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Patrick (Buddy) that is exactly the marketing error that was done here.... Accept the inconsequential, Serif SHOULD of given a 40% discount existing loyal customers and less to the rest. What your seeing here on there forums are users expressing their thoughts and opinions, whether Serif look at these comments and realise they messed up or actually dont care is up to them. The fact remains that, a LOT of loyal users feel duped that they didnt get looked after upgrading from v1 to v2........ Serif needs to accept this fact and either do something about it, or let everyone rant and hopefully move on without to much reputation damage. The worst thing Serif or its (moderators) can do in this situation is try and explain or get out of this situation. This is simply another life lesson for everyone.

Probably would of been nice to offer a 2 tier upgrade path. %20 or %30 discount for new users, %40 discount for upgrade users ONLY... that's a nice incentive.

Finally someone hit the nail on the head. I agree with you. I also fell into this trap, when moving from Adobe to Affinity I was under the assumption it was advertised as purchase once and use and get updated forever. If Affinity knew for a fact, which they would of that UPGRADES are not classified as UPDATES, then it should have been made very clear of this fact at the time of purchase. It is misleading and fails to give CLARITY. Tactics like these will only lead to a bad reputation for the company the way I see it. I am not saying I do not want to pay for the upgrade, I probabaly will, but not without a bad taste in my mouth I never had before. Just saying...

This is a valid point. Infact, I was a very very early adopter of all Affinity products and now I need to pay again, I am trying to remember if the license term was free updates only for v1 or ongoing upgrades also. I cannot recall but I was under the assumption its free upgrades forever for any version? Can anyone show me the original license terms from 2016 that says upgrades are valid ONLY for v1 products? On that note, I agree there should of been an upgrade discount for existing users. All other software I own have an upgrade discount attached to them. I should not have to necessarily BUY the whole suite again from scratch. I will hold off on the upgrade until further notice from Affinity staff.

Jesus lord, I was thinking I was going mad, I went to export and NO PREVIEW... WOWWWWWWW, Adobe Fireworks has had this feature in there for 20 years or more, do the author's realise how important and elementry this feature is ?????????????????????? And it has been a request since 2015, that's 5 YEARS NOWWWWW... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Frustrated to say the least. Please implement this.

Hi Wondering what i need to concentrate on first and foremost if i wanted to primarily work with web images, eg, resizing, removing backgrounds, adding text, importing vectors and basic manipulation and export to web format... Does designer do the above ok ? or is it a case of work in both till you get what you want ? I guess this is the trade off ive always been able to do this very quickly in Adobe Fireworks :|

Hi guys, Please oh please improve the batch processing feature in Photo. It is actually dangerous. I have noticed the following that really does need to be addressed from a usability perspective. 1. There is no progress bar on the processing that is happening 2. There is no completion message to say its complete 3. There is no option or warning that it will overwrite your files (in my case it did without warning) 4. There is hardly any options other than a resize, please include at least the following. a) Convert into b) Resize to percentage c) Rename On that note I also noticed that the compression level is not that good at all, when compare to something like the output batch processing with 75 quality and very similar options on processing, Adobe Fireworks did a much better compression job by almost 20-30% and in some cases doubt the reduction without noticeable loss in quality. I really hope that this gets looked at soon. Regards, Mitch

@Petar_MK your actually right till now i didnt realise it has bitmap capabilities... and it does :D well thats made it one step easier to making this choice. In your experience even though since you came from a Xara background, is Affinity Designer capable of most things Xara would do in Vector/Bitmap situation ? And compared to Fireworks, what do you think ? Its gonna be real hard to let go of Fireworks but i know i have to...

Why are people comparing Xara to Affinity Designer... its clear to see that Xara is what Affinity Photo + Designer is in one package right ? Xara has the capabilities of manipulating vector and bitmap in the one app, whilst if you want to do that you need both software packages in Affinity right ? Isnt Xara more an alternative to Adobe Fireworks and Affinity Photo, Designer more an alternative to Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator ? Im posting here because im actually at a cross roads between jumping to either Xara Designer or to Affinity but knowing i will have to use 2 software packages to achieve what i want....