John Rostron

I would particularly like to see the 'Replicate' tool. This would help a lot when producing many copies of illustrations for children's craft work.
John

Thanks John - I wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking something in the process and degrading quality or destroying data doing it one way rather than another.
I'm thinking I just go with a standard +/- 2.0 Ev with 3 shots (Auto exposure bracket mode in my camera) and pick... 3 or 4 focus points.  Do the exposure bracket for each of the 3 or 4 focus points.  Then I HDR merge each set so I end up with the 3 or 4 HDR photos with each having a different focal point.  Then perform the focus stack merge and see what I get.
Need to get my sensor cleaned first though.  lol

Hello @CybrSlydr, and welcome to the forums. Thinking about this from first principles I can think of no good reason to perform the two merges in a particular order. It will very much depend on how the exposure distribution relates to the focus distribution: are your more distant components more or less exposed than the nearer components?
This is a case of 'Try it and see' and, of course, report your findings back here.
John

This is for MAC only.
John

Hi, as a fun exercise I created the Conway's Game of live in Affinity Photo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life
It uses black as background/dead cell and white as living cell.

GOL.mov  
The macro does all the steps for one iteration.
It has 2 simple steps:
Use a custom filter with selected values to have "living" cells within certain grey values use a PT filter to select living cells and make them "white" Ensure you have some spare batteries for the mouse (one click - one step)
game of life.afmacro game of live.afphoto

I use Super Photo Upscaler. Check it out when you get a chance. Cheap and Powerful! It is a Mac Only app.

I use Benvista PhotoZoom Classic 8 for enlarging where Affinity won't do it. It is about half the price of Topaz Gigapixel AI (£49 vs £99).
John

There are 3 tools I miss from DrawPlus and CraftArtist, which I used often.  I display them below.  From reading some of the past posts about them, I think your users, myself included, would really love to have them back in some form.  It's way faster and easier to do than even Ctrl-J for large grids and transformations, as shown in the Workbooks, and it's always nice to have more than one way to do things -- in this case, these tasks were simpler in DrawPlus than the newer Affinity.  If our calculations were off for the end result we wanted, we knew right away and could Ctrl-Z, change the parameters, and try again.
The Replicate Tool:

The Transform Tool:

And finally the Blend Tool, which can transform one object to another in terms of shapes and figures, images, colors, transparency, etc.  This one is a simple transparency transform for 100% to 20% with 3 steps between:

Thanks in advance for your careful consideration of my suggestion.
Sonja Thompson

True, I do much the same but I just would love to see something like the procedural texture, a nice and handy presets feature as well as it remembering the last equation used.  As well as adding it to the live filter effects. 

Whenever I'm using the Equations Editor I keep Notepad or another text editor open.  I can then cut and paste the current version of an equation between the text editor and the filter. I can also copy the x and y values across as well. I can keep annotation in the asociated textfile which I save during the session.
It would be convenient to have an affinity text window as part of the program for such purposes, but my current workflow for equations is hardly inconvenient.
John

Due to an unfixed bug that occurred in 1.7, you can't record a macro to do that. Here are some macros recorded in 1.6 that should work:
 
 

These macros specifically do not resample, therefore the Publisher preflight 'error' flag would remain.

I recently tried creating an ambigram of my name... with not great results, but I will not be beaten, and tried again. An ambigram is a word that can be read both ways when rotated 180 degrees. I'm much happier with the results this time!! Sketched in Artflow, finished in Affinity Designer using symbols    Gary, Chris and Pam... but hopefully you can read that   www.gsdesignstudio.co.uk    

Loading 20 images into the stack from the file system is quick and efficient.
John

Or people who use non-standard glyphs in their Member Title.
John

@Joe_1, but your dropped characters are lower case, not dropped caps. 
Why should you want to apply ligatures to dropped capitals? I doubt that most fonts would  supply the glyphs!
John

@Pšendaasked: I read an opinion on the forum that an application installed with MSI is faster/more agile than the MSIX version (possible effect of sandboxing). Can you confirm this?
I cannot say that I have noticed anything.
John

I installed the new msi versions without uninstalling the msix versions. In Windows Uninstall it listed both versions with installation date, thus I could easily recognize which was the msix version to delete.
John

@Blueprint
I presume that the South Serif Ocean is the location of the famous San Seriffe islands featured in the Guardian on the first of April 1977.
John

I installed APhoto 2.0.4 (MSI) this morning. (Actually Affinity provides a .exe file, not an msi file, but msi seems to be their preferred terminology and they include that in the filename.)
I was pleased to find that double-clicking an afphoto file in Windows File Explorer now causes the file to be opened in APhoto 2 rather than in APhoto 1 as I think should be the preferred behavior.
l have APhoto 1, Aphoto 2.0.3 (MSIX) and APhoto 2.0.4 (MSI) installed at the moment. I will be uninstalling APhoto 2.0.3 (MSIX) shortly. Uninstalling it is more confusing than I had expected for several reasons I'll outline in a new thread maybe later today. For now I'll just note that APhoto 2 MSIX behaves much differently than all other Windows apps that are included with Windows 10 or installed by Dell. 

In what way is this 'Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Prorams'?
John

There seem to be a number of vague ideas in there that could be feedback or requests.
brush dissolve & dispersion
vector turbulence or disintegration
Exactly what they might mean, without some more words or, better, pictures of the desired effects, is still hard to understand. But the idea of brush dispersion is one I've seen before with people wanting scatter effects when they're painting.

Sincerity for you, we have passed in front of many programs, the interesting thing is to focus on innovative tools that they don't have in them, with unique characteristics, and also quickly implement some important functionalities that already exist, such as smoothing nodes, brush to pull the shapes, turbulence in the vector mode, among other things, like brush dissolve and dispersion, disintegration in the vector itself

You need to use Filters > Distort > Equations.. You'll find some macros in the Resources section for doing that. E.g., 
or 
or 
 
 
 
 

@John Rostron  I thought your solution ought to reach so many new people on the Forums, so have given it a little boost!  Happy New Year!