Seanyboy

Perhaps I'm not grasping the difference between Drawplus 3D and AFFINITY 3D fx Matt The screen shot - if it loads for me shows a rectangle 3D effect with 100px depth in both DrawPlus (top) and AFFINITY (bottom) I don't get a 3D experience in AFFINITY as I would expect in DrawPlus - is this correct

I notice that the pen tool has a nib and the brush tool has a round, just wondering if the pencil tool will get it's own icon instead of the curser at present?

Is this 3D effect going to have a larger lathe proportion than the minimalistic 100 px that is the max depth at present? I can't see it being much use as is!

I was wondering when Serif would realise the power of the I-pad Apps :D I think it's an excellent move, if not a little tardy. I use an I-Pad for loads of stuff - looking forward to the development Tony!

I was just wondering if this is going to be a Mac only product, or is there aspirations for a windows release too?

I was just asking really! as I mention -early days. I have had the beta just 1 hour and have not really gotten round to reading the help files as yet. This was just a quick observation, nothing more. Thanks for your reply.

I know that it is early days so probably this is in a thought process anyhow Is there going to be a proper shadow tool as there is in DrawPlus with all the clickable handles as such. I found the only way to suss out shadows was via the FX tab and it seemed limited at first to just 100px until I messed about and found that the "Offset tool" provides a lot more freedom. Though not much tooltip explanation as yet!

Thanks Matt - great to "see" you…I'd love it if you popped back onto Sugs every now and then on the flickr site - we are still going strong Just one thing - I don't know if your forum servers are at fault or what! but, I couldn't get my membership to validate (no E-mail at all in 1 hour) I have since joined again under a member name Sean Riley - but that too cannot be verified due to no e-mail back. I got round this with trial and error and logged into this account (Seanyboy) and changed the e-mail address to a G.Mail addy instead of a .tiscali one and luckily this g.mail account brought in an e-mail with a clickable link saying that I had changed my e-mail address and should now click the link to verify…Thus getting finally onto your system. I wonder if others with only one e-mail address (maybe tiscali is a bad addy) are having the same trouble - Just thought I would bring this to your attention... Also if you would be so good as to delete the Sean Riley pending account as it serves no purpose. Much obliged. Sean

Hi I'm Sean Riley, I have been a long time user of most Serif Products more notably Drawplus and PhotoPlus and I have in the past been a tester for these products, but let my testing badge lapse due to family issues. I have been using all Serif programs for the last 4-5 years on a MacBookPro via Parallels emulator and I was sent a message today pushing me forward to your beta test link for the new Mac Program that is Affinity. Gotta be a good development in the Serif make up. I notice my old mate Matt is heading the testing - Great to see your name again bud. I'm 53 in a couple of weeks and out of work at the moment awaiting a knee replacement perhaps later this year/start of next…fingers crossed then I can get back on a building site as an Electrician. Hence the signing up to this little soiree. Good luck people!