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This was the original. I wasn’t commissioned to do this, I just thought it would be good practice to create something better. For the main image I generated a prompt using Playground AI. I then edited some details using Affinity Photo, adjusted the lighting and colors, added half-tone, and used some overlay textures. I think it's definitely more attention grabbing (lol)

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.

What a grand title for such a simple picture concept! All photo's sourced at Unsplash. Visualisation created using Affinity Photo.

Hi, in this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show how to capture this hotspot with a beautiful mood. The Charles Bridge in Prague is beautiful, but also very crowded. If you're unlucky with the weather, your short vacation seems to end without a nice photo. Here I show important steps from taking photos to editing. I wish you fun & inspiration (perhaps for getting out early in your city). Ciao Jack

Let's go back to school, with some of those common and well known school protractors for measuring in degrees. ... etc. The protractor assets shared here ... ... are all vector based and do have printed on degree scales. You have to adapt/size the default assets protractor sizes to your document needs and thus scale them up/down so they nearly match your doc measurements. Note that all protractors are just a bunch of grouped/layered together vector parts (curves and text) thus they can be modified in colorings and the like. Also you should always move & size etc. a whole reused protractor group/layer when needed! Here is the associated assets file: protractors.afassets Have a nice school day!

Made with symbols Affinity Photo V2. Text at the gear is “gears of life”.

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

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

Accidentally I turned a text layer (Frame Text) into curves, that is each single letter is on it's own. How can I undo this (turn the text into one single text layer again)? Oh, and how did I actually do this (so I can prevent it from happening in the future ... 🙃)? I just clicked or double-clicked somewhere in the layer to change the text ... Thank you!

How can the auto warp text (is that the name of the function?) in Affinity Photo be turned off? I only want to resize the layer size to fit in more text, not distort the text. See image below. Thank you! 🙂

Hi guys, is everything okay? 👍 I'm still here 😁... here's another photo composition with AF. All the images are from Pexel and I made a couple of things (the sheets and the clock) with Blender because I couldn't find any right images and the man with the umbrella was recolored because the image was black and white. I learned a lot while trying to solve the problems that came up every ten minutes...🤔 I hope you like it... I like it a lot! 😂 Ciao e grazie Davide

My brother bought a new place and requested I make him a poster on human evolution using the skulls. It took a while to research and decide what would work and to weed through alternative ways to present to timeline. The images were draw in AP and it was set up in Apub. The illustrations separately are on 15x15" canvases and the printed poster will be 12x18".

Not long ago, the last fish in my room died. So while looking at an empty fish tank, I suddenly made an image under the theme of "My Fish Friend." "My Fish Friend" speed art : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOFrRmOQlhg

Hi guys, this is another photocomposition test with AP. I tried to create something more dynamic... and why not, night-time 😎 All images are taken from Pexel. Ciao e grazie! 😀 Davide

Hi there, I'm working with Affinity for several years now and was always very satisfied. But since my update to newest Affinity Photo 2 the layer panel is gone, can't see it anymore. The older version of Affinity Photo shows the layer panel as known. So what is the problem and how can I solve it? Anybody out there to help me? Any help is highly appreciated For your info, I'm working on MacOs 11.7.10 – maybe that's the problem?

Hey guys! Here's what I do on Photo and/or Designer in combination with my fortnightly radio show WallPlugTuna on bbz.ru. Any feedback is welcome: https://odysee.com/@WallPlugTuna:1/WPT326:4 Thanks for your time!

Hey guys! I use Affinity Suite on Mac, BigSur Rotation I know it's been suggested before but I'd like to reiterate that a rotate-funtion in Photo (and maybe Designer) would be "hella dope" as they say. This is the single most important feature that Adobe's got that gives it one leg up in my opinion. Flip Also, another suggestion is to make the option Picture > Flip Horizontally/Vertically available as a button on the toolbar. Flipping your artwork is a valuable and venerable tool to keep it fresh in your eyes and make sure they don't get used to it and make you overlook things like proper perspective and anatomy. Shop If we could get an overview over what we bought in the shop and what we haven't and even a wishlist-function, I think that would make buying in the store a lot more attractive. It would certainly speak to the "completionist" in me. Right-click > load file In V1 we had the option to load previous files with just right-clicking on the app-icon in the toolbar. Since the major update that feature has been missing. Thanks for all the hard work and making a great software suite! Looking forward for more!

Here is a preview of a wattpad cover I am working on that is similar to the first poster from Stranger Things: What do you think? @v_kyr @AffinityJules @carl123 @firstdefence @iconoclast

Inspired by an enamel sign from the 1950s to mark the 130th anniversary in 2016 of Coca-Cola Inc. In this Affinity Photo composing I used a pin up from Peter Driben (1903 - 1968) and a photographed and cropped Coke can. And the used font for the Coca-Cola word logo is Loki-Cola. Funfact: The font for the word mark Coca-Cola was never copyrighted for and by Coca-Cola Inc. The word marks Coke and Coca-Cola, on the other hand, are registered trademarks.

Just as a touch of humour, here's a photo I found edited with APh v1 some time ago, just modified for the occasion (text & liquify applied to the head):

A few days ago, I installed the new version of Affinity Photo 2.4.0.2222 beta version. My system is Windows 11 64 bit. Installation from the exe file went well. The program works properly with my RAW file editor - DXO PhotoLab 7. It discovered all my Photoshop plug-ins, including the entire DXO Nik Collection set. Processing of large tiff files was successful. Also working with layers. These are my first impressions of working with this version of the program.

I want to create a Procedural Texture filter preset using one of the Voronoi functions, but can't seem to make it work. I know there's a standard Voronoi Filter, but it is very limited...basically size and line thickness. I was hoping to be able to create a PT filter that allows me to adjust size, shape, line thickness, distortion, blur, etc. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but I can't get the Voronoi functions (i.e., cellnoise, cellnoise2, cellnoisedist, cellnoiseedge) to do anything at all. Can anyone provide some examples that work to get me pointed in the right direction? I'm using v2.3.1 on a Mac running Ventura. Thanks.

Hi guys, I recently switched to AP and to get to know it better I tried to create a photocomposition. This is the result, I hope you like it! 😀

This is one of my digital paintings with the title Planets & Inhabitants/ Floryon", a landscape on a planet in our galaxy that has developed a humanoid intelligence, a hybrid between plants and animals. I worked with basic Affinity Photo 2 Beta brushes and brushes created by developers both in app. The figures in the foreground are first, modeled by me and placed in the landscape in the conversational pose.