bayustudio
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Not everyone requires generative AI. As an app with non-subscription model, No way Affinity can afford cloud-based generative AI capabilities.
So, just like many people suggest here, It might be better to offer it as add-ons, either developed by Affinity or third-party providers, then let users to cover the subscription costs for that.
I believe extension API/scripting is currently work in progress, hopefully it get released under ver 2.Introducing generative AI as core features can also be risky, since people still have divided opinion about it.
Just as an example, what happened with Clip Studio when they unveiled its plan for generative AI, it got hard negative reaction from the community, leading Celsys to eventually abandon the feature.
While Procreate said no to generative AI (because it doesn't in-line with their value). Users appreciated it and Procreate is doing fine.Therefore, Affinity should take the time to gain a deeper understanding of its user base.
For the time being, I would be happy if Affinity maintains its primary focus on editing things.. since some basic functionalities are currently missing.
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I've tried photoshop generative fill and it was enjoyable.
however, the process is done in the cloud with the trained model from millions of adobe stock photos.if generative fill really happens in affinity (as core features), it would likely turn Affinity into a subscription-based service, right?
Not sure the majority of users will be happy with it
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I tried it out and performance seems good. The speedy Affinity I knew is back! Thanks for fixing it.
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I believe Generative fill is just impossible with Affinity.
It would be challenging to handle the costs associated with cloud processing and training photo dataset licenses.
Photoshop can do that because its subscription-based, has huge cloud infrastructure and own Adobe stocks.It would be more feasible to integrate Affinity with a third-party AI generative images provider, which allow users to have the choice to subscribe to such services if they want.
So Affinity can focus on their thing.
I would still be excited to see basic AI tools integrated into Affinity, such as object selection, sharpening, enlargement, etc
those are useful for photo editing and does not rely on cloud processing.- Frozen Death Knight and CM0
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In ipad+apple pencil, pressure accumulation was working fine in earlier ver 2 updates, but now it's broken again since the recent update.
For the desktop version, I never got this working, except in very old version like 1.8.xHopefully, the developer can find a solution since this functionality is essential in digital painting
"hard round pressure opacity" brush is commonly used in tutorials and courses. This bug makes people think that Affinity cannot be used for digital painting
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If you use chrome and just want to treat photopea as an desktop "app" (with shortcut & dedicated window)
In chrome, Choose menu - more tools - create shortcut
then name the app and tick "open as window"
haven't tried in linux but works well in windows & macThis way you don't need electron wrapper (huge stack of chromium+nodejs) just for running photopea.
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Ah i see, I'm using this device for light sketch and vectoring work and have been doing well with v1. Yeah i'm also amazed how this baseline ipad can be so useful
i'll try to free up more spaces and reduce the undo limit and will see if things improves.
Thanks for your suggestion!
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On 12/7/2022 at 8:16 PM, NotMyFault said:
Keep in mind the known bug: any zoom level >200 crashes designer in pixel view mode. No other triggers required. And the video shows zoom level far above this treshhold.
I experienced this issue and can avoid by refraining myself from zooming too much. Thanks for the info
However, i'm still experiencing app crash on other random occasion that i can't identify the trigger yet.
Happen on any document, fresh blank document. eg: sketching in 1 raster layer. then drawing vector on top of it.
Its really frustrating to Keep losing my drawing progress.ipad 8th generation. ipad OS 15.5
storage available 676MB of 32GBMy ipad is not the high end, but i don't have issue with performance at all in affinity v2 app.
This app doesn't have dedicated save button? in order to save, you have to back to main landing screen and open the document it again.
is it correct?
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I experienced the same issue. After a while, Designer 2 get laggy, and any operations even simple one like selecting, deselecting object takes ~1-3s.
The only solution for me is restarting the app periodically when it start to feel laggy.
Also when closing app, i often need to to do "end task" manually in task manager because the app seems to crash.
Looking forward to stability improvement on v2 🙂
*Designer 2 on Windows 10. Ryzen 7 3700X + 16GB Ram + GTX 3650 Super.
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I got the same issue in desktop version, but In ipad version with apple pencil, it seems to be working fine.
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Aaand they cancel it within less than a week after the announcement
https://www.clipstudio.net/en/news/202212/02_01/Yeah the way AI image generator work is kinda exploiting artists and it was weird controversial addition considering their userbase.
but I'm glad celsys at least listen to them, (and also to prevent ruining their reputation even more with their subscription things)This can be a good lesson for Serif too.
Better to implement AI for useful assistive things like selection, image enlargement, etc
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yeah, a lower bundle price is very common and a good strategy to attract users to enter (and hopefully get locked) into the ecosystem.
with adobe, it even more extreme, like $20 for one app VS all 25+ apps for $55
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I believe the simplifying path is fundamental functionality in vector app which is surprisingly still missing in Affinity.
Affinity is great when working with clean nodes from scratch with its pen tool.
However, once dealing with complex or dirty node objects, it becomes a deal breaker.I couldn't even use the pencil tool effectively because of the necessity to manually clean up nodes it produces.
too bad because sculpt option in pencil is niceHopefully Serif make this a higher priority.
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16 hours ago, debraspicher said:
That's unfortunate, but you did get the later features. Some of us had to wait a bit for current tools. Though it is nice to be part of something as it changes over time. So yeah, you'll get to enjoy that feeling with V2.
Yeah, the excitement when a company announce new shiny features and you can get them right away
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3 hours ago, BigGandalf said:
I was sold on misleading info on the understanding that I'd have at least a couple of years of full updates. I've only had this app 6 months and now I won't get my full updates.
Wondering where you got the misleading info about the free update.
I got AD 1 year ago and AP 6 months ago. both are already in the last major version of 1.x. So unfortunately I never experienced major feature updates as well
But I was aware that free updates are only until version 2 becomes available, it is stated somewhere on the specs page.
Yes it's like a gamble because serif doesn't inform V2 release schedule 🙂
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1 hour ago, HoueK said:
PS does anyone know how long the 40% discount will last?
According to other thread, 14 December, still plenty of time for evaluating trial version 🙂
On 11/14/2022 at 11:26 PM, Patrick Connor said:The 40% off Software Sale will be available until the 14th December 2022.
When the sale ends it will go to full price
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1 hour ago, Gary.JONES said:
To add to the opinion here ...
It looks to me that the beautifully-designed v1 app originally developed for the Mac Platform has been dumbed down and mangled into an ugly compromise, to make it compatible with Windows and to meet a marketing deadline.
Much of the elegance of MacOS + v1 has been stripped out in favour of middle-of-the-road solutions designed by committee.
For anyone who goes to the Affinity website, one word stands out ... the first word on their home page ...
PROFESSIONAL
Professional creatives want professional tools.
Mac creatives want tools that leverage the elegant simplicity of MacOS - and which are consistent across Mac platforms and with the MacOS usability guidelines.
Not something that's been deconstructed, then rebuilt using stone knives and bearskins.
But Affinity is cross platform apps for both Mac & Windows creatives & pros. which need to maintain UI consistency between OS.. Some degree of compromise is unavoidable 🙂 just like Adobe, blender, etc
Hopefully, UI things get improved soon based on user feedbacks.
But I still appreciate that all apps are built natively
Lot of other companies doing much worse cross-platform implementation by using a kind of web/electron, flutter, java or own platform that clunky, eg: Adobe XD, Ms Onenote, Teams, Evernote, etc... -
It's not the most feature-complete app (there are common features that surprisingly still missing)
but in other areas, there are a lot of things Affinity Designer feels modern & innovative.
eg: vector+pixel hybrid, performant engine, studio links, etc
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If no backward compatibility is by design, Maybe it's a better idea to differentiate the extension to avoid confusion
because both v1 & v2 has same extension .afdesignfor example for v2 file, it can be untitled.afdesign2
like what Microsoft did with .doc and .docx
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I think v1 has been around too long, and 6 years of free updates give a false impression of a lifetime update..
There's a stereotype that adobe subscription= greedy evil, so one-time affordable alternatives like Affinity, Procreate, and Clipstudio is the loved one by the community. Besides the good quality of the software itself, the pricing is the factor that gives them a lot of popularity.. people happily recommend it to others even without a referral incentive.
when there are changes related to pricing or spending more, it will be resulting a lot of vocal dissatisfaction that happens organically.A worse thing happened to Clip Studio Paint a few months before, when they announced the upcoming app version and told perpetual 1.x owner will not get updated features anymore. plus the introduction of optional subscriptions makes them kind of got canceled on social media.
Imagine what could happen if Serif announced a subscription plan 😀
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6 hours ago, ChopperNova said:
Such a great comparison here! worth as own article.. thanks for sharing
Yeah depending on the use case, In various real-world scenarios, I also found that affinity is comparable enough with adobe apps.
The only dealbreaker for me is its compatibility with Adobe format otherwise it can be such a perfect companion app.Regarding CS6 vs AD, for someone who is an AI veteran like you, it might need habit adjustment.
But for someone who just starting, then AD is like an app from a different generation. much easier and intuitive to use despite the lack of features.
I also can't bear to use recent adobe CC apps with how slow it's been today.I get a lot of things done faster in AD.
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6 hours ago, MattyWS said:
yup, thats really their own failing though and now they're limited with what the can do with the software they've made. It's a shame because affinity suite is great but yea, if they didn't have the foresight to make their software cross platform then it's a real shame. It seems to be unnecessarily hard work for Serif to support just the three platforms (windows, mac and iOS). Strange they'd support iOS but not android either, considering android has a larger market share than iOS.. if their reasoning is that there's more people on mac than linux.
i think this is also the reason why Affinity can achieve such great performance in each supported platform 🙂
Also good marketing exposure from Apple or MS by using its tech.Yeah unfortunately no Linux.
Maybe when affinity introducing web app version, Thats when it finally available for linux.
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11 minutes ago, monzo said:
I'd like to use them until I decide to pay for the new features/bug fixes in V2. But that's going to be down to how long as the now abandoned apps continue to work after operating system upgrades. As you say: "as long as I can", not as they say: "as long as I like".
Kinda understand your disappointment, however, I don't think we can expect long-term support for legacy apps, at least from the company scale of Serif 🙂
We now have to accept that V1 is discontinued just like old serif draw plus and family.
One of my favorite designer has a similar concern, to have a long-term affordable app without vendor lock-in, and he went full open-source.
The good thing is at least Serif is still generous enough to offer all 9 apps for $100
Some recent Designer work
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Great retro style!
It somehow reminds me the app icons from the 2010s, when icons were crafted in a realistic style with details much like this.