Affinity Tips & Tricks

[Cristina]

As suggested by Rene and Corrie, I am sharing some tips on Affinity after watching some YouTube videos.

Those were first posted in the "February What are you doing" thread.

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Yesterday, I was working with Affinity. 

I like so many things about Affinity, one of which is the ability to centralize an image using the Green and Red Lines.

I learned two techniques with Text (Text Warp and Text on a Circle) from two different channels that popped up on YouTube.   I watch many videos that have nothing to do with Scrapbooking, PSP, PSE, or Affinity, and I never searched for anything of the kind on YouTube. Still, the algorithm knows and keeps suggesting those videos and that it's good. 🙂

Text Warp:

• I very much like the effect. It was not in the video, but I added some bevel and shadow.
• I would have liked to have the Bevel and Shadow shown more in the P and R characters, but I don’t know (yet) how to do it.

So, first,  the original pepper image and then the warped text.

 

 

 

[Cristina]

Now the Text on a Circle technique.

I find it very easy to do this in Affinity. I didn't learn yet in PSE.
Interestingly, the Shape (circle) disappears as soon as we start to write the Text.   It shows here because I duplicated the  Circle Layer. 
Other things I liked:

• How to centralize the Text using the little Green and Red Triangles.
• Moving the baseline slider to change the text offset.
• Using the Reverse Text Path button.   After using this, and while writing a Text on another image,  I noticed that the Reverse Text Path Mode was still On. I had to click the icon again. I’m not sure if this is by default.

Here are the examples of this technique:  Text around a Circle, Reverse Path, and Text on an Image.

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I once read it, but I don't remember where someone praised Affinity as the opposite of PSP because the app doesn't crash.   Of course, each PC and each laptop have different configurations, which influence how a program behaves, but Affinity has crashed about 4 times for me, doing various things. No program is perfect, although PSE hasn't crashed yet.

[Cristina]

Another thing I've learned, and I didn't post it before, is that after you type the text and go to the end of it, while it is still blinking if you want to type inside it, click ENTER, and you can type at the bottom.

 

[Rene Marker]

There is a specific forum for Affinity stuff. It is a sub-forum of the "Let's Talk" forum. I asked that it be created just like the PSP sub-forum in that main forum. That's where Corrie and I have posted our tips.

[Cristina]

  On 2/8/2025 at 1:54 PM, Rene Marker said:

There is a specific forum for Affinity stuff. It is a sub-forum of the "Let's Talk" forum. I asked that it be created just like the PSP sub-forum in that main forum. That's where Corrie and I have posted our tips.

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Oh, thank you, Rene!   I didn't know that there was already one.   I'll look for this "Let's Talk" thread. 🙂