- Opening InDesign Files in Affinity Publisher has to be done in a different way until there is an official importer. Until then, you can use the method outlin.
- Edit your photos and images with Adobe Photoshop, the best photo and design editor. Enhance images anywhere when you purchase or try a free trial today.
- Since winning the Apple Design Award in 2015, Affinity Designer has continued to grow in popularity. If you haven’t tried it, you don’t know what you’re missing. Easy to learn and a joy to use, discover how this modestly priced drawing program can have a massive impact.
Free video tutorials, articles and tips to help artists, illustrators, photographers, graphic designers—or anyone—learn Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher.
Three award-winning apps every creative professional should have
Affinity Designer was created to thrive on the electric pace of the latest computing hardware. Live, responsive and incredibly fluid, it’s simply a joy to use. + Pan and zoom at 60fps.
Whether it’s retouching photos, laying out a magazine designing a logo, brochure, book cover, website — or just about anything for print, screen, or web… the Affinity Suite is all you need. If your work involves any or all of those things, then you’re probably an illustrator, photographer, graphic designer or production artist.
Before my last job, I worked as a production artist and graphic designer for over ten years and used Adobe’s Photoshop, Illustrator and
Increasingly, creative professionals around the world are using the Affinity suite for all their work. If you haven’t heard of these remarkable applications or have only recently discovered them, then the video tutorials from YouTube will help you get started.
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Affinity Designer
Since winning the Apple Design Award in 2015, Affinity Designer has continued to grow in popularity. If you haven’t tried it, you don’t know what you’re missing. Easy to learn and a joy to use, discover how this modestly priced drawing program can have a massive impact on your vector and raster artwork and creativity.
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Affinity Publisher
Design beautiful layouts, create master pages and use a baseline grid. With comprehensive support for open type fonts, you can create text styles, precisely track and
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Affinity Photo
Increasingly, creative professionals around the world are using Affinity Photo to deliver flawless photo retouching or image manipulation. With Affinity Photo’s raw camera file support, non-destructive live filter layers, processing speed and precision, you can understand why.
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Keyboard shortcuts are one of the main ways you can boost your productivity and build a more fluid way of working. In this short article, you’ll be able to display, download, customise and print out the very latest keyboard shortcuts for Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher, on macOS, iPad and Windows platforms.
Affinity Designer keyboard shortcuts
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- macOS keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- Windows keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- iPad keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
German
- macOS keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- Windows keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- iPad keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
Affinity Photo keyboard shortcuts
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- macOS keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- Windows keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- iPad keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
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Affinity Designer Vs Adobe Indesign
- macOS keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- Windows keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- iPad keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
Affinity Publisher keyboard shortcuts
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- macOS keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- Windows keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
Affinity Designer Vs Publisher
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- macOS keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
- Windows keyboard shortcuts (.pdf)
Customisable cheat sheets
If you like creating your own personalised shortcuts but maybe need a helping hand to remember your key assignments, feel free to customise our original Designer files to suit you. Why not print out or create PDFs of your own sheets?
Remember that you can open the files and edit them in Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher too! To navigate between pages, use the Page Locator at the bottom left of the app.
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- macOS Designer shortcuts (.afdesign)
- Windows Designer shortcuts (.afdesign)
- iPad Designer shortcuts (.afdesign)
- macOS Photo shortcuts (.afdesign)
- Windows Photo shortcuts (.afdesign)
- iPad Photo shortcuts (.afdesign)
- macOS Publisher shortcuts (.afdesign)
- Windows Publisher shortcuts (.afdesign)
German
- macOS Designer shortcuts (.afdesign)
- Windows Designer shortcuts (.afdesign)
- iPad Designer shortcuts (.afdesign)
- macOS Photo shortcuts (.afdesign)
- Windows Photo shortcuts (.afdesign)
- iPad Photo shortcuts (.afdesign)
- macOS Publisher shortcuts (.afdesign)
- Windows Publisher shortcuts (.afdesign)
Other shortcut resources
The printed Affinity Workbooks offer the same shortcuts as above as tearout inserts at the back of the book. As they’re printed on card, you can place them on a document holder or on your wall for easy reference.
If you prefer the keyboard shortcuts in traditional table format instead, please visit the app help accessible via the app’s Help Menu, then search for keyboard shortcuts.
**Article updated for iPad cheat sheets (PDF and .afdesign) (26 Feb 2020)