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Wow, that VS looks like AD should 😮
How it's possible that less known company from Finland can write something like that, and Sarif, who had many of these tools in their previous software, still can't do it? 😮- Boldlinedesign and Fixx
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Ok, OK, I found a solution, finally i guessed what to type in google...
Sorry once again for my impatience 
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On 10/10/2021 at 12:14 AM, AKSturb01 said:
In my opinion, it's a matter of no inconsiderable amount of chutzpah to market the product that way when it is missing a feature that was available to people using CorelDraw on Windows XP back in 2010
Actually, as I mentioned, some tolls like mesh gradients, extrusion, free shadows, some transformations (roughen, smooth, simple blending) were there at least from version Corel DRAW 9 back in 2001 (I remember that really well because as a kid I've got... ekhm... "a borrowed" copy from my friend's dad
I know, I know... but that's how the things looked two decades ago (especially) here in Poland)
Yeah, AD is EXTREMELY CHEAP and I don't like it to be as expensive as recent Corel versions. But a few years ago Corel DRAW Essential had far more tools and was also quite cheap (two times more expensive than Affinity, but something about 100£ or 150€ is still reasonable, Office Home and Student Box version costs the same price!)
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Perhaps I don't understand how it should work, but.. let's imagine I want to make a tint over the photo, so I create new layer (fill layer or pixel layer - it doesn't matter), apply a gradient and set one of it's colors transparent...
Then a tint in the middle appear... a tint which has a color of the transparent end of the gradient!
... well, technically transparent end remains white according to the UI, but I can choose that white circle and set for example red color and get something like on the picture below...So, once again to clarify: I choose gradient, set one end e.g. blue, another transparent white... and get transparent to blue gradient with white tint in the middle. Then I can click transparent circle, set it's color to red using color wheel and the result looks like that. Circle remains white, tint changes...
I've disabled OpenCL, and changed color space to RGB/16.
Oh, it happens also with more colors... so to simply problem: why transparent colors in gradients leaves it's tint?
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(OK, i found a solution, I thought is a new bug because I enabled OpenCL ;))
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Perhaps Corel Standard Price would be fair and competitive with more tools added... but I'd say that 100€ will be better if they still want to attract many amatours (that's good for marketing) and some pro begginers.
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I think that Andy05 thought about such tools like Krita.
It's obvious that currently AD isn't right tool for designing such things like icons, logos, leaflets etc. Especially for amateours - because it will be too hard and complicateed - and as well for the pros - it will be too slow and with too many workarounds. For such tasks we nedd such things like grid gradients, knife, some transformations, free shadows...
For vector painting some fancy brushes, line tools, contour tools etc. can be enough, because the main tool you use then it's your artsy gift, hand and digital pen.
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Good point, eight ways to create a corner and no way to create grid gradient, cut shapes using knife, make at least some of many possible transformations... very dissapointing comparing to the AP.
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Yeah, that's true, but I thought that calculations that must be made, rules and algorithms that has to be used are the same for any knife or envelope tool, so they don't have to figure out how to make such tool for vector graphics, how it works. They know it, they know what to implement, they "only" have to rewrite the code... Isn't that true? Of course it requires some work and time, but does it really require so many years? I understand that the code itself, the language used to write it, some libraries, frameworks and perhaps some other things are different now, but are they so different that adding some basic tools is almost like re-inventing them?
Some of these tools are known and used for at least two decades.
But Perhaps AD has different philosophy and will be always as wired as Corel Photo-Paint - an app that nobody uses?
It looks that it's rather vector painting app than vector designing app
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As a amateur I also have an impression that AP is far more functional, has much more features and even though I don't know how good it is for professional work I feel that for the non-experienced user it's really great app, it's really worth it's price - actually it's price on current sale is fantastic.
I've just retouched a lot of my wallpapers, it was quite easy, fast nad far more pleasant that it would be in GIMP
Unfortunately I feel that AD is really, really weak. OK, it has great UI, especially comparing to Inkscape, but some missing tools are really essential not only for professionals but also for amateurs!
Sadly, some must-have tools for pros seems to be less important from my perspective and vice versa. I really miss eraser, knife, shadow, envelope, extrude and first of all mesh fills, but not necessarily all these fancy path and line tools or adding dimensions....
So it will be still many unsatisfied users no matter how many new features they add...
...but some unhappy users are stil better than having all of them disappointed
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I was shocked that there are no tools like Eraser, Knife, Shadow, Distort, Envelope, Extrude and some transform tools (Roughen, Smudge) in AD 😮
I've just tried Affinity Photo and it's really great so I thought that I will finally get also some good vector graphics tool for occasional personal use because Corel is extremely expensive nowadays and it's "cheaper" version has less and less tools every year... but AD doesn't have some tools that I've seen in Corel TWENTY or at least SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO!
I don't understand it, since many of them are really basic and as other users noticed Serif offered them in their previous app DrawPlus X8 (last version from 2015 if I'm correct)!
Even Gimp seems to have more tools... It's sad because some of them are really crucial for less experienced users (for example Eraser, Knife, Envelope, Extrude...)
It would be great if we knew if and when some of these tools will be finally added. Without them buying AD makes no sense, especially that 2.0 version will be a separate product.
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Please give us a possibility to dock the color palette in the form of a single line of swatches at the bottom of the window like in Corel applications for example. I wil be very handy especially for those who use Pantone palettes or big sets of custom swatches.
APhoto - wrong result with softproof absolute colorimetric
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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I've tried to check what you wrote and I see that there is (?) indeed a problem with absolute colorimetric intent.
But can you explain me one thing... when are these intents used? I thought that they're used during color conversion while printing... But I agree that in such case soft proofing wouldn't be possible (?)... so we can also use one of them - Absolute Colorimetric - to simulate printing media white point during soft proofing, right? And is this the thing that does not work in AP?
You wrote that "I even tried to set everything in APhoto (color preferences, document CMYK) to ISOnewspaper with the goal to "see" the color how they would look when printed on the typical yellowish newpaper paper. It seems there is now way to do this in Aphoto." That's true.
But you also suggested, that instead of working in one color space and the soft proof your work for different usage scenarios, in AP you have to choose desired color profile on the beginning But that (see your statement above) won't let you see how yellow is your paper.
And... it's also not possible in Krita.
If I convert image color space of my example sRGB image into ISOnewspaper (Absolute Colorimetric, BlackPoint Compensation) results are the same in Krita and AP.
Either I don't understand something as a noob, or you simply mixed to many things in your posts - because as I can see the only difference between Krita and AP is soft proofing in AC intent, setting document color profile to ISOnewspeper gives me the same extremely bright white and high contrast on the image...
So the soft proofing in AP is broken indeed if we want simulate white color of the specific media, but as I can see "out of gamut" colors are identically marked.