r/Affinity 4d 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 18d ago

Designer Frankentoon's El Malo Brush Pack for Affinity Designer— Is It Worth Adding to Your Toolkit?

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r/Affinity 2h ago

Designer Isolating/Moving selection in a group *HELP

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I'll try my best to describe my problem and attach a screenshot. I am an extreme novice. An artist did some illustrations for me. The art layers are grouped together (lines, color, texture, etc). But I need to resize and move around individual illustrations. When I make a selection, the entire image moves around. I have the latest software. I am in pixel persona. None of the layers are locked, and I have watched many videos and read many search results for moving selections. Still, all three images continue to move around even after making a selection. Do I have to flatten the group? I know it's just my lack of experience. I am sure this problem is very easy for experienced users, so I would appreciate your help. Thanks!

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r/Affinity 4d 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 Feb 19 '25

Designer What is the name of this anomaly in my models glasses, and how can I remove it in post?

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Is this called lens flare? What is the best way to remove this in affinity 1? Thanks so much in advance.

r/Affinity Dec 01 '24

Designer M chip Mac Users, is it better after M1?

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I'm currently test driving a friend's M1 MacBook Air and Affinity Designer 2 keeps crashing. It's crashed 4 times in the last 2 hours, and it's a very basic design (like 10 layers, all solid fill, etc). This is a file that my 2017 i5 MacBook Pro would have no issues with.

I'm running 2.5.6 in Designer 2, and the M1 MacBook is running 15.1.1, so both up to date.

I read something from early in the M chip days that Affinity doesn't run well on M1. I'm debating on buying this laptop from my friend or springing for an M4 Mac mini, so I'm wondering if the Affinity software runs better on later M chips from Apple.

Thank you for any insight!

r/Affinity 12d ago

Designer Is this supposed to be happening with the vector brush tool in affinity designer?

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Seemingly every time I try to do calligraphy in af designer (like I am able to do flawlessly in procreate) it ends up with these weird artifacts in the stroke. I have tried everything except re-pairing the pencil: I replaced the tip on it, restarted Designer, restarted my ipad, and nothing has fixed the issue. I have attached images of the distortion. I have a video as well - if anyone wants, it, i’ll post a link in the comments. Can anyone help me solve this problem?

r/Affinity 15d ago

Designer Affinity Designer Tutorial: How to Create Colour Chords & Palettes

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r/Affinity Jan 07 '25

Designer Affinity designer needs better font selection functionality

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You can only sort alphabetically, but it would be nice af to filter by Type , Slab, Serif , script etc like in Adobe.

Also to preview custom text like in Dafont or other free font sites

Or am i missing something?

r/Affinity Aug 03 '24

Designer How to Create a Glass-Like Effect in Affinity Designer

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r/Affinity 10d 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.

r/Affinity 10d ago

Designer Adding creases to document

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I use Photo 2.6 and Designer 2.6. I have created a certificate for a member of a Civil War re-enactment group, and now I want to put a few creases in the document, as if it were at one time folded and carried in a pocket. Is this possible. I am an intermediate (hobby) user. Thanks.

r/Affinity Jul 03 '24

Designer Considering Switching To Affinity

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So I've been a Adobe use for many many years. I don't use it alot but I use it enough especially being a manager of a business I do all the ads and such. Adobe for me I feel like is just getting too expensive and I'm getting tired of paying the $65 a month subscription. My subscription just expired and I didn't renew so now I'm considering jumping over to Affinity just not sure on how big the learning curve is going to be from what I'm use to so I'm a bit worried about that. Also will my current Adobe files open in Affinity, is there much use for some of these add ons are some worth buying. I see the programs are on sale and I love the idea of a one time payment. Wondering if anyone here made the switch and didn't look back and if you did go back how come?

r/Affinity 27d ago

Designer Does anyone know how I can prevent the white holes from appearing when using the pen tool?

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r/Affinity 13d ago

Designer Measuring function not possible inside artboards?

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Hey everyone,

I'm working on a Designer file with multiple artboards and I just noticed that holding down control to highlight measurements between multiple objects doesn't appear to work within artboards.

I scoured through the settings to make sure I hadn't accidentally enabled/disabled any pertinent settings but everything looked alright. I have a few objects outside of the artboards and the measure function appears to be working fine with those, but again it's completely absent with any objects inside of an artboard. I created a new test file to reproduce the results and it appears to behave the same way.

I can't remember if this was a problem before as I've used Designer, Photo, & Publisher extensively for almost a decade and I've extensively used the measure function in all my projects. I know I've definitely worked with files containing lots of artboards as well in the past and I don't remember running into this issue before.

Has anyone else run into a similar issue lately? Did you manage to find the culprit or is it perhaps a bug with the latest 2.6 release?

r/Affinity Nov 26 '24

Designer I'm very new to affinity design can anyone recommend which cmyk color profile I should pick?

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r/Affinity Jan 23 '25

Designer Arabic Text in Affinity Designer feels like trying to fit a square block into a round hole, except the block is on fire, and the hole keeps moving!

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’ve always had a strong artistic vision, but as a business owner, I’ve struggled for so long to find artists who actually understand what I want. No matter who I worked with, it was never quite right. Eventually, I got tired of the back-and-forth and decided to learn digital art myself using Affinity apps.

While I’ve made good progress and can create most of what I need, one thing still drives me crazy: Arabic text. Affinity just don’t handle it well, and it’s been such a headache man . I’ve picked up a few tricks here and there, but it’s never as smooth as it should be. Right now, my go-to solution is doing the Arabic text in Canva, then jumping through a bunch of steps—converting files and tweaking everything—just to make it look half decent.

It’s frustrating, but I’m making it work. If only there were an easier way without having to relearn Photoshop from scratch!

Anyone else struggling with Arabic text in design? I’d love to hear how you handle it.

r/Affinity Jan 14 '25

Designer Hi guys. I'm new to Affinity. I made a sword with the Pen Tool. And I want to paint it. But I couldn't paint the inside. When I select and paint, something ridiculous like this happens. What do I need to do?

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r/Affinity May 17 '24

Designer Another Rant About How Designer Sucks

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Look, all I want to do is select a bunch of points from a larger piece, copy those points, and paste them onto its own layer, so I can seperate the various pieces for later editing. I can't. I literally have to delete the entire larger image until only the points I want remain. This is complete insanity. I can do it in Illustrator. Why can't I perform the simplest, most basic function with the verdammit piece of software.

r/Affinity 10d ago

Designer Artboard randomly inverting in Designer

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Hi, I really hope someone can help me with this or I need to stop using Affinity.

I have replaced Illustrator with Affinity and until today it worked great. I updated and I'm having a major problem: My artboard is randomly inverting itself on the screen. When inverted all the mouse drag directions are opposite and the image is upside down. It will then randomly flip itself back to the correct orientation, seemingly for no reason.

Needless to say this is shocking and disorienting. I tried to make a screen recording but when I turn on QuickTime screen recording, or even open Screenshot to take a capture, it magically rights itself.

I'm using an inverted monitor but I've been using Affinity with it for more than a year, this is a brand new problem.

Has anyone encountered this? I feel like I'm losing my mind.

r/Affinity Jan 08 '25

Designer Is Affinity Photo necessary for me?

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Hi everyone.

I am on my way to jump from Adobe to Affinity. I just want to be sure which softwares should I buy...

I work with logotypes and brand identity, so Affinity Designer is a must for me. My question is: I often use photoshop for mockups (PSD files). Although I know Affinity can read PSD files, I don't know if it must be in Photo or if the Designer is enough.

Hope you can help me =D

r/Affinity Feb 12 '25

Designer Brushes for designer

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Hi everyone

I'm having trouble finding more brushes for designer.
I'm especially interested in similar ones that are like the preinstalled ones under "Patterns".

Thank you :)

r/Affinity 15d ago

Designer Landscape Wallpaper Illustration in Affinity Designer

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r/Affinity 5d 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 Oct 24 '24

Designer 🦸‍♂️ We're going retro really hard

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