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I'm not saying it makes sense to jump to Linux or OSX NOW ( I wont, for a while)... But definitely, with this huge interest MS has on the cloud, and also in the subscription vs purchase model, and almost a desire of killing the desktop branch ( I thought that was only Apple).... Starting to make sense to imagine a future in another OS. What I don't see is doing work in other thing than a desktop, at least the usual sessions of a bunch of hours (it's ergonomics for a 99% of human beings, is big screens (non portable) for detailed work, etc, etc). If anything, as all commercial entities are going to want to subscribe you to whatever (at some point selling all your private data simply wont cut it, although of course they will be doing that as well), maybe then not even Apple... I'm gonna get back to modeling , drawing and animating penguins... to get in the mood, lol....
The dangerous (for them) double edge (no pun intended) for MS in this is... they have got ppl with them for the desktop-job usage, compatibility. You can't get a job if you deny using Office. Almost like with Adobe suite or Autodesk's Max/Maya (in some u can't get a job if you're not familiar with Macs). If they trash this by trashing Windows... wow.... ppl is not gonna need them anymore, and the run aways is likely, as are pissed off since a while... is what is happening with AMD/Intel. The latter have added terrible pricing on top of way less innovation, they've really made the shoot in the foot...hardware reviewers are finally recommending AMD over Intel....Is not like these things do not happen. And the new MS endeavors have gone almost always badly... That music thing, the kinetic, look Windows Phone... They'll be loosing their best card, the one that no matter how much it screws up, is needed for the jobs.....
Maybe they're doing a terrific job with Azure, but imo they're getting into terrains where the other OSes are better and where there do not have the B. Gates provided installed base/marketing advantage...
For professional work, is desktop, big screens, professional hardware. Yes or yes. Now and tomorrow. But right now I have no freaking single clue on what OS or piece of code is gonna run it.... I wont care if is Linux, Android (yeah, I make the difference), OSX ... But I'll have my preference on Linux, if ready for the show, by then. Now... IF it doesn't, companies will keep requiring Windows, Adobe, and Autodesk. IMO, until those 3 (not Serif. Not Blender. Not Libre Office) REALLY move to Linux, have their 3 platforms equally updated, till then, you have NOTHING. History will repeat itself just with some slight different flavor. What counts is if one can use what one is required to, in detail, when applying to a job. Not just knowing it, but have very top proficiency. Until then, it's stalled with little hope...sadly.
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Windows 10 is a SaaS since conception, as they probably fund now a lot of it by telemetry, even if you can "anonymize" it to an extent is fine for some, non acceptable for others... But IMO, is conceived as a service since long, and less as a product, as it was, or as it is yet in Apple ( but I keep fearing maybe Apple wants to go all the way in the gadget + portable only way. That would be bad for everybody, current Windows users included, as the most logical move for average Janes and Joes is Apple, not Linux, until a lot of sharp corners are fixed in Linux. Price wise, tho...Linux makes a lot more sense, due to the machines price difference and flexibility).
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I know...I'm speculating, but..... I just apply MS and other companies usual tacttics to "introduce" the deep, long term plan. I've seen my XSI Foundation be killed that way, Deep Paint 3D (and it was 2k $ ugh), or my loved Truespace (purchased by MS, btw, to be left in oblivion). Even the same MS when purchased Expression. Initially was said to make it great and all..nah, they wanted to stagnate-kill it for some business competition reason...
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This is from May, but IMO, internal MS plans have always a long tail, and are planned since very long without most ppl really knowing, so, might quite apply...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3274585/microsoft-windows/faq-microsoft-365-explained.html
BTW, would appreciate that magazine ( I was a fan, purchased almost all months printed issues as a teen/20 sth) having like 30 ads less, specially those that scroll you back to the beginning....
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22 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Note that the article title/headline is misleading, as the subscription is not for Windows 10 itself but for Office.
It includes Windows. IMO, is a move to make everyone go for 365.
The only hope for Windows users is the users themselves. They have pushed with everything they (MS) had to get ppl on the Office 365 boat. And they couldn't as tons of ppl keep purchasing (heck, me, for my mother) the purchase only, expensive Office. (well not that 135 $ is that expensive, those things last in a family from 7 to 15 years)
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Completely independent to all this... in my family, I have a history of trying my people to use Linux, but SOLELY to save 'em money, no passion included...I have not been lucky with my two sisters. One has the laptop I gifted her, running a Win10, very well and no probs, same with the other sister. I had her put several distros, but sooner or later asks to get her windows back... With my father I had luck, tho. Being the less computer savvy one, guess what, he got comfortable with Libre Office. But my mother (they're both of certain age, but quite good with technology) told me it had to be MS Office yes or yes. So I could get her a non 365 version, purchase only for 135 bucks and get done with it for another 15 years... like the 2003 has served so well.... Guess I might be wrong, if MS keeps their weird plans.... The single different thing in her machine is that although she loves IE, now likes more Mozilla Firefox...Which I installed there a while ago.
So, this not being the only sample I have, (it's friends, work, etc...) while I always found Linux easy for a geek, it wrecks with a lot of the average users yet (this includes the average pro not systems geeky) , and so, Houston, we have yet there a problem, as they keep rejecting it, immediately of after months of use... The Linux issues don't disappear no matter how much MS and Apple ( it does, too... big obsolescence forced by updates, embedding intel 9900k in laptops that make final cut throttle, too much push for the mobile -is good in itself- compared to almost abandoning the desktop etc, etc) do screw up, I hope Linux sees now the time to really push to become pro in the areas it is still not.. (not speaking ONLY about putting real cash into graphic apps dev companies, but also really dealing with the OS color management capabilities and flexibility/ease, drivers for advanced design devices, etc)
So.. I don't see it for now, "just yet" , as I don't have a crystal ball (nobody has it... a working one I mean) and who knows into what it all will really develop...but seems more likely that myself (and ppl like me) might jump finally to Linux, OR Apple Mac (desktop) if I see a clear sign that Apple is not willing to finally become a gadgets and portables/iPads only company...
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10 hours ago, myclay said:
With the upcoming Windows 365, there will be yet another subscription to deal with.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328537/microsoft-windows/microsoft-may-pitch-windows-10-subscriptions-at-consumers.html
I think time is ripe for Serif to secure and collect the money of the customers by making the Affinity Product line compatible with CentOS and Ubuntu like other commercial developers already do with their programs.Geez, Myclay....thanx for that link...
CRAP. (yeah, not censoring my self with the number "4", this time. The occasion deserves it.) . And the real word in my mind begins with F...
My bad. Lost so much interest on MS, that I am not reading news about it anymore...
Ok. Is the wise man he who rectifies, they say. Am going Linux. Lol.
As I always said, those of us with a nice deal of expertise with Linux and (more importantly) the apps more or less usable in Linux, count on an advantage...
U can scratch 50% of what I've said till now if they don't do the 365 cr4p as they've done with their Office ( which is ok for me). If they do like with office, well, is how Adobe SHOULD have made it and would not have taken a single complaint by a large portion of humanity... An option, not the greedy only path. I'm afraid... Am not as optimistic. If we look at recent times disaster, the updates chaos and fatal errors are signs of a company willing to kill and self destruct and entire line... To get everyone and their dog into subscriptions. Well, FOSS, open source people, u got it. U and the clever underdog (Serif?) who still sees a large piece of the cake in doing business with the millions of users not willing/being able to sustain subscriptions.
I mean, here one could be naive thinking MS only plans this as an option, leaving (as certain faq says) always available the purchasable, non updated option.
Ppl is going to warez Windows 20x times more that till date, that's for sure... Which is the way of the Dodo, anyway, at least for ppl doing freelancing, or actual work of any kind...
So... Dunno, maybe MS is full of such good people, that their main desire is people be happy, and they know they only will be in a Mac environment or in Linux.
LOL, I was trying to see the moment to move from my licensed Windows 7 to 10...Now I think I wont. Even past the support time (there are ways to secure a system). And/or at some point when I see Linux having enough software, or being....certain enough...that Apple is not (IMO is also doing very strange things lately) really planning to finally trash their entire desktop and laptops line, to move to the iPads and "stuff"....If I see really convincing signs that that is not happening, I might get me a Mac....
Or said in other way : The moment I see the Windows 365 as a solid reality, freakin' subscription-only, and regular purchase-only windows line closing, I "close the window". (sorry for the immensely terrible joke).
Soon we're gonna be renting the oxygen, too....
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Actually, I would not pay a subscription (it's 60 - 50 bucks, depending on country, if just willing to have a vector and a raster app, for example if not needing an After effects, Animate CC, premiere, etc...and it's for ever, every month...no matter what....) in Linux (neither in Windows, Mac, BeOS, Nintendo64... ) But a purchasable license of Affinity in Linux....Maybe. Heck, if hadn't other large bills to pay, I'd buy all the current work books, even if never ever using them, just as a very symbolic/irrelevant "vote" for Serif. I see a Linux version as a good thing,
just I can't see any strong data for it being a solid business option (for Serif! Linux is strong in many business areas, don't take me wrong...), if we compare the numbers got when investing in the other 2 platforms. If at some point Serif is offered a great alliance with some big entity(/s) from the Linux world, and that meaning a huge financing drop of cash (or a several years agreement between firms) for it...you'll hear me clapping, not the opposite... II might got back to my dual boot habit. Till then, is fantasy, imo. A great literary genre, BTW.EDIT: Scratched all what needed to be, after the myclay's link... I might be going into my mid forties crisis, lol, or sth... but I am starting to see in MS latest moves a way of the Dodo, or just willing to replicate Adobe's moves....
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Still there is the monthly (for ever) subscription vs purchase issue...
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The problem looks like a wet edge,
I think Frozen is spot-on in one of his latest comments, with a detail he points out... I had the problem that you refer to (I think I know now exactly what you mean) but happens that I solved (my problem, does not mean it does solve yours : Every field has its set of needs, and I think you work professionally for a different field than I do) my issue with blending as-I-paint by only using the "round smooth brushes" , I have my UI (actually, only the brushes, dunno why) in another language, but I believe they are listed so in English. For some reason, seems only those do a smoothing somewhat similar (not exactly) to the level of smoothing we would get with Photoshop brushes.
I don't "know everything", that's for sure, and I apologize if I sounded like teaching. I have sometimes this "auto-mode" on because I see in the forum many questions related to the same type of issues, and often from people who is not fully experienced in painting. So, I probably was acting with lazy inertia, half asleep.
So, I show you here a screenshot of my settings. Is what I would use -indeed, I have- for making in AP something more "smooth", where the brush daub/stroke is not the look and feel in mind, when is more of a photo retouch, a over paint for 3D renders for press or etc, for concept art that needs to be very smooth in transitions, comic coloring or etc (is not like I just do traditional painting-like works, far from that).
This is not patronizing, is just sharing my settings with you, in case you have curiosity, I am not implying you I can teach anyone. (I worked as a teacher, and promised my self never to work in that again..). The fast shading I've done there, is just some seconds, little insisting. But when I paint I over paint a lot, so the blending ends up happening naturally. I was being very sincere (and without the intention of feeling better t han anyone or stuff) when I mention that I am personally not finding now issues ( I did, in previous times with AP) with blending as I paint. So, if painting more than some seconds, I'd get that quite smoother. is done with the mentioned "round smooth brush" , and you were correct, with other brushes IT DOES HAPPEN what you mention. But Even with the others, as I use my brushes with a very painterly technique, it does not affect my work. Each one's work is different, and for painting in a different style, probably these settings is what I would personally us ( is a 1920px wide pic, and can't be seen well what we're talking about if don't click to amplify to 1:1. The brushes used, which might be the key, are just at the right of that colored shading ) :
I know I wouldn't have issues in doing smooth transitions work (the above is a very rough example of some seconds, tho) but it depends on the specs of each work. I can't know what each person needs in their professional work. I apologize if I assumed some of that.
QuoteIf you can't see the soft brush edge problem, you might be a bad monitor.
I have a NEC Spectraview 231 ( ~ 1200 euros, when I bought it, long ago). Kinda of a semi pro, but a low range one. It is very far from an Eizo of the professional gamma, which is extremely better in every area, but I did not trust the calibration it has from default ; I have a hardware calibrator and calibrate it often. It does gradients specially well, and I print stuff a lot, about the 90% of my output, and receiving the cards, covers, and full board games from the authors (the courtesy copy, sent free of charge) I tend to see with joy how, even in cheapo print companies, POD ones, or offset based, the colors end up very accurate to what I have in screen. I'd be to think I have an averagely fine system, but extremely far from a Photo lab level of quality. Good enough for all the people I send graphics to...
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6 hours ago, Extended said:
I am very interested in how you fix the soft brush edge problem.
6 hours ago, Extended said:If you are willing to share the experience of fixing the problem of soft brush edges, I will be grateful to you.
And you were obviously asking for advice, here. But seems you don't shine for your manners, or patience.
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I see its advantages and disadvantages, instead of fully trashing it, that's all. Ok then. Not trying to teach you anything (was trying to help, lol). I myself pointed out the detail on my signature. I can see good and bad stuff in something, that's actually being objective.
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Oh, also, in brush settings, seeing what you are after... set smoothing at the very maximum, there in the top bar. Make also sure wet edges is not selected. Try working with an Adobe RGB profile instead a sRGB, and of course, not in CMYK. Also, for smooth stuff, gradients, and all... maybe change the mode to 16 bits, tends to help with subtle gradients, and shades of a brush, etc. Is way more memory heavy, but you could try.
Las thing that can make you see weird shading / bad gradients, is a bad monitor....
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I like modern painting effects, I have no interest in traditional painting. I don't want AP to be as traditional as CP.
Actually, most concept artists /digital painters/illustrators I know, use my build up technique...
I need an app to provide me with capability for painting both ways ; traditional-like, and mostly digital paint in the way most people do now, which indeed is a lot like is done in traditional. (if you look some of the greatest and famous digital painters, concept artists and illustrators, this is a fact.... )
I don't evade the problem, build-up is used by everyone and his dog, and that works well in AP. It's all about painting, not smearing and blurring...
Oh, I urge them,...they are surely quite fed up of my petitions (100% painting related) in this field, at this point....
We need optimism in everything in life. And as they have a large list of things to do, this (the one in my signature) is just one of them, and definitely not key for a photo based app...Makes sense that does not have the highest priority.
Yep, the ALT fix is all I need... I guess I'll stop crying , once that's fixed.... ;D
Zoom.... Yep, the thing is it seems looks better in my end, that's why I asked if you had looked at the preferences.
Usually in most apps, zoom factors like 100%, 50%, etc... look better. Well, dunno in AP, haven't noticed anything wrong in that, but in PS it used to look bad in odd zooms (111%, 137, 67% etc)
Sometimes is an issue with the card driver colliding with certain app, others with the app config/preferences.
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There is a literal ton of other applications that I need which are Win/mac only.... If only were a PS/AI (AP/AD) replacement kind of thing.... (said by someone who has Blender as favorite 3D software)
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Basically glitching.... often not picking the color, actually...u think it took it, and paints with the older color, happens when you go even slightly fast (here, at least)... specially when going fast... my computer is an old i7, but can do this kind of thing in CSP (in this one, with +100 layers and a 10k-20k px canvas, no issue, while appears in a 900px canvas in AP), Sketchbook and any other 2D apps with absolutely no trace of that issue... And I'm a heck of a fat (er...not really) hairy old troll-geek with computers, I have it all as much fine tuned as it could get.... Also, when you use it a lot, very fast, glitches on the magnifier appear often, too. (despite the fact that the magnifier it self, glitches or not, appearing in every pick, is really distracting in a buildup, glazing technique. (a preference setting to disable it is all I'd need...). It needs to be noted that I notice the performance and failed color picks a lot LESS when using the actual key rather than configuring alt in the Wacom Intuos Pro 4 pen. But my brain is literally wired to the side button for picking a color, whatever the painting technique I might use.
I use the AP's color wheel a lot as well, detached to keep it near, but way, way less. In any advanced painting piece, you will need totally to pick from the actual painting. I indeed, I often paint some solid daubs in the canvas, as a manner of basic color palette, some times even just the primary colors, as I did with oils (wooden palette). So much I'm based in that for fast digital painting in a very trad painting way.
With AP, I always deactivate fully X-Mouse Button Control before even loading AP, so , is not that one. As it happens more with the side pen button than with the physical key, (but still happens) my bet is, not an issue with the wacom driver (works great in that respect (and any other) with any other 2D app), but maybe yep in the interaction of said driver with Affinity.
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On 12/27/2018 at 10:24 PM, Frozen Death Knight said:
I haven't really had a lot of trouble using the colour picker, as far as I am aware. I use it to pick up colours I need on the fly, and don't really do anything more advanced than sometimes switching the source to current layer when I have a bunch of other layers sitting ontop of the one I am working on.
A bunch of us, in digital painting since a while, do use a glazing technique, which at the same time is a build up one. Is extremely common to paint so, and indeed, it is very very very close to how any of us used to paint with oils and acryilics (indeed, despite the crazy tons of digital painting I've done, I consolidated all my technique while being a traditional painter (it was impossible anything like that with the computers, back then).
The glazing is that you need to be picking the intermediate shadows that are generated as you paint, picking colors between daubs...This can be as fast as every few seconds, or faster. The build up, that actually works well in AP ( you have flow and opacity), I'd be able to work with it and basic brushes (I paint with basic brushes everywhere and get my wanted final look in a painting, but lately I'm loving Daubs (Paolo's) brushes A LOT.... I wouldn't need it, but it definitely allows to go for a very traditional touch, which I remember perfectly , tho is from so many years ago. (a lot of it is pure nostalgic, tho). The problem is... the color picking with alt is crucial to me, and my techniques... So, I'm still painting with CSP for the time being. Will see what I'll do in the future. AP serves me well for anything else.
21 hours ago, Extended said:Photoshop behavior is wash.
Affinity Photo behavior is buildup.
Krita defaults to wash.
Regarding this difference, the brush on the soft edge has a very big difference. In short, the wash is a higher degree of detail, and the buildup is poor.
This is almost devastating for high quality painting, which completely destroys the feasibility of Affinity Photo for high quality painting.I have always had the notion that build-up refer to be able to paint over a stroke, and over again, in different directions, "modeling" at the same time with the strokes, while picking intermediate tones, so that it increases in intensity. IMO is all the opposite: Build up allows for a closer to real painting style. In Photoshop is totally possible, is just the right combination of FLOW value, opacity, and good config of your Wacom.
oh! is pointed out by some one later in the thread...heck, to lazy to re-write...
And yeah, ctrl + paint guy is one of the best explaining it...
14 hours ago, Extended said:now is not the prime time of Affinity Photo.
Actually, the name of the app, and a bunch of other things, the actual app features, are telling you that this program is very focused in "photo", in photography. And in that category is probably where they are wishing it to be in prime time. I have read it from the developers. Affinity is NOT a digital painting software. It is not. We wish it were BESIDES all what it already does, but indeed, is not. To be totally accurate, PS is neither. yes , we have used it for that, at every company one could think of, but all that time, Corel Painter was miles better than PS in emulating painting. Today, none of these two can be described as such, when you have something like Art Rage, C. Painter or Rebelle. The funny thing is those can't do a ton of things that PS and Photo can do, which are ESSENTIAL for REAL professional illustration, where a project for a client involves a lot more complex workflows than just faking the best brush feel.
I believe I understand now the issue you find for blending the brushes. But actually, for good results, painterly -like, you need indeed hard brushes (otherwise you produce that PS-like, airbush softened/washed only feel, that shouts PS and too-digital from a mile away. People don't want that anymore, clients dislike it , too (unless comics coloring)...) , and use a very subtle buildup technique, this way it wont matter those transition problems, you build up anyway, and the problem disappears with the daubs build up... is very complex to explain it with words, and am not doing a great job here, either....
What is more... I'd say quite the opposite... for the techniques I've used and developed for making illustrations (in many styles) , I need MORE a PS like than a Corel Painter like, as I can actually FAKE all those cool trad painting efffects, better said, I can till a degree, and when not, Paolo's or other brushes are all you need to get PS or AP be your digital painting solution. So, i'd say I can't agree : To me, AP is ready for show, specially 1.7 beta : My only single last issue pending is the alt color picking at fast pace (and the randomly (frequent enough to ruin the experience) glitching forced amplifier disk which I don't even need...). Could be my crappy old computer, but it shows ZERO issue in that in absolutely any other painting or editing application on earth (and man, do I have, use, and test different apps... ) . So, we're onto something, there.... BUT... I'm the never surrendering optimistic... That will get improved, sooner or later.... ;D
Meanwhile, am staying painting in CSP... sigh... (the sadness is because I really need at times AP's functionality, even in my current overly painting focused projects....)
I don't know how y'all are dealing with the fast color picking... the technique of using layers and colorizing ( @frozen )... hmmm...very far from a real painterly technique, I search for the impronta, the expression of the daubs, and "build up" with those, so, your option is great for comic coloring, less for realistic but expressive digital painting....
Every beta brings amazing surprises, so, it'll get better....
PD: About zoom quality: I'd check well several settings available in AP's preferences.
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On 12/27/2018 at 10:13 PM, - S - said:
Yup.
Gorgeous.....
Rubber 48k key, in all of its glory....
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Is too short, that frame... is that actually a ZX Spectrum 48k key ?
If so is worth an entire subscription to Netflix...
My avatar plays with the concept of..."graphics cat" ... I'm a graphic artist, and seems there's quite some love for cats around here...imo it fits well, as there are also a bunch of retro lovers... (er...who as well were actually kids or older back then....
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I made my first "pixel art" (and even some games) with that ...er...thing.
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56 minutes ago, bluearch said:
Developers, do you hear us???
Probably not...These forums are so old.... yet not sound-based. But for heck very sure they read a lot of this...for every professional field's special feature, every area, niche, hobbyist user case, every day, every hour, every minute... through all the year.... If they would be even able to "hear" it...man, that'd be cruelty....
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There is only a crappy piece of software to set the hot keys up, completely useless, so i have no way to sync the pen or do whatever with it, like set it up?
I always recommend an open source tiny app (X-Mouse Button Control) that allows you to literally replace any fixed app key or button or button+ keys shortcut which you dislike and for whatever reason, are not the ones you can actually change in preferences in your app (in this case, Affinity's). That said, and while I have not noticed any performance or behavioral difference with this utility being loaded and active (or not), as am having issues with the color picking performance (and with large brushes perf.) I always disable it fully (not only deactivating the AP profile I have in it for AP, but even killing the process entirely) , only to be 100% sure there's nothing in between the hardware and Affinity, affecting. But I know a bunch of people that is using the utility to solve this type of problem (configuring their shortcuts or pen/tablet/mouse buttons in the way they use in other apps and which they're more comfortable with) . Heck, I use it in everything not being CSP or AP.
Also, that said, if you can get a refund, just fly to the shop, and get at least one of the better known brands, there are terrific bargains. Wacom is my preference for not only apps compatibility, but because I believe they have really the premium durability. ALL my wacoms work today, even my Wacom 1 A4. But if the pocket ain't deep, I'd go instead for a cheap XP-PEN, only their battery-free pen options! ( as makes less likely to get jittery lines). Some of us here think the Deco 03 is around the best purchase possible (IMO, a large +1 is the active area). But you can get a Star G640 Sketch for just 40 bucks !! I mean..... Really wanna go cheaper?
https://www.storexppen.com/buy/54.html
Is... 6x4 inches only, but geez, just checking, that one has even a p01 battery-free pen.
For photo retouch only, IMO this size is great.... For drawing seriously, nah, get a Deco 03 (100 $ ).
The problems that come with buying a brand that is not even known where it comes from, wont be happening only with Affinity, that's for sure...
If it is the typical Christmas Gift purchased in some second hand place, telling the gifting person to help for getting a refund to buy another one might be...delicate. But if you really want to create art, even if can't have your money back, invest at least what AP / AD costed you for a new tablet, or you will be punishing yourself with no need. If you are into drawing, I mean, really, purchase the Wacom Intuos M (Medium) , it's 170 $, no need for the Pro, or XP-PEN Deco 03.
If OP's post was spam, well... maybe some other had the shitty situation with Christmas gifts... for this kind of thing... personally would not risk to hurt the person's (making the gift) feelings, just would buy a better tablet on my own... Not gonna break the bank for 39 $.
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there still is a lot of lagging when hatching.
In raster (AP), I have lag with (around 400px) large brushes, but mostly texture based one, not so much with basic round ones.....I have not really gone into depths to notice lag in AD (there might be). But not sure on what part of it is to blame on my type writ....er , my arcane PC. I'm way more worried for the color picker (in AP only). Have you experienced the same lag when on a small canvas, nothing drawn, than with that ton of vectors ? Might it be simple CPU overload, in general, due to that heavy vector drawing ? (it is a question, not an statement: I'd like to know.)
That said that lovely wolf (or husky?) is definitely sth that at that level of detailing (hair by hair) I'd totally do as digital painting, in raster (AP). I mean, is very nice to do as vectors, as an artistic decision, but I believe is pushing the boundaries a bit, in the sense of what is mostly been created for (even in a savagely wide variety of expected uses, the typical workflow in most of them I guess is expected to be more about stylizing that detailing like in raster, from a techical POV, only, as who's to tell anyone how to do own art. But just like an oil brush might give you probs to get a watercolor feel (doable, and some ppl do wonders by doing so, tho, but I get my point is somewhat clear...)).
Great work.
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First news about this are from a while, and the "Windows 365" thing, implying Windows as subs-only, kind of have a big impact around first quarter this year. Don't you think that, with all the possible sales loss, they'd have wanted to prevent damage by totally filling up the internet with articles linking to MS CEOs and stuff, making firm statements denying that possibility ? Done some searches right now ( and in the past with stuff related, would have popped up), am not bad in searching, and finding much more easily articles confirming the bad news, and not a single one from MS denying it.... Call me a pessimistic guy (I'm over optimistic, by default and by will) but if that's not a sign.... Again, what works today is what does, not recommending a wagon jump just yet. But am taking impulse for the jump,
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PD: One way or the other, skills are easily ported from one app to an other (heck, if I were given an euro per each time I did), and so, from an OS to another. The vendors of apps and OSes are the ones to be in the risk of loosing money....