R C-R

Can't you understand that there are so many possible as yet unimplemented features that might appeal to workers in many different fields that there is no way to do more than wonder about it, with no hope of getting anything like a comprehensive or definitive answer? IOW, pick a new feature, any feature you can think of, & some people, if they bother to reply at all, are going to tell you that yes, in their opinion there will be people who start using Affinity if it is implemented.

Obviously I hope, the answer is yes, so I cannot understand why are you even bothered to ask about it.

You could not possibly have created the shortcuts on any version of AD 2 on a Mac running High Sierra (macOS 10.13) because as shown here, the minimum macOS version required to run V2 is Catalina (macOS 10.15).

Surely you must understand that there can be no reliable way to get numbers for anything like that. Most pros do not, nor would they have any reason to, explain what apps they use for any particular project.

As I remember it, only the 'premium' channels like HBO ever promised no ads, & that still applies. As for paying for Amazon Prime, it has saved me hundreds of dollars a year on purchases & shipping costs & gives me access to tons of high quality TV shows & movies I could not otherwise get, so for me it is well worth the cost. BTW, even without paying the extra charge for ad-free viewing, the ad breaks are far fewer & shorter than on broadcast or non-premium cable channels. That's one reason I look for & am willing to pay for services that let me avoid the ever more present & disruptive commercial breaks on U.S. TV.

FWIW, the figures I have seen are more like 100 million current users, many of them working for non-profits or in various departments of mid to large sized corporations. As for making money, I suspect part of it is they are playing the long game with things like offering the Affinity suite free to schools & non-profits, hoping that as people become more familiar with it they will want to buy their own copies for use outside those environments. As with so much else about this, time will tell.

Except that it is in the Media > Photos menu in the Open dialog of the Affinity apps (V1 & V2), Apple Preview.app, & probably others. EDIT: FWIW I opened a JPEG formatted photo from my Photos Library.photoslibrary package in Apple Preview.app via that app's Open > Media > Photo option, & made some edits to it using the Tools > Adjust Color... menu item. When I did that, I immediately got the popup warning shown below. I think that something similar should happen (with or without a warning) to files from the photoslibrary that are opened or placed (including via D&D) into an Affinity document, so they can be added ideally at full resolution without creating any issues.

I think that has the same problem mentioned above: it opens the original file in the the "originals" folder in the Photos Library.photoslibrary package, so editing & saving it back to the same location would replace the original with the edited version. (You can check this via the File > Reveal in Finder menu item.) Long ago, I suggested that this should not be possible, that it should only open a copy of the file or not open it at all, but that never seemed to get any attention from the developers. However, it may be that the D&D only places a reduced resolution version of the original to avoid that issue, but only the developers could say for sure why it does that. A quick check with the reveal in Finder command shows what D&D opens is (at least in my version of Apple Photos) in a subfolder of the derivatives folder, which may be some sort of stopgap effort to avoid possible corruption of the Photos database, although not a very good one. It is old & possibly out-of-date, but https://tidbits.com/2019/06/14/the-ins-and-outs-of-non-destructive-editing-in-photos-for-mac-and-ios/ was written by one of the Apple developers explains some of the nuances (& issues!) of working with external editors for photos stored in Apple Photos.

Yes, please consider this because it will reduce the amount of scrolling needed to see all of your posts. For me, it is annoying enough to have to do that that I often just skip to the next topic.

That's the way I understand it too, but I am by no means certain about it. @_Seb_, there is no point in asking the developers to change the D&D behavior here in the Questions forum, because the developers will probably never see it (because they do not spend their time combing through the thousands of topics here). Instead, as I already mentioned, post your request to the Feedback forum if a topic about it has not already been started, or if it has then add your support for it in that topic. BTW, all caps is generally regarded as the online equivalent of shouting, which is often considered rude or childish, so it is a good idea to avoid it if possible.

If you mean the folder "originals" in the Photos Library.photoslibrary package, I would not do that because (I think) if you made any changes to it in AP & saved it, that would replace the original with the modified version in the library, which could cause problems with the Photos database. Anyway, Apple advises not to make any changes directly in the *.photoslibrary package because of that possibility.

That is not quite right. It is just that Affinity supports the Image layer type of container object that, to quote the help topic, retains the placed image's original color space, resolution and physical dimensions (when placed at native resolution). Because it is not a Pixel layer, you cannot select its pixels to copy them, but you can easily change it into a Pixel layer if you need to do that.

I doubt it, mostly because none of the ads I saw on Prime Video except the Canva one were about anything I had ever searched for. But from this, if they were targeting me based on what I clicked on in their ads that would generate zero results because I never do that. Likewise, if it was in part based on my Amazon purchases, they need to refine whatever algorithms they use for that because none of the ads I saw were for anything I ever would have any interest in buying. BTW, the above is in the past tense because I decided that at least for now it was worth it to subscribe to the ad-free version for $3 a month.

So are you saying that you do see the message, seemingly contrary to what you said before about there being no message, or only that you want D&D to place full-resolution versions? If the latter, that request probably should be posted to the Feedback forum, if thet has not already been done.

Isn't that at least in part dependent on how much data has to be swapped to disk & what has to be in RAM to do something with the document?

Yeah, I was going to mention that too but you beat me to it. Kinda weird that APu gets the tooltip but Apu does not.... What the heck? Now, APu is not underlines in my reply but is in what I quoted & recolored from you above.

The only reason I mentioned it was because I have never seen a commercial for Canva on any other streaming service besides in Prime Video, nor on any broadcast or cable TV networks. So I am a bit curious about if this is the start of trying to reach a broader viewing audience or what. The comment about Affinity was just in case anybody wanted to know if it was mentioned.

I am running Catalina so it may be different with other OS versions but I do get a message telling me that the file has been imported at a lower resolution & to use the full resolution version I should export the file to disk. The message goes away after a few seconds so it is easy to miss, but if I click on it while it is visible I am taken back to an Export dialog in Apple Photos.app so I can either cancel or export it & from there. I think it would be better if the message did not automatically disappear & had OK & Export from Photos buttons instead.

Apu also works for Affinity Publisher (not to be confused with the Simpson's character).

Make of this what you will: In the US & in several other countries Amazon Prime Video has added a limited number of commercials before & during TV shows & movies. Occasionally, there have been ones for Canva but from what I can tell there is no mention of Affinity, just the Canva web site.

I don't think much if anything has changed, version to version. It's still hit or miss as far as adding excessive nodes.

It's current implementation is known to be buggy.

Isn't the point, such as it is, to provide a small amount of comic relief in what is otherwise a topic that some have serious misgivings about?

You are living in a dream world if you think they will pay you for anything that you cannot establish legal ownership of. Again, please consult a lawyer if you do not understand why it is absurd of you to think they would do this.

Serif never paid endusers for any of the zillions of ideas they have submitted for improvements to any of the Affinity products, including ones they implemented. What makes you think it would be any different now that Canva owns them? It's a for-profit business, not a charity.