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Is it possible to draw vector drawings in Affinity Photo (I don't own Affinity Designer)? I want to draw a vectorized version of a drawing I made by hand. I have imported a photo of the drawing (to use as a guide when making a digial version) and I have tried to draw on top of it in a new layer. But the new layer is very pixelated and I don't know which function to use to make nice, flowing and vectorized lines. Also, when trying to fill the outlines, the filling "bleeds" to the outside. See the little snapshot of a part of the drawing attached. 

Is this something I can do in Affinity Photo or do I have to use another program? 

Thankful for answers, I have ADHD so I have a bit of a hard time to read instructions and manuals. 

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Hi, @Lara Starchildand welcome to the forums.

Affinity Photo is very limited in terms of vector editing. You should consider buying the Designer for your project.

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1 hour ago, Lara Starchild said:

I have tried to draw on top of it in a new layer. But the new layer is very pixelated and I don't know which function to use to make nice, flowing and vectorized lines.

You are not going to see the smooth lines because the view in Photo is always Pixelated. It is primarily a raster (pixel) editor.

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2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

You are not going to see the smooth lines because the view in Photo is always Pixelated. It is primarily a raster (pixel) editor.

But you can create vector based objects in AP anyway, using the Pen Tool & the various shape tools (Cog, Rectangle, Triangle, etc.)

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@R C-R 

But there are no vector brushes and the vector objects scaled like raster objects. Better to use Affinity Designer for vectorisation

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5 hours ago, Komatös said:

But there are no vector brushes and the vector objects scaled like raster objects.

There are no vector brushes in AP but vector objects created with its shape tools still scale just like any vector object created in AD. It is just that AP always displays the document in Pixel View Mode.

So for example, I created this Vector Curve.afphoto file totally in AP using the Pen Tool, but if you rescale it there & then open in in AD, you will see scales like any other resolution-independent vector object.

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