drstreit

I guess as always with progress its about effectivity: Sure you can draw everything on a piece of paper, its just more efficient to use readily available brushes and the many tools a software offers you instead. Here in this case, the workflow will be a close mixture of AI and manuell edits to take the best of both worlds - but for that you need seamless integration. And with that type of software, the job of a grafic designer will change drastically: Have a look at https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/midjourney/?hl=de : These are all pictures created by "amateurs" with the help of AI - why would I pay a designer for that if AI can do it better, faster? These AI models were released only 4 weeks ago and already have huge impact - just imagine 1 year of improvements and integration into workflows... AI grafic design is there, it will be HEAVILY used to create/modify pictures, and without an plugin interface, Affinity Photo will totally miss that train.

Have a look here to understand how photo editors will use AI generated images in the future. Just released, its already heavily impacting the industry. But Affinity Photo is lacking an SDK, so no plugin for us - while GIMP, Krita, Photoshop, ... already have working versions! If Affinity sleeps through it, it can damage their whole future quite fast - PLEASE react and either finally provide an SDK (WHY IS THERE NONE???) or integrate e.g. Stable Diffusion into your products... to und