Andy05
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1 hour ago, FFrancois said:
Hello everybody,
Since a very very long time, I’m looking for a method to realize the page curl. Unfortunately, I did’nt find a solution ... especially for beginners. Strange that with photoshop, Gimp, Coreldraw, etc ... nobody seems to have problems with it ... - To-day, on Youtube, I discovered a video treating the « problem ». Studying that video several times, I’ve been that disappointed, because there’s no vocal explanations, and only, - let’s say-, music ...
If interested : (title:) Page Turn Curl Effect in Affinity Photo .
The video lasts approx 3 minutes, so not enough to follow the rather quick steps. It’s a pity that Affinity doesn’t make easy what others do.Maybe someone will be able to come to a result !?
Best greetings.
Why don't you just follow along any random tutorial for all the other apps, which you mentioned? As the steps are the same in Affinity.
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1 hour ago, RNKLN said:
Not sure if I understand this correctly, but on my Mac, when I used CTRL and SHIFT when moving node handles, they move simultaneously. E.g. when I move one of them to make a curve wider, the other one moves in the opposite direction symmetrically.
At least on Windows, this doesn't work alike. It only limits the movement of the handles to steps of 45°. But if I move one handle away from it's source node, the other handle isn't moving the same distance. Actually, I didn't notice any different behaviour using [Ctrl]+[Shift] or [Shift] alone. Does [Crtl] have any effect in this case at all (on Windows systems)?
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54 minutes ago, Dazmondo77 said:
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proper vectorbrush using pressureThat's causing the same trouble here, too. In both, Designer and Photo.
OS: Windows 10, tablet is HUION NEW 1060PLUS with 8k levels of pressure sensitivity. System and all drivers are up-to-date.
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49 minutes ago, Dazmondo77 said:
I thought within a couple of years I'd at least get similar basic functionality as freehand
Unfortunately, as you can see with one of the major new feature they've added to APh lately (astro protography stacking), their focus still is attracting new enthusiastic hobbyists with fancy looking features rather than focusing on making the apps reliable tools for professionals.
I also wish they'd focus a bit more on adding "dated, yet needed" features to their apps instead of adding stuff which cut a fine figurine on websites and PR texts.
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I'd like to add my 2 Cents about pressure levels. In theory, the more the better. But in a real workflow, the difference between 2048 and 8192 is minimal (if noticeable at all), if you set up your tablet/pen driver correctly.
Pressure levels/sensitivity is one of the driver settings which one should definitely set to one's own liking as people use different pressure behaviour when drawing.
- Sweatman, Alfred and William Overington
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1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:
That may indicate that your Windows virtual storage configuration is not correct.
No. It is set up correctly. Also, there's plenty of RAM available (64 GB) on top of the virtual RAM. Lastly, all other apps play nicely together. It's only Affinity (Photo), which causes trouble when setting to 100% usage of RAM.
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Just now, Dan C said:
My recommendation is for the default setting of Affinity, which sets this limit to 100% of your RAM allowance.
I certainly don't see the same behaviour and I have always used 100% for this slider - both using 16GB and 32GB of RAM in my PC. I'd recommend creating a bug report so our QA team can look into this further for you if the crashing becomes reproducibly more consistent with the sliders increased
Maybe it's a matter of how many different "RAM-high-impact" apps one runs next to Affinity's. Unfortunately, one has to run quite some of them in order to do those things which Affinity's apps can't do (yet).
If I find some time for it, I'll try to reproduce it. Oh—and to be more specific—it's mainly Affinity Photo which crashes, followed by Publisher in quite some distance (which doesn't crash more often than with any other settings for usage of RAM) and only rarely Designer.
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17 minutes ago, Dan C said:
Firstly I'd recommend setting your RAM Limit (the first slider in the dialog) to 16384MB, so that the app can use all 16GB of your RAM when required.
Is this really the recommended way? As I experience a lot more crashes, when moving the slider to more than 70-75ish percent. And the more other apps I open, the worse. Whereas other design apps don't crash if set them to 100% RAM usage as they seem to set it free again when running in background or play nicely together with other apps in the background using my RAM.
I only have trouble with Affinity apps when they are allowed to claim up to 100% RAM.
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Sorry, but composites like these take quite a lot of time. I had some free time for the first one so I gladly shared the result in these fora. Yet, it'd take quite another 1-2 hours at least to finalise it for a better result. There's a lot of manual drawing/blending involved.
So I hope you can understand that I can't/don't want to invest time into a similar free project. You could check YouTube for Photoshop tutorials about how to create composite images. Photoshop, simply because there are so many more great tutorials for it at YouTube than for Affinity Photo and the techniques are similar. Perspective, light and shadow, colour and contrast blending, masking etc. All basic stuff needed, yet in some cases very difficult to realise in a real project. Watching tutorials alongside with trying, trying and trying again will get you to better results eventually. It's a process, which might take some time.
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@more2021That's probably the problem here. The fora are NOT representative to what the majority of users think or want. I've been community manager of two browser games with millions of users. More than 80% of them were happy with the product as ingame votes showed. Whereas the fora read like 90% would be just moaning.
14 hours ago, more2021 said:Guys, take € $ 50.- or 100.- or 150.- again from me and 10.000s others and get this thing working. OK? And do it fast.
Secondly, you confuse target markets. Affinity apps are not really replacements for Adobe's apps - at least not in the professional sector of the market. The apps are for private users, artists and maybe small businesses. Even with 10,000 people paying 150 Euros - you won't be able to develop a replacement for Adobe's apps. If that would be so cheap and easy, others would have done that ages ago. Not even mentioning, that there might not be 10k users willing to pay that much. Because... well, see above, the users in the targeted market are not willing to pay that much.
Especially not since there would be still alternatives en par with affinity apps for the similar money.
It might have worked with your app, but markets are different. Developing a suite on Adobe's level costs millions.
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1 hour ago, Sonica said:
And let's not forget the fact that it's a relatively new company.
Relative is relative, I know. But Serif was founded in 1987 which is ancient times for software developing business.
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Agreed, images which differ that much in quality/sharpness are difficult to match. I gave it a try and included some AI (Remini) in order to enhance the image of Granny.
For those interested in it, I've also attached the .aphoto file (quite big, 120+ MB gooblah.afphoto).
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15 minutes ago, Federicocentrocopie said:
So why they are called vector brush?
Marketing. It'd be a shame, if a vector design app wouldn't have vector brushes, wouldn't it?
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That depends on the mockup, it's not a problem with the Affinity apps. Typically, the creators of the mockup include some layers with names like "Your design here" or similar. You'd have to double click onto that layer icon in order to place your own motive.
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5 hours ago, micky-a-55 said:
I'm currently using a trial version to see if a certain operation is possible.
The operation is whether the photoshop mockup file can be used with Affenity Photo.
I will buy it if it is possible.
It depends on the mockup. Some effects and features from photoshop can't get rendered correctly in Affinity Photo. If there are just basic effects and perspective distortion, most mockups work. Whereas i. e. Photoshop's (mesh) warping causes issues most of the time.
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Good question. IIRC, some anti virus software developers have some kind of procedure, which lets app developers check their apps for triggering false alerts before releasing them. VirusTotal (Google) has such option.
To my opinion, it's not the app developers' responsibility to check for false positives, but they surely have a very high interest in preventing them as it might harming their sales or even worse, reputation.
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Neither of the Affinity apps has automatic tracing capabilities. So, you either have to do it manually or search for a third party app (there are quite some threads with suggestions for vectorising and tracing apps/websites in this forums).
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14 hours ago, Alfred said:
If you delete the files from your Windows Fonts folder they’ll no longer be available for loading but they may still be in your running apps’ font caches. Close and reopen your Affinity app(s) and then check the font list again: if the deleted fonts are still there, restart your PC.
Very true. But as much as I criticise a lot of stuff within Affinity's apps, their font cache handling is pretty awesome on Windows 10. Disabling and enabling fonts, even hundreds of fonts in a group at once via Fontbase, immediately causes an update of the font cache in the Affinity apps. Even better, the apps notify the user about this with a pop-up. I've rarely seen any app which handles fonts (de-)activation on-the-go as well as Affinity's.
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14 hours ago, kaffeeundsalz said:
it was something like this: Scan image at 600 dpi,
Also, we never scanned a halftone print at a degree, which is dividable by 45 (or better 30). As those hit the common angles of at least one of the raster layers for print. The results have been better (read: less moiré), if you scanned at an odd angle (like, turn the sheet by just 3-ish or 7-ish degrees.
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This happens pretty often here, too. It's nothing I could reproduce. It just "happens" here and there and also, if you continue with your work and/or scroll through the list of layers, the thumbnails might re-appear and vanish at random occasions.
Typically, they are sometimes all back when closing and reloading the document or at least when restarting the Affinity app.
As said, I can't reproduce it on purpose. But it happens to all kind of documents, with various sizes and amount of layers.
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17 minutes ago, firstdefence said:
I don't mind fir or fi {fee} 😂
True, and better than "Firde(e)", which sounds much like some childrens' toy.
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That's exactly, what I'm telling everybody who's asking me about AD and if it's useful as a replacement for Illustrator. It's not. It's a decent piece of software for artsy creation of digital designs/illustrations/paintings.