doug-life Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Created a design (all vector), but now I'm told it needs to be exported to PNG file format. I know now that vector and PNG don't really go together. Searching for best way to get my design exported to PNG while maintaing image quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Have you tried exporting as png to see what it looks like? Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug-life Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 I have. It comes out very blurry. I then tried exporting to PDF since I've read this is one of the file formats that works better for vector - exported file looks good. However, the best PDF image quality resulted once I removed from certain objects; all the adjustments I applied from the Layer FX Studio (not exactly sure why that made a difference). Once I unapplied any Layer FX, I tried the png format, again - still came out very blurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug-life Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 Just now, doug-life said: 17 hours ago, DM1 said: Have you tried exporting as png to see what it looks like? I have. It comes out very blurry. I then tried exporting to PDF since I've read this is one of the file formats that works better for vector - exported file looks good. However, the best PDF image quality resulted once I removed from certain objects; all the adjustments I applied from the Layer FX Studio (not exactly sure why that made a difference). Once I unapplied any Layer FX, I tried the png format, again - still came out very blurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 If the end result doesn’t need to be vector perhaps you could try a Merge Visible and then rasterise and export the new layer. At least it will have all the effects. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug-life Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 2 hours ago, DM1 said: If the end result doesn’t need to be vector perhaps you could try a Merge Visible and then rasterise and export the new layer. At least it will have all the effects. The pixel layer created when I Merge Visible looks blurry even in Affinity (same when exported). Not sure what else to mention about the document - I attached the file in case you want to take a look and possibly see a problem that I'm not aware of. Truly appreciate all your help! Rainbow 300x60 Copy.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 22 minutes ago, doug-life said: The pixel layer created when I Merge Visible looks blurry Yes, terrible! I exported your original file as eps and loaded back into Designer. It looks good. I’ve attached the eps file below so you can open and see if ok your end. Rainbow 300x60 Copy.eps Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug-life Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 On 4/22/2020 at 10:52 PM, DM1 said: Yes, terrible! I exported your original file as eps and loaded back into Designer. It looks good. I’ve attached the eps file below so you can open and see if ok your end. eps opens ok for me. Image looks good in AD. Been trying to research the eps format in order to figure out your thought process when you exported the doc to eps in order to import back to AD; and how this would help with the file eventually being exported to png. Were you trying to do something with the individual elements/objects while it was eps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 42 minutes ago, doug-life said: Been trying to research the eps format in order to figure out your thought process when you exported the doc to eps in order to import back to AD; I simply opened the eps Version I had made, grouped all layers and copied group. Closed file and opened the afdesign version and pasted in the 'group' copy (just for a comparison). As you can see the original and the pasted copy of the eps version look identical. No changes were made to original. Just exported and selected eps as output. My default settings are shown below. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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