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Hello
 
I teach post-processing of digital photos to beginners in a French photo club. So far, our teaching was based on Photoshop and I wonder if the time has not come to switch to Affinity Photo, so as to operate on a simpler but yet very powerful software. I know that quite a lot of video tutorials already exist which potentially should be helpful to beginners, but all of them are English-speaking, and thus, sadly, nearly useless to most of our French ears (by the way, I apologize for my possibly approximate English).
 
So I'm trying to find out how our beginners could find their way into the software and, for that purpose, I try to follow the same path as we did with Photoshop and I list the things that seem odd to me in the software. I give below a first list of these remarks. I am using v1.5.1 on Mac OS. 
 
Preferences :
—   in color preferences, the option Warn when assigning working profile to unprofiled files does not work, there is never a warning
—    the Artboard Background Gray Level slider does not work
—    the choice of the language works for the software only, not for the online manual (which remains in French for me and which refuses to pass in English)
Colours
—   in the slider display, logically, the Granger chart should not be affected by the Saturation slider in HSL mode
—    I am puzzled by the logic of the small reset button, just at the bottom left of the foreground / background patchs (instead of the black/white reset button in Photoshop). It removes any color information in a tool like the brush. What good is it for?
—   when working with the brush, one can pick a color from the image through an ALT-click on the image. However, the software is not very responsive and sometimes the ALT-click has to be repeated several times. Also, it would be nice if the ALT key could temporarily replace the brush circle with the color picker icon.
—   In the Fill dialog box, it would be nice if a click on the custom colour plot automatically activated the Custom Colour option.
 
Selection brush tool : why not add a feather option ? Since the shortcut CTRL+ALT+click-and-drag (Mac OS) is already implemented for the size, it could also control the feather.
 
Infos panel :  length and position information can be displayed either in pixels or in cm (depending on the choice in the options of the Main tool). However, curiously, when you choose "cm" and draw a rectangular selection, the position of the starting point is displayed in cm, but the width and height remain in px.
 
Hoping these remarks could be dealt with in the next upgrade.
Charles

I second that. After 2 days of researching After Effects alternatives in a strong desire to use something different for my 2D vector animations, I ended up falling back to AE simply because there is no real alternative that's able to do even basic shape morphing (tweening) properly outside the Adobe ecosystem.
 
Serif, please consider buying vpaint.org and transforming it into a real motion graphics product! (Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with VPaint whatsoever, but it consistently showed up in my research in the last couple of days as something I'd want to use; it's way too simplistic now as a product, but its shape interpolation technology is state-of-the-art research as of 2015 so it solves the single biggest challenge in vector animation software IMO).
 
So forget about video effects and compositing – I'm talking simple, effective vector animation à la Tumult Hype, but with advanced shape morphing as in VPaint.

There is indeed a real consumer demand for an alternative to After Effects especially for Motion Graphics type of job (for editing and compositing there are a lot of options). A lot of pros tired of AE.  

Hello forum and dear Affinity Team  ;)
 
Congratulations to your great software, I realy love it and it's the first time I didn't touched Photoshop and Illustrator since 1 month.
And...I'm looking forward to never touch it again  :P
 
So here's my question: Is there any chance that I can leave After Effects untouched in the near future?
Your software is very great, fast and reliable. Would be so great to put all this experience in a replacement for After Effects written by Serif.
 
Thank you
Pete

Hi,

This is something that has been requested before, but we have no plans to create something like it at the moment.

J

 

And even these official announcements were correct:
                         
 
 
 
Hoping this is their correct information:
 

Hi,
 
With Affinity working on a D.A.M, Publisher and iOS versions I don't think were going to see anything else for a long while especially with a BETA version expected late next year and more updates for Designer and Photo.
 
What you can do though is use Affinity Designer to create slides for Keynote (or PP if you wanna use that). In this short tutorial there is walkthrough for this workflow.
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouK5s88sJFg
 
 
Allan

Hi Anne,
 
Hopefully this helps, it's a very simple snowflake in a few steps. I haven't written every single step but you should hopefully be able to follow along from the screenshots. There are many ways this could be achieved and variations, play around with it and share your results.
 
​1- Use a star shape and adjust the settings as in screenshot 
 

 
2- Use the rounded rectangle tool to create a line that will go down the middle (adjust settings)
 

 
3- Duplicate shapes (CMD + J) and rotate into place
 

 
4- Again duplicate one of those lines and make them smaller and move in to place
 

 
5- Repeat and move shapes into place and then groups these together in the layers panel (CMD + G)
 

 
6- Duplicate this group and rate and put in place. There you are a simple snowflake
 

 
 
 
Allan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Can you please check if you have the View Quality set to Bilinear (Best Quality) in Affinity Photo ▸ Preferences..., Performance tab?

Hi Folks, here are four fairly simple brushes (3 rows, pen style). Enjoy if you like it.
 
preview:

 
download:
Pen-Brushes-1.afbrushes.zip

Hey guys, because the comunity in the Facebook Group helped me a lot i decided to give you some resources i've created.
This pack contains: 
- 3 custom ribbons
- twitter, facebook and youtube title picture templates
- 1 grass brush
- 5 Smoke Brushes
- an awesome color palette for flat ui design
 
You can use it private and commercial, more informations and credits are as a pages and docx file in the pack.
 
Sorry for my bad englisch im just a student from germany
cheers and have a nice day
 
Affinity Designer Pack.zip