mikehaui

Woot, can't wait to try the focus stacking! I have some mean stacks that will put it to the test >;>

Hi, I'm Tony Brightman. I head the SerifLabs team that have been developing the new Affinity range of applications. We have been deep in research for 4 years but it's now time to show the world.

 

TonyB

Hello all, I'm Andy Tang and I'm also a Affinity developers. I will also try to help out when I can and I look forward to seeing your feedback and work created using our product. :)

Hi, I'm Matt Priestley and I'm one of the Affinity developers. I'll try to help out on any topic, but particularly anything relating to tools, views and document drawing as they're the bits I'm mostly responsible for writing.
 
Feel free to join me and introduce yourself, too! :)

The creative guys here at Serif Labs knocked up keyboard shortcuts cheat sheets - hope you find them useful!
 
Now updated PDFs for 1.4
 
Affinity Photo
 
Affinity Designer
 
Both together

Quick (very) Cheatsheet of the available shortcuts.
 
This is lifted straight from the "Help" section.
For those who like to pin it to a physical wall - might help a few people get up and running.
 
Affinity Designer Shortcuts.pdf

IMHO; Adding AppleScript capabilities would truly be a great asset & allow users to eventually automate task for entire workflows.  Even better to have AppleScripts communicate across the entire Affinity Suite (use it to automatically create a photo collage in AP--then apply preset vector graphics or type fx in AD--then combine the layouts in APub with variable data).  I can totally visualize what a huge time saving feature this could be, and best of all Apple hasn't abandoned AppleScript for developers.

How many of you would be interested in including AppleScript functionality for Batch processing in Photo, Basic Template Creation is Designer and automated Catalogue/Book Creation in Publisher?
 
The key is to automate repetitive tasks and let you focus more on the finer details on creative work? 
 
I am a bit of an AppleScript fanatic and like to automate certain things to free up my mind for the refining process of creative work.
 
Adobe used to have AppleScript functionality built-in to their design apps (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) before, but now I am not so sure since they went and made Creative Cloud (I don't like subscription software). 
 
The intention of this proposed feature is only to automate the basic repetitive tasks for batch work and creating ready-made template designs in fewer steps and free up the creative mind for higher level work such as refinement of a project; in a smaller phrase to be more efficient with your time.
 
 

That describes it the best! Thank you for your support, Claus! :)

Yes please. +1

The stacking noise reduction is really great, a killer feature for low light situation, way better than any noise reduction plugin. All tutorials for the stacking feature are dealing with photos made in burst mode, same time, same geolocation, same camera etc. But a picture without EXIF is like a house without address. Homeless.
 
The discussion about this feature requisition is discussed here: (translate "Staple" with "stack", it is just german) https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/15887-no-exif-data-with-staple/

BlauerClaus