greggman

This is a minor request but ... it would be useful to me if I could set the checkerboard color used with transparency.
I'm trying to edit a png that is nothing but white and transparecy and with current checkerboard colors it's basically impossible to see.
My current solution is to add another layer, fill it with black and move it behind the orignal layer but I have to do that every single time I load the this kind of png so if I could set the background checkerboard color somewhere like in preferences or one of the view managers that would be great! 
 

In Windows if nothing else the default location for saving should be the user's proflle folder not C:\Windows\System32 

I love it if there was a way to script affinity products.
 
JavaScript or Lua or anything really.  Ideally all features would be scriptable so I could use Affinity to generate stuff or build actions or load/export a bunch of files. I don't need personally need a UI to get started though I'm sure some folks would love an Actions palette
 
 

I love it if there was a way to script affinity products.
 
JavaScript or Lua or anything really.  Ideally all features would be scriptable so I could use Affinity to generate stuff or build actions or load/export a bunch of files. I don't need personally need a UI to get started though I'm sure some folks would love an Actions palette
 
 

Just adding to the chorus. I get the logic of Affinty Photo's save vs export but it's WAY LESS CONVENIENT than Photoshop's workflow.
 
In Photoshop. Save As, pick jpg, then edit, Ctrl-S, edit, Ctrl-S, edit, Ctrl-S
 
In Affinity Photo I always have to go through the export path which is really distracting. Affinity tries to pride itself on being better than Photoshop in many ways. This is one where it's worse. Here's hoping they'll consider changing it.
 
Photoshop does warn you if you've got a multi-layer file that saving to a non.PSD will lose data. But if you have a single layer file it just works for jpg and png and a few other formats.
 

This is a minor request but ... it would be useful to me if I could set the checkerboard color used with transparency.
I'm trying to edit a png that is nothing but white and transparecy and with current checkerboard colors it's basically impossible to see.
My current solution is to add another layer, fill it with black and move it behind the orignal layer but I have to do that every single time I load the this kind of png so if I could set the background checkerboard color somewhere like in preferences or one of the view managers that would be great! 
 

New from Clipboard is not helpful. It loses the layers and it crops to the size of the layer.
 
 We really need a real "Duplicate Document" command. You know, the one that's part of the MacOS User Interface Guidelines
 
https://developer.apple.com/macos/human-interface-guidelines/menus/menu-bar-menus/
 
New from Snapshot is a fairly convoluted workaround for what's been a basic feature of most apps for decades. Here's hoping you'll add a File->Duplicate option

Just adding to the chorus. I get the logic of Affinty Photo's save vs export but it's WAY LESS CONVENIENT than Photoshop's workflow.
 
In Photoshop. Save As, pick jpg, then edit, Ctrl-S, edit, Ctrl-S, edit, Ctrl-S
 
In Affinity Photo I always have to go through the export path which is really distracting. Affinity tries to pride itself on being better than Photoshop in many ways. This is one where it's worse. Here's hoping they'll consider changing it.
 
Photoshop does warn you if you've got a multi-layer file that saving to a non.PSD will lose data. But if you have a single layer file it just works for jpg and png and a few other formats.
 

There's always going to be those that disagree, but one thing that must be considered is the millions of people across the globe that use Photoshop.
I've never heard anyone complain about how Photoshop do "Save As". It doesn't confuse anyone.
Gimp on the other hand that uses the same concept as Affinity Photo has mountains of post for many many many years regarding having to use "Export" instead of "Save As".
Plus if you wish to atract long time Photoshop users, then sticking to common methods of workflow is important.
I've used Photoshop for 25 years and it erks me no end that something that is so standardised in other software, for some reason Serif has to break all the rules, for what? What does it achieve?
 
 

I love it if there was a way to script affinity products.
 
JavaScript or Lua or anything really.  Ideally all features would be scriptable so I could use Affinity to generate stuff or build actions or load/export a bunch of files. I don't need personally need a UI to get started though I'm sure some folks would love an Actions palette
 
 

I love it if there was a way to script affinity products.
 
JavaScript or Lua or anything really.  Ideally all features would be scriptable so I could use Affinity to generate stuff or build actions or load/export a bunch of files. I don't need personally need a UI to get started though I'm sure some folks would love an Actions palette
 
 

I love it if there was a way to script affinity products.
 
JavaScript or Lua or anything really.  Ideally all features would be scriptable so I could use Affinity to generate stuff or build actions or load/export a bunch of files. I don't need personally need a UI to get started though I'm sure some folks would love an Actions palette