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emmanuelp

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  1. If I were Serif or Adobe or whatever I'd do the customer surveying this way: 1- at the first start of let's say Affinity photo I'd ask this question: Do you want to help us design the future Affinity? If yes, are you ok for us to spy 10 hours of your work in an anonymous way (we don't see the picture just what you do) so we know through statistics how you use our app. This will let us focus on the most used functions to make them the fastest and most ergonomic. 2- each year I'd ask for a week a 5 questions survey about new features wanted (on the web using surveymonkey or something similar) and reward the first X participants with let's say the next version of Affinity free plus random bonus for others. I'd contact users by email (if agreed at registration time) to launch the big brainstorm campain. And make statistics about the answers to know where to focus, and get an idea of who use affinity for what. I'm sure there are a varied list of profiles of users out there who don't use Affinity photo for the same thing: we have lived since then without 4K, 8K and other novelties, they may come handy for some people and completely irrelevant for others. Because looking at forums is a very time consuming task and maybe complex to exploit information: lots of people are on different pages.
  2. Dangerous: all software working with pictures have to keep compatibility, think about it and you'll see lock up are nefarious for customers and I pay so I want compatibility. Never had this issue with 10 years of use of photoshop. The fact that the whole software industry is playing the very same game of renting instead of owning and put in place lock up strategy to increase money over usability is a scam. You've bought a knife or a fork, you own them, you use them as you like when you want them, no incompatibility with slice of bread from knife 1 and slice of bread from knife 2. You bought a car, it runs on the road, it works with gasoil, electricity, hydrogen, what else and it still use the road. I want software to produce output compatible with other software version because working with others is about compatibility. The way things go is no ownership of anything which is depossession and is obviously not what we want (If you want to give me everything you've please let me know in the comment, I'll send you address and bank account for you to send me your money btw). The fact that Adobe has moved into this game is a sure thing that it's bad: I was using CS2 then CS6 and they were fine but when they moved to the rent model under the cloud, suddenly their tools become more and more toys like and I work with tools not toys. I want to have them having a stable UI and not 'hey we have a new function which will make your life a dream!' because NO there is no function doing the hard work for you (I saw this mesh warp function in Affinity V2 which was a remake of puppet warp intruduced in Photoshop more than 8 years ago: ). You do the hard work because you've a passion for it, you like that and painting is about patience, taking time to observe, learn, grow not clicking the magic button who do stuff you don't know how to do and paying the new function. But newbies like that: hey I'm an artist, look I push the button and the super graphics is done. So it's not you an artist, it's the software doing things instead of you: you become dependent of it. If you're great at graphics, you can do it with mspaint: no function, just your skills. I bought Affinity V1 5 months ago, now Serif wants me to pay again and make my V2 pictures not compatible with V1 while removing the layers panel and changing the UI with strange choice (dots instead of crossed square) and I should be happy and tell them thanks? Come on, this is critical thinking. If Serif wants to improve its UI that's ok, just enable more options to enable / disable it in the preferences. Want to change the file format? Ok again, just enable compatibility option in the preferences.
  3. There is another issue not discussed on the first 4 pages of this topic: file format compatibility within the Affinity photo range. I took a picture in afphoto format made with V1 and edited it in V2. Then saved. Now I want to open it with V1 and here what I got: I tried to locate an option to keep compatibility within versions and found none in the preferences nor in the save as menu. I tried thus to save the new file as a .PSD so I can import it in V1. And it removed the background of the picture... So the picture is lost (I'll use a backup but that's not good for V2) This issue alone makes working with Affinity not a viable on a business: you'd have to get all your graphists work with the very same version of Affinity photo at the same time and not be able to work with fellows using Photoshop. Serif is not Microsoft / Adobe yet: it has no hegemony on the field so it can't play lock up strategy. Also I think Serif has an Adobe strategy: cater for the masses not for the pros. It's a bit like saying: "I'm an artist, I buy my artistry tools at the supermarket" and you got low quality pencil, paints, ... Whereas the pros go to dedicated shops for pros and buy pros products at the price it costs for the quality required. This idea "We need the whole market to buy our products" is a no go: Pros want pros products because they have the experience to match it hence the very detailed first post by Gary.Jones whereas newbies have a learning curve to climb and can't work with the pros and their tools straight away.
  4. How to set the number of colors to 16 from document creation step (File / New)? I want to create pictures for machines like C64, Atari ST, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, ... and would like to get the possibility to work with very reduced palettes. Also I worked with 16 millions colors pictures and found out that I can get the message accross with far less colors so get very high compression: a 640x480 by 16 colors pic is 150KB uncompressed, compressed it can be at least 75KB which loads very fast, and can be scaled up with retro looking like pixelation to higher resolution. Is there ways to get access to functions in Affinity Photo to work with such specs? Thanks
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