DanielMig

We are pleased to announce the first update for Affinity Designer for Windows (version 1.5.1).
 
The update is described here and can be downloaded from here. Once downloaded, close Affinity Designer and run (double click) the downloaded EXE to install it.
 
To install this version you will need to have the Affinity Designer for Windows already installed OR you will need to type in your email address and a valid Product key when prompted. When installing on top of an existing version you will not be prompted for the product key. If you need it you can find your product key (and a download button) in your Affinity store account, where you will also find the email address used to generate the key when you ordered the software. 
 
If you have installed any previous beta version of Affinity Designer 1.5.0 or 1.5.1, it can be safely uninstalled before or after installing this release update, they are independent installs. The beta will stop working soon anyway.
 
Please report any problems you have installing or using this new version in the Windows forum here
 
Patrick Connor
The Affinity Team

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. :) 

 

Hi all!
My name is Dawid and I am an Adobe Certfied Expert in Illustrator (should share it here ?;))
 
I've been using mainly Illustrator for several years now and I have also been creating online courses on that piece of software.
 
Recently I've decided to give the Designer a try and I am also planning to share what I've learnt on my Youtube channel.
 
Thanks for reading this!
Dawid

Thanks R C-R! I'm sure the photo was never previously rotated in the Photos app, but it worked anyway. Maybe it's the orientation of the iPhone when I took the pic that caused it. 

Thanks for creating a brilliant solution Serif and to continue to keep improving it. New features look great, and I noticed a little Star maker there also :)

Will being able to hold down space bar allow me to move around objects as I create them? Aka. Illustrator, Fireworks etc. Still miss this :) Either way, keep up the great work. Looking forward to Publisher also.

Google has just announced that their Google Nik Collection composed of seven Photoshop plug-ins is now free for everyone.
Click here for more details. You can download them from here.
 
Currently Analog Efex Pro 2, Color Efex Pro 4, Silver Efex Pro 2 work with Affinity Photo. HDR Efex Pro 2 only works partially.

KipV,
Check this video: attach_image_post.mov

Hi folks, as this giveaway has now ended I'm locking the thread. Thank you to all participants and congratulations to the iPad Pro winner - I wish you all good luck for future giveaways and competitions.
 
Here's a little reminder of the other free stuff we made available in December as a thank you to our customers for a fantastic 2015!
 
Affinity Photo Panorama tutorial with downloadable source photo sets
  Free DAUB blender brush set for Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer
  Free DAUB vector brush set for Affinity Designer
  Downloadable keyboard shortcut and gesture cheat sheets plus templates for custom shortcuts  
Best wishes, Dale.

Hi everyone!
My name is Tatiana I am from Russian city of St. Petersburg. Please tell me where I can write about the problem with the export of Affinity designer to EPS? Thanks!

Hi,
 
Unable to rename a Pantone swatch via "Rename spot..." put as a global colour to my document palette. If this is intended behaviour, the "Rename spot..." should probably be greyed out when right clicking on the swatch.
 
Cheers,
 
Matej

A very common trick I use in UI projects is to use thin, wide rectangles as separator lines. Using straight curves (lines) is no good because they would be always out of focus when exporting. (No AD's fault, rasterization just works this way.) Placing lines at .5 px positions seems a good solution, but it's too easy to misplace these lines when Move by Whole Pixels is disabled (my preferred snap setting). Having lines and open curves with offset strokes would fix it nicely, but this is not planned AFAIK.
 
The problem occurs when I want to scale these rectangles (i.e. all the time). Below a certain width, AD gets rid of the center control handle (see image), and dragging the corner handles of course change the rectangle width, which is not what I want. What I do is to zoom in, scale, pan, zoom out... a painful process. This is one reason why other drawing apps locate the control handles outside the selection!
  Any ideas?
 
Edit: of course this happens with any small object, or at low zoom settings. The Crop tool also suffers from the "disappearing handles" syndrome.

Hi MEB
OK, so it's useless as far as my needs are concerned. I'll continue using it as a stand-alone app and I'll be waiting for the future HDR tool promised for AP.
Nick

You can try going to update tab in the App Store and refresh with CMD+R. It is working in most territories but sometimes it take awhile.

Hi everyone
 
In case you didn't know, AFFINITY PHOTO HAS LAUNCHED and is in the Mac App Store now.
 
I could say a ton about how fantastic the app is and give you so much information, but it's already out there on our website, so I'll just give you some links!
 
Mac App Store shortcut
 
Affinity Photo web page
 
Awesome promo video
 
Affinity Photo full features page with system requirements
 
Affinity Photo blog post about the launch
 
Launch Tweet - please retweet if you can
 
Launch Facebook post - and please share too :)
 
Obviously the whole team is delighted to see today after so much work, the devs have done an incredible job. Thank you all too for your part in helping the app grow during the beta test.
 
Dale.

Affinity has now become officially cross-platform with the launch of Affinity Designer for Windows. It was our trail-blazing first app, and since being launched on Mac the response we have had to it has been unbelievable. It’s consistently been the top paid-for design app on Mac since launch, we’ve won a coveted Apple Design Award and there have been thousands of 5-star customer reviews on the Mac App Store.
 
For many designers, Affinity Designer has become their go-to app for everything from creating concept art, print projects, logos and icons to UI design, web graphics and mock-ups. And because Affinity Designer on Windows matches the Mac version feature-for-feature, PC users can now experience the same thrilling speed, incredible tools and supreme accuracy which has given Affinity Designer that formidable reputation.
 
For more information about the launch go here. Product information and how to buy click here.
 
Many thanks
Team Affinity.
 

Hi lesliedow,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
The Help file (menu Help ▸ Affinity Designer Help) covers extensively all the features of the program, with step by step instructions.
Additionally there's also video tutorials covering most of the features/tools/funcionality of Designer. You can find them here: In-house Affinity Designer Video Tutorials
 
For more learning resources check:
- Affinity Review our ezine, also includes some in-depth written and video tutorials covering specific subjects. The iBooks format includes video too (the PDF doesn't).
- and a few more third party learning resources here, including Books, Training Courses and written tutorials that may also help.

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.
 
Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

I wish to copy (or export) the style of an object as CSS. 
 
For example: Like you can do it in Photoshop
 
...or within Sketch

 
...or in Autodesk Graphic / iDraw.

 
 

v. 1.3.5 is today published: what should be the Lens Corrections?

Ash takes a quick look at two of the new features which will be coming to Affinity Designer in version 1.5: Constraints and Symbols.
MattP also posted a small demo/preview of Symbols some time ago here.
 
If you pay attention to the first video you may also discover a highly requested feature/improvement.... :)

As if we didn't have enough good stuff to tell you today with our amazing pair of app updates, we learned this afternoon that Affinity Photo is the Best Mac App of 2015!
 
We can't quite believe it, but it's true! That makes it best photo app too, but it’s also BEST ANY KIND OF MAC APP OF THE YEAR! Best App! :) Amazing, thank you Apple! This is what developers dream of!
 
There's not too much more to say except thank you, to Apple of course but also to everyone that has helped us shape the app into what it is. Pop over to our blog to read and see a little more.
 
Thank you, Dale.

Hello!
 
We've got a new app coming out - for the latest generation Apple TV (Late 2015)!
 
It's a learning / teaching tool for users of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.
 
For now, it simply contains all our video tutorial content from the website / Vimeo. We'll of course be adding more focussed, appropriate content over time. We'll also be doing a better job of categorising the content and grouping it together.
 
If you have an Apple TV (Late 2015) and would like to beta test this new tool - please email tv@seriflabs.com and tell us your email address (the email must be associated with an active Apple ID) - we'll then add you to the TestFlight beta program and you should receive further installation instructions.
 
Thanks!
 
Andy.

Check out the sneak peek of the HDR and 360 image editing features coming to Affinity Photo 1.5!
 
Version 1.5 features announced today include:
 
• Advanced HDR merge producing full 32-bit linear colour space images • An entirely new workspace for tone mapping • Focus stacking to bring depth to multiple combined images • Batch processing for smoother, faster workflow • Macros to record and replay a set of commands • An all-new way to edit 360 degree images   Some much anticipated features to look forward too here, coming soon to Affinity Photo...  :)  

I love the new presets in HRD persona and I noticed that some presets have Tone Map MAIN (first top panel on right) greyed out but most are clickable on or off. Just curious how and why is this possible?

As of now, the update is not visible in the German App Store!