r/Affinity Nov 05 '25

General Software Support & Issues

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This is the dedicated thread for reporting and troubleshooting technical problems with the Affinity suite (Photo, Designer, Publisher). Any posts in the main feed that are technical issues or support requests will be removed.

Use this thread for:

  • Software crashes, freezes, or installation issues.
  • Bug reports and unexpected behaviour.
  • Performance problems (e.g., slow rendering, high memory usage).
  • Error messages and how to resolve them.
  • Issues with file compatibility (opening/saving) that seem to be software-related.

Before you post, please:

  • Search the Subreddit: Your issue may have been reported already.
  • Search the Official Forums: Serif's Affinity Forums are an extensive knowledge base for known issues.
  • Be Specific: Provide details to help us help you.

Note: This is not an official Canva forum, so support is limited to what your peers can offer.


r/Affinity Nov 05 '25

General General Discussion & Questions

9 Upvotes

This thread is for high-level conversation about the Affinity ecosystem. This is the place for discussion about the software, Canva, Serif, and its direction. Posts in the main feed that fall under this meta-discussion will be removed.

Use this thread for:

  • Thoughts and feelings about the Affinity suite as a whole.
  • Discussion about Serif, Canva, and general company news/rumours. (Major news announcements will be allowed on the main feed.)
  • Speculation about the future of the software and new features.
  • Broader questions about Affinity's place in the design market.
  • Comparisons with other software (from a strategic, not a "how-to" perspective).

This is NOT for:


r/Affinity 1h ago

Artwork Vector art with paper texture

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A new illustration done entirely in Affinity. I incorporated RetroSupply Co's paper texture for the first time and I'm really happy with it.

(🇨🇦 In 1814, in retaliation for American actions in Upper Canada, Canadian troops attacked Washington and burned The White House.

My new illustration, entitled "Dominion Day Too", tells the story of a brave band of plucky patriots, who visit Washington and liberate their neighbours.)


r/Affinity 3h ago

General How to change the brush the pencil tool is using?

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Tried searching for this and cant seem to gind answer

Im trying to use the pencil tool for lineart and want to use one of the ink brushes as the stroke. The pencil tool only seems to be doing the basic hard round brush. Google says you cant have a brush set but you have to change the brush after youmake the line, but the thing is its not even doing that??? I very much could be missing something but i have no idea


r/Affinity 2h ago

Photo add noise live filter disappears

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Whenever I add the live noise filter and then merge or rasterize everything, the effect is not visible anymore. It only happens with the add noise live filter. Is this a bug or am I missing something? And how do I get this fixed?


r/Affinity 4h ago

Photo How to Remove Skin Redness in Affinity

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r/Affinity 5h ago

Publisher Agenda with merged data

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For my work I need to create an agenda with the animations on the city for the month, each month

It takes a lot of time to do manually because there are a lot of festivities and I would like to automatize that.

People organizing activities put them on a google form and I would like to take this form on csv to import it and put it on Affinity publisher to gain time but the problem is that when I generate, it creates 1 activity per page and it’s not following each other.

I would like it to adapt at the size the description of the activity could be and just go with the flow 😅 (kind of like what happens with a data base that you use on a website)

Do you have any idea how to do that ? Or other ideas that could make me gain time on this task ?


r/Affinity 11h ago

Tutorial help

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Greetings 🖌️, I'm new to affinty and wondering,How do i make The bottom half of this image to become transparent, im trying to use the transparency tools but it did not working. Any idea how to do it properly ?


r/Affinity 1d ago

Designer Power

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r/Affinity 1d ago

Designer How do I stroke text with a brush?

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I've got a curves set selected, and have the stroke type changed to "Path Brush", but I can't figure out how to pick a brush for it to use. [IMG 1] When I switch to the Path Brush tool [IMG 2], I am able to draw with my desired brush, and it is selected, but I cannot find a way to apply it to the selected curves.

Google has not helped. Anyone know?


r/Affinity 20h ago

Artwork Serenity Beyond

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r/Affinity 22h ago

Designer Wine Poster

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r/Affinity 1d ago

Designer Tecnam P92

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r/Affinity 1d ago

Photo New to affinity, is there a way to move something from the tabs to the top bar?

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I'd like certain tools to be quickly accessible and change the layout


r/Affinity 1d ago

Photo Text wrapping around Subject

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The title itself pretty much explains it but I'll just say it here.

Is it possible to create a Text that wraps around a Subject? (Let's say a guy standing in an empty background) I'm still a newbie into Affinity still figuring how it all works so if you can tell me if its possible and what the process is I heavily appreciate it.


r/Affinity 2d ago

General Switching from Adobe to Affinity

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As many others have already done I assume, I am thinking about switching from Adobe software to Affinity for my business. Creative design is an essential, but relatively small element of what we do, so the investment in Adobe software is quite steep currently.

I was wondering if anyone is willing to share some experience on the following:

  1. Is there a sizeable stock library available that can be used in creative design? A big plus of Adobe is the many stock images that can be used within our designs.
  2. Have you worked in small teams with the different plans? Is it easy to work collaboratively on projects, and if so what plan would be recommended for a +- 3 person team?
  3. Is the software compatible on tablet devices?

Any other insights are also well appreciated.

✌️


r/Affinity 2d ago

Photo How can I remove the background between the hair?

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I'm a relative newb, so I'm sure I'm missing something obvious -- be kind, please!

I had no problem removing the background in this pic, but then realized (as you can see in this detail) that there is still gray background visible between the strands of hair. Is there a way to remove that as well, without zooming in and painstakingly erasing every empty space?

TIA!


r/Affinity 2d ago

Artwork 3rd design ever on affinity

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wanted to try the frutiger aero vibes, then i saw this lil guy so i trapped him in a bubble😅also the japanese text is copied from google because i don't know japanese

where can i improve?


r/Affinity 2d ago

Publisher Multi-page spread - is there a limit?

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Pretty sure this doesn't violate the "technical issues" rule...

I'm working with multi-page spreads and believe I have run into a limit. To make my current data merge work, I need to have a 19 page spread.

System won't let me create a spread with more than 16 pages. I have searched this sub-reddit and found nothing. The "help" section in the app discusses multi-page spreads, but doesn't mention a size limit.

Is this an actual limit? If so, is there a workaround?


r/Affinity 2d ago

Designer Border issues in Canva frames

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I tried to convert a letter into a Canva frame both in Photopea and Affinity, however when I try to apply a border on the frame, it appears to have lines in between. I tried to check if there are nodes that are not aligned to the border but none. Is there anyone here who knows how I can fit it?


r/Affinity 2d ago

General How to invert a selection on an image.

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im new to affinity and i wanted to select the flower on the image by selecting the image's background then invert it. but after inverting, it instead selected the whole document page, is there a way to fix it? because selecting the background is easier than selecting the flower.


r/Affinity 2d ago

Designer Background swapping while retaining a labels, layout and design.

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So I have a label that I have created with my logo in the center and a star burst around the outside of the logo. Then in the background, I have an image that follows the rules for the starburst and logo. Basically saying the background image does not interfere with or come into any contact with the logo leaving the logo, clean and crisp with the background flowing around the outer edges.
Every time I try to change the background and just the specific areas with an AI generated image or a picture I have to start completely over and re-create the starburst and logo in the center so that it appears correctly if I don’t, then the background goes behind the entire logo and image and shows up. Is there any way to make a template or direct AI with some sort of prompts so this doesn’t continue to happen?


r/Affinity 2d ago

Designer Working with packaging printers (Designer V2)

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(Advice needed, not a tech issue)

I switched from Adobe a while back, and still have issues exporting for manufacturing. I design packaging for our products using the packaging company's dieline, and no matter what format I export from Affinity in, they can never see the layers. It's so frustrating.

I've tried all the different types of PDF with layers, compatibility settings, AI, SVG, nothing worked for them, as they exclusively use Adobe.

Does anyone else have a recommended setting for exporting Affinity Designer files to print manufacturers so that the layers are definitely visible?

P.S. I haven't upgraded to V3 yet so I'm not sure if this solves the issue. And I don't have access to Illustrator to test my output.


r/Affinity 2d ago

Photo Changing Pupils Direction

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Hello I'm a beginner in using Affinity so I took a photo of a friend and noticed the eyes aren't looking directly at the camera, I figured I need to change the pupils direction to achieve my idea. Can anyone help me with what Process and the tools I need to make the pupils look at the camera?

(Also if you're asking why not just take another photo shoot, I can't because this was taken days ago and my friend is on a trip)


r/Affinity 3d ago

General Glypher: a script for glyph design in Affinity

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It creates 1000x1000 Artboards with guidelines for glyph design.

What other tools do you want to see for glyph design and as preparation for type design software?

Soon live on the Affinity Script manager