Affinity

Convert RGB to CMYK with Affinity Designer
How To Convert RGB to CMYK with Affinity Designer
How To Convert RGB to CMYK with Affinity Designer 800 470 Nick Saporito

If you’ve created a design for print then chances are you’re going to need to use a color profile that is suitable for print, which would be the CMYK color space. Using the standard RGB format can cause the colors of your design to look dull and muddy once printed, and some print shops will…

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How to import and edit SVG files with Affinity Designer
How To Import and Edit SVG Files with Affinity Designer
How To Import and Edit SVG Files with Affinity Designer 800 470 Nick Saporito

In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can import and edit SVG files (and other vector formats) with Affinity Designer. This works differently in Affinity than it does in Inkscape and Illustrator because Affinity imports files as embedded documents. Because of this, you won’t be able to edit the vector properties of the file…

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Affinity Designer logo tutorial
Affinity Designer Logo Tutorial: Simple Logo Design
Affinity Designer Logo Tutorial: Simple Logo Design 800 470 Nick Saporito

In this Affinity Designer logo tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can create a simple badge style logo design. The logo depicts the name on a banner, placed over the silhouette of a deer’s head, but you can replace this with any other element you’d like in order to personalize it. The following is just…

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How To Create An Isometric Grid with Affinity Designer
How To Create An Isometric Grid with Affinity Designer 800 470 Nick Saporito

In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to create an isometric grid with Affinity Designer. This will help you in creating isometric illustrations where objects are drawn in a flat 2D environment, but appear as if they’re 3D. Affinity’s grid settings make it easy to create these sorts of illustrations by allowing you to generate…

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Batch export files with Affinity Designer
How To Batch Export Multiple Files with Affinity Designer
How To Batch Export Multiple Files with Affinity Designer 800 470 Nick Saporito

In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to batch export multiple files at once, in a variety of different formats, using Affinity Designer’s Batch Persona. This is a feature Illustrator has that I’ve always enjoyed using, and it’s great for when you’re finalizing a logo design and need to generate a variety of different formats…

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Thoughts on Affinity as an Inkscape user
My Thoughts On Affinity Designer As An Inkscape User
My Thoughts On Affinity Designer As An Inkscape User 800 470 Nick Saporito

In a recent video I made comparing Inkscape and Illustrator, I went over some of the things I both like and dislike about each, and one of the most common responses I got was to make a comparison between Inkscape and Affinity Designer. And this has not been an isolated incident by any means. A…

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