Introduce Yourself

[Netsrek]

Welcome Remya, it is a great software that you will certainly enjoy using. Greetings to India

[ShellySunshine]

Hi there!  I'm Shelly!  I have been following this bundle of software around since at least 2018, but wasn't able to buy it until in 2020 when they had a sale, then of course, I got the V2 bundle last year.  I'm mainly a digital painter, and I am hoping the Affinity products will have more updates geared illustrators in the near feature!  So far, this software is wonderful for photo editing and vector illustrations!  Keep it up guys!

[Yulunga]

Bonjour la "team" 😂 
*** je fais celle qui est branchée alors que je suis nulle en Anglais (mdr) - mille excuses pour les anglophones ***
Déjà un grand merci 🙏 à Steve qui me permet enfin après une suite d'échanges de mail de rentrer dans ce forum, ça marche - youpi. 
Reste à trouver comment changer mon avatar pour personnaliser un peu mon espace... n'hésitez pas à m'aiguiller.😜

Pour les présentations, après une très longue carrière solo en qualité de Directrice Artistique, j'ai fais le choix de développer mon potentiel artistique et de vivre de mes créations... qui ne sont pas toutes numériques parce que bq trop curieuse pour me contenter de ce seul moyen d'expression.

Néanmoins j'ai conservé la CS6 avec l'OS Sierra jusqu'à ce que mon mac me lâche après 15 ans de loyaux services pour me tourner comme bq vers Affinity. Alors oui gros changement entre l'OS et la suite Adobe j'ai du pain sur la planche... et donc je cherche mes marques, mais déjà une critique  😂   😂   😂   😂  pour Affinity Designer - pas d'export en format DXF ? j'espère que la prochaine mise à jour va régler ce soucis là car c'est dommage d'être obligée de passer par un convertisseur. 

Allez bonne journée à tous 

Edited November 28, 2023 by Yulunga
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[Netsrek]

8 hours ago, Yulunga said:

Bonjour la "team" 😂 
*** je fais celle qui est branchée alors que je suis nulle en Anglais (mdr) - mille excuses pour les anglophones ***
Déjà un grand merci 🙏 à Steve qui me permet enfin après une suite d'échanges de mail de rentrer dans ce forum, ça marche - youpi. 
Reste à trouver comment changer mon avatar pour personnaliser un peu mon espace... n'hésitez pas à m'aiguiller.😜

Pour les présentations, après une très longue carrière solo en qualité de Directrice Artistique, j'ai fais le choix de développer mon potentiel artistique et de vivre de mes créations... qui ne sont pas toutes numériques parce que bq trop curieuse pour me contenter de ce seul moyen d'expression.

Néanmoins j'ai conservé la CS6 avec l'OS Sierra jusqu'à ce que mon mac me lâche après 15 ans de loyaux services pour me tourner comme bq vers Affinity. Alors oui gros changement entre l'OS et la suite Adobe j'ai du pain sur la planche... et donc je cherche mes marques, mais déjà une critique  😂   😂   😂   😂  pour Affinity Designer - pas d'export en format DXF ? j'espère que la prochaine mise à jour va régler ce soucis là car c'est dommage d'être obligée de passer par un convertisseur. 

Allez bonne journée à tous 

Bonjour Yulunga

 

Accueillir. pourquoi as-tu absolument besoin de dxf ? Vous pouvez également utiliser DWG ou SVG pour exporter.

 

Salutations

 

 

 

[Yulunga]

Bonjour, 

Parce qu'importer en DXF est gratuit pour le logiciel qui pilote mon matériel et SVG payant et que le DXF me va très bien
Toutefois et j'en suis pas encore là, si Designer ne conserve pas ou du moins qu'en partie mes caractéristiques de mes nombreux fichiers en DXF,  je vais devoir en effet reinvestir... 🥵 l'idée étant que je gagne du temps pas que j'en perde dans des conversions de fichiers qui peuvent en plus s'avérer incorrecte.

Au plaisir, Yulunga

[Patate]

Hi all!

I'm Emiliano from Italy. User since V1, now happily into V2.3!

[Helen Herbert]

On 6/10/2014 at 2:05 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!

Hi I have  just [purchased Affinity and trying to get to grips with it.   Although I have brought up the Photo Persona I cannot do the same for the Raw Development one.  Also on downloading it  has come through as an exe file.   Is this okay. 

[Patrick Connor]

@Helen Herbert, @ShellySunshine, @Patate,  @Remya and others who are new since my last welcome

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  

@Yulunga

Bienvenue sur les forums Serif Affinity  

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22 hours ago, Helen Herbert said:

Although I have brought up the Photo Persona I cannot do the same for the Raw Development one.  Also on downloading it  has come through as an exe file.   Is this okay

@Helen Herbert

I suggest that you ask your questions in the questions forum (but yes the EXE is fine, and RAW development is for RAW files)

[malgosia]

Hi everyone, 
I'm Malgosia. I am located in Vienna, Austria. I have been using mostly Affinity Publisher to design my notebooks and journals which I publish on KDP Amazon.  I love the software and I am aware there is still so much to learn. 

I am still considering upgrading to the new version. I would appreciate your opinion on this matter. 

 

[Steve Baker]

Hello, Steve here from Co. Kerry ireland. Using Affinity Publisher for a few months now on Mac and PC. It does what we want in our small printing business and couldn't be happier.

[Jereinbiju]

I biju. i like to share my  inforamtion regarding new updated software

[Steve Baker]

If anyone can help please... I strike a text box in publisher but cannot make multiple columns as the menu is greyed out. I have re-installled the app to no avail. What can the problem be? I am working on an older Imac running  10.9 (Mavericks). It did work when 1st installed.

[walt.farrell]

30 minutes ago, Steve Baker said:

If anyone can help please... I strike a text box in publisher but cannot make multiple columns as the menu is greyed out. I have re-installled the app to no avail. What can the problem be? I am working on an older Imac running  10.9 (Mavericks). It did work when 1st installed.

This topic is for introductions, not for product usage questions. It would be better for you to post a new topic in the appropriate Questions forum.

[ttl]

Hi, I am Jan from Czech Republic. I am working for more than 20 years in advertising studio using Adobe soft for all that time. As their pricing politics after CS6 became unacceptable for me, I am still working with CS6 and because of it I have stuck on Mac OS Sierra. I have been thrilled when I heard about Serif's developing a serious alternative also to InDesign (Publisher). And I have bought Affinity V1 as well as V2. Unfortunately Affinity V2 don't support such old Mac OS version I am still forced to run on, so I am unable to run Affinity V2 simultaneously with Adobe CS6 to have good conditions for comparing and testing both apps to get know if Affinity (mainly Publisher) is on such level allowing me to leave Adobe (mainly InDesign). I had to install another HDD with Win10 where I can make my tryouts and tests in Affinity V2. From several testing works I have discovered, that full transition is still too "risky" for me (and partial transition is impossible due to OS incompatibility). However I deeply hope, that moment of my complete transition to Affinity is getting near.
I wish Serif team good luck in developing such difficult piece of software (as Affinity apps are) and looking forward to the day I will start use it for serious work.

[Remya]

On 11/27/2023 at 11:28 PM, Netsrek said:

Welcome Remya, it is a great software that you will certainly enjoy using. Greetings to India

Thank you

 

[Inamini]

Hi ik ben Ina en na jarenlang mijn kaartspellen te hebben ontworpen in Picasa (ja echt, Picasa!) heb ik een upgrade gemaakt naar Affinity Publisher. Ik heb een online cursus affinity Photo gedaan, waarna ik toch gekozen heb voor Publisher. Ik leer iedere dag weer iets nieuws, maar loop ook tegen heel veel dingen aan natuurlijk. Maar ik ben echt zo blij met dit programma. Ik heb hulp nodig, en wie weet kan ik iemand anders ook hulp bieden.

Tot ziens, groetjes van Ina uit Nederland

 

 

[Sreng Pagna]

Hi, my name is Sreng Pagna. I am from Cambodia. I am new here. After trying affinity photo 2 for almost a month, I feel love it, and decided to have it. Hope to learn something from the forum and also hope affinity photo will improve unicode fonts more because some fonts in my language are not supported. ❤️

[stephanie kerneis flinoy]

Bonjour, je m'appelle stef J'ai déjà utilisé quelques produits Serif et je suis propriétaire d'une Mac depuis longtemps. Je suis donc ravie de pouvoir enfin bénéficier d'une action Serif sur mon Mac ! :)

[malgosia]

Hello everyone, 

I am Malgosia (Margaret) from Vienna. I have been using Affinity software for over two years. I make Low Content Books and find both Affinity Publisher and Designer great. They make designing so easy. This year I would like to advance my skills. Maybe you can suggest good Affinity courses for me? I am very happy to be part of this community. 

[ChimpJr.]

Hi everyone, I’m Rajesh, an aspiring creative marketer. The first thing I bought from Serif is the Affinity Designer 2. So far, this has proven to be one of the best investments I've made in my lifetime. As I use Designer 2, I look forward to giving feedback and improving this software to make it more accessible for everyone. And just so you know, I have already been spreading the word about Affinity within my circle. Glad to join you all!

[Rcm578]

Hi, I'm Richard,

My wife and I use affinity photo, we are beginer users, so have some learning to do.  We used to use Serif Photoplus back in the day.  We hope to find some helpful hints and tips on this forum, and may come on here if we are struggling with something.  We look forward to being part of the forum.  We are both keen on Astro photography, and my wife likes a wide variety of other photography genres including urbex, wildlife and landscapes / cityscapes.

[Sunset]

Hi Richard, and welcome to the forum. I was also a great fan of the Serif range, and I found Affinity Photo to be easier to use. I'm not in your league as a photographer, but I do have to turn my 'snaps' and supplied images into eye-catching illustrations for events on a charity website, and I use Photo to do that every day (It's a huge website!). Enjoy the forum and the videos and using Affinity!   Hilary.

[Annika1]

Hello everyone

I'm new member of this forum.I'm Annika.I am from India.

[David Battistella]

Hi, 

 

I am David, I am an independent documentary filmmaker in italy and I use this suite of apps in my filmmaking work and also to design and layout print materials to support my promotional efforts. I have also written a book which i am laying out with these tools. 
 

i am a student of technology and a lifelong Mac user.  I wish these apps were around when i started filmmaking too long ago to state here. 
 

my website is 

www.davidbattistella.com

[Donna Heron]

Hi, all. I’m Donna. I live in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., which is a Philadelphia suburb. I discovered surface pattern designing three months ago and I’m teaching myself Affinity Design 2 for IPad. It’s hard learning on my own. Plus things are chaotic. There r tutorials on YouTube and Skillshare but the tuturoials are for AD1, AD2, for desktop, and for IPad. So I have to be careful I choose the right one. Plus in a lot of the videos, it’s difficult to see exactly how an instructor is doing something. I’m currently  learning to make art boards for a pattern and pattern preview for a repeat design.  Two steps forward, four back. If anyone has any advice on where to learn, I’m definitely interested. Thank u!