Affinity Publisher: Taking control of color halftone
Recently Serif released version 2 of their Adobe alternative “Affinity”. I’ve personally been a long-time fan of Affinity Designer, and when the whole Publisher/Designer/Photo package came out with a fixed discount (still valid til January 25 2023!) price it was a no-brainer for me to jump right in!
I recently started selling some of my designs via Spreadshirt and stumbled upon the issue of t-shirt designs not being approved because of color fades, which was part of my background of one of my more recent designs:
early edit of my ‘corporate scum’ t-shirt design.
I really like to be in control of every aspect of my designs. For those who are used to make color halftones via photoshop or the likes, know that the results are often not real-time editable, but in Affinity Photo this can be achieved with ‘live effects’, which is basically like Adobe Illustrator’s live effects, but for rasterized graphics…
Aaaany way *sigh* This made me experiment with a workflow, which takes place in Affinity Publisher, while utilizing the functionalities of both Photo and Designer.
The result can be seen here and the design got accepted quite fast afterwards.
Instead of writing too much, I’ve created a Publisher file you can use for reference. You can always try out the Affinity package before buying, but if you’re into graphic design for print I highly recommend spending some time on this piece of software. You can some demos of me editing the file here:
If you have downloaded the software, you can go ahead and get the publisher file below:
