Creating new documents

The following settings are available:

Type—Select the aim and deliverable for your project (for quickly populating settings below). As well as Print for desktop printing, Print (Press Ready) for professional CMYK printing, you can work to specific Photo print sizes, specific Web screen resolutions, and with the Device option, design to iPad, iPhone, and Nexus document specifications.
Page Size—Offers sizes for UK/US print, photos, screen use, and mobile devices.
Document Units—Displays your rulers and object dimensions in pixels, points or physical measurement units.
Colour Format—Sets the colour mode to RGB or Grey (8 or 16 bit), CMYK (8 bit), or Lab (16 bit).
Colour Profile—Sets the colour gamut for the previously chosen colour format.
Dimensions—Change the Width, Height, or DPI (resolution) values to make a custom page size. (An alternative to selecting a document Page Size above.)
Options—Tap Orientation to present your document in portrait or landscape orientation. Tap Background to set your page background to be either white or transparent.

To create a new document:

From Affinity Photo's Home screen, tap the plus icon.
Choose New Document.
Adjust above settings according to type of deliverable.
Tap OK.

To duplicate a document:

From Affinity Photo's Home screen, tap the menu icon at the bottom right of the saved document's thumbnail.
On the pop-up menu, tap Duplicate.

A duplicate of the document is placed alongside the original document on the Home screen.

Document presets

To make document setup quick and easy, one of several presets can be chosen which group recommended document setup options according to how you plan to work.

To select a preset:

From Affinity Photo's Home screen, tap the plus icon.
Choose New Document.
From the first menu, select Presets.
Select a preset from the menu below.

To customise a preset:

From Affinity Photo's Home screen, tap the plus icon.
Choose New Document.
From the first menu, select Presets.
Select Custom from the menu below.

The options will be in effect immediately.

To save as a custom preset for future use:

Tap the menu button adjacent to the second menu.
Select Create preset.

The custom preset is in effect immediately.

Document presets

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