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I don't, because I'm claiming the purchase as a business expense since I bought it to add on to my self employment possibilities, but I only use it for select tasks because the negligence of the addition of workflow improvements and relatively simple tasks that I could have done in Photoshop no problem that I have to find a hack to get around in Affinity, well, I could also find a hack to get around in Clip Studio Paint, which is by far preferable for drawing related tasks. What I have regretted is pretty much any time I've ever used Affinity as my main program to produce a piece of art. I always end up back in Clip Studio Paint. Even when I used Photoshop. Affinity is good for a few select tasks, but it's fairly obvious they have no intention of implementing the vast majority of suggestions because, you see, they already got our money. They don't care if we're happy. Of the suggestions I've made, one has been implemented. It does improve workflow, and it was a very simple fix. There are tons of Asian artists. Not fixing this bug seems like a mistake that will alienate a large population who might otherwise try it and recommend it. I do recommend it if someone wants vector implementation, or non-destructive layer techniques. I futzed around in Designer a bit and it's much easier to grasp than Illustrator. But it's no good for what I usually use digital art to create, mindbogglingly overcomplicated in some arenas, with little attention to alternative workflows. The creators seem to have imagined that everyone creates like them. It certainly has its limitations at this point and is not a full "Adobe substitute" at this point, though with it and Clip and Corel Painter at my disposal there is only a few things I miss from Photoshop, which was the easily warpable text, stackable text strokes, the ability to copy and paste layer styles in a couple clicks (rather than going through a convoluted process of saving a style and applying it to a new layer, but my request of having a quicker way to apply a style to a new layer was dismissed because 'you can already do that', which you can, just much more complicated than I would like). Also, save each layer to its own file. Oh... the ability to just hold alt and click with any tool on to get color selected... now THAT's the main reason I can't see myself converting to primary use of Affinity, the fact that I have to click several times to switch my color to the one that was underneath my cursor for a tool other than the paintbrush (switch to the brush, click to pick it up, then go to the bucket, then click on the eyedropper thingger...) aaahhhhhhhhh in every good program you can just hold down alt to switch to the color picker eyedropper at any time, why Affinity, why. And why can't I eyedropper color pick from my file from the styles menu? There's an eyedropper there but it does nothing. But, my complaints are smaller workflow things which may eventually be implemented, who knows. One thing I requested WAS added, so, I know it's not impossible. It was a very easy change though. But, since I've made requests they've gone out of their way to implement a few fancy things which no one usually needs, so, I ultimately feel they don't care about changing things to make them better for current users, but only adding flashy features that might hook new buyers who need a niche feature and don't realize it has all kinds of weird UI quirks that will never be improved. Korean fonts is a complicated bug, but, one that will alienate an entire people group with many artists in their midst, so I think that's a mistake to not work out, but maybe one that is quite time consuming with a small team. I still don't think it would be a mistake for someone to buy Affinity's software, it is good for the price, but it would be good if they were honest about some of the limitations up front as well as its perks, instead of acting like it's superior to Adobe. I'm still 100% more likely to recommend Affinity over Adobe, but, I will keep in mind this bug exists, and not recommend it to anyone who uses the Korean language, and maybe any symbol languages because it might be buggy in more than one language implementation. I have empathy, I know it's a lot of work, I suppose they just don't know what to do for this one.

I sometimes make panorama stitches for virtual tours, so they need to loop all the way around, not be cropped on the sides. I like Affinity's ability to stitch a panorama but ultimately the blend for the 360 projection is imperfect when I just eyeball a crop. I feel like this should be easy to implement, I just need to run the panoramic stitching on the first and last image to each other. With the addition of this feature I would not need to use PTGui and a separate image editing program to touch up the panorama post-stitch. It would be greatly appreciated for anyone who does virtual tour photos.

I'd like to set my tablet scroller wheel to move through my layers and it needs a keybinding for me to do that. I also use it when I record keyboard macros to repeat actions. That's basically it. Thanks!

I need the exported layer to remain a specific size for its final use, and by the time I've gone and fussed with positioning a slice, I might as well have just saved the layer by turning everything else off and on again. It would work better for me if I could set the dimensions of a slice, or make it snap to the edges instead of overshooting into the artboard and having to be dragged back into place. However, having to size the slice rather than setting its dimensions pre-click means it's too labour intensive compared to the Photoshop alternative (not that it's worth it to me, I just use Tinytask to record a macro of the clicks and keyboard shortcuts I use so I only have to hit one button to do a few moves). It's useful to know about the slices option but count this as another vote for the feature to export all layers as pngs with a different name, at a specific set size. It is a feature I would use if it were added.

When you click on a piece of text, make it possible to stick that text style to the text tool for a new piece of text. When inside of a group and you place new text, keep it inside of the group instead of placing it apparently randomly somewhere in the bottom of the lineup. When text is dragged into a group folder, also, I experience a bug where sometimes the text vanishes entirely.

I'm actually a fantasy cartographer myself. I don't have any resources specifically made for Affinity, but any brush sets that come with an image pack, can be used in Affinity too. Way back in the day I made a tutorial, but it comes with a download of fantasy map icons which I converted to a font. Anything in that download is royalty free stock made by me, no credits required. If you follow similar recommendations on DeviantArt you will find many other similar sets which include image packs to be used in any program. There's also KM Alexander who makes brush sets out of historical maps (Popple brush set) and he includes the pngs, so you would be able to convert them to use in Affinity. These are also royalty free, no attribution required. I'm not going to link to them all, just the one, but you can find them by looking through the recommended other sets or in his signature on the Cartographer's Guild, where we both participate as well. It's the most extensive online resource for digital cartography available and definitely the first place I'd look if you mean to seriously get into cartography. As Affinity Designer is a relatively new program, I can't think of anyone who's made specific resources for them. I'm the only person I know of who's made Clip Studio Paint cartography resources, and as no one's ever expressed interest, I never packaged them up. It's not unlikely in the future I'll make some Affinity-specific cartography packs, and now that I know you are interested I will keep it in mind. I'm a professional cartographer and I am now using Affinity instead of Photoshop and Illustrator, in combination with Other World Mapper and Clip (I just love its brush stabilizer so much more than Affinity's, sorry!). OWM is a program you might look into to build the map base, because it comes installed with a lot of mapping features to automatically do what you want, but it's not free and doesn't do it all, though, so I'm using it in combination with Affinity for all of the photo-finishing techniques I use to push my maps to their final shiny state. No resource kit is enough on its own, in my opinion, without the skilled touch of a designer on top. There are more expensive programs specifically for cartography; I don't personally find them to be worth their subscription fee models so I won't mention those, but OWM is pretty low cost and I've been finding it works really well in correlation with Affinity, quickly becoming my new flow. If you only want freebies, I get it, lots of people do. I have a list of all the free fantasy map generators I could find. Not all of them would be useful for you, but some of them create interesting resources which can be used to reference your original drawing underneath. I made the list with the intent of giving to artistically challenged clients and people who want freebies instead of art commissions, and I think you could get a lot of inspiration from toying with some of them. Anyway, those are all the cartography resources I can think of off-hand. There's a ton of great brushes with image packs if you follow these leads. Now that I realize there's interest, I'll see if I can convert some of my resources to Affinity specifically. Let me know what sorts of things you'd be looking for. I have made far more brushes and textures than I have uploaded to DeviantArt, so I may have some I can pull out of my database and share if you can't find what you specifically need. KM's got some real nice hills and trees, so I think you'll be good in that department! But you may find some vacancies. I love making resource packs to share, so yeah, let me know and I can try converting some of my own symbols to be used in Affinity. You do mean as a brush set, right? Since I'm sharing, here's an infinitely looping wave I just made the other day in Affinity. You are welcome to use it. I haven't released it anywhere else yet. I personally favor the expand, do a stroke, expand selection, do a stroke, expand selection, do a stroke method of coastlines, but this is a repeating pattern fill you could use to fill up water with wave I planned on releasing at some point. If you have any questions about fantasy map making feel free to hit me up.

I would like to be able to copy a layer style and paste it onto a new layer. I would like to be able to add cascading strokes (literally the only thing I've used Photoshop for over the past year is to add staked strokes to make a comic book style text pop, and the very reason I won't use Illustrator for anything and immediately hopped on the Affinity train is the fact that it's impossible to automatically easily do this, oh and like the interface just sucks less for Affinity, and all kinds of reasons that made this suite appealing.). I would like to be able to use this to create an expanding coastline echo outline, where every other outline is clear. Right now, I don't actually know I could create my expanding coastline echo in Affinity. I realize my description might be a bit vague, so I'm going to link to a couple of examples of art I've done. I draw fantasy maps and comic book art mostly, and so I often apply layer styles to outline a piece of art. Multiple outlines on text expanding echo coastline Both of those are examples of things I would like to be able to achieve by hitting a couple of extra checkboxes in Affinity. It's basically the same concept, except one of them allows you to have transparent spacing between the lines. I would also like the program to remember the settings I just used for the last layer style fx, so when I open the panel to add a stroke to another piece of text, it automatically applies what I just did before, instead of nothing.

When in the flood fill tool, I want to be able to hit alt and switch to the color picker. I want holding alt to switch me to the color picker in every tool that uses color. When I'm in the advanced fill window picking a color, I want to be able to click on the manuscript to pick a color off of it by default, or by clicking on the eyedropper.

I find this very frustrating. In all other programs I use, hitting x switches the foreground and background colors. That is the only time I want it to happen. A checkbox wouldn't do, because Affinity forgets customized settings for a tool. If for some crazy reason this is a useful feature to someone who isn't me, great, but I want the ability to disable it.