Hilltop
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Hilltop got a reaction from Dan C in Problem running Photo after re-install
It can be downloaded from here: http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html.
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Hilltop got a reaction from Ken Cope in Steve McQueen - all vector in Affinity Designer
Wow, amazing!
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Hilltop reacted to Ken Cope in Steve McQueen - all vector in Affinity Designer
My wife wants to write in her blog website about Steve McQueen.
Problem:
All the best photos of Steve McQueen are copyright.
"No problem," I said, "I'll draw him for you..."
Out came Affinity Designer...
Problem Solved!
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Hilltop reacted to janndk in Using Affinity Publisher with Scanahand to produce a font
Great!
I insert Scanahand templates in Affinity Designer as artboards, so I can work with all characters (two A4 templates next to each other) as one document - but I can still export the templates separately.
This font is created using Affinity Designer (drawing the basic font), Scanahand (converting images to vector) and FontCreator (finalizing the font):
https://www.1001fonts.com/stiff-brush-jk-font.html
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Hilltop reacted to MattP in Expanding Stroke amazing precision
Lack. Of. Time. This is the reason for the current state (needed doing very quickly before release) and the reason I'm only now getting chance to look at it again. It's not like we ever said "No really, that's how it's meant to be! Trust us!" and in fact we explained that it was not good enough and would be implemented the right way when we got chance. We've explained many times before that from the customer's perspective it must be very frustrating that we seem to be prioritising other things, but that actually we are not and that there are very good reasons why certain things appear before others - but they cannot (and do not need to be) reasoned-through on a public forum.
I personally don't understand the rationale of constantly reiterating "This isn't good enough/not professional/inadequate/badly implemented" on a subject that has been discussed ad nauseam already. It is very clearly already acknowledged, understood and agreed that it is being looked at. As I said earlier, complaining that it has not happened fast enough is not making it suddenly happen faster and I simply cannot do more. We are always looking for the 'right' people to help us and the 'right' person does not have to live on our doorstep. But, to be honest, I will not look to how another company that is not dominant dealt with their issues - they may have been in a different circumstance to ours and we do not have any issues that will not be adequately resolved by just doing what we were planning to do and giving ourselves the time to do them without beating ourselves up along the way.
In short, we get it. There doesn't need to be constant scab-picking - it doesn't help. New subjects, new bugs, new requests - great stuff, I'd like to read about them and know about them
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Hilltop reacted to MattP in Expanding Stroke amazing precision
I keep biting my tongue and trying not to get involved with all of these discussions that quickly become name-calling. It's disappointing to read and unnecessary. I suspect I shouldn't even be typing this (it's one of the reasons you don't see me as much on the forums nowadays) but I just wanted to stop this thread degenerating further by stating that I have been typing the new code for this feature for the last couple of weeks: It isn't something that is being left unaddressed, its omission is not some "petty revenge" as stated earlier (which is truly a rather paranoid, unsettling notion to try to get my head around why someone would even think that?) Please can we just all be nice to each other? It doesn't take much, and it frequently takes less time than bashing a keyboard to try to upset someone else or lash out to feel better. We're all after the same thing at the end of the day and we'll get there quicker without wasting so much time trying to say how "disgusted" we are at the job the software developers do: We're actual real people and we're doing our best with what we have - end of story. We try very hard indeed (we have many hundreds less developers than Adobe) and some things will take us longer to work out, but we actually do care an awful lot about what we do and we want it to be something we're proud of. If we're taking too long for you then I genuinely am sorry, but what more can I say or do - I'm doing the best I can
Before someone suggests throwing more developers at the problem is a good way of fixing things we've nearly always found exactly the opposite - they need to be the right developers, and they're very hard to find - if you get the wrong ones then you spend time training them up only to find that the user experience of what they create wasn't as good as you'd want anyway, so have to do the work again so that's even more time lost.
Like everything in life, Designer isn't perfect, I'm not deluded enough to think it is, in fact I'm usually the first to point out its failings when I meet people, but I genuinely am proud of it because despite its failings, it is also a genuinely powerful creative tool that is more fun and productive to use than the competition for a very good range of tasks. So no, I'm not going to feel "disgusted" with myself or my colleagues and nor should anyone try to suggest that we should. Yes, there are things wrong that we've already said are wrong and we are fixing them. Please let this be an end to the name-calling and disparaging.
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Hilltop got a reaction from Petar Petrenko in Photo Presets
After a better look, I stand corrected. Sorry to Petar, Alfred and others for the false alarm.
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Hilltop got a reaction from Alfred in Photo Presets
After a better look, I stand corrected. Sorry to Petar, Alfred and others for the false alarm.
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Hilltop reacted to Petar Petrenko in Photo Presets
PhotoWhoa is secure site. I've bought a lot of stuff from them.
Of course, the real price is not $900. No one would pay it. All prices are arround $30.
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Hilltop reacted to Alfred in Photo Presets
How so? It’s served over HTTPS, and the site seems to be clean.
https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/https/www.photowhoa.com
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Hilltop got a reaction from Alfred in Sharing between all Affinity applications
True for one app at a time. Unfortunately you still have to set the favorites for each app separately.
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Hilltop got a reaction from Alfred in Sharing between all Affinity applications
Nothing to beat you up for, Joachim. All making sense.
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Hilltop reacted to Joachim_L in Sharing between all Affinity applications
Stupid title I know. Since Designer / Photo / Publisher are tightly integrated working together, I would love to see an even tighter integration / collaboration. How about sharing and I do not mean importing all kinds of things:
a) Shortcuts: Shortcuts for the Personas do not inherit the definitions from their "parents". But this will be changed, I learned recently.
b) FontSets: Normally I am using just 4-6 fonts for all types of layouts I am working on. So for me I do not need the tons of fonts from the fonts list. Maybe starting / working with Affinity would be much faster, if a limited font list would be used. Or perhaps as part of creating a new document to assign this limited FontSet.
c) ColourSets: A fixed list of colours I can assign creating a new document.
d) Assets / Symbols: To be used everywhere. Example: When I switch in a Publisher document to the Designer Persona I only get the Assets of Publisher and not the assets of Designer. Same for Symbols. Maybe I want to use Symbols not only in Designer (Persona).
e) TextStyleSet: Selecting a TextStyleSet when creating a document.
f) PreferenceSet: For example colour preferences or hardware preferences or or. Right now the preferences have to be all set individually.
So now beat me up. Maybe some wishes are already fulfilled, maybe some wishes are crap.
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Hilltop got a reaction from etiennepisano2862 in Van Gogh's colour palette
Very nice palette. Thank you!
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Hilltop reacted to etiennepisano2862 in Van Gogh's colour palette
Questa è la mia COLOR PALETTE ottenuta dalle opere più suggestive di Vincent Van Gogh: spero vi piaccia e vi sia utile!
Saluti!
van gogh colors.afpalette
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Hilltop got a reaction from MartinB78 in Going mad with Style(s)
Thank you for the styles, Martin! Very nice!
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Hilltop reacted to sveto in [Photo] How to hide blue selection box?
That would not work, as i'm losing the context bar fields that i need to access.
This is the solution! I tried it out, and i don't even need to hold the space bar, while i make the adjustments. The latter could be a bug, but i think i like the way it behaves.
Thanks for the help, guys. Problem solved, i think.
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Hilltop got a reaction from sveto in [Photo] How to hide blue selection box?
Or press the spacebar and keep in depressed for as long as you need a clear view.
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Hilltop got a reaction from jonah66 in Resize canvas problem
From the Help file:
"Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform. Try this if you are experiencing performance issues with the default option."
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Hilltop got a reaction from StuartRc in Project Brush Set 11 Assets: Camouflage Mixed and Texture Paint
Very nice brushes. Thank you!
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Hilltop reacted to StuartRc in Project Brush Set 11 Assets: Camouflage Mixed and Texture Paint
Project Brush Camouflage Set 11
Added new Brush set based on the vectors of Camouflage I
30 New Raster Brushes
First sample Set combining 4 brush sets [Leaves , Texture, Bark Grunge and Canopy]
Samples as below and 30 brushes in .zip file
Enjoy!
Camouflage - Mixed Sample Set.zip
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Hilltop reacted to Ron P. in inpainting not working
You might want to change or turn off Brush Tool Sharing in the Assistance Manager
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Hilltop reacted to Bartelmy in Calendar import not editable
Hilltop - thanks: I assure you that I am not being in any sense adversarial in my comments. I accepted a long time ago that there would be no import filter for PagePlus. If I am trying to suggest anything it is that Plan A for importing (using the PDF import engine) still needs some work - though I appreciate that it may be impossible to make it 100% responsive to every nuance in a source file. I am enjoying Publisher and readily accept your outline of its virtues.
Alfred - thanks for the link. I could perhaps have chosen my words more carefully: what I intended to say is that PagePlus is no longer being updated (to the best of my knowledge). Thanks too for the note re shortcuts: I will explore the possibilities.
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Hilltop reacted to Alfred in How do you give each line segment on an object a different appearance
Reset the pressure profile. You can apply a pressure profile or make the line dashed, but not both at the same time.
