Barry Newman

Yes, it's badly missed. Here, too. However, I have a feeling that Serif does not throw "big" news into a (late) summer release, but waits for a release where marketing and sales and attention go up, not now when the season attracts attention and sends us on vacation or adventure.

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Aha, handy! Thanks Walt!

I probably haven't searched thoroughly, but I need to paste color from one object to several others that have different effects. How do I paste color from only one object to another in one go? It may be both fill and stroke, but just not fx. It seems that paste style pastes both color and fx. Oh, I am in Designer, but I guess answer applies to all Affinity applications. Best Barry

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/spectre/app.html

It's a credible statement. However, if you had claimed that you had a good experience to share from The Microsoft Store, I would have burst out laughing. Best Barry

The best idea is always to solve concrete problems and remember if it works, don't fix it. If you don't see any problems in your images and can't find any immediate differences in real images, then I don't think you should spend too much time on it. I've only occasionally needed to change defaults, I've had more need to go up to 16-bit, but even that is rare. Along the way, I learned to focus less on options and more on solving problems. Anyway, if you ask a very theoretical question, the answers will be theoretical and not much will have happened. 🙂 Do you have any images and workflows where you think more is needed? Best Barry

Thanks for the background information @James Ritson the truth lay somewhere in between. It often does. 🙂 The original functionality makes a lot of sense in the original context. And as we can see, it's not a big task technically to make a toggle. I would also recommend a user friendly toggle rather than a mix to make the information clearer.

I strongly disagree. The following scenarios are quite common: You need to see shortcuts to the other operating system for one reason or another You are reading the help on an Android tablet or other secondary device that does not correspond to the device you are working on I have both systems and would like to see both shortcuts to a function when I'm reading because I need it. The help misdetects your operating system and displays incorrect information The help doesn't even help you indicate that this help is for A or B to both confusion and frustration The problem here is that you - very typical of this forum - completely oversimplify reality and make your own theoretical assumptions in your own room. The automation can be a problem. It may not be a problem. But let Serif gather feedback and assess whether there is a need for a simple selector where customers choose the system. I use both Windows and Mac, as I said, and think it's a bit silly that I can't choose and compare on the help page. Even if I had to print or copy some of the help for my own use. Conversely, if you have to argue that there shouldn't be an operating system selector somewhere discreetly on the page to handle the needs of others, you won't have many strong, obvious arguments.

Indeed. I think you can comfortably fill the waiting time with optimistic thoughts. 🙂

A showcase of the flow could be this bug:

1) Fill search form out like this: (The resulting URL will be https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=afb-7229&search_and_or=and when you press search) 2) You'll get this thread as the only search result: 3) Your bug will if confirmed by Serif as a bug be updated with a confirmation from a Serif Info Bot that "the issue was has now been reported to the developers by the testing team" 4) Once it has been fixed the Serif Info Bot will update you again in a new post 5) Further updates will follow You issue was reported before this flow was introduced recently, I believe. You can ask in the thread if there is any news and ask them to bump the issue. Rarely makes any difference though in the short term.

Related? From release notes from todays beta: IMPORTANT KNOWN ISSUE in 2.2.0.1903: Sorry, but Documents created in previous 2.2.0.1881 betas will crash Windows Photo Persona, but will load into the next 2.2.0 beta to be released soon

I can't agree with that on any level. It is very theoretical, and very clumsy and old-fashioned in use. Your quote is also completely useless. Customers can now change guides freely, as you describe, with the new features in v2.2 that we have seen. But why on earth doesn't it make sense to you that someone can set these colors in preferences, like in so many other programs? Do you think there's an advantage to your very complicated setup there? Software like Affinity has its default colors and default guide settings somewhere as the most basic configuration information. Add some user interface to change them slightly. Done. If there are other settings in templates, use those instead. Done. Completely de facto standard in how software around the globe works. I just know what guide colors I want in my case and in my company's setup, and want to save this setting once and for all and not in templates. Among other things, this setting should ensure that guides have the same colors in the applications we use, so that end users get a consistent experience. We won't have to sit and add the colors to the individual templates and remember to focus on it when creating new templates. It sounds like workflows from a millennium that ended 23 years ago. Barry

Oh, I'm not a fanboy or a member of any hate camp 🙂 Yes, you're right about the design. What I meant was that it's not a particular detail Apple has blocked, but rather a larger security concept that collectively makes several things difficult or impossible. Overall, it has unfortunately also made iPadOS clumsy to work in in our types of work, because you encounter these limits incredibly often and here I think especially about files. I can connect many things to my iPad Pro, but the workflows I find myself forced into are not good. I'm curious to see what iPadOS will look like in a few years, because I don't want to be running around with a laptop that consists of a lot of keyboard and touchpad.

I hope you guess correctly. 🙂

I can't agree with you at all. I also didn't mention DAM, so I don't know why another thread has to mutate into "I don't use" and "I, I, I, I". As vkyr suggests, sidecar files are not necessarily related to DAMs. They can just ALSO be used there with great advantage. It's hard to make professional progress in this forum, and to move towards something constructive, because here again we have a discussion that can't get off the ground due to a lack of industry knowledge. This is not niche knowledge, after all. My suggestion to give develop modules an overhaul had nothing to do with DAM. There are so many things in the module that need algorithm replacement and there are clear shortcomings compared to competitors, both in features and quality.

I don't quite agree with that, Walt. It shows that Serif hasn't understood what the competitors' RAW develop software does and what customers use it for in their workflows. That in itself is bad news for the future and for customers. But I agree that Serif has done a tiny bit to make it not so severe - i.e. not so critically flawed. But I would still call it severe. If Serif wants to take this develop module seriously (and thus the customers), it would be a good idea to give it a proper overhaul on its own, i.e. not tinkering with small patchwork solutions, but to give it a lot of attention in a release. I can see that some algorithms are also from a millennium that is not the current one. Best Barry

Now the talk goes back to the lighter usage scenarios, but I'm thinking of a story editor for the heavier ones. Think more complex documents, think workplaces, think larger productions of all kinds. A story editor is not a word processor. It's a text customization functionality for the process that follows once a layouter has the texts. Of course, most texts, especially larger ones, will start their life in a word processor, but there is so much more work to be done in programs like InDesign, where adapting and troubleshooting the text is clumsy and time-consuming in layout mode, and where a story editor is the professional, focused work tool. The light usage scenarios are well supported in Publisher 2.1 - I look forward to more for the professionals. For example, cross references are sorely missed and finally within reach.

It would be interesting to hear from others if anything has improved in the current beta version of v2.2.

No, Affinity Photo does not save edits of RAW files to sidecar files or an image database like other RAW editors do, which is a severe limitation of Affinity Photo. Fortunately, there are many amazing and better RAW editors on the market that you can use with or without Affinity.

Well @Westerwälder now you've played until late with putting laughing emojis on my and others posts, that's enough playing for today, time for bed.

Ah, we just misunderstood each other. It happens! No harm done! 🙂

I completely agree, vkyr. As I just wrote in another thread, lack of industry knowledge in multiple threads is a bad thing. The real stuff is drowned out by anything but useful content. It all started in 2019 with: It is now a task of Jupiter dimensions to skim page after page of posts with no value. I don't know what the benefit of a user forum is if it doesn't become a knowledge forum. I'm forced to take a staycation this year where I plan to tinker with things I never have time for, and my old friend GIF could be an option. Or webp. It won't be in Affinity, but I'm happy to take recommendations on which software is best for that. OP might do the same - theoretically, right? I think I'm going to focus on Blender during my vacation, now that I finally have the time and opportunity.