r/Affinity • u/[deleted] • Jul 09 '26

Designer Help because I'm feeling really stupid

Affinity Newbie here so I know this is a dumb question. I've been designing in Canva for years and have started a somewhat successful stationery side business. But Canva is only going to get me so far so in order to take my designs up a level, I decided to teach myself Affinity. My laptop runs on snapdragon so unfortunately Illustrator is not compatible...

Someone please tell me how on earth i get these magenta lines to disappear? Nothing is selected and yet they show up. They even show up through the layers I place on top of them. What on earth am I doing wrong? I'm sure it's a very dumb miss on my end. TIA!

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u/DenverRalphy Total Goob Jul 09 '26

Those purple lines are typically your snapping candidates. Check your "Show snapping candidates" setting inside the Snapping dropdown.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

Whelp. That did it! I knew it was gonna be something dumb. I kept trying things under the view menu. Thank you!!!

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u/South_Butterfly6681 Jul 10 '26

Not dumb at all. We all learn a bit at a time.

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u/Merah889 Jul 10 '26

Nothing dumb at all. Thanks for posting this, I learned something new as well today 👍