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The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

Hello
 
 
My name is Hugh Talman,I am a fairly new Affinity user and after many years as a PS user I really appreciate this alternative still on a bit of a learning curve but liking it. I am a staff photographer at Smithsonian Museum of American
History.

Howdy folks. I'm Paper. I am trying to move away from Adobe products because of their pricing increases. I've been looking for alternatives. I hear Affinity is promising.

The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

After a quick test:
There is still a tiny lag between the touch and the first movement of my pen, which prevents me from doing short strokes with a brush (PTH-850 Intuos 5 Touch) Assigned Tool isn't getting assigned (tools don't switch when I switch brushes with Assigned Tool activated) If I choose a brush with wet edges and switch to a dry brush (no wet edges) wet edges remains activated

I get the draw lag on my old Aiptek graphics tablet too. This draw lag does not happen in Paint, Paint.net, Gimp or Photoshop. So the Affinity guys are doing something different for tablets.

I agree with Halo...same problems here. The History "Engine" uses a lot of resources, to the detriment of the responsiveness of AP. Turn off History in Studio helps a lot, but I need History to be turned on as most users do. Details slider on the Denoise filter does nothing for me either.

Same problems here.
 
1.)
I think there is a problem with the sampling rates of the input devices and threading in general in Affinity Photo.
Because (i have reported this months ago) if you use the "Histoy-Tab", the "wobbling" lines will be drawn. If you switch to any other tab (transform, navigator or channels), the issue is greatly reduced.
 
2.)
Also if iam using the denoise filter, the "details" slider does nothing.

First thank you for focusing on that problem. I have tested new version. Unfortunately no luck :( attached a file with more info.
 

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Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Photo version 1.5 was purchased.

As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Fixes
Completely re-wrote Wacom pen input! Fixed dragging an image into Affinity will cause an 'Error Importing Brushes' dialog Fixed images pasting upside down

Hi everyone, 
This build includes support for high precision tablet input. We are now using features of the Wintab API which we weren't previously using, so driver problems may emerge that may have previously gone undetected. 
 
Wacom drivers have been known to exhibit problems if one is installed without uninstalling the previous one. 
If you experience tablet input problems in this build, please help us rule out this as a cause by uninstalling the Wacom driver and then reinstalling the latest driver.  
 
We will shortly be releasing a new build containing a preference to revert to the previous low precision tablet input method. 
 
Thanks, 
Jon
 

The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

The card definitely has its impact.  But I have realized the way it is perceived depends on each individual, and also, in the planned usage for the tool.
Illustrator is really, really good. Expecting anything to beat Illustrator might be a stretch. If anything, I would say that Affinity Designer is quite more intuitive /easier to learn for new users (and quite a number of pros) than Illustrator, by far. And yeah, that can be indeed absolutely key. Affinity Designer is very good, and has an extremely good price/purchase option. (and even more considering the other options in the market...)

I would recommend installing a graphics card in your laptop, if that's possible. (one that is supported by it, of course). A powerful average but modern one would be desirable. I for one I can handle stuff with very low performance, as I kind of use many tricks. I have seen many artist colleagues doing this as well. But that path is not for everyone...

If you have a powerful PC or Mac with a normal graphic card in it, I'd recommend that for a better experience.

1.6 is going to be very good. I'd recommend to stay tuned, DEFINITELY. :) 

 

You like to use "noise". I like it. I think its way too little used in designs. So, lets make more "noiseeee"! :) 

Well, I have no problems with sunglasses, so I'm buying 5 pairs.
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THE WORLD WILL SEE ME, AND COME TO KNOW MY DISDAIN!  :wacko:

Exactly.  And it is very different to purchase than to rent. You purchase Affinity's licenses and you can disconnect from inet even for years. Have the machine for work not connected, for example. And that piece of software with Windows (several versions) will always work. My family has a pair of computers working with very arcane software and systems (even while have also other computers, more modern, in another house), and they're super happy, don't need more for the task. A rented software has not these advantages and they can change renting prices at any point they wish. No blame on them, is a business model. I just think a lot of customers are not up to that, (and another lot are, too). IMO this has provided with a lot of new customers to smaller companies, which is good (less monopoly). So, I'm happy they went with this model, hehe.
 
 
 
^^ THIS. Heck, Max used to cost 3.500 $, and now jumped into the renting wagon, 150$ per month, hehe. Luckily I can do now professional modeling and rendering -do it often, indeed- with just Blender 3D (fully free).
 
 
Is very hard to find these days a software company this good and caring, IMO.
 
 
We could infinitely be nitpicking on that, or get a much more positive line of work... My 2c. Again, is amazing the quantity of times much more resourceful companies have done way bigger announcements and have not been able to accomplish those, being way more damaging. And if you complain, you get your thread closed in the first post, in a lot of them.
 
 
A very good sign of how flooded of work they are. Small staff, low resources, is said in countless posts... Geez, we could use some flexibility here... This way is how most great projects get stalled, by the very specific people that should be defending them...

Seriously. There would never be an intention of "lying". They would be the first ones interested in having it now ready to purchase, don't you think ? :o   But crap happens in every development project, unpredictable things, then all have to be delayed and there's nothing physically possible to do about it.  Again.. please get to work -or talk to some close friend who worked at one-  at a company making software, you would become aware on the way it works and needs to do so, and would understand a ton of things... The company is also really permissive. In any other company's forums a thread like this would have been closed long ago, even in the first posts.... I have watched it happening so in almost every company's forum I've visited. (indeed, happens in many other type of forums, even those moderated but not owned by companies. )

When I am in need of an application (during the years as a company worker, and now as a freelance) , if it is not available in the very day (in some cases, week) when I need it, I have no other chance than use an alternative path (my bosses used to not understand  even a five minutes delay, so...). I mean, you can use other alternative, and still consider getting back to Affinity for a great tool and very well priced once it is released. Nothing stops you from doing that !  There are some alternatives already (people here seems to not like Scribus's UI, (I agree in that it is spartan) but I think the application is quite good...) . And you should study each of them, to see which suits you. As, other than Adobe's, in my usual researches, what I tend to find is those alternatives aren't usually great for all, like CC stuff is (mostly) . But each one tends to excel in one niche. This you can find it if you google about it cleverly and in depth, a lot of opinions (forums, comments, Q & A sites, etc) and user experience will help you decide.
 
A roadmap, and that a team/company prediction is very doable in time, is sth likely to happen when resources are large, and you can put two or more teams on it if sth needs to accomplish a milestone (but lol, in other apps, and/or in  games, the delays are WAY more crazy, btw). You don't know their circumstances, neither do I (I read some basic details some time ago) . But we both know they have not the size and power of Adobe, by any stretch. Let's be a ton more coherent with that... ;). They are actually doing an heroic thing, given the time of releasing and what they have achieved, being their size.
 
So, from what I mention in the first paragraph, the complaint, IMO, is of not much use. As much you are going to put the developers in a negative emotion against it. That is far from inspiring and encouraging for people with a lot of work and pressure. Is the opposite way to go if you want to see one day a great Publishing application being produced by this company, IMHO. Plus, you can get Xara, Corel Draw, or Scribus, for your edition needs, IMO, choosing the right one for the tasks you are mostly going to do. (even that's not so, as it also depends on the level of of things you need in a niche)

Or you can keep some time more using the CC subscription, and once the app is ready, you buy it in that minute, and stop paying that...renting. That wouldn't be a bad thing to do, either. Financially speaking, probably a better road, as a full alternative package's price, might be more expensive, depending on a number of factors, depends on the cases.



 

Let's share my personal used keyboard shortcuts visualiser for Affinity Designer. As you might have guessed from it's name, this tool shows up the ADe shortcuts in a more direct virtual keyboard style manner, locally in your web browser.
For adjustments just select or switch to the corresponding option setting on top of the page view for your ADe version (actually included are reworked English and German shortcuts for ADe v1.10.5 now). Select your OS (Win or Mac) and the localized keyboard layout you use:
You can also search for shortcuts via the bottom search field:
 

DesignerCapture.mp4 To run it locally, extract the compressed archive and navigate into the "/DesignerShortcutMapper" folder. There open the HTML page index.html in your default or prefered web browser. See also the following note:
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please read the in this distribution supplied readme.txt file, in order to understand how to setup/configure/enable for a webbrowser then local file:// access rights for running the DesignerShortcutMapper locally without a static HTTP server! - Though the recommended way is to run it via a http-server!
 
Here attached is the compressed DesignerShortcutMapper_v1.10.5.zip archive reworked for ADe v.1.10.5:
DesignerShortcutMapper_v1.10.5.zip Have fun with it!
See also this related posting.
DesignerShortcutMapper.zip

Here is a visual shortcut mapper for exploring and showing up these cheat sheet keyboard shortcuts for the Affinity Tools!

Here is a version of a Visual Shortcuts Explorer for all Affinity Tools, which can show up the Affinity Designer + Affinity Photo + Affinity Publisher v.1.10.5 keyboard shortcuts for Win/Mac (in English or German language), on different choosable localized keyboard layouts.

AffinityKeybMapper_Capture.mp4  
 
 
This is the corresponding AffinityShortcutMapper_v1.10.5.zip archive:
AffinityShortcutMapper_v1.10.5.zip To use it, extract the compressed archive and navigate into the "/AffinityShortcutMapper" folder, there open the HTML page index.html locally in your default or prefered web browser and start exploring the various shortcuts!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please read the in this distribution supplied readme.txt file, in order to understand how to setup/configure/enable for a webbrowser then local file:// access rights for running the AffinityShortcutMapper locally without a static HTTP server!  - For the Chrome web browser you might try instead to locally launch Chrome the below shown way (due to it's default security settings) in order to allow file:// protocol access for it  ...
> "C:\PathTo\Chrome.exe" --allow-file-access-from-files For Firefox setup see the distributions supplied readme.txt file! - Though the overall recommended way is to run the AffinityShortcutMapper via a http-server!
See also this related posting for a ADe standalone version!

This. I found it rather shocking that it considered my 970 to be below spec for some of its higher end color grading features. Still, from my (admittedly very limited) experiences, it works fast enough, despite that warning.
 
 
I think Serif is gearing the Affinity line more towards the graphics design crowd, rather than being a point for point competitor to the entire sweep of the Creative Suite.
 
Hell, if they were, we'd probably be waiting a good 20 years for them to make good on their promise. Even Adobe didn't design all their apps from scratch all at once. It took a decade or so of banging away at their own code, and a few buyouts on the side to get things where they are today.

Hi DarkClown,
What you are seeing is the result of the filter being applied to mipmaps - lower resolution versions of the image/layer - that Affinity uses to preview the filter/improve performance, then the filter baked/applied to the full resolution version of image and re-rendered to the screen at the zoom level you've set when you click Apply - thus the appearance change on screen (when you are working with zooms levels below 100%). If you set the zoom level to 100% (or above) before running the filter you ensure it's applied to the full resolution "version" of the image and so you shouldn't see any changes on screen when you apply it.
 
When working with filters - in particular noise-based ones - it's recomendable setting the zoom level to 100% to ensure you get an accurate preview/rendering of the effect.