r/Affinity

I have a document that operates with mm as basic unit but the stroke settings are still displayed in pt. After searching the old forum it seems in the old versions of Affinity you could change this in the User Interface settings. But even after looking there I can't seem to find this option. Is it still there (and I'm just to dumb to find it) or is there any other way to synchronize the document's and stroke's width unit?

I’ve been using Affinity Designer for a few years as a freelance game UI/UX designer.

I’m currently still on v2.6.5 and wondering if it’s worth switching to the new Affinity.

For those who have used both, how does the new version feel compared to Designer 2.6.5 for actual design work?

I’m mostly wondering if the new features genuinely improve the workflow or if it’s starting to feel like AI tool slop being pushed into the software.

If you already have a solid workflow in 2.6.5, would you recommend switching?

I want to vectorized an imagotype but I had a problem, when I use the function the corners in the letters get rounded. How can I get the vector image without lose the corners? I let an image to illustrate.

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Hello everyone,

I recently switched from Adobe to Affinity and finished my final graphic design project with it. I expected Affinity to run better on my laptop, but it struggles with heavy design work. I'm talking about a 300DPI file with 20 pages of pixel drawings and a few vector graphics. I disabled acceleration, lowered the maximum RAM Usage, etc,, not helping much tbh

My laptop is HP Spectre x360 convertible with 16gb RAM, 512gb storage, and Intel Iris Xe Graphics. Bought it like 2-3 years ago.

So my questions are:
- Should I upgrade the RAM and the storage memory or buy a new one with better specs? I posted this in another subreddit, and they recommended upgrading the GPU.

- What kind of specs do you have to run the program smoothly?

A friend of mine has the Omnibook Flip with better specs (32gb RAM, 2TB storage), and suggested changing my laptop to something similar.

I appreciate your feedback!

PS: It said I have to post this in the general thread. It looks like a graveyard over there..

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I'm using Affinity to export an SVG as a PDF to upload to the Gelato print-on-demand service for printing as a poster. I'm working in RGB. The guidance on the Gelato support pages is:

"RGB Workflow: If working in RGB, tag your image files with an sRGB profile. When exporting, save them as PDF/X4 files with a "GRACoL2006_Coated1v2.icc" output intent to maintain color fidelity."

Does this mean that, in document setup, I Assign the Colour format as RGB/8 and Colour profile as sRGB IEC1966-2.1 [which is the only sRGB profile I seem to have]. Then, when I use File - Export - PDF/X-4, I should change the drop downs for Colour space and ICC Profiles respectively from "As document" and "Use document profile", to "CMYK" and "GRACoL2006_Coated1v2.icc". [I don't seem to be able to make the GRACoL... profile available without setting the Colour space to CMYK, by the way].

I'm a bit new to Affinity so would appreciate if someone with more knowledge could confirm I'm doing what Gelato are asking for, or put me on the right track if I'm wrong?

And as a follow-up, is there any way I can interrogate the resultant PDF file to get some assurance it has been set up the way Gelato are asking for?

Cheers!

So I'm trying Canva and thought I'd see if these tools are any good in affinity, does anyone know what I'm doing wrong. I have a canvas 2667 x 2000 created in Affinity, I add a image that is 2000 x 2000 so I want to expand the image to fill the full 2667 x 2000. I've downloaded all the machine learning tools, not sure I needed to but did this first.

When I add my 2000 x 2000 image I check its rasterized first then click the layer then the Generative Expand tool, but as soon as I click it the composition handles go to the full size 2667 x 2000 not the 2000 x 2000 layer so when I click 4 images to expand but I just keep getting black blank generations.

Anyone have any clue what I missing here.

Hello,

So I'm going to start off by saying this: I'm not going to compare the programs. Adobe does well at it's own thing, and Affinity does it's own thing.

What I will say is this, the costs are just too high for me with Adobe anymore. I went to college and fell in love with graphic design and working in the Adobe space. I still enjoy it too. I fell out of love with the job of graphic design because the agencies and places I worked for were all horrible to their people.

But, I still love the design, the projects, the people. So I kept the software, doing projects for friends and family because it's what I love.

The costs keep adding up, paying $35/$70 a month on a budget makes it hard, and having to consistently remind myself every year to "pretend to cancel" to get the discount gets tiresome. I do some photoshop, but I'm mostly in the Illustrator space. I know Affinity makes their money elsewhere, but it's nice having an alternative like this for the hobbyist and part time designers who need this and can't afford.

Each program has it's flaws and work arounds. That won't change. But I won't be renewing Adobe. There's not enough benefit for me there as a part timer anymore.

If anyone has any special tips on switching, that's cool. Otherwise I'll search this subreddit as well. You all seem to be really welcoming to new people who are making the switch.

Simple task here (or so it seemed at the time). How do I stretch the piece of the image within a mask so it looks zoomed in independently of the rest of the image? How do I, for example, make the eye look like it entirely fills up the mask without affecting the rest of the image?

Can anyone suggest a tutorial for a MS Publisher (RIP) user? My nonprofit publishes a quarterly print newsletter. I have almost 0 graphic design background and don’t need any fancy graphic editing tools for the most part. Just need to know how to re-create what I have in publisher for our newsletter. Thanks for any suggestions!

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Hello community- I have tried learning affinity multiple times, i have 0 knowledge of photoshop or any other photo editing app, whatever minimum I have done till date is only on mobile and that too very minimal.

Any tips or tricks on how can I learn it, I am 36 male with full time job and my job doesn't have any relation with photo editing and all. I want to learn this for my content creation journey and edit family pictures mainly.

Learning curve seems to be very tough.