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  1. Everything works great but how to save these presets for the future installs - say one day I will upgrade PC and will have to re-install whole system and all apps. Is there a way to backup these presets for such event?
  2. Ah.. weird think though - by default ctrl++ wasnt working which prompted the search in the first place. It was set correctly and keyboard is working so I wonder what it could possibly be... Anyways thank you for info everybody. After resetting everything works so sorry for starting new thread apparently for no reason. Just some local, random weirdness happened.
  3. Usual shortcuts for zoom were not working and I was wondering what could it be. Finally I have checked shortcuts and check screenshot what I had set by default for zoom in and zoom out 🤔 F15 and F16... I dont know what keyboards others have, but mine goes only up to F12 😉 So I can only assume it was set like this by default. I have changed that to usual shortcuts and it works perfectly. So call me crazy but its either bug or I have set my shortcuts to non existing keys and forgot about it. For now working theory is that thats a bug. (I just learnt that on widows one can get SHIFT+F3=F15 and SHIFT+F4=f16. Still - its impossible to set it the way presented on screenshot because it will be described as combination of keys).
  4. I do have layer panels open at all times. I do not hear that screaming if you know what I mean
  5. Personally I dont need it as default. I just want it as an option. I make it default for myself and happy days I wouldnt want to screw it up for people that do find it useful.
  6. @Bit Arts I really dont want to start thread that is bashing Affinity devs. Call me fanboy 😆 No, but for real - I enjoy a lot using Affinity software. Lot more then I was using Photoshop in its last versions before Affinity showed up for PC. And I used it daily for over 20 years.. Since version 4.0. At the beginning I felt in love with it but it lost appeal to me along the way. Stupid Adobe decisions - and I dont mean dreaded subscription - just got into me. Bloating Photoshop with stuff like video editing, useless (because slow as hell and extremely simple) 3D. At one point they even added 3D printing to Photoshop (which is of course what we are all looking for in photo manipulating software 🤣). At the same time it took 20 years for Adobe to add symmetry - option that I had in Deluxe Paint on Amiga in 90s... Stuff like that. When I tried Affinity for first time it was so fresh to me - and I still love it for its simplicity. Yes sometimes I am lacking something but I do like more streamlined software. I dont know how is it now in Adobe package - but when I was leaving it jumping from Illustrator to Photoshop meant half of your vectors was rasterized... In Affinity I go back and forth, keeping vectors and the same look. Its brilliant. Also make a test - save the same content in both Adobe and Affinity. Check size of files - Affinity has the very same content saved in much smaller file. It was like this last time I tried it which was couple of years ago but I doubt it changed. I like it, I have thousands upon thousands of files. Also I had many conversations with somebody representing Affinity, many of things I have asked for was actually added. I dont know if it was even remotely connected to fact that I asked for them but it feels nice when you ask for something and down the line somewhere it actually is added to the software. When it comes to Adobe you were lucky if you got automatic response "our team is working hard on resolving problems and we thank you for sharing that information". Or some other corpo-nonsense. HOWEVER... 😏 I still dont understand some decisions behind Affinity. Admittedly very few. Like that export thing or incredibly useless for me "image" thing which only stays in the way of faster work. I want to think its useful for photographers - which I am not. So I dont want to judge whole usefulness of it based only on my personal needs, but I would like Photo to fit bit better into my daily routine where I am dragging different pictures from other software or copy-pasting them into one document etc. And that "image" mode is only standing in the way. Thats all. If possible I would love to see that. If not I will go back to...! Nah, just joking 😁 If not then I will still keep on clicking that bloody "rasterize", asking myself:
  7. @loukash Yeah. One. Problem is that often I have need to bring into one composition say 20 different pictures. If I had to open 20 different pictures and then have to copy/paste 20 of them into one composition - its easier to place them and rasterize in mass. And the whole issue is - I dont want to be forced to additional, frankly unnecessary clicks for option I never need. @Bit Arts - or should I say "Bit Harsh" 😉 I have Affinity from the very first day on PC. I really love using it and I have abandoned Photoshop for it didn't looked back. But this "image" thing is really driving me mad from the very beginning. And I understand that somebody, somewhere, somehow has use for that "image" thing. I honestly cant imagine single use for it in what I do. Not one. I will never need it it seems. All it does for me personally is annoying me. I dont want to take it away from those who find it useful but I would be so happy not having to put up with it. Option to choose. I even used to weirdness of "export" instead of "save as...". Although I still miss click at times 😆. @Old Bruce I do appreciate help man, I know I could make shortcut. The whole thing is I would love to be able to avoid that completely useless for me "image".
  8. I am not sure if it was ever discussed here, couldn't find the option for it either. You see I have NEVER need for using "image". Never - I ALWAYS use rasterized pixel pictures. Fact that some pictures are imported as "image" is only a nuisance for me. Selecting and trying to delete part of image - boom, its all gone because it was "image" not "pixel". It happens so many times a day it really became annoying. I understand people have use for it - but would be absolutely fantastic if there was option (assistant maybe?) to ALWAYS automatically rasterize image. Or assistant option that rasterizes image automatically if you are performing some action thats not possible on image? Please. Honestly, it would be ENORMOUS help if there was option - turned off by default to not mess with people who actually are using "image" - but something that would allow NEVER to use "image" and always "pixel". And if such option exists I would greatly appreciate to point me to it.
  9. F hell mate... I feel like I am taking crazy pills when I read this forum sometimes... What is this, kindergarten? "I need to press alt? Ow no! not possible to remember!". 😶 Dont ever try to use some 3D software if this is too much for you to remember. Sorry to be harsh but that sort of things are taking me by surprise. So maybe they should stop adding new functionalities because you know - new things to remember... "Oof" indeed. BTW - great option indeed.
  10. Great example of AI superiority when it comes to cropping. One click and done. If you dont needed that hat and leg that is... 🙃
  11. Its more like "would you still buy a car without plushy mascot dangling from the rear-view mirror and screens on the back of your front seats?"
  12. Thats great example actually. I have no clue about coding. Out of curiosity I have generated myself script to use in Maya. It didn't worked first time, I have asked chat to fix it and it did worked. Extremely simple thing but I could not write it myself. Neither I have knowledge to say if it could be improved. BUT I DONT CALL MYSELF A PROGRAMMER
  13. When I see prompts super creative prompts with words like "Artstation Trending" or my favorite "Masterpiece" plus few real artists name thrown to the mix to directly rip style from I only want to laugh. Yeah, thats totally the same like writing your own scene.
  14. The thing with musician, choreographer, director is that those people are actually steering the project, correcting it as it goes, they all are doing the work, shaping its final form. None of it goes into writing prompt. There is no involvement in the process. Its like writing prompt in image search and claim that you are an author of images that were shown to you. Or like calling a singer somebody who just pretends that is singing, moving his mouth to the song that is played from recorder. Its ridiculous. And a bit sad. Because if you want to be an artist, a creator, a director.. whatever. YOU CAN. It will cost you time and effort but it will be worth it. Are people really that lazy? Have zero confidence in themselves that trying to find magic, low effort button? A shortcut to pretend that they are artists? Theres lot of possibilities in creative use of AI. If you are making some sci-fi corridor, wall of which is covered with random cables - well then by all means generate wall with cables if that speeds up bringing your vision to life. Thats not different from using a photo and doing over paint. Or like in 3D visualization using assets made by somebody else. You dont have to model and texture every book on the shelf to be able to claim that you are author of whole visualization. Because there is ton of additional work involved. So sure, use AI as a tool. Not as replacement for yourself. I am only talking about that cases where everything is generated with one click and the clicker feels like he is an author somehow. You're not. But you can be! Make an effort. You can be that person or reduce yourself to be disguised as that person. You want to be an artist - or cosplay an artist. Its your choice.
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