Dale

Affinity is here for the long haul, so if a feature is distracting from what's deemed more important then the team know it can make it in a free update instead. And be in the customer beta before the next update. Win win? Hopefully!

Hoping it's OK for me to say this.... it'll disappear if not! We're in a great position with devs that have far more autonomy than most. It's their call with the head of dev what to add/pull/prioritise, when to submit to Apple etc—and of course they would rather have everything in the app too but then it'd would never get released at all (because perfection is unachievable!) :) It means they have tough decisions and cannot please everyone, but it also means they are working harder than the average dev to produce something very special. Just so you know, it's rather refreshingly not a financial or sales director making the calls in team Affinity.

There are also more tutorial vids on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/macaffinity, enjoy

Check this one out :) https://www.behance.net/gallery/6940087/Bubble-100-Vector-3-Different-Software-Comparative

Seconded!

Also reported earlier for the MAS version here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/8023-designer-forgets-tools-separators

From a suggestion on Twitter https://twitter.com/sldwlf/status/587269669377171456 This is about being able to edit documents and see the live updates without being in Separated mode. So editing it on the fly in place, all in the same document, and perhaps as tiled windows if others wish too. Thanks.

Actually used that to explain things further when supporting Neil - tweet limits make it hard to explain everything but the steps were there at 20:00m in your video! :) Thanks to you, Ronny, and others for their support!

Thanks guys, I had also recently recommended exporting all layers as slices in the same way as a workaround. I didn't specify PNG but can do. Cheers!

Twitterer @neilfairbrother is an Affinity Designer user after some advice about working with Apple Motion. He's tried exporting from Affinity Designer as PSD but says layers aren't maintained on opening in Motion. Are there other tips and tricks other Motion users can advise? Thanks! Dale.

Would one of you kind souls be willing to help improve my translation? I'd like to post news of this today on Facebook and maybe Twitter too, it would be a shame to interrupt the translator working on the apps with a random sentence. Thanks! Um die Affinity Designer 1.2 Deutsche Übersetzung zu beheben, installieren Sie dieses kleine Update! To fix Affinity Designer's 1.2 German translation, simply install this little update!

Best birthday wishes to Affinity Designer lead dev MattP! Hope you have a great weekend. :)

Batch processing is on Andy's roadmap for Affinity Photo, it'll be in a free update after launch.

Am presuming Artificial Intelligence here rather than Adobe Illustrator :)

Sorry if it appears rude to post a Google link - but I had to search online to find an answer for you, so you may as well see the information from the source to save me retyping it! :) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=adding+fonts+to+a+mac&oq=adding+fonts+to+a+mac It's something you do in the operating system rather than in any one design program. To find fonts, consider searching for royalty free OpenType fonts or free fonts - it depends on your needs. Some well constructed and attractive fonts can be very expensive, and that may or may not be worth it for you. Some designers here can also add more useful tried and tested resources to help further. Best wishes.

No Affinity Designer does not have such a tool, you'll have to use Affinity Photo for that kind of pixel wrangling. But it's OK, it's free, and documents can move between Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo with ease. There's a common file format and a saveable Undo history that works across apps. Get the free Affinity Photo beta from https://affinity.serif.com/photo.

Here's the beta forum for Affinity Designer new builds (check the top pinned post for the latest): https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/15-affinity-designer-beta

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Yes Jim we'll also be proving information by email for those that have signed up to our betas (or the newsletter at https://affinity.serif.com/#newsletter) - not too often, we don't want to be spamming people. Plus we'll also be announcing important stuff here in the forums including new betas, launches, new issues of Affinity Review etc. New videos will automatically appear on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/macaffinity. Thanks for your support. Dale.

Hi Mark If you click the gradient icon on the Channels panel for your Alpha channel, it'll create you a luminosity layer where the alpha is black, does that help?

@Vonster on Twitter reported something similar recently using Divide. You're likely up to speed already Matt but if you want to see his video I'll send you a mail.

PM sent with link Carlos, cheers, Dale.

Hi there Tassie friend, email me from the acct you used for the sign-up at dale at serif dot com and I'll sort it for you. Cheers, Dale.

Thanks Matt - think we've established there's a little confusion coming from one of our site pages, we'll try changing it to make it clearer.

I've seen quite a number of people talk about Affinity Photo beta only having a 10 day life, does it have the trial functionality baked in already? (Or is there copy somewhere that says it's for 10 days?). It's certainly not mentioned in the PR or articles I've seen, and yet I must've answered a couple of dozen tweets, facebook posts and mails on this exact subject.