kai.wheatley

Although I think it's great that you guys have maintained a perpetual license for all your products at a reasonable price, I think it's ridiculous that you would not offer current license holders a discounted price for v2. We have already paid for a perpetual license. Key word there is perpetual. I understand that creating and maintaining software costs money, and that you deserve to be rewarded for your work - but you are essentially going back on your word. It wasn't a perpetual license I purchased, it was a versioned license I purchased, marketed as a perpetual license, which is dishonest marketing. The only reason I purchased your software in the first place was because of the dishonest and manipulative practices of that other company. I have no issues paying for a major upgrade of the software, however asking current license holders to pay full price is essentially making us pay 2x the amount of new users. We already bought the software, and going from v1 to v2 is an upgrade, it is not a completely new software. Don't be like those other guys. And don't try and claim the "40% launch price" should be enough, because the 40% discount seems to be active more than it's inactive, meaning that the 40% is closer to regular than the claimed regular price. Truthfully, another somewhat dishonest marketing tactic...

Thanks for the replies. I am using a wacom cintiq with a pen, so using the mouse wheel or track pad is not a solution for me. With photoshop, you can just hold R and drag either the mouse, or in my case, press the pen to the screen and drag. I don't have an intuos ring. @Old Bruce how do you do it with your tablet? Are you using your fingers or the pen?

Hello - it's been a year since my last post on this same matter. I am going to sound whiny and probably rude - but why on earth have you STILL not added a freehand rotation? This is an incredibly simple (at least it seems like it should be!) feature, that is incredibly important to anyone doing any kind of drawing/painting, and I would think for photo editing as well. When drawing, users NEED to be able to flip the canvas freely any which way and at any angle in order to compensate for the lack of mobility when using a drawing tablet. Normally, on paper, artists flip the paper all over the place to make the best lines using the natural directional movements of our wrists/arms. Having to go up to the view menu, scroll down to "rotate left" or "rotate right" and to move in 15 degree increments (or ANY increments) is truly, TRULY unacceptable from a usability/workflow standpoint. If you guys want to compete with those scumbags at adobe, you NEED to get the simple things right, and usability/workflow is the #1 drawback for someone who is trying to make the switch. Even changing the order in which you perform actions changing can be a major drawback, and a lot of artists will just continue paying adobe, rather than trying to force themselves to retrain their brains to your arbitrary workflow decisions. I know you guys have added a lot of customization, which is great, but from my experience so far, all of that customization is basically meaningless when trying to make hotkeys/layout etc closer to photoshop. I REALLY REALLY want you guys to succeed and make a huge dent in adobe's userbase, but you will NOT do it unless you make it easy for longtime photoshop users to switch over. Just copy the hotkeys of photoshop, or at LEAST add in a "photoshop mode" that allows people to choose whether or not they want to use a layout/key map that matches photoshop, and for the love of all things good, ADD IN THE ABILITY TO ROTATE THE CANVAS FREELY.......................... PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can add as many new fancy features as you want, that may even exceed what adobe has available, but I GUARANTEE you that none of those fancy features will be enough to motivate users to switch, if switching means a huge impedance to their workflow. Seriously, get the basics right and users will switch over for nothing but price alone, and after they switch they will appreciate the new fancy stuff.. but no one will get to the fancy stuff if the simple stuff isn't right. PLEASE............. focus on getting the basics and the workflow right... and please add in free rotation of the canvas. That is all.

Thanks Walt. That rotate around mouse would work, except that there is no mousewheel on my pen. A step in the right direction though.

That's what I am asking, which is why in my first line I ask "is it possible??". In the shortcut hotkeys doc, many hot keys use a mouse drag or click, so it would be reasonable to think that I could add these to custom shortcuts, but perhaps I am wrong. And, just as a point of record, I'm not sure if you work for Affinity or are just an active user, and I'm sure your comment was not meant to be condescending, but it comes off that way, and that's really no way to introduce a frustrated new user to the software. If you know that the answer is no, then just say so.

As the title suggests, I would like to add a mouse "drag" to a custom shortcut, is this possible?? I am trying to freely rotate the canvas as you can do in Photoshop with "Shift + R + drag" but I am unable to add a drag to the shortcuts. Is this possible?? This seems like a simple feature that should be implemented. Rotating in 15 degree increments is almost never what I want, as I need specific angles for specific strokes etc. It's also incredibly slow to have to hit rotate a bunch of times to get it where I want. If it's not possible to create this shortcut, please for the love of all things good....... ADD THIS BASIC FEATURE! So far Affinity seems pretty good, but it should really have all these basic workflows from PS covered. Rotating the canvas quickly and precisely may seem trivial, but it is actually a HUGE impedance to workflow. Please please please fix this if there is not already a fix for it, surely there are many users who need/want/require this basic function.