Elaine Giles – Medium

15 hours ago

Colours in Affinity Publisher Can Confuse You … Let Me Share Some Colour Clarity

Colours can cause a lot of confusion in Affinity Publisher but if you master a few principles the colour related features can make your design work much faster. Import Colours Affinity Publisher supports the import of ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) files. This means if you are provided with design assets including an…

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1 day ago

Want to Work Faster with Fonts? Here are Four Hidden Options To Help You

Choosing a font is easy … as long as you can find it in the ever expanding list of fonts you have installed. I get it, you keep them all installed to save having to track down an obscure font in the middle of a rush job … I’ve done…

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2 days ago

Layers and Groups? Do You Know Which You Should Use and Why?

Layers and Groups are two similar but distinct ways content is organized in Affinity Publisher files Similarities Both Layers and Groups are able to act as containers for design elements inside your files. Layers and Groups can be locked to prevent inadvertent changes being made. …

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3 days ago

Creating a New File is an Exciting Adventure in Affinity Publisher … Here’s Why

The New File dialog box in Affinity Publisher version 2 has been given a complete overhaul. The available options are better organized and there are some completely new features to explore as well. Every element is optimized to enhance your productivity The 6 options inside the New File dialog box…

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4 days ago

There’s a Hidden New Tool in Affinity Publisher That Will Give You Formatting Superpowers … Here’s How to Use It

Version 2 of Affinity Publisher brought with it a completely new tool for working with Styles; the Style Picker Tool. You might have missed it since it shares space with the Colour Picker Tool in the Toolbar. If you know the Format Painter tool in Microsoft apps you’ll have an…

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5 days ago

Looking to Save Time in Affinity Publisher? Work Faster with Editable Linked Files

Working collaboratively has the benefit that you’re able to share the workload but constantly updating elements of your design in Affinity Publisher as external elements are updated is a time sucking waste of your design energy. Wouldn’t it be amazing if you were able to link to source files containing…

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6 days ago

What if Affinity Publisher Could Create Your Pages For you? It Actually Can … Here’s How

The more content you have the more pages you’ll need to create. Often you’ll be faced with laying out dozens of images, copious amounts of text or even PDF pages from other files. Doing this manually takes an age. Enter “Place Auto-flow” your automatic layout assistant Place Auto-flow is a…

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Jan 25

The Notes Feature I Waited 3 Years For … That You Can Use Today

Since Affinity Publisher was first released in 2019 there has been an outstanding feature request. Footnotes and Endnotes were inexplicably missing from version 1. …

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Jan 24

Did You Know There’s a New “Books” Feature in Affinity Publisher? Here’s What You Need to Know

Affinity Publisher facilitates the creation of documents of all sizes and types but version 2 has a dedicated feature to underpin the creation of Books. The key difference with the Books feature is that it allows the final work to be assembled from multiple separate files. …

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Jan 23

Want to Learn Affinity Publisher the Easy Way? Watch My Most Viewed Tutorials in 2022 on YouTube

Learning Affinity Publisher doesn’t have to be a challenge. Join the thousands of other who have watched my YouTube videos and mastered it in 2022 Affinity Publisher Version 2 New Features & Q&A Unsurprisingly, my most viewed video was dedicated to the new version of Affinity Publisher released in November 2022. …

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