Everything you need to know to get started with Affinity Designer for ANY laser. If you can't afford the expensive subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud then Affinity Designer is a great alternative for vector editing outside of your laser software. In this video we take you step by step through the basics of creating laser friendly artwork with this inexpensive alternative. While it's missing some features that we'd really like to see added it's still a capable and useful tool. Check it out, and enjoy!

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