Merlin

I’ve just bought a Wacom Intuos to expand my drawing capabilities but I’m not really getting the hang of it. I want to use the pen to paint and sketch and would like to be able to quickly adjust colors as I paint. Does anyone have any really good tips to do this? Or alternatively, any recommendations for video tutorials using Intuos pens with Affinity Photo? Many thanks.

@R C-R I have a brightness/contrast layer set to a blend mode of soft light.

@R C-R The layer is a soft light layer with 40% brightness. It is identical on every art board because I copied and pasted it between boards, and it is the top layer on each board.

@walt.farrellI am working in Designer but I tried printing in Photo to diagnose the problem and had the same issue. I have the same blend layer in each artboard. Some art boards recognize the layer and others don’t. Please see my original post.

@firstdefenceThank you for your suggestion. I found the issue wasn't just 2 cards after all. I have 24 artboards in the file and half of them wouldn't print with the blend layer. I broke them down into two files of twelve and one file printed ok and the other had 8/12 cards that wouldn't print with the blend mode. I then took those 8 cards and divided them into two fours and half of those wouldn't print with blend mode. So finally I printed the last two and they were OK. So there seems to be something wrong with how many artboards modified by the blend layer will print accurately using slices. It seems to be half of them. I found this issue in both Designer and Photo.

I have 24 playing cards set up as artboards in a file. Each is set up the same. I have added a soft light blend layer to the top layer in each artboard to make the cards brighter. I am printing them to a pdf with presets as slices. Bizarrely half of the cards print as if there was no blend layer. The other half prints with the brighter finish. I took the experiment further by adding extreme blend layers such as negative and half of the cards print as if the layer had been deleted or is invisible. I delete the layer and copy it from another card that is working, and I have the same problem. Does anyone know what I am missing? Is it a quirk of the software or is there a setting that I've accidentally changed on just these cards? Any help would be appreciated. The only solution I can think of is to completely rebuild the cards from scratch, which would take ages.

I need to create banners for a web site and I am following the specification which is 160 x 600 @72dpi. My understanding is this is the pixel size (160 pixels x 600 pixels) so that must mean the specification for dpi is irrelevant? Nonetheless I attach the PNG I created using these dimensions by exporting from Designer and I'm concerned it seems blurred. Do you think this will look fine on a computer screen? Any assistance appreciated because I think I'm overthinking this.

It seems people are being unreasonable. I asked a question which I have the answer to. Affinity cannot export word files. I don’t need to be lectured that I don’t plan my work properly.

It looks like you need a proof reader. 😀 I raised the original question and I specifically needed to export to Word and I never managed to do that. Editing in pdf is not effective for me. What I needed was not just a proof read but advice of laying the page out and as they don’t have Affinity they wanted to show me in Word. But that was a while ago. Thank you @ubercool I agree with your comments.

@HANDJOJO if that happens it will be a really neat, if not essential, feature. Thanks for letting me know. Do you know when 1.9 is scheduled for release? I agree it would be more valuable in Designer. Thanks.

@h_dthanks. @Callum thanks too. I tried it again and it’s working now. The slice export wasn’t the right size yesterday. Weird but I’m so relieved it works. Phew that saves me a ton of work. @h_d yes, I’m printing playing cards and they want png or jpg format. I think bigger manufacturers want pdf as you suggest. By the way, is there a way to set the color of the bleed area? Mine comes out white which isn’t what I want.

I have 24 artboards of 2.5" x 3.5" (playing card size). When I use 'Export Persona' and create slices they print as PNG images at 2.5" x 3.5", which is good. Now I want to send them to a printer and I want to add 0.125" bleed around the entire perimeter. I added this bleed in Document Setup under the File tab in Designer. Under Export Persona for the PNG settings I have clicked the box 'include bleed'. When I export the slice the image is still 2.5" x 3.5" but I was hoping it would add an area for bleed making the image 2.75" x 3.75". What am I doing wrong? Many thanks for your help.

Yes, it’s because I wanted to print multiple art boards to one sheet, and export prints each artboard on a single sheet. Nonetheless, I found a work around by temporarily rasterizing my art boards before printing.

Neither Publisher nor Photo will print my work as a pdf using ‘Microsoft to PDF’ driver. The blue line stops at about 60% and stays there forever. The only way out is to cancel the print. I’ve never had this problem before. I’ve tried rebooting the computer too. I’ve spent hours trying to print some important files for a deadline and nothing works. Does anyone have any ideas please? Many thanks!

To be fair I was just asking a question to try to avoid all the additional work.