Dale

https://affinity.serif.com/buy-designer/ This will take you straight to the Affinity Designer page on the App Store.

Found this on Twitter, a free live training session for Affinity Designer run by Elaine Giles at macbiteslearning.co.uk! 6th November, 8pm GMT, just needs a web browser and Flash or a mobile app. http://macbiteslearning.co.uk/affinity-designer/ Thanks Elaine and best wishes. Dale.

And trial version :)

Check back tomorrow for a trial and things might be a little different...

Hi Jon Yes you can design web graphics and mockup websites (no interactivity, just the look), and yes you can import/export PSD for Photoshop and PDF. You can also import from Adobe Illustrator using a PDF-compatible AI file, and save as PDF for opening in Illustrator. Import and export will get even stronger over time in free updates. Hope that helps.

Fading out from the waist down reminded me of a supersonic shock wave - would be cool if iron man was travelling faster than sound but it's not something so easy to depict with clean vectors, but clean vectors would keep the artwork very strong IMO. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_050330-N-0382O-503_An_F-14B_Tomcat_breaks_the_sound_barrier_during_the_supersonic_fly-by_portion_of_an_air_power_demonstration.jpg

I'm retiring this thread, the feature videos are Private to be deleted soon, we have some much nicer Quick Tips videos instead. See them here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOM7NyLu2a5beJVyX-73f4ABifWdaj5VG Thanks, Dale.

That's fantastic. Thanks Jens for making me laugh. :)

Hi Scott, I hope you realise when I contacted you that I was pointing out inaccuracies rather than huffing and puffing about the review, I actually appreciate the review and am sure plenty of people have enjoyed it. It's a bit unfair that pointing out errors gets labelled as vendor dissatisfaction but I hear you. Many will know that an in-depth review of a new app is a massive task and I appreciated that there were also positive comments made where you spotted strengths across the apps. I also accept you're an Illy fan and don't hold it against you, I'm a fan of all sorts of apps and could show bias, but I don't assume that would get in the way of fixing errors in the body, feature matrix and cons list of a review. Nor should post-editing be an issue IMO. Better to be right moving forward even though thousands of people have already read the factually incorrect version? You suggested I left the remainder of my suggestions for review inaccuracies in the comments section, that should fairly well match what Matt's picked up on too if I've been on it.

That cloning, patching, and pixel tweaking to paint away seams will need Affinity Photo, which should be available as a beta before the end of this year Pavel.

Hi iKoma. Between her wrists and by her right elbow, you can create new shapes to cut out from the skin fill. Create a 'gap' shape, select it and the skin shape, then use Subtract from the Boolean operations on the top toolbar. Repeat for each cut out. You could do this for a third gap, between the fingers on the left hand. Well done on all the line work. Edit: For best results, drag the shapes that will be cut-outs to just above the skin layer before performing the Subtract.

Hiya Pavel, make a rectangle as large as your background, select the Gradient Tool at the left, change the Type to Bitmap up on the context toolbar, then select your image and click Open. Now click and drag on your rectangle to scale and rotate the bitmap fill. You can change how it repeats using the Extend option on the context toolbar.

FYI folks, Aff is close to the German word for monkey (I'm an Inselaffe :P) and it would clash with a million acronyms should people confusedly start searching the web for it.

Should the preference be Strokes in points now? :ph34r:

Luscious!

Noticed when placing rather than opening this SVG that Convert to Curves is available on the right click menu (doesn't do anything), yet is greyed out in the Layer menu.

Here's another example video of a geometry issue with Expand Stroke. This is (I believe) using build 1.019755. http://recordit.co/UT396rtlEk Reported via Twitter at https://twitter.com/paulmist/status/524300800755896321 The file in question: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8821016/Affinity/gallery_slider_left.svg At first I couldn't replicate because I drew my own similar shape, but using the SVG makes it clear.

Hi Coconut, I can't speak of the document construct but can tell you that compound is a non-destructive boolean operation, while a group is a hierarchy that stores its component objects and settings and can have its own global settings too. The devs can shed more light than me!

Just checking, am I the first to say it's a FLOKKtapus?

I wondered whether this betentacled beast would have been easier to manage with a push back tool, limited mask regions where the z-order can change freely, but I think it would have been just as complicated as drawing properly! It's a ... beast.

Is that 'arf a Guinness' like a small glass, or Alec? :D

Is your display at its native resolution or scaled down to make things easier to use? I'm not on a good screen myself right now so am not sure if I'm imagining that the screenshots make everything seem a little bigger than usual. Thanks Leona, hope we figure this out for you soonest.

Do you mean keeping vs ignoring aspect ratio when scaling?

If you have a closed shape as your traced outline, you can use the Layers panel to drag the image layer into the curve layer to clip it. HTH, Dale.

It was already on the comprehensive list of tutorials we want to do, hopefully won't be too long for you.