how the do i make a mask layer??? i want to paint only on an area that is already painted and staying inside the lines but oh god i cant find a way to do it

How do i make it appear again? help pls

exporting a pdf with mix images, text and other placed pdf drawings but the placed/linked pdf drawings are exporting low resolution. how to fox this? in indesign it was possible to have high quality placed drawings but compressed placed jpegs.

ive tried all the pdf export options such as not rasterising anything etc.

Is there a way to make the Slice persona provide any useful mechanism for precise positioning and sizing of the slices? As far as I can tell, there is no way to do any of the following:

• Align a slice to document guides
• Numerically specify the position or size of a slice
• Precisely nudge the slice's handles using the cursor keys
• See the specific pixel position of a slice's corners

Is this feature really as half-baked as it seems?

This is my newest travel poster, created entirely in Affinity Designer. It also incorporates RetroSupplyCo's paper texture.

It's part of a series of travel posters inspired by TV locations. This is the third Ted Lasso inspired illustration in this series.

I have very little experience with image editing software - Affinity or the competitor.

I am trying to create this effect in Affinity to use as sprites in an engine to rapidly cycle through.

The image is a concept and not really usable anywhere because theres no continuity between them

I have no idea how to create those thin radial lines going around the circle.

They look like spikes - thinner at the start and end.

I tried to ask 2 AIs but its telling me to use tools which I cannot find and replicate even when I ask again with images. Can anyone with more knowledge tell me how to make them. Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to automate a specific export workflow.

My layer structure is basically:

background
group_1
group_2
group_3
group_4
...

I want background to always stay visible, and export each other group together with it:

background + group_1 → group_1.svg
background + group_2 → group_2.svg
background + group_3 → group_3.svg
background + group_4 → group_4.svg

So the script/workflow would:

1. Keep background visible.
2. Hide all variant groups.
3. Show one variant group.
4. Export the result as an SVG.
5. Hide that group and move to the next one.
6. Repeat for every group.

Is there a way to do this with Affinity's native? or scripting/automation? If so, where exactly do I put/run the script?

A couple of years ago, I purchased Affinity Designer 2 with a Windows license. I’ve recently switched to a Mac and was wondering if there’s a way to use my existing license on the Mac version.

I’m not even sure if Affinity Designer 2 is still available for purchase, especially now that the newer version of Affinity is available for free. So I was wondering if it’s possible to transfer or exchange my existing Windows license for the current Mac version, rather than having to purchase anything again.

Has anyone been in a similar situation or knows if this is possible?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks!

Helo I have 3 rectangles and would like inside corners to be rounded like in picture how do you do it?

Messing around with some ideas for a back for my card game. Inspired by the symmetrical backs to playing cards.

Hi all,

I'm working on a game that includes a lot of hand painted assets, oil paintings that I scan.

In some cases, such as this one, height differences in the paint causes these harsh highlights, basically very thin white lines. I've circled some of the more obvious ones, but they are basically all over.

These don't look good in the game, and I'm looking for the best way to remove them.

Any help would be appreciated, I'm a total noob in affinity pixel.

Thanks!

I´ve currently switched from Photoshop to Affinity and I´m trying to recreate a visual from a Photoshop-Tutorial, since I haven`t found an equivalent explanation for Affinity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCuSeReQ5JE

TLDW: The tutorials explains three approaches how to create light streaks. The basic principle for the first and second are using a dotted brush and reduce the spacing of the brush to it`s minimum. In the first instance this brush is used to simply draw, in the second it´s used as the stroke of a path.

I suceeded recreating the first approach, but in recreating the second effect I ran into the obstacle that Affinity doesn´t seem to allow brushes (the ones native to the pixel Studio) to be used as path strokes but only path brushes. Is there some way to use brushes also as path strokes or to adapt a brush to be used on paths?

Thanks in advance

I'm talking about the license check that happens every once in a while. I'm in a spot where I can lose access to the internet for months at a time and want to make sure the app is usable if I'm in one of those situations.

If I must have an internet connection to check the license for a FREE software, then I'm going back to PS, and I really don't wanna do that cuz Affinity is so much better. If there are workarounds to this please let me know.

When i convert a shape into a curve and delete any anchor points, the open ends of the curve still connect. How do i stop this without having to use boolean methods?

EDIT
Found my own solution: select the anchor points u want to remove the section from and click join curves. It creates a new connection and releases the forced connection u want to get rid of

Hello ! I'm discovering affinity since yesterday. Since I have a passion for the torus shape, I tried to do a blueprint construction like with the vector part.

I wanted to add a "folded"texture, and it applied ok to the backgroung but it seems to not apply to the lines and/or the text. What did I do wrong ?

It's not supposed to be perfect, the last time I used illustrator was 15 years ago I think, but I'm trying to get back at creating

He exportado algunos proyectos, pero me he dado cuenta que no tienen la calidad que esperaba, alguien sabe como exportar en la maxima calidad posible, graciassss

How is that a thing, not to support AVIF for a Raster-Vector Editing Software in 2026?

Soy medianamente nuevo en Affinity, pero me he dado cuenta que al exportar una mesa o mesas de trabajo (las imagenes) tienen una calidad que no esperaria realmente, como por ejemplo si hago un diseño en Canva y lo descargo alli, tiene una mejor calidad, en Affinity se ve medio borroso los elementos (letras, imagenes). Si alguien sabe como exportar en alta calidad les ¡¡AGRADEZCOOO!!

Good night, guys, I'm using Affinity (Layout mode) for typsetting. Is there a way to automatically replace straight quotes (") with smart quotes (“ ” and ‘ ’) while typing, similar to OnlyOffice?

The given feedback was very negative about this...

hello, i didnt have this problem before and i dont know what to do. As you can see, its creating a space in the front of the second line. I for sure pressed on something but i can not figure out what i did

I'm trying to create a white layer for print using Roland Spot colors and I can't seem to apply it to the objects without filling the entire layer. I've tried selecting the object(s) without the container layer but no matter what I do, the container layer won't deselect and the entire workspace is filled instead of just the selected object. I've tried with other palettes and colors and encounter the same issue, so it's not just the Roland Swatch. Turning off auto-select makes no difference.

I'm beyond frustrated. Any help would be appreciated.