behaviour.

Click here to download the latest beta
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Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.

This is the second beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Fixes
Fixed rendering problems with Windows Display Scale set to something other than 100% or 200% Fixed a variety of Light UI bugs Added option to use High Precision input from WinTab (Wacom and compatible) devices (off by default)  
Known Issues
Huion tablets are failing to provide input

The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

But then one needs to run through a APub document applying styles. As far as semi-aautomation is concerned, writing in a word processor and importing it--assuming APub will have a clean text import and the ability to map styles--is faster.
 
Tagged text is just that, no formatting. Even when I get a word document destined for laying out in ID or QXP, I run a macro I created that tags the text and exports it out as plain text. The file, when improted, is 100% styled using the paragraph and character styles in the receiving application. That is what layout automation is all about: less manual applying of styles.
 
I just laid out a 400+ page book last week. Importing the tagged text and having the styles applied throughout got me to 99% finished. In less than a minute. It's x number of hours worth of work that importing tagged text saves. Which means I can lay out that many more books in a week, month, year. And that affects whether I take a 3 week vacation or a 3 day weekend holiday.
 
All this may be moot. We don't know what the first X number of iterations of APub will bring. I would doubt the first X releazses would have such a feature. I would be pleasantly surprised if it was included.
 
But I'll vote for something far smarter than markdown. This isn't a hobby for me.

Hi MIchael,
 
I have W10 Home, up to date (Not much choice!)
It's difficult to reproduce a hung process but my machine is a bit rubbish so it's easy for me to throw AP a task that gets the 'Affinity Photo (Not Responding)' message. Not sure if that's a valid comparison to your issue. Anyway when I Ctrl+Alt+Del while that 's going on Task Manager is slow to respond but it does respond.

My understanding is that it's not APs responsibility to respond to a Ctrl+Alt+Del request it's the OS's. If your OS isn't responding then there is no resource left for it to work with. I have 16GB of cheap RAM and have set AP to only be allowed to use 13, always leaving 2 for the OS and anything else. (you never get to use the full amount. May be worth trying to tweak that preference?
 
Regards

Yes, it's definitely a bug or a feature! :D

The problems that arise from disabling DWM in Windows 7 (note, in Windows 8 and beyond, it is permanently enabled, so this isn't a problem on later OSs) aren't ones that can be fixed by us, they would need to be fixed by the driver manufacturers (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) and Microsoft. In this case, we suggest you continue using the --no-dwm-warning flag, until you update your OS.

DVan,
 
We don't plan to 'fix' this, as it would mean supporting every graphic drivers quirks rather than this universal dwm supplied set of commands.
 
Since the public beta we have changed our opinion about the likelihood of needing to implement this second code path.

The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

Sup people. Name is Mike. I'm an environment artist with a focus in increasing my skills and expanding my tools. Came across Affinity Photo and was impressed with how much of my work flow ported over from Photoshop. In fact, I have yet to find something I can not do. I'll be around here and there asking questions and learning more about the app. Posting my art as well. 
 
Thanks for any future advice and help. I will also contribute what I can. 
 
B)

​Understand, having paths effectively partially "mask" others behind them is not necessarily "improper"; and having paths always "kiss" or abut is not always required to be considered "proper." You simply always have to construct your designs with the intended downstream use(s) in mind.
 
​Generally speaking, embroidery software can either semi-automatically "fill in" the area of a closed path with stitches, or it can stitch a "running stitch" along the path.
 
Generally, the individual paths in the file are individually assigned particular stitch types. For example, a yellow hexagonal closed path may need to have a black border stitched around it. Although in your drawing software, it is routine to apply both a fill and a stroke to a single path, that does not guarantee that the embroidery software which imports your drawing can do that. The embroidery software quite likely needs a separate path for each operation.
 
​Regarding fills, the embroidery software doesn't automatically limit itself to what are just the visible bounds of a path when viewed in your drawing software or when printed. It's entirely normal for an embroidery stitching operation to be performed on top of a preceding background stitched area. Other times, that's not desired, and you may have to use compound paths so that the stitching of what looks like a "background" leaves voids to be filled in by a subsequent stitching operation of a different color.
 
​Similar considerations are required when preparing artwork destined to be cut on a vinyl sign cutter. A design which looks and works fine for print commonly has many places where paths partially overlap others behind them. Again, that works fine for print. But sending that same file as-is to a sign shop can end in expensive disaster as the cutting knife simply follows each path in its entirety. There will be wasted vinyl and unnecessary and unwanted cuts across areas which should be cut as one piece.
 
​Even in print, overlapping is sometimes needed and other times not. Overlapping is analogous to overprinting which is an important element of building traps (chokes and spreads) where shape-following overlaps are necessary to accommodate slight miss-registration on press. That same principle is often needed in cutting sign vinyl; it's usually advantageous to provide a shape-parallel measure of overlap between adjacent dissimilar vinyl colors to make physical assembly possible and avoid gaps as vinyl shrinks over time.
 
​So again, there is no universal "proper" way to construct your drawings. They have to be constructed appropriately for the intended reproduction method.
 
​JET

My name is António Marques. 
I run a small PR company (AEMpress) and I was looking a for some good "Photoshop-Like" tools. A photographer friend told me last year about the Affinity software (I know Serif from the DTP era...) and the timing was spot on: I immediately purchased Designer and, a couple of weeks later, Photo (both for Windows).
The designer I hired came from an Adobe background, so to speak, but felt comfortable right away with both tools and has been extremely productive ever since.
I’m *very* happy with the software and its tremendous feature/quality/price ratio.
Keep up the good work.
 
Greetings from Portugal,
António