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I recently had a conversation with the folks who are a part of the LibRaw forum and they seem to support the GH6 camera now. I am curious how soon we might get a patch for Affinity Photo for desktop to support Raw editing of the updated RW2 Raw file format? You can read the LibRaw thread here that talks about how the crew developing LibRaw are more than happy to answer any Affinity team questions to be sure this camera has the support people like me and other users in the Affinity forums are requesting. LibRaw 202110 snapshot supported camera list | LibRaw

I just spoke with the LibRaw team and currently their for-profit tool "Raw Digger" (https://www.rawdigger.com/news/rawdigger-1-4-6-beta) can open .RW2 files from the GH6 (if you download the beta and open a GH6 .RW2, then you can see it open the file. So I believe that should mean that the library now supports it. Affinity just needs to devote a sprint to incorporating the library update so we can work with GH6 .RW2 files in Photo Development persona. Having said that, Adobe Raw to DNG tool now supports GH6 .RW2 to .DNG file conversion. You can download the latest and batch convert .RW2 files to DNG and work with them inside Affinity Photo (doesn't it feel bad, though, to have to open even a free adobe tool so you can work with a raw file?)

I guess I recall that feature, like a state history of the work. Yeah - not really the same thing.

I didn't realize they were beta testing a timeline animation feature. I hope they bring it back.

like I said to you privately as well as on this forum. I think we all love how responsive Affinity is as well as how great it is that we have a place to discuss these things. The only objection here is the tactic of using another website to compel Affinity to listen to you and your perspective (you in the collective sense not you in the personal sense). We all love Affinity tools and we all want them to grow. But this isn't growth and investment by democracy. For all I know, Affinity is work on this feature. My guess would be that it isn't at the top of the list. But maybe it shows up in the next big version? I will conclude my perspective with the definition of the word petition: A solemn supplication or request, especially to a superior authority; an entreaty. A formal written document requesting a right or benefit from a person or group in authority. If we are using definition #1, I think we do that here everyday and am thankful that Affinity hosts and responds to the forums. If we are using definition #2, and using an external website to achieve that both violates the terms of service as well as pushes toward appealing for an entitled right to have what you want at the expense of other feature enhancements that come at the cost of social pressure and manipulation and implementing your feature over other features that might actually add more Affinity market share based on their research. I can completely relate to wanting features really badly. But when it comes to animating art - I am more than happy to use creative free tools like Blender or Black Magic Fusion one of many vector asset animation tools in the mean time. There are plenty of pixel and vector features I would love to see in Affinity Photo, including animation, and while Animation is on my list (I used it in Photoshop to show the animation of UX designs by animating layers) I can do that will a lot of other tools and it isn't so high up on my list that I want to campaign in a manner that creates bad press for Affinity.

I LOVE, absolutely love, that you have not embraced the subscription model. I want to be able to buy software and own my copy and not have to keep investing to keep using it. Having said that... I have an idea! What if you created a pre-investing model? Here is how that could work. You maintain control of the product trajectory You can pull ideas from the forums as well as from market research to determine your next core features Additional enhancement features for next software version could be added using the following micro-financing model: Affinity could create a pre-investing member area. In that area, Affinity lists the "non-core features" it could build that are not part of the next core features Pre-investors could "buy votes" by paying, in advance for the next version: $50(USA) = 50 votes Pre-investors could place their votes on the non-core feature list Each non-core feature could have a different vote-financing goal Members could buy more votes (pre-invest $150 for 150 votes) to boost their interest in one non-core feature over another. For a non-core feature to get added to the next version roadmap, it has to (a) meet the vote-financing goal and (b) gain a top count of votes Non-core features are added until the next version roadmap has filled up and voting stops Factors for voting; Voting doesn't ensure you get your preferred non-core feature Affinity decides which non-core features are being voted on because their research ensures that is a good trajectory for their product More investment in a non-core feature might work as a market research tool As a member, I would know that I want to invest, but voting might increase my likelihood of associating with the future of the product in a financially predictive manner. Being a member only awards me non-core feature votes and not product ownership (but would result in a pre-order for the next version). I, for one, would invest early if it meant I could influence through real investment. If I didn't want to re-invest, I could still purchase whatever you build, just as I do today. There wouldn't be a change for people who don't want to invest the time and money into the future of the product. If people were really interesting in having more of an influence in future features, they could "campaign" in a healthy and invested way that aligns with partnering with you rather than trying to create pressure and pseudo voting in forums in a manner that leads misguided people to disappointment.

Your solicitation for joining change.org and private messaging is actually a violation of the terms of service: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/guidelines/ Points from the guidelines are: Try not to multi-post Please keep conversations on topic - this isn’t the place to talk politics, or last night’s footie score. (Change.org is a site where people use social media to pressure change through political action. Creating a change.org campaign actually creates an antagonistic position between Affinity and the user community). Chain letters, pyramid schemes and the solicitation of other Users to join or become members of any commercial online service or other organisation are also prohibited. (Asking us to join change.org qualifies) references to any other website or store in any way that is believed to be solely for advertising (Change.org is actually a contact harvesting company where you think you are gaining a voice but in their terms of service they are selling your contact information for the purpose of advertising) I am thrilled that Affinity gives us the collaborative opportunity to share ideas about future enhancements to their product. Whether it is your intent or by accident, you use this tool abusively to form an antagonistic campaign to pressure Affinity into building a feature you want works directly against the kind of relationship Affinity is trying to build with it's customers. It is disrespectful by it's nature. I am not saying you cannot personally chose to start an antagonistic petitioning campaign, but you cannot use the resources here to do it. BUT isn't it great that we can share ideas with Affinity right here? I really don't want to start some negative pressuring aspect of entitlement where we attempt to democratize a private company's investments. If a person really wants that feature and is willing to leave Affinity to find it somewhere else, they are free to do so. If Affinity find the feature will sustain or grow their business, I am certain they will make a decision to include it at some point. But it is their product and up to them. If affinity suddenly open sourced their product to let us invest our programming skills, that would be a different issue. Or if they created a space where people could micro-finance a feature by investing innovation dollars almost like letting the community "indie-gogo" a feature and Affinity managed teams to build features based on what met a financing goal first, again - that would be different. I would support real investment.

I would love to see a tutorial on this. I am getting into CG work and am a photographer and videographer and I own a nice GH5 for video and a Canon 5D mark 3 for photo, but I am not sure how to stich the output using affinity photo. Any recommendations on this would be great. I use Affinity Photo, ACDSee for photo organizing, DaVinci Resolve for video editing, and Blender for 3D graphics modeling, texturing and rendering. Having nothing to do with HDRi (but fun to share nonetheless) - I have attached a model I created and textured in a day between meetings, and it would be fun to fly that around my yard with proper reflections and lighting.

I second this. I was about to post my own wishlist request for a digital asset management tool, but then I found your post. Creation of a DAM that integrates with the Affinity Suite would be amazing. I use ACDSee today but I would rather be able to use an Affinity product that would let me right click on a number of phots or aphoto files and batch render them out from a DAM. Along with having a DAM, it would be great if Affinity Photo would support non-destructive sidecar RAW editing so one file could get a sidecar RAW edit and then apply that treatment to a set of imagine within an affinity DAM. (I have attached a couple fun mock-ups!)

Apple Silicon is going to be an ARM-powered processor. Being that the incredibly popular snapdragon qualcomm 855 processors are also ARM, does this mean that we are likely to see Affinity finally embrace a segment of the Android tablet and large format smartphone market (like Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra with Dex)? I realize that the new benchmarks for the A14 ARM chips targeted for the coming macbooks out-performs qualcomms equivalent, but I would think that architecturally, we are getting closer everyday!

I noticed that if I open or create a new document in either Affinity Designer or Photo and attempt to place an Adobe Illustrator .AI file, it instead displays this goofy rasterized SaveAs message (attached). At the same time, if I use a goofy website like zamar.com and take the same .AI file and convert it to PNG, then I can open it in affinity photo and prep the brushes to turn them into custom Affinity Designer textured intensity brushes pretty quickly. I am curious if there is another way to do this all within Affinity tools, or if Affinity could expand it's ability to read native .ai file formats so we can convert them more easily without depending on external sites like zamar.com?

The one thing I liked about Adobe PhotoShop's timeline was that you could perform simple timeline animations using keyframes on layer/object properties which means, for each layer you could keyframe difference on: X&Y position of layer (including under a mask to make something disappear) Alpha % Visibility (on/off) Being able to do this would allow you to create one time or looping animations of a UI to simulate UX quickly. You could also create cool little simple character looping animations. I don't think it should ever try to compete with super complicated timeline animation tools for animation. That would be an entirely different product. But simple property in-betweens (tweens) over time would be nice.

I completely agree. I don't think we need anything too crazy complicated. It would be nice to have keyframe animation on a layer or group level to keyframe properties like: X&Y position of layer (including under masks) alpha % visibility (on/off) It would let me create animations of UI elements to simulate UX, for example. It would also let me do a lot of fun simple character animation loops.

Hello everyone. Simple question (hopefully). If I am developing a Raw photo in Adobe Photoshop, They have a middle grey eye dropper that quickly allows you to select a basic white balance and color cast adjustment and then you can quickly save that as a preset to apply to a stack of images to get their baseline colors adjusted before stylizing images. How would that be done in Affinity Photo? I see a white balance slider, but that seems to be completely by preference and not using a middle grey calculation (something fairly common for photographers). Any thoughts on how to do such a simple color balance and re-apply that to a set of images?

It would be cool if eventually Publisher could export to e-book formats viewable on an iPad or on Kindle devices.

@TonyB Would you happen to know... Will scripting come with the ability to create a custom panel? I am thinking about sites like Pixabay and Pexels (and soon stocksnap.io, all of these are free creative commons photo libraries) which both offer an API and how nice it would be to create a custom panel that allows me to search and download images straight into my comps. Any idea on when v1 of scripting might become available (possibly even as a beta so I can start working up examples of such a panel)? Do you know if it is planned for a particular release at this point? Thanks for your insights?

I don't know if it would actually be quicker. I write Web Applications as my day-job and I could imagine that reverse engineering 5-6 plugins to create 5-6 new functions might take as long to recreate the interface that can implement and automate 5-6 plugins and a whole lot more. Now imagine 20-30 people wanting their favorite 5-6 plugins. It might truly make everything a lot quicker to just write the automation and implementation interface and give a lot of people the functionality they have been dreaming of. I would much rather contribute to a forum where there are plugins being made better than simply adding to a list of stuff i hoped Affinity would add to core one day. That is how Photoshop blew up to now load slowly and feel like bloatware, in my opinion.

I wish we could vote for answers, so this would float to the top of the list to responses, like stack overflow. i didn't know that I needed to look into the "Library" panel and not the "Macro" panel. Confusing. Thanks for this!

Fair enough. I think adding these features is important, but long term, it would be very cool if they would create a plugin API so that Affinity and the community could expand those features.

How about ...just ...would it be possible to develop compatibility with sketch plugins? Then we simply get a massive number of plugins and a framework for extending/automating the product even more. Lot's of tools like PS, can already use universal plugins available to a lot's of different photo editing platforms. I realize this would mean creating a wrapper to the sketch development api http://developer.sketchapp.com/reference/api/ but wow would you suddenly extend the product into many directions quickly. The Sketch API uses a reference library for automation and the code for the plugins is written in JavaScript, an incredibly ubiquitous language. I realize that, at the moment, the Sketch tool is an OSX-only tool. but if you unpacked the purpose of the 14 different API objects (that's not too many, right?) and wrote the same end-points but that automated AD and AP, that should mean you would then have adapted the majority of Sketch plugin code to now automate Affinity tools (I realize this is an oversimplification... you would still need to write a plugin container for plugin UIs as well as an error handler robust enough to handle scenarios where Sketch plugin authors have made calls past the API and directly to baser functions in the Sketch app itself.) But what a cool project that would be right?

Sketch has a feature where you can test-retrieve a feed of data which can see values like text, numbers and images.Then you can connect or similarly name symbol fields to match the feed fields which allows you to them repeat a set of symbols (like a list) based on the values of a feed. I would love a way to takea feed of data and select a number of symbols to connect to the feed.

You can already animate the build process by playing the history back. How much more difficult would it be to keyframe symbol or layer content position, rotation and opacity and export that timeline as a single-playing or looping GIF? This is really useful for user interface designers to demo simple app interactions and animations.

For parameters, like font size, line width, etc. where the value is numeric, it would be nice if like photoshop you could click-n-drag left and right or up and down over a label to quickly change the value up or down.

Any update on Affinity Publisher? I am hearing more and more shops converting to Affinity products and I know a couple indpendent designers who would love an alternative to inDesign. Steve

Any updates on symbols? I am looking forward to using symbols the way I did in Adobe Illustrator as well as symbols in sketch (so I can keep certain interface elements consistent across changes and artboards).