[AFD Beta 1.2.0.24974 Retail version required]

Hello,

I'm getting a message "Retail version required" when opening AFD Beta 1.2.0.24974.

But I DO have the retail version 1.2.1 installed.

I opened retail version with CTRL held down to get rid of possible left over settings, tried the beta again and still the message appeared.

In the App store, the retail version has the "open" tag.

Please advise.

Thanks,

C.L.

[non-English Help availability during Beta]

If you would like some assistance  ( f.i. checking the language /nomenclature used etc.) in Dutch, please drop me a line.

I'd like to do my bit.

C.L.

[Fading edges of a square picture]

Thank you soooo much for the speedy answer !!

You guys are wonderful : especially for a amateur like me !

Tried it, works like a charm !

:)

P.S. You must be really getting tired of all my stupid questions.

Please accept my apologies !

[Fading edges of a square picture]

Hi, MEB, Thank you.

I'm afraid I did not express myself clearly.

I've tried the mask. In fact, I've tried all available shadings of gradient (e.g. Linear,Elliptical,Radial, etc.)

None of them get me the result I would like.

To achieve the this, I would have to create 4 separate masks, one for each of the 4 sides of the picture.

Quite a labourios way of getting there..... See attachment.

The left one is the result I'm after, the right one is what I get with the presently available shadings.

Would the addition of a rectangular shading be helpful, you think ?

 

 

[AFPhoto: Brushes folder]

Thanks, Lee. I see what you mean. :)

[AFD-Beta : Perspective tool ?]

OK, I understand.

Thank you !!

[AFD-Beta : Perspective tool ?]

Is the perspective tool implemented in AffDes.Beta ?

I have not been able to find it, yet in the Grid & Axis Manager, there are perspective grids available.

 

[AFPhoto: Brushes folder]

I have quite a number of .abr files.

I would like to put them all together in a specially to be created  "Brushes" folder in the AffinityPhoto tree on my harddisk, e.g.:

Applications/AffPhotoBeta.app/contents/Resources/Brushes

Can I simply create this "Brushes" folder  without ruining AFP ?

Thank you

[Fading edges of a square picture]

How do I fade the edges of a square or rectangular picture ?

 

[AffPhotoBeta: Mouse freezes]

Has anyone else experienced this behaviour of the mouse in Affinity Designer Photo Beta  v 1.2.0.24974

 

The mouse freezes and stays frozen for half a second, when clicking on menu items, buttons etc.

then it releases and the requested action is performed.

It also happens upon startup, when clicking the "close" button of the welcome screen.

 

Coming from Windows, I am not familiar with how an iMac handles available RAM and/or system resources,

but in Windows this was a sure sign that there weren't enough memory/system resources available for the task at hand.

 

Judging by the configuration of my iMac, however, I find it hard to believe this could be the cause.

 

Hence my question : Has anyone else experienced this behaviour ?

It doesn't happen in Aff Designer, either in v 1.2 , nor in the Beta version.

It also didn't happen in earlier AFP Beta versions.

 

iMac configuration:

iMac: 27", iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)

3,5 GHz Intel Core i5

16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 2048 MB

HD : 1.2 TB

Yosemite 10.10.3

Magic mouse

 

Aff Designer Performance settings:

RAM usage : 5524 Mb

Dis usage warning at : 31744 Mb

Undo limit : 50

Autosave : 300s

Use hardware Open GL selected

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fill & stroke disappear upon using Text path]

Dave Harris & A_B_C : Thank you both for the clarification.

Coming from (Windows) Corel Draw & Corel PhotoPaint, I guess there are still a lot of things for me to get used to in AFD as well as in AFP.

Not forgetting the Mac evironment, of course.

Needless to say, all applications have their pro's and con's, as well as their peculiarities, just look at all the posts that refer to

Adobe products.

However, I think that certain pro's in other products, were they adopted in AFD & AFP, could well make them both an even stronger competitor than they already are..

Having said that : In Corel Draw & Corel Photopaint, the path and the text could be separated at the user's discretion, as would shadows of objects.

You would not be stuck with additional layers, they would simply be turned into additional objects on the same layer.

Again, thank you both for your interest in the matter.

C.L.

[Fill & stroke disappear upon using Text path]

I want to create a logo

I created an ellipse,adjusted fill & stroke,  turned it into a text path, typed the text, and made various adjustments to the text.

When finished, the stroke as well as the fill of the finished logo has disappeared.

How do I keep the fill and stroke as I originally set them at the beginning ?

See attachment. The top is the path & text as they are at the end, the bottom is the fill & stroke as I set them originally,

and as I would want them at the end product.

Thank you for your explanation in advancce.

C.L.

[AFDesigner and AFPhoto: moveable zero point of rulers]

After numerous Beta versions of both AFD and AFP, and many requests from users, and just as many promises to implement it ;

it still hasn't happened : a moveable zero point on the rulers.....

 

A real pity, for it is such a fundamental feature when in the process of designing.

Just think of the old-fashioned drawing boards.

Where would we have been if the arm holding the rulers would have been immobile ?

Same principle, really : move the zero point to whatever position you want.

I certainly hope you guys will find the time to program this in.

In the mean time : you're doing a great job !

 

[AF-Photo Beta]

When using "Save as...", the filename in the topmost bar is not updated accordingly, whereas it IS updated when using "Save..."

Is this intentional ?

Greetings,

C.L.

[AF-Photo Pattern fill]

Thank you, Evtonic3.

I  tried it out, works fine.

However, it's not quite what I meant :

I would like to be able to fill an object  (rectangle, or some such like)

with a pattern fill.

So far I haven't been able to achieve this.

Could yoou possibly give me a hint ?

Thanks

C.L.

[AFPhoto mirror filter function]

Very likely I'm doing something wrong, but when I mirror an image with the mirror filter,

the results are rather unexpected.

 

Here's what I've done:

 

>File New

>Paste image (small, square)

>Select image

>Mirror

 

The result is a huge vertical gap between the original and its mirror.

The selection handles that encompass the total image (original+mirror) show a very, very big longitudal rectangle.

I've tested this several times, the results are very eratic:sometimes the image even extends beyond the document.

 

I have posted this question a few days ago, together with an example, but so far I've not seen any reply.

I imagine you guys are extremely busy, but I'm just so darned curious as to what is going wrong.

 

Is there a trick to mirroring ?

[AF-Photo Pattern fill]

Are we going to see a pattern fill function in the future ?

Thank you

[erratic behaviour of mirror filter function]

I have tried out the mirror filter function.

Here's what I've found:

When mirroring an image, the behaviour is very eratic.

I have tried several times and each time the mirrored image:

1. Had a huge gap between the original and its mirror

2. This gap could not be closed, because the original and its mirror are one.

3. Moving the image, once mirrored, goes jumpy, the image makes huge vertical jumps, not horizontal.

4. Sometimes there is one gap and the mirrored image is smooth against its original

5. Fading the mirror (Layers,Fade Mirror) produces a sharp edged grey rectangle, not a smooth fading  transistion to transparent.

6. The original and its mirror are one, they cannot be separated. If they could be separated, the user could close any gaps.

 

I'm running AFPBeta 1.1.2.24443, on an iMac 27", 16Gb RAM

 

BTW:

Attaching the sample file in afphoto format (11Mb) produced an error message: Error You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file

 

 

So instead, here's the file exported as jpg. Hopefully you can still reproduce the behaviour.

Forum states I'm allowed to upload 194.67Mb of files (???)

[RAM memory settings in "Performance"]

I've tinkered with the RAM usage settings in "Performance".

Unfortunately, I forgot to write down the default setting.

I want to return to the default setting.

I'm running Yosemity 10.10.3, 16Gb of RAM.

Please let me know the default setting ?

Thank you.

 

 

[gradually fading picture to full transparency]

The method described works for me.

It seems though that there should be another way to achieve the same result, judging by MEB's answer.

Haven't found out how, yet, though.

 

 

BTW : I've had Aff Designer & Photo both crash quite often, especially after doing some editing, retracting, and editing again.

 

Does anyone know whether sending in the crash report to the Developer's team would do any good ?

[Edit in Photo :application not available]

I'm running Yosemity 10.10.2

I read the linked-post in your post above,

It's now clear to me why It didn't work :

The file has to be in .afdesign format.

Mine was in  .jpg.

Thank you (once again).

 

B.T.W.

As an avid reader/user of the forum, it seems to me that many of the "problems" people run into,

do NOT have to do with the functionality of the application, but more with the "HOW TO".

In the end, the questions asked are usually always solved by you guys with a "How To" answer,

which is mostly a quite simple way of doing things. And that includes your answers to my silly questions.

Therefore : Might it be an idea to include some basic How To examples in the online Help file, which in itself, is pretty good, albeit basic.

Thanks,

C.L.

[Reset Origin of rulers to different point in Designer]

I am running Aff.Designer 1.2, Aff.Designer Beta 1.2.0.24229 and AffPhoto Beta 1.1.2.24216

Unfortunately, in none of them the Moveable zero ruler point has been added yet.

However, the new Grid is very good indeed !

[Edit in Photo :application not available]

Running Aff.Designer Beta 1.2.0.24229 and AffPhoto Beta 1.1.2.24216

When trying to edit from AFDesigner into AFPhoto, I get a message

"Failed to launch AffPhoto.The application was not available"

Is this feature not working yet between the Beta versions?

Or is it not working, period ?

Because when I try to edit something made in AffDesigner and edit it in Photo, I cannot edit in Photo,

because the Edit in Photo line in the menu is greyed out.

 

[gradually fading picture to full transparency]

how do I gradually fade a picture to full transparency ?

I have not been able to find it in help, the gradient overlay

doesn't produce the desire effect : I still have a "milky" portion

where I would want full transparency.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but what ?

Thank you.

C.L.

[Refining the "refine" selection function :feature request]

Ah, thank you very much.