[affinity 1.10.665 and affinity photo 2 for ipad]

2 hours ago, GarryP said:

The title is a bit vague about which software you have – are they both in iPad, or is one on iPad and the other on desktop?

The title is a bit vague but the text of the OP clarifies:

3 hours ago, brotell1950 said:

the version 1.10.665 is for my laptop and the other is for my ipad

 

[PLEASE allow us to prevent the Update Available messages!!!!!!!!]

31 minutes ago, Return said:

Those options aren't available on windows.

The ‘Check for updates’ option on Windows is on the Help menu in the Affinity Store version, but it isn’t available in the Microsoft Store version.

[Strange second icon for Designer 2 appeared on iPad]

That’s a feature (or a bug?) which was added in iOS/iPadOS 15. If you pull down the Search box and search for an app which is already on your Home Screen (or in a group on your Home Screen) you can add another icon for it. You can remove the extra icon just like any other icon: long-press on the background of the Home Screen (or the group) to make the icons wiggle, and then tap on the ‘-‘ button and choose the ‘Remove from Home Screen’ option from the menu that pops up.

[The Box Set by Wren]

1 minute ago, WREN said:

For what its worth I think my brushes are a great value, and if I ever add to the set you'll get that new stuff for free.

For what it’s worth, Jef, I think they’re great value too! Even at full price it’s only $12 for the set, which already works out at less than 3 cents per brush.

[CMYK colour space]

Welcome back to the Serif Affinity Forums, Les.

10 minutes ago, Les Simmons said:

Do I need to edit using CMYK or do I just export them as CMYK & will they automatically adjust accordinly.

The RGB colour space has a much larger gamut (range of colours) than the CMYK colour space, so working in CMYK is the best way to avoid nasty surprises. In particular, brighter shades of orange and green are likely to be noticeably muted on conversion from RGB to CMYK.

[I've animated a drawing I made 40 years ago, when I was six :)]

Superb!!

[Looking for the best way to reduce high pixel images w/o losing much quality]

You can only reduce the pixel count by throwing away information! Why not simply output at a high DPI/PPI setting?

[Right-to-Left text support]

7 minutes ago, Cendol said:

I wonder if Serif will at least acknowledge and tell us if they will ever support or not.

I can’t imagine Serif ever stating unequivocally that they will not support it.

[Publisher Version 2 searching for PDF changes]

I don’t know whether there is such a list, but couldn’t you simply install the trial version and test the things that matter to you?

[trial question]

2 hours ago, yoanb said:

I am writing to inquire whether there is an alternative way to download a 30-day trial version of the Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps that are compatible with macOS Mojave 10.14.6.

Affinity version 2 apps require macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later. Affinity version 1 apps are no longer available.

[Stitching - rejoining split image]

11 minutes ago, Chris Andreae said:

Can panoramas be formed only if two images 'overlap' each other?

In a word, yes. Ideally you should have an overlap of at least 20%, perhaps a little less for some types of image but often more than 25% for others.

If the cut is reasonably straight, you should be able to simply put each image on its own layer and then butt the two layers up against each other.

[How do I go about making a 10 feet by 10 feet illustration in Affinity Designer on iPad?]

22 minutes ago, Estelle- said:

Drawing on a 10ft wide canvas takes a lot of ram and I don't think my iPad would survive the shock honestly... XD

Try it, you might be pleasantly surprised! My iPad is an Air 2, an old model that only just meets the minimum spec for the Affinity apps, but I’ve never noticed a problem unless I’m trying to edit (or even merely load) a document that has a humongous number of layers with multiple adjustments and/or filter effects.

[How do I go about making a 10 feet by 10 feet illustration in Affinity Designer on iPad?]

Welcome back to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Estelle-.

4 hours ago, Estelle- said:

But here is my question, how do I go about doing such a huge illustration? Since it's vector I could take the illustration and scale it afterward, right? But my style has some texture in it, does AD scale the texture as well? Do the textured brush scale, are they vector based?

You can create a document directly at the required size: even if you’re planning to export to PDF, you would only need to consider scaling if one or both sides were more than 200 inches. (Textured brushes in Designer have vector paths, but the texture itself is raster and therefore won’t scale nicely.)

 

 

[incorrect font size]

33 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

For security reasons, I have changed your username as email addresses are no longer allowed

At the time of writing, the original post to this thread says “Edited 2 hours ago by j***@g***.com”. 

[AFINITY PHOTO 2 on my ipad - pasteboard]

There’s no pasteboard in any version of Affinity Photo on iPad or any other platform, but this isn’t unique to the Affinity products. It’s very common for image editors to have a canvas with no pasteboard.

If you have Affinity Designer you can create artboards there and then use them in Photo. Otherwise, simply enlarge the Photo canvas to provide a ‘scratch’ area while you’re working on the project, and then shrink it down again when you’re finished.

[How can I switch width and heights easy, in transform panel? Or is this a wish?]

3 minutes ago, pruus said:

I want to have an option to turn around, switch, width becomes the height, and height becomes the width. So switch these two values.

Thanks, @pruus, that’s exactly what I thought you meant! For example, A4 portrait (210 mm × 297 mm) becomes A4 landscape (297 mm × 210 mm).

[How can I switch width and heights easy, in transform panel? Or is this a wish?]

4 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said:

the words imply something else

Interesting! I thought this pretty clearly implied a swap, especially when accompanied by an screenshot with a double-headed arrow added in:

On 7/18/2023 at 8:28 PM, pruus said:

I miss an arrow to make it happen

 

[How can I switch width and heights easy, in transform panel? Or is this a wish?]

17 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Do you mean synchronise the change, tap the link so when you change one the other also changes

No, this isn’t about linking. As per the topic title:

Quote

How can I switch width and heights easy?

In other words, changing between portrait and landscape while keeping the same dimensions.

[Ruler or guides for ipad]

1 hour ago, SpoiledReBelle said:

Don’t know if anyone is still looking for this answer but here is a screenshot of where it is in the Toggle Preview Mode

That’s the View menu. ‘Preview Mode’ is one of the menu options and ‘Rulers’ is another, but rulers are a new feature in V2 of Affinity Designer for iPad.

[Printing 6in x 4in greetings card]

On 7/16/2023 at 8:00 PM, itsRachel said:

This reply is for Oufti and AlanPickup - I'm not sure how to do it properly but HEY.

Type an @ sign immediately followed by the first few characters of the username, and then click on the desired name from the list that appears. For example, if I type @its I get ‘itsRachel’ at the top of the list, and when I click on that entry I get @itsRachel in the message composition box.

 

@Oufti @AlanPickup

[Print Crop Marks with Spreads]

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

Thanks, sorry, I still don't get it. Do I understand right its an expression for a vertical axis in the horizontal middle?

Sorry, you do get it!

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

But why for the requested "cut marks"? They don't go "from top to bottom" (are rather short, subtle strokes) and they don't have to be in the middle of a page (rather around it), right?

In a case like this they don’t go all the way from the top to the bottom, as either a continuous line or a dashed line: as you observed, they’re rather short and subtle. I’m afraid I misspoke when I referred to “the page”: I should have said “the sheet”. So they’re like the little round marks between the left and right pages in your screenshots (except that, as you hinted, they should be more subtle).

[Print Crop Marks with Spreads]

3 hours ago, thomaso said:

I am not sure what "down the center" means in English.

Down the center/centre is the same as down the middle. In other words, from the top to the bottom of the page, halfway between the left-and right-hand edges.

[Please select an RGB pixel layer before entering Develop?]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @shiatt733.

If you followed the link in @MEB’s post to the other thread, you should have seen this:

You need to make sure that the layer in your document is a ‘Pixel’ layer, not an ‘Image’ layer.

[AD/AP/AP version 1]

33 minutes ago, Janaye said:

AD/AP/AP version 1

For future reference, AP is Affinity Photo. To avoid confusion when using abbreviations, it’s best to refer to Photo as APh and to Publisher as APu or APub.

31 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

the Mac App Store (or the Windows version of the MAS)

For future reference, the Windows version of the Mac App Store is the Microsoft Store.

[Equation]

24 minutes ago, Lee D said:

Affinity Photo is the only app that supports PS style plugins for effects etc.

Does APh support anything other than ‘effects’ plug-ins?