The actual dimensions of this paper is 331x305mm. I am using the square Hahnemühle 12x12” content paper, giving ample space to photos in both portrait and landscape orientation. While InDesign may be a bit more powerful, I went for Affinity Publisher, since it ticked all the boxes for me, at a fraction of the costs (at the time of writing, InDesign costs $ 20.99 per month, while Affinity Publisher comes at $49,99 for a permanent license).īefore starting to layout, it is necessary to configure the document and spread parameters in Affinity Publisher, which was fairly straight forward. Scribus was lacking in the color management area, but Adobe InDesign and Affinity Publisher both fulfilled all my requirements. So next I looked at desktop publishing software, concretely Adobe InDesign, Scribus and Affinity Publisher. Also saving pages would have been quite troublesome. My first try was with Adobe Lightroom, however their book printing does not support custom formats, and their normal printing function only has mediocre support of text elements. Support of color management and the ProPhoto color space.Be able to save the whole book and come back to make changes later.
Affinity photo books software#
My requirements for the layouting/printing software were the following: I chose Affinity Publisher to design and print my portfolio. In this article I will describe my workflow for printing the portfolio, and show you some photos of the finished product. For future projects I will choose another of the options listed in my first article on the subject. Unfortunately Hahnemühle has in the meantime stopped making those prepared papers, but I was able to secure enough stock to finish my portfolio.
The custom-made leather album from Heiner Hauck was still waiting for me, as was a stack of Hahnemühle’s prepunched and prescored Photo Rag Duo paper. Unfortunately a lot of other projects stalled my progress and only now, under the third Corona-lockdown here in Austria, I have been able to pick up where I left back then. It is still the standard.Book Printing with Affinity Publisher and the PRO-1000Īlmost two years ago, I started preparations for printing my first self-printed portfolio. But I have to say I genuinely respect the skills of PS users. My son who used the Adobe Suite in his business for years switched to Affinity recently. Part of the technological maturing process I think we see at Microsoft and in hardware at Intel. (pun intended) But I also am aware that Adobe has had its troubles lately and seems to be caught in the cycle of overly complex development to hang on to their income stream. I can well understand that highly skilled PS people won't settle for anything less - I would be the same if I had had an affinity for for it. So I have settled for Affinity Photo and the obviously lesser Pixelmator for my photos. In contrast, Corel Draw, an early vector graphics program, was remarkably easy for me to learn. I'm generally good with learning computer programs, but I always found PS opaque. I'm an old film photographer who never could get into PS. I see there are quite strong opinions both ways for PD and AP - not surprising.
Affinity photo books Patch#
Serif has published patch notes for macOS and Windows that go into further detail. The major optimizations include memory management in Affinity Publisher, the rendering engine in Affinity Designer and layer efficiency in Affinity Photo.
Affinity photo books update#
Serif calls Affinity 1.10 its biggest performance update ever and that because the improvements are being made to the core codebase, all users will benefit.
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