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@Frozen Death Knight As for what I want to actually see being developed now when you have some serious capital to back up your development, then here's a list! Linux version, or at least make it fully compatible with Proton/Wine/whatever. Pretty sure you can afford it now! - At Least a 10 year timescale for implementation, will be made available ONLY with a £400.00 a year subscription 'knight rider' plan, don't blame us, blame Canva An animation timeline for Designer and Photo with proper GIF and vector support. I want to do animated vectors in an intuitive way that's at least on par with Illustrator+After Effects - 20 years before we can implement this, this will cost you an additional £400.00, just for asking the question, and an additional £400 on top of youre 'knight rider' plan . 3D perspective tools and grids - We never heard of this, could you sketch this out on a bit of paper and we'll have a look at it Fix Windows specific drawing bugs. We'll wait and see what Canva says regarding this issue before we address it Vector brushes and erasers. What are they? More vector tools. I.e. free form gradients, blending one shape into another, node clean-up operators (merge, simplifyy, etc.), and more. ahh, We'll get back to you on that, maybe Auto-trace for Designer. Been a decade since you said you wanted to add it in. - That's a very complication operation to perform, we might have to wait until interdimensional quantum computing is solved until we can address that particular problem More game development tools for textures. Been 4 years since that teaser. - We'll wait and see what Canva says regarding this issue Cleaner lasso selections with both mouse and tablet. - Canva have told us to forget about that AI powered tools such as selection, upscaling, and some ways to integrate generative fill, whether in-house or external. With regards to A.I, we're still struggling with an 'image Trace Tool', so, like ah Finishing the plug-in system and code API. ah, you do realise that you have to have you computer plugged in at the socket, for it to switch on to use our products Make an Affinity Infinity software with all Personas in one software. I really don't want to switch softwares when I can have everything in one place. Canva have told us to forget about that More brush management features such as sub-folders, the ability to R click to select brushes, etc. NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo

@Ash I may be wrong but reading through your recent statement, is there a hint that in order to keep everybody sweet and on board (which is impossible), your either serve one master or the other, you can’t do both, that AffinintyCanva are going to create some sort of weird ‘class system’ with regards to your future products, that will be used to force people (if they’re desperate enough) into accepting a subscription plan if they want the best out of your future product releases, as in : (a) AffinintyCanva, licensed ‘Pinocchio’ version - (broken ass, cost-of-living crisis, Working Class Pleps addition) of Photo, Designer and Publisher: It wants to be a real graphics application but it’s not, won’t be any better or faster than you're current instalment. Will have a few additional features added, that you won’t really need, nor use, adding no real value or benefit to your workflow but comes with free ‘Marvel stickers pack’ an 'LGBT lollypop', and a fee bowl of porridge at your local Greg’s shop. (b) AffinintyCanva, subscription ‘knight rider’ version - (rich people ONLY) of Photo, Designer and Publisher: ultra-streamlined, super-fast, a.i feature rich, lots of stock libraries, (even includes an Image Trace tool) comes with free air miles, a bottle of Cristal champagne

Everybody, let’s just face reality, Affinity (as we had known it) is finished long-term, they sold-out. Meanwhile, the short-term fix, using an affordable perpetual license (to keep everybody happy and on board) will be the introduction of quite a few major upgrades to 'Photo', 'Designer' and 'Publisher' as a show-piece to try and present a positive image presentation for the future of where Affinity/Canva want to take their software. Meantime you can bet your mortgage, that the hierarchy within Canva will be plotting moves to take Affinity onto an Adobe styled subscription plan, this cost-of-living crisis won't end anytime soon, and if Canva thinks that us plebs can afford their subscription plans to help Affinity pay for the extra water cooler fans to stabilise their every growing sever warehouse, with all that new A.I Data flowing back and forth, it will be adios amigos, bye bye to Affinity, they'll be shocked when everyone bails on them heading straight for GIMP.

Todays press release statement was very telling: "If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it" - So basically, a subscription model is coming and this is how it will work: (a): Perpetual model for those who prefer it - This is code for, right pleps, now that we are ultra rich and most of the future trajectory responsibility has been taken out of our hands by Canva, we pledge to you, yes you, you working class s&"m, that you will still be able to purchase 'Photo', Designer' and 'Publisher' but it will not be as feature rich, you'll have some access to a few useless tools that won’t really changed your workflow in the slightest but thanks for being a good dog and rolling over for us with your money (b): If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model - We want to hoard as much money as we can just like Adobe, this is the future model that we want implemented for the novelty of using our premium versions of 'Photo', Designer' and 'Publisher', which will be jam packed with feature rich tools to excelerate your workflow, again, Canva is our shield to hide behind, blame them not us if you dont agree.... CAUSE WE'RE ARE LOOOOOOADED

@When_Subscription 1: "If by Adobe, you mean providing fast, stable, feature rich industry standard apps, then the answer is no" - I agree, Image trace seemed to big of a task to produce 2: "If you're referring to screwing their customers over and likely heading toward a heavily cloud-based subscription mode, I would lean to yes on that one." - I agree Todays press release statement was very telling: "If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it" - So basically, a subscription model is coming and this is how it will work: (a): Perpetual model for those who prefer it - This is code for, right pleps, now that we are ultra rich and most of the future trajectory responsibility has been taken out of our hands by Canva, we pledge to you, yes you, you working class s&"m, that you will still be able to purchase 'Photo', Designer' and 'Publisher' but it will not be as feature rich, you'll have some access to a few useless tools that won’t really changed your workflow in the slightest but thanks for being a good dog and rolling over for us with your money (b): If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model - We want to hoard as much money as we can just like Adobe, this is the future model that we want implemented for the novelty of using our premium versions of 'Photo', Designer' and 'Publisher', which will be jam packed with feature rich tools to excelerate your workflow, again, Canva is our shield to hide behind, blame them not us if you font agree.... CAUSE WE'RE ARE LOOOOOOADED, LOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDS OF MONEY

@Twolane The English/British are world pioneers in technological innovation. They either invent something or reinvent something else to function better, which often goes on to change the world, as they've done throughout the decades. Look back through history at the inventions they have introduced, from the 'Electric Light Bulb' to the 'Telephone,' 'Radio,' 'Motor car,' 'Jet propulsion,' 'The submarine,' and 'Harrier jump jet.' However, the British have developed a very bad habit of wanting to sell off their prized possessions to foreign investors instead of holding onto them and elevating them to boost their own UK economy’s standing within the global markets by creating more jobs within the UK. For example, why did Affinity not speculate to accumulate and expand the company by working on more products? Why, as soon as Canva landed at the door with a 12 pack and a bag of spliffs, did Affinity let them in? I first purchased my Affinity products four years ago because it was just too good of a deal to pass up at the prices they were being sold at. I was blown away by Photo, Designer, and Publisher. When they increased the price slightly, I didn’t mind paying that little bit extra because the product being delivered was outstanding (still cheaper than Adobe). Each application had everything that I needed, to do what I wanted to do, without being an overblown, machine-heavy product to use. But I knew it wasn’t going to last; it was just too good to be true. I even told an Affinity Facebook group at the time that the brains behind Affinity would sell up as soon as the first big offer came in. This wasn’t about the English developing a worldwide popular product to rival Adobe; it was always about the money, and it appears that we as customers were led up the garden path to boost the reputation of the Affinity products to attract a buyer. Think about it. As each version of Photo, Designer, and Publisher was released, it was always small, tiny changes that were made or something added in that most people didn’t care for; it was never anything major. On these forums, Affinity users were crying out for a vector tool to rival Adobe's Image Trace tool but never got it, being continually panned off. If Affinity were serious about their products and their future, serious about holding onto to Affinity as Primarily English based company, with products/services that gave Adobe the two-fingered salute with their rising popularity, why did they never speculate to accumulate? Why didn't they borrow the money to acquire 'Inkscape' technology to create their own 'Image Trace' tool? Users also asked if Affinity would create their "After Effects" application. Why wasn’t the money found to hire more engineers to work on a product like that if they were really serious about the long-term future of the company being kept in English hands? It was always about the money. Now that the mask is off, I wouldn’t be surprised if Canva makes the decision very soon that us small designers will have to remortgage our own houses just to use Affinity. But the Affinity owners can hide behind Canva as the ship sinks. For this cost-of-living crisis won't end anytime soon, and if Canva thinks that us plebs can afford their subscription plans to help Affinity pay for the extra water cooler fans to stabilise their severs, with all that new A.I Data flowing back and forth, it will be adios amigos, bye bye to Affinity, they'll be shocked when everyone bails on them heading straight for GIMP.

As an Affinity Serif user myself (you could say I'm a disciple of sorts), first and foremost, I tip my hat and congratulate the Affinity team for the outstanding work that they've done over the last decade or so with the release of the Affinity Apps. Bravo. Back in the day, with the release of Affinity’s products, it was a breath of fresh air to finally see a company standing up for the little guys (aspiring and amateur designers, small design agencies, poor students, etc.), protecting and keeping us away from the claws of the money-hoarding, creatively bankrupt septic tank known as Adobe. It’s clear that Adobe wanted to monopolize the entire digital creative environment, making it ONLY available to the rich or those willing (but really forced) into possibly bankrupting themselves in order to use their overloaded, bloated products/services to make any sort of liveable wage. With the worldwide explosion of A.I. and its adaption and implementation into every facet of society, right down to creative thinking and its processes that are used to bring imagination into reality, it will require more and more money to be pumped into Affinity Serif and their wannabe globalist corporation in Canva, to help them keep up with their creative competitor in the form of the creative anti-Christ of Adobe. With the obvious implementation of A.I. into future Affinity products to keep those products relevant and competitive within the creative apps/platform market, this will require more 'Data Centers and Servers' to be built and upgraded over time by Canva/Affinity, as the substantial amounts of energy needed to operate the servers and significant volumes of water needed to cool them will only increase over time, meaning that Canva/Affinity will need a steady supply of cash, which will require more and more outside investors who will want to make sure they are getting a good return. Steady supply of money + good return = subscription plans. If it works for Adobe, they will argue, why not us? With the acquisition of Affinity Serif by Canva, short-term this will elevate Affinity products (in the eyes of the current customers) with new and exciting addons to the Affinity products, but long-term, I think Affinity have buried their company, for when Canva insists on the need for some sort of subscription plan, to keep everything a float and everyone (investors) happy, I can see lots of your current Affinity customers jumping ship to the likes of free open source platforms like GIMP and Blender. Regardless of the initial promises that Canva has made, everybody can see that the writing is already on the wall. Just give it five years (if the Russians and Americans haven’t already nuked us into oblivion by then) and all the great work that the Affinity team has done, all the great will and backing from the little guys that’s Affinity has stood up for, will be undone, but at least they'll be able to hide behind Canva and point the finger at them when the time comes.

I dont have Affinity Photo V1 installed anymore to check but having worked with V1 over the past year I've used the "Frequency Separation Filter" a few times and there was never any issues before, but for some reason (with this particular document) when I added a "Frequency Separation Filter" the entire Photo V1 application went haywire as if it had be out on the drink the night before, nothing worked properly

Precisely, after the addition of the "Frequency Separation Filter" effect to the document in Photo V1 the document will no longer work in both Photo V1 and V2

@R C-R @RichardMH Hello R C-R thanks for pitching in, I had V1 installed and opening a V1 document(s) in any V1 application presented no issues what-so-ever. Unfortunately, I'm unable to upload the specific file in question, as it is work I'm doing on behalf of a client and the client has stipulated that they want it keep secure until it’s been accessed and green-light for publication. I added text to the Photo V1 document, when I opened it in Designer V1, there was no issues with that process either. When I reopened the same V1 document in Photo V1 and added a "Frequency Separation Filter" that's when all the issues began, that’s when the document became unworkable, it appears to have something to do with the addition of a "Frequency Separation Filter" in Photo V1 that carried over into Photo V2?

@RichardMH @emmrecs01 Using "Windows 10 22H2 Home Addition", I think I might have found out what the issue might be with "Affinity Photo V2". When I open a document made in Affinity Photo V1 in Affinity Photo V2, that's when I have all the issues occuring but when I start a new work flow in V2 there's no issues. I thought V2 would be able to use V1 documents?

@emmrecs01 Hello emmrecs01, thanks for pitching in. I'm running "Windows 10 Home Addition 22H2"

@RichardMH Hello Richard, thanks for helping out, much appreciated. I noticed some odd behaviour when using Affinity Photo V1 (this is when the problems began) which appear to have carried over into V2. When I applied a "Frequency Separation Filter" in Affinity Photo V1 everything went haywire, (which had never happened before) side panel tools suddenly stopped working, layers thumbnails blanked out and wouldn't work etc, that was my reason for purchasing the V2 applications. In Affinity Photo V2 Both the "Mouse" and the "Pen" don’t work at all. When I open work that I created using Affinity Photo V1 in V2 (using Windows 10 Home Addition) that's about all that can done with the Affinity Photo V2 application. Affinity Photo V2 side panels tools can be selected but don’t work, the layers panel doesn't work (as outlined in the initial message), I'm at a loss, I've work that I need to get done but I can’t?

Yesterday I purchased "Affinity Photo V2" for Windows 10 Home Addition, I installed it, opened the program, hooked-up my "Wacom Intous Pen Tablet", only to discovered that the new "Affinity Photo V2" doesn’t work, at all. The application boots-up, but when I proceed to use it, the "Layers Panel" won’t show thumbnail pictures? When I add a "Mask", its layer won’t show a white thumbnail to indicate that there’s a mask applied? When I select the "Brush Tool" (using my Wacom Tablet), the brush doesn’t show on screen, I literally can’t see it when trying to use it or it appears in ghost form, as in, its very light and its hard to make out? When using my Wacom pen to work on a mask, nothing happens to the mask ? Whats going on

@Old Bruce The failure to generate "Thumbnails Pictures" with the new Affinity Photo V2 application could be down to a bug or maybe its something to do with the "Windows 10 Home Edition OS" that I'm using, I'm not really sure. I've also noticed that I cannot work with any masks, When I try to paint on them nothing happens? Bruce, how to I forward this thread (that we've tried addressed) onto Affinity themselves?