Howard Worf

To be honest the absence of destructive cropping is often the reason I will us PS instead of Affinity - I use 3rd party plugins. In order to apply to the cropped image I have to export the cropped image and then reopen it in Affinity. To use the vernacular this is a pain in the posterior. Why can we not have a simple choice when cropping to go for destructive or non destructive crop - seems such a simple fix . . 

Although there are out of gamut warnings in the Develop Persona these are not available in Photo Persona and I think they really need to be. Otherwise the only way to check is to keep switching back and forth to and from the Develop Persona. Unless I have missed something, which is entirely plausible.

Although there are out of gamut warnings in the Develop Persona these are not available in Photo Persona and I think they really need to be. Otherwise the only way to check is to keep switching back and forth to and from the Develop Persona. Unless I have missed something, which is entirely plausible.

Thanks very much - obviously it is possible to work around the issue by exporting and opening the stand alone apps, then exporting things back. It's clearly not going to be possible to integrate the 8li functions, but I would imagine simply starting another application might be somewhat more achievable. 

Thanks very much - obviously it is possible to work around the issue by exporting and opening the stand alone apps, then exporting things back. It's clearly not going to be possible to integrate the 8li functions, but I would imagine simply starting another application might be somewhat more achievable. 

I've just decided to ditch the Adobe tax and get properly to grips with Affinity. There are so many things about it I really really like, but the macro function seems to be a hangover from the old Photoplus days - in that everything I try to record ends up with a 'can't do that' message, for example, right mouse click on layer (nothing happens), selecting multiple layers, or the killer, trying to move a layer in the stack or in to a group.  It's OK for really simple stuff that only takes a few moments to do manually anyway, but that's it. Until it can actually record most of what I am doing I can't really use it.
Are there any plans to make this tool more usable?

I've just decided to ditch the Adobe tax and get properly to grips with Affinity. There are so many things about it I really really like, but the macro function seems to be a hangover from the old Photoplus days - in that everything I try to record ends up with a 'can't do that' message, for example, right mouse click on layer (nothing happens), selecting multiple layers, or the killer, trying to move a layer in the stack or in to a group.  It's OK for really simple stuff that only takes a few moments to do manually anyway, but that's it. Until it can actually record most of what I am doing I can't really use it.
Are there any plans to make this tool more usable?

Thanks - this configuration makes using a Wacom nigh on impossible.

Yesterday I came to do my first crop in Affinity Photo only to find that there is no destructive crop option. ​​I think this is a serious omission. I had to save my image 16 bit image as jpg and then open the newly save degraded image before I could use a Topaz plugin because the plugin imports the whole canvas, not the cropped image. Saving as a .tif didn't work, as the canvas remained the same uncropped size. I don't know if non destructive cropping as the ONLY option is a good idea in Designer, but frankly it's a poor implementation decision as the only possibility in a Photo editor.

there's quite some controls for pressure sensitivity, is one of the things that go well in the brush painting system (others are going to be fixed)
 
1) With the brush icon tool selected, hit the bitg top bar button labeled "More".
 
2) Hit the tab "dynamics". IMO, put sliders all to the right to get most sensitivity (later on you'll modify per case) of size, accumulation (~ opacity, imho) , flow.
 
3) Set each of the settings to be affected by "Pressure".
 
4) Hit the tiny icon that shows a tiny graph with a diagonal. It opens a curve editor for pressure, for every setting -this is very advanced and uncommon-  to get very smooth subtle painting, which, actually! is more sensitivy than many expensive painting softwares, I recommend you to firstly go to your general Wacom tablet driver panel, in windows settings, Windows Settings from start menu, I mean, there you add A. Photo as an application to be customized for the wacom pen , and set the pressure for the tip to be the smoothest, if you need a very light touch.
Then, in this graph curve editors we were at, in that screen, do as well the following: Set the curves all "sinked", if that's a correct term, so that once you end, you will see the graph tiny thumbnail like you can see in my screenshot. With my Wacom Intuos XL it allows extremely subtle painting, way softer and sensitive than many big names 2D packages. 
 

 

 

 
 
When I do paint ala oil painting, I do set instead setting opacity/accumulation to 100%, and flow as 1 to 3%. Somehow, this allows me a more painting like behavior, so that paint strokes blend much better and build the painting more like... in actual traditional painting. While painting, usually a moderate to medium sensitivity to pressure in brush size. For inking, sketching, and similar, I go differently: 100% opacity and flow, high sensitivity to brush size. And sketching, very similar, just opacity quite low.

Hi,
 
It's already in Preferences :)
 
Andy.

Please do, the behaviour in PhotoPlus is much more user friendly.