[How do I post questions here?]

Loved the Facebook comment one of our team made recently...

 

Sleepin's cheatin'

[How do I post questions here?]

Thanks for bringing to our attention that some Affinity dev and support staff were sleeping, this laziness means starting a disciplinary procedure.

 

I was writing some articles and took my eye off the forum, apologies. We'll work on this, our standards are very high :)

[Introduce Yourself]

Goodmorning everyone.

I'm an Italian user and are happy to use your product. There will be an Italian version of Affinity Photo?

 

Grazie, Fernando Anselmi

 

Yes, the Italian language version will be in a free update, maybe around Christmas time :)

[Why did you choose the file format extensions .afdesign and .afphoto instead of shorter variants like .afd or .afp?]

I'm up for tea and crumpets, but the extension needn't be discussed :) Unless the team fancy making DOS Affinity apps? Guys? DOS would FLY on modern hardware.

[Newbie Question]

Plus there are lots of videos at https://affinity.serif.com/tutorials/ Start with the Discover video to see how the app is designed :)

[free trial link]

Hi GRJF, if you email me with your name and the email addresses you have signed up with I'll sort it for you.

 

Thanks, Dale.

[How does one transform a layer?]

Hi Jakob, welcome to the forum.

 

Hit the V key for the Move tool (towards the top of the left hand toolbar) then drag a corner handle or type into the Transform panel.

[Stitching photos in Affinity]

Hi LMB, welcome to the forums.

 

It's not been added to the release version yet, but auto-alignment of layers, which can be used to stitch panoramas, has been added to the 'customer beta' version of Affinity Photo.

 

The customer beta is a test release featuring new developments before they are included in a Mac App Store update, and it's available for Affinity Photo owners to install and use from further down the forum. 

 

Cheers, Dale.

[Get Affinity Designer without App Store?]

It varies by country, but in many places you can use PayPal and other methods without handing over credit card details.

 

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202631

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.3.5.1)]

Brilliant stuff Matt!

[Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.3.5.1)]

[Do I need AP and AD?]

Aw, thanks!

 

I think I'll start with photo, if it's most similar to what I already know. Then I can get AD later.

 

Brilliant, I hope you enjoy using it - at least you already know the best place on the web for any questions too! :) Best wishes Lianne.

[Do I need AP and AD?]

Not long left until APu Beta comes out, :D (this winter) 

 

This has been pushed into the first half of 2016 Peter, with an official launch in H2.

[Do I need AP and AD?]

Hi Lianne

 

It sounds like either Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer alone would meet your needs; you can create multiple layers, add stock imagery, add text, change fonts, apply blend modes etc in either of those apps. Affinity Photo is closest to GIMP and PS, but Affinity Designer is a powerful design tool up to the task.

 

If you want to be able to manipulate text and other shape outlines to their fullest, e.g. having text flowing along a path, you would need Affinity Designer rather than Affinity Photo. If you need to be able to warp photos you would need Affinity Photo rather than Affinity Designer.

 

If you were to end up owning both it absolutely would not be a pain to transfer artwork between the two apps, they're designed to work this way and are 100% compatible. In fact they're compatible in ways that other suites lay awake dreaming about.

 

Hope you're willing and able to share your book covers once you get started with Affinity!

[Affinity Photo is in the Mac App Store Now!]

v. 1.3.5 is today published: what should be the Lens Corrections?

 

Not sure what you mean Jonas - there is a new Lens Filter adjustment layer in the Photo persona that adds a nice colour cast.

[The Wood]

Brilliant Paolo!

[ORIGINAL FORMAT CHANGE IN DIFFFERENT FORMATS]

Hi M4rck3, not all those formats currently support all the things you're asking of them, to maintain layers, groups, layer and group names, and for objects (or layers) with effects to remain as vectors. Some of this could improve over time and some is just impossible due to the nature of design and file formats. For instance if you blur text or a shape it is not going to remain a vector except in Affinity apps.

 

The only way to guarantee someone gets exactly the same file as you intend is to use the same app and the same file, e.g. for your clothing company to use Affinity Designer to open your Affinity Designer file. No single standard format like EPS or SVG will support everything that an afdesign file supports. My best recommendation for you is to use PDF especially if the clothing company wants to use Illustrator. Illustrator can open PDFs, so if you avoid using raster effects and stick to clean vectors and text they should be able to import your PDF file in Illustrator.

 

If you are having problems exporting your design to PDF and it opening properly in Illustrator let us know, maybe give some specifics or share a file that the devs can look into for you. Lastly, Pantone is still on the roadmap M4rck3, sorry there's no ETA been confirmed yet for when this will be added to Affinity Designer.

 

Best wishes.

[AP: Fill in image-size when copying/pasting into new document]

Hi Habsi, there is File > New from Clipboard that will do that and more - it creates a new document of the right size and includes your clipboard content for you all in one go.

 

Cheers, Dale.

[Affinity and Wacom Intuos?]

I've chosen a Huion 610 Pro and am still setting it up. It has brush size buttons at the left of the tablet area along with buttons for the brush tool, zoom +/-, undo, erase brush, and hand tool.

 

The two buttons on the side of the pen can be configured, as can 16 shortcut spots at the top of the tablet. Am sure it's similar to Wacom and other tablets. Doesn't have a stylus wheel but the thing was a very good price so I gave it a go.

 

Anyone want to share other setup tips? Maybe we can compile ideas into a tablet guide?

[TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY BAFFLED]

I'm calling shenanigans!

[Want to write for Smashing Magazine?]

We’ve heard that the guys over at Smashing Magazine are looking for independent contributors to create a set of tutorials for Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. All authors at Smashing Magazine get paid, so it's not just for kudos.

 

If you have good experience as a writer and using Affinity apps, this could be for you! There's more information about what Smashing Magazine are after, and contact details, over on our blog post.

Best wishes, Dale.

[inpainting brush]

Check what kind of layer you have selected - make sure it's not an adjustment, filter, mask etc., then click, hold, and drag to select the area to Inpaint. Release the button and it'll then do its magic.

[Affinity Photo is in the Mac App Store Now!]

We took care to ensure it was a 15 day sale to avoid confusion about whether the promo was still running on the 23rd - and it was - but seemingly not right until midnight. Apologies that you just missed out, we'll have to make up for it by being awesome in as many ways as we can.

[Affinity Photo is in the Mac App Store Now!]

Well that's a shame. Nothing you can do?

 

Sadly not, the controls we have are limited and the transactions are all securely Apple. If I could send you an individual 20% off code I would but that's not possible either.

[Affinity Photo is in the Mac App Store Now!]

The Singapore one

 

The offer should expire at the end of the day - Apple hit the switch on that though. We get to choose when the description changes, i think that should be another hour or thereabouts (6pm GMT ish)