Karina
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Paul Mudditt reacted to a post in a topic:
question about freehand selection tool in Affinity Photo for iPad
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question about freehand selection tool in Affinity Photo for iPad
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Thank you so much!!!! I'm absolutely over the moon I can now fully enjoy Affinity Photo 🙂
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Karina reacted to a post in a topic:
question about freehand selection tool in Affinity Photo for iPad
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question about freehand selection tool in Affinity Photo for iPad
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GarryP reacted to a post in a topic:
Is text in Affinity Designer automatically vector text?
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NotMyFault reacted to a post in a topic:
Is text in Affinity Designer automatically vector text?
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Well, here are a few things I learned since I printed a few foil jobs: - Everything should be in vector (curves), so make sure you make the foil bit of your design in Affinity Designer as it is vector based - Your foil layer should be on top of all the other layers - Usually your foil layer should be a global colour that is set to 'spot colour' and 'overprint' and is called something like 'Foil' (no typos allowed, check your printing company for the exact term they use). Export to PDF X1 A:2003, make sure you check the box to convert text to curves if you use text. Set the colour profile to CMYK FOGRA 39, or even better ask the printing company what colour profile they use (It's usually FOGRA 39 in Europe and Asia). Always carefully check your PDF before sending it off to the printing company, as weird things can happen when exporting to PDF. Good luck!
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Hi, can somebody tell me how to do the following in Affinity Photo for iPad: On the desktop version I frequently use the freehand selection tool to select part of a raster layer, then I subsequently copy and paste the selected area so part of the image will be on a new layer. I use CTRL + C & CTRL + V for the copying and for creating a new layer in the desktop version. How can I do this in Affinity Photo for iPad? Thank you in advance, not being able to find this feature is driving me nuts.
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Is text in Affinity Designer automatically vector text?
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Alfred reacted to a post in a topic:
question about using bleeds in AD
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Yes, of course it is A4 my dear, but if you check the bleeds they are 3 mm. and they should be added to the document size like in Publisher. But in Designer they are subtracted instead of added. Both options are fine with me, but consistency would be nice!
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In case anyone is interested, this is what I did to fix the problem: Go to file -> document setup, page preset -> custom. Enter the size of your document PLUS the bleeds (So A4 with 3 mm. bleeds will be 216 x 303 mm.). Choose rescale and press ok. Your document is now the right size including bleeds, and fits seamlessly in your Publisher document. It's really odd and inconsistent though that in Designer the bleeds are subtracted and in Publisher added to your document size. Can this be fixed in the next update please?
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Thank you. I did this, but the document is still not the size it should be with the settings used. It's A4 like you say, without the extra 3 mm. bleeds I used to setup the document and that I need so desperately. I think I will have to go to plan B and fix it as it won't work this way apparently. Thanks for the input.
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Yeah, I can see that now. Sorry. Glad it was clear what I meant anyway 🙂
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Thanks for the input. The thing is, there are bleeds as I mentioned above, but the document is not the right size (which would be A4 + 3 mm bleeds all around). The bleeds are subtracted from the document size it seems. On top of that, I don't need to export it as a PDF out of Designer, I need to put the whole Designer document into Publisher and export the whole calendar as a PDF for the printing company from there. And if you do that, the document size is not what it should be either, rendering all my files useless. I remember this happened to me before. Which is why I stopped using Designer as much as I could. My file looks terrible bye the way without the fonts I used, not a good look... Yes, I did that, thank you. So that can't be the problem.
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Hi guys, Can someone solve this mystery for me? If I create an A4 image with 3 mm bleeds in Affinity Publisher I get exactly that. If I create an A4 image with 3 mm. bleeds in Affinity Designer I seem to get an A4 file, which CROPS 3 mm. bleeds off, not at all what I want and so utterly confusing (please use one system Affinity!). I just worked on a bunch of files in AD with settings A4 + 3mm. bleeds thinking I would get exactly that like in AP, but apparently not. Upon trying to put my AD files in AP I can see that there are no bleeds, just an A4 image. So weird! Am I going crazy, or is this really how Affinity is configured????? See attached file. Some consistency would be nice for the workflow! Now it's apparently like this: AP: no bleeds possible, just margins AD: Bleeds are cropped off document size AP: Bleeds are added to document size Can somebody enlighten me of this is really the case? Or did I miss some settings that I can use to have the bleeds added to my document in AD (besides manually adding 3 mm. to the document size for each side). Kind regards, Karina AD bleeds problem Karina.afdesign
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Thank you! Yes, I do know this, but haven’t used the feature myself up until now. I’ll look into it, it would be great if it would help with even better colour accuracy compared to my printed art. Thank you for taking the time to point this out to me!
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Okay, ‘fixed’ this problem myself. What happened is that I usually work in a light interface, as this works much better for colour accuracy of my watercolour art. After the last update, the interface of Affinity Publisher was set to ‘dark’ instead of ‘light’ which made all my watercolour art look way too bright and made prepress work quite a challenge as things looked completely different than when printed (though exported PDF’s looked fine colour wise). It’s quite astounding how much the dark/light interface influences how you perceive the colours you see on your screen, so let’s just say I learned that it is very important to choose the right interface at all times. Choosing a light interface definitely makes my work of adjusting levels and contrast for printing jobs A LOT easier, as what I see on the screen matches the printed version way more. Hope this slightly silly thread can help someone with the same ‘problem’. Happy day!
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Hi! Since the recent update any files I open in Affinity Publisher look way too bright, which obviously makes pre press work very difficult. The same files look normal when I open them in Affinity Photo. Any thoughts or solutions to fix this problem are very much appreciated. Kind regards, Karina
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Karina reacted to a post in a topic:
How big can a resize a pattern tile for wallpaper?
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Karina reacted to a post in a topic:
How big can a resize a pattern tile for wallpaper?
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Alfred reacted to a post in a topic:
How big can a resize a pattern tile for wallpaper?
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How big can a resize a pattern tile for wallpaper?
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Karina reacted to a post in a topic:
How big can a resize a pattern tile for wallpaper?
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Thanks a lot! This really helps me out 👍👍👍 So if I understand correctly I just have to find out the requested dpi by the wallpaper printing company, and then I can calculate the maximum size I can enlarge my pattern tiles to by dividing the pixels by the dpi? Another question: it seems one of my repeat pattern wallpaper designs turns out to be quite a bit smaller than I was hoping. So I think I’ll just vectorise that pattern tile, so I can make the scale of the wallpaper design a lot bigger. Do you see any problems with that? (apart from huge files). Thanks a million for helping me out!
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But does the dpi not factor in at all then? The 3000 x 3000 pixel tile has a dpi of 300, and the 5000 x 5000 pixel tile has a dpi of 600. That’s why I doubled the 33 inches. But this is not correct apparently?
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Got it! Is the following correct? (math is not my strong point) So I can PRINT the 3000 x 3000 pixels 300 dpi tile at approximately 50 cm. square 150 dpi. as wallpaper. And I can PRINT the 5000 x 5000 pixels 600 dpi tile at approximately 166 cm square with 150 dpi as wallpaper? Thank you for your time!