Affinity Rat

ok thanks for that clarification.

@Alfred, so that works like an online based app, ie, no active subscription no access to even for your old files and using your old software, ie you must logon to use it.

Yes I found it interesting that there are 4 directors roles, Ash being one, with occupation labeled Managing Director, a director resigned Occupation secretary and when Canva and Serif merged, Carpenter took 2 roles of both director, occupation chief legal officer and role secretary when occupation director Bates resigned 20 March 2024. The info on the link not clear to me that someone’s role of secretary has occupation of director. However there was a director juggle, at that time of the merger, no surprise really. Yes, it good to see Ashley keeping his foot on the ground, regarding the status of Affinity products.

What is Ash’s role now?, his profile labels him as staff.

@Alfred that maybe true no reason to question that, but what is his role in the direction the company pursues once the company is under the wing of a larger company.

I hope so, we’ll see. Politicians always try to say what the public demand, but the final outcome not always consistent with the rhetoric. I see Ash responds to posts re issues in Affinity products, not usually a role attributed to individuals making management decisions. Again we’ll see, I just hope the financials and Canva allow this path to be followed.

This option would also be great to provide feedback to Serif invaluable info regarding who their audience is and what they want and use. This would allow devs to put their energy where it will pay off, and not merely do what most devs do, ie build what they want or are interested in, then expect users to be appreciative, when they have to learn new ways to do the same old thing. Existing users that have invested time resent having to relearn what they already spent time learning. Microsoft , Apple et al do this all the time Windows 8 for example and countless others.

I have no desire to pay for bling I wont use, this is true for Photoshop too. Most people only use at most 10% of Photoshop features, so maybe great for real pros that use more features, but the masses wont ever know they exist or how to use them, and certainly not willing to pay for them. I suspect that many users particularly one-off multimedia users will not be willing to pay for a regular subscription. The subscription based business model is the way all companies want to go, it allows to predict their income in advance. If a subscription based model allowed a very cheap base price and allowed users to choose and pay for specific features they actually need would be much more palatable option than paying for functionality the user doesnt need or want. The business model should follow the pizza restaurant model, base price, packages with set ingredients then option to build from the base, extra cost for extra, cheese, mushrooms, olives, pepperoni no anchovies, no pineapple (just shootem for even considering). .

It appears that there is a likelihood that with the advent of a merger of Canva a subscription based editor and Serif, that Serif products may become subscription based in the future. If that happens, can Serif/Canva cripple existing Affinity apps to force a transition to the subscription based model? ie will old unadulterated software versions still be available? Not having a subscription based model is a large contributing factor in Affinity products success. Looking at Canva and its reviews on iPad, I dont see the benefit to me. Canva seems to target non-artists that want a simple way to produce multimedia. The iPad already has issues regarding memory management and throwing in video and audio into the mix will only exacerbate an existing problem on the iPad. Reviews tell of the problems with video editing…. no surprise.

For Windows users the free Powertools power renamer from Microsoft works great. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/powerrename

Thank you for your response and confirmation.

The problem regarding alignment on iPad stem from the fact there is no way to precisely nudge a layer, how many times to play ping pong typing in x and y displacements. The units parameter has a incremental arrow to change but not the x and y layer positions.

How did you align the individual tiles and gaps. I found this frustrating for what should be a simple task. Snapping to guides or snapping to objects.

My D750 does have crude grid overlay, but alas I didnt use it!

Thank you NotMyFault for your assistance in solving this pesky issue, good job! 😊 I had completely overlooked the gap issue between tiles.😕

The only way to guide my correction in camera raw is using the crop overlay, without a guide I’m just guessing.

According to Ken Rockwell “The Nikon 85mm f/1.8 AF-D has no visible or measurable distortion at any distance. Whatever it may be, it's less than what would take a factor of ±0.1 in Photoshop's lens” Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D - DXOMARK Distortion . 0.1 %. Vignetting -1.3 EV. Chr. aberration . 4 µm ... Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D Actually when I used the term distortion, I didnt mean distort attributable to the lens, but rather distortion due to the fact that the angle of incidence is not exactly perpendicular to the plane of the tile.

Tried adjusting distortion in camera raw, but no guides to assist.

ok, different camera, lens and flash, this lens 85 mm.

I suspect this is an impossible task, as the camera distortion can not be fixed to allow the image to be tiled. Yes it can be forced into a rectangle, but tile alignment of contiguous tiles very difficult to achieve.

Back to APho, perspective not working that well of me either. Uneven lighting also a prob.

I suspect this approach wont work because the problem isnt merely rotation, the camera angle has distorted the tile shape, and no manner of rotation alone can fix that.

Tried to follow your suggestion but not working for me, symbols all rotate when center pixel layer rotated but dont align for me. Maybe snapping issue, as all symbols not aligned vertically or horizontally. Finding alignment very fiddley, as I’m not that familiar with Symbol usage and snapping not behaving as I would expect.

I dont want to distort the tile in such a way that makes it rectangular, but maintains the actual aspect ratio ie doesnt change the width or height. 30x45cm

Attached is a photo I took of a tile, I would like to make it a perfect rectangle, how to accomplish that? All I could think of is mesh warp and snapping, any easier way? It quite difficult taking a handheld photo and keeping everything rectilinear, given lens and angle issues. Dxo had a tool to force parallel, or force rectangular I suspect there is an easy way to do this. tile.afphoto