NebraskaNed Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 I am presently trying to make the switch to Affinity. After twenty years of working with the competitor's products, I am finding this a little difficult. Please forgive me if I'm putting too many questions under one topic. I am starting to embrace the differences, as much as possible. However, the export function does not appear to be my friend. I am starting to get the gist of it, but I am confused as to why my images dimensions get resized when working with jpegs and tiffs when I export. With the jpegs it appears that no matter what size I am working, it defaults back to 72 dpi and changes the dimensions accordingly. My cmyk tiffs appear to be changing the dpi to 180 with the dimensions shifting as well. Is it supposed to work like that? Also, how is it best to work between Photo and Designer for printing? Do I need to export a tiff or eps to place in Designer or just use the native file? I initially had some trouble with parts of the images going grey when I tried to print a Designer layout with a Photo image. Does this have something to do with the embedded profile? I would really appreciate a video, or some sort of instructions, on best practices to place an image from Photo to add to a Designer layout for printing purposes. Lastly, I am struggling with the gradient tool. Is there anyway to go from a solid color to transparent? I just can't figure that one out. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted March 6, 2017 Staff Share Posted March 6, 2017 Hi NebraskaNed, Welcome to the forums. On the Export window, select the More button and uncheck Embed metadata, the documents correct DPI will be written to the file. Using the native .afphoto file when using Place will be ideal as both apps support each other files. Once the file has been placed, you can double click the file and edit it separate to the other. We have a video tutorial available on inserting documents in an existing one. Once you have a Gradient tool selected, insert your 'line' with the nodes to indicate gradient colours and direction. Click on the Fill swatch on the Context toolbar /now select the colour node you wish to be transparent and lower the opacity. This works for both affinity Photo and Designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NebraskaNed Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Got it. Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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