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This is an old topic, but I'd like to add another vote to request this feature. I maintain a very long usage cycle on all software and OS's for a number of reasons, and a feature like this could help improve collaboration with colleagues. In my experience, updates... break things are often unnecessary, depending on your needs take away features I enjoy add features I may not need add learning curves that waste my time add expense for my customers require updates further up the line such as OS, hardware and more, and as a result... break more things This isn't to say updates aren't more than welcome when I'm ready. But creating a system that's rock solid and that I know well for many years is far more important to me than having the "latest". As others have stated, there are plenty of software examples that include the ability to export for past versions. An example I can think of is when Apple went from older versions of Pages to newer versions. They offered an export version on the newer version to export to 'Pages '09'. This was a valuable tool when my wife and I were working on two different generations of Mac OS X. I had both versions of Pages, and yet I could also save to the older version, even if I used the newer version on my machine. Yes, certain things could break. But this has been the course of software for decades. Allow it to break, throw up a dialog box if you can, or put the message in a side panel, and let the user sort out the rest. People understand that things break when moving backward. Even when Affinity Photo exports to PSD, things don't work, layers rasterize, etc. It's to be expected. As for how far to go back, I don't know. My vote is AP 1.5.2. 🙂

carl123, good to know, and GREAT suggestion! I'd bet on the newer Macs that all Affinity features are fast as lightning. One of these days perhaps. Also, great suggestion on selecting and then doing Edit > InPaint. I just tested a modified version of your suggestion using the brush tool at 100% flow and hardness, painting all areas on a separate layer, then command+selecting that layer, then selecting the layer to be filled, and it actually works really well this way. I can highlight all issues simultaneously with a single stroke and then run the command. Thank you!

Inpainting is an indispensable tool in Affinity Photo. I've been using it a lot to remove wrinkles from an unfortunate photo backdrop situation. BUT with every selection, I have to wait for the process to complete before moving to the next wrinkle. If inpainting ran in the background with zero wait between selections, this would save a lot of time when we have a huge batch of photos to go through. I admit I'm using a very old version of Affinity Photo (1.5.2) because I've experienced that it's really the most stable version to run on El Capitan and with our current hardware. So, if this is already available in more recent versions, feel free to let me know and I'll look forward to the upgrade when the time comes! Thank you so much!

+1 Having a feature like this (and/or some sort of standalone layer presets) would be really helpful when exporting multiple versions of a logo or illustration. Sometimes I need to hide all my fill colors to export a black and white version. Being able to turn color/fill layers on and off without having to do it manually through 50+ layers and multiple groups each time would be a HUGE time saver.

I may have answered my own question. I literally copied my old version of the Affinity Photo application over the network and it opened on her machine perfectly. I did not think that would actually work. The old version seems to run much faster and no more bounding box problems! I'll leave this up in case anyone else would like to respond or has feedback on these issues.

How does one downgrade from Affinity Photo 1.10.5 on the Mac to Affinity Photo 1.5.2? I'm hoping someone can help us with this as it is necessary for our work. My wife just purchased Affinity Photo recently, but we need to be able to share documents and I cannot open the newer files she creates with my older version. I will not upgrade, as version 1.5.2 is extremely stable for me on El Capitan and I'm not going to take a chance on messing that up. We each use the same model MacBook with the same OS (El Capitan), and I would like for us to have the same Affinity versions, so version 1.5.2 is what we need. In addition to this, we are already finding problems with her version 1.10.5: It runs very slowly. Even with only a few layers, pixel layers jump around as you try to move them. Bounding boxes are malfunctioning. You can have a photo on a pixel layer, cut half of the photo off (with nothing extending beyond the canvas), and the bounding box refuses to size down to the remaining portion of the photo.

iconoclast - Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, my version of Affinity Photo doesn't seem to have an "Expand Stroke" feature. But installing Affinity Design did allow me to do this (mentioned above), and has been a life saver of a solution so far.

Thanks, walt.farrell. You guys are the best.

Hangman - Thanks for clarifying 'placing the PDF'. I'll give that one a try. Everything else makes sense. Thanks a bunch. walt.farrell - Thank you. Sure enough, I see 1.10.5 in Designer's "Check for Updates". Good to know El Capitan is old but not forgotten. I only wish "Check for Updates" was available in Affinity Photo so I could check. I may not be seeing it. I'm certainly curious to see how far I could go on El Capitan with Affinity Photo as well. But I remain as always quite update-hesitant for fear of adding too many variables into my well-worn OS, legacy software and many old client projects built on those foundations.

Hangman - Agreed. The experience with the t-shirt vendor was apparently an expensive learning experience for both of us at the time. As for placing the PDF, are you talking about dragging the file into a canvas that's already opened in Illustrator? On scaling fill and stroke layers in an expanded stroke, I'm guessing this behavior wouldn't be much different than simply scaling a document with 100 layers that together create the art, correct? In the past, when I manually create strokes (ie. strokes as shapes) in an illustration, I normally create layers beneath all of my "manual stroke" layers in order to fill the art with color. This makes it easier for me to remove all color. It sounds like a color-filled Expand Stroke would work similarly, except from what I see with Designer the fill layer is directly underneath the stroke layer in every case.

Thanks to both of you for the replies. Hangman - Your statement about Affinity's scale not talking to Adobe's scale seems to match what I've experienced. Thanks for confirming that. So far as the reason for scaling in Illustrator -- I had an experience with a t-shirt vendor years ago who used the same artwork on the front pocket location as well as larger on the back. This was the first I ever noticed the issue, and it nearly ruined the project. And you're right, looking back I should have created the artwork at two sizes. Nevertheless, realizing that often logos and art are used in many different applications of various sizes, stroke scale inconsistencies have been a challenge to work around. walt.farrell - I realize my version of Affinity is old which is one of the reasons I specified it in the post and questions. Upgrading to the latest is not a possibility for me at this time. Also, thanks for confirming that the scale with object isn't something that PDFs recognize. That too makes sense to me because it seems to me that Illustrator has trouble with that regardless of where the PDF comes from. As an update to this post, I'll say that I may have a workaround in progress. I have finally stopped putting off the purchase of Affinity Designer and I have version 1.10.4 installed which I'm guessing is the latest available for my OS. My layers from Photo copied into Designer directly without issue, and I have discovered an awesome feature called "Expand Stroke" which solidifies a formerly unpredictable stroke into a shape. So far, Illustrator's scaling of this shape works perfectly. I'm still experimenting with this workaround. However, I'm still open to hearing other ideas anyone else might have.

On Mac OS 10.11.3, Affinity Photo 1.5.2, the stroke "Scale with object" feature works fine while in Affinity Photo. However, it does not translate when exporting to PDF or other vectorized formats (PDF for example) and then opened by Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator does not scale stroke when resized which results in destroyed artwork. What this means is that for all artwork involving outlines or "strokes", I have to draw out all lines in my line art by hand if I expect compatibility with print vendors who use different software. I'm hoping someone can help me on this. Question 1: Aside from instructing every vendor to select all strokes in Illustrator and select "Scale Strokes & Effects" before resizing artwork, is there a known workaround for my current version of Affinity Photo, or would this require an upgrade? Question 2: If this fix requires an upgrade, is there an upgrade compatible with MacOS 10.11.3 that will include the fix. Question 3: Does the latest version of Affinity Designer for the same OS have this issue as well? My apologies if this has been asked before. I scoured the web and these forums for half an hour before creating the topic.

I would like to have this too. +1