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inpainting from current layer and below is broken in 1.6.5 AP
and while you are at it
could you please non destructive smudge which is just smudge tool with an option to sample from below??!
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4 hours ago, LCamachoDesign said:
YAY! Awesome!
I suppose mitigated means they still happen, just with a lot less frequency?
Thanks!
did not crash as it used to
but has some new visual fx
and still some inconsistency
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why you not just draw a rectangle that covers the whole canvas and then place a gradient with transparent end point in it?
no fuss
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1 hour ago, GaryLearnTech said:
Hi MBd - I know that one, but thanks anyway. (My last version of Photoshop was CS3 (from 2007, wow!), which finally gave up the ghost something like three or so years ago. I suspect the Levels trick was old even when CS3 came out.) I agree, it's a really, really useful trick – and I share your frustration that it's missing from Curves.
appreciate that
another frustration is that the preview trick of PS in the unsharp mask filter is not available in Affinity Photo (no, difference blend mode does not cut it)
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10 hours ago, harrym said:
thank you thank you thank you
just finished several hours edit session and not one crash, solid as a rock and an absolute bleedin pleasure to work with love it!!!!
what ever the heck you did you did good!
(could do with the colour picker in the curves dialogue working though but I'm sure it's in the to do list some where)
Regards
13 hours ago, Dave Quail said:Thanks Guys, appreciated! Speed and responsiveness is a great improvement!
19 hours ago, IndigoMoon said:Hey, 3.5 sec start up time for this beta! Wow, what an improvement, but I guess you've forgotten to include the debug code, right?
cheers
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when you use the levels adjustment
you press the alt key and get clipping warnings for shadows and highlights
(and you can record levels adjustment as a macro)
here is the corresponding official help file
https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Adjustments/adjustment_levels.html
not available in curves though sadly https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/22624-curves-and-blend-if-picker-size-visibility/#comment-106288
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17 minutes ago, RedGunner said:
Would be awfully kind of you if anyone could point out where the settings/preferences are saved for the beta versions of Designer/Photo.
~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner.beta/Data/Library/Application Support/user ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner.beta/Data/Library/Application Support
in finder hit cmd shift g (Go to Folder) and paste
just delete .beta or rename designer to photo to get the folders for the respective
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batch jobs can only save afphoto, jpg, png, tiff, exr
normal File>export allows more options though e.g. pdf
it just happened that I had to batch convert a bunch of svg which AP opened well but without a batch option it was not practical
please make batch jobs more full featured
(and enable parallel export)
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1 hour ago, MEB said:
This is a similar bug to one that's already logged when rotating two or more objects through the transform panel using the panel's anchor points. I believe they have the some cause. To replicate draw two objects, select both, set the anchor point to top left or something else other than center and drag the mouse over the R label in the transform panel.
They will end up out of the canvas. Curiously if you use the Rotation slider first to rotate them a little then drag the mouse over the R label, it all works as expected.
Ok
interesting
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3 minutes ago, MattP said:
They are rotated around the chosen anchor point of their starting bounding box - at least they were supposed to be anyway!?!
since I now have some more upload volume I'll use that
cheers
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- Added ability to rotate the selected nodes in the Node Tool - via the Transform panel
If you select some nodes and rotate them around a corner/ side (just not around the middle) they "move" outwards
somehow like the rotation center is recalculated all the time?
I'm not sure how this feature is expected to work but at least I did not expect it to work this way, just saying
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12 minutes ago, ronnyb said:
This is really a lame thread, I've watched this from the sidelines and can't bite my tongue anymore. Here are my 2 cents:
Affinity is not Adobe. Affinity software doesn't need to be or do everything Adobe does, even for "professionals." Last time I checked other professionals in other fields (this applies not only in a software driven profession like design/photo/illustration) I discovered something amazing!! Professionals used MULTIPLE tools to do their job.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?!
Yes that's right!! People use multiple tools to get their jobs done all over the world!! I don't think there's one professional career that requieres the use of only one tool, except smoking crack, and you still need a lighter and pipe, so that's 2 tools. And one tool DOES NOT exist which does everything for everyone. I don't see any carpenters crying that their hammer can't cut a 2x4!! You know what they do in, they use the tool that works!
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?!
And they don't expect a $50 saw to do what a $10,000 laser cuter does...
So please: stop wasting everyone's time with these useless cry-baby posts. You don't like what Affinity offers? It's not "professional" enough?! Good, that's your prerogative. You're free to go back to Adobe and pay the "professional" subscription price since you're such a "professional." The Devs will release the features in the order THEY SEE FIT, if you don't like it, GO BACK TO ADOBE AND PAY YOUR PROFESSIONAL SUBSCRIPTION!!
Do people go to homebuilders and tell them they want the roof built before the foundation?!!
Go finish your work instead of crying about a BRAND NEW TOOL THAT'S IN ITS INFANCY YET SHOWS VASTLY IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND MORE POTENTIAL than Adobe.
Seems to me that simple impatience is all that's driving these kinds of posts. The Devs have been so kind to even engage the user community directly and not be filtered through customer service as is the norm. If you can't wait for a fruit to ripen, it will never yield its delicious taste. Like the ancient Chinese used to say, "Suck it up, buttercup."
ok rant mode off
quite some truth
I'd like to add that this discussion is not only about Affinity Apps being professional or not
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but claiming features which are not yet there (marketing) and announcing features ("soon") which do not appear which now leads to the fact that you "only see the news when they are presented on apple WWDC"
and lets not forget that Affinity gets quite a bit out of these forums as well, it is not like the users are not reporting bugs/& enhancing features/ ideas / give free support
forums are a give and take and I do not think one side greatly exceeds the other here
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11 minutes ago, MattP said:
To be very clear, some of our functions are not as good as they’re going to be - but the software can legitimately make the claim ‘most precise’ as we use double precision coordinates for data and can zoom thousands of times greater than other software - this in itself backs up the claim. The vast majority of the software works correctly, manipulating and maintaining this precise data which is not found in other applications, you are just picking fault with something we’ve already publicly acknowledged is not working as we’d like and will change.
are you sure no one else is using fractions instead of doubles? (how precise are your snapping guides placed at 1/3 of the page?)
(no, I'm not 100% serious
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25 minutes ago, BatteriesInc said:
what I need is usually right on the surface or demonstrated in a Vimeo video (preferred over Youtube, but I digress)
cheers
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On 5.8.2016 at 8:59 PM, Andy Somerfield said:
Status: Beta Release
Purpose: New features, fixes, improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: 1.5 Beta 1 Here
This is an early beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it should be considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.5 cannot be opened in 1.4 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.5 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.4 version.
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
With all that said, here is a list of all the new things we can do with 1.5. This will be a fairly short beta (approx. 6 weeks) and things will likely be bad / broken for the the first week or two. After that, we expect the beta to become more stable and usable.
Please understand that all betas must start somewhere - and that they are beta for a reason!
Thanks once again for taking the time to download and use our beta
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Layer Linking [NOT IMPLEMENTED YET]Layer linking will happen in 1.5 - at the moment it is currently not exposed in this beta. Look out for it soon though - it should set the benchmark for how linked layers should work in a raster editor.. More on this soon!Thanks again for taking the time to use this beta!Affinity Photo Teamare linked layers deprecated? (they are apparently not on the roadmap anymore)
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/45227-promised-and-forgotten/#comment-227449
hope I'm missing something... ?!
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yeah I'll adjust accordingly once scripting is available and make the tests cover much more
Hopefully they will add scripting in Haskell, otherwise you just can not make sure there are no side effects harming your measurement
it is not on the 1.x roadmap though afaik
where is linked layer btw? disappeared from the roadmap like magic...
"Surprisingly, the macro took much longer to run on the beta than it did on whichever retail version I was using back in January when I reported my results in that topic (well over 16 minutes vs. around 9.5 minutes)."
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On 16.8.2017 at 2:48 PM, MattP said:
We're obviously trying our best to give you a seamless experience and the best results on both operating systems... but I'll say that we develop 'Mac first' with all future updates and the products were initially developed and designed for Mac. Also, the next update (1.6) will come with a very fast new document view that makes use of Metal on macOS so it's even faster than before... If I had to decide one way or the other, I'd personally go with Mac (but then, I've not touched a Windows machine in about 7 years, so....)
I do not think this statement is worth the rant after that and does not do the windows team justice
at the moment their beta may face some stability issues and windows has a much broader set of configurations which leads to more possible errors but I've had Affinity Photo Trial running on a CoreQuad and had about the same speed as a DualCore 2017 MacBook,
also a Ryzen Octacore is at the moment probably the fastest configuration which also comes with a very reasonable price tag and trumps every more expensive Mac
here is some data to put performance into perspective
I do not personally use windows either but this is not because of performance
Affinity will be faster on a equally expensive windows config
the lack of optimization is more than rectified by other parts available on the market (I would not even say that the optimization is worse, it has just a much more wide spread than on mac)
the iPad version has the best performance by a huge margin (compared to processing power/ GHz/ Cores) which is actually faster than an 4GHz i7 Quadcore iMac)
Affinity Photo Customer Beta - 1.6.5 (Beta 5)
in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on macOS threads
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@Andy Somerfield are linked layers deprecated for V1.x?
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/45521-v1xyz-no-linked-layers/
They are no longer on the roadmap but were said to appear in 1.5
"Layer linking will happen in 1.5 - at the moment it is currently not exposed in this beta. Look out for it soon though"
thanks