Batch Export Multiple Files with Affinity Designer

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4 жыл бұрын

In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how to batch export multiple files at once, in a variety of different formats, using Affinity Designer’s Batch Persona.
This is a feature Illustrator has that I’ve always enjoyed using, and it’s great for when you’re finalizing a logo design and need to generate a variety of different formats and color variations. Normally, you would have to save/export each of those files one-by-one, but a batch export feature allows you to get it all done in one shot.
If you want to learn more about logo design, be sure to check out my Logo Design Academy - an interactive 18-part video course where you will learn my entire creative process for coming up with logo ideas and implementing them: logosbynick.com/learn/
Intro song: "In Da Mood" by Combustibles, used with written permission

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@glenferris3071 4 жыл бұрын

Just purchased Affinity Designer as I didn’t want a subscription to Adobe. Your Inkscape tutorials are awesome - so pleased you have started Affinity Designer content - keep ‘em coming!

@Locker666332 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the Affinity Designer content!

@sdesign5346 4 жыл бұрын

Just some tips... 1. Instead of using Artboard, we can just create Slices in Export Persona... 2. We can select multiple Layers/Slices at once with Shift key to pasting export format for faster workflow... 3. Affinity can automatically create folder path, just expand the Slices and u will find Path setting | thanks to @Piotrek... And great tutorial as always :)

@SHA256HASH 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That was infinitely helpful!

@littlewins1111 10 күн бұрын

Nick you’re a lifesaver. About to save hours tonight. Thank you for this content ❤

@roraraptor 4 жыл бұрын

New Affinity Designer user here: Definitely interested in more videos about this software!

@ChrisB_NC 3 жыл бұрын

This video literally almost made me cry! I watched the entire video with my jaw hanging open! I am a self taught novice at vector graphic design, and I have been using Inkscape for years. Although not as elegantly as you, I create multiple versions of a file and export it to multiple file versions. This usually takes hours!! You did it in ten minutes. I am absolutely blown away. I am going to have to make the switch to Affinity Designer. Thank you so much Nick for what you do. You dedicate a lot of time and energy to making us better designers, and I greatly appreciate it.

@JIng1es 4 жыл бұрын

Another great video as always! One of your prior videos actually prompted me to pick up Affinity Designer. It didn't hurt that it was also on sale. Keep the Affinity tutorials coming! Great stuff!

@ClydeAGlide 2 жыл бұрын

This video saved me hours of saving files out. Also just bought Affinity Designers today for the CMYK due to your recommendations on getting my inkscape vectors ready for print.

@maenalambrecht2036 3 жыл бұрын

This is going to CHANGE my life! Thank you so much, the exporting process is so tedious without this technic, i'm gonna be so much more efficient !

@cmdaltctr 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this tutorial - it works! If anyone has problem when you see that the artboard you created is empty, it just means you cannot grouped them. The icons/images/etc needs to be singular, on a plain background. Then each of them becomes its own artboard. In the export persona, you can select one, pick the setting > copy to clipboard. Then shift click all of them (that you want to export) > paste setting. Then export! Yay!

@raymondgotauco4168 4 жыл бұрын

I love this channel. Thank you so much for the content. And I am excited to follow your Affinity series. Great!!! Thank you for choosing Affinity as a next possible step. It’s so good.

@GatoL0c0 4 жыл бұрын

I purchased the Affinity suite last week and I have decided fully switched over from Inkscape. I do miss some of the tools like envelope distortion in Inkscape but Affinity feels more refined and I'm liking it's tool set much more. I just found out about Affinity Designer's amazing isometric cube tools, I'm sure you know of it by now. I am looking forward to more Affinity tutorials as I'm a fan of your Inkscape tutorials!

@katherineolsenmartins7564 19 күн бұрын

Oh goodness… you just saved me HOURS! Thank you!

@letianzhiminggubuyou 4 жыл бұрын

Love to watch your videos. You make very inspirational tutorials.

@flwi 4 жыл бұрын

Wow - great tutorial. This software is so feature rich that it needs tutorials like this to discover those gems.

@adnans3127 4 жыл бұрын

Just a tip, you can use Ctrl+K to find it in the layers! It'll highlight that layer for you

@aleale11000 4 жыл бұрын

Just another tip: You can go to: Preferences > User Interface > Show Selection in Layers Panel. That’s it, every selected object will show up in the Layers Panel.

@adnans3127 4 жыл бұрын

@@aleale11000 Thanks!

@hughesjf 4 жыл бұрын

OK, Nick. I'm hooked. More tutorials on both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, please. Lot's more! Hopefully you'll do a full course, similar to your excellent Inkscape Coures. I can't wait.

@samanthacurley 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant Tutorial, saved me loads of time exporting now!

@ColdChills01 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice and the first video about Affinity I'm loving it! Thank you 😃 I'm learning 👍🏾

@eddiejr 4 жыл бұрын

I love your Inkscape and Affinity Designer videos !!!!

@szymondalagopisz7878 4 жыл бұрын

Huge thank you fot your work, Nick! What a great video!!!

@YammyBoh7 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Nick! Looking forward to more Affinity content!

@PhilAllamong 4 жыл бұрын

A great understandable explanation of the export persona. Thanks!!

@denggomez8697 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nick. Great tutorial!

@powawowah 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoying the channel (which I only recently discovered) very interested to see you re-visit past inkscape tutorials and attempt to do them again with Designer

@mo-compwarnworker-beware1507 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for making this video - extremely helpful. :)

@sachindeshpande1 4 жыл бұрын

I discovered this feature day before yesterday which I liked very much. I think scripting support will be great feature in ADesigner.

@justanoob111 4 жыл бұрын

yes please for the Affinity tutorials! best teacher ever

@AlexEgiyan 4 жыл бұрын

More videos about affinity please! This one was super useful thanks

@elenatres 3 жыл бұрын

Super helpful video, thank you!

@talhamuneer2599 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing Tutorial! ❤️

@mfrazeehvacc5012 2 жыл бұрын

This tutorial will save me many hours!!!! of exporting

@_vikramhegde_ 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome ! Looking forward to more affinity content .

@inventify_club 4 жыл бұрын

thanks for affinity tutorials

@my_yt_ Жыл бұрын

Tip for unchecking (radio buttons now in V2 as of today) or checking all Slices in Slices tab at once. First, Click top Slice in list, Shift-click bottom Slice (or last you want) in list. Then, click on the, for example, top Slice item's checkbox (again, now a radio button or round circle with a dot in it). Also, this works with the Export Format (e.g. .jpg, .pdf, etc. related settings.) As of February 2, 2023.

@markshirley01 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks that's great - I've just started with the Affinity trio of software. I was trying to export a graphic the other day which had a gradient in it EPS just couldn't do it - but high quality PDF did.

@mchief4487 4 жыл бұрын

Nick, you're Awesome.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 4 жыл бұрын

How does this compare to the Export Layer Slices feature in Inkscape?

@eliseb8042 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Nick! How do you set your canvas up to successfully action the above and ensure that your logos are the correct size for exporting for all file types? Thank you :)

@MrinmoyHazarika 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorial

@blue-moon-novelas 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Nick... I’m really new in this design world... I’m enjoying all your videos and learning from them. I’m wondering if you can teach us please how to make a postal with for example a cup of coffee or something for a birthday... I’m using gimp and testing Inkscape that I’m knowing thanks to you 😊.... thank you for your work. Regards from Colombia.

@FrewzD 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Nick, great video. Is it better to have a transparent background when exporting?

@starskynder 4 жыл бұрын

Very useful thanks!

@TheLway123 2 жыл бұрын

This was so helpful. I did everything but my graphics did not export clearly and I made sure my dpi is 300. Any idea why my graphics aren't as clear after exporting?

@EricV051174 4 жыл бұрын

Hi. I've got a slight problem: When I open Inkscape, it shows me a pop-up which says "The preferences file C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\preferences.xml is not a valid XML document. Inkscape will run with default settings, and new settings will not be saved." How can this be fixed?

@lordz00 Жыл бұрын

thanks a lot for help!

@richardlinakus3950 4 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to more Inkscape content.

@whiteox9088 4 жыл бұрын

Great work Nick. More AD please. Still love Inkscape too. Can you do one for exporting for a screen printing setup. Like color seperated document export.

@jegkompletson1698 4 жыл бұрын

A week and already Nick is a pro. how

@KINGDOMPRENUERS 3 жыл бұрын

You need a Udemy Channel if you don't have one I enjoyed this tutorial thank you for taking the time out to teach us this lesson.

@johannlatsky7389 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Nick, will you be creating more Affinity Designer content? Really would like to see more of this...

@longroth4882 4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure Nick knows this, but for anyone new to Affinity Designer... With the selection tool, click off the canvas, select the "document setup" tab below the top toolbar, in the setup box click the "color" tab and check the "Transparent background". When you close the box you'll have a standard checkerboard background where you can see white objects, the background will still export as transparent.

@sixtentotzek8369 Жыл бұрын

Is there a way to export all images together in one file (JPEG)? Thanks you😊

@i.m4531 3 жыл бұрын

could you explain the difference between SVG and SVG for export?

@janusnowak3268 4 жыл бұрын

Affinity Designer content

@VeerMaharaj Жыл бұрын

So if you put a name like Lockup/Logodesign Mono for the artboard names, it will automatically create a folder called Lockup and put the Logodesign Mono.png file there. I just discovered this by accident. I think its a bug, but you can use it like a feature.

@gabrieltoma9057 Жыл бұрын

Great Video! The png file is not so clear, it shows some pixels I don't know why. Thanks for the video

@joseluisblasco4993 4 жыл бұрын

thanks a lot, it is not so easy to find good tutorials on affinity. Most are just... well bad. Thanks Nick!

@richardhead8264 4 жыл бұрын

_Hi Nick, although we can see which items you designated as _*_Full Lockup_*_ and _*_Wordmark,_*_ can you explain what these terms mean? Thanks!_ 👍🏼

@knukkls 4 жыл бұрын

He does this at 1:09

@stevengpeacock1 2 жыл бұрын

Can you export multiple Affinity documents to JPEG at the same time, without exporting them one by one ?

@antiquemacabre 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the super useful tutorial! Erm ... any chance you might be doing a series of Affinity Designer tutorials either on here or on your website? I would be all over that. I just found AD a couple of days ago, and am already in love with it. Cheers!

@LogosByNick 4 жыл бұрын

I'll be doing occasional Affinity tutorials in the future. I'm still learning, but I'll share interesting features that I find along the way like in this vid.

@antiquemacabre 4 жыл бұрын

@@LogosByNick That's great to hear! It's funny; your smoke brush tutorial was the first GIMP tutorial I ever watched and followed along with, and now you introduced me to AD with your "Should Adobe Be Worried" video. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge! 🤍

@Ziplock9000 2 жыл бұрын

If you try this with nested groups (nothing fancy) the Artboard is made in very unpredictable place in the root. So this can't be used as a generic tool for multiple exports

@mardanafin 9 ай бұрын

Can we export 2 artboard to 1 pdf file? page 1 and page 2 become 1 file pdf

@zacharymorritt 3 жыл бұрын

If anyone is annoyed by the white background from the artboards, you can change that in the settings by doing Edit > Preferences > User Interfaces > Artboard Background Grey Level. All you have to do is bring it down to match Background Grey Level.

@xkaku9072 4 жыл бұрын

Does Inkscape have an extension for saving multiple pdf*? And can Affinity add an extension

@llamabean529 4 жыл бұрын

You can batch export png files also as a zip file

@Siamildesain 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@rimaaktar1532 4 жыл бұрын

Please make a scrivus tutorial.

@kinfso8691 4 жыл бұрын

should i get this software

@gabrielsilvaguedes 4 жыл бұрын

yes.

@DTheName 4 жыл бұрын

If you have the money and don't mind spending it on Affinity Designer. Yes :)

@fatihnri2484 4 жыл бұрын

50 bucks for a lifetime won't hurt that bad.

@jbaatstudio7093 4 жыл бұрын

Cool

@ADOBIGRAPHICS 4 жыл бұрын

Good

@mchief4487 4 жыл бұрын

Pls do more affinity designer

@TerenceKearns 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man, it was SO ANNOYING that they moved the slices area into a tab and then selected LAYERS by default. I didn't notice the change and could not for the life of me find the EXPORT button.