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Anton, the developer and current owner for the Affinity suite bears the biggest responsibility in this, but the end user doesn’t get off scot-free. Fact is, until more Affinity users chime in with STRONG DEMANDS like yours, nothing will change. Kudos to you for making that excellent and much needed DEMAND! It’s truly sad, yet an easy fix. Nobody is screaming, so nothing gets done. But when everyone screams, the wheels of change start to move.
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James, it's now the end of 2024, and despite all the advances in AI and other tech, it's really quite outrageous that Affinity Designer even now lacks something so BASIC and EXPECTED as an Image Trace function. We need the tracing feature, but sadly, Serif needs a lot of pounding to hear us. Even then they don’t really listen. I know because I’ve posted in this forum for YEARS and almost nothing I’ve said has been heard by them. If they had listened, pretty much nobody would be on Adobe apps today because the Affinity suite would be so great. While that may sound discouraging, don’t stop. Keep pounding. Let your voice be heard. Eventually, a firm may buy the products from Serif and finally add the important features that Adobe users have long been waiting for. All said, Serif, implement an Artwork Trace Function today! You’ve had plenty of time to work on it. No more excuses. Just Do It™.
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Find & Replace Tool for Affinity Designer
JDW replied to UkeyD's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
I'm going to step in, yet again, to defend sanity and meridian360 too. While some users may appreciate all the effort spent on type out how to WORK AROUND the current LACK OF FUNCTIONALITY in Affinity Designer, it is illogical to remain complacent and not speak up by way of asking Serif to do the right thing and add a Find/Replace command in Designer. The more than Affinity app fans focus on work arounds while at the same time remain 100% quiet about the need for a Find/Replace feature in Designer, the more likely it is that Serif will continue to do as they always do... NOTHING. I know full well from working with other software companies that getting new features added requires either a huge monetary investment (not from an individual, but from another company, and I was involved in that before), or by having a large and noticeable number of USERS voice their desire to have the said feature. Talking about work-arounds does nothing to move feature development forward. All it does is make the software developer happy that they don't need to worry about lifting a single finger to implement anything new. I once again challenge Serif Managing Director Ashley Hewson to show us some action. Implement Find/Replace in Affinity Designer ASAP. Thanks. @meridian360 Not sure which GIS app you used, but my daughter was an intern at ESRI HQ this summer, and I learned a lot about the internal workings of the company. Beautiful campus, and some pretty incredible people there too. Unlike Serif, ESRI actually cares what their users think, and they act on input. -
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Find & Replace Tool for Affinity Designer
JDW replied to UkeyD's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
Remarks like that indicate you're shilling for more than just cats. Through the years, Status Quo Worshippers in this forum have often tried to undermine my pointed words. But none of their nonsense every pushed the apps forward. It's nothing more than: "life's perfect now, so stop trying to get the powers that be to make it better!" Sorry, but that will not deter me from speaking my mind in the least. I simply cannot fathom people that don't want something to become better. It makes ZERO SENSE. -
Find & Replace Tool for Affinity Designer
JDW replied to UkeyD's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
I worked with a small company name SoftPress (based in the UK) as an end user, and I can say that they implemented a lot of what I suggested. That was many years ago though and has no bearing on what Serif does. SoftPress and Serif are both UK companies, but their leadership is completely different. I even visited Softpress offices twice in the past (again, many years ago), and working with those folks was great. Now consider that I've been in this forum almost 10 years. They have ignored many of the simple suggestions I've made over the years. (Totally opposite of how SoftPress treated suggestions.) Some of those suggestions could have been coded over a weekend. The sad fact is, this hasn't been done because Serif leadership only codes what THEY deem is best. They couldn't care less what we think (as evidenced by their absence in their own forum), which is crazy because we are the users of their product who truly do define its future. I refuse to buy Publisher only for a search feature that should appear in Affinity Designer. The only thing their current "ploy" does is upset me more than I already am. Their track record for listening to users and trying to make a true replacement for Adobe apps is abysmal. Again, I directly challenge Serif Managing Director Ashley Hewson to prove me wrong through ACTIONS. Be decisive. Tell one of your top coders to implement a FIND command in Affinity Designer within the next 14 days. Yes, it can be done. Show us that Serif really does listen and act on what it hears. That will have me warm up to Serif leadership REAL FAST. Ashley Hewson, the ball is now in your court, sir. -
Find & Replace Tool for Affinity Designer
JDW replied to UkeyD's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
You are absolutely 100% correct. I have participated in this forum many years. I have come to learn that the powers that be couldn't care less what people write in this forum as per the lack of a reply in important threads by members of Serif. That, to me, signifies a lack of concern. And I say this being a member of many other forums tied to Mac apps, where the developers do participate, and do care as a result. What exacerbates the problem are Affinity app users such as PaulEC, whether joking or serious, who do nothing for the apps other than to mildly or strongly defend the status quo of things, which as you know very well isn't good. When an app doesn't have even a basic "Find" command, you know you've got a serious problem. And when users defend its absence, you'd better jump ship before it sinks. And yet, here we are! Why? The answer is laughably plain to see. The only meaningful alternative for Mac users outside the Adobe suite which requires eternal Adobe subscription that none of us can afford. So we remain here in hopes Serif will listen to our requests and make the software better. But they don't listen. They make software better only in the ways their limited eyes see it as being better. We the end users are therefore masochists. We derive a little pleasure from a lot of pain. Honestly, nothing short of a complete change of management at Serif will result in meaningful change with Affinity apps. It's tragic because the apps have so much promise to unseat Adobe from its lofty throne. It's almost like Serif was setup by Adobe to fail. It's really quite sad. If anyone thinks me to be extreme, then I will formally and directly challenge Serif Managing Director Ashley Hewson to prove me wrong in actions, not in words. -
Find & Replace Tool for Affinity Designer
JDW replied to UkeyD's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
Ah yes! "Buy Publisher as a one-trick pony even if you will never use it for anything other than Find & Replace!" That's about as brilliant as deliberately leave out a Find command in Designer! I decided to drop my interest in Affinity after all my years of begging Serif in this very forum to add important features, but here I go and buy version 2 of Designer recently! And now that I am starting to use it more, I yet again run up against the most basic and infuriating limitations. Who is running the show, saying what features make the cut and what don't? That person needs to be show the Exit. Hiring people here in the comments to run the show instead might prove more effective in making the Affinity suite a true replacement of Adobe apps. For now, I'm still in a state of complete and utter disbelief at the absence of a simple Find command. And suggestions to "just use Publisher" border on the insane. -
I absolutely love your post and wish I could click like on it multiple times. Your sentiments parallel mine exactly. However, I have pretty much given up on the developer. I’ve been in this form for years and have been ignored all that time. They couldn’t care less what we think. That’s why I’m not going to buy version two or any future version, and I’m going to stop recommending it to everyone, at least until the time they get rid of their executive management and bring in people who know how to run a company, who care about customers, and who add important features to help countless people get off the Adobe addiction. Features are paramount, but specifically the features that we paying customers request, not merely the frivolous features that the developer thinks we might like. There’s a fundamental difference. But for those of you still willing to fight the developer in hopes of a better day, I will back you every time I see your great posts here. Bravo!
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I never considered myself a thorn. I bought the apps, then started using them, then starting reporting the omissions. Status quo defenders in this forum came out in droves to tell me why things are fine as they are now. I didn't back down. I wrote post after post after post to defend my reasoning. My persistence makes me a thorn in the eyes of The Perpetually Satisfied, and probably in the eyes of Serif too, as evidenced by the fact THEY NEVER REPLY in this forum that I can see. I'm active in a lot of forums, and most software developers are pretty interactive in their own forums. But not Serif. That tells me they really don't care much about what we say here. This all may sound negative and a lot of it is, but I really do still have hope things can change. Current management at Serif has their own plan and they don't want to involve users in that plan. But the upside is things change. People do suddenly exit companies and then new blood comes in, which has the potential to do better or worse than those who came before. We're seeing that now with Elon Musk and Twitter. I just hope that any future shakeup at Serif will trigger (1) more Serif participation in this forum, and (2) fast-paced development of features which have long been asked for. Really, that's all we need! Keep fighting the good fight!
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@Horseflesh I appreciate your kind words. I will continue to respond in this forum when people tag me like you did or reply to threads I started, but I officially would like to pass my Thorn in Serif's Flesh CROWN to you. 👑 I never once said anything in this forum that wasn't true, and I always tried to stick to facts, logic and reason. I long held fast to the hope that things would change, year after year after year. But things didn't change. Sure, there were many new features, but none that helped me or that would attract an Adobe user to Affinity apps. So while wearing your new crown, just stick to your guns, let every app-related thought that comes to your head be known, and never back down when the Affinity-only gurus in this forum come pounding, telling you to just "look on the bright side" or "Affinity hasn't been around as along as Adobe, so we can't expect much." Never settle for second best. Always shoot for greatness. Maybe one day, the folks at Serif will too. Feel free to contact me or tag me anytime.
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Friend, I wish I knew! And since we're on the topic... Serif recently releases version 2.0 with "a ton of new features" and yet the most highly sought after, fundamental features like a properly functioning White Balance tool (aka, like the one in Photoshop) are still shockingly missing! Too few of my suggestions have been implemented through the MANY YEARS that I have begged and pleaded (along side other good people) in this forum, so I will not be purchasing version 2 as a result. Maybe if there's a management reshuffle at Serif, someone will finally act, implement some of my suggestions, then have a true rival to the Adobe Suite on their hands. But until then, I'm not going to be waiting around or supporting the apps further. Am I disappointed? You bet I am! Everyone who cares about their wallet hates Adobe for going to a subscription model, and while I had years of hope the Affinity apps would slowly become good enough to crush the behemoth, that hasn't happened due to the lack of key features that would easily woe Adobe-addicts to Affinity. It's so very sad. That remains true even though a large number of people love the Affinity apps. Some people are willing to compromise on certain features and therefore have few complaints about the Affinity suite. I'm not so willing to compromise and live without features important to me. That's the difference.
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How do I use the white balance picker?
JDW replied to KipV's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on macOS threads
I've been debating folks like yourself on that very issue for the last 7 years. I shall continue to advocate for Adobe users, who comprise, no doubt, the lion's share of switchovers to the Affinity Suite. The more you can make something like an industry standard, the better, not simply to make the transition easier, but because that industry standard has some pretty darned good features that anyone would like to see -- even folks who have zero experience with the Adobe suite. But take don't the debate personally. I'm not trying to pick on you. I'm picking on a piece of software for not being better. Furthermore, I'm obviously on the losing end of the stick anyway, as per the fact these threads have existed so many years and yet continue to be ignored by Serif. But just as I pounded away at Apple's butterfly keyboard until it died and was replaced, so shall I pound here on issues that are important to the masses. If the status quo was paradise, I'd be silent. But it isn't. So I speak. Best wishes! -
How do I use the white balance picker?
JDW replied to KipV's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on macOS threads
LOL. Yes, there is definitely "need for a change" and such is explained in detail in my similar thread here, which was started 7 years ago but which has been totally ignored by Serif (just like this thread). (At the very least, read the first several posts of that thread to see why Affinity Photo does NOT have the desired functionality.)