pixelstuff
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2 hours ago, bokeh-ape said:
Its been a 6 years since the thread started and 1 year since the last post. I see Affinity is having a Black Friday sale again. Have they added this simple feature, crop to selection?
In effect they have. It isn't the simple menu based crop like Photoshop has, but in Affinity Photo when selecting the crop tool, it now immediately snaps to the edges of any selection. So you can simply hit apply if you don't want to adjust it further.
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1 hour ago, Fabricio Z said:
It's not a question if it's art or not or if you like it or not. It's a business model decision and simply, if Serif does nothing about it, it will get behind others.
That is a bit like saying if they don't add scanner support they will get behind others.
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11 hours ago, pixelstuff said:
someone would implement first results within a week like they did with all other tools who offers an SDK.
Which other tool SDKs have an AI implementation already running on it?
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13 minutes ago, drstreit said:
At the end, that's why I started this thread: The ABSOLUTE minimum would be to open their SDK for us - someone would implement first results within a week like they did with all other tools who offers an SDK.
Not doing anything, not even answering here or showing a roadmap at least is quite strange a behaviour...
Doesn't Affinity Photo support regular Photoshop plugins?
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8 hours ago, RobWu said:
I understand 'art' for a lot of people means made by humans.
One aspect to this is that probably 99% of the art generated on a daily basis today is more functional that it is artistic. Things that are used in advertising that gets used once and thrown away. A.I. will probably make that kind of utilitarian art much easier. Hopefully it doesn't make the web look significantly worse.
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8 minutes ago, PaulEC said:
It is strange that certain people do nothing but complain about Affinity software and constantly compare it unfavourably with other software, yet they don’t simply stop using Affinity and use the other software, which they think is so much better! 🤔
There's actually nothing strange about that.
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55 minutes ago, ffrm said:
I'd like to reiterate my preference for an sdk over direct integration.
Don't they already support Photoshop Plugins?
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8 minutes ago, drstreit said:
Check at least the one pager where they showcase some things Firefly will deliver at start. And then tell me, that this will not make you more productive.
Or dont. And be out of jobs because others ARE more productive.
My concern is, that they will loose the small market slice they have when they keep sleeping 😴. Would be a shame.
I would bet the majority of Affinity users are primarily here because they don't want to pay Adobe a monthly subscription. I doubt they will suddenly change their position just to get AI image generation built directly into the app. Most will likely have no problem waiting for the technology to mature and stabilize a bit before being integrated into the Affinity software.
Affinity still isn't' up to feature parity on some of the more simple tools that Adobe has like perspective crop.
Whatever audience they lose because of not being an early adopter of A.I. will be super tiny.
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13 hours ago, Twolane said:
Hmm. I've been self-publishing e-books for many years. I've never had a problem using calibre to export a properly formatted .docx to .epub for Google Play Books and Kobo. I've been doing it so long with calibre it's second nature now. Ditto for Smashwords and their .doc format requirement. Save As to convert the .docx works for Smashwords, which gets me to Apple, B&N, and so many others I've forgotten. In fact, I consider it all a part of my job as an indie author for almost 30 years.
I must admit that Publisher is a godsend for creating POD books on Ingram Spark and Amazon. I don't know where I'd be without it now.
How do you get it into .docx from Publisher. There is no export for that either.
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2 hours ago, Amnesiac said:
Go cost it up yourself, then look into the market share and what % of the addressable market they might command
Or look at all the Android apps that do exist like Audio Evolution or LumaFusion and assume they obviously wasted their time by releasing an app on a platform such as Android.
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2 hours ago, Oasin said:
+1 But clearly they don't pay any attention to feature requests, any post of this kind may be a waste of time.
And there are 8-year-old-still-unsolved ones
Some of those are complicated though like Auto Trace for Designer. I'll continue to give them a pass on those.
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Well +1 from me.
One would think after 5 years they could have figured this out. Considering that I can't find another photo app without a crop to selection feature, I'm surprised they don't support this simple and common workflow. I gave V1 a pass on missing some of the basic tools, but that won't fly with V2 so I won't be purchasing future products from Affinity until they show signs that they can get their act together.
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4 hours ago, Ron P. said:
I would really like to drive a Bently, but can only afford my GMC pickup. Do you think it would be proper to demand GMC produce a product with all the luxuries, precision of a Bently
Crop to selection is more like windshield wiper timers. Does your economical GMC pickup require you to press the windshield wiper button every single time you want to clear the rain drops? I doubt it. That is a standard feature across almost all cars made in the last 70 years.
The basic Microsoft Paint, .NET Paint, and dozens of other low priced apps have crop to selection, it should be standard on any app claiming to be a photo editor. I can only assume the developers have some kind of harebrained idea that they needed to go to war against that super common workflow. If the Affinity workflow was faster I would say yay Affinity for innovating. Instead it is slower and clunkier and makes me wonder if some rare form of dementia is starting to set in.
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1 hour ago, kirk23 said:
an AI selecting tool
This is really where artificial intelligence can perhaps make a big difference. Object detection where as you move the mouse around it highlights objects it recognizes like people, animals, trees, sky, grass, houses, cars, fruit, vegetables, hamburgers, furniture, etc. Along with perhaps some fine tunning features for the human to help guide it like using the mouse wheel to make it more or less specific, for example if you've selected a human you can force it down to just the shirt, just the face, or just the hair. Alternatively maybe expand it out to multiple people while skipping the disconnected space between them.
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6 hours ago, monzo said:
And so at some point, it won't. Like when I run the next Windows, iOS, or Mac security update. There is now no guarantee how long it will work for, unless I risk running my devices with out of date, and potentially insecure operating systems.
You are describing all software there.
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1 hour ago, VectorVonDoom said:
No it doesn’t mean that at all. It can stop if they choose but that is a choice not the definition.
Yes it does. If you don't subscribe and the software keeps working it is not under a subscription.
I get your point though that there can be other subscription systems tied to the concept of getting software. So maybe a more accurate terminology would subscription apps (existing software that needs a subscription to continue working and subscription updates (requiring a subscription for future updates or tech support).
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15 minutes ago, Devil_Inside said:
My main concern is that with this monetization model, they'll stop releasing new features / making large changes in V2 lifecycle. They'll be holding them off for V3, V4, etc, which will start coming sooner and sooner, until it's a new version every year (aka subscription model).
You are afraid they might use the monetization model of 99% of all paid software since the beginning of the computer industry?
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57 minutes ago, DrZigZag said:
that sounds like a paid subscription to me
Subscription software means if you stop subscribing, then the application stops working. The Affinity license are perpetual. They keep working, effectively forever, after you pay for the license. Paying to get an upgrade is not a subscription.
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13 minutes ago, Armelline said:
I'd be very surprised if it was, so I'll not give up hope just yet!
I have now installed the demo and Crop to a selection doesn't seem to be there in any of the logical menu places. (Edit, Document, Layer, Select). Also no quick snap to selection in the dedicated Crop tool.
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15 minutes ago, Armelline said:
Anyone able to confirm if this was added to V2? Literally the difference between buying the upgrade and not for me.
Well it doesn't seem to be listed in their list of new features, but I haven't installed the demo yet to be sure.
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Looking at the feature requests I have been following from V1, it appears none of them were implemented in V2. What are some feature requests that did get implemented?
Added:
- Designer - Shape Builder Tool ... mentioned by @dvandorsten
- Designer - Vector Warp ... mentioned by @fde101
- Designer - Knife Tool ... mentioned by @fde101
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- Photo - Crop to Selection
- Photo - Perspective Crop Tool
- Photo - Mirror Canvas Preview ... mentioned by @PatrickZ
- Publisher - ePub export
- Designer - AutoTrace Image
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1 hour ago, Amnesiac said:
So.
Yes - Affinity if you're reading this +1 for Android tablet version.
To the general conversation - I don't hate Apple (I use MacOS as my main driver) but I also use Windows and Linux (don't hate either) - though the rumoured requirement in the next release of Win 11 that I have to log into an MS account to use it means I'd revert to 10 as even Apple don't require that! The lack of a single desktop and API means desktop Linux is I imagine a nightmare to support.
I chose Android as my phone OS back in the day over IOS as it was too locked down and too expensive for what it was, and it's just a phone. I still (mostly) feel the same way. I don't live off my phone. I certainly wouldn't consider using any of the Affinity products on a phone. I imagine that the bulk of Android is running on phones and Affinity on IOS won't run on an iPhone either.
I have run a commercial software company and supporting different platforms is hard, and making sure bug fixing on one doesn't have side effects on another consumes a LOT of regression testing, and yes a good dev-ops chain helps but doesn't cure. Also I did commercial software and I can't think, having done some game infrastructure support on handsets, it's easier for consumer software. Finally I don't know if Affinity use a toolkit to support MacOS/IOS & Windows, but if they do, and that toolkit doesn't offer a Linux or Android flavour then porting becomes even more of an issue.
I too think that the top end Android devices are as good/better than the IOS equivalents, I currently have an S4 and S6 despite not being a Samsung fan, simply because they are very good devices. Android supports a mouse cursor out of the box, so that's a possibility for a more desktop like experience and equivalence when running on Android. On Samsungs the s-pen built-in would be a good thing to support (assuming Samsung have a sensible api and maintain it properly).
Anyway - I doubt (very happy to be proved wrong) based on my personal experience seeing them being used is that the number of equivalent Android tablets is even close to the number of iPads. As other's have said Affinity will make their own business decisions based on their view of the ROI for their product sets. I hope that the interest in this thread informs that decision in a positive way, despite the sometimes hysterical and confrontational nature of the conversation and that we get an Android version as I'd buy both Photo and Designer straight away.
Just my penny's worth of course.
You talked mostly about tablets, but remember modern Chromebooks run Android apps too. That would open up a range of laptops with keyboard / mouse built-in.
I realize the following would be a whole new beast, but if Affinity could merge the desktop and tablet interface into a duel switching app for hybrid tablets like the Microsoft Surface on Windows and the wide variety of devices running Android, they could have quite the package.
Any way to open a scan from VueScan into Affinity Photo?
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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I'd like to see VueScan integrated with Affinity Photo as well. It saves on file clutter to go directly into the app.
However, I think VueScan integrates with Photoshop using a proprietary plugin method (as opposed to TWAIN or WIA) so they would likely have to support Affinity Photo directly. Perhaps Affinity could get in contact with VueScan and pay them to add support. It would definitely open up a wide range of scanners.