R C-R
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33 minutes ago, William Overington said:
Why laugh out loud?
Because software companies rarely if ever pay for nothing more than ideas about features users would like to see implemented.
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4 hours ago, MikeTO said:
I'm replying to your post in the Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS - (2.4.2) thread so we're not cluttering up that announcement post.
??? This looks like a new, one post topic started by you, not a reply to an existing topic. So I am not sure @Demonskunk will see it.
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8 hours ago, GarryP said:
I don’t seem to be able to Load the Style Picker from a layer with no Stroke and no Fill...
I only tried loading it from an ellipse 'quick shape' or a simple closed shape made with the Pen Tool, both with no stroke or fill. With either object selected in the Layers panel so I could see the bounding box & path, I could click on the path to load the picker. I could not click anywhere else to get it to load.
Attached is my Style Picker test.afphoto I used.
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I'm not quite sure what you mean by Geometry panel, or which Affinity app & version you are using, but maybe if you post a simple example file with this problem it would help make things clearer.
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3 hours ago, albertkinng said:
This is precisely what I mean. In my experience, buyers often believe that the original product is superior and will attempt to "fix" the one they purchased.
How could buyers "fix" the software they bought & what does that have to do with what Canva will do with Affinity?
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25 minutes ago, Oufti said:
BTW, the check mark ✓ is a standard Unicode character (U+2713), present in many fonts.
It is present in Wingdings & Wingdings 2 on my Mac, but not in Wingdings 3.
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4 hours ago, markw said:
If this is so then these Extensions were mostly removed in Affinity Photo 2.
Any idea why?
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8 hours ago, Alfred said:
Wingdings comes as standard with Windows, but I’d be surprised if macOS doesn’t offer something similar.
On my Mac there are 3 Wingdings fonts, named Wingdings, Wingdings 2, & Wingdings 3, stored in /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/ & availble in the Affinities, Textedit, & so on.
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34 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Again, even by experienced users; we all make mistakes.
Not me! I never make missnakes!
- Alfred, Hangman and walt.farrell
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3 hours ago, Ove Steen said:
But now "Check spelling" from the Text menu suddenly says with any language.:
”Document contains languages (da-DK) for which no dictionnary is installed“.
Do you get this error message with any APub file that includes text items or just particular ones? If the latter, can you post an example of the ones that do, if possible one with just a few pages to keep the file size down?
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2 hours ago, Alfred said:
I think we all know what you meant, even if you didn’t quite say it!
FWIW, in the U.S. "Kentucky Fried Colonel" is a commonly used slang term for Harland Sanders of KFC fame. He was awarded the honorific title "Kentucky Colonel" in the 1930's by the governor of Kentucky. It is not a military rank.
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11 hours ago, debraspicher said:
We may head that direction and hope there's a clearing. But if not, it's a day to get out and have a small adventure. On the plus side, I have filters now I can use for future solar shots...
According to a DFW TV station's usually reliable weather people, you would need to drive up north to just south of Little Rock, Arkansas for the best chance of a clear sky during the eclipse. The quickest route would probably be to take I-30.
Several weeks ago we bought a 6 pack of 'eclipse glasses' from Amazon that supposedly were NASA approved so we could give a few pair away. Then about 4 days ago we got a notice from Amazon that they were not safe & they were refunding out money, so we ordered a 12 pack of ones that were (because they did not have anything left in smaller quantities) which arrived late Saturday night.
So now we have enough to give away a bunch of them, but I'm not sure anybody will be interested.
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4 hours ago, debraspicher said:
Looks like cloudy weather here.
Same here in N. Texas; probably so overcast that we won't be able to see much of anything except a dark sky.
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I think the general consensus is 8 GB is not enough RAM unless you don't mind the apps running very sluggishly for anything more than very lightweight work.
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8 hours ago, William Overington said:
I asked Bing Chat AI as follows ...
I found it interesting that it said its last training cut-off date was in 2021, implying that there may (or may not!) be more data gathering & training done in the future to improve its results.
But much more interesting to me was it said it does not create original artwork (that word again). That makes me wonder how it would reply if you asked it who (or what?) is the originator of the images it produces.
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2 hours ago, thomaso said:
If you understand "art" as a result only ...
I understand artwork as the tangible result of the creative process. Who or what created it, or by what process, is a different thing entirely.
EDIT: I have to amend the above to say I do not really mean artwork has to be tangible in the sense of having a physical existence, even though almost all the references I could find to the definition of artwork say it refers only to physical objects. I think it is fairly obvious that these days some artwork, including much of the output of apps like Affinity, Photoshop, et all, has only a virtual existence yet is generally considered in one sense or another as artwork.
If it really had to be limited to the physical then no photograph taken with a digital camera could never be considered to be artwork unless or until it was printed. That seems absurd to me.
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On 4/4/2024 at 3:26 PM, Sitaara said:
When I use colour picker in the colour wheel, Affinity (Photo + Designer; Publisher seems not to be affected) crashes almost every time.
Is this a known problem?
FWIW, on my Mac I have not had any crashes related to using any of the color pickers in any of the Affinity apps, V1 or V2.
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11 minutes ago, Kelly Paul said:
I have attached the sample image RAW file as requested.
That file opens on my Mac in the Develop Persona. It takes about 8 seconds to do that.
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5 hours ago, Kelly Paul said:
Initial Photo Persona allows some initial edit, so I use these edits before moving on to the Develop Persona for more edit.
If you mean these files open in the Photo Persona then they are not RAW images. Can you post an example file from your camera that are opening into the Photo persona rather than directly into the Develop persona?
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1 hour ago, SrPx said:
A huge lot of the beauty in that thread of images is due to the genius of many human artists (and as I am seeing in it, of both 3D artists and traditional illustrators.
Can't you say the same for artwork created by people who have studied the genius of artists that have gone before them? So then what does it matter if the artist is human or artificial?
Taken a step further, who's to say that some future human artists will not in part be inspired to greatness bythe work of non-human artists?
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11 minutes ago, SrPx said:
I believe he refers to the matter of the AI not feeling emotions (neither being self aware in any way) being a problem for it generating art, as, despite that fact, yet considering the "art" which AI generates better or even equal to what a human artist would create, but I could have misunderstood what he said.
Why would an AI have to feel anything or be self aware to create art (good or bad by whatever standards one wants to use to judge that, objective or subjective) for that work to evoke strong emotional responses in humans that view it?
Try a Google search on something like "examples of AI-generated art." Among the hits are items like this one about 'mind blowing' examples. I don't know about what others feel but for me some of them do evoke strong emotions in me very much like those I feel when viewing human-created artwork of similar subject matter.
A bit off topic but my Google search turned up a lot of interesting stuff, one of which is this "Timeline of AI Art." While none of it directly addresses if AI's can or ever will be able to feel in the same sense that humans can, much of it suggests that is not necessary for them to create artwork that evokes strong feelings in humans.
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16 hours ago, Kelly Paul said:
I first open the Affinity Photo and then, open new files by clicking on menu File > Open. I also use the menu to move to Develop Persona.
If you are opening RAW files in AP they should automatically open in the Develop Persona. Are you saying that they are not opening in that persona so you have to select it from the application menu (or main Toolbar if it is configured as it is by default with buttons for 5 personas)?
If so, this would indicate you are not opening a RAW format file, or at least not one that Affinity recognizes as such.
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6 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
If OneDrive is managing your Desktop folder, it might be the known OneDrive issue that Affinity thumbnails don't show.
I think it would be safe to say if it is, you could replace "might" with "almost certainly."
Spell checking and Sonoma update issue
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I could be wrong but I think one has to opt in for that.