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We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.2.0 The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.2.0 (those made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.1.1) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Publisher > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.2.0 The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.2.0 (those made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.1.1) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Photo > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.2.0 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.2.0 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.1.1) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

Working with the pencil tool in designer can be maddening enough at times (extra nodes/data, destructive delete, etc) but trying to set what colour you're drawing with can drive one to madness. The brush tool also has a few oddities, but it's at least a bit more consistent. I've attached two videos showing Designer on both macOS and iPadOS and how picking a colour is like rolling the dice, let alone trying to determine if the shape is going to be filled even if there is no fill colour selected. One thing I did figure out is that the pencil tool stroke is only taken from the stroke colour well in the colour panel, while the brush stroke colour can be either the fill colour or the stroke colour. Also, the colours displayed on the context toolbar are not always in sync with the colours in the colour panel colour wells. One thing that would help in the context toolbar is that if a colour is ONLY applied to the stroke use the same colour well (the stroke, unfilled circle one) in the context toolbar—as it is it feels like you can use either or the fill. Also, I'm not sure how Designer is figuring that if I've currently selected a line drawn with blue, that the next line I want to draw should be yellow or whatever colour it decides. A little consistency (and sanity) would be most welcome. Addendum: I also use the colour panel colour wells rather than the context toolbars ones primarily because a) I always associate setting and selecting colours with the colour panel, b) it has additional controls to set the opacity and noise settings, and c) I primarily toggle between the colour panel, stroke panel, and layers panel all of which are easily accessible from the top right or the screen, rather than having to find and manipulate settings in the context toolbar (which I honestly don't find terribly useful, can't remember what it contains and when, and is generally very confusing). macos.mp4 ipados.mp4

The title pretty much says it all. My hope is that it would be easy to implement, since by changing the extension from .aftemplate to .afdesign or one of the other native format file extensions QuickLook displays the file.

Affinity Designer v2 froze after placing a photo and then opening the file again never opened it, just kept showing a "Loading document" message. I have uninstalled the program, reinstalled it and it still won't open my document. I have tried to open other versions of the same document but it doesn't open either. I lost the work of an entire afternoon???? 😡 AD v2.1.1 MacOS Monterrey v12.6.7 Macbook Pro M1

It would be nice if Affinity would symlink or just install the ICC Profiles that Affinity ships with into /Library/ColorSync/Profiles So they should up in the Color Sync Utility.app making it possible to view profile and compare them.

Application: Affinity Designer Version: 2.1.1 OS: MacOS Ventura 13.3.1 How to reproduce: select a type layer, hold shift then click an empty spot, the selection tool will change to the type tool. The issue: when selecting multiple elements using shift, if you have a type layer in the selection – even if other elements are present as well – every time you accidentally click on an empty spot (eg. when you miss the element you are trying to select) Designer changes to the type tool and the next time you click you will create a new type layer. How I would expect this to work: The selection tool should not change while you are adding elements to the selection with shift. As far as I can tell, this issue appeared with v2 and wasn't present in v1

Hello, Which is the easier way to do this path and how can I create the effect of changing colors if is a degraded? Thanks Camelia

Hey there, my new MacBook arrived a few days ago and I noticed that, unlike on Windows, the colour picker doesn't seem to pick colours outside of the canvas. Although it has Screen Recording permissions set, it simply picks white. The "preview" is fine, but it doesn't actually choose the colour. I've attached a screen recording where I try to pick a colour outside of the canvas and inside of the canvas. Inside the canvas it works fine, outside the canvas it **always** returns white. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? My friend, a longer-time macOS user, is not experiencing this. Useful info: MacBook Pro M2 Max macOS Ventura 13.4.1 Affinity Photo & Designer 2.2.0 Screen Recording 2023-07-09 at 14.37.41.mov

I'd like to move the first steps in the digital arts world as a hobby. I tried with my current macBook Pro and a Wacom tablet and found the lag too bad to enjoy drawing (it's a mid-2015 4-core i7 with 16GB RAM and only the integrated Intel Iris Pro GPU) As I'm looking for an upgrade I'm wondering what's the minimum that could give me a low-latency drawing experience. I know that brushes can be very computationally expensive if one wants to simulate liquid colours dripping and blending with other layers and whatnot. So let's say I'm going to stick to pencil-like or fairly simple brushes. Would a macBook Pro 2018 i7-6core, 16GB RAM, and a Radeon Pro 555X 4GB be enough? I'm using Affinity Designer V2.

This effects all three programs: Photos, Designer, and Publisher. When i minimize the program to the dock, clicking on the docked icon does not expand the program to the desktop again. it does however make it the active window. to expand the program i must right click on the docked icon and and select the currently opened file in the program.

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.1.1 The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.1.1 (those made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.1.0) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Publisher > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.1.1 The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.1.1 (those made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.1.0) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Photo > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.1.1 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.1.1 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.1.0) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

Hi, I'm using affinity photo v1. When I use large scale brush (>1600px) for masking with Huion h420 drawing tablet, the brush gets struck and unable to visualize the area where masking impacted.

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.1.0 The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.1.0 (those made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.0.4) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Photo > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.1.0 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.1.0 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.0.4) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.1.0 The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.1.0 (those made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.0.4) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Publisher > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

If you have macOS Monterey, Big Sur or macOS Catalina you may notice that our apps are taking 20+ secs to launch after starting your Mac from cold or after rebooting your Mac. However, subsequent launches should be fine. This issue has been logged with our developers but a workaround can be found here.

Hello, I have a graphic I'm working on in Affinity Designer 2 on macOS. In short, it's a lineup of the Laptop models my team supports. I need to rotate the "wallpaper" depicted on each laptop periodically. Today, I have a copy of the wallpaper masked in each laptop layer. In stead, I want to reference a single image as each laptops "wallpaper" that I can more easily replace. My thought is when I need to update the "wallpaper", I can just replace the 1 reference image in stead of each duplicate in the layers. Is this possible? Thank you!

Just now updated from 2.0 to 2.0.4 this evening. Was really hoping they'd fixed that brush menu double-click lock-up bug. It's really quite nasty, and makes the software basically unusable. It's like walking into a booby trap. I'm able to deal with basically being forced to work in tabs, but this brush menu bug is a show-stopper. When double-clicking a brush in the scrolling menu to bring up the width/etc adjustment panel, Photo throws up the spinning rainbow beach ball and goes for a lie-down, requiring me to force-quit. The clumsy UI design decision re: the Big Frame That Won't Go Away And The Non-Detachable Toolbar is something I can work with, but this bug makes V2 pretty much unusable. Will this ever be fixed? Here's part of the bug report transmitted to Apple, if it means anything: Date/Time: 2023-05-04 21:39:57.623 -0400 End time: 2023-05-04 21:41:48.369 -0400 OS Version: macOS 12.6.2 (Build 21G320) Architecture: arm64e Report Version: 35.1 Incident Identifier: 025B1725-F537-4813-AA9B-58C905D248BD Data Source: Stackshots Shared Cache: BE7FE6AD-4560-3AE2-883E-432F78B45062 slid base address 0x1b07cc000, slide 0x307cc000 Shared Cache: 075C518A-CD16-346D-A539-3A4D45B847A6 slid base address 0x19932c000, slide 0x1932c000 Shared Cache: DF545CF0-AB3D-34B5-900B-63364D9C86AB slid base address 0x7ff80fce8000, slide 0xfce8000 Command: Affinity Photo 2 Path: /Applications/Affinity Photo 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Photo 2 Identifier: com.seriflabs.affinityphoto2 Version: 2.0.4 (2.0.4.326) Team ID: 6LVTQB9699 Architecture: arm64 Parent: launchd [1] PID: 2744 Time Since Fork: 224s Event: hang Duration: 110.75s Duration Sampled: 1.90s (process was unresponsive for 109 seconds before sampling) Steps: 19 (100ms sampling interval) Hardware model: Macmini9,1 Active cpus: 8 HW page size: 16384 VM page size: 16384 Time Awake Since Boot: 45707s Time Since Wake: n/a (machine hasn't slept)

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.0.4 The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.0.4 (those made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.0.3) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: (since the last release 2.0.3) Develop Persona: Enabling White Balance on non RAW files crashes Affinity Photo. [AFP-5803] Fixed: "Register your licence" prompt appears on every run up when a Mac App Store user doesn't register the license on the Affinity Store. App crash upon startup caused by a deleted "Recently Used" file on Catalina Fix gradual slow down after changing tools many times. ‘Help’->’Visit Support Forums’ menu item goes to the forums again Fix for non-primary Persona menus having broken ‘Help’->’Tutorials’ links. Some image resources are being replaced by others from the same document when copy/paste was originally used to insert them.[AFB-7053] Fixed tint value in CR3 files [AFP-4617] Fix New Document sometimes showing Letter* instead of A4 Improved timezone handling in Metadata panel Colour space selection not correctly represented in curves adjustments. Saving files may reduce file size in some circumstances (example was a 2gb file with no embedded data) Editing an embedded PDF does not create a History step, meaning changes are lost when closing as no save prompt is shown Assorted stability fixes Help and Localisation updates. Assorted other Licensing and Registration improvements To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Photo > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.0.4 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.0.4 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.0.3) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: (since the last release 2.0.3) Fixed: "Register your licence" prompt appears on every run up when a Mac App Store user doesn't register the license on the Affinity Store. Some image resources are being replaced by others from the same document when copy/paste was used to insert them. [AFB-7053] App crash upon startup caused by a deleted "Recently Used" file on Catalina ‘Help’->’Visit Support Forums’ menu item goes to the forums again Fix for non-primary Persona menus having broken ‘Help’->’Tutorials’ links. Fix gradual slow down after changing tools many times. Fixed non-ASCII characters not being accepted in license usernames Fix New Document sometimes showing Letter* instead of A4 Editing an embedded PDF does not create a History step, meaning changes are lost when closing as no save prompt is shown Assorted stability fixes Help & localisation improvements. Assorted other Licensing and Registration improvements To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store — updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases, which update through the Mac App Store).

I have bought "Publisher 1" (and "Designer 1") from the appstore. I highly regret that decision now that I found out that APPLE claims for itself the right to cut off the customer's download access to their purchases at any time they please. Therefore, I am searching for a standalone installer that comes directly from SerifLabs. I would be willing to pay for another licence. But it must be "Publisher 1" (and "Designer 1") because Version 2 is not supported by my operating system. For half a decade, MacOS has been getting worse and worse with every update. So my question is this: Where can I buy a product key to use the installers that you have listed under the link above?