Cybin Talus

Never! "Adobe is going to make Serif an offer they can't refuse."
Who knows what will come. Personally I was surprised that PDF Passthrough is coming before 2.0.

When someone makes unfounded inflammatory statements to a group of believers, its simply a trick to get the group worked up. If this bozo believed the gutter trash that has no basis in reality he posted, he would have defended it. Maybe his wife left him or someone stole his car or he's looking for attention in a cold cruel world. Its easy to poke a stick in a bees nest in the on line world then run and hide. I find Affinity products more than meet my needs for something more than Microsoft Paint or Paint.net   

Wouldn’t happen to be an Adobe employee would he!!

Cody had a problem, got a friendly helper, and never gave feedback. 
So: Don‘t feed the troll. 😉

Often when reading emotional comments, I wonder whether the author is upset about the product - or about himself.
You can separate yourself from a product you do not like (even if it means you wasted 50 bucks and some lifetime on it), but you can’t separate from yourself. 
So if the thread owner now feels better and can watch into the mirror again, maybe it was worth the posting here. I just dislike a basic tone of disrespect, putting oneself above all others, be it developers, other users or helpful minds here in the forum.

Hi CyberAlien,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Affinity apps are now able to import .ase (Adobe Swatch Exchange) files besides our own format. Are you able to generate a palette in that format?
To import them go to the Swatches panel, click the small menu icon on the top right of the panel and select Import Palette..., then the type of palette you want (document/application or system palette) and finally select the .ase file from the dialog that will open.

I have been searching through the forums regarding Affinity highlighting the brush you are currently using even once you have changed any of its parameters, size for instance. As I understand from my reading,  the reasoning the brush preset is not highlighted is that, once you have changed any parameter of a preset brush it is no longer considered to be that preset brush. That makes sense, and perhaps then there could be some sort of indicator as to which brush preset my current brush is based on.
If I change the size, for instance, then go to 'edit brush', the panel is blank until I change the size, but even then it doesn't like the name of the brush; however, if I go to 'more' in the top banner for the brush I am working on, it will show the brush at the size I currently have it at.
I think this would be useful for quickly glancing at the brush you are using, so that you can look at the other brushes for comparison. Sometimes I think that having that brush shown above the brushes panel would be helpful for scanning especially when you start looking through other brush categories, but honestly I think that may provide clutter to the interface.

Hey Cédric,
The reason for this is because you are technically changing the brush from its original preset settings so it is no longer the same brush.
It has been requested before that we have some sort of identifier or highlight to the brush if we change some of its settings but thus far, nothing has been implemented. 
This is something I would personally like to see as well.

Attached is my complete set of notes about blend modes, now spread across 52 pages of A4.
These are significantly updated from the previous revision, with lots more 'recipes' and organisation of these under main topics, hopefully to make them more usable.
Enjoy.
Blend modes notes V5.pdf

Spent a couple of weeks in the hospital recently. Among other problems, I was afraid I was losing my eyesight  due to severe complications resulting in internal bleeding. The doctors sent me home with a blood count of 6.1 and some medications that made my problems worse. Thank goodness for the Home Healthcare Nurse who took the time to study my discharge papers and find the "stop this medication" notices kind of hidden there. In 2 days I lost almost 20 pounds of fluid and the top of my feet stopped hurting when I walked.
Enough depressing stuff!
This image uses two photographs. One is a bit of concrete that had an interesting pattern and the other was of some dahlia flowers in our garde. I used "blend-if", a color fill layer using soft light blend mode and a duplicate fill layer using subtract blend mode. To finish it off, added a bit of gausian noise.
Was going for a sort of watercolor feel.

Hi Aphil,
 
I have been using Affinity for a couple months now and I use a drawing tablet, and can say that pressure sensitivity is supported and that both Designer and Photo come with a nice set of brushes; you can also find some free brushes here in the forums. I have picked up a couple brush sets from the Affinity store as well as from gumroad, and even started to create my own; here is a good video from Olivio Sarikas Design your own brushes.

Fallen
A return to inking....and a bit of experimentation 
AD 1.8
Original size 1500 x 500mm 300dpi
Uploaded at 3543 x 1181 jpg

Fallen:Sepia Version

 
Fallen:Coloured Version

Hi, another new user - transferring to Affinity from Adobe as it won't run on my work mac anymore after the recent Catalina upgrade. I'm going to use Affinity on my personal laptop so I am evaluating Photo and Designer at the moment. It looks like I'm going to lose some things such as the ability to import and draw over video (Photoshop) but here are still lots of positives in the swap.
I'll be surfing quietly for a while as I get used to the software but I'm discovering some important differences like select/copy paste not working quite as expected - surprised to find I pasted a layer rather than a selection but after research I found that makes sense now.
One thing I'd like to ask - how people are finding Affinity for digital painting using screen tablet as opposed to image editing? I used both vector and raster brushes for painting so I'm hoping pressure sensitivity is supported and a good variety of brushes available?

Hello everyone,
Yesterday I assisted my niece to purchase and download APhoto, AD and Apub over telephone, she is about 1000 Kms from where I live.
Just completing graduation in Fashion Design, I suggested to purchase the three packages and start learning and using it for designs,
photo shoot, drawings etc. She is practically new to such softwares and has only little knowledge in PS. I told her that Affinity will be very useful
for her work and there are several tutorials etc for beginners. Tonight, I have to assist her on installing the packages. My brother is a surgeon, not
well versed in these areas ! I told her that I will help her to get started with the basics and from thereon, with the help of many videos, further progress can be made.
Thanks to Serif for this wonderful softwares and the 50% discount(will end on june 20th)

I love vector graphics and Affinity Designer.
Many thanks Affinity for all the resources to learn software.

Welcome to the forums. Cybin.  Absolutely.  At the top right of your Assets Panel in Designer, there is a little “hamburger” icon.  Highlight the Asset you want to export and then click on the hamburger icon.   You will find several options including Import and Export.  Click on EXPORT.  You will be directed to choose a location (I usually use Desktop for starters).   Then open Photo, open your Asset Panel (VIEW>STUDIO>Assets) and click on its hamburger menu.  Choose NEW CATEGORY, then click on that in the Panel (it will appear at the bottom of your list of assets), click the hamburger icon, choose RENAME, and then after you have the new category with the new name, click on that, go to the hamburger icon, and choose IMPORT.  Photo will send you to your files, where you locate your exported asset.  Click on that, OPEN, and it will appear in your Asset panel.   I have also created individual backup folders for brushes, assets, styles, palettes, etc. so that if I ever have to restart one of the apps, I don’t lose everything into the Great Beyond. 
Hope this isn’t “clear as mud.”😷

Thank for the welcome! Yeah, it was as easy as that, and I'm laughing that I didn't see the hamburger menu in photo for the Assets panel before