TonyB

We are planning on showing temperature in Kelvin and also adding a tint slider as well.

Developing two UI modes will slow down the progress of the other features we have promised to include. We have never said we will not do two UI modes but it's all about priorities. 
 
Apple Pro apps are also dark and I guess they also prioritise what they should work on next.
 
As for "Disability Discrimination Act" then no, as a software developer we do not need to make a 'reasonable' provision, a company buying our software might but then again creative software wouldn't be classed as "required" for a vision impaired user. Also, most software adapted for vision impairment tends to use bright text on a black background.
 
Thanks for the feedback.

If you can import PDF then we should be able to get this working. We are implementing our own PDF export soon so will include layer information. I will take us a few months but just keep a look out for betas.

We also support Ctrl-Alt Drag: Up down for hardness, left/right for size. It needs a bit of improvement but it's there.

Layer 2 has a blend mode of 'Normal' applied and we rasterise blend modes by default. If you change the blend mode back to 'Passthrough' or uncheck the 'Rasterise unsupported effects' then it should export fine.

Font embedding and subsetting for PDF output is on our feature roadmap. This should hopefully make it into a release later this year.

It would require something like a kickstarter campaign with of target of £500k to convince me. Linux is very popular but I'm not sure how many of the users would be prepared to actually spend money on software.

Perhaps we should create a Kickstarter campaign for a Linux version. We should set the target at $500k and see how much interest we get.

Affinity is developed by an internal but separate team inside Serif. The SerifLabs team have their own developers, artists, marketing/pr but share a documentation team.
 
Serif will indefinitely sell the Plus range of software but any news of Affinity on Windows is still too early to call.
 
As for IPO, then Serif is currently privately owned and I wish to keep it that way. 

This will be a future feature of Affinity Publisher.

I think everyone has now put their perspective across on this subject so I'm locking the thread.
 
I hope you all understand.

We have plans to replace the current Character and Paragraph panels so expect a big improvement later this year.

This will be a future feature of Affinity Publisher.

I think everyone has now put their perspective across on this subject so I'm locking the thread.
 
I hope you all understand.

This will be a future feature of Affinity Publisher.

We have plans to replace the current Character and Paragraph panels so expect a big improvement later this year.

Where do I get support?
The best place for asking questions, reporting bugs and requesting features is right here on our forum – this is where we all hang out:
 
 · Questions
 · Report a Bug on Mac, Report a bug on Windows and Report a Bug on iPad.
 · Make a feature suggestion
 
What are the system requirements?
OS X Mavericks (10.9) or above for Mac and Windows 7 (SP1) and above for MS Windows – but you can see the full spec for Affinity Designer here and for Affinity Photo here
 
Is it available to buy for Windows?
Affinity Designer for Windows is available to here, and Affinity Photo for Windows is available to buy here and both are also on the Windows Store here. We support 64-bit editions of Windows 7 (SP1), 8.1, and 10.
If you have bought any Affinity apps for the MacOS or Windows or iPad and want to run on one of the other platforms also, you will need to purchase additional licenses for those other platforms.
 
Are there trial versions available?
Yes, there are free 10-day trials for Mac and Windows available on our site, with Affinity Photo at affinity.serif.com/photo/trial and Affinity Designer at affinity.serif.com/designer/trial.
 
I've used my trial, can I have another?
No, unfortunately not. The trials need to be secure to prevent abuse, so even though your wish is for an honest evaluation we cannot circumvent the trial checking built in to the app. If you installed a trial of Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer before, you can only use a future trial when it is updated to reflect new features (1.6, 1.7, 1.8 etc). The customer beta versions of Affinity apps do not offer an additional trial period and only work for paid customers.

What is Affinity Photo Plugin support like?
We are currently working with some plug-in manufacturers to make their plug-ins fully compatible with Affinity Photo. We will keep you updated on our progress. We would also love to know which plug-ins you would like to see made compatible with Affinity Photo.
 
Do you plan to have Web site design/Digital Asset Management/animation/video editing products too?
We’re not sure yet! but we are very interested in adding a DAM solution to the Affinity suite in future.
 
Do you produce apps for iPad?
Affinity Photo for iPad is available from the iOS App Store here. 
Affinity Designer for iPad is available from the iOS App Store here. 
 
Do you have any tutorials or handbook available?
We have the Designer Workbook available to purchase here and the Photo Workbook here. We also have a comprehensive set of video tutorials, you can find our growing collection here . Due to high design and production costs each Workbook is only available in English and in German, with no plans for otther languages.
 
Are Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher available in any languages other than English?
Yes, each apps already includes
English (US and UK), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Japanese, Russian, 
and Chinese (Simplified). Language is chosen for you automatically and you can also change it in Preferences > General.
 
How does the pricing work in different countries?
We set the price in USD for sale within the USA, and from there the price shown in other countries and currencies is set by Apple based on a matrix they use. We have no control over that matrix or any updates Apple may make to it in the future. Our Affinity Store matches these prices for Windows to make the sale price the same.
 
Are Affinity Windows apps available to buy outside of the Affinity Store?
Yes, Affinity Designer for Windows and Affinity Photo for Windows are available on the Serif Affinity Store and also the Windows Store.
Are Affinity Mac apps available to buy outside of the Mac App Store?
Yes, Affinity Designer for Mac and Affinity Photo for Mac are available on the Serif Affinity Store and also the Mac App Store.
 
This also applies to educational and other volume license sales — Serif operate volume purchase programs for organisations to reduce costs and simplify distribution and management, which you can find our more about for business here and for education here.
 
Is there anywhere I can download a cheat sheet showing the shortcuts for Affinity apps?
Yes there is! You can download a full list of default shortcuts for the Affinity apps in this Affinity Spotlight article  (where you will find printable PDFs and also the Affinity Designer source files for English and German keyboards in case you want to include your own customized shortcuts).
 
Can I use the Affinity logo and name for my website/channel/product/service?
We really appreciate and encourage activities that support Affinity software so we're pretty fair about trademark usage, but naturally there are limitations. We want Affinity users to be confident about what content is created by Affinity and what is created by third parties, our guidelines in this short PDF (English only) make things quite clear.

I think everyone has now put their perspective across on this subject so I'm locking the thread.
 
I hope you all understand.

We set the App Store price band to 50 and that translates to $50 US, Apple then set the price in each region based on that band. We don't have the ability to set anything other than the price band.
 
As for $50 US, then I think there will be a lot of people on this forum that think the price is fair.
 
I do appreciate that the price difference between regions can seem unfair but we in Europe also have this problem. 
 
Also, for $50 US we are also promising new features and updates for the next 2 years for free so again I think the price is fair.

Affinity Photo is not a replacement for Aperture, iPhoto or Lightroom. I'm sorry if you were told this. Affinity Photo is an image editing application with focus on photography.
 
Photoshop, Acorn and Pixelmator are the kind of market we are aiming at.

We are fixing the offset problem soon and I hope the lag is also caused by the same thing. I'm a bit confused by the ",ore lines you draw it get slower" as in photo all the data goes on the same layer so can't get any slower - this isn't true of designer however.

Hi, I'm Tony Brightman. I head the SerifLabs team that have been developing the new Affinity range of applications. We have been deep in research for 4 years but it's now time to show the world.

 

TonyB

We will add a 'Magnetic' and 'Polygon' mode to our lasso tool. I just don't like adding separate tools for things like this but hopefully everyone will be happy with the results.
 
 

We are fixing the offset problem soon and I hope the lag is also caused by the same thing. I'm a bit confused by the ",ore lines you draw it get slower" as in photo all the data goes on the same layer so can't get any slower - this isn't true of designer however.

I agree with many of your points but the idea of developing a range of applications that compete with Adobe CC and only release when they have full feature parity is farcical. We had been in development for 4 years and it was the devs that decided to ship as we wanted to polish and stabilise what we had before moving on to implement further features and cover more use cases. Even if we had unlimited time and money we would still ship before we had feature parity with CC. This is more to do with the process of developing software than market forces.
 
When Adobe InDesign 1.0 was released it received a similar obituary to what you have provided for Affinity but they kept at it and now where is Quark? 
 
The idea of any company developing a replacement for Adobe CC in secret and releasing with full feature parity will never happen and surely you must acknowledge that. So what do we do? Do we have a go or leave the market to just Adobe for ever.
 
One more point is that this discussion doesn't actually help me or other professionals out there. What does help is people like you telling us what we need to do to make Affinity better and in what order we should proceed. 
 
Many thanks
TonyB (Head of SerifLabs)