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Hello everyone www.livinnature.eu is my blog about lifestyle I love using Affinity tools to create my designs I would love it if you can check out my blog and give me some feedbacks to improve. I am a newbie in web designing. The website is few days old. I would love any kind of suggestions. Thank you Liveinnature.

Hi I am trying to improve my Web Design and Build workflow and would appreciate some guidance. I have both Designer and Photo. If a client sends me a number of images/photos to be used as the featured image for a blog post, then invariably they will be all different sizes and not optimised for web when received. On the main blog page there will be for example be listing grid of blog posts, maybe three columns wide across the page, where on the top of each blog post there will be a visible section of each image and they will all be the same size so that the listing grid itself looks clean and uniformed. So just for clarity, if three images are all different sizes in their raw format, they will all be cropped/clipped to an 800 x 500 template for example. I have seen a video where someone has done this in Photoshop where they created a template 800 x 500 art-board and then one by one placed each image into it, resized the image to suit inside the template and then saved it out before repeating with the next image. What would be the best step by step process to achieve this in Photo or (preferably) Designer so that I can have my template, crop/resize the images received within the template and then save them out as web optimised images? Thank you!

Hey everyone. I've just launched a blog that I'm using to chronicle the development of my graphic novel, Somerton Man. While I'll be showing some final finished art down the road, the purpose of the blog is to document the creation workflow process. I have a suite of tools I use, that include Photo on both Mac and iPad, and Designer. I also use Concepts, Notes, Scrivener, Sketchup, MakeHuman, Skelly.... well, there's a list. But at the centre are the Affinity suite. I'm inviting anyone interested to drop by and monitor the progress. I've got lots of good things to say about Designer, and a few criticisms, so I'm also open to ways of doing things more efficiently. There's also an FB page - working on getting that to update when the blog does. My project is about using Designer as the central hub for bringing the project together. As such, this is only partly about virtuoso technique, but it's definitely about workflow and thinking out the stages of the book. If that's of interest, I'd love to hear your ideas. Dan, Somerton Man Graphic Novel writer, artist.

First time using Affinity Designer to design a larger project for web. This draft view attached is of a personal blog site to come.