HeyTheresTony

This is me as well. I spend time at home where all the servers are and then more time on the road. Where I create content. Or would, if there were a way to bypass Affinity Photo 2's hunt for the stupid NAS. Come on, Affinity, just give me a way to get around this so I can do my work and edit my photos on the road.

Unfortunately this isn't the first time something's been "new and improved" and the result has been neither. Apple's not immune - they totally re-wrote their suite of word process/spreadsheet and all of that and took a lot of features away. Hey, wait, they did the same thing with iMovie. What the French, toast?

If I wanted my life to be a more Windows-like experience I could just take an ice pick to the eye or go run in front of the 3:15 bus.

I do a lot of work with multiple formats of the same image so I used to use drag-and-drop between images. It seems to have vanished in V2 which is a huge kick in my workflow's pants. I have two screens on my confuser (MacBook Pro 14 - 2021 Apple M1 Pro chip, 16GB RAM, Ventura 13.0.1) - one is the laptop's screen (duh) but the other is an iPad that can serve as a second screen. It's portable and works really well. In the previous Affinity Photo I could go to the Layers palette and drag pieces from the originating document to another open document and the images or text or whatever would just come right across. In V2 it doesn't seem to let me. Yeah, yeah, I can copy and paste I guess and that works too, but the drag-and-drop was nifty and easier, to me. Am I missing a setting or is this yet another feature in the "improved" (is it really?) version of Photo?

I often work on multiple hero images for articles I'm writing, so I want them to share much of the same Meta data. In V2 for MacOS (MacBook Pro 14 inch 2021, M1 Pro chip w/16GB RAM on Ventura 13.0.1) when I export the Meta data Affinity crashes every stinking time. Fortunately when the devil inside my computer realizes the crash it reopens Affinity and the files I had open and puts them back to their last state. Knowing for certain that the crash is coming I always save the file. When I reopen I can export the Meta data like nothing happened. Darn - I just realized this should have been in Affinity Photo 2, not Designer. AAAAAGH!

Well this stinks. I came to figure out how to activated it and, well, there's no way. I can hear the trombones playing as I type this. Wah, wah.