NilsFinken

Windows Affinity Designer: I dug out my hardly-used Wacom Bamboo digital tablet today and have managed to activate pressure sensitivity for the peNcil tool and the vector Brush tool via the Controller menu. Wonderful! But can pressure sensitivity be applied to the Pen tool, too? I cannot seem to work it out.

Just a thought: As ppi and dpi are not the same thing, could that be part of the problem? Try a Google search for "ppi versus dpi".

Great! Thanks for showing the process, too! Am I right that you work only with closed shapes in the project?

Thank you for an excellent and very useful review with many valid observations not directly on Affinity Photo itself! The question of formats is important, but often forgotten. I have spent most of my Affinity time on Designer for Windows, but your review is a good introduction to Photo.

Very nice work! I love the little details like the 3d feeling to the tuning pegs. :)

Thanks to TonyJ for the impressive work of art and to MEB for the Windows shortcut "ALT + right mouse button + left mouse button + drag horizontally to change brush size and vertically to change brush hardness." Just what I was missing - Scandinavian keyboards don't really work with shortcuts involving [ and ].

I used the Node tool, then Close curve, then changed the fill. See the attached screenshot.

Fun way to use Affinity Photo and Publisher! I do hope I will be able to sleep after this! :D

Having been forced to start over when my first DAM solution was taken over by a new "developer" who starved the software to death in a few months with no usable export features, I am little prepared to switch from my present DAM solution (Lightroom 5 upgraded from 3 and then 4), unless the new DAM system is able to import at least all the metadata from Lightroom". Losing cataloging data of more than 15,000 photos is certainly not my definition of fun. I own an old Adobe Creative Suite ("1") which I have not used in years, and an old Photoshop Elements which was fine for minor tweaks, but I simply love the Affinity team's approach to Designer and Photo. I really enjoy them and am happy they have been made available for Windows. Keep up the great work, keep adding useful and slick features and swatting bugs!

Thanks for sharing - very easy to use!

A photograph (jpg, 6.5 MB) skews beautifully in Designer, but you are right that it does not add or allow for proper perspective in Affinity Designer. Only Photo offers that.

Easier than you think: Place the cursor just outside one of the anchor points of the image until the two arrows show. You can skew vertically or horizontally.

Most elegant!

I am quite ok with copying an object with different effects, and then pasting its style onto another object, via Edit - Paste Style. An option to set a default for, say, outer shadow would be nice, though.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing. Clearly there are just so many features in Designer! :)

Most impressive! :)

Sounds interesting - especially for use in animations, advancing time on a clock face, or animating administrative procedures etc. Are you willing to show an example to be inspired by?

Thanks for your swift reply! Having changed the touchpad settings - and rebooted the laptop - it still doesn't work at this end and I have decided to blame my touchpad as the mouse has no problems.

Using the space bar it should be possible to drag to pan (it is even helpfully said when the space bar is depressed - see attached), but I cannot get it to work. Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong? Windows 10, latest AD version. Move tool active. Using track pad.

I may add that the zip file is 489 MB. That should provide quite something to work with! And the book is beatifully laid out and printed!

Excellent Comparisons! I suppose your list concerns DrawPlus 8?

Congratulations to the developer team and to every Designer user! An impressive and overwhelmingly pleasant product at an unbeatable price. Even the license terms are fair and adapted to people like me with more than one computer. Absolutely no need to clamour for further rebates. The people at Serif should be commended for their hard work. Looking forward to buying Affinity Photo for Windows next. :D

I have used Serif products for many years and have enjoyed MOST of them - principally Page Plus. For lack of time I have only spent a few minutes with Affinity Designer. But the software comes across as a vibrant and enthusiastic new approach to vector designing. Easy, effective and above all enjoyable. I am deeply impressed and look forward to the final product - and its later-to-follow companions Publisher and Photo.