Dave Quail

I don't know what's worse scenario incorporating some things into Canva, then killing Affinity or slowly turning it into subscription, ad and ai ridden pile of bloated hot shit. The end is on horizon, sadly

You helped us start a movement. Today, that movement becomes a revolution.
Stop yourself, Ash. We're not children. Rhetoric doesn't change reality, nauseating rhetoric just cuts away all credibility, adding insult to injury.
We've seen this twenty? forty? a hundred times? before. A few years ago, German Gravit was acquired by Corel, and Corel wrote "Welcome to the Corel family". It's not a family. I followed the individual German founders' naive optimism on their LinkedIn profiles, but today they are FIRED and Gravit is no longer being developed. A few years later, Corel changed plans, and the little fish discovered the concept of restructuring and downsizing. That wasn't family. It was melting down and minimising.
Serif, I have long urged you to become mature and professionals as a company internally, to survive as a company or to avoid this happening. You lacked the ability or will to do so, you have fundamentally failed in developing the company's culture, structure, and professionalism over several decades and now we see this business bullshit and we well know where it ends! You have simply failed monumentally, and if you had read a bit in both business history books and general history books, then you would know how tragically many revolutions have ended.
I am not afraid of subscriptions like the others. I see far more serious things happening within a couple of years with the products, and I'm starting to take my precautions today. Thank goodness I only use Designer. Maybe I and we are lucky, but precautions are there to ensure the worse scenario.
And to all you fanboys in here I have chided for years: this is where a lack of professionalism ends, and you also have a part in it. I hold the mentality accountable for it ending here.

the statement reads as "nothing changes regarding v2" (pricing , licensing, updates) ...until the next major version (v3?) is released. So, we are maybe one or two years safe?

Yep. No changes to the pricing structure, until we change it. 

Yep, as Ash said, nothing changes.... until it does.

It definitely feels like we've been played, lied to, burned, on sold if you will. But, unfortunately, it's a timely reminder that entire the world revolves around money. And as a business grows to the heights of Affinity, it's no longer about "satisfying end user", it all about satisfying the wants of investors, and lining the pockets of those at the top. Us mere peasants serve no purpose but to buy into the startup story, and consume, over and over again. The sad reality is, most won't switch to the competition, because they're just as bad, so instead we'll stick with the lessor of two evils. But only time will tell, I guess.

I can’t speak from personal experience, because I only have a small Wacom tablet, but Huion is another brand which is frequently mentioned in discussions here about graphics tablets. The Huion WH1409, costing around $160, has an active area of 13.8″ × 8.6″ (350 mm × 220 mm) and offers 8192 levels of pen pressure, but if you’re only looking for something in the 10″ × 6″ range you might want to consider the Huion H610 Pro (also offering 8192 pressure levels, but with an active area of 10″ × 6.25″) at a third of the price.

Hi,
I visited a guided Lost Place Tour and took a shoot of an old ballroom of a hotel.
One of the difficulty ist the light, because there is no electricity.
In this tutorial, I show how to edit such a photo.
 
I wish you fun.
Ciao Jack
 
 

Hi guys, here's a new video about 5 of my favorite filters that I often use to edit my photo in Affinity Photo. I hope you enjoy and learn something new from this video, thank you!
 

Hi guys, here's a new video about how to create a fake sun in Affinity Photo. You can use this method to make your photo looks more dramatic. I hope you enjoy and learn something new from this video, thank you!
 

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.10.5
The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.10.5 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.10.4) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed registration failure (will now use the browser to complete registration, rather than attempt it in-app) Improved performance of artboards with many Text Frames. Fixed possible rendering issues with Raster elements. Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 over 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Designer Windows update announcement
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.10.5
The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.10.5 over the release build Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.10.4 are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed registration failure (will now use the browser to complete registration, rather than attempt it in-app) Fixed possible rendering issues with Raster elements Optimisation when transforming Text Frames. Import document user details, metadata and text variables from IDML files. Improved IDML picture frame fitting. Help & localisation improvements. The major improvements in 1.10 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Publisher Windows update announcement 
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.5
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.10.5 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.10.4) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Updated the RAW import Library (updated libraw to 202110). Fixed registration failure (will now use the browser to complete registration, rather than attempt it in-app) Fixed possible rendering issues with Raster elements Fixed background layer being blurred when re-opening an afphoto file Fixed artefacts on export of documents with a Live Radial Blur Fixed Overlay Paint and Erase Tools in Develop Persona not painting correctly at small brush sizes Fixed Overlay Paint Brush starting at the edge of canvas Fixed corrupt images when entering Photoshop plugins, with hardware acceleration enabled Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 since are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Photo Windows update announcement
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

Would be great to be able to both import from and export to IDML. 

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.10.4 (replacing 1.10.3)
(Note: 1.10.2 was an iPad only release)
The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.10.4 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.10.1) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards Fixed Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer Fixed vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply Fixed some occasionally fonts failing to be recognized at startup Fixed Borderless printing having a border Fixed 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click Fixed hang on My Account page  Fixed crash when closing the application Fixed potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font Fixed 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc.  Fixed Vector import (SVG etc) can be created at incorrect size Screen and UI corruption (in 1.10.3) on some desktops App hanging on shutdown due to font cache problem Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 over 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Designer Windows update announcement
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.4 (replacing 1.10.3)
(Note: 1.10.2 was an iPad only release)
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.10.4 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.10.1) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards Fixed Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools Fixed Live Filters with Radius or Distance spuriously changing the Azimuth anticlockwise Fixed Toggling 'Quick Mask' not updating until you toggle the mask off and on again Fixed 'Overlay Paint' and 'Overlay Erase' tools in Develop Persona not painting with correct spacing Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer Fixed vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size Fixed 16-bit 'Saturation blend mode' displaying white pixels Fixed crash painting on empty pattern layer Fixed 'Levels' > 'Output black and white' using the same values when changing channels Fixed files losing quality after a merge or export Fixed potential crash opening an EXR document Fixed crash opening multiple FITS files at once Fixed DNG files not being displayed in Develop Persona with Hardware Acceleration enabled Fixed Astrophotography to cope with Unicode file paths Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply Fixed some occasionally fonts failing to be recognised at startup Fixed Borderless printing having a border Improved 'Uninstall Pack' flow to auto-select the pack Fixed 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click Fixed hang on My Account page Fixed 'Defringe' > 'Also remove complementary colour' Fixed crash when closing the application Fixed potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font Fixed document pixel resolution being stored in the wrong format within XMP metadata (breaks later parsing of the same data; hides the values from the metadata panel's 'Detail' view) Increased maximum defringe radius Fixed 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc. Fixed Astrophotography Stack failing on some DNG's with no warning Improved Astrophotography 'Make Align Layers By Stars' to work for layers in transformed groups Screen and UI corruption (in 1.10.3) on some desktops. App hanging on shutdown due to font cache problem. Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 since are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Photo Windows update announcement
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.10.4 (replacing 1.10.3)
(Note: 1.10.2 was an iPad only release)
The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.10.4 over the release build Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.10.1 are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer. Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply. Vector import (SVG, IDML etc) can be created at incorrect size. Space incorrectly gets added to text on clipboard if you double click a word to highlight. Fixed bug when deleting multiple pinned objects at the same time. Placed .afphoto documents can cause redraw issues. PDF Passthrough could crash when rendering entire placed document. Positioning pins should not find frames that are not editable. Hyperlinks with 'MailTo' fail to export when containing a space. Miscellaneous stability updates arising from specific cases. Invalid URL hyperlinks prevent PDF export. Date & Time field format options not appearing. Screen and UI corruption (in 1.10.3) on some desktops. App hanging on shutdown due to font cache problem. Resource manager display is sometimes incorrect. Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Publisher Windows update announcement 
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Changes
Fixed Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards Fixed Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools Previous release notes

Click here to download the latest beta Currently there is no beta more recent than the 1.10.4 release
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Fixed Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards Fixed Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools Fixed Live Filters with Radius or Distance spuriously changing the Azimuth anticlockwise Previous release notes

I working with the Beta on a windows 11 setting on 75hz with 32 GB ram and a Nvidia GPU.  Where the 1.10.1 has several problems, the beta is working how it should.

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Changes
Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer Fixed vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply Fixed some occassionally fonts failing to be recognised at startup Fixed Borderless printing having a border Fixed 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click Fixed hang on My Account page  Fixed crash when closing the application Fixed potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font Fixed 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc.  Previous release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Fixed Toggling 'Quick Mask' not updating until you toggle the mask off and on again Fixed 'Overlay Paint' and 'Overlay Erase' tools in Develop Persona not painting with correct spacing Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer Fixed vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size Fixed 16-bit 'Saturation blend mode' displaying white pixels Fixed crash painting on empty pattern layer Fixed 'Levels' > 'Output black and white' using the same values when changing channels Fixed files losing quality after a merge or export Fixed potential crash opening an EXR document Fixed crash opening multiple FITS files at once Fixed DNG files not being displayed in Develop Persona with Hardware Acceleration enabled Fixed Astrophotography to cope with unicode file paths Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply Fixed some occassionally fonts failing to be recognised at startup Fixed Borderless printing having a border Improved 'Uninstall Pack' flow to auto-select the pack Fixed 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click Fixed hang on My Account page  Fixed 'Defringe' > 'Also remove complementary colour' Fixed crash when closing the application Fixed potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font Fixed document pixel resolution being stored in the wrong format within XMP metadata (breaks later parsing of the same data; hides the values from the metadata panel's 'Detail' view)  Increased maximum defringe radius Fixed 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc.  Fixed Astrophotography Stack failing on some DNG's with no warning Improved Astrophotography 'Make Align Layers By Stars' to work for layers in transformed groups  Previous release notes

News from Affinity: 
I'm glad they removed this. I think Unsplash is a rip-off to photographers. It's owned by Getty images who want to profit freely from creators. Pure greed and despicable.

Make certain that the cells containing the phone numbers in the Excel spreadsheet are formatted as text in the Excel spreadsheet.

That's a bit unfair. The software has to be released at some point and cannot remain in BETA forever. There will always be issues and regressions so cut the team some slack and FYI AP is much faster and perhaps you should give more detail on the issue as to why it is slow on YOUR machine and not the rest. It is very easy to become a critic but it is not helpful if you are throwing something in there just because your are frustrated!