Julian23

Hello,
 
I have one (or two ;)) suggestions:
 
Function: perspective warp or transformation
 
1) Keeping the proportions while dragging an anker point of the perspective warp tool.
2) And oppositely not keeping while pressing and holding the shift key.
 
I like the way how to transform in Affinity Photo without "cmd & T" or "cmd & F".
When I use move tool, I can easily transform. The proportions will be keeped automatically. And with holding the "shift"-key, the free transformation without proportions is possible. A different way compared to other softwares. I like it!
 
But it is not logical, that this system doesn't work with the perspective warp.
It would be fine, when it would work there in the same way.
 
I provided a YouTube-Tutorial to the topic "transformation".
 
Ciao
Jack Bauer
Berlin, Germany
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUm1DY2i_R4

I always have to save a document in multiple formats, ai, eps, pdf...etc. It would be great to have a sort of check box to save in multiple formats when one is finished.

Similar to IOS, Android icons are exported at different scale factors.
 
Please add the option export slices to the standard android sizes:
 
e.g. if the icons in the designer file are MDPI (this is equiv of ios 1x), then the scale factors for each android sizes are:
 
xxxhdpi: 4.0 x mdpi size xxhdpi: 3.0 x mdpi size xhdpi: 2.0 x mdpi size hdpi: 1.5 x mdpi size mdpi: 1.0 (baseline) ldpi: 0.75 x mdpi size  
Taken from: http://developer.android.com/training/multiscreen/screendensities.html
and here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18655194/scale-factor-for-xxhdpi-android
 
Ps: i see in the video, that you have tick boxes for ios 1x, 2x etc, so i assume you could have additional one for android (mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi):
 

For Windows obviously: Serif PagePlus - it has very nice vector support.
 
For Windows and OSX: Photoline - it has very power bitmap (8, 16, 32 bit) and layer tools and also vector functionality.
It has pretty powerful text tools (kerning, alignment, multi page text flow). Like PagePlus it also allows linked images.
 
 
I can understand that they prefer to have 3 "apps" instead of a single one with extras, it makes the product more visible. They probably also care about illegal hacks which would enable all "goodies" at once.
 
 
One possibility to avoid those hacks would be the download of an "enabler app" instead of the full download.
 
If, for example, I already have Designer and I purchase Photo, I could only download the  "Photo enabler" application instead of the full 500 MB Affinity Photo and that will 
1) enable the photo tools in Designer
2) Create a shortcut which starts Designer as if it was "Photo"
 
Of course the "enabler app" could contain some required data, such as resources for the GUI and maybe additional contents, such as brushes.
 
This approach should make everyone happy.

+1
 
I would prefer to buy an addon license "Pages" for Designer instead of a separate Product which internally shares most of the code. 
 
Since I have "Photo" I would also like to use the proprietary filters in Designer directly without having to switch forth and back. Since the products are hold separately they consume more space of my (thanks to Apple) expensive SSD space than necessary.
 
I find this separation of features quite annoying in PagePlus vs DrawPlus - I always was missing a feature in one GUI which was existent in the other. For example DrawPlus has this great vector brushes and ISO drawing, PagePlus instead has better alignment and character spacing control. 
 
Serif could bring out the basis "Designer" or "Photo" and sell missing "Personalities" as add ons via InApp purchases. This would be a very modern way to sell the work, and would directly reflect the concept with the "Personalities". It should be possible to accept existing separate licenses as "Addon" licenses.

We currently don't have this, but our architecture supports it. It's more of a question of a neat and consistent UI, which we think we now have an idea for. Expect this to happen in the future :)

Hi,
 
I'd like to put in a request for some filter to roughen up/make wobbly randomness to outlines and shapes.
It would be the perfect complement to drawing shapes and get that random hand draw style.
 
In Inkscape there's a Roughen filter that makes this: (animated gif)

 

 
Cheers

For Windows obviously: Serif PagePlus - it has very nice vector support.
 
For Windows and OSX: Photoline - it has very power bitmap (8, 16, 32 bit) and layer tools and also vector functionality.
It has pretty powerful text tools (kerning, alignment, multi page text flow). Like PagePlus it also allows linked images.
 
 
I can understand that they prefer to have 3 "apps" instead of a single one with extras, it makes the product more visible. They probably also care about illegal hacks which would enable all "goodies" at once.
 
 
One possibility to avoid those hacks would be the download of an "enabler app" instead of the full download.
 
If, for example, I already have Designer and I purchase Photo, I could only download the  "Photo enabler" application instead of the full 500 MB Affinity Photo and that will 
1) enable the photo tools in Designer
2) Create a shortcut which starts Designer as if it was "Photo"
 
Of course the "enabler app" could contain some required data, such as resources for the GUI and maybe additional contents, such as brushes.
 
This approach should make everyone happy.

Classic layout programs do not hold the content which is displayed - Images and text are loaded from separate files and are distributed in frames. This is the reason they do not have their own vector module.
 
I would be surprised if Affinity Publisher would work like such a layout program. I would rather expect an approach like Affinity Designer obviously with added multi page support + connected text boxes, + image placeholder and extended text features. It would do no harm to "Publisher" if it also has i.e. the "Pixel Personality" of Designer or if "Designer" has the character baseline control of Publisher.
 
In fact - I have a use for both wether I design a one page or multi page document.
 
... and there are programs which combine the feature set, also for OSX, not as slick as Affinity though.

+1 for light UI. 
 
For a simple test I took a screenshot of the Affinity UI, pasted it in a document and inverted it. 
 
It looks very nice, only the icons look a bit distorted. But all lines, brush samples, text is perfectly fine.

+1 for linking files. This also makes especially sense for files which are masked by vector elements and which use adjustment layers.
 
It would be even better to create blank image placeholders which can be filled automatically by drag&drop of multiple files. 
 
Reason: When you drop an image file it is inserted at that position at its maximum size and I have to resize it.
When I first create some image placeholder, I can drag&drop the images and they will be resized automatically to fit the placeholder.

+1 for light UI. 
 
For a simple test I took a screenshot of the Affinity UI, pasted it in a document and inverted it. 
 
It looks very nice, only the icons look a bit distorted. But all lines, brush samples, text is perfectly fine.