[Flat design Volkswagen van + tutorial]

Nice, Love it!

[Colourful scooter designs]

I love the line art work.  Great job! 

[Collapse 'Artboards' with one click]

Hi,

I just started using Affinity Designer at work and I love it so far.

One of the features that will really come in handy is to collapse all artboards with one shortcut key.

I usually end up with several artboards in an Affinity Designer file and it gets pretty annoying to navigate through layers on top of layers.

So please add this feature to the next rollout of the app.

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

[Social media Artboards and export presets for all your social media needs]

Thanks!

[iPhone 7 Plus mockup (free)]

Nicely done! Thanks.

[FREE eBook for Designer - by Frankentoon]

Awesome! Thanks for the ebook!

By the way, the signup page has a browser compatibility issue on Safari ( mine is version 10.11, by the way).

Attaching the screenshot for ya.

 

Thanks again! :)

 

 

[Affinity Designer Tutorial: centered grid layout]

Great, this will come in handy. Thanks! :)

[AD Question: Pattern Swatch?]

Wow, thanks, Jer! :)

 

I have tried all those techniques that were mentioned but my pattern still looks blurry. 

Only one thing left that I could try is to export the pattern as 'TIFF'.
'PNG' format still didn't work so great.

 

I think AD developers should really look into implementing 'Pattern swatch' option next time around. 

[AD Question: Pattern Swatch?]

This might be a silly question but,

 

I noticed there's no such thing as 'Pattern Swatch' in Affinity Designer. 

I see that you can only save 'color' or 'gradient' swatches.

Or am I wrong?

I know that you can use bitmap as fill, but when I try to use a (halftone) pattern that I created, the filled image is blurry, not razor sharp.

 

I'm still learning to use 'Affinity Designer' and so far I love it.

I hope there's a way to go about creating a pattern swatch.

 

Thanks!

 

- Maya

 

 

[AD // Nissan Sunny B121]

I like the cartoony look. Good job!

[Texture Brush Packs [Dots]]

Nice.

Thanks for sharing!

[Hide/show Layers quickly!]

Ooh, handy. Thanks!

[Free Brush Set for Sketching]

Thanks for sharing. :)

[Mebal ball effect play with AD]

This is pretty cool though! :) Thanks for sharing. 

[My first attempt at inking a drawing in Affinity on the ipad]

Great illustration! At first glance, I didn't really notice the dots. 

[Yet Another First Work With AD]

Simply beautiful. Good job!  :)

[AD Question about 'Transform' Value Reset]

In the Context Toolbar, select the second last icon to reset the selection box.

That was simple! Thanks! :)

[Affinity Designer Gradients Vol. 1]

I made a set of gradients for Affinity Designer. 

My first attempt at AD gradient set! Tada!  :D

I originally created the set to be used at work (using Illustrator) and I made this to share with the nice folks here at Affinity Forum.

 

Hope you guys find this useful.

 

Thanks!

 

- Maya

MAYA-GRADIENT-VOL-1.zip

[AD Question about 'Transform' Value Reset]

This is what I'm trying to do.

 

1. Draw a shape

2. Rotate it 

3. Cmd + J: Duplicate it

4. Copy the duplicated shape and move it to a different position

 

Here, I see that the duplicated shape keeps the rotation value (please see the attached images).

My question is, how can I keep the duplicate (rotated shape) and reset the rotation value of it to '0', still keeping the rotation?

Because I noticed that the duplicate still maintains the rotation value, and when I set it to '0' the shape loses its rotation.

 

Hope what I'm saying makes sense and I'm not neglecting something very obvious.  :P

 

Thanks!

 

- Maya

[Blend mode notes]

Great work, thanks!

 

- Maya

[1957 Chevy Corvette Roadster - Affinity Designer Vectors]

 

TIP: Do not use time savers and shortcuts such as embossing, strokes or 3D effects in these illustrations. It's not about time saving, but carefully crafting effects.

Nice tip, indeed. Can't wait to see your tutorials. 

[Sports Logo]

Great job with the logo! I like how you simplified the shapes as well as the choice of the palette. Looking forward to the final design product. 

[Her best Companion]

Beautifully rendered! :)

[Affinity Designer: 'Paste in Place' feature request]

mayahan,

 

I see, that makes sense. That would be a good feature to add. I don't normally use artboards much so I never worried about it but I can see how it would be useful. 

 

Hokusai

At work, I use Sketch for web design and Illustrator for everything else (multiple page document design, such as, style guide, brandbook, etc.). But Illustrator has been really clunkly, takes too long to open and save, and sometimes the program just won't open at all. I'm getting really fed up with it and thinking of switching to Affinity Designer.

[Affinity Designer: 'Paste in Place' feature request]

mayahan,

 

Affinity Designer currently pastes things in place without the need for a separate command (as long as you are near same area you copied it from). If you have an object on one layer and you copy it (or cut it) and then move to another layer and paste, it will be in the exact same place as it was when you copied it or cut it. If you have documents of the same size, this also works between documents too. It even worked for me when I used documents that were different sizes too. Isn't this the same as "paste into place" that is found in Sketch or Illustrator?  

 

Hokusai

After reading your comment I realized that what I meant to say is that 'paste into place between artboards'. Thanks.