You are welcome Alfred,

Next Sunday there will be another great webinar about "Working with Images".

I am looking forward to it because I learn a lot from Elaine her webinars.

Thank you, Chris. I’m always glad to see you here.

For what little it’s worth, I’ve never understood Serif’s Canva’s decision to use Discord for customer support. From what I’ve read, it’s primarily designed for gamers to chat to each other.

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You’re right, as usual! Since Serif is owned by Canva but seems to be semiautonomous, I find it hard to avoid conflating the two entities.

Thanks for the tip, Ali. I shall try to bear it in mind if I ever get past my aversion to the idea of using that particular platform.

Agree wholeheartedly with Bad Wolf's view. Elaine Giles' tutorials cover so much ground, explaining things clearly and taking the time to do so. While you might not think you want to produce "fun & games" puzzles in Affinity, or photobooks, or church newsletters (all recent subjects), the fact of the matter is that each session contains so many hints and advice on how best to utilise Affinity tools that all the videos are very worth watching.

Thank you all for your interesting replies. Elaine Giles is indeed an excellent teacher and what she teach can be applied in our daily design work.

I suggest, everyone starting with Affinity, should watch her live/replay tutorials. By doing so, you put a very strong foundation on using Affinity.

Very good idea Ali, it is a very educational channel. Always something new to learn. At the end of each live tutorial is a Q&A section where Elaine is answering questions from members.

In the Working With Images session, I particularly liked the section on creating a Table of Illustrations as a separate entity from a Table of Contents (chapters). I had more or less worked out how to do this, but Elaine's session gave me some validation that I was doing the right thing and some useful pointers, which I've elaborated on.

The advanced custom picture frames section was also very useful, together with the demonstration of using Pinning.

As usual, Elaine's videos cover such a wide area of tips and tricks on how best to use Affinity.

Elaine is a very good teacher - I like her style (it's very similar to my own - I was a teacher for over thirty years and Head of Department for ten of them). The pace is just right - you can work along with her easily if you have a dual monitor set-up - and she breaks everything down into very clearly defined steps. It's all very well thought out - she'd get 10/10 from me for her lesson planning!

For everyone interested, here is the link to the “Master Pages” webinar on Sunday, 22 February 2026 at 3:00 PM UK / 4:00 PM CET:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwNJEsAtCA4

This will undoubtedly be a very interesting and educational webinar.

Kind regards,
Chris

Thank you Alfred for the international times.

Kind regards,

Chris

Last week, Elaine mentioned the sudden increase in viewers. We both did a great job!

It is important that truly educational channels like Elaine’s remain visible among all the noise on YouTube. That is why our support for her channel matters.

Kind regards,
Chris