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Edit: Affinity Photo is in some cases really pleasant and imo superior like for example the auto preview when changing Layer Blend modes which Photoshop didn´t have for like three decades. For potential new customers which come from Photoshop, Affinity Photo needs some changes; ~two Layer blend modes from PS CS6 are still missing in Affinity Photo. (the implementation so far is excellent!) GPU acceleration for Windows. quicker startup times are needed All Affinity products need a lot more optimizations so it takes less ram when editing big images. Even Photoshop CS3 which is ancient by now has had much better resource management and less hunger for RAM than Affinity photo while editing 16k-px images. Text layers within exported PSDs would be needed. a much better channel packing is needed and connected to it an easier editing/previewing of the alpha channel. TGA,DDS,WebP export compression options and previewing of to be exported images is needed.

To enable thumbnail previewing of affinity files, go to preferences (F12) click on General and activate Show all graphic formats.

it is dual licensed, there is a non gpl version available. http://potrace.sourceforge.net/#dual

Substance Painter/Designer are amazing but they are still missing support for text on paths and sadly many fonts aren`t supported. For such tasks thou, Affinity Photo/Designer are even with their current features sufficient, just slap some styles on the text for the normalmap creation, export and use it and its done.

good to know let me be audacious while I make some advertisement for an available professional alternative for Linux users: use Photoshop CC - it works on Fedora. https://github.com/corbindavenport/creative-cloud-linux https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-adobe-photoshop-linux/ It`s understandable thou why Linux users are here and are voicing their wish for the support of Serif products on Linux.

do you by any chance mean Drop Caps?

https://github.com/corbindavenport/creative-cloud-linux Photoshop CC can apparently run on Linux via wine + the above github data.

indeed, Serif did come the closest. Due to Serifs so far deserved success, Adobe is finally going to cater Photoshop even to IPad owners. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-13/adobe-is-said-to-plan-photoshop-for-ipad-in-app-strategy-shift this quote from the article above is interesting and makes me think that Serif is going to tab new markets.

congrats in showing one of many ways where developers haven´t understood that to get money, you have to offer something in return. The congrats is seriously meant here. Synfigs failure in successfully making their plea for recurring donations is a reminder that just opening an account on patreon isn't enough. The team behind Krita for example is compared to the synfig team much more successful (~€ 2000 per month in donations) having a shop, offering tutorials, merchandise,selling on Seam,Microsoft store also helps and much more important; code sprints with clear goals and thus offering value and consecutively getting more support and money with each successful code sprint. https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/krita/created Krita codesprint 2014: € 19.955 Krita codesprint 2015: € 30.520 Krita codesprint 2016: € 38.579

the 2700 without the X is perfectly fine. Both versions can be overclocked and due to the slightly lower stock speed, the gains are more significant for the 2700 version but the main selling point which is the low energy consumption will be thrown out of the water and will have similar watt consumption like the 2700x version.

since that involves hours upon hours of serious work, an employment contract, NDA etc would be needed. Without the Ipad versions of the Affinity line, Adobe wouldn`t have announced to release Photoshop for IPad in 2019.

Any reason why you don`t want a pc build with AMD Ryzen or Threadripper CPUs? They are imo offering much more for the money and Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher can distribute many tasks onto the many available cores. 16GB of RAM can be sufficient depending on your projects but more RAM is obviously better. The real bottlenecks are going to be the HDD(slow transfer speeds) and the 1050TI which only has 4GB of GPU-RAM and is even 65% slower than a GTX 970 which is by now outdated and had the 3.5GB+slow 500MB bandwidth debacle. Have you also looked into getting an NVME SSD? higher write and read speeds could help in slashing of more time for the temporary files which Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher are writing while you are working on a project.

https://creativepro.com/ormr-image-editor-may-make-undoredo-thing-past/ http://web.archive.org/web/20121115000414/http://mashable.com:80/2012/11/10/ormr/ Tried to find some and the former name of Bloom gave the above links but real in-dept reviews are scarce. You are right, there is no promotion, marketing nor tutorials available for it, it eerily reminds me of Photoline and probably went under the bus due to the spectacular lack of constant updates and proper marketing.

It is possible to manually enable case sensitivity on a per directory folder basis under windows 10. https://www.howtogeek.com/354220/how-to-enable-case-sensitive-folders-on-windows-10/ So the warning that case sensitivity is not supported might be relevant too for windows systems.

There was once ~three years ago the Bloom Image Editor which not only was marketed as a Photoshop contender but also had offered a (back then) remarkably amazing nondestructive workflow. http://www.thebloomapp.com/features/ It was (and still is) available for Windows,Linux and Mac. Sadly thou since 2016 there are no more updates for it available and to my knowledge, it never really catched on. I suspect that`s not only the UIs fault but mainly due to the many bugs which Bloom had and the severe lack of Tutorials.

No idea, just trying to correct some seemingly wrong statements about different industries in this thread here.

It is a bit bewildering to read such statements because Farmers are in fact modifying their tractors and Harvesters and other items software/hardware. - once you realize how much a new tractor costs, you start gladly paying the support team of the opensource projects money to keep your business afloat. Even the US-Military which has plenty of resources is using more and more opensource software and printing out hardware for fixing items in their fifth generation F-35 aircraft to be able to be efficient and to have the things on hand. In this particular case: The costs form $70.000 where lowered to roughly 9 cents. https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1498121/

Hello Lonely Tears, a file with activated history is attached, hopefully it helps. light live filter with transparency2.afphoto another idea to tinker with, when you group the layers, and paste it ontop of the tree image, it will work as an additive feature, you might then want to change the blendmode of the curves Adjustment to Soft Light.

@Lonely Tears I used a Fill layer with white color. added a Live Filter-Lighting filter, used white colors first for the lights, selected one of the RGB composite channels to get the transparency, created a spare channel and have thrown that into the composite alpha. Add colors to your lights and export as png if you want to get further rid of the hard black outline, create a mask Layer form the "Fill Alpha" alpha and lights2.afphoto

Hello DeadDragon, since you mentioned me, Affinity Photo is to a certain grade with what it provides with a bit of trickery of layers, styles and blendings able to mimic the result of Normalmaps. Serif did imo a great job so far in providing the tools and its up to us users to bend the tools to get results which developers haven´t implemented. For turning images easily into normalmaps without a lot of manual editing, there would be quite a need for far stronger macro abilities, so far I wasn´t able to get further in the image conversion than what you can see in the below image. you could also give, if you have an Nvidia card in your device, the NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop a chance, it can break and is quite old but it somehow seems to work a bit with Affinity Photo. https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

dürfte wohl dieser Bug hier sein?

Since the developers are based in Nottingham, I personally would recommend to write such direct contact wishes and bug reports in english. ;) Die letzten Uppates für Affinity Designer und Affinity Photo für Windows = 14 Juli 2018 - Customer Beta Eventuell haben die Entwickler den alten Featurewunsch übersehen, nochmal schreiben und zeigen wie man es sich wünscht. Gerade in Hinblick auf das klassische Desktop Puplizieren braucht man ein Farb-Proof, da würde sich die anstehende Beta perfekt eignen, um mit einem neuen Feature wunsch und Bug report Programm übergreifend darauf die Aufmerksamkeit zu lenken.

Affinity Photo has missing features; in my case that would be channelpacking of RGB-A images and exporting them as TGA,DDS where you could make usage of four intact images in one file. For Affinity Designer; a Tracing feature... We could wade thru hundreds of feature-wishes and would find numerous valid missing features. Never the less, my new PC too is an Adobe free zone and with Affinity Publisher, it hopefully stays like that.

@SrPx apparently my sentences where confusing, hopefully now its clearer; Some features like the tracing feature are not available in Affinity Designer while other programs on Linux have them. For a potential Affinity Publisher on Linux, programs like Scribus and Viva Designer are to be considered as competition. For all the programs, Serif would have to add features which are not provided by the competition to be interesting enough for customers.

Sure, Affinity Designer could be having a hard time in sales since imo it lacks in some regards like the fact that there is no tracing feature included while the competition has such a feature and is already available on Linux. Who knows if Affinity Publisher also falls in the the same category as Affinity Designer? DTP solutions like Viva Designer and Scribus already are available on Linux. Serif would have to add features to give a reason to customers to jump from those two solutions to Affinity Publisher. Contrary to Apples Market-store, on Linux Serif wouldn´t have to give away 30% of each sale which means profit can be quicker archived on Linux even with "fewer" customers.