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    Is Development of Affinity Design Active?

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    I am just wondering if Development of Affinity Design is still Active or has it plateued in favour of other projects?

     

    There are a couple design houses asking me, and I am apt to say stick with Adobe because they are still in active development.

    Don't get me wrong, I love the potential of Affinity Design/Photo but as it stands, I could not really call it professional.

     

    There seems to be a breadth of features that are promised to come to Design/Photo, but I am just wondering if this is more of a wait 2 years and see.

     

    Cheers!

     

    Mars 

    Frame Text - Copy Text to external editor

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    Hmm interesting,

     

    I closed the Affinity Designer Document and re-opened it, and now I do have a contextual menu on right-click now.

     

    Also I notice that on paste into text edit the text is getting pasted but at 0.5 pt perhaps this is why I did not see it?

     

    select all and command + fixes this, 

     

    Just some strange behaviour I am not used to.

     

    About utilities,  I do have 1 password manager, google drive and creative cloud, but no other utilities that I can think of that would intercept the clip board.

     

    It is odd that the contextual menu was not working before, I assure you I know how to right-click :)

     

    Mars

    Frame Text - Copy Text to external editor

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    Hi marsofearth,

    Can you give us a few more details?

    Was the text in the text frame pasted from another source or was created/written in Affinity Designer/Photo?

    Which plain text editor are you trying to copy the text to?

     

    Sorry I'll try to be more clear.

     

    Using Affinity Designer, I used the Frame Text Tool to create a text frame.

    I then typed text into the text frame.

    I then wanted to copy that text into another application.

    I tried Apple Notes, Text Edit, Pages, Microsoft Word, even Google Docs.

     

    Since there is no contextual right/click menu when selecting the text from within the Text Frame, I tried Command-C then Command-V,

    Then tried the copy from the Edit menu.

     

    Thats my story and I am sticking to it!

     

    thanks.

    Introduce Yourself

    in News and Information

    Posted

    Hello, my name is Mars and I am an Affinity addict.

     

    From the first time I tried Affinity Design, I have been "chasing the dragon" ever since.

     

    Reason I like Affinity Designer and Photo.

     

    #1 - Render engine is FAST! - Scrolling and zooming is butter smooth, moving objects is not a painful operation as it is in Illustrator and photoshop.

     

    #2 - Has Just enough features to make it useable for work.  - It just eaks in there on tools, but the performance puts it so far ahead I still save hours of time in layout I don't mind working graphics in photoshop/illustrator and then importing to Affinity for layout.

     

    To the developers, thank you for the performance, please don't ever sacrifice it for more features.

     

    To the developers; are you open to bribes?  Do you need some LED driving lights? Maybe a high output flashlight? My company sells LED lights and I really appreciate the time savings Affinity design has granted me.

     

    Mars

    Printing

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    Printing is still in the 'Dark Ages' generally speaking.  Although most descent Print Shops will be able to take an sRGB image and represent it well into print.  

     

    When a print shop asks you to submit your work as CMYK they are really just wanting you to see how "messed" up your images look before printing.

    They'll be tossing your colour profile and using their own 90% of the time.

     

    Pantone swatches are for colour consistency in documents, logos, solid graphics.  Kind of like the "Paint" colour swatches you will find at a paint store.  

    It does not guarantee exact colour output of what you see on your screen vs the print, but does give you consistency through out your graphics, document(s)

     

    Every once in a while try to do a simple monitor calibration.  The Operating System provides this for you, it will help.

     

    But here are some quick tips that I use for printing photos;

    1. Only work on copies of original images. (so you can always go back)
    2. Use proPhoto colour profile when adjusting images
    3. Once happy with adjusted image, make a copy and then CONVERT to sRGB-2.1 to see apprx what it will look like for print
    4. Make some tweaks on the sRGB-2.1 image
    5. Run a test print
    6. Make adjustments to sRGB-2.1 image
    7. Repeat 5-6 till happy.

    After a time of adjusting your images and printing you will come to "see/know" how your images will print on your printer.

    Print enough and you may only need to do one test print, and if you get lucky or are not too fussy may only need one proof.

     

    Try to stick with one colour profile for all your images that works with your Camera, then your Screen and your printer.

     

    I use proPhoto because it works well with my camera, maintains a good amount of colour information, and converts well to sRGB-2.1

     

    sRGB -2.1 is pretty standard and most monitors will be able to show the full gamut of this colour profile if not, pretty darn close.

    Also sRGB will give you a pretty close idea of what the image will look like when printed on a decent inkjet printer.

    ( you may have to do some tweaking in the blues and oranges )

     

    Don't forget paper, it makes a huge difference.  If you have a Canon printer and wish more easily reproduce on your screen, use Canon paper and the proper "paper" profile in the printer setup.

    Using other paper is perfectly fine, but you will need to test print many times to find the proper screen/print/paper conversion.

     

    I know this does not help at all, but don't feel bad, everyone has issues with prints if they are honest with themselves. :)

    Copy Table & Design from Apple Numbers

    in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts

    Posted

    Hi marsofearth, 

    Have you tried exporting the Numbers table as a PDF and then importing the PDF into Designer? 

    Paul. 

     

    Nope,  Reason being is I do not want an entire worksheet, I only want my styled tables.

     

    If you have Photoshop or even Pages try simply doing a copy paste, it works a treat, no added steps.

     

    I understand there is "always a way", but copy/paste is my request.

    Copy Table & Design from Apple Numbers

    in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts

    Posted

    Would be really nice to be able to copy/past Apple Numbers spreadsheet tables into Affinity Designer.

     

    Right now it is pretty rubbish, and If I want to get a table pasted into Affinity Designer I need to Copy from Apple Numbers, Paste into Adobe Photoshop, export as PSD, import PSD into Affinity designer.

     

    I say Apple Numbers because the table design tools are the best there is, fast easy and very good quality.

     

    This would negate Affinity Designer having to get too involved in creating its own table designer, In Design tables are trash also, but I can copy/paste from Apple Numbers.

     

    Thanks,

    Edit Designer Layer in Affinity Photo

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    Hello,

     

    I am wondering if there is a way to quickly edit a raster layer that is in Affinity Designer in Affinity Photo.

     

    I use this feature in Illustrator all the time.  I select an Illustrator Layer that is a raster and select it to edit in Adobe Photoshop.

     

    As I am updating/editing the image in Photoshop, I can watch it change/edit in Illustrator.

     

    I am sure this must be possible, just can not find the obvious way of doing this in Designer.

     

    Thank You!

     

     

     

    Can I store and catalogue photos within Affinity Photo?

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    Nope.  Not that I have found.  Affinity Photo is an editor, not a catalogue app.

     

    Hmmm You can use Affinity Photo as the "External Editor" for iPhoto, which allows you to keep your images catalogued within iPhoto, but not in Apple Photos from what I can tell.

     

    I like Lyn - http://www.lynapp.com/index.html

     

    not free but pretty affordable.

     

    Someone just pointed me to Emulsion for Mac, looks interesting for cataloguing also: http://www.emulsionapp.com

    Affinity Designer Wish List Sheet

    in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts

    Posted

    You know we have a forum for requesting features...?

     

    ;)

     

    Yup, but I find a forum is a better place for discussion, and not any good at quickly finding a list... 

    I am not suggesting not posting to the forum, life is not binary.

     

    I understand that a user should really sit down and read every single post that goes in the forum... but who really does that?  

    The First Post has some items,  but is not complete, not even close.

     

    lol… posting an off-site feature wish list on the feature wish list forum.   :ph34r:  :D

     

    Thank you for lightening my evening. You're awesome!

     

     

    Not sure what is baffling, I don't make my grocery lists on forums...

    What is the difference between Lanczos seperable and non-seperable.

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    Why dumb it down?  "Normal" users will either figure it out, or ask.  

     

    I don't think anyone wants anything "Dumb" down.  Just simplified.

     

    For curious users, like those few here at the forums a simple (Advanced Option) could allow for choosing preferred mathematical algorithm.

     

    I have no problem with the export system as it stands now, I quickly researched it and tested a couple images and figured it out.

     

    However, there are plenty of extremely talented artistic people who would look at those exports and just say, HUH? Choose one randomly and be upset if the result did not match their expectation.

    So when my wife complains about such UI deficiencies, I don't roll my eyes and blame her for not understanding mathematical algorithms, I ask her what she wants the result to be and choose from there.

     

    It is really easy for Geeks to criticize average users lack of understanding of complex computer operations.

    When you explain these operations in a clear simplified explanation, often people say, "Why doesn't it just say that!"  

    And THEY are RIGHT.  No matter how far up the hackles get raised by computer programers, engineers, UI Designers. Stop blaming the user.

    What is the difference between Lanczos seperable and non-seperable.

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    Looks to me that everyones argument is proving a singular point,

    that the follow Export settings:

     

    Lanczos seperable

    Lanczos non-seperable 

     

    Has very little meaning to most designers, and do not accurately describe to designers what the end result target is for the image.

     

    Nearest Neighbour

    Bilinear

    Bicubic

     

    Are likely just as confusing for new users, but since they are established settings in other applications (photoshop for example) they confuse less people.

     

    A more descriptive setting would help clarify the obvious issues people are having.

     

    A little i. info graphic with pop-up with full description would also help inform the user what the settings end result aim is.

     

    HOWEVER:

     

     

    Ultimately when exporting an image a User generally wants to know:

     

    Quality - ( Low --- ^ --- High)

    Sharpness - (Smooth --- ^ ---- Sharp)

    File Size Result .........

     

    The actual naming of the equations used is mostly superflous to the user.

    Perhaps let advanced users choose which equation they wish to use, and normal users simply choose with a little slider Quality and Sharpness and let Affinity decide the equation.

    Designer or Photo on a 12" Retina Macbook?

    in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)

    Posted

    we ended up falling for the 13" MacBook Pro Retina instead -The only reason we wavered was just because the 12" looked so delicate and we've got a 2-and-a-half year old running around the house so worried it may not survive very long! ;)

     

    Matt

     

    I hear yah!  We have gone through the "Terrible 2's" phase with our girls.  My wife's 13" Air has withstood drops, bangs, peanut-butter fingers and spills.  

    Still working great (though battery is tired) for my wife's needs (heavy Pintrest, some photo, mostly web and streaming video/music)

     

    I am sure you are going to LOVE the new 13" Macbook Pro.  Love to hear how Serif's apps perform on it.

     

    Cheers!

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