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fde101

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  1. The crop boundary doesn't obey snapping either, which would also have been a nice workaround for this. While I am skeptical of the notion that there is commonly benefit from centering the crop area, I do agree there should be some improvement in this area.
  2. Sidecar files can simplify the process of transferring the images between systems if you use the same software and edit in multiple places (ex. desktop and laptop). They are optional in C1 and in DxO PhotoLab. Depending on the nature of how the photos are being used, the sessions feature of C1 is another possibility, but it is a different workflow than using catalogs, though there is no reason that some projects couldn't be done in one and some in the other. Nice to have options...
  3. If you haven't already, you might want to try a demo of Capture One (https://www.captureone.com/) while you are waiting for Serif to introduce something in the Affinity lineup. I believe it covers all of your requirements except the map view: Not 100% certain how LR displays the images, but in C1 you can get a viewer with a filmstrip, a viewer with a grid of images, or a full-window browser with the viewer hidden. You can set up separate workspaces with these arranged differently and switch between them if that is helpful. If you are using catalogs for organization, C1 even lets you browse cached previews of images from external/network drives while they are disconnected. When you need to send a photo from Capture One to Affinity Photo, use the "Edit With" option and the PSD file format. If you enable the checkbox in Photo's preferences to save over PSD files, you can then edit the photo in Affinity Photo and save as usual (though saving a PSD takes longer than saving a native Affinity document) and the photo will be updated automatically in C1's catalog. You can use "Open With" to later re-open that PSD in Affinity Photo without creating a new copy of it. For the most part it is (JPEG/TIFF/RAW), but there are some things that may only be relevant for RAW, and some that may only be possible when the model of camera/lens can be detected from the metadata in the file and are supported I'm not familiar with Alamy, but C1 supports keywords and can handle several interchange formats: https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002544898-Metadata-in-XMP-files C1 supports a rating and a color tag There are a number of printing options, including profile selection and the use of user-created templates determining how the images are laid out on the page There is no map view in C1. Evidently you can have it open Google Maps to the coordinates of the image, though I have never tried this myself as I consider the GPS data to be more of a hazard than a benefit and so have it disabled in the few cameras I own that support it: https://thedigitalstory.com/2016/08/capture-one-pro-geotags.html
  4. I posted instructions for the iPad because this thread is in an iPad-specific section of the forum. Another option besides the two you listed is that the Divide button is on the main toolbar by default in the desktop versions of the program, assuming you didn't customize the toolbar and remove that. I don't disagree that an option to apply the clipping to a layer and its children, reducing them to one equivalent vector layer instead of a clipped set of layers, would be a nice addition to the current toolset. I did play with this a while on my Mac last night and couldn't figure out a way to do this currently on the desktop version, so I would assume the iPad is lacking this feature also (I have the iPad version but am more familiar with the Mac version). They are mostly the same developers when it comes to features like these. They only have so much bandwidth and are more interested in doing the things they are doing as well as they can do them than in piling on features that don't work as well because they rushed to get them in. These things are not as easy to do as you might assume and it will take time to develop these capabilities. The team at Serif needs to prioritize those tasks and in some cases there are prerequisites that must be met before certain things can be done. They are probably more in touch with reality than to assume that 80% of their user base even knows the forums exist much less that they would be posting on them.
  5. This thread appears to be a duplicate of this one:
  6. I don't think this has anything to do with the DAM functionality. First of all that would be a separate program, and the documents in question are opened in this program. Secondly this is discussing management of the state of documents being opened, not the simultaneous manipulation of the documents themselves.
  7. The Serif team does not usually reply to feature requests. They do sometimes, but not usually. They do read them. They have posted several times on the forum explaining their reasons for this policy, but for them to continue posting that repeatedly every time someone complains about their lack of response on the forums would waste their time at least as much as would replying to the requests in the first place. Forums are usually considered to be primarily for user-to-user discussion. If this feature is going to be added, we will most likely first become aware of it when it is added to a beta release somewhere down the line.
  8. Chances are that Design Space doesn't understand the way that masks work in Designer and is separating the shapes. Do the lines appear to be the same length in Design Space? If not, and it looks correct on the screen, I would report that to Cricut as a bug in Design Space. I haven't gone through this exercise with my own Cricut but you have me curious now... To actually cut the lines in Designer instead of just masking them, try this: Create the circle and lines as you already were, but do not make the circle a mask for the lines - just keep the circle and lines as separate layers, positioning them where you want them to be. Make a copy of the circle and move it away - set it aside for now, you will need it later, but don't leave it overlapping the lines. Select the original circle and the lines. Click the "..." button at the top of the screen and choose the Divide command under Geometry: the circle and lines will all be chopped up at the places where they intersect Delete the parts you don't need - just keep the lines in the middle Use the copy of the circle to replace the one that got chopped up
  9. It sounds like you might actually be looking for perspective correction? You might want to review this to see if it helps:
  10. Perhaps, but it is also not obvious where to look for this if you are looking at this page in the help: https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/pages/Pages/numberingPages.html I would suggest that after the sentence "For more advanced users, page numbers..." there should be something to the effect of "You can also add a field representing the total number of pages from that panel."
  11. Designer has an Outline view mode which may be similar to the Wireframe mode you mentioned; it is accessible on the default main toolbar.
  12. For those who are not aware, there have been issues in the desktop versions of the Affinity applications with cloud-based storage corrupting Affinity documents. Because of the way that the documents are used by Serif's engine, it is not safe to actively work on documents that are stored on cloud storage. In a way, this scheme on the iPad is helping to protect you from having your documents rendered unusable. This may be improved in the future, but for now it is a good thing, like it or not.
  13. I'm afraid I don't see what one of those has to do with the other. The layers are still page-specific and not shared between pages.
  14. I just checked the release notes for the Windoze betas and I don't see it listed. When it first rolled out there was a notation that it was mac only at that point, so maybe it still is?
  15. Hi @alex200800, welcome to the forums! Just to confirm your findings, there is not currently a way to do this, though it has been suggested for a few of the panels in the past by other users.
  16. No, only the majority of the features of the Photo persona. The Liquify, Develop, Tone Mapping and Export personas from Photo are not available directly within Publisher. That said, the Photo persona covers a lot of ground.
  17. In the grand scheme of things, storage is relatively cheap compared to the time spent by professionals who are being paid for their work. The cost for a bit more disk space can pale compared to the time savings of the faster load/save times during someone's work day. That said, a "compact file" menu option might be nice to have to shrink a file before distributing or archiving it somewhere... The Plan 9 operating system took the novel approach of capturing daily snapshots that were stored permanently - no way to delete them other than to wipe out the entire file system - so anything that was stored overnight would consume space permanently on the system, with no way to free it up. This was about 28 years ago when hard drives cost nearly $2 per MB (today more like $0.03 per GB) and they already considered storage to be cheap enough that they felt that was an acceptable situation.
  18. From what I understand, the Affinity applications do not currently leverage GPU compute acceleration under Windoze, so unless your current GPU is massively underpowered or you are working on incredibly complex documents, the benefit from this would probably be minimal for working in the Affinity apps. Other applications you use might benefit from it more, but you would get better responses on that if checking with the support resources for those applications. If and when Serif gets GPU compute acceleration working under Windows, this situation could easily change. Someone else may correct me if there is an aspect of this that I missed.
  19. There should really be an option for the text frame itself to apply the baseline grid to only the first line in the frame.
  20. I guess I consider those to be borders rather than frames, but I guess that might just be me... the terminology does leave some room for interpretation.
  21. My mockup with the tabs is my recommendation if changing anything about this. As an alternative, going by the mockup @paaljoachim provided in the OP with only one row and a "more" button, then I would suggest removing the tabs - with only one row per section there wouldn't be as much scrolling. But again, I would prefer to keep the tabs and eliminate the "more" button, as with the mockup I had provided.
  22. They didn't though. There are things missing (like creating global colors).
  23. Evidently that is a Windoze thing I wasn't even aware of. Not all too common on the Mac, though it is used for renaming nodes in Fusion. That said, it is probably as good of a shortcut for this as anything.
  24. It is the page size, which may not be the same size as the paper you are printing on. You can print with crop marks so that smaller pages can be easily cut from larger sheets of paper. Depending on how you configure printing, you might print multiple pages to one sheet, for example.
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