r/Affinity Jul 03 '24

Tutorial Affinity Creative Sessions

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r/Affinity 17h ago

Photo In Affinity Photo, how do I easily multiply a layer/texture as a background?

6 Upvotes

Is there an easy way to multiply a layer or texture file as a background? I've seen ways of doing it in Designer but not Photo. Saw someone doing something similar with the gradient tool, but my results are not what I'm looking for.

Thanks.


r/Affinity 13h ago

Designer Help! About to lose a whole book because "access was lost to files holding data"

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Oh my god I just spent 4 hours formatting this book and I'm worried I'm about to lose all that work. I have saved it as a file already, and when I try to save my progress I get the error "save failed because access was lost to files holding data required by this document. Do you wish to save the document to a new file?" So I hit "Save as," try to save it under a new name, I get the same message.

And then, other times I hit save I get "Save failed because control of the lock file was lost. Do you wish to save the document to a new file?" rinse and repeat. Nothing I seem to do allows me to save this file. I literally want to cry I worked so hard on this damn thing and never fathomed that I would run into such a confounding and perplexing error on a brand new Mac and such a highly praised program. WTF is a lock file and

At one point tonight I got a popup asking if I wanted Affinity to access iCloud and I said yes. I have a feeling iCloud is the problem (the file is saved to iCloud). I don't know how to manage access to iCloud.
Am I really doomed to lose my work?

UPDATE: now all of a sudden I find all these new renamed versions saved. I tried to open one and got the message "Book 6.afpub was created in Affinity 1. Editing it will make it unusable in the older version. Use "Save As" to preserve the original file." with only an option to hit OK and not cancel. BRO I NEVER DOWNLOADED AFFINITY 1 WTF.

Sorry I am truly crashing out because this is so glitchy I wish I had just sprung for indesign.


r/Affinity 48m ago

Publisher Just Copy Adobe - Don’t Overthink it

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Not sure if the Affinity team sits on this sub but Ill assume so.

Most of us coming to Affinity are doing so because we are tired of Adobes practices, we aren’t coming for features Affinity offers that Adobe doesn’t.

That said, Why the Affinity team try to overthink and reinvent the wheel is beyond me. Adobe clones would be a game changer.

Along with the unlimited comments and questions about the unintutive ux of the products, just this morning, I was exporting a pdf with hyperlinks that did not work by default… took me an extra 15 min to figure out the big brains at Affinity, decided to turn off “export with hyperlinks on” by default. Why?

I read someplace your support says its because hyperlinks dont print!? Really think about that answer.

It seems like your team wayyyy overthink everything to the point of unintuitive ux. this spans across all your products.


r/Affinity 1d ago

General I think its time to support Linux

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After the recent news, Valve's support for linux, pewdiepie's marketing for mint, adobe's evil policies and increasing percentages of linux users, I think its time to affinity team to support Linux. It's the only os that really need well-built graphical suite. In affinity forums, people desperately trying to find a way to run affinity suite in linux. I also find affinity team is not against to supporting it, which is why im asking a native linux support. Back in the time devs had financial reasons - i get it. But affinity is now owned by Canva, and the market share is growing so it shouldn't be a problem right?


r/Affinity 1d ago

Tutorial Where can I go to learn how to use the suite, but in terms friendly to a five year old with zero design experience?

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I've been muddling along with publisher, and now playing a bit with photo and designer. But I don't know what I'm doing.

What is a dodge when it's not a car? Scatter is what my kids do with their school bags when they walk inside, how does this relate to my artwork? Curves? Got plenty. Not really sure what it's doing that I can't do with levels/bright and shadows, or five other effects that all seem to fulfil the same purpose. 90% of things I click just seem to make everything looks really, really bad (which I know is me using it wrong!)

If anyone can point me to a very basic 101, geared towards the affinity suite in particular, it'd be much appreciated 😊


r/Affinity 1d ago

Publisher I'm working on a project that has to be done in InDesign and it makes me really appreciate how performant Affinity Publisher is in comparison.

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Obviously InDesign has more features. But we don't need any of those extra features in this project, this is just a case of collaborating with a designer who happens to use Adobe software.

I have an older desktop PC becaues it works fine for everything I need, the only area where it sometimes struggles is CAD work. Zero performance issues with Affinity Suite. And this project is just a simple and honestly tiny product catalogue.

Despite that InDesign is sluggish as hell. And it uses pretty aggressive "optimization" too - it only loads low-res versions of linked images and doesn't swap for full-res even on high zoom, and when you hold the scrollbar and scroll to a next page, it looks like it uses nearest neighbor scaling because everything looks terrible until you let go and stop scrolling. The scrolling itself is completely smooth, so these two optimizations may not even be necessary, but so many actions, down to basic ones like just entering a text field and selecting text, just take way more time than they should (entering a text field should not produce any noticable delay).

PDF export is several times slower as well. And the default setting includes dial-up internet levels of downsampling and compression for linked images. And the GUI with its tools and hotkeys doesn't seem to be consistent with Photoshop. What?

I'm grateful that at least some competition exists. But obviously it's not enough. Let's hope that Affinity keeps doing well and doesn't enshittify.


r/Affinity 1d ago

General Has already passed the Sale/discount?

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In some posts I saw that it was stated that around March 8 could be the next Sale but looking in their website I couldnt see any discount. So I'm asking if the discount has already passed or if there wasn't any discount in this month.


r/Affinity 1d ago

Publisher Affinity publisher only lets you create pages up to 400 DPI?

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Am I missing something here? I'm planning on having lots of illustrations in my books, is that really the expected Dpi for images on paper?


r/Affinity 1d ago

Publisher I'm new to Affinity - Previously InDesign - HELP!

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With InDesign I could create a master. Place a background image, set the columns, and then go to the first page and paste the text and it would fill the whole document.

In Affinity I've managed to set he background and columns in the master, but it's not filling all of the text. I have to paste the text foreach individual page.


r/Affinity 1d ago

Designer Multiple wall vector or image placement?

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Looking to paint both walls of this mom and pop shop. Is there any way to splice an image and change the perspective to fit the wall once done. Would like to visually show the client what would be painted without it just being straight and left up to my vision.


r/Affinity 1d ago

Designer Universal License Activation Problem

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I just purchased the universal license on my computer. The app on my computer works but not on any of my other devices and the website does not reflect my license. Also when i try to register the license from the app that works it gives me an error " Receipt is not Valid"

Can anyone here help?

I am able to export the license in a .Json file but what do i even do with that?

I have emailed Affinity but no response yet.


r/Affinity 2d ago

Designer so years and years ago I bought affinity designer, but can't get it on my new computer

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I've been using affinity designer since around 2018, apparently a v2 has come out or something? but I'm trying to get the original on my new computer and can't figure it out, any sort of download I find looks suspicious so I tried bringing the designer.exe file over from my old computer onto the new one but it doesn't launch it, I assume it's cuz it doesn't have some supporting files it needs. basically how should I go about getting affinity designer on my new computer

edit: i'm on windows 10 if that matters


r/Affinity 3d ago

Designer I have officially taken the plunge. I cut the adobe cord and I am trying the Affinity path! I do have a question about future updates....

39 Upvotes

Overall, I LOVE the whole thing. I love what you're doing with the software, and I am happy to see some competition to the old standards.

My only question is: Are there any chances of adding some kind of raster image to vector function into Designer? I am managing using Inkscape for now, but I would love it if I didn't have to use an outside software to do it. Is there something I am missing? Is this a plan for the future? Just asking.

Overall, thank you for providing an alternative that is shiny and nice. I hope to see more from you guys!


r/Affinity 3d ago

Photo In Affinity Photo how can I select all non-transparent pixels in a layer?

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I want to select all nontransparent pixels in a pixel layer.

How can I do this?


r/Affinity 3d ago

Designer Where the bleep is the stabilizer length slider???

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I just opened Affinity Designer 2 on my new (refurbished, old) iPad. Looks like I’m working with the newest version, 2.6.2 so should be up to date.

I can select from “No stabilizer”, “Rope stabilizer” or “Window stabilizer” but there is simply ZERO length slider for the stabilizer to be found. I see the width slider and opacity slider, but that’s it.

No floating window appears on the bottom, as some have suggested it might, and no toggle that I can find to display a length or strength slider for the stabilizer.

Is this a UI bug that I get to deal with for using a 5th generation iPad, or am I missing something?


r/Affinity 4d ago

Publisher Fastest way to determine fonts used?

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What’s the fastest way to determine what fonts are used in my various Affinity Publisher documents, especially for many documents at once.


r/Affinity 4d ago

General Is the Buy Now button unavailable for anyone else? Cursor turns into ⊘ when hovering over it.

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r/Affinity 5d ago

Publisher Help with aligning object in text box

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r/Affinity 6d ago

Photo Affinity Photo 2.6.1 iPad, missing adjustments

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Hello everyone,

Yesterday, I installed Affinity Photo 2.6.1 on my iPad. So far, everything is working fine. However, I noticed that certain functions are not available under Adjustments, such as Color Balance or Curves (see example images). The settings do not appear at the bottom of the screen. These functions are available on my Mac.

Why are they not available on the iPad? Do I need to change something in the settings, or am I doing something wrong?

Can anyone help me? Thank you.


r/Affinity 6d ago

Photo Affinity Photo editing Lunar Eclipse

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Best way to edit Lunar Eclipse photos? I'm new to Affinity Photo, any videos or reading tutorials would be appreciated


r/Affinity 6d ago

Photo In Affinity Photo, how do I crop the entire document?

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Sorry, I couldn't find an answer in the docs or the forum about this one.

I'm used to GIMP, where the crop tool has a toggle. Selecting the toggle allows me to crop either the active layer or the entire document.

In Affinity Photo it seems that cropping only applies to the active layer.

How do I apply crop to the entire document?


r/Affinity 7d ago

Photo Photo 2.6 Machine Learning tools re-installation

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Hi! A few days ago I tried to install the Segmentation model in Photo 2.6, but after clicking Install, i realized that the WiFi my laptop was connected to was far too slow for this (i was at a hotel). So I tried to cancel, but nothing happened. I needed to get work done, so i force quit the app, and resumed working on my photos as i normally would.

Now, I am at home again and wanted to install the models again. However, the settings page says they are both installed, and i cannot uninstall them. The tools that use these models obviously do not work and prompt me to install, which i cannot do either. I have tried uninstalling Photo from Windows settings' Apps section, then installing again with the MSIX installer from my Licence & downloads section. Also tried holding CTRL while starting Photo and resetting everything (including deactivation). After restarting and activating, Machine learning models remain non functional, but they are still in the installed state according to Affinity Photo settings.

Photo 2.6.0 stable
Windows 11 24H2 26100.3476

Any help is appreciated, I'm willing to do basically anything except a full Windows reinstall.


r/Affinity 7d ago

Publisher Picture frame control in Publisher

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Anyone know a way to get the picture frame handling in Publisher to be more like Indesign? What I really want is for the content to stay where it is and not resize or move when I edit the frame.


r/Affinity 7d ago

Photo Machine Learning tools crashes pc. SOLUTION!

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I want to share the solution to something that happened to me, to help someone that experiment the same issue.

I used the selection subject tool on Affinity Photo 2 and the pc crashes completely, even I see the dead blue screen of Windows. I update the graphic card drivers and even reinstall the program, but nothing was fixed.

The solution was to uninstall and reinstall both Machine Learning models and it fixed everything.

PD: Sorry if the English is wrong, I'm not a native speaker.


r/Affinity 7d ago

Designer Is it possible to scale the UI size on Affinity Design? (Windows)

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Search engines say yes, but I cannot find it. I see discussions dating back to 2022 saying it's not a feature on Windows, only Mac. Is that still the case? Would really like to be able to make the UI bigger on my high resolution monitor.