Jesaltriv Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Hi guys! I have been using Affinity Designer for over a year now and just bought Affinity Photo! Really love the workflow. I used to do all my photo graphics in Designer, but now I'm happy I have Photo. But I'm facing a serious issue. In Designer when I drop in a logo, I am able to resize it with no issue, and it looks crisp and clean. When I do the same in Photo, when I shrink it, it looks blurry. This is a REAL problem. I even tried adding text, and when i exported the image, it appeared all pixelated. I'm not sure what's going on. Am I missing something or is a setting wrong in my program? Attached is a test graphic I exported halfway through to see if it exported properly. Thank you! Jesal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted September 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted September 18, 2015 Hi Jesal, It sounds like it's being rasterised, what format is the logo that you're inserting and which format are you exporting to? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesaltriv Posted September 18, 2015 Author Share Posted September 18, 2015 Hi thanks for your reply! The logo is a PNG. I'm exporting it to JPEG. Should I export it to PNG? Is this the reason the text is blurry too? The text/logo looks blurry in the program too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted September 18, 2015 Hi Jesaltriv, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) This depends on the format of the file. Both JPG and PNG are raster files (composed by a fixed number of pixels) and as such are resolution dependent meaning they will lose quality if you scale them up (or down although less problematic in this case). Vector formats/data ( like SVG, EPS, AI etc) on the other hand are defined mathematically and can be scaled up/down without any quality loss. So if you have access to the logos in vector format it's preferable to use them. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesaltriv Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Thanks! Is that the reason why nothing ever seems blurry in Designer? What about the text? I created that within Affinity Photo and it came our blurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesaltriv Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Hi. I've gone ahead and begun to convert all of my logos to EPS. But now they have a white background I can't get rid of. When I exported it from Designer, it was with a transparent background. Also, if you notice the white logo in the bottom, it is still blurry and it's a EPS file, and I really am unsure how to proceed from here. Am I overlooking something with the logos and the native text? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 19, 2015 Staff Share Posted September 19, 2015 If the data you are working with in Affinity Designer are vectors then no, nothing will look blurry (except in some some situations e.g. working with small text). Note that EPS can also handle raster data. Exporting a PNG or JPG logo as EPS will not turn it into vector data. Can you post one of the original logo files so i can check it out? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesaltriv Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Ok I understand. Sure thanks for taking a look. Attached I here I have one EPS logo.. wistia-logo-white.eps Why would the actualy text in Photo look blurry. It's not like I'm importing anything of that nature. WOuld i have to create the text in Designer and export it as a EPS too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesaltriv Posted September 22, 2015 Author Share Posted September 22, 2015 I just wanted to follow up here. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 I posted a reply, but don't need to anymore. How do you delete a reply here? Quote In God's Harmony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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