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Winsome

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  1. It must be exciting for all of you after a massive 9 long years of waiting! I wonder if you will get some of the features that the rest of us have had for over 20 years??
  2. The classic answer. Yawn. Rather than thinking. Back to the school yard. Well, lets try to make you think. Why DO you think? And not just me but also include the rest of the users in here who “complain” and request. Take your time. Seeing things from the perspective of others requires more than throwing letters into a forum like that answer you gave me.
  3. Thank you, finally an educated answer! I'm surprised Affinity isn't made for Linux, now that they've taken so many engineering quirks and complexities from that system's early versions. It will fit right in, and will be nostalgia for old Linux users. I look forward to you operating with pixel fractions and square roots of pixels in Photo version 2. They would too. My guess is that in Nottingham there isn't even anyone who can help Serif with usability as a charity?
  4. Ah, "force pixel alignment" is required... An obscure theoretical concept in a program (Photo) that for most will be a pixel editor. PLUS you should also know that once you have pasted a screen shot (pixels) from clipboard, it is an "image" and must be rasterized before you can make a selection and move it with the move tool! But the Serif thinks their typical clientele guesses this easily? And then, what are you waiting for in terms of further challenges in the program...
  5. Works flawlessly and better (single tool workflow, not two) and faster in Windows Paint! 😀
  6. This is both a bug and underlying architectural flaw. A pixel selection should NOT change in this way when you move it around a bit, and certainly not on a solid background. This example clearly shows how this pixel selection goes from sharp as original, to blurry as seen through cheese: Same problem if copy + pasted. FIVE minutes into trying to use Affinity Photo and I am forced to stop. And we're talking about a mundane cut-and-paste pixels task.
  7. It would also be very helpful if the color area (white in my screenshot) updated to show the color of the current choice, not always the custom color. Perhaps not... the image is updated after all.
  8. Hi Serif Can you please set the default action for ENTER in this dialog to APPLY (OK). Right now it activates the transparency input field, and you can do that just as well and logically with the arrow keys. The scenario where you often use fill is complicated by the fact that you either have to press alt+a or press APPLY with mouse/pointer. You can't tab down to APPLY either, which really is a bug. Especially because after three taps on TAB you end up in an invisible place, which is very much a bug. The fill dialog remembers which color I used last, and when you have to reuse FILL many times and quickly , it's very cumbersome to have to say GO via detours again and again. Thanks
  9. This is what @Royk is referring to: THAT is always as in 'always!'. If you want this to happen at any time, a general setting in preferences is what it takes. Illustrator has one. Designer has workarounds. And @Royk you have to be careful because effects are also not scaled by default. This will help:
  10. We need to know for exactly what purpose and target audience. Otherwise, it results in an unfocused debate that misses the point of your inquiry. Is it for your own machine, or something a'la PowerPoint viewer that people without Affinity can install for free and view files made by others?
  11. Yes, they have targeted these new users but I don't think it's because the market is completely saturated at the fat end. I think it's because they need to brand themselves in the younger segment, where the type of creative is different than 20 and 40 years ago, and you get creative with a lot of creative apps to choose from. They need to brand themselves among the young so that everyone in the workforce at all times perceives Adobe as the premium product. It's a classic problem for products and brands as old as Adobe's that new competitors emerge with a fresh and youthful impression. So it's about marketing your products as something other than desktop and mouse, but funky features with modern devices and drawing devices. It's a fairly traditional and unexciting ad, so I'm a bit dubious about its impact. What you have to remember is that a lot of these young people you see in the ads will pretty much be able to get student discounts or get it for free during their education. That goes for my kids. I don't actually have to buy licenses for them. It's not necessarily a group that Adobe particularly profits from as youngsters, but will certainly profit from later. I actually wondered about these ads at first, because I couldn't link the full subscription price to these young people. Maybe it was the photographer subscription, which is actually priced reasonably, that was being advertised with I thought. I still can't link them to real sales and profits and feel convinced. And I think this is only the first phase in the battle for new generations of creatives. The next step is much more AI and much more complex algorithms that make a lot of manual work redundant. This is where Adobe has been going for a long, long time, and Serif uses old principles and algorithms in their products. The algorithms in Affinity are mundane compared to Adobe's and Corel's etc. and have been for a long time, and I expect the contrast to be greater in the future. Affinity is available to anyone for a humble and extremely reasonable price. That's the argument that may sell to quite a large part of the market. If small fish ever become more important to Adobe, then I think they will use much more aggressive approaches than today, and far more on the app front than we've seen. And Adobe would probably have already acquired Procreate or companies that actually put research into drawing algorithms.
  12. It's obvious, but even though it's popular on the internet and at the moment to start from oneself, we're talking about the forces Serif has to navigate in and through. I know perfectly well what you and others in here think and will do, but the sum of everything points to what Serif will do. I simply don't think you know how many people buy many of their things on credit. I have credit scored people who applied for credit. A flood of applications per day. And let's see how world trends affect that need, do you think fewer are buying on credit in a year? Many simply have to, and when people get used to renting, leasing and subscribing to things, including software, it becomes the new normal. It's an attitude that will change. All good mobile and iPad apps right now are on subscription. I'm sure many who won't spend more than a small amount of money on their software are from a segment of the population that has also tried buying something on credit at some point.
  13. This is unfortunately more and more evident, and it has been even very evident on the quality of the features that came via the free updates. When you are a customer of products from even smaller companies that are far better algorithmically, ambitiously and in terms of completeness, it has been almost unreal at times. MAS? Correct. Now Serif can lie awake at night wondering how many will upgrade to 2.0 and in the future to 3.0 if so many are happy with 1.x and don't want to invest more. And how many have bought Photo or Designer at a discount because it was so cheap they couldn't say no, and never really used it. They probably wont upgrade, ever.
  14. "Me" and "I" - we are dealing with these numbers and a company. I am not arguing against or for one business model or the other. Just telling that one business model can be unsustainable under the conditions of the time. Further, Serif may be under pressure to expand in order to develop and maintain its product portfolio. After all, they are practically at a standstill, and Publisher is a legend in the field of delays. Should they raise the price to a level no hobbyist will pay, or will they make the expense bearable by making it monthly? I'm pretty sure the clientele Serif already has is pretty familiar with buying on credit and installments. In any case, Serif has probably wised up to their business model and what they can and can't do, and their rather bloated marketing has probably put them in a place where it's time to deliver. No more talk.
  15. Disagree. Serif is a small company that uses other companies' technologies and algorithms to the maximum (and that's what they got awards for from Apple and Microsoft), but they are not a high-tech company. They don't have much you can buy. No one is acquiring Serif, and there are no competitors threatened by their products. Serif lives comfortably on the small designer's scarcity of resources and on micro firms perhaps. The big money is elsewhere. If anyone should buy Serif, it's Magix... but Serif is unlikely to return to being a company with pushy and untrustworthy telemarketers and all that goes with it. It's a more dignified and satisfying image and brand Serif has created for itself since Affinity was marketed. Serif asking their customers about willingness to other payment models is probably more a sign that the old pay once use forever model doesn't keep companies alive in the long run anymore. Not even Serif. They would do well to think about the future and to consult customers about what they want and what they are willing to accept. People are so hell-bent on cursing Adobe for the subscription model, but the whole market is heading there. And it's not because of greed, but because everyone needs a stable income, not to mention stability as a business beyond 12 months. You don't survive like an Asian street food kitchen from month to month. This is serious business for the company and the employees! When the market is saturated, companies need to feed somewhere. We will not be satisfied with a perpetual product from a company that only exists in the history books. If only subscription prices could find a decent rent, more people would find it a natural business model. Old days are not coming back. However, I think Serif is doing okay and that they don't need to rush. With all the customers in here who buy the programs on sale and don't seem to have the desire or the money to spend more money on better alternatives, I think Serif knows full well that their customer base isn't leaving them just yet.
  16. Capture One delivers algorithms and products on a whole other level, and I'm glad it's seriously discovered out there. There are no RAW converters that are anywhere near their output. It's not so much a roadmap, but that they are flashing ambitious direction for professionals, they are communicating that not only are they going mobile, which is a very manageable task in the year 2022, but delivering something that seriously leverages the internet and cloud technology: Capture One Live. And that puts them in a strong place compared to competitors. But true that companies can then make an informed decision. That's big money to invest, and they need to have a clear idea of what choices they can and should make in the next 2-3 years or more. Serif's average customer doesn't seem to have the great needs or means, and they are obviously not commercial firms, and you can see that from two factors: Serif Plus range that was not for professionals was discontinued without migration tools to Affinity. A commercial clientele had never accepted it and had left. Serif couldn't have lived with that. Extremely slow development pace where especially Designer and Publisher do not have special features. A commercial clientele would never have accepted it, etc. But really, what is it that spurs panic or impatience? It hasn't been very long since they pretty much closed the release 1.x branch (with a performance update which is actually chivalrous) and are working on a major upgrade. With a smaller development staff it will take longer to make, test and complete, all things being equal. I also think many of us have come to understand that we are not waiting for an update that heals all wounds and delivers all missing features. I don't even think 3.0 will get there. I have found alternatives instead for all advanced use, Photo and Publisher are completely inadequate, while I still enjoy simple things in Designer where the combination of vector and graphics works. Designer really needs to have many algorithms replaced and many features added for it to gain ground back from Vecstorstyler and Illustrator in my studio. Unreal much. You have waited a very long time for a miracle in a rush of dreams. The miracle will not come. You're getting an update of sorts. And then you have to wait forever again. Lost opportunities in a studio without the proper tools. And the clock of Life is ticking.
  17. Unfortunately, Xara Designer was out of date when we celebrated New Year's Eve in 2000. The functionality that @Ballyshannon requested in 2018 before he left the forum here in 2019, exists today in two proper programs: Adobe Illustrator with Astute Pathscribe plugin (the expensive combi and option). Vectorstyler out of the box (the cheaper option) It's a functionality the impulsive pixel painter hardly misses, but if you're drawing fonts or curved designs where there needs to be harmony, symmetry and consistency across parts or all of the design, it's a magically simple tool. As I said, it's in Vectorstyler, and as you can see, it's quite simple: I would appreciate it in Designer too.
  18. You know they won’t tell 😄 No aha! moment for you yet, I guess. You made an impressive effort with 800 videos with an almost scientific impression from time to time. My compliments. I know you in particular are waiting for Photo to be upgraded but I can wait much longer, just Serif makes a dmstraker effort measured in hours and science and ambitions to upgrade the vector algorithms in Designer to a professional level. I guess you are waiting for anything new in Photo, you must have milked every drop of combinability and much more out of that program? 😄
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