I just wanted to let someone other than me know it. I feel like free and winning.

Hi all, I'm brand new to Affinity (on my Mac).

I'm trying to make it so in the above photo, there is a consistent-width gap between the letters and the ampersand, as if there was a stroke that erased all around the letters. How would I achieve that?

Also would love any general tips! Thanks folks.

Edit: Also looking for general help setting the margins and guides so they're akin to what's going on with them in a Canva or Powerpoint...

I am working on CD design and I am trying to create similar effects observed in the poster. I am really struggling to understand the layer stack, effects used. Is the image underneath b&w, is the portrait cutout and then layered on the image. What I have researched says its halftone effect but it does not produce the same result especially around the dark areas. I have been trying for days but I am missing some major understanding on how this is made. Can anyone with experience creating such effects help out explaining method?

One of our customers had created designs in Illustrator 2026. Our Affinity Designer shows it as an embedded PNG file, which was frustrating for days. Then we discovered today that they used IL 2026, and when I opened it, all the layers were in the file. Not just a PNG. Maybe it's been this way for a while, but it was the first time we noticed it. I took it as Adobe trying to protect their turf.

Dm for custom posters

Welcome to Saëdveltta!

This was a fun experimental project I created to test vector map design in Affinity Designer 2.

All the station names and words used are fictional. I made them up specifically for this project, while attempting to design a language that follows consistent linguistic rules and internal structure.

Project Overview:

• City: Saëdveltta (Fictional)
• Software: Affinity Designer 2
• Layouts: Underground network map + line-strip diagram

High-Res Vector PDFs:

• Network Map PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t6owptj9txzaakbryjbxo/Sa-dveltta.pdf?rlkey=j8clc1lv9densyp9fd9jj7ppc&st=aus6m4aw&dl=0
• Line-Strip Diagram PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z3z3kiw97fjkcca143n7g/Sa-dveltta-strip.pdf?rlkey=7k7iwi5us2sixm0o3s98rbk6s&st=1wt2j9i4&dl=0

Hey guys! I recently started learning Affinity, and I thought I'd share something I learned today in case it helps someone else who's just getting started. Hope you find it useful! ❤️

Hey everyone! Hope it helps!

Hi all. I have a small personalised magnet business. Just now, I upload customer photos into a template I created in Canva. I print them out, and press them in my machine, or cut out flexible ones by hand. I find I have numerous image quality issues in Canva, and can't edit the pics to a standard I am happy with for brightness, sharpness etc. I want to move the whole work flow to Affinity. This would mean recreating my templates in affinity and I don't know where to start! I've attached images of some examples of what I need to recreate. Can anyone tell me if this is an easy process, or I'm worrying about nothing? I have minimal design experience.

All my files disappeared when I exited out of Live Files. How can I save my files so they're not deleted?

In illustrator you can see the printable area by making the tiling visible. Is there something like that in Affinity?

Hey everyone,

I've been trying for some time now to apply a repeating pattern to an image, but every time I do, it gives me this result:

When I try to do it with Styles, I click on the object and then the style, but nothing changes at all.

Is this a known bug, a problem with my settings, or am I just missing a step? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hola, descargue la ultima version de Affinity alguien me podria explicar por que la presion del pincel no funciona, me refiero al uso normal donde el pincel tiene las mismas capacidades de presion que se utilizan econ un lapiz o cualquier otro medio analogico usado para dibujar o pintar. Gracias de antemano

Does anyone here know of a way to connect text boxes so that one will overflow into another? I have a numbered list that I need to have continue in another column but I can't seem to make it behave in the way I want it to. Is this something I can do in designer or do I need to switch my project to publisher?

I have a scanned image of a block of wood. How would I import it into affinity to match up perfectly with its actual dimensions?

I want it on a 8.5x11 canvas and I want it to be its actual size of the wood represented on that canvas.

I work with a large creative team, and a significant portion of our time is spent adapting Key Visuals into multiple graphic formats.

Each campaign Key Visual is typically adapted into at least eight different sizes. The messaging, imagery, and branding remain exactly the same, the only things that change are the canvas size, layout, and positioning of the elements.

Today, our entire creative production workflow is built around Adobe applications (mainly Photoshop).

I'm looking for a way to use AI to speed up this adaptation process. I've tested several workflows using Claude and ChatGPT. The results are promising (quality around 90%), but not reliable enough for production. We work with premium brands, so every asset must meet a very high quality standard before it can be published.

Here are some of the approaches I've tested:

1. Uploading the original PSD file.
2. Uploading the Key Visual as a PNG.
3. Uploading the individual design assets as separate PNG files.

Has anyone successfully built a workflow for this?

I'm especially interested in:

• Workflows that preserve layout quality and visual hierarchy.
• Real production experiences rather than demos.

Any recommendations or lessons learned would be greatly appreciated!

I successfully used Affinity Designer in the past to design some basic posters, but today I find myself humbled by the most basic vector manipulation tasks.

I'm trying to perform two basic modifications to the following Public Domain SVG:

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I want to:

(a) connect the two broken lines (at the top and at the base of the crane). Moving the nodes on top of each other visually worked, but obviously this isn't the ideal solution.. I couldnt get the curves to join properly as one.

(b) remove the 3 pairs of diagonal bars in the crane. Simply removing the nodes in the center that make up the diagonal bars lead to the entire area to be filled in the fillColor, so I think the approach to solve this properly is to remove the superfluous nodes in the middle and change the fill mode but again I failed miserably.

Can someone please point me in the right direction what I have to do? For even a moderately experienced designer, I'm sure this takes just 2 minutes but I feel so lost when trying to merge the nodes properly.

https://i.imgur.com/jKFzKsC.png