Guyon

V3 will not be released for a long time.  V1 was released in July 9, 2015.

To be honest if you just got V1 then you have a world of learning to do.  There is nothing in V2 that will make your pictures that much better.
The secret is, that it is the artist and not the program that makes great works.
That said... There will be more sales, Affinity goes on sale a few times a year.
So hone your skills and when the time comes you can upgrade.
 
I feel for you that you just bought V1, but no one is attacking you.

V3 will not be released for a long time.  V1 was released in July 9, 2015.

To be honest if you just got V1 then you have a world of learning to do.  There is nothing in V2 that will make your pictures that much better.
The secret is, that it is the artist and not the program that makes great works.
That said... There will be more sales, Affinity goes on sale a few times a year.
So hone your skills and when the time comes you can upgrade.
 
I feel for you that you just bought V1, but no one is attacking you.

It is a very sad reflection on humanity when people are more concerned that some one else has got the same advanttage they have.  It does not diminish or affect the  discount you have it is just a whine that some one else has an equally good deal.  Be happy you got a good deal. No one else has got a better deal.  
Why whine that some one else is haveing good done to them?  It does not harm you.
 

Hi evtonic, 

You can back up the keyboard shortcuts by going into Affinity Designer>Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts, here you will see a 'Save' option, just click that and then use the 'Load' option when you want to import them back in. 

As for Brushes, when you have the brushes tab selected you should see an icon with 4 lines to the right, that will allow you to import/export brushes

And Styles, it might be worth taking a look at this thread :)

J

Not "every software company" does what you suggest.  Many don't
You are not being attacked by "rich people"
You haven't wasted any money on V1 because V1 still works and does what you paid for. You haven't lost anything.
You got a good deal on V1, it still works and will continue to work.
It is better value than any other system out there.

The time before V1 and V2 is about 8 years.
Even if V3 comes out in 5 months V2 (like V1) will continue to work and NOT be obsolete. None of its functionality will cease.
Though V3 is liky to be at least 5 years out.  I bought V1 (without a discount) 11 months before V2 came out.
NOTE I was still using Adobe CS6 from 11 years ago (untill I bought Afinity V1 a year ago)  because I can't afford the Adobe subscription  service.
Serif periodically do discounts of 25% and 30% at least twice a year so you can get V2 later..  There is no rush as you are not using affinity in business.

Life is what it is and it isn't fair. However Affinity do a very good job of producing very good software at a very low price. They get in 99% right.

You know I thought that at first.  But changed my mind.
I had the use of the Affinity line for years saving a lot of money over Adobe.
To be honest how much more of a discount do you want?  And extra 5% an extra 10%  in reality it is not that much more of a saving.  PLUS with the new Universal License makes the produce even a better value.
You are getting a great produce at a great value. I have no issue with them extending their generosity to others.

That said, I was hoping for a light room product, and Auto trace for Designer.
 

I really do like Affinity Designer. It is my goto for almost every project, but I really miss auto Trace.
It is such a time waste to do it by hand.  Is Auto Trace even on the road map?

Please, Please, Please. Add epub export.

Five years later and we still do not have oil paint smoothing for Affinity Photo for pre-drawn lines?
I have been hoping every year for Oil Paint Filter.

I know I've suggested a similar feature, but all this talk of smoothing curves brought this up in my mind; in addition to a tool to smooth a curve, Affinity Designer should also have the opposite.  I am of course referring to Midpoint Displacement, which would allow illustrators to make non-uniform curves more easily than having to draw each node individually.
 

 
Being able to smooth curves is indeed important, but as it is, it's really hard to produce a line that doesn't look uniform, and a roughening tool to add pseudorandom midpoint displacement would make illustrating much less time-consuming.

I am just starting to play around with the pencil, pen, and brush and noticed that the lines are smoothing. Do you plan on having a smoothing control for those tools? For drawing, this would be important not to have my lines straighten-out. 
Also,while going through the help menu I hit the back arrow in the upper left corner and it does not take me back to the page I entered from. Example, after selecting "About lines and shapes," I hit the back arrow and I don't return to were I can select "About lines and Shapes." I return to "Visual References."
On the positive note, I love the ability to be able to use vector and raster in the same software. That is an all in one drawing program.

@SPaceBar
So AfftiyPhoto  1.8.5   runs great with my my XP-Pen Monitor in low precision.  But once I change to high precision is where the same issue occurs.
Here is the log as you requested.
 
 
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Wintab: Failed to get tangent pressure info
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Exit
 

the beta seems to have fixed the problem

True, but bug crushing is just as important or more so than new features.  What I would really like to see is a road map and where the greatly need epub export sits on that list.  Over a year ago Patrick said it was in there radar, but will it be yet another year? Two?
I would love to hear an official word on epub.

Or why not just start all new project in Affinity Designer, and use PagePlus when needed? 
MEB pointed out that "You can export PagePlus projects as PDF or SVG and they should be imported without much loss into Affinity apps."
 

They may not be “for life”, but the free updates tend to be for years.  Go for it.
I have had my Affinity Photo and Designer since January 6, 2017 with no update charge yet.
I believe that Adobe  InDesign is US$20.99/mo.

So we just double install.  Thanks

Official method:
On the Brushes panel in Photo, select a brush category, then on the hamburger menu use "Export Brushes..." and then specify a location to save the .afbrushes file. Repeat for each brush category you want to transfer. On the Brushes panel in the Photo Persona in Publisher, on the hamburger menu, use "Import Brushes..." and import one of your exported brush files. Repeat as needed.  

Thank you.

… the difference to other software companies is, that the developer team seems to listen to the beta testers very intensely.

I have a hard time believing that someone who would complain about a picture like that would be interested in photo software to begin with.

Sounds exciting, but maybe wait till some of the next features are out.  I would not like a book that is outdated before it arrived.

I like the screen.  I REALLY liked the girl on Aphoto when they had that up.
I am sure most would rather Affinity spend their valuable time fixing code and adding new features than trying to appease everyone on the aesthetics of a single splash page. 

I like the screen.  I REALLY liked the girl on Aphoto when they had that up.
I am sure most would rather Affinity spend their valuable time fixing code and adding new features than trying to appease everyone on the aesthetics of a single splash page. 

I like the screen.  I REALLY liked the girl on Aphoto when they had that up.
I am sure most would rather Affinity spend their valuable time fixing code and adding new features than trying to appease everyone on the aesthetics of a single splash page.