New to Affinity Photo? To help you find your way around the app and get to grips with everything it has to offer we’ve put together a handy beginner's guide.
Photographer and workshop leader Chris Patterson has been waxing lyrical about Affinity Photo for iPad, so we asked her to share her process for bringing fire and haunting beauty to your images.
Want to keep two words together on one line, type proper mathematical symbols, or cite another document? Here’s how to insert those and other invaluable characters to make pages more professional.
Artboards can be a little unfamiliar to design beginners. In this article, Andy explains artboards in depth so you can make more use of them in your workflows.
Liz Kohler Brown is an artist and designer who creates unique lettering projects, surface designs and illustrations. Here she is to show us how to create a repeat pattern in Affinity Designer.
When you are placing a file or populating a picture frame in Affinity Publisher, you can choose whether to embed the file within your document or link it from its original disk location.
Clipping is a fundamental design technique in Affinity apps. Andy explores the basics of clipping and the different ways it is used in Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher.
Tribhuvan's slick vector illustrations and icons first came to our attention on Instagram; deceptively simple in appearance he uses a range of subtle techniques to create his art in Affinity Designer.
In this article product expert Matt Searston shows us how to create an illustration from start to finish, while seamlessly switching between Affinity Designer on iPad and desktop.
The ability to convert shapes directly into frames makes it easier than ever to produce exciting new ways to showcase your creative content in Affinity Publisher.
New to Affinity Designer? To help you find your way around the app and get to grips with everything it has to offer we’ve put together a handy beginner's guide.
Brazilian games artist and UI designer, Jhonatan S. Silva shows us how to manipulate shapes and text to create eye-catching graphics in this step-by-step tutorial.
We release updates to our software all the time, and what's more, they're free for existing customers. In this article, we tell you how to install these updates.
With Affinity Photo 1.7 Stock Panel came integration with stock image site Unsplash. In this tutorial, we explore how to use Unsplash images to create a double-exposure composition.
With Affinity Photo 1.7 Stock Panel came integration with stock image site Unsplash. In this tutorial, we explore how to use Unsplash images to create a funky action-packed stunt-bike composition.
Affinity Designer 1.7 is available now, and it’s one of our biggest releases yet. Check out some of the awesome tools you get in this massive update...
Having recently released our 1.7 updates into the world, we thought it would be a good time to tell you about the ten things we love about Affinity Photo 1.7.
London fashion photographer Girl who shoots—aka—Alina Budina, tells us her top advice for collaborating on photo shoots with other creative professionals and what you should expect...
Let's fly into making a rocket using vectors in Affinity Designer! Using techniques that are easy to learn, games designer Jhonatan S. Silva will show you how...
When it comes to lettering our eyes often deceive us—Ivana Marić of Le Punkt Noir Lettering Studio shows us few simple rules to follow to better please the eye.
It’s so important to communicate a strong professional message to online customers. One key way to do this is to present iconography that is uniformly crisp and clean right across your icon set.
Gal Shir is an awesome art director, designer, artist and Instagram star based in Tel Aviv. This Christmas, he has given Affinity Designer for iPad a try...
In the seventh instalment of our 'shooting series', James looks at using drones for photography and explores the unique results you can obtain with them.
You're never too old to learn the art of hand-lettering. Picking up his first calligraphy pen at the age of 34 to learn an entirely new art-form, Ian Barnard is a testament to this...
In the fifth instalment of our 'shooting series', James talks you through the use of polarising filters and explores their advantages and disadvantages.
You’ve been commissioned to design the final boss for an action role-playing video game, set in a futuristic Mayan dystopian world, where ancient gods have returned to take over the world...
Andy looks at the difference between vector and raster design, exploring key aspects in both. He'll also look at how mixed-discipline 'vector - raster' interworking can streamline workflows.
Brush expert Paolo Limoncelli, from DAUB Brushes, shows you how to create your own brush nozzles from real-life media to create custom raster and vector brushes in Affinity Designer for iPad.
Paolo Limoncelli, from DAUB Brushes, shows us how to create vector brushes that mimic real-world watercolour wash brushes in Affinity Designer for iPad.
Now that pro-level graphic design on the iPad has become a reality, there's a lot to talk about. Here is a rundown of some of the things you need to know about Affinity Designer for iPad.
Inspired by the opera 'Madame Butterfly', illustrator Kevin House (aka Retrograde) demonstrates how to create a stunning vector eye as part of his study of the lead character.
In the second instalment of our 'shooting series', James explores setting up your camera and post-production for creating a 'big stopper' effect with landscapes.
Fresh from his workshop at the Apple Store in Singapore, illustrator Monez gave us a step by step guide to the techniques he uses to create a monster illustration in Affinity Photo for iPad…
In the first instalment of our 'shooting series', learn how to shoot star trail photography, then edit and create powerful compositions in Affinity Photo.