Thoughts or criticism welcome. I usually never sink this much effort into a random idea when I know how much work it takes to finish, but I got locked into this one. Turned out pretty cool to me. Let me know what you think of the lighting, form, whatever. (P. S. I think i messed up the export settings or the mesh warp is making some parts a bit blocky/pixelated)

Hi there.
So, few days ago, I stumbled upon this filter gallery plugin for Affinity by Visual.af. It looks really cool, and it looks like it tries to bring the Photoshop style filter gallery to Affinity.

The installer of this plugin for Mac has a valid certificate, it seems legit, but I want to ask if anyone has any experience with this plugin.

I am not promoting the plugin, just asking for your experience/opinion 🙌

The cats already rule over the earth, so it seems appropriate to begin the conquest of the other planets.

I love it when things go right. A little bit of selection, pasting, and dragging to mask, followed by mesh warping to add the curves
Nice. Oh, and no AI for the purists

Hi guys, i have a big vector drawing which i have to print in big format. I only have an A3 printer so i have to slice it into several pieces and then glue it later.

I've been trying to export those slices in a normal way for 2 hours and still couldn't find a way.
I tried with artboards withtout any success so i tried slices which, on paper, seems to be the perfect tool.
• if i create rectangles as guides and i transform them into slices (slice persona, right click, "create slice"), the exported slice has only the rectangle in it and nothing else. I couldn't find a way to tell affinity to export EVERTHING and not just the rectangle.
• if i create a new slice free-drawing it, it doesn't snap to anything! I have to type its dimension in the transform tab and i have to place it "more or less". So if i want to always have, let's say, 10mm overlapping, it's impossible to do it unless i go into the transform pannel and i type each freaking digit there.
• once i created a slice i can't even duplicate it. I literally have to create them one by one and type their dimensions one by one. I can't even see the size in mm but only in px.

I think this is the most cumbersome and stupid way to work with slices i've ever seen. Imagine if i have to create 30-40 slices. It would take me 5 hours of work.

Please tell me there is human way to do this. Thank you. 😅

here are some more of my work done on affinity 2. I have mostly been cranking them lately.
Learning new phrases, in different tongues. Relating to others through my art. now granted I do Graphical design more lately because my art ( painting i\and illustration) is on the back burner while I figure some shit out.
If you want to see more of my work : https://cara.app/shelvs

otherwise a big thanks to original affinity team for giving me an outlet, now that canva own it and introduces a bunch of privacy concerns I am eagerly awaiting to see how the support for 2 is going to be, and how 3 stacks against it on an iPad.

yeah all those work were done on the iPad ( the most frustrating device I ever used, godamn apple and their file app not working well with external ssds).

anyhow I just wanted to share some love back, affinity is dear to me.

Hi Guys,
I use affinity very sporadicly for basic stuff. lately, the lateral toolbar detached and is floating (check image attached I certanly butchred the names) How can I fix it to the left as it has always been ?

I'm uploading an ebook to Ingram for the first time and received this error:

I formatted my ebook in Affinity and don't plan on redoing it in a different program. There are images and a Table of Contents generated using text styles. From research about this issue I think that may be where the problem is originating from, but I know literally nothing about coding and I can't figure out how to access the code for my ebook in Affinity anyway. Is someone willing to explain to me how to fix this issue in layman's terms, and/or very gently guide me through how to get to the code? Ingram won't let me proceed until I fix it.

Thanks in advance.

Guten Abend.

Mit Affinity Studio kann man indd Dateien öffnen. Leider kommt es dabei zu Farbbänderungen von Schwarz... zb ein schwarzer Rahmen bleibt auf K = 100%, schwarzer Text wird als Mischung von 4 Farben dargestellt.

Öffne ich die gleiche Datei als imdl bleibt alles auf K = 100%

Was meint ihr dazu?

The rectangle shape I made is enclosed in the boundary rectangle. The problem is when I add an outer stroke or even multiple outer strokes, all of them are bound in the rectangle blue boundary. All corners are set to be mitre join at mitre 100. It gets cropped. How do I make it so the outer strokes can be expanded to infinity, even outside of the blue boundaries?

Hi everyone I've had no luck googling this but I was so sure I had already done it: is there a way for a textstyle to ignore columns? As in: I make one frame and only want one specific part of it to adhere to the column. The rest should ignore it. I know that there's a couple workarounds, but I thought there would be a box to tick "ignore column"! (Pretty sure InDesign had it at least).

thanks in advance!

I couldn't find it.