The Future Of Affinity Has Arrived – And It Is A Little Underwhelming

October 30, 2025 John - Gentleman CrafterLeave a comment

The other day I wrote a blog post about the buzz surrounding changes at Affinity. Well, the wait is over. What was all the excitement about? A lot if you are part of the marketing team at Affinity.

Affinity now has a new logo, oh, and they have decided to give the software away for free. Well, mostly free, for everyone, forever. Not entirely sure why but, there you have it.

Anyway, in the spirit of “full-circle” and closing off the question that I asked the other day, let’s have a quick look.

The Future of Affinity Designer – What We Know So Far (Hint, It’s Not Much).

October 19, 2025 John - Gentleman Crafter5 Comments

For those of you that use Affinity Designer to create your SVG cut files, you may have noticed the “buzz” around the date, 30th October.

Why? Well, no-one seems to know, so here is a bit of a potted history of the journey so far to see if we can figure it out …

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Creating SVG Cutting Files In Serif Craft Artist For Use With The Brother Scan N Cut

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 John - Gentleman Crafter27 Comments

Did you know that you can create SVG cutting files from the embellishments in your Daisy Trail digi kits from Serif Craft Artist?

Well, you can! This video post will give you a brief how-to, and also how to import it into Brother Scan N Cut Canvas however if you are a Silhouette or Cricut user then the first part will still relate to any cutting software that can accept SVG cutting files.

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Creating A Geometric Design In Serif Craft Artist

February 19, 2014February 19, 2014 John - Gentleman Crafter62 Comments

I find creating geometric patterns in Serif Craft Artist very easy. I have had a couple of questions in recently asking if I could create a video on how I do this.

I don’t actually have the facility to do this right now however I though that it would be easy enough to explain how to do this with step by step screen shots – so that’s what I did. I hope that this helps those of you that were curious …