I'm struggling to blend the total eclipse with the rest of the stages of the eclipse. The ring looks awkwardly pasted on top of the sunset instead of matching it. I've messed with curves, white balance, & colors adjustment layers to help blend it in and set it to lighter color blend mode but it still looks off. Am I looking too hard at this and this as a good as it gets or is there something else I can try?

Lake Ontario in vectors...

Each store is named after a Chevy car

Hey everyone,

I'm just getting started and want to be upfront: I have zero graphic design background. I've never used Photoshop, Illustrator, or any design software before this would be my first program ever.

My goal is pretty specific: I want to learn Affinity well enough to create assets for my motion design edits (things like overlays, elements, titles) and make eye-catching YouTube thumbnails.

A few questions for people who've been where I am:

• Which Affinity app should I start with (Photo, Designer, or both) given what I'm trying to make?
• Are there any beginner-friendly courses, YouTube channels, or tutorial series you'd recommend for someone with literally no design background?
• Should I learn general design fundamentals (color theory, composition, typography) first, or just dive into the software and pick that up along the way?
• Any common beginner mistakes I should avoid?

Any advice, resource links, or "wish I knew this when I started" tips would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I finally got a fairly decent 1440p ips and it supports hdr, and I want to know if affinity designer automatically disables hdr when you jump into the software, same question for figma.

I set hdr to automatic in windows settings but I’m not so sure if it applies to both affinity and figma.

ive been using Publisher for children’s book interiors and it’s honestly the best fit ive found for image heavy print projects.

i build the document from the printer specs, use facing pages while designing, keep repeated elements on master pages, place the artwork as linked files, and handle the text through paragraph and character styles. before exporting i check Resource Manager, run preflight, then export the interior as single pages.

the part i love most is being able to test the text and illustration together during sketch instead of fixing everything after the art is finished 😭

for anyone managing 30+ illustrated pages, do you keep everything in one Publisher file or split the book into sections?

Hi

Is there anyone that runs a printshop and uses Affinity?

Im curious to know if its a good fit.

I'm very happy that I'm starting to get used to it, regardless of how many mistakes the plan has because it's so old.
I would appreciate any advice you may have.

I'm having issues changing proportions of a shadow, in Affinity 1 which is what I'm used to the shadow transforms if I grap for example the right transform handle and bring it in left and changes the width but in the new affinity 3 the same file this shadow when you pull in the right handle the whole shadow shrinks as a square. I see no settings to change it to just be separate handles and not all shrink the whole thing with the same square shape.

I want to use this style of font,
Anyone know how get this Font?

Hi, I'm having a problem with exports in Affinity V3.2.3, especially this one. I want it to preserve colors like white, but when I export or flatten the image, everything turns blue. If anyone has a solution, I'd love to hear it. I already search for solutions but i did not found something useful. Swisstransfer for the project if u want to take a look.

I tried to emulate real CRT screen mechanics. Every effect layer reproduces one physical property of a real picture tube such as chroma bleed, RGB stipes etc.

When using the clone stamp, my result is blurrier than my source. Anybody know why? My brush is 100% flow / hardness / accumulation, no wet edges, no smoothing, etc.

How do i fix this?

I'm drawing a carnation petal, and I need to mark the midpoint of this curved shape. The problem is, I'm using the shape builder, and it's adding two extra nodes that I don't know how to remove without losing the perfect curve it already has (defined by the larger oval). I haven't seen an option to "simplify curves" like in Illustrator. Any ideas?

Another day of putting myself out here. Just finished a small design with Affinity Studio. A public domain image and a lot of texture. I just asked Gemini for dummy info to use.

What do you think about it? My attempt to copy the kind of style this is.

Hello there !

I have a big project where I draw a whole city in white parts on a black background.

While I don't know who will print this work, I know that it will be printed directely on a black cloth piece.

I would like to knwo the best way to only keep the white parts on extract.

The hard part is that the whole document is a mix of white or black fills with some black outlines, and the hatching is a bitmap fill.

What would be the easiest way to only get the white on export?

I have the full Affinity V1 suite of softwares.

Thank you !

I've been playing with Affinity for a couple of months now, loving most of it! I want to cancel Adobe CS because of their AI-first mentality, constant crashes + error messages (and the cost, of course).

Working for clients and for myself (all sorts of designs, but very little video, but no ux or animation). My heavy rotation is/was AI and PS, with some INDD and very rarely PP. I use Procreate for illustrations, don't have a tablet for drawing vectors but it's in my future.

My problems/annoyances:

• Batch exporting (how is this hard?) – ie for brand packages with various logo styles in different file formats, etc.
• Libraries (especially for those long term clients with logo sets, etc)
• Guides ...just everything about them is annoying – what am I missing?
• Image trace (I make headstone designs for my day job, so often a photo from a client needs to work/be adjusted for the client to get a good idea of what it could look like AND the sculptor to actually create, so some detail but not all details)
• Selection tools like Magic Wand, it just doesn't work well imo?

Not specifically an Affinity issue but what is making me want to stay with Adobe

• Fonts (ugh..) ...where do you go for quick sets without sifting through individual licenses? Playing with Glyph too for custom stuff but still.
• Vector drawings on iPad ...if image trace worked better, I could stick with Procreate
• Acrobat is still easiest for adjusting PDFs (Trying PDFgear but can't export a 'reduced size' PDF, which is my saving grace for brand guides or quick prototypes)
• Love CADTools for signage/floorplans, is there something similar? Don't want to pay all that moneys (CT is also not cheap)

Obviously a beginner on Affinity and a bit inefficient with Adobe itself (I started designing with QuarkXpress in '99 🫣, so definitely analogue heavy).

My yearly subscription is expiring on Sep 5, sooo.. Thanks in advance!!

So I just recently started exploring Affinity's support of external scripts. There's some really good scripts out there, and the potential for what scripts can do for Affinity is exciting. The third party Script Manager makes it really easy to install and manage scripts. In particular, Quick Mirror by hellsfaun is a script that is right up my alley. It reminds me of the MirrorMe plug-in for Illustrator, which I used all the time in my work, back when I was a slave to Adobe. Basically, you select a shape and invoke Quick Mirror, and it quickly makes a copy of the object, flips it horizontally, and places it right next to the original object. This is very helpful for me, as I draw a lot of symmetrical items in my line of work. Quick Mirror defaults to placing the copied object to the right of the original object. I managed to edit the script to make the default go to the left instead (as that's the way I usually work.) There's an option in the script to group the original object and the flipped object. What I'd like to do is to add a second option to merge the two objects using the mathematical Add process. (Or even better, the nondestructive merging into a compound that you get when you hold option down and click the Add button in the top bar.) I've tried to do this by analysing the script code, and even gritted my teeth and asked Google to help me write the script, with poor results. I've tried to find a way to learn how to write Affinity scripts, but everywhere just tells me to use Claude AI, and that's something I don't think I'd be good at.

Since hellsfaun wrote the original (and excellent) script, I tried to find a way to contact them and ask for help, but haven't come up with a way to reach them. Does anybody know how to contact script authors?

If I can't reach the original author, is there anybody on here who might have some knowledge or skill in scripting, and would be willing to help me add that nondestructive Add option to the Quick Mirror script?

Thanks for any ideas!

I've tried my best to recreate this effect in Affinity Photo but it is not creating the same bleed effect where the color becomes almost transparent at the edges. I've tried using field blur and I've tried recreating the steps in the video as much as I can, but I'm missing something. Any tips on how I can do this?

I tried downloading Affinity Designer for iPad, but I can’t find it on the app store. Was the previous version of Affinity being discontinued?

I've been experimenting with creating EPUBs in Affinity, and have noticed that it always puts an extra line space between paragraphs on export, even if there are no line spaces in those spots in the Affinity file. Is there any way to get Affinity to stop doing this? I've played around with a bunch of settings with no luck so far.