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Hi everyone! I am still new to the affinity world. I am using the trial version of Affinity Designer 2 for my Ipad. It works great and I like the program very much. The only problem with it is That it always crashes after I want to cut out an image. Unfortunately, the cut out function is the most important for me, but unfortunately I can't use it like this . Unfortunately, I haven't found anything helpful about this yet. My iPad has the latest update and so does the app. I'm using an Ipad 9th generation with the IOS 18.3 I would be grateful for any help!

Hey y'all, I am looking to buy a good budget pen tablet as I'm new to digital art and want to familiarize myself with the tools to be used early-on. Could yall please suggest a few good budget pics that work well and without latency with the Affinity programs? XD

having seen a good tutorial about making my own 5mm dot grid pages for a disc bound note book I am at an puzzle: How do I print the pages properly.

What I need is

• Printing in landscape orientation or Letter Size Paper
• 2 5.5"x8.5" pages on a single landscape letter size sheet
• double sided

I have no idea what print settings to use to get what I need.

All of the bars you see have been filled with the stipple gradient present on some of them.

The glitchy artifacts appear on previously shaded bars, randomly, upon creating and shading new bars.
The stippling disappears entirely, and random glitches appear in their place.

Does anyone know how I can fix that?

(This is Affinity Designer 2, using Stipple Fill brushes from True Grit)

Thank you!

EDIT: Literally why would someone downvote this lol

I would like to know if the community here thinks I covered the essential pros and cons of the Affinity products, as my list of pros and cons is of course mostly based on my own personal experience.
Other feedback about the video would also be appreciated!

Link: https://youtu.be/uJTnE7Ib06A

Even though I asked Affinity not to replace the fonts, when I open the file, everything is in curves but with a completely different font. How can I avoid interfering with the original font? It even moves some letters and removes spaces from some places

https://preview.redd.it/eag9xpeh26ge1.png?width=815&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0065c44cde51368a480d895baf867f36be9f4a7

Original Font

Open in Affinity (Publisher or Designer)

WIP: I know AI and image tracing kills this art, but I really like making realistic vectors from scratch.

I feel like this should be simple, but it seems to be one of those unnecessarily complicated things in Affinity Photo and I just cannot figure it out for the life of me. I recently had a new logo made for my YouTube channel and the one I was sent is square with the entire square background filled with a solid color. In most cases, YouTube, Twitch, etc all clip the corners and turn it into a circle for me. The only place this doesn't happen is for the watermark on my YouTube videos, so I would like to make a version of the logo that has the circle baked in. To do that, I need to clip the corners out of my current logo myself.

The way I had thought to do this would be to create a circular selection and invert it to delete the parts I don't want. I want it to select as much as possible so that only the corners are clipped/"rounded," but I can't make this happen. If I go to make a circular selection, I have to hold shift to keep it a circle and that disables it from snapping. Hitting space to move the selection while creating it also disables snapping. I also tried making a circle from center, but it refuses to snap based on the center of the circle and only snaps to the edges of the canvas (even with snapping settings set to allow midpoints and even with manually placing guides at the center). This also doesn't really allow me a good way to ensure that the circular selection actually touches all four sides without going over.

What am I missing here? All I really want is a select all but circle option and it feels like this is so much more complicated for no reason. I tried searching, but I couldn't find anything that helps.

When I attempt to install fonts into Affinity Designer on my iPad using the settings menu, it seems that I can only pick one font at a time…any way to get fonts loaded up by choosing an entire folder? I’m aware of issues that Affinity has on iPad with having too many fonts, so I have a folder of specific fonts that I want to have loaded up, just don’t want to do them one by one…

Hey y'all

I've recently started using Affinity Designer, and I downloaded an SVG of a cloud off of the internet. I am trying to make the outline of the cloud a gradient, however when I select the gradient tool, and try to left click and drag, nothing appears, no line, no nothing. I've been banging my head for an hour, so any help would be appreciated!

I attached a video showcasing it as well.

I've been using affinity for years and i've always said i'd love if i could dock my pallets beside each other then i saw someone do it in a video but i cant seem to get it to work for me, do anyone know how to get it done?

Hey all, I am new to affinity. I made some edits on the raw image and when i click develop, the changes are not there. Yes i kept on raw embedded. But dont know if i am missing something. Please let me know what other setting needs to be changed

I have been working on my book for a bit, and when I close it it prompts me "it has been modified, do you wish to save "untitled"?" and I can pick yes, no or cancel. Clicking yes saves it... somewhere, but when I return to open it up I have no file corresponding to my work.

I also cannot seem to find a "Save book" anywhere.
I feel I am missing a simple trick here - how do I save my book manually so that I can locate the file later?

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I want to make my document start on page 3. My document starts on page 1. Fair enough, go to the Section Manager, pick a section, set it to start at page 3 and it should be sorted.

It is just that it is not. I write "3", hit enter and it resets to page 1.

I can add other sections and fiddle with their pagenumber, but I need no other sections in this document, I just want it to start at page 3. How come it isn't "sticking"?

https://preview.redd.it/3dmmvyc1ddfe1.png?width=440&format=png&auto=webp&s=dc7874adb2bdfc0ad62c9c43cfe7a2c62baeb8fa

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https://preview.redd.it/0irqm61za5fe1.png?width=652&format=png&auto=webp&s=cf7d98bcfd70fdd4c007d70ed20bba4b231ec4ca

There is a hard edge around her hair after selecting her then the inverse to adjust the color on the grass. How would I soften the edge to smooth it out. Its ok on an iPad but I am afraid if the picture gets enlarged when printed it will be obvious.

Hello,

How to change the start point of my shape from B to A?

https://preview.redd.it/60i0h4fx85fe1.png?width=724&format=png&auto=webp&s=2264b77bc49379d7392d2c17c25392043f6b160d

A friend is asking about some Adobe alternatives and I'd like to point her towards Affinity. Anyone know if they're still doing the 6 month trial?

My Affinity crashed while working on project. When I went to open the file I got a "Failed To Open - This file type is not supported" error. It also re dated itself as the day it crashed when the file was created a year prior.

Has anyone had this problem and been able to fix the file so it opens? Affinity have been no help.

Thanks.

’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.

Hi and thanks in advance!

Using Publisher to make the next issue of a mini magazine. At some point I changed a setting whilst looking for something else. Since then if I click a picture frame it automatically brings up the dimensions of the image within the frame, not the frame itself.

It used to be that I would double click to adjust the image within; I much preferred it that way but I can't find the setting anywhere! 🤦‍♀️ I can't even remember what it was called so googling is not being very helpful.

Thank you for any help x

Hello, recently lost my office job that had a canva pro for nonprofits which included affinity. I lost access to the account because I no longer work there so I’m assuming everything I did through that email is gone?

Also are there any deals right now I’d love to purchase the affinity studio because it did change my life as an artist