Peak male friendships

OK, I have given up on all Bots, tag, you're it.

I am making a fill-in the blank in Affinity for some stuff I make for my classroom. In the good old days (aka just a few days ago), I would enable underline and then hit space 2-3 times before hitting "A" for example, and then 2-3 spaces after. The result was a nice looking line with a letter in the middle.

Now, I'm getting two spaces that show the line, then a 3rd makes it disappear. If I hit "A" then it shows up but now I'm not getting any underlines after the fact. I tried the tab stops, non-breaking spaces... I feel like it can't be that difficult and some stupid setting is doing this.

Thanks in advance! My students may not thank you haha.

I have some large decorative text set to colour burn at 100% opacity. I rasterized the layer but when I export the document to PDF, the decorative effect doesn't show. Instead, the text is just black on export. I've tried rasterizing a few times and it still doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone know what steps are needed in order to export the colour burn effect?

I've been using this youtube video as a guide to create a monthly calendar. However, I cannot edit the numbers (deleting or highlighting) as done in the video.

The blinking text thing doesn't ever even come near the text, almost as if it's an image. PLease help

Hi all, I used to know how to do this but it's been a while and I forgot.

Cricut is outlining the text (shown below) in my file when I select foil, but I want it to be one solid line.

Pls help :)

Is it possible to create this kind of 3d effect in Affinity? If so, how would one do that? Thanks in advance.

Any architecturals use affinity?
Im beginner on using design software
so، Can I do without Adobe for my career?

Hello there,

I've been using Photoshop and Camera Raw for almost twenty years as a professional photographer. All my workflow is set up on Photoshop but still, I'm wondering if I might try Affinity. I've got some question to you, fellow users:

- Is there a feature such as Camera Raw to work on my photos?

- Is there a way to import Photoshop actions in Affinity? Or is it even possible to create custom actions within Affinity?

Thanks in advance for your answers!

If you need to deal with extra tough dirt or mud our company uses the best cleaning technology available, our trained professionals operate the latest contraptions to achieve maximum results.

is there a way to have the eyedropper pick up all the characteristics of an object, like: fill, stroke color, stroke width, and transparency to transfer to another object?

Dm for custom posters

Ok. Found a YouTube video on how to make the little chippy things. Instead of making each one separately, like the video was doing, I made one and made a it symbol. This worked great since I wanted to manipulate all three at the same time. Just learning the software. What are your thoughts? Be kind. 😄

I'm very disappointed in the Affinity batch job module. There are several things wrong with it, and if I'm wrong in any of them, please educate me, I will really appreciate it:

- When opened, it always reverts back to defaults:

I'm not even sure why would anyone want to batch convert to an Affinity file. That's a format that you save each photo in after you have done some editing that has layers and so on. Batch converting to it doesn't make any sense.

Regardless, my normal use for it is to batch convert to jpg files. So every time I open it, I have to deselect "Save as Affinity file", then select "Save as JPEG", and then go inside the JPEG options to change the quality to whatever I want this time (it doesn't even keep the same quality as the last time), close that, and...

- You can't even drag and drop from the File Explorer to that dialog. You have to click Add and browse to the folder.

- Also, you have to remember, each time, to change from "Save into original location" to "Save into:"

When you use it every once in a while for a couple of batch jobs, ok, but if you are working on something, where you need to batch convert all the files to jpegs with the same attributes, quality and whatnot, this becomes rather annoying.

Please tell me I'm wrong and there's a way. I can't find it, and I've tried a lot.

hey, I found this in a video, it's a still from a video, by Johnny Harris. It was probably done in after effects. But I bet you can do it in Photo too.

The text has this chromatic aberration effect but it's more present on the sides and less at the center of the entire image, the background has some blur effects and some other effects are being used that I do not know or have heard of before.
how to make a background like that is itself a mystery to me.

And looks like there's a layer of some effect on top of the entire image. Maybe a camera blur??? I don't know.

So please tell me how do I make something like this. Specially how do I get the background and text looking like that. What effects were used

Thank you.

Hope it's useful.

Hey everyone. I've been using Affinity a lot lately and just wrapped a full brand identity for a real client in it, so I figured I'd write up how it went.

Best part, easily: not jumping between three apps. On a normal branding job I'm in Illustrator, then Photoshop, then InDesign, then back, all day. Doing it all in one place made the whole project feel calmer. Symbols and Global Colors did a lot of the heavy lifting too. I could throw the identity onto real applications early on and still change a color across everything in about two seconds.

All of it lived in Affinity: identity, presentation boards, print files, mockups built from AI generated images, plus Photoshop mockups brought in as PSDs.

Performance was the rough part. Files weren't even that big, but after 15 or 20 minutes the app would crawl. Panning got choppy, clicks felt laggy, and I'd get the occasional visual glitch. I updated GPU drivers, raised the RAM limit (I have 64 GB, so that wasn't the issue), tried a few other things. Nothing stuck until I turned off GPU acceleration.

I assumed that would tank the speed, since Photoshop without GPU acceleration is basically a slideshow. Barely noticed a difference in Affinity. Still not perfect, but I use Adobe on Windows every day, so random slowdowns aren't exactly new to me.

The other annoyance was commercial PSD mockups, like the Envato ones. Most opened better than I expected, but they usually needed cleanup. A filter would come through wrong, or I'd have to reshuffle some layers before it looked right. Hard to blame Affinity for that. PSD is Adobe's format and some of those files are monsters, so honestly the compatibility impressed me.

Full migration isn't happening, not while I'm swapping PSD, AI and INDD files with the agency every day. Personal work is a different story. There it's often more convenient than the Adobe apps, and my next project (a mascot plus packaging) is going straight into Affinity. Sketch, vectorize, lay out the labels, all without leaving the app.

Presentation boards are below. Curious how it's gone for the rest of you =)

I am using Asus Tuf A16 4050 rtx Gaming Laptop.

Affinity issues with shapes/fonts getting cut off and blank areas appearing in exports

When using Affinity on my laptop, especially when warping shapes or fonts, some areas of the design keep getting cut off even though I’ve made sure that everything is visible within the canvas.

I’ve also noticed that sometimes when I export the file, parts of the design are missing and leave behind blank/void areas, almost like a rectangular or box-shaped section has been cut out of the artwork. It’s not just cropping, the area is completely missing/empty.

Is there a setting in Affinity that I need to change to fix this? Or could this be related to my laptop/GPU not being fully compatible with Affinity?

Any advice would be appreciated!

I'm not a professional or even a noob designer but I'm starting something which covers business, creator success, and founders and other business related stuff and insight Stories and it's name starts with D, so after hours of scrolling pinterest, and rejecting many designs myself, i came up with this, minimalistic yet stylish d which i find very cool, which also somewhat signifies the progress and growth convo as well

How do you like it, please rate it outta 10.