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In addition to tablets and Chromebooks, the new "Ready For" feature on the Motorola Edge, that turns the phone into a multi windowed desktop experience, would be another interesting place for Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher on Android.

Or you have gotten used to context sensitive controls on the rulers of other programs and aren't used to going back to the more clunky method.

I wonder, if instead of sharing file changes during the live session the program could just share commands and let the remote computer make the same changes. Users would see multiple mouse cursors running around detailing what the other users were working on. If a new external source was dropped into the document then everyone would have to wait for the file to sync across before they could continue. If someone made changes to a collaboration document while the other participants weren't connected, then the saved file changes would be synced, or an option to fork it and make a non-collaborative copy. Image collaboration would work best over a LAN or with upper tier internet services.

That is pretty interesting. I wonder why it is missing. I would have figured they were using a central code base for anything not hardware dependent. Maybe the zoom is GPU assisted and requires the custom GPU code to be updated?

Avidemux offers this as a checkbox in the Output tab called: "Default to the directory of the last read file for saving". Alternatively though I like they way Vegas Pro handles it with a couple buttons on the custom rendering dialog. One is the standard browse to the folder, but then there is a second button to quickly set the folder to the project location. If you started a file from scratch there would be no project location so you'd have to manually save something before that button would work.

I just tested it and it works great as requested by everyone in the previous conversations. In Affinity Photo 1.10.0.1127, under the Edit > Preferences > General section there is a check box called "Limit initial zoom to a maximum of 100%". When checked, if you open a bigger image it will zoom out to fit, but opening a smaller image doesn't zoom past 100%. I think we can consider this feature as added.

A compromise between hawkers and referrals would be to pay in Affinity Store credits that could be used for digital only purchases. That would 1. cut down on the physical expenses to Affinity, and 2. prevent referrals from being big business to random strangers while also rewarding people who actively want to use the software.

Something that might help mitigate that is if the affiliate program only provided Affinity Store credits which could only be used on digital items (i.e. not the books). There is probably not a whole lot of appeal in buying brush packs or upgrades to applications they don't like.

Just thinking about how things might work behind the interface, an ebook is essentially like an ideal parent to a paper book. The ebook has variable formatting, and a paper book is just solidifying a few variables by choosing a fixed paper size, margins, fonts, and page numbers, but there are still a lot of overlap with things like the table of contents, chapter breaks, pull-quotes, images, bold, italics, bullet points, indents, etc. I could almost imagine an eBook interface being the first step in Affinity Publisher, to get the content organized, then switching to a "paper" persona to do a fixed page layout.

I think what I would like is a small icon in the upper right next to the user profile to show up saying there is an update. Hover to see what is new and click it to start the update in the background. Once it is done you get another notice saying you can restart to use the new version.

Even better might be if they could take their iPad interface and make it part of the Windows app that activates when tablet mode is activated. Aside from the Microsoft Surface there are quite a few 2-in-1 laptops now that make use of tablet mode. It would be pretty cool if Affinity Photo and Designer had an optional touch friendly interface that could be used on these.

Interestingly Adobe Photoshop doesn't scroll zoom either. I think it is Alt+(scroll) to zoom in. On the other hand Affinity Photo rotates with an Alt+(scroll).

If it was more than a couple years ago you might give it another look since they revamped a lot of the interface back in 2018, I think it was. And you are right that Blender is designed for modeling figurine, but a plugin to add precision drawing tools is obviously an attempt to fix that original design limitation. PDT tools are included with the current release, but they are disabled by default.

Since I own all the apps, what I do when I get emails advertising a sale, is to let artistically inclined friends or family know about it. If I were a larger business I might also want to know about a sale in case I were thinking adding more workstations.

I don't think it would be a sin to simply inquire about an affiliate program, but the context around it may rub some the wrong way. I regularly recommend Affinity products and wondered if there was an affiliate program. Vs. I want to recommend Affinity products if there was an affiliate program. One of those sounds almost like you don't really care about the product at all, but would pretend to if you could be paid.

I'm just curious what kind of project makes use of images larger than 300,000 pixels square.

I would like to see this too. If they don't want to implement the standard convention in most other photo editors (Image > Crop), I would settle for choosing the crop tool and having a single button next to the cancel button that says "Selection" which immediately auto crops to the selection edges. That would be roughly the same amount of steps as Document > Crop or whatever. I noticed the Crop tool does snap manually to a fuzzy selection edge if you have "Snap to pixel selection bounds" turned on, but that is still fiddly compared to the quick Image > Crop feature in other programs.

I think the problem here would be if they want to implement it as a "best in class" feature (which they have talked about with other feature suggestions). If so, it would need to provide a preview of the eBook and tools to fine tune the output. An export plugin would mostly sidestep the need for major changes to their unified code base and could have it's own standalone rendering engine, but it wouldn't be "best in class" compared to adding a Persona into Publisher that seamlessly switched back and forth between the ePub and Paper views of the document.

Perhaps when they start their WebPlus remake (i.e. their DreamWeaver competition), we'll see the ePub export show up in the Publisher app. I think it really makes more sense to have an ePub persona within Publisher since a novel style book and an eBook are much closer in concept than a website and a novel style book. Trying to display a 500 page novel on a website with the table of contents or an index is not a very common crossover.

And that actually might be the biggest argument for Serif to not have an affiliate program. Recommendations that do happen will appear more honest and genuine.

I think what that means is the third party services like Dropbox probably won't be adequate and they'll need to develop a project server component like Black Magic Design did for Davinci Resolve.

Like what?

It would almost certainly require the file to be redesigned slightly to record changes as they happened or possibly have a secondary scratch space that gets synced with each operation.

Wait a minute. I just tried this using the Filters>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask and it does not seem to be modal. I can still change to any pallet, I can click the +/- in the Navigator panel, I can [CTRL] [+/-], and I can [CTRL] [scroll wheel] to zoom in or out.

Yeah. I think the hobbyist market probably took the bigger hit from Adobe's subscription move. So for me (as a hobbyist who occasionally did something for hire as a favor) two things happened. I stopped buying the CS Master Collection every other year and I stopped telling budding photographers to just save up and learn Photoshop since it's the best. Instead I usually recommend something else as a starting point (currently Affinity products). It would be interesting to know how many people are like me.