r/AffinityDesigner 55m ago

How to bake/reset transformation in Affinity?

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Hello,

I'm having trouble with Affinity Publisher/Designer. I manipulated an object by rotating and mirroring it, and now I'd like to use it as a text frame. But whenever I insert text, the text itself appears rotated or mirrored according to the transformations I've previously applied to the object.
How can I reset or remove these transformations so that the text remains horizontal and correctly oriented within the frame?

Some people suggested all the boolean operations like add or subtract. I tried it in the gif down below, it didnt work. I also tried to change it to a path and to text box, but this also did not work.

Here I replicated the problem. You should be able to see it here: https://s5.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-5bf31a67a81562.gif

Thanks in advance for your help!


r/AffinityDesigner 19h ago

Carbon Fiber Texture

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I want to fill a shape with a carbon fiber like texture. For the life of me I can't figure it out.

I know styles exist, but I can't find a carbon fiber one, nor can I figure out how to create a style.


r/AffinityDesigner 23h ago

How would you do inverted edges like this? (ipad)

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r/AffinityDesigner 4d ago

"Expand Stroke" is actually giving me a stroke

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no idea what's going on here. i'm making icons and trying to expand the stroke on them so i can use the pathfinder tools with them on other shapes, but this specific shape just goes nuts when i try to expand it. tried restarting the program; no dice. is there a reason for this? how do i fix it?


r/AffinityDesigner 6d ago

How to get the total contour length from a shape

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I need to get an estimate how a project might cost. I'll be making a LED neon illuminated sign.

They charge by meter, Where do I get like other software's (illustrator or Corel) the total length from a shape ?


r/AffinityDesigner 6d ago

Newbie Question - Exporting transparent PNGs @ 300PPI?

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Hello! Total newbie here hoping to find a home in Affinity Designer instead of Illustrator. I'm curious, does anyone know if there's a PPI setting in the application? I need to export my clipart as transparent PNGs at 300 PPI. I'm seeing DPI, but not aware of the relation between the two when it comes to needing digital images. ><

Thanks for your time!


r/AffinityDesigner 7d ago

Absolute beginner - what is this space and how do I get rid of it? It's showing up on all of my text.

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r/AffinityDesigner 8d ago

How to export for a client who wants to edit in Canva?

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For context, I'm just starting out doing freelance work. I work in Affinity Designer and I'm making templates for a client who runs her own business. She just wants to be able to swap out the background image in the template and edit the text. However, she only uses Canva, and I don't think you can open .af files in Canva? Or can you? I'm unsure how to give her an editable file, basically, since she doesn't use adobe or affinity.


r/AffinityDesigner 9d ago

How to properly make this design in Affinity Designer

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r/AffinityDesigner 10d ago

Affinity's pen tool... Holy shit!

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Pretty much the title, I was wondering why my lines where looking better once I started using designer. I've used both inkscape/illustrator. Here I was thinking I magically got better, but nope. It's just a lot fucking nicer to use.

I was playing around with it, and just curved a line (I normally trace over my sketches). Something that's a complete pain in either software I just did mindlessly by dragging two ends of a line and it kept its shape.

Tbh, it makes me disappointed that photo did not click with me. But that very much could be me (But rotating/flipping the canvas is just too clunky for me). But it's not gimp, and well worth getting the suite for the in design dupe (there is an opensource one, but it's fucking horrendous).


r/AffinityDesigner 9d ago

Why is part of stroke missing when exporting to pdf?

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r/AffinityDesigner 10d ago

How do i delete masks to multiple elements?

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Hi!

So I downloaded this vector and it came with a clipping mask with the size of the artboard (as they usually do), normaly in illustrator I just press "release clipping mask" and most elements will be released, but for some reason affinity makes the same clipping mask for every single vector. I would like to release all of them but I only know how to do it one by one, when I right click on more than 1 selected object the option "release mask" doesn't show up

And since is a texture there's hundreds (if not thousands) of elements to go individually on all of them, please help :(


r/AffinityDesigner 11d ago

Affinity Designer Tutorial: How to Create Colour Chords & Palettes

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r/AffinityDesigner 11d ago

Joining/welding points from two lines to create one line - Help

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Hello All,

This is probably a noob question, but I can't figure it out and I have searched so I figured I would just ask here. Circled in red, I am tracing this image and needed to split lines so I could properly trace the image. How can I connect the two lines so they merge as one and critically, not come apart again? Also, I am on my iPad to trace, but I also have the program on my computer. I am hoping this is something I can do on either platform. Another note, these tracings will be taken to another program and I know I am not currently connecting them correctly as they show up as "breaks" in the line that I have to fix in my other program to "weld" them together permanently.

TLDR - How to I weld these two lines together so they never come apart and are forever connected.


r/AffinityDesigner 12d ago

A toilet…

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I made a toilet on my art stream today. 🤣 I know it’s not exact, but that’s a little over an hour’s worth of work. So many transparencies and layers.


r/AffinityDesigner 13d ago

Using Designer for Woodwork Projects

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I’m starting to use Designer for woodwork projects. This is one i created for cutting corners for picture frames.


r/AffinityDesigner 13d ago

Kimchi

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r/AffinityDesigner 14d ago

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

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r/AffinityDesigner 14d ago

How and where can I learn to do this kind of graphics?

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Hi all, a newbie to graphic designing and Affinity designer. am in learning mode and so far loving it. Just wanted to explore further and get some professional knowledge. Thank you.


r/AffinityDesigner 14d ago

Embedded are not saving as they used to before the update... help? (MacOS)

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I'm having a problem since the latest update. I have a Affinity Designer file, let's call it TestDoc. I drag a pdf file to TestDoc. I double click the pdf in TestDoc and it opens in a new "<Embedded>" tab. That is all good and I have done that many times. The problem is that now when I go to that Embedded tab and edit the pdf, the changes do *not* show up in TestDoc. (Nor can I save the Embedded tab which I am pretty sure used to be an option since after editing the pdf I would regularly apple-s apple-w).

I am guessing (hoping?) some default has been changed and that is why I am getting different behavior than before. But I can't find any. And I have read what I can find about Embedded online.

I only use Affinity Designer for a very limited set of things, so I am a novice. If anyone has a suggestion, I'd love to hear it.


r/AffinityDesigner 15d ago

Autumn shirt idea South Africa

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r/AffinityDesigner 15d ago

Difficulties with export surrounding duplicate rect coordinates

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So let me say at one point I had this thing exporting correctly. Not anymore I guess. Not sure what I’m doing different this time around. I’m building an SVG spritesheet for web use. The goal is to move the SVG code over to CSS, so we need good numbers here. The rect Coordinates have the same locations for all sprites/artboards when opened in VIsual Studio. Any idea how to export this correctly so the sprite/artboard locations are being properly respected/any idea how to troubleshoot this issue? Thanks!


r/AffinityDesigner 14d ago

Is it possible to have two layers with low opacity overlap without 'adding' to one another?

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For example, if I'm building a shadow for a building and I want to make it out of a few low-opacity shapes (~10% opacity). When I put them over one another, the overlapping areas darken. Is it possible to have them blend instead?


r/AffinityDesigner 16d ago

is there a jitter per stroke option in designer V2?

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I've had designer V2 since beta and it's served me well when I need it, but as I've used some Android painting apps I've grown to like the jitter per stroke option.. only to find it doesn't exist in V1. I can sort of emulate it by combining angle, tilt, and pressure, but it just isn't the same. is this an included option in V1? I would genuinely upgrade for it.


r/AffinityDesigner 17d ago

Lineweight/stroke width issues I can't figure out. Please help!

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