[Moving Items disappear until you release again…?]

Assuming your using 1.3.5… everything works fine for me.

[Robot]

Nice work.

[Flat Mac (Mockup)]

Good work TJ!

[Add Pantone colors in Affinity Designer]

Try ColorSchemer Studio from www.colorschemer.com. It's what I use and imports and exports ASE files, as well as CLR which you can then import into Apple Colour Picker.

 

 

 

 

[Can you make the Startup window disappear when I just open a file]

1) Hmm… if I understand you correctly, just uncheck the box in the bottom lefthand corner where is says Show This Panel on Startup.

 

2) click the Follow this Topic Button top right of this Screen. You'll get an email when someone replies to this topic.

[Add Pantone colors in Affinity Designer]

I have my Pantone swatches loaded in Apple Color Picker. They are available in Affinity Designer when you click the Color's Dropdown bar. Have to remember how to do this because it has been ages since since I did it orginally for the programme IDraw.

[Clipping Paths]

Thanks, Hokusai. I will give it another try. Must have done something wrong.

[Clipping Paths]

Tried the drag layer over the thumbnail bit and my image disappeared altogether. Also, part of the path was visible and jagged?

 

Was using the 1.2.1 version. A vid might be helpful here I think.

[Need AD file to AI file...is there a way to do this?]

1) Simply export as a PDF or EPS and supply that instead of the AI file.

2) Open either PDF or EPS in Illustrator and re-save as an AI file. Of course this all depends on what effects you've done in AD.

[I'm Leaving Photoshop]

Ditched Adobe over a year ago.

 

Using the following: Image Editing; Acorn, Pixelmator and Affinity Photo Beta — Illustration; Ivinci, Idraw and Affinity Designer — Publishing; QuarkXpress 10.5. — Web Design; Pinegrow Web Designer and BBEdit.

[Vector art conversion]

iVinci - Vector Design has a Live Trace Tool and it's available for Mac  App Store.

 

Here's a demo on YouTube 

 

Not sure how useful this would be in a workflow though. You can't copy from IVinci into Affinity Designer and the export options are limited unless you have the professional version.

 

UPDATE: IVINCI'S native file format is SVG so it just a matter of dragging the traced document onto the Affinity Designer Dock Icon.

 

Note: They also have a standalone app called iTrace which exports to SVG and PDF. Slightly more expensive.

[Clipping Paths]

No replies?

[Clipping Paths]

Have not had much time to play around with Affinity Photo yet and would like to know if it will support Photoshop Clipping Paths at some point?

 

If not, what are the best practises for reusing current images with clipping paths, if Photoshop is no longer an option?

[Affinity Photo Public Beta (1.1.2.23003)]

Great work guys.

[Content Aware Fill]

I think you're after the Healing Brush. The icon that looks like a BandAid in the Tool Palette.

[Affinity E-Zine – Ibooks really sucks big time!]

 

Affinity Review Issue 1 is now available in PDF format: http://bit.ly/1sTgkPq

 

Please be aware that it will take a while to load, as it is even bigger than the iBooks version. In the battle of size versus quality content, content won ;)

 

 

Thanks Kate. Much appreciated.

[Affinity E-Zine – Ibooks really sucks big time!]

Hi omegaman,

 

I think the team have suggested that they will publish it as a PDF too :) Incidentally, just a question - I like the iBooks format - is there anything in particular that you don't enjoy?

 

Thanks,

Matt

 

Yes, everything about it. Too slow, could not move from page to page easily. Zero tolerance for apps like this. Simple PDF is the way to go.

[Affinity E-Zine – Ibooks really sucks big time!]

Hi Guys

 

Could we please have it available as a PDF also?

 

That would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[PDF import resolution (DPI) issue.]

Note: This is happening regardless of the DPI of the original document.

[PDF import resolution (DPI) issue.]

Have noticed that when I open a PDF (All text) and check the document properties the DPI is reported at 72DPI. Upon changing the DPI to 300 the text box shrinks, while the physical page size remains the same?

 

Creating a new Print document (300 DPI) and pasting the text box results in the same thing, the box shrinks.

 

This happens in both the latest Beta and App Store release.

 

Any ideas?

G&AE Vol 42 69a.pdf

[Photoshop piece recreated completely in Affinity Designer]

Nice work. :)

[Advice]

But, they (will) share over 50% of features/code like Serif "...Plus" applications do. So, it will be very nice if it gonna be only one application. There are lots of advantages of this aproach:

 

1. less used resources (hard disk, RAM);

2. only one interface to learn;

3. only one file format;

4. no waste of time for import/export of files between apps;

5. all (three?) teams work together as one on only one app, not like Adobe (they are competition to each other);

6. faster new versions;

7. faster errors/bugs solving problems...

 

Fully against this, not everyone wants stuff they don't need. Keep the three programs separate and lean. Thanks.

[Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet for Affinity Tools!]

Fantastic! Set it as my desktop background on my smaller second monitor.

[Cutting out part of a picture to use independently]

Not sure what your are trying to achieve, but in Pixel Persona you can use any of the Marquee tools to select an area of an image and copy and paste. Best advice though is to crop the image before you place it in Affinity. Note: You can switch back to Draw Persona and use the newly created image.

[Pixel erased area]

Open the Layers palette and click on the layer named Mask (make sure you click the Mask icon or you will select both layers) and hit the delete button or drag the layer to the trash.