charliechap

Shall we all ask to return our copies of Affinity Photo ? I don’t use it anymore due to the Alpha Channel debacle and I could do with the £50. I could send my book back too

Agreed Opermaks And as I said before, this also rules out all the T.V and Film VFX Industry, which i dont know if Affinity knows is pretty big in the UK, along with the games industry. I haven't used AF since i initially tried switching from PS and realised i could edit the alpha channel. And as I work from home now, my company pays for my (expensive) Photoshop licence to be on my home computer so i've given up on AF until this Alpha channel thing is sorted.

For some reason I have a boxing analogy in my head that might fit. Affinity Photo has got Photoshop on the ropes, its almost down and out, one more punch and Affinity becomes Champion. But then Affinity Photo see's its mum in the crowd and is now just gormlessly waving at her with a silly smile on its face. Come on, finish Photoshop off, make it so we can edit Masks. Or am i going to have to turn into Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption and write one letter a day for ten years until you do ? :)

Please please please can you let us edit the Alpha channel, make dodge and burn work, as well as curves. I'm a Lead Matte Painter in the Film and Tv VFX industry and i've seen the gradual decline of Photoshop over the years. Affinity is so close to becoming the main 2D workflow in Visual effects houses around the world, ilm, Framestore, Cinecite, etc etc. You guys and gals just need to sort this out. Until you do we will continue to use Photoshop which many of us dont want to do anymore, but can't make the change to Affinity unless we can edit in the Alpha channel. Its not just Matte Painters, its 3D artists, its game designers. we all need to edit the Alpha channel quickly and easily. Yet again i will have to save what im doing in Affinity and move it into Photoshop to finish off my shot