Reid Walley June 10 2022

Graphic designer since before the Internet. Started with newspaper paste-up; then art director for advertising agency in Reno, NV; and now freelancer designing marketing materials, print-on-demand t-shirt art, websites, and social media graphics.

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Designing & Optimizing Preview Images for Social Media Sharing

ByReid Walley

Three examples of Bitcoin t-shirt “preview” images for when WooCommerce products are shared on social media. Yoast SEO‘s WordPress plugin makes these images easy to attach to each product. Model t-shirt mockups (with transparent background) generated with Printful‘s Design Maker. Layout using Affinity Designer. Final designs exported from Affinity Designer to JPEG format with Quality…

Affinity Designer – Convert Hi-Resolution Vector Art to Web-Resolution PNG File

Affinity Designer – Convert Hi-Resolution Vector Art to Web-Resolution PNG File

ByReid Walley

While this post shows how to export high resolution in Affinity Designer, it is specifically about transforming tall 12″ X 16″ 300dpi high-resolution t-shirt vector art into square 300px X 300px 72ppi low-resolution PNG graphic for the Web (while maintaining the best quality at the smaller 300px 72ppi size). NOTE: the first step, “Make dimensions…

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How to Edit Text to get a Warp Effect With Affinity Designer – David Allen

ByReid Walley

The goal is to make vertical text on a curved path. But since Affinity Designer doesn’t have a straight-forward way of accomplishing this effect we need to jump through a few hoops: Starting in Affinity Designer Making text outlined Switching to Affinity Photo and using the Warp Tool Switching back to Affinity Designer Warnings: Converting…

Convert PSD/PNG File to Vector File
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Convert PSD/PNG File to Vector File

ByReid Walley

Converting a PSD/PNG file to Vector Have old Photoshop (PSD) and PNG files that need to be converted to vector so I can manipulate them in Affinity Designer. Commenter recommend Convertio. The following process gave me a vector file that’s really close to final. Upload Photoshop PSD/PNG file to Convertio In the “to” dropdown, choose:…

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Affinity Designer – Perspective Distort Vector Art

ByReid Walley

The goal was to distort the perspective of vector art in Affinity Designer. Unfortunately, the Distort Perspective tool is only available in Affinity Photo (which transforms the original vector art into raster art). This is not ideal. I wanted to distort the perspective of vector art like I could in Adobe Illustrator, not end up…

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