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Open Affinity Designer, and create a new document by clicking Cmd + N (Mac) or Ctrl + N (Windows). Alternatively, you can go to “Menu” → “File” → “New”. Be sure not to check the “Create Artboard” box. Set the type to “Web”, which will automatically set the field DPI to 72. Affinity Photo Free Grunge Brushes. 7 FREE Brushes for Affinity Photo. Vintage Lines Vector Brushes (Free) inkBrush Vector Paint Sample Set (Free) Textured Vector Brushes for Affinity Designer ($6) Pigmento Daub Brushes (€7.99) Affinity Halftone Brushes ($8) Affinity Designer Brush Sampler Pack ($9) ⭐ Get 20% off at RetroSupply with the. Affinity Designer Best in class for creating concept art, print projects, logos, icons, UI designs, mock-ups and more, our powerful design app is already the choice of thousands of professional illustrators, web designers and game developers who love its silky-smooth combination of vector and raster design tools. Was $49.99 Now only $24.99.

As a way to lend support to the creative community during these difficult times, we’re once again offering a 90-day free trial of the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite, for anyone who wants to use them (even those who have previously completed a free trial). We’re also bringing back the 50% discount for those who would prefer to buy and keep the apps, including our iPad versions.

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Find out more about Affinity apps on Big Sur

In other news…

our apps are fully optimized for the next generation of Mac

Ready to go on Apple’s Big Sur and primed to deliver superfast performance on Macs with M1 chips, recent updates to the macOS versions of our apps mean huge performance gains.

Learn more about Apple and Affinity updates

Download the very latest keyboard shortcuts for Affinity apps to view, print or customise.

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)

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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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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)

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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)

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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)

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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.

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**Article updated for iPad cheat sheets (PDF and .afdesign) (26 Feb 2020)

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