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For me Summer has officially ended when the kids go back to school...

The other thing you can do is convert the Circle (ellipse) into a pie

You can then drag the red handle to make a half circle.

Duplicate it (Ctrl + J) and flip one.

It's as easy as pie 

Another discovery I just made... 
QuarkXPress 2018
Price: $849.00 (USD)
Do you get it ?

Was just playing around with gradients and came up with a fairly simple way to make a rectangular gradient using the Mirror Filter.
Create a Square and fill diagonally with a Colour to Transparency Gradient.
Go to Filters > Distort > Mirror
Set the Mirror to 2
You should end up with something that looks a bit like this
 

Brilliant! That works perfectly I use Inkscape occasionally but wasnt aware that it had a trace function - it was for a silhouette so the default values worked perfectly.
 
thanks!

Either way, it is irrelevant because they have committed to "starting a free public beta before the end of August." (See for example https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher/.)
I am reasonably sure the last day of August is the same everywhere the Gregorian calendar is in use. 

Of course you can use Synfig Studio for FREE with Affinity Photo/Designer.

The reason Serif doesn't want to invest into Linux is because open source software users have a reputation for not wanting to pay for software. It is a widely held belief that they want everything for FREE. Very few Linux users support development of software for the Linux platform which is why, rightly, Serif doesn't want to tread into the waters. And everyone has a very good excuse/reason for not wanting to fund Linux platform development or software development for Linux. Why would Serif want to invest into Linux when they see users won't support development for existing Linux software?

They are probably going to release 1.7 with APub BETA.

Doesn't Europe go on vacation for a month in Summer?

If you want to animate 2D then Synfig Studio is the way to go. If you want to animate 3D then Blender is the way to go. Both are FREE.

If you want to add animation into your pipeline then you can use Synfig Studio along with AP and AD now. No need to wait. Best of all it's FREE.

I liked it!
 

Received mine yesterday as well.

so how do i make the affinity photo pen pressure to work on yiynova, i am having trouble to get it to work on it. i have a yiynova 22u rh
i did what i could on the affinity photo like i did with photoshop on how to make the pen pressure but it all wobbly line.

The reason why I purchased PagePlus X9.

Dear Serif Team, 
 
i really like your software, even RAW for GH5 is not yet available, it is really an effective and good piece of software with a very high potential for more in the Future. 
I'm still thinking, cool software from a cool company. But, since the last days my opinion about the coolness of the company is really changing.  
Why is Serif every 3rd day sending promotion mails about the new iPad application? To be honest, not everybody from your user base is GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook & Amazon) addicted, not everybody wants to post something in Facebook or even has a Facebook account, some of us don't want to have an iPad even for free. Why it is required to spam customers every few days with this (childish) campaign? Is one/two mails not enough? Should i remove myself from the newsletter (what i don't want). I just want to use your cool software and from time to time receive updates what is new. Please stay serious, stop spamming...
 
Thanks
 
 

From the first day AP was released for Windows (even the beta) I was desperately trying to make AP work for me .... I wanted AP to be the THE (first real) alternative for PS (considering I couldn't find enough swear words for Adobe and their cloud policy). I was accepting and reporting all bugs you obviously had to expect from a sw that complex. I was trying to make the product better as quick as possible by generating test cases, videos to show bugs and even offering Serif my support in development and localisation. And seeing the sw that had great features, good customer support, a big crowd of (active) fans and users - what could go wrong to make AP the new PS in a long term? As you can see I'd do everything to make this baby mine. One can hardly approach a product more positively than I did with AP ...
 
After all that time I see myself closing PS6 tonight working on a customer project and I'm asking myself: why do I still not(!) use AP? AP actually hast most (>95%) of the functions I frequently use in my daily work as a photographer. Even the plugins work in AP. Some functions are even more powerful than in PS6. Still I don't even think of AP when it comes to productive work for customers. And it's not because I'm used to PS ... not because it's a habit - there are very real reasons for it. Some of them I often mentioned before but serif keeps ignoring them up to the stage of not even bother to make any kind of comment. So I though I'd open this topic and bring my issues (again) to the attention of serif staff and other users ... maybe I'm not the only one.
 
To find some good examples for my problems I decided to take a current project that requires stacking (where I feel AP is a lot easier with than PS). 7 RAW pictures that require alignment and focus stacking to adapt different areas of the picture. And what I'm describing now is not an exception ... things I describe are not necessarily reproduceable ... but it does not happen with ANY OTHER PROGRAM I use on my machine (just for those who already start blaming the state of my system as a scapegoat!). And whenever I start AP known and new things like that happen. I'm using lots of memory and disk space ... a still reasonably quick graphics card and processor on Win 7!
After taking some time for reading the 7 big RAW files, aligning them and doing the focus stacking I get the processed picture. As well as a source list including all of my stacked single pics and the resulting pic. I add a levels filter and a curve filter to the file. Already after adding the curve filter the histogram is not displayed any more. I know this bug. It has been reported quite a while ago by me (and maybe other people) - apparently wasn't looked after. This does not always happen ... and is not clearly reproduceable, but since levels and curve setting are pretty useless unless you can see the histogram (except for those who do not know what they are doing) it is a bit of a bummer. Certainly knowing that it can only be solved by saving the picture and restarting AP. So I skipped this step and clicked on the first single stacked picture in the displayed list. First of all not even the focus did change to the newly selected picture I clicked on. 5 Seconds later AP completely disappeared and Lightroom was the active application (first I thought AP did crash, but it did not ... it just completely lost it's focus) ... so by clicking the task list I could get it back ... the behaviour interestingly was reproduceable. Now going to the develop persona and coming back to the photo persona the "source list" was reduced to one file called "untitled". Where did all the 8 files disappear to? OK, better don't ask. Now I want to compare the newly stacked picture with another similar picture I took. So I decide to undock the current window. Really a bad idea ... the new window does not resize but moves somewhere mostly outside the current working area. (Just as ONE example: when I do this in PS the new window resize to the layer size and displays with a certain distance at the top left corner of the workspace. PS comes with ready made presets for windows alignment. PS allowns a window to adapt to the picture size all the time. With AP it takes me ages to adjust this new window to the working area I'd like to have. And believe me I really tried hard to get it working or to adapt to this ridiculous user-hostile attitude - no chance. For those who did not get it yet: There is a good reason why the PS Window Menu has more than 25 additional commands for window adjustments - it's not because they had nothing else to do!)
 
But many other things really set me up .... it's this lack of responsiveness of the UI (sometimes) ... you sometimes can drag sliders and they will not move ... or maybe with significant delay (seconds later). Sudden changes of focussed windows for reasons I don't understand (so you have to click in the window again you want to work in). Trying to confirm an action e.g. in a Windows UI manner (pressing Enter if you want to confirm a setting) and nothing will happen. Lacking "OK" and "Cancel" buttons so dialogs will remain open unless you find this tiny cross at the top. Settings I can't save (standard values in dialogs), paths AP will not remember (saving a picture where I loaded the original from). The export persona tries successfully to hide my user setting for standardised output format (bi-cubic,sRGB, JPG) as the last(!) entry in an extensive long list of useless "Standard" setting ... and it makes me search my standard setting for EACH picture I do export ... it seems to me like Serif is challenging my stamina and endurance in so many ways.
 
I could go on and on on theses topics... my conclusion and answer to the question "why there's still no love" would be the following:
Serif build an high performance Aston Martin Sports car ... but when you want to open the door you break your finger nails, the steering wheel is covered with nettles and the safety belt will come loose while driving. The gas pump nozzle is mounted in the middle of the roof, the bonnet occasionally opens while driving and it takes 15 switches 3 hooks and an armoured metal plate to get to the opener for the boot as well as many other obstructions. In a race against the Adobe Maserati it can easily keep up, is quicker in some curves sometimes even drives offroad ... But what car do you like to drive and will you choose to drive to work? Sadly Serif does not realise, understand nor care for these essentials at all! They can't stop celebrating AP won races (now on an iPad) ... and seem to forget that there a people around need to use the car on a daily base ...

I'm not waiting for Affinity Publisher ... I'm waiting for AP to get a daily working horse!
Cheers, Timo

All descriptions refer to the latest final Version 1.5.2.69

Hi Timo
 
Probably, we are in the same boat. Desperately trying to use AP in a real production environment because of

A, Want to give up with Adobe & B, Loving the potential AP has to offer

 
But then there's the already mentioned shortcomings when it comes to stability problems, and performance.
Could I care less about Publisher? Yes. And about Photo for iPad? Hell, yes! And what about all the other feature requests? Of course.
I don't want to have a full-packed car (to follow your example) with all the most modern, neat optional extras, when I need a car that, first and foremost, will take me far and with the assurance to not break throughout the trip.
With the risk to sound repetitive and presumptuous, I'm not afraid to express my idea that most of the users' needs here are for fun, some random exploration, or minimal resources, and I say this because I, myself, when I need to tweak a few layers with a small res image, most likely don't have issues as the demands, in that case, are quite basic.
And also because I firmly believe that if I need to take a job from start to finish, is not this or that feature that will make it possible, I'm not afraid to take a few extra steps to achieve the task. What it will make it possible, meeting the deadline my client gave me, is a stable product I can rely on, and not only because a crash or a slow workflow will have a negative effect on my deadline, but also because it will affect my creativity.
 
That being said, why the focus seems still to be oriented toward those requests more than anything else? That, I don't know. It almost feels as if Serif is realizing their creation has a tremendous potential but they are afraid to embrace the journey. I know resources on their end are limited, but then again, why they would give priority to secondary aspects rather than taking their flagships to the status they deserve, is beyond my understanding.
 
Take for instance the GPU. There's been some talking here on the forum about all the technical limits and quirks in adopting such technology, and yet no one said a word on this:
http://pencilsheep.com/
Which is the proof that GPU can be used for an image editor as well (despite they say is not possible).
It also occurred to me this: why Serif should take the GPU route when on the Mac side GPU is behind, creating a disparity between PC and MAC? So, there you go, here's an answer.
 
Thus, perhaps Serif is totally fine with the current situation which fits many averages users and, with time (probably) they'll get there and AP will become the solid editor we want today.
Probably the user base they're aiming to is the one that asks for those extra features, because that's what keeps them coming.
I don't know. I feel your frustration, though, as every time I need to open PS I think "how much better it would be if right now I could work with Affinity!"
If only Serif would have created something ugly, it would be easier to give up :)
But I find myself surprised how after all these months, each time I try to work in AP I keep feeling the same enthusiasm about working with it.
 
So, yes, it would be nice to get a feedback from a moderator, at least to understand what's their plan: not the roadmap, and not "we'll get there", I'm talking about giving priority, at least for a few next release cycles, to what matters to another part of the users: a fast car that can take us far.
 

And VirtualBox for Linux...

And VirtualBox for Linux...

Cheaper alternative...
 
https://www.amazon.com/Yiynova-MVP22U-V3-Monitor-IPS/dp/B010TQ7HM8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1495562795&sr=8-4&keywords=yiynova
 
The budget model I have...
 
https://www.amazon.com/Yiynova-MVP20U-FE-Monitor-Windows/dp/B01NAT88XG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1495563227&sr=8-3&keywords=yiynova

Yeah using programs once installed is pretty straight forward but getting some programs installed can be a big headache.  Its nowhere near just click and install.
 
Anyone considering using Linux needs to walk into it knowing it's not for the faint of heart. If your someone who doesn't care to know about how the OS works but just wants it to run your software then Linux is going to be a huge nightmare for you.  You will need to know the OS and how the various components all work together. You will need to learn some basic programing skills and command line instructions to install software.  Software comes in various extensions which require knowledge of installers and command line instructions to get them into Linux.
 
I have been playing around with Linux Mint for a few years now and I have software I have downloaded on my computer that to this day I still haven't figured out how to install. Most people who use Linux possess a high degree of technical knowledge and a good grasp of the UNIX framework.