Mateprsk

Exactly. This is why I asked for refund. My stupidity was that I jumped directly in the deep thinking that like this I will support a very nice idea of offering a great software for people who can't afford a monthly rent for other software but they can buy and have one legally and use it for work But it's not the case. I know where I was wrong is that I didn't tried it out first. But to be honest is that I decided like this, because all the promo I found on the internet was about a vector app supporting some raster extras. And this isn't quite true. This kind of vector functions other software also have what are not considered vector software. But long story short, it's not a bad app, but it's not the app what a person needs who wants to work with vectors. What you can use this app for is work what you can do in p.s. for example, but cheaper, more limited and it comes also with quality issues, but if it's okay for you, buy it, rather then paying monthly rent for p.s. I didn't said you can't use it. You can, but not for a complex vector work. For that it's just not possible to use.

Don't do it man!!!! I almost spent a hundred bucks on my favorite brushes in affinity format, but first I tried what they gave me for extra bonus, what I also have it's illustrator version, and when I seen the pixels, I asked the guys from who I wanted to buy, they said that basically nothing works as real vector brushes since the software doesn't support them. You can do anything, and it will not work. I'm super lucky, I didn't bought them, like I already was at the checkout, but I told my self that before pushing the button I go try it and verify everything, and after many tries, I seen that basically it will not work.

Yes they take granted. I give an example how it looks from the eye of a user: you go by a shop where you see a poster "Mountain Bikes at great price". So you enter, you see a mountain bike, you buy it, take it home, it lloks like a mountain bike, than you start climbing a mountain and it isn't climbing up. You go back to the shop asking what's wrong, the shop owner say "Well this is a mountainbike under development, what we actually sell to the people, but it doesn't has the mountain biking function yet developed, so you can use it only in the city". And that part isn't fair. Like it's really a great concept, but if I can't do vector work, I choose to use something else, and this is what I will do until it doesn't fits me. Like I would be the happiest man to have time to make my own brushes, but I don't have. So now I just hope, that they will see my request mail for refund, since I didn't got any answer yet. Than when it will be able to do what I need to do in a vector app, I buy it back.

okay, if it's just a name, or not related to the affinity software but for windows it self is another storry. But now I really don't have time to check all this, after that to check each brush if they didn't changes in quality and so on. I found a kind of backup what is fast, I will use it, and that was it. But this is not my only issue. My main issue why I asked for a refund was that they promised a vector based software, I bought it, and it's a raster software with let's say more editable vectors than what photoshop has. But what if I do my work with like for real, fully editable vector brushes? What I do? Work not in two but 3 apps? That doesn't has any sense. And after that when I discovered that neither the raster part is not working well, I really can't use it like this. Sure, if it will have an evolution what will fix these issues, I will be the happiest man to buy it again, and not to pay rent for another huge corporation for the same job. What in my country it means that you pay as much as a monthly rent for a room. But if I can't work with it, I can't work with it, so than I wait another let's say 5 years, maybe in that time they take this in consideration, because how I scroll over the different forums, I'm not the only man saying this. If you do a vector app, do a vector app man, it's not working in another way like "yeah man It's vector but it's basically raster but vector" than you say okay, you skip than your raster app, try to use this for that reason because you again had some promises, and besides the fact that it is not working well, like not even big resolutions. I mean if I want to simply draw for my entertainment I have another x number of apps I can use it for like free. I need this for work, for like from what I buy the food, the rent, the all the stuff.

yes, I restarted the p.c., I looked up the file properties, and it's still like it. Okay no matter, I found them again on one of my external hard drives, so I have the backup, I don't want to try them for hours and check if they kept to be the same or not. But it's good to know that it happens, so if more users will come here with the same issue.

No, I have a laptop with windows. No I don't want to manually do anything anymore like changing the name of the file and so on, but I want that one software to don't do stuff I didn't gave access to it to do so, especially if the file wasn't designed for it's use but I used it because some promises, since the quality was horrible when I tried it out, and not all the brushes were working anyways. Okay I have some backup of my windows, but all this means I have to be awake like all night to finish my drawing until the morning. If the windows backup will solve my issue. And this is really an issue if the program overwrite these files. I just hope that after windows backup, and so on, I will not notice that the brushes basically were modified and I lose their actually super high quality. For the Affinity developers my advice is that they should super focus on this issue, and other issues also. Since it's a small company, I was buying directly their software in sign of my support in this rat race with huge global companies, but to be honest I am getting to be really disappointed. Like besides the fact that Designers vector tools are super limited, I can't even use vector brushes for real, their raster "persona" is like doesn't offer quality, and now I have this issue also. I really can't use it like this for professional work. Now for hobby it is a good software, but only for beginners. If you do profi work for a hobby, again it's not okay, since you will need to buy a lot of stuff what will not give you good quality neither on the vector, neither on the raster persona. My only hope is that I get my refund. I mean sure it was super cheap, but still, I'm doing this for a living, I'm not doing this for my own entertainment, so a few euro's here could be used in a productive way somewhere else.

Okay, so since many information I found on the forums about Affinity designer supporting abr brushes, I told my self to try it out, so I did. But after I did, and it was a pretty bad experience, I told my self to continue my work in photoshop. As I wanted to load my brushes, I noticed, that they are not "abr" files anymore, but they are affinity files. Now I really hope it didn't changed their quality and I can role them back since they are unique custom brushes, and I really don't want to have any kind of complications anymore, since I already requested a refund for your product. Anyways, what I do now? Do I have to delete them, find them, and than do the whole process from the start or you have a solution for my problem, what works like in 5 minutes so I don't lose my deadline.

Ok, so I continued searching on this topic and since I see that this issue bothers many people since a long time, I asked a refund. Hopefully one day you will fix it. To be honest I can't do any professional work with your software until you don't offer true editable, expandable brushes of high quality. Besides the fact that your "vector brushes" are raster coated vector lines with very limited editability, they are also low quality, and your pixel persona brushes also. Hopefully you understand my problems, since like this I can't make professional work, but all I can do with your software is to keep it for hobby, what is not my case. - Besides the fact that on any platform I was running in to you promoting this product, you promised us a vector based software, what like this it's not 100% true. And reading the forums, I have seen people requesting these changes maybe for years. - My hope is that one day, you will fix these issues, and I will be the happiest person to buy your product again, but until than I can't use it for what I basically wanted to use.

Hi, I am also new here. My only single problem at the moment with the a.d. is this, that "vector brushes" are not really vector brushes. They are raster brushes on a vector stroke. If you zoom in, you can see the pixels. I didn't downloaded the free version, I bought it instantly, since a friend showed me his works, and how he use the app (okay he do only pictures for the web, and some standard size book illustrations) Than I watched some tutorials people using these fines "vector" brushes, and how cool it is because you can use both vector and raster in one app. But the truth is that you get a kind of good raster app with more advanced vector tools than photoshop has. Now I almost spent another hundred bucks on my favorite brushes compatible with this software, but now I'm a bit skeptical about it, since the reason I bought this app is that it's vector software with additional raster options, but it isn't. So if I make this huge drawing and somehow I print it, what of course I don't know yet how it will be, than how it will look with all the pixel lines, and how it will work if it needs to change the size of my work to a huge one? Expanding them is good so I don't loose the quality of my brushes compared to my basic vector shapes, and I also have the guarantee that where the colored part of my stroke ends, it's transparent, no matter of the size, and you can also add them to a shape. You think that in the future this will change and if yes, that will be in the near future? I tell you why, I would really enjoy to work with this software for many reasons. I do support the idea. But at the moment what I have is that I can use it like I would use photoshop, but If I buy my favorite vector brushes I use in a different app, I could use them also, but only their image, but in pixel. My original thought was, that I skip using other software for one in what I can do my vector job, my raster job, it's lighter, and much more fair for it's users. What it is more fair, if I look at the price of it, to be honest the whole thing costs like one single but serious brush pack for other software, so it's really fine, and I do respect this. Anyways It's a great software , but this issue with the brushes would be great to change, or else or I loose quality on my work, or I use a different vector app in what a vector brush is a vector brush. At least if it would be more compatible with for example a.i., than it wouldn't be such a huge problem, but If I understood well, I can't simply import a full layered a.i. file in what eventually I modify in A.D. But than again I use two or three apps not one app what is better to use for a reason or two.