Frances Proctor

I have decided to just wait and see what happens but I will not be building the new business that I have been wanting to do I think that this will could go like Xara/Magix They still sell their Designer pro non subscription but you if you don't get the subscription there is no assets in the designs gallery so no templates no smart shapes just imagine Affinity designer with only squares and ellipses and everything else behind that subscription pay wall then next to go wad the Xara Xone a teaching and resource site it was scrapped and the community tutorials put behind a ridiculous site that you can't search and no one uses any more and nothing new was ever added again Then the Magix crapp software that was cobbled on to the Xara software I switched to Affinity once I could run it on my Pc to to get away from all of that was happy and enjoyed Affinity apps now here we go again So I will wait and see if serif/ canva prove me wrong I hope they do

I will wait and see what happens but I won't hold out much hope they will add features and content that will be subscription only that is what a subscription is all about Canva will make changes its their company now and they call the shots I truly hope I am wrong but I saw as a member of the forum team at Xara and had access to info that wasn't public that what went down with Xara and Magix was not good I can easily see the same thing happening here So to Ash, Patrick and the rest of the Affinity team I truly would love for Canva to prove me wrong let's hope they do

Another Software company that sells out I came to Affinity because of the crapshow that become Xara and its product line when they sold out to Magix Now Affinity have done the same just wait til canvas start bolting on their crappy add ons Canvaffinity here we come Just wait til Canva starts cutting costs whereever and whoever they can Just wait til there is a subscription fee snuck in first as an optional thing but before you know it you will need that subscription to get the best new features and new content So where do we go now ? For me I am now a hobbiest and once the crap show begins just like magix did with Xara I will find a new hobby I have seen this before now we are about to see it again Apparently the folks at Affinity didn't learn from Xara's mistakes Because no matter what you promise now You are no longer calling the shots the software, the company and your loyal customers are now at Canva' s mercy

show as list greyed out and auto selected and no nozzles show on preview in vector brushes in pixel persona it works just fine is this intended/expected behaviour?

messing around with the vector warping this time I warped text around a sphere one thing I found and this may be already known but you select the warp group and apply effects it only applies the effects in the original bounding box however select the text layer within the warp group and apply the FX to that and all works fine

these cookies have zero calories! some brushes that paint cookies on your document! chocolate chip, double chocolate, gingersnap and sugar cookies! cookies.afbrushes

I am able to repeat this but I'm not sure if its known or not any way here is exactly what i am doing 1. create 2 vector shapes with the shape tool and add them to make a compound shape 2. clip a bitmap into the shape as a child layer 3.apply 3Dfx to the shape and add a colour overlay fx with 50% transparency 4. create some text and place on top of the shape 5.apply bevel fx to text and set transparency to 50% 6. group text and shape 7. layer menu >vector warp group >mesh 8. add extra nodes to mesh beta crashes

so was playing around with the beta version and it crashed went to open it again and got a notification of a new version available and decided to try the exe format. when I try to install it my av software blocks it saying it contains a threat GenVariantFragtor.206121 so I went to open the stable version and it wants me to activate it which i did do before as i have used it for a while now. anyway filled in my info and it now says wait a moment and try again which never goes away and if I close it and try again i still get the same thing. I am going to close everything down and restart my computer see if that changes anything Edit: after restart exe versions of stable 2.04 apps working fine designer 2 beta exe (latest build) still triggers av software (Bit Defender) after temporarily disabling bit defender beta exe installs fine

There could be lots of uses for spirals from plant illustrations to Greek meanders to logo design

You could also add Xara designer pro X to that list Sadly though theirs is part of their subscription and with out keeping up an increasingly expensive subscription you lose access to it They implemented theirs as a shape tool which would a great way for affinity to add it too! Just imagine being able to drag a spiral on to your page and be able to quickly edit it with some of those special nodes! And no subscription needed!

ok I guess tomorrow I am going to install the exe versions and decide at least i have only installed the designer beta so far thank you for your help

will it actually be easier to uninstall and reinstall all my affinity apps? if i could just point my keyboard software to the proper files is all I need. I miss my g keys

I have a logitech g710 gaming keyboard it has six programable keys that i had set to quickly do things like open a new document, export, and a few other things to speed my workflow however the keyboard software doesn't pick up the msix files its looking for the exe file where are those files for version 2 once installed?

hi been playing with this and I'm not sure why but I cant get the bitmap fills to work with the vector flood fill every time i try the whole thing fills not the desired area. I select everything then select the vector fill tool then drag a bitmap from my assets panel to the active colour on the toolbar just like in the video but the whole thing fills not sure if i'm doing something wrong or what is wrong I have attached my file and the assets file These wood fills are my own designs they are procedural textures created in filter forge my wood assets.afassets vector flood fill wood fills.afdesign

I am sorry I know this isn't really the correct place for this but I don't know where it would actually go ? In this area you have separated out v1 and v2 related posts which is good but there are other areas where the same re organization would mke the forums much more user friendly. for example resources and tutorials And questions about the software. more subforums would make easier navigation for example some one looking for an answer about Designer v2 doesn't want to surf through hundreds of v1 posts