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Hi @Jade7,
Welcome to the Affinity Forums
I can confirm that we're offering the same introductory discount offer of 40% to both new and old Affinity customers alike.
I hope this clears things up!

You will find out more on the 9th of November 

I am taking 9 November a day off!

Aren't they integrated enough? You can even open one of the apps inside another of the apps. And the file format is the same for all of them.
Paolo
 

@GarryPThat's what I thought! just wanted to check if there's a way to do it without opening the file in Photo that I didn't know about. Thanks for your reply. 
@RNKLN Yes. There's Gaussian blur in designer also (layer effect) but you can't get a varying gradient blur effect with it like your example. Thanks for your reply. 
 

 

I'm thinking more in terms of drawing a shadow. Let's say we have a black shape which will be a long shadow, on one end of the shadow I want it to have a well defined sharp edge and on the other end I want it to get gradually more blurry. I'm thinking the Gaussian Blur could be modified to achieve this. 
If anyone can do this another way please let me know. 

I think a combination of the two above suggestions gives an half decent result :
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Then Ad*be will buy it and kill it. 
I am sometime worried if they are already in talks - it's very difficult to resist when Ad*be comes to buy them with boatloads of money. 

Nope. This thread changed my views on AG too.

What is clear to me is that most third party plugins for adobe software are now subscription based, so the real cost of running CC software is even higher than just the Adobe rental for many users.

Very well articulated! Exactly my thought and I couldn't have written it better.
Looks like AG has also become a sad example of subscription model ... most of their useful plugins are from the pre-CS6 era - when many useful and exciting new plugins were developed rapidly. Sad to see there's been hardly any new useful features/plugins in last 4-5 years (or more) ... there's lot less motivation for the developers to bring in new features with the subscription model. 


 

Nope. This thread changed my views on AG too.

Very well articulated! Exactly my thought and I couldn't have written it better.
Looks like AG has also become a sad example of subscription model ... most of their useful plugins are from the pre-CS6 era - when many useful and exciting new plugins were developed rapidly. Sad to see there's been hardly any new useful features/plugins in last 4-5 years (or more) ... there's lot less motivation for the developers to bring in new features with the subscription model. 


 

N. van der Walle... you’re really blowing it here. The way you condescend makes me embarrassed to say I like the products you are pushing. Seriously, is there anyone else from Astute who can come in here and at least talk from a place of respect? 
The way you talk as if everything Astute does is all for the benefit of everyone else is BS. And again, I gladly paid a ton of money for your products out of my own pocket to save my non-profit some money, and then when Astute refused to just upgrade them to make them 64-bit or whatever the macOS / Adobe tech change was that would have required a total rewrite... your company opted to use that as an opportunity to make a new cash grab by making all your customers either stop using your plugins that they’d bought (because they stopped working with the new version of Adobe), or force them to pay for them all again unto eternity with your rental model. And to make matters worse, Astute dragged their feet on it, causing your customers who upgraded their Adobe suite to have to work without any functional plugins from Astute for a very long time, and all the queries from me and others in your forums would not be answered with anything other than new versions were coming out. No date, no timeline, and certainly no advance warning that you all were going to make us keep paying to rent the plugins we’d already purchased, in perpetuity.
it is disingenuous to tout Astute as an angelic corporation as you insinuate here. And it’s heinous the way you tell people with valid viewpoints that they are being emotional. Do you treat your family the same way, just touting your ideas and beliefs as reality and 100% accurate and putting down other people’s as simply “an emotional opinion”? Must be frustrating to be around you if this is your usual way of being. I hope for your family’s sake that you actually listen to and value their opinions and don’t treat any opinion contrary to yours as “emotional.”
Your words here in this forum have greatly devalued Astute for me. I have a real nasty taste in my mouth after watching you repeatedly belittle others here. I am no longer too keen on your company and certainly don’t wish to contribute to the financial success of your company if you are at all the product of their culture. If I don’t hear from someone higher up than you on this forum, I will be looking into phasing out my use of your plugins, and seeking other means to adjust my workflow.
Maybe your condescending attitude here is a blessing in disguise as it may be the thing which finally causes me to totally rework my workflow so I can get rid of Astute and Adobe for good and instead work entirely with a company who values their customers and listens to their customers.
And I’m guessing I’m not the only one who now feels this way.

@NIcholas van der Walle I understand you are here representing Astute in the Affinity forum and you're only going to say certain things based on what they want you to say. Arguing the case for subscription services with Astute plugins to a group of Affinity enthusiasts who support Serif in large part because they despise subscriptions comes across a bit tone deaf. . I've spoken to Dave Clayton directly about my dislike of Adobe going to subscription only and AG following suite. He understood where I was coming from.
Much like hearing a salesman try to entice a buyer with the "low monthly costs forever" the subscription model favors the company over their customers. Could I pay 600 dollars or more for Adobe CC plus another 120 for AG? Sure... but what justifies that cost? There would need to be dramatic improvements and growth all year and every year before I ever considered that option. Are the improvements and options added each year worth 720 or more dollars annually? Not in my book. Just because you could find ways to justify the cost does not make it a worthy investment.
Most features in Adobe and I would assume AG do not change dramatically from year to year. I still work professionally with my copy of CS6 and my purchased standalone AG plugins. Each year I've done this, I've saved over 700 per year. I used to upgrade my Adobe Suite once every couple versions because even those were overpriced and I bought and upgraded my plugins as I saw need. I would have gladly upgraded both Adobe and AG since CS6 was released, but there's no option for me when they only offer subscription models. You may chalk it up to being an "emotional" choice - but I avoid any subscription-only software like the plague. When apps I use announce they are going to subscription only, I ask for a standalone upgrade - some have offered it. If they refuse, I move on to find another application to support that is not subscription based. I do not want to give subscription-only apps any financial compensation because it would only encourage them to continue what I believe is an immoral practice. It's about standing by my principals for what is fair to the customers. I can understand subscriptions if there is real time data and information made available all the time that requires consistent funding. That is not the case with Adobe for sure - they can barely improve the existing tools and the software has become so bloated.
I understand its a solid deal for some companies that would upgrade annually regardless- so why not offer more than one sales option?
Many companies are finding a balance by offering either a lifetime upgrade initial price alongside the subscription model or they offer it as a standalone and if you want updates from that version you pay the upgrade cost. Instead of dismissing those who dislike the subscription model, why not encourage Astute to offer standalone options again? Especially if Affinity opens up their framework to allow plugins.

@Bobi and @Gnobelix
I'm using this too, and have had great support from Huion, and it works well (except I haven't found out yet how to apply the tilt to any functions, but that's not important for photo editing, IMHO). The build quality was superb, the feature list is mind-blowing, and while Wacoms tend to be more broadly tested from developers (I have had 3 in the past, all bought as new) and after a while they just stop fully working. I wasn't feeling the love, and didn't enjoy repeatedly paying a premium price for something that always works very well until the day it doesn't (with no warning). I took a gamble on Huion, and it's only been about 8-9 months, but the construction and materials are quite high, with far greater functionality than anything in the price niche from Wacom.
The drivers are definitely not as intuitive or have as clean or elegant or modern a user experience as Wacom, but they work, and you can master them if you invest a bit of time and checking other tutorials (lots on these models). They are gathering momentum in the marketplace, and again, the support is almost a white glove experience (other vendors take note).
The second downside is that (this is from memory, so this might be off a little): there was a Huion 1060 II model, and a 1060 PLUS NEW model, and a 1060 II Plus model, and I had carelessly grabbed the wrong driver from their site and only had about 10% functionality. The different (but similarly named) models hardly have any overlapping support, so you need to be super careful about getting the exactly-named drivers (flip over the tablet to read the tiny model name). Maybe it's due to a right-left language or something in the translation, but it seemed to me, to be terribly easy to make that mistake, but once pointed out and having installed the correct driver, all was good. My prediction is that they are going to eat a lot of Wacom's marketshare, who have (IMHO) been sitting on their hands counting revenues for too long. All the power to Huion, even if the result is just to get Wacom to properly respond to their user base. I receive no direct or indirect benefit from this commentary, from either Wacom or Huion.
 

It's been more than 2 years I requested this feature, just wanted to check if there's a chance of a true full screen mode coming to the future Affinity programs?
Would really appreciate a developer reply!

I am really loving all the Affinity applications in including the Publisher Beta. 
But what I really miss is a true full-screen mode in any Affinity program for a preview without any distraction that hides all tools, toolbars and guides with a single tap of a button(s). 
It would be great to have a full-screen mode for all Affinity software, preferably with the same keyboard shortcut.
What do you think?

By the way, Is there any reason why a true full-screen mode is not added to Affinity?
 

I am really loving all the Affinity applications in including the Publisher Beta. 
But what I really miss is a true full-screen mode in any Affinity program for a preview without any distraction that hides all tools, toolbars and guides with a single tap of a button(s). 
It would be great to have a full-screen mode for all Affinity software, preferably with the same keyboard shortcut.
What do you think?

By the way, Is there any reason why a true full-screen mode is not added to Affinity?
 

I am really loving all the Affinity applications in including the Publisher Beta. 
But what I really miss is a true full-screen mode in any Affinity program for a preview without any distraction that hides all tools, toolbars and guides with a single tap of a button(s). 
It would be great to have a full-screen mode for all Affinity software, preferably with the same keyboard shortcut.
What do you think?

By the way, Is there any reason why a true full-screen mode is not added to Affinity?
 

"Legacy" in the --legacy-wintab command line flag context refers to our legacy implementation (the low precision input data), not the hardware itself, though I appreciate that may be ambiguous.
In the future we're going to add a preference item that will allow you to choose between:
High precision input (the current default, not compatible with mouse mode, and some tablet devices such as XP Pen). Low precision input (how we previously received data, in 1.8.3 and before). Windows Ink input (for users who prefer this mode). Hope that clears things up.

I personally recommend https://fontba.se as a great 'free' font manager that is also cross platform and supports collections of fonts too.

Thats what i have done and now it works as expected. Thank you 😊