tnargs
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11 hours ago, George H said:
For Mac users...
After a lot of searching, and many trial and errors, I found "Raw Power" to be an excellent Adobe Bridge alternative that I am able to tie into Affinity. It is $29 at the MAC app store. I would prefer free but the cost is reasonable when you consider that once you buy it you can install it on all of your Macs. There is also a cheaper IOS version. It is fast, able to view large numbers of raw files, ties into Apple Photos if you are into that, or you can simply point it to a folder.
I found the iOS version too limiting. And you can’t just work on files in a folder: you have to import full copies of the photos into either a RawPower library or Apple Photos library. That really annoyed me, along with not being able to have the library anywhere other than the home drive of the iOS device, which inevitably means the home drive will fill up before long for the keen photographer.
The MacOS version is probably far more flexible.
Cheers
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In which case, no reason for the policy.
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Yes, it’s clear alright. Clearly, even though I only ever use it on one machine, changing hardware is going to cost me 80 dollars unnecessarily.
Got it.
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Why? All the other software providers I mentioned don't put up such unnecessary barriers.
Surely they understand the issue, and the answer isn't 'gotcha'?
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Hi, my MacBook died and I bought a PC (tough times...)
I can no longer use my Affinity Photo licence on a Mac. Quite happy if it gets cancelled TBH.
So I need to transfer it to my PC.
Been having no problems making the transfer from my purchased Mac OS licences to PC for numerous commercial products: FastRawViewer, RawDigger, VueScan, JRiver Media Center, for example.
But how do I do it for AP?
thanks
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You must be rich! $466 for a single-user all-cameras licence.
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5 hours ago, iBaloo42 said:
Just move on. I see that you like Windows 10. Buy iMatch and forget about Serif's DAM, which will never happen, or if it will, it would cost money anyway.
If one is going third party, might as well go digiKam (free, multiplatform) and save $129 up front.
I thought the point here is an Affinity DAM that integrates with AP. cheers
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I know how you feel. I think we deserve a little more feedback from the software team.
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You have a bigger problem. The 650M card has been disabled by Apple since 2017/18, due to some disagreement about licensing between Apple and Nvidia. By now I have given up on hoping that there will ever be a resolution and an updated graphics driver that re-enables the 650M.
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19 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:
To all participants in this thread
This to and fro stops now.
You come here to express your own opinions to Serif, about Serif (software). Criticizing other people's opinions will not change Serif's view and may get you banned.
As deeply as I sympathize with this (firm) request, and welcome it, I cannot help but think that it would never have happened if only Serif were a little more forthcoming.
At the start of this thread, Serif staff said that the DAM is "planned". A mealy word that invites misunderstanding. An invitation that was accepted.
20 months later Serif staff said, again in this thread, that the DAM is on a long list of to-do's and in front of it lie "Affinity Designer for iPad, Affinity Publisher and next betas/updates to Affinity Designer and Photo for desktop (1.7)." This looked like a substantial setback for eager followers.
Another 15 months have passed, and it looks to me like all those prior projects are done. So, what are we to think? Does that mean it is at the top of the to-do list? Or have another four major projects arisen and pushed it back again?
How about giving us a crumb, please? Preferably something not agonizingly vague. I respect your need not to over-commit. But it has been a long wait, with mixed signals. Don't we deserve some news? Something that is fair to both Serif and us?
regards
- Patrick Connor and joykafka
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I really can't agree with this, "AP in this thread led customers to believe that a DAMwas in the cards in near future". People might have misled themselves, but all I ever saw from Serif/AP years ago about DAM in Affinity Photo, was a statement that it was on a list of things that they might get around to looking at one day, but it was definitely not on their priority/action list, and don't expect anything any time soon.
As far as I can tell, it has never gotten onto their priority/action list, and they have never said that it has.
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Thanks, that's very interesting. And a little bit exciting.
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@GFS that's great, but is there any means today, or possibility in the future, for a Lightroom user to go over to Photos without losing everything? At least keeping keywords/tags and star ratings? I appreciate that keeping Collections is probably a bridge too far.
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Wow, that's enormously disappointing to hear, 3 years after heaing it's planned. Skylum first hinted that they were working on a DAM late 2017, and apparently it is on the verge of launch.
Maybe you could have given a better hint into timing, so people can plan their photo software strategy. It's no minor matter.
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Seeing some serious aliasing in Sigma x3f files from the sdQ when processed in beta 11. On a positive note, happy not to see those pesky pdaf black dots.
Yes this is the same issue I raised here, and opened a thread for, which contains links to online examples, but so far not even an acknowledgement. Complete silence. It has been a couple of weeks now.
Does this mean they don't see the issue? I'm imagining it? Or I am a nobody and don't count? Who knows?
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Thanks for addressing the Sigma sd Quattro focus pixels, but you still haven't addressed (or even dignified with a response or discussion) the much larger problem with Sigma Quattro camera files, that I raised in this thread, with links to examples.
There is seriously no point in fixing the focus pixels if the images remain this poor in the broader, more general sense.
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I'm posting as a beginner. I would like to be able to synthesise the effect of a wide-aperture lens.
I assume it involves accurately selecting the area that I want to remain sharp, then working on the unselected area.
I would like to be able to transition the effect, either sharply (near subject against a distant background), or smoothly (subject against a receding background).
thank you
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Hi, new buyer here, also rather new to powerful image editing, so assume minimal experience please.
Micro Four Thirds raw files (Panasonic .RW2, Olympus .ORF) contain embedded lens correction information. Does AP apply these corrections when opening the files? If not, how do I get them to be applied?
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I bought it and paid AUD 49.99. At first I wasn't sure if I missed out on the discount, but it is equivalent to about 38 USD so I think the discount worked.
Happy camper so far.
Snapshots in Affinity Photo on iPad? Where is this function?
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
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Snapshots for iPad is in the History Studio that is bottom right on the main screen. Cheers