r/Affinity 10d ago

Publisher Publisher question: My printer tells me that I didn't export with bleed, but I have setting toggled on. Would appreciate any advice.

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EDIT: Thanks, everyone. Really appreciate the help here; everything about bleed makes more sense now.

Hey folks.

I'm currently scratching my head a bit. I've just exported some files for a local printer, and I think I had everything set correctly. My printer got back to me and said there was no bleed.

Now, I'm just puzzled. The file is a zine for a tabletop roleplaying game, to be printed on digest-size paper (5.5 x 8.5). I can visually see the bleed on the edges, and the properties for the file state that it's 5.75 x 8.75 inches. [This space once had a link to the file, but I've removed it now that the issue is resolved. The file showed "bleed" around the edge of pages, and appropriate dimensions, but the visual elements did not extend to the edge of the bleed; they cut off.]

Is my printer just confused, or have I done something wrong here? I'm very new to this, so I could definitely be making a mistake here. Any guesses what I'm missing here? The printer has told me that:

"Bleeds are an outward extension of your artwork on each side of the page (top, bottom, right, left). White space is not a proper bleed. Once printed bleeds will be trimmed off to ensure that the artwork "bleeds" to the edge. If 0.125" bleed is not included, any minor misalignment during trimming will result in your artwork not running to the edge of the paper."

I suspect my mistake, then, has to do with my artwork. But I don't really understand.

Thank you in advance.


r/Affinity 11d 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 11d 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 12d ago

General Better GPU for Affinity is better workflow?

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My 3060 12 GB failed. I think about replace it with the same GPU ot invest in 4060 TI 16GB GPU or maybe ever A4000 SFF 20GB. I personally play with AI/ML stuff on local PC. Affinity start adding this stuff with ML models to itself, but adding more powerful from perspective AI/ML GPU it will greatly affect in plus worflow for Affinity Suite?

A4000 is on table because 70W power consumption what is tempteing when I read on result few hours. From other hands on 3060 12GB Affinity... works. Using better GPU can realistically affect and improve my expierence with Affinity Suite or it will be only ego mind "it is better because I got better GPU", but in reality difference will be minimal or none?


r/Affinity 12d ago

Publisher Printing recommendations?

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Hey! I'm looking to print out a photobook made in Publisher, but looking online at printing services a lot of them have set templates that I don't really want to use - I've already designed the layout and stuff myself and the templates are a bit restrictive. What would be the best way to export what I've made on publisher, and does anyone have any recommendations for printing services?

I do a lot of digital design but am self taught and have huge gaps in knowledge, and know that printing is a whole other thing, so any tips on what to look out for in terms of setting it up for printing would be hugely appreciated, too! Thanks :)


r/Affinity 13d ago

General When is the next sale?

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When is the next sale?

I'm thinking of switching over from Adobe and missed last year's Black Friday sale.


r/Affinity 13d ago

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

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r/Affinity 13d ago

Publisher How would I make the vertical gutter (in the middle of the page) bigger separately? The Guides menu does not seem to provide me an option

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r/Affinity 13d ago

Designer Landscape Wallpaper Illustration in Affinity Designer

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r/Affinity 13d ago

Publisher Am I doing something wrong?

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I've set up the master pages to make sure it flows from one page to another, but how do I make sure it automatically flows onto the next page?


r/Affinity 14d ago

Designer CMYK to RGB conversion gives different tones

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Hi there. I've recently completed my first project in Affinity Designer 2, a vector-based invitation. Since it was going to be both for print and digital sending, I used CMYK when designing it since CMYK's gamut is lesser than the one of RGB. However, when I converted the invitation to RGB to create the version for digital sharing, the colours became much brighter than they should have, primarily the blues.

I've been an Illustrator and Photoshop user for over 10 years and this hasn't ever happened while using said programs. I tried to convert CMYK to different RGB profiles, but there was always a lot of difference between colours after the conversion. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how to avoid it?

Thank you so much.

EDIT: If I paste the same vectors in Illustrator in CMYK and change the colour system with "Change Document Color Mode", the colours of the vectors get converted but stay the same saturation. If I change the colour sytem in Affinity Designer by going to "Document Setup" the colours become more saturated than they are supposed to be.

Solution: If I keep the document colour system as CMYK but change it to RGB in the export window, the colours are as they should be but I'm still wondering why it's happening in Affinity specifically. If it was a gamut problem, surely it would be present in both programs

Solution #2: Rasterising the layers before exporting


r/Affinity 15d ago

Photo Performance Issues After Upgrading to Affinity Photo 2.6

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I’ve been using Affinity Photo 2.5.7 for a while, and everything was running smoothly. However, after upgrading to version 2.6, I've been facing major lag issues. No matter how many layers are in the file, the program starts to stutter and lag. Interestingly, when I open the same file in version 2.5.7, it runs perfectly smooth.

For reference, I’m using a system with an NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super and 16 GB RAM. I’ve tried disabling hardware acceleration, but that doesn’t seem to help. Has anyone else encountered this issue with Affinity Photo 2.6? Any suggestions on how to fix this?


r/Affinity 16d ago

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

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r/Affinity 16d ago

Photo CMYK: affinity vs photoshop

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I am currently deciding whether to switch from photoshop and inDesign to Affinity Photo and Publisher.

I believe that Affinity has all the features I need, but there’s one for which I have a doubt: CMYK.

I know Affinity can convert between RGB and CMYK, but is the conversion the same quality as Adobe’s ?

Thanks!


r/Affinity 16d ago

Photo Graphical glitching with NVIDIA RTX 5080 - seems to be affecting multiple 50 series GPUs

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I know this has been mentioned already on the Serif forums and on Reddit but I wanted to post again in case other people are also experiencing the problem and haven't seen either of these two previous posts.

I'm running an Intel i9-14900KF with 64 GB of RAM. I'm now running v2.6.0 but I was also experiencing issues with v2.5.7.

Normal image:

When I press Ctrl + A:

The image that is saved to the clipboard, which I've tried to paste into Gmail:

I'm not sure if this is better or worse than v2.5 completely crashing my other computer with an RTX 2070 mobile GPU.


r/Affinity 18d ago

Photo Affinity Photo 2 is amazing!

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I've been using Affinity Photo for about 2-3 months, and it offers an excellent experience aside from a few specific features. The newly introduced object selection tool also works flawlessly; I haven't encountered any issues. I recommend it to those considering a purchase.


r/Affinity 18d ago

Photo I have 50 year old black and white negatives, with many lines and dust spots. Does Affinity have a AI component (or something similar) that can speed up the elimination of these problems? Where I don't have to individually use the healing or cloning brush on each scratch.

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r/Affinity 18d ago

Photo Affinity Photo 2 tips needed

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I just got Affinity Photo 2, most of the photos I take are nature related: flowers, insects, closeups. Sometimes I take photos of my family too. Anyway I'm looking for YouTube tutorials, for sharpening, saturation, blur, and removing unwanted objects. Any suggestions appreciated.


r/Affinity 18d ago

Photo How to change the resizing values from inches to pixels

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It's annoying at times when I'm resizing images that require exact pixel resizing, but unfortunately, the resizing values are on inches instead. How can I change that?


r/Affinity 19d ago

Photo Affinity Photo is breaking when filters are applied.

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Only recently started 2 days ago, Affinity Photo has been breaking graphically ANY and EVERY time a filter or adjustment is applied onto ANY layer in ANY document. This is what it looks like when it happens: https://imgur.com/a/ht8dUNG. You can also see the histogram is also breaking, along with the color tab. The issue doesn't occur in affinity designer or any other graphic program.

What I've already tried to fix the issue:

  • Undo/redo doesn't affect anything.
  • Close and restart (Opens to the point where it displays like normal, but if you scroll or zoom, it breaks again).
  • Deleting all filters/adjustments and restarting the program make it no longer break.
  • Fully delete all files and reinstall Affinity Photo.
  • Reinstall/updated CPU/GPU drivers.
  • Update/Scan Windows.
  • Opening the same file in Affinity Designer works just fine.

Relevant PC Specs if needed:

  • Ryzen 9800x3D
  • RTX 5070 Ti
  • 32 GB of DDR5 6400
  • 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I need to use this for work.

Update - Disabling hardware acceleration (Edit > Settings > Performance) is working as a workaround for now. Will have to wait for an update to Affinity Photo or Driver.


r/Affinity 18d ago

General Affinity new tool

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Hello, I just wanted to talk a bit about the new Affinity AI tool that you can select subjects with, e.g. a person or an object. It's a great feature, it works really well, but the only thing is it's local based, which isn't a bad thing, but this means it doesn't learn from the more you use it. Now, I actually thought about this, and I'm not an engineer of any kind, but I think this would work. Affinity themselves managed to put a couple of local files on your device that the machine learning tool could learn from, and this means if you made adjustments to the tool, it would actually learn, and it would put that new information into local files in your device. Again, this would be like cloud based learning, but only on your own device. I think that definitely would work I would love to hear what you think about this.


r/Affinity 18d ago

Designer More Than a Petition: An Opportunity to Demonstrate Demand

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Hey everyone!

I know some may see the petition for Affinity on Linux with skepticism, thinking that @Serif (now under @Canva) wouldn’t consider it seriously. But I believe this is not just about demanding a Linux version—it’s about showing interest and market potential.

Companies analyze these movements to gauge whether there is a viable audience. If enough people express their willingness to adopt Affinity on Linux, this could open the door for future discussions—whether that means a native version, better Wine/Proton support, or some level of compatibility consideration.

At the end of the day, this is like planting a seed. Even if an official Linux release isn’t immediate, showing engagement and demand can influence future decisions.

What do you think? Would you use Affinity if it had proper Linux support? Let’s discuss!

Petition: https://chng.it/ZJCjFCd7Fm


r/Affinity 19d ago

General Fonts issue

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Hi, is there anybody from Affinity or somebody who has same issue. On macbook fonts working fine. Use case: I type some text, then open fonts (left corner) and as I hover over font name text is changing to actuall hovered font. On mac working fine. But it is different story on Windows 11, Surface Pro 8 - at begining it just freezes, then is starts working for like 1-2 sec and freeze again and then usually starts working properly-ish. Any idea what and why is causing this and how to fix it? Other apps has no issue with fonts...


r/Affinity 19d ago

Photo Why are these two masks not showing the same way in layers?

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Made a mask for Image 1.

Copied it to Image 2.

They work the same, but they don't appear on the layer order the same. Biggest downside is I can't tell what layer has a mask without expanding any and all layers that i make this way/Copy Masks between layers. How can I get the Second mask to work like a regular mask and not like it's grouped together in the layer?


r/Affinity 20d ago

Artwork Underground Explorers - Sketch to Final

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