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In a recent discussion, within the forum, about Affinity Designer vs Illustrator, I was asked what I’m able to achieve using AD that I wasn’t able to do using AI. This has nothing to do with what each app is capable of it’s purely the way I’ve gelled with AD. I personally always found AI frustrating and usually ended up exporting my line work to AP and finishing off illustrations in that. I’ve never been a fan of using raster art with its many restrictions. So when I discovered AD and found I was able to do all my illustrating in the one app I was overjoyed. So anyway, now that I’ve bored everyone silly, here’s an example of my AD work with an additional enlarged section. Please excuse the watermarks and lack of the entire image. This is still a work in progress, one page, of about 30, from a book I’m doing. So I don’t want to give everything away and I’m somewhat concerned about all this AI art indexing, or theft as I prefer to call it. This is 100% vector. No brushes or raster elements used.

At the moment, the appearance panel does not work very well for groups. I think it would be useful to be able to give a hierarchy for strokes and fills for the whole group. For example, the ability to display strokes for all objects on one hierarchy level, instead of one above the other.

I saw the following web page https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/a-beautiful-paean-to-doing-things-at-your-own-pace/ar-AA1loCzT I like the picture. How in Affinity Designer would a person best approach trying to produce effects like those in that picture please? In particular the leaves of the tree in the left foreground, yet also the clouds. William

I think it would be useful to have a tool in the Designer to offset an open path. At the moment I don't see such a possibility. There are workarounds e.g. using Contour Tool and splitting the path, or adding extra Strokes in the Appearance panel. I am not sure if a separate tool is needed for this. Maybe it would be possible to extend the functionality of the Contour Tool by adding an option to offset the path when it is open, instead of making a buffer around it.

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The process to export appears to be working, but the files never appear in Drive. Searching the forums and google brings up a few instances of similar problems, but no good answers. Need to export to Drive without any extra steps, like transferring from iCloud. Saving and the workaround for retrieving saved Drive files as described in https://www.vernier.com/til/15164 works. iOS 17.2 on iPad Air Screen recording of export process attached Can anyone help with a solution? Thanks! RPReplay_Final1707432051.mp4

OMG, after using Affinity Designer for years there's still new things to discover. I don't know when this was introduced, but being able to select two vertices/points and scale the edge/line with a mousewheel on the text fields is just incredible! Things like this is really what makes Affinity great! Love it! Thanks Serif for really putting the effort into creating intuitive interfaces that are fun to work with! amazing-stuff.mp4

Hello! I had this problem at least twice now, and want to report it. When using the brush repeatedly, while having pen pressure on, affinity designer freezes and crashes, after a few quick brush strokes. I tried it without the pen pressure and it works fine without it, i think. Only setting I have changes i that I disabled Windows Ink inside of Affinity Designer and on my tablet. I don't have any issues with pen pressure on Affinity Photo, so I personally think the vector brush tool in Affinity Designer with pressure sensitivity ON is just bugged. Hope you can reproduce this problem and fix it. Thanks for your time and patience! Extra Specs, just for good measure: GPU: RX Vega 56 CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 CPU Graphics Tablet: Huion Inspiroy 950P. RAM: 16 GB of something. affinitybrushbug.mp4

The description for the Continuous option says “if the content within the slices are modified.” The verb needs to agree with “content”, not “slices”, so the text should read “if the content within the slices is modified.” https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/ExportPersona/slicesPanel.html&title=Slices panel (Export Persona only)

Hi folks! I wanted to report a bug I encountered yesterday and found my fix for. Upon launching any of the three programs, they would get stuck with just the splash screen saying "Initializing..." until the following message appeared: Naturally, this was confusing, as all Affinity programs were working just fine the day before when I'd updated them, and I've never touched my firewall settings! My setup and required details: Computer Specs OS: Windows 11 Home, version 22H2, OS Build 22621.3007 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz RAM: 16.0 GB System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Using all three programs, Photo, Designer, and Publisher Using the latest release versions (2.3.1) Yes, I reproduced it, and found the issue + workaround (see below) What I tried (without success): Restarting my PC Uninstalling and re-installing all Affinity Products Once with the MSIX installer and "app" Once with the EXE installer and "programs" Adjusting and opening up my Firewall settings Today (as I post this) I have found the issue: Hidden Folders! Many programs on my PC have created folders on my PC at C:\Users\[my username] that start with a dot; as I understand it, these are common with cross-platform programs and normally get hidden by Mac OSX and Linux machines, but not necessarily by Windows, and they were starting to clutter my User directory, so I marked them and the contents inside as hidden. Shortly after, my problem above began. As soon as I un-hid the folder C:\Users\[my username]\.affinity, lo and behold, the programs started right up, and when I hid the folder again, the issue returned. My other PC running a different AMD setup with Windows 11 had the exact same issue when I hid and unhid the .affinity folder. Possible cause in the program: According to a Stack Overflow page I found while looking up how to hide the folders in the first place (as well as another page with further details linked from there), it appears that if a Windows program calls CreateFile with the CREATE_ALWAYS flag but no definition for FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN, operations will fail on hidden files. While I can't speak to what the Affinity programs are doing while initializing, I imagine the issue could be this, or something similar. I hope this is helpful for others who have a similar problem, and for Affinity developers to hopefully fix the issue when it's possible to do so.

I could have called this Many hands (and feet) make light work. We're all getting browned off with Artificial Intelligence stealing copyright works. I thought it was time I made a stand and made my own AI image. In this case, it probably means Astonishing Inaccuracies.

I have found that when using the Affinity Designer Pencil Tool on a Windows system on a laptop computer that using Mousekeys on an external keyboard to press down and effectively hold down the trackpad by software rather than hold it down physically makes drawing with the Pencil Tool much better. It means that I can lift my finger from the trackpad without ending the curve that is being drawn by the Pencil Tool. Is this already widely known about or is it a new idea? William

Just for fun ... ... and in case someone want's to give it a try ... ... although the solution should be pretty obvious here!

I opened my file in Illustrator and as you can see on image 1, only 8 colors. When I create a new palette from document in Affinity I get a bunch of useless colors however, as you can see on image 2. Nothing is rasterized. no images in any layer, no adjustments. Only vector shapes.

Hi, I'd like to write this suggestion for the upcoming features for Affinity Designer. What I miss for since I started in Affinity in 2018, is the ability to Paint and use the Vector Brushes as Real vector, Or, a tool to Paint in Vector (Like Blob Brush from Illustrator) without the need to draw a shape with the pencil / pen tool. as an Example, I'm making many illustrations that need a flat painting style, and if we could make Paint in Vector and also Erase like we do in Raster, it would be awesome.

🇬🇧 Hello, I was looking for the most official sources possible from Apple regarding macOS interface elements for designing or modifying interfaces. Very complicated, unless you have Sketch installed on your Mac... Here is a series of Affinity Designer files, all vector. Here, the first file concerning the Application icons. I would gradually complete the elements that I could find and then use Affinity Designer. Good reception... 🇫🇷 Bonjour, je cherchais les sources les plus officielles possibles provenant d'Apple concernant les éléments d'interface de macOS pour concevoir ou modifier des interfaces. Très compliqué, sauf à avoir Sketch installé sur son mac... Voici une série de fichiers Affinity Designer, tout vectoriel. Ici, le premier fichier concernant les icônes des Applications. Je complèterais au fur et à mesure des éléments que je pourrais trouver et ensuite reprendre sous Affinity Designer. Bonne réception... Template Icon App.afdesign Migrated Global Colors.afdesign

Hi everybody 🙂 After recently buying all 3 of the Affinity programs, this was the 3rd thing I made with Affinity Designer. The other 2 were a Christmas post and a new years post for Instagram. My first impression of AD is that it has potential, but to me it still has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Adobe Illustrator. But of course, it's very difficult to get to the Adobe level, since they have so much experience and money 😅 I bought the Affinity programs to hopefully get less dependent on Adobe software, because I really don't like the 'subscription only' principle Adobe has adopted. I don't like to pay Adobe 'ransom money' to be able to have access to my own documents. And since using Adobe Creative Cloud I've had several bugs that have never been an issue back when I had Adobe software that I bought. So even Adobe isn't as good (anymore) as it should be for that price. Most of the things I design are T-shirt prints for my webshops and since I'm addicted to designing letters (typography) most of my designs contain custom made text. This 'L' was made for Instagram only. From time to time I design single alphabet letters, to have something more to post on Instagram. I post far less than the algorithm wants, but I don't want to be a slave to the algorithm, so I follow my own rithm 😋 Is anyone else into designing typography? ✌️ Luc

Affinity Designer V2 Crashes - When I click on the Recent Files button in the startup window. It works fine if I go to File > Open Recent Is it a common issue/known bug? I noticed that it's happening in Affinity Photo also, haven't tried it with Publisher yet. I am on Windows 10 and Using the MSIX installer for all.

I'm having an issue when exporting a (not very complex -- less than 20 layers, I think) 600 dpi 33x50 inch Designer project (created entirely in this version of Affinity Designer) as a 16-bit tiff and it crashes if I don't hit the export button fast enough. It crashes right when the "calculating size" message gets to 100%. The tiff seems to get created okay if I hit export before Designer finishes calculating the size. Creating a similar project with the same dimensions and dpi, with one blank layer doesn't seem to cause a crash. I accidentally selected the HDR file type during export at one point, and this same project also crashed the app with that file type as well -- right as it finished calculating the size. Latest version of Designer 2.3.1 Hardware acceleration setting doesn't change the outcome. macOS 14.2.1 M1 Max 64GB RAM >3TB free drive space.

Geometric line art. The figure itself created in Affinity Designer, and the effects and background added in Affinity Photo.

So I decided to start a small project that I decided to call Art of its own genre. The aim is to present some clip art made by me in a Share your work thread and hopefully some people will try to produce some pictures using the clip art. I decided to draw the clip art in Affinity Designer (version 1) and then export each image as a png file with a transparent background. I started with an A4 landscape document, with a transparent background, scaled in pixels. First I produced the tree, two items and a bounding box, all three items grouped. Fine. Ready to export as a png file. I then tried to produce a sun. I spent quite a time drawing it using the Pen Tool and moving points to multiples of fifty pixels, colouring it r=224, g=224, b=0 so a yellow that would show up on white paper. But something has gone wrong when I tried to add the bounding box. I cannot seem to get back to the sun itself and thus cannot change its colour. I am reluctant to delete it and start again as setting the points of the sun so it looked right to me took quite a while. What has gone wrong please? Can it be fixed please? William aoiog001.afdesign

Been having mouse stutter issues with all three applications for a while now whenever GSync is active, regardless of which option I choose. Updated to Geforce 417.41 drivers today, and the problem is still present. Running on a RTX 2070 Super on a 34" ultrawide at 120Hz with Gsync on. The problem goes away if I turn Gsync off. Which I don't want to have to do all the time...

I found a pic of a wall-mounted sundial at Norbury Manor in Derbyshire in my old photos. (It's a National Trust property, and open to visitors from time to time.) It was erected as a memorial to (I think) the former owner, who died in 1987. I've changed all the inscriptions in the foolish hope of looking clever. The base colour is 45/38/71 in HSL . . . and I found a grungy texture in my collection (this is a reduced copy) . . . and after some playing about, I found an opacity or 25% and a blend mode Colour Burn gave me a pleasing marble-like effect. For the incised text, I darkened the fill slightly and applied an Inner Bevel/Emboss FX using the first (triangular) profile, inverted. I adjusted the radius till the bevels met in the middle, making the letters look as though they'd been carved.

Designed some neuemorphic icons for the Affinity Suite in Designer. Inspired by @yeye's Affinity Designer icon on Dribbble. Hope you guys like it! I'd love some feedback or ideas! Affinity Designer Neue.afdesign Affinity Photo Neue.afdesign Affinity Publisher Neue 2.afdesign