[What happened to the bug and feature forums?]

Same problem with my threads, can't find them via search.

 

Here are the threads:

Live Filters need to go beyond bounding box of groups

Vector pen freeform mode

[High Pass Sharpening Issue]

@MikeFromMesa: Happy to have helped a fellow AP user! I was honestly blown away when I discovered this feature. My Photoshop workflow was always slow and convoluted due to its limitations: "Take 5/whatever layers, duplicate them, merge the duplicates to 1 layer, hide the 5 originals, apply static effects to the merged layer" - and I could never edit the applied effects since they were all static, and if I wanted to tweak individual layers I had to delete the merged layer, unhide all the originals, do the edits and then repeat the whole FX process.

 

Now with Affinity Photo I just use Live FX on the group of layers, and I can even change the blend mode and opacity of the effect (avoids having to duplicate layers for FX too). It's already revolutionized the way I work. The documents I make now only consists of *actual valuable layers* and not hundreds of hidden "step by step" layers.

 

Launch day is tomorrow and I'm ecstatic, knowing that's it a total Photoshop replacement and that it will just keep getting better and better! :-D Serif are my heroes.

[Test Photo Manipulation Affinity Photo]

I have seen a few of the posted works on this forum and this is my favorite so far. What a cool idea, and I love the little plane to give a scale reference for this huge beast.

[High Pass Sharpening Issue]

Best of all: Live filters work on groups! Take a bunch of layers, group them and livefilter the group without ever needing to merge anything or bake any effects; and you can reorder and tweak the fx at any time. It is so much more powerful than Photoshop!

[Editing a APH composition as a PSD with new Beta update. Bugs.]

@rosa cobos: Thanks for reporting this issue, I am interested in seeing this solved too. He does not mean exporting a JPG file. To troubleshoot the issue in Affinity Photo they need the affinity document (not psd, not jpg, etc) so that they can do testing to see why these particular settings in your afphoto document aren't exporting properly to psd. So please try to attach the ".afphoto" document.

[An idea about Affinity new logos?]

Reminds me of the 1980's, maybe early 1990's if I am being generous...  :huh:

[High Pass Sharpening Issue]

Try this instead of duplicating:

 

* Select the layer

* Add new Live Filter (hourglass-icon at the bottom of the layers panel) > High Pass Filter

* In the bottom right of the open window, set the Blend Mode to Soft Light or Overlay

* Now just adjust the Radius

[Launch date announced...]

I bought Pixelmator yesterday and was reading some articles about it when I suddenly saw a commenter talking about Affinity Photo instead, which was total news to me. Downloaded the beta and was blown away. It's way faster than Photoshop, way lighter on system resources, and beautifully designed, while still having *every* powerful tool I was used to from Photoshop (and even more that PS doesn't do). Pixelmator is a total toy in comparison (lacks non-destructive editing, adjustment layers, editing history, etc). I got a refund on Pixelmator and anxiously kept reading this forum to find the release date. And now, I've set that date in my calendar. I'll be buying it on day 1 of release! Thanks Serif/Affinity for finally liberating me from the shackles of Adobe. I hope it will be available in the Swedish Mac App Store on release day.