Xyphien

Of course you don't, because why would you add anything worthwhile to this program.

I was on the pixel layer. Advancements are made on complaining. If you remove complaining there's no room for companies to evolve. Did the sonic movie get changed because everyone kept their complaints to themselves? No. I wish I knew, I even saved and re-opened it and it's still unable to be used. 90% of the tutorials aren't geared to the specific needs I have at the time. If they are then they're like 12 minutes long on how to delete the background of an image, which is baffling to me lol. Why can't I just highlight it and click the delete button rofl. It may be my first post, but I've been attempting to use this for a while now. I actually asked for a refund about a year and a half ago but my S/O was using it so I retracted the email and kept it. So it's not like I'm someone just grabbing it and complaining. This is over a year of build up. Ah yes, go to any affinity photo tutorial that's several minutes long explaining how to do something simple, and see the sheer amount of people confused and looking into how to do something that takes half a second on another program. ^^^ So... many of them are like that lol. Yeah, you have a point. It still sucks THIS is the 'best' alternative for PS though. I'd be willing to pay more if there was something out there that just functioned better and made logical sense. Sadly, it's either pay an arm and a leg monthly/yearly for PS or suck up and use this extremely below standard program which I own anyway. The price tag isn't bad, but what you get for the price tag is bad.

Since I quit using photoshop I've tried time and time again to force myself to use affinity and every time it causes me a huge headache. Why is everything overly complicated for absolutely no reason, why is it that out of no where I'm unable to use the marquee tool to select things, why is it that clicking delete when you have the marquee tool selected deletes the entire photo and not the selected are, why does the brush randomly turn into 10% opacity when it's set to 100% even through it worked two seconds ago. Why can't the program just work like any other program in existence works. It makes trying to do logos and designs a huge headache, literally. I try to google things, and the overly complicated steps to 'fix' the problems nine times out of ten don't even do what I need it to do. These features I mentioned are a single click of a button in photoshop. You select the select/marquee tool and BOOM you can use it. You select a brush, and BOOM it's being used exactly how you want it to be used. You want to delete something in the selected area? Duh, why else would. you. select. it. of course it deletes. Yet for some reason this program refuses to use common stuff that I assumed everyone used throughout history of photo editing software. Can someone please shed some light on why it's like this? If I can get some sort of logical answer it'd at least allow me to put myself in the prospective of that and I can understand that there's a purpose to this madness. However I simply cannot fathom any logical reason behind any of this sort of stuff.