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LOL, if Piracy is an argument, no software company should be able to exist.

You can trivially pirate Affinity on MacOS, Windows, and iPadOS (admittedly, that last one is quite a bit harder). So, if I don't want to pay for Affinity, I won't do the same for anyone who knows how to pirate stuff.

Now, on to another secret. Do you know why Adobe Suite has become the most used creativity suite? Up until Adobe Photoshop CS6, Photoshop was trivial to pirate. It schooled millions of users on pirated software. Then, it was time to crack down, and Adobe did; pirated software users were locked into the workflow, and Adobe grew. Piracy isn't bad if you give people who know how to do it a good and affordable way to get out of it...

Back to the main topic... Most people don't know how to sideload cracked APKs on their Android phones. It's even a more minor problem than on MacOS because it is harder to do so. The user base, however, is unimaginably larger. These are old statistics, but the trend for Android market share is up globally.
December 2022
Global Android: 72.37%
Global iOS: 26.98%
US Android: 43.75%
US iOS: 55.85%

Android tablets might be different. But if you want to make creative software available in emerging markets, make sure people know you prefer your software. It needs to be open to them. And Adobe isn't lifting a finger for the Android crowd. Hopefully, Serif will, but that is up to them, honestly.

Hopefully Affinity will make an android push in 2024. I want to be off of the Adobe Suite by the end of the year as it is not really getting better and what I am sering from Affinity they seem to be really improving leaps and bonds but as I just left most of the Apple ecosystem behind me I am not eager to return. Honestly Apple is way too pricey for what it is.
Affinity seems like the exact opposite of that. if fragmentation is an issue. Start with stylus-products like the Samsung (tab) S-series. That will make lofe quite a bit easier.

The Windows version of AVIDEMUX has a checkbox in "Edit > Preferences > Output > Default to the directory of the last read file for saving"
I would be interested to know if that setting exists on the Mac version and how it performs.
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html

Doesn't Affinity Photo support regular Photoshop plugins?

Was this written by an AI program ? Feels a little bit like an extract from The Merchant Of Venice or something 😂 

What is the marketshare on Pi OS?  I mean I have seven Raspberry Pi hardware units, but they are all running a digital signage OS instead of a desktop environment.
I wonder, out of the 35 million total Raspberry Pi hardware units sold worldwide, do the units running a desktop environment come anywhere close to the 30+ million Android tablets sold each year. Samsung alone shipped almost 60 million units during 2020 and 2021 combined. That's not counting Lenovo and the dozens of off-brands being sold like Huawei or Walmart's Onn.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Is it possible to have a selected area and crop to selected pixels?

Would love to see Crop to Selection (i.e. whatever is surrounded by the marquee tool) added in a future update. Was very disappointed to hear it did not make it into the V2 release. I'm speaking primarily about Photo as that's the one I need it for, but I assume others would get benefit in the other apps too.
Please note this is an entirely separate discussion to the one regarding V1. There's an entirely separate forum for V2 so I'm assuming feedback related to V1 isn't applicable to V2 and thus this thread is needed.

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.

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.

I didn't want to read 14 pages of this thread, but the several pages I've read, I agree with. I bought 1.x and learned how to use it after using Adobe apps for 20+ years. When 2.0 came out, I bought it immediately because the features were worth it. (Realistically though, nothing is innovative here, we're all looking for Adobe features at a reasonable price.)
And still I'm amazed that you can't crop to the selection, whether destructively or non-destructively. (Which should be a checkbox though, right?)
Clip canvas mostly works. BUT if you have a vector circle and happen to rotate it because it's a mask and you're rotating the layers underneath along with, then it will clip the canvas to the square bounding box of the rotated circle, not the actual selection or circle. Don't ask me how I know. Does that make sense to anyone?
I hate Adobe so much that I would rather spend an hour using Affinity apps for something Adobe could do in a minute, and for only $20/mo. That's admittedly a me problem, but COME ON Affinity/Serif. I've had to revert to Adobe or other apps for a lot of things. If this keeps up, I'll end up hating you for that, and then I'll be miserable either way.

Hey give this a try and see just how far you get;
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, but at the price point of their GMC? The flip side of that coin, try demanding Adobe drop their prices to match Serif's. Then you can have your Adobe, not be mad at them, or Serif, AND you won't have to tax your brain to learn something new and different.

Some of the comments on this forum truly baffle me. The constant and often insulting resistence to perfectly reasonable feature requests is just... weird. Nobody is demanding Serif match all of Photoshop's features or prices. We just want a very, very easily implemented feature prevelant in pretty much *every other* photo editing software. It truly baffles me how there's *any* resistance to adding this feature.
And let's not pretend that Serif don't position Affinity Suite as a direct alternative to Adobe. It's clear that's who they're directly taking aim at with their repeated "No subscription" proclamations.
 
This comparison is utterly absurd. We're not demanding that GMC produce a product with all the luxuries and precision of a Bently. Though that's a pretty insulting towards Affinity comparison to make in the first place. We're asking, to keep with your anaology, something more akin to that they add the ability for the windows to roll all the way up or down without having to press the button the entire time. Something that nearly all modern cars offer, other than this one.
I won't even get into how condescending your last sentence is.

Well that is disappointing. How long has an AutoTrace tool been a feature request, 8 years now?

I think you made a mistake labeling this topic. A Plugin SDK is perhaps urgently required, but an AI Picture Generator is more of a curiosity at the moment.
 

It just amazes me that people are actually complaining about paying for V2. Serif has been clear on this from the beginning. All updates to V1 would be free for life. V2 will be paid for and all updates will be free for life. If you don't want to pay for V2 you can continue to use V1 for life. 100 bucks is pretty inexpensive considering what you get and is in no way comparable to Adobe's subscription plan. Just to be clear. AFFINITY HAS BEEN CLEAR ON THIS FROM THE BEGINNING. STOP YOUR WHINING!

Well that is disappointing. How long has an AutoTrace tool been a feature request, 8 years now?

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.

Well that is disappointing. How long has an AutoTrace tool been a feature request, 8 years now?

According to sketch, what you described is not a subscription. its a Legacy Mac-only Licenses. Which allows app to keep working on the last supported version when license expires. While on subscription plan, you have to keep paying to use the app.
This scheme is very common in wordpress plugins. In Jetbrains they have similar and called it perpetual fallback license.
And I agree that this is fair enough.
But i like Affinity license even more. classic, simple and fair 🙂

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.