Jonathan Thomas

This! I bought Affinity Photo and an iPad Pro in anticipation of it being release for the iPad. This would be amazing for my workflow and is basically *the* killer app for the iPad Pro. I'm sure there are some really good reasons why it hasn't been launched yet but for those of us patiently waiting it's agonizing. In the future please don't announce a product so far in advance! It leads to false expectations and by the time it's actually released diminished excitement. Purely speculative but I wonder if the delay has to do with the focus on Affinity for Windows and ensuring that it syncs seamlessly with that version as well? If I knew we'd see something in the next couple months I'd invest in moving my workflow over to Affinity products completely but without any kind of timeline it's hard for professionals to make these kinds of decisions. Note that even though I don't actively use Affinity Photo and I'm critical of their iPad release timeline I'm still a huge champion / evangelist and will continue to recommend and purchase any of their photography related products! I want to see Affinity continue to succeed and I only post because I'm invested in that outcome.

Everything is great but I'm wondering how making tool settings sticky is coming along? It's painful to retouch 20-30 images in a row and have to setup every single tool for every image! I'm still using it over photoshop but just remembering my flow settings or the current sampling layer setting would be really awesome. Oh, also, it would be awesome if the lowest setting for opacity and flow on brushes was 1% and not 0%. That would make dragging to the left quickly to reach 1 - 3% a lot friendlier. As it stand sometimes you hit 0% and wonder why nothing's coming out.

I cancelled my Adobe CC subscription and switched from photoshop in large part due to how well the developers have communicated on this forum. It is exceptionally encouraging to see a company so in touch with it's users and actively working to solicit and respond to questions, feature requests, bug discoveries, etc, etc. Serif's communication should be a standard by which other software developers hold themselves to. I'd go so far as to say it's the biggest selling point for Affinity Designer and Photo. At the end of the day the amount of time I invest in learning and using a new piece of software professionally makes the $10 / month or $50 I spend basically inconsequential. Knowing that a developer is engaged and genuinely passionate about their product goes a long way toward making me comfortable with putting in all the time and effort necessary to modify my workflow. So thanks you guys for putting in all that additional effort!

Thank you for the sticky tool settings and presets Andy!

Update on this. I was playing with my Intuos Pro in the Affinity Photo Beta today and as it turns out it supports touch ring rotation. I don't know what hot key this is using as it just says "Rotate" and no hot key is set in Affinity. This is great news! I just wish it was documented somewhere or that someone had mentioned it previously. Thanks anonymous developer who did this somewhere along the line!

I'd like to second this request for a continuously rotatable canvas. 15 degree increments attached to left and right hot keys isn't nearly as useful as a simple rotate canvas tool like the one that's in Photoshop. This is pretty important for a lot of the retouching I do and I imagine it's even more important for any pixel based digital artists or people who do a lot of compositing work. Seems like this would be pretty easy to implement as well; I wonder how 15 degree increments were arrived at as being a good idea. I've read elsewhere that everything in Affinity Photo is rotation / angle independent so it can't be some sort of strange technical limitation.