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[cbrillow]

22 minutes ago, royphotog said:

 PhotoImpact was a good program, and I still liked how it handled individual image files. Each image was opened in its own window, allowing you to easily compare two or three images. I did this with it for many years for headshot customers, showing them two photos. <snip> I have not found a program that works quite like it. 

Yes, that's the essence of what I found useful in PhotoImpact, and pretty much assumed that other programs treated images individually in a similar manner. Guess not!

[AfBill]

On 5/13/2025 at 2:43 PM, mazmac said:

Hi just got this programe looks complex I am Maz Hello all

Welcome Maz - Yes it looks very complex at first. Take your time watch the forum videos, and you will get where you want to be. We have all been there 😉

Edited May 15 by AfBill

[Markus F.]

Hi,

I am Markus and I begin my learning journey with Affinity products. I am very looking forward to it, because I read so many good things about all your products and the community. 🙂

[Kalides]

Hi. i was with a firm that did many things with adobe, until i wasn't anymore. after i was on my own, i was using  CS6. until adobe decided that my key (after like 5 years) was no longer any good. showing them my  receipt, for the software , and also the package, as i had a boxed version, was not good enough, so they started sending me nag notices. so i moved onto  Affinity. i no longer use any adobe products.  i know this was a while ago, but i never logged into the forum here. so i am in now, and will be paying attention, and offering opinions on what needs to be done to improve Affinity  Photo. I hope selling out to Canva, does not crimp  Serifs style.  anyway.  thanks for listening

[-iain-]

Hello folks, I'm iain, I'm quite new to the Affinity suite. I've been working around graphics for years, twice as a photographer directly employed by an individual for my skills in that domain, also producing architectural visualization, photo insertion and rendering. I'm now a programmer, and am currently primarily using Affinity Design for working with SVG. My current coding project involves working towards working with graphics. I'm a bit of a nerd about the math that is involved. I've worked with Adobe in the past, also QuarkExpress, and I must say that I'm really delighted by Affinity as it fits my use case perfectly.

I moved to Mac at the same time that I purchased the suite, I've a very strong aversion to subscription software and find myself yearning for the good old days of serious desktop applications; Affinity really is an antidote to my woes of distain for the modern web app, I find that it completes my Mac perfectly.

[Abdul Ghani]

i will try to learn and spread a informtion to other for Students and needy persons want help how much i know about to share

 

[Ian Sayers]

Hello Affinity Forum!

I am super excited to be joining the conversation here as the new Head of Enablement in Affinity, having officially stepped into the role around six weeks ago. It’s been a fantastic whirlwind getting to know the team, the processes, and most importantly, the Affinity community.

As many of you know, things on the release and update front have been a little quiet lately. But now that I’m in this new and exciting seat, I’m really looking forward to helping get the momentum rolling again and making sure the amazing work we are doing with Affinity, and our end users, shines as brightly as it deserves to. 

Please bear with me as I get up to speed properly with comments, requests and issues. I am looking forward to sharing updates, insights, and highlights as we go. Affinity is very much here to stay - It is great to be part of this company and community! 

My background is in delivering Training to a wide network of users as well as running webinars, and events. I am happy to connect and chat to you ALL.  

I live by a simply phrase - It is nice to be nice. So let's have some fun and creative some amazing things together.

Very best 
Ian Sayers

[Ali]

41 minutes ago, Ian Sayers said:

I live by a simply phrase - It is nice to be nice.

Absolutely! I could not agree more. Looking forward to your involvement here and hope that it will go at least some way towards calming some of the more negative voices here. Thank you for being here - I hope you have thick skin. 😉

[Old Bruce]

43 minutes ago, Ian Sayers said:

I am super excited to be joining the conversation here as the new Head of Enablement in Affinity, ...

I misread Enablement as Ennoblement. Hmmm... went I. Must be one of those Olde English things.

Anyways, welcome. Even if I don't understand what either means.

[Komatös]

1 hour ago, Ian Sayers said:

I live by a simply phrase - It is nice to be nice

That's exactly my line of thinking. One of my life mottos is: ‘It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.’

Now I'm looking forward to all the news that's coming. And I wish you lots of fun in your position as HOE ... Hero is spelled differently, isn't it? 😂

[Dazmondo77]

1 hour ago, Ian Sayers said:

Hello Affinity Forum!

Hello Ian 👍

[-iain-]

Hello Ian! Im must admit to having absolutely no idea what a head of Enablement is or does [here is hoping for enabling communications and getting things done]. It is very nice to meet a new member of the Affinity team, and a pleasure to be able to communicate with folk involved with creating as well as using the software.

[LoveDesign]

20 hours ago, Ian Sayers said:

Hello Affinity Forum!

I am super excited to be joining the conversation here as the new Head of Enablement in Affinity, having officially stepped into the role around six weeks ago. It’s been a fantastic whirlwind getting to know the team, the processes, and most importantly, the Affinity community.

As many of you know, things on the release and update front have been a little quiet lately. But now that I’m in this new and exciting seat, I’m really looking forward to helping get the momentum rolling again and making sure the amazing work we are doing with Affinity, and our end users, shines as brightly as it deserves to. 

Please bear with me as I get up to speed properly with comments, requests and issues. I am looking forward to sharing updates, insights, and highlights as we go. Affinity is very much here to stay - It is great to be part of this company and community! 

My background is in delivering Training to a wide network of users as well as running webinars, and events. I am happy to connect and chat to you ALL.  

I live by a simply phrase - It is nice to be nice. So let's have some fun and creative some amazing things together.

Very best 
Ian Sayers

This is great news. Welcome Ian. We are using Affinity exclusively at our shop and nothing is perfect. We like what it does for our clients and look forward to things ramping up and seeing what happens. My main hope is the communication is brought up a notch. Thanks again amd peace. 

[JpLaf]

Can you tell us what it means to be Head of Enablement in Affinity?

Thank you very much.

[RocknationAC]

I'm RocknationAC, a USA New Jersey girl rock photographer -- and a recovering Adobe-holic.

The ONLY reason why it's taken me this long to kick my habit is because the version of Photoshop that I ran on my ancient MacMini gave me the ability to opt out of using Adobe's cloud storage and computing. Knowing full well that I was going to have to change computers soon, I was not unprepared for the possibility of having to say goodbye to Photoshop though I'd been using it since it came on floppies. So I did my homework, and Affinity made the best first impression: a respectable one-time payment, sanctuary to the older Macintosh operating systems, no mandatory cloud usage, and best of all, a learning curve that didn't completely devitate from Photoshop's. 

Less than halfway through the free trial, I've been able to get back to work simply becuase I am NOT learning a new program from the ground up. There haven't been any serious interruptions of my workflow, but there are two things I'd like to know -- is it possible to increse the size of the type,  or to change the background color of the canvas? 

At any any rate, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

 

[Komatös]

Hello @RocknationAC and welcome to the forums.

19 hours ago, RocknationAC said:

is it possible to increse the size of the type,

The font size of the user interface can only be changed to a larger display to a limited extent. And the colour of the canvas cannot be changed. If you need a different background colour for projects, you can add a fill layer in the desired colour.

The UI font settings can be found in Affinity programmes under Settings -> Interface.

[Kevin Pinto]

On 6/10/2014 at 5:05 PM, MattP said:

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.

 

Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

Hello Matt, I am new to Affinity Designer and need to know how to use the same. I am new to designing also.

[Komatös]

1 hour ago, Kevin Pinto said:

need to know how to use the same

I'm not Matt, obviously. Nevertheless, welcome to the forum.

There is a lot of helpful information on the Affinity Designer YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@AffinityDesignerOfficial

If you have questions about how to use the software, or if something isn't working as it should, you can ask in one of the subforums under Support & Questions.