William Overington

Because I would have problems of the background moving. There may possibly be a way round that with layers but I am not aware of how to do it. William

Yes, I expect that you know which I had in mind! It was too much for one go though. I decided when continuing to construct the white parts in blue, then once complete change the blue parts all to white, then have a pale blue background so that the white would be noticeable. William

Oh, an equine variation of an episode from Star Trek The Original Series. Where is the other one? Perhaps the horses will be friendlier than the people! William

This picture designed as an A3 size picture, is made using Affinity Designer shapes. Four rectangles, three rounded rectangles, and a tear. The two smaller rounded rectangles at 90 degrees to each other, then grouped and rotated by -60 degrees. The tear rotated by 15 degrees. William

You might like to know that Viking Virtual Print House will print A3 size prints in colour on 350 gsm paper for around 60p each. They have a minimum order of £5 for the basket plus postage and packing. But the basket can be a mix of up to ten items - that is, this window would be one item regardless of how many prints you buy. https://viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/ I have bought prints of some of my artwork, typically two copies or five copies, and I like A3 size colour prints and they look quite spectacular to me. Please note that I am not connected with them in any way except as a paying customer and I am mentioning this as a post in the forum from a forum participant not as an advertising stunt. They print a bit larger then trim, so if one uses a PDF document with a bleed area, then one can have the colour to the edge of the paper. William

The picture looks to me (as a hobbyist view, I am not an expert at using Affinity Designer) as being designed as a vector illustration using a combination of applying the preset shapes and some drawing of some sort. Is that correct? For my own attempts, thus far I seem to be good at constructing using shapes but not very good at all with the drawing parts. Could you say something about how you drew the people please? William

I produced the artwork for this picture as an A3 size picture in case I decide to try to buy a print. The picture is produced by starting with one filled rectangle with no border and then using copy and paste and locating each filled rectangle precisely using the transform panel and setting the colours as I chose them to be. Then all the rectangles were grouped and the group centred horizontally on the page, and that then adjusted to the nearest whole number of pixels. I have not included a description of what the picture is about as I am hoping that some readers will post about what they think it is, or may be, about. William

The original artwork is A3, in case I decide to try to buy a print. I set the measurement units to pixels. This picture is constructed from two rectangles and shows the use of the Affinity Designer opacity feature to show one item through a semi-opaque other item. The rectangle that represents the glass has the opacity of its colour set at 15%, so the pure orange juice is seen through the glass. William

Thank you both. William

Yes. Yes. William

So the angle would be specified by the artist and the percentage point would then be calculated and then set by the software, calculated using the height and the width of the trapezoid. William

A detail from the picture, with the filled trapezoids and the filled rectangle shown each in a colour different from the colours of the others, to show the construction used to avoid the possibility of a thin line of background in a display. William

I produced this picture using five filled rectangles, each sheared by -15 degrees, three filled trapezoids and a filled rectangle. For the trapezoids, the left point is at 0 per cent and the right point is at 75 per cent, and I made the trapezoid four times as long as wide so as to get a 45 degree slope. I then rotated the trapezoid through 90 degrees. I then made copies and placed them, using the pixel precision of the transform panel. The original is of size A3 and the above picture is a png exported at one seventh of the size. I set the measurement units as pixels, which is what I usually do, and I used the transform panel to position items precisely. I used the filled rectangle so that there would be no fine lines of background displayed between the trapezoids. I started with an A3 size as if I decide to try to obtain a print, then the artwork is already the right size to produce a PDF document for the printing. William

Do QR codes of that size and complexity and that thus present small chunks to the camera, decode without problems? William,

But Affinity Designer could be used to design some artwork with a white filled square within it so that the QR code could be pasted onto the white filled square. For example, a picture of a butler holding up a silver tray and after the pasting is carried out the QR code looks like it is being presented on a silver tray by the butler. William

Not as such really. I think that the font was in metal type in the 1960s or 1970s so that a computer could read information printed on cheques in banks and so on. I noticed that the electronic font is on this computer and I was musing on trying it out and I thought of using it to produce a keyboard design as a work of art, a keyboard uses one each of many of the characters. The original in Affinity Designer is A3 so that if I decide to get a print then it is already the right size to produce an A3 size print. I have mused on how a print of such a keyboard could be used, such as for someone outside the window of an office interacting with a computer inside the office and then viewing the resulting display. No, the printed sheet of paper would be the keyboard. I have not thought it out really. Maybe it should be thought of as just a picture of the design of the characters of the font. Maybe there could be some useful application, but basically it was just me having a go at using the font in Affinity Designer. Oh please don't do that, there would be no useful result and would make a mess of the keyboard. Thank you. William

Is the ban on posting anything generated using AI in either the Share your Work forum or this thread due to concern for the future of livelihoods for artists and designers? William

Yes, Serif has already been acquired, yet changes do not all happen on the day of acquisition. Yes, we are in a new era. If management want to keep things as the are, then there we are. If management does not even want to consider my idea to change to openness then that is management's right. I have put forward a suggestion for openness, in my view it could lead to great things, but if people are not interested in even thinking about the possibility of doing it and how good it could be, then que sera sera. William

That reply and my post are not incompatible. Some of the Directors have changed, so que sera sera. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/202817-if-serif-moves-to-subscription-based-biz-model-can-they-cripple-use-of-existing-apps-with-an-update/&do=findComment&comment=1207238 Pledge 4 has been issued and it states COMMUNITY LED. Can development be COMMUNITY LED if the community are not informed and are kept in the dark? https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/201423-canva/page/20/#comment-1193400 William

That page is interesting as it also lists some new appointments from 20 March 2024 and some unaltered from before, William

For me, the issue is that I only use Affinity products from time to time, there have been times when I have not used Affinity Designer for several months. Having paid a one-off fee for a licence, that is not a problem. I can go back to Affinity Designer when I choose and even a year or more later pick up a .afdesign file that I had generated and develop an enhanced later version. Having a subscription would probably mean that I would have to keep paying or my previous files would not be available for me to adapt later. So the cost level of the subscription is not the main issue for me, I take the view that if the software is on my computer then it needs to be there for me to use indefinitely at no extra cost. William

Affinity has been bought by Canva. Pledge 4 has the title COMMUNITY LED. So it may be that Canva will decide that notwithstanding the present policy that a new policy will be instituted whereby after each meeting that considers ideas put forward by members of the community that due to Pledge 4 there will be published a document listing each suggestion that was considered at the meeting and what was decided about it, maybe to implement, to reject, to defer to a later meeting and in the meantime tests are to be done. For example, for my suggestion, a report such as the following might be what is published in such a report. The idea was discussed. A decision is deferred to the next meeting. In the meantime two programmers are to spend no more than the equivalent of two days each on testing whether implementing the idea is feasible and if so how much time would be needed to do so. This clearly would be a change from the present policy, yet Canva buying Affinity is a big change too, and Canva might change the way things are done. Bearing in mind that Pledge 4 has COMMUNITY LED the above suggestion would seem entirely reasonable and helpful. Tradition can be good, but tradition should not stop progress. William

You might perhaps like to have a look at this slide show that I produced using Serif PagePlus X7 in 2019. There was a good possibility that it was to be presented in a talk at the Plenary conference of ISO/TC 37 in June 2020 by a member of the UK delegation. Alas, due to the Covid pandemic the conference did not take place. Nevertheless the slide show document is with ISO/TC 37. You might particularly like the fact that a word of the Czech language is included in the document. I wanted a word that included a letter with a caron accent so as to give a central European ambience to part of the story. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/slide_show_about_localizable_sentences.pdf William

Thank you for replying. I don't know. We were chatting on the telephone and I was telling him how I use Affinity Designer and how good it is and he is interested. I didn't think to ask about which version of windows at the time, but he was saying that he uses Word on a windows computer. William

Someone I know is interested in the possibility of buying a licence for Affinity Designer. I had told him how good it is. I see the web page https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/#buy I think he would want to run it on a Windows PC. I have version 1 and I got it direct from Serif before I became aware of the issue of Windows S versions and unlocking. So I unlocked this Windows 11 machine so as to be able to install it. I never actually tried to install it on a Windows 10S machine but I understand that that it would not have been possible. In any case there was not enough memory left available, but that is another matter. Anyway, does the gentleman, with version 2, need to buy it from Microsoft store to avoid the S issue? I don't know whether his computer is S locked. Or has that won't run on a Windows S system situation if bought direct from Affinity now gone with version 2, or what? Why I am asking here is that the web page referenced above offers the bundle for £159.99 and that is not all on one operating system. So, what is the position on this, because I don't want him to get stuck/ William