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Many thanks everyone. All these replies are really helpful and suggestions I can benefit from on this project and future ones. Thanks so much for taking the time, My artwork is ready now, so I'm really pleased.

Hi, I am in the process of designing a poster. The image consists of a photograph plus text I have applied. I have produced the initial file in Affinity Design, A3 pixel size, 300 resolution with a 5mm bleed. But I also need to have the poster to be printed in A6 and the printer would prefer me to resize it myself. I am unsure how to do this, but it's a skill I want to learn. I would be so pleased/grateful if someone could guide me through what to do.

many thanks for all of the replies. they have been most helpful. thank you also Wonderings for the advice to convert to CMYK before doing any edits and the help on the bleed. I feel I can proceed with confidence now. much appreciation.

Hi. apologies if this topic has been covered, I've done an Affinity search but not found my answers Basically, I am doing something pretty straightforward: creating an A3 print-size poster out of a RAW photo image with some added text. The finished work will be printed professionally and also distributed online. I will be making a few adjustments to the photo, nothing major So, my questions are: 1. given that it is a raw image should I do all the work first in RGB then convert to CMYK for sending it to the printer and keep as RGB for sending online 2. when is best to convert it to a JPEG 3. Am I better off working in Affinity Design or Affinity Photo (Affinity Design seems to allow me more options when setting up the document, like added a 5mm bleed which the printer has requested thank you in advance

Hi I'm getting myself tied in knots trying to search this subject, so forgive me if this is a bit muddled - I'll try to be clear. So, basically: I am working on my macbook pro, mostly working from folders on my desktop (I find the Photo app confusing and can never find anything in there) I have a folder of wedding photos on my desktop and I would like to be able to view all contents (about 30 photographs) at the same time so I can move them around to estabish an order, delete those I don't want, and edit any I need to work on. I guess it would look at little like a contact sheet, but open to change of order and editting. Is it possible to do this using Affinity Photo? The furthest I have got is to be looking at multiple images via 'separate mode' but once I am in separate mode I'm completely lost as to what to do next. I do hope someone can help or point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance.

many thanks Dan C. I will look into the download, and at least can stop feeling quite so incompetent!!

Hello. Apologies in advance if this subject has already been covered, but I have been unable to find anything during my searches. I am trying to crop a photo in Affinity Photo, to A3 size, which is 297mm x 420mm or ratio 1:1.41. I have opened up the crop tool and tried to set the dimensions using aspect ration, absolute dimensions and set a custom, but unable to make anything work. I can't seem to set the exact dimensions I require and when I do set a dimension close to that, I am unable to keep the restrain when resizing the crop. so I have two questions: how to set an A3 size and also how to keep it. jj

Many thanks all the 'J's, I now have lift-off :) and another step along the way to becoming an expert lol! really appreciate the help.

thank you jhoy , I'm sorry I wasn't able/allowed to paste the image, apologies for lack of skills. it is just a simple logo with lines and letters in a square format. As I make the image smaller, the lines retain their original thickness. I hope this explains things a bit better.

Hi everyone, apologies this is such a newbie question but I am not getting anywhere trying to solve the problem. I am trying to reduce my logo in scale, making it smaller. I am using the lock aspect ratio by pressing shift down and reducing the overall image in size to the correct ratio, but the width of the actual lines are staying the same, so the lines gets thicker as I make the overall image smaller. any help very much appreciated

brilliant, it worked. Many thanks to both.

Hello, thanks to the forum's help I have been able to isolate an image from its background, using the pen tool. However, when I export it to my web page, the outline of the background is still there, shown as the shape of the original photograph. So my page is coloured, with the image on it set inside a white rectangle. i need the image to be completely separate. hope this makes sense. I have read about a method of going into the pixel persona, layers and rasterising, forming a mask and cutting and pasting, but that doesn't work, and my image is quite an odd shape. any help would be much appreciated. jj

it has worked, so pleased. It was the fill tool and also confusion that it was the thumbnail in the layers panel that I needed to drag onto the image layer. another leap forward for me. many thanks.

Hi. I am having problems achieving the task of isolating an organic shaped roundish object from its background so I can use just the isolated object on its own. working in AfDesign. I have tried lots of tutorials, with the pen tool, with the pixel persona, drawing a shape around the object and dragging over the thumbnail, but nothing seems to work. I seem to get lost at the point of clicking the command key plus X when nothing happens. Is there a tutorial for absolute beginners that will take me through this? I am attracted to the method using the pen tool as this allows me to draw exactly around the object. Would it be easier to do this in Affinity Photo? I have both.

many thanks everyone