Simone Avogadro

More focus on making the basics faster and easier for beginners! e.g.: interactive/visual tolerance adjustment to some tools: finding the right tolerance/sensitivity is sometime very slow and annoying. E.g. adjusting in real time the flood select tolerance and seeing the selection adjust (based on the previously selected point) would make life much easier! larger icons in the toolbar! background/foreground selection: this is by far the most common task for beginners and the most frustrating one. Having some kind of wizard (like focus selection from CC or the ML from remove.bg) would make life way easier!

This has been part of my workflow for a long time now: after exporting pics for sharing I recompress them using a perceptual tool. A flag inside Affinity Photo would make it all easier! This one is MIT licensed and thus can be included in commercial software (providing credit is given etc...) and I've been using it for years: https://github.com/danielgtaylor/jpeg-archive

I'm using Affinity Photo 1.7.3 on Windows mostly as a complement to Adobe Lightroom but I sometimes try to use it for other very simple tasks. I must say I'm less then thrilled buy the lack of this very simple and intuitive feature so as a customer here is my suggestion to improve this otherwise cool tool :-) Rationale: flood select sensitivity can be tricky to nail and the current process is way too slow. Especially when you want to remove "somewhat noisy" uniform background it's hard to nail a value where you select all the background up to the border of the main subject! Current process takes way more time then expected: click a point look at the result adjust the value esc (to un-select) re-click the same point (=loop) Proposal: after clicking on the image with the flood-select tool it should be possible to adjust the sensitivity slider (as now) and the result should be visible in real time while you change the sensitivity ! p.s.: this is exactly how this works within "paint.net" which has otherwise way less features respect to Affinity Photo