[New Desktop Publishing App?]

@Michail

 

Well I believe the dev team still works eagerly on all platforms here, the desktop and tablet versions.

 

Further also supporting a tablet device like the iPad makes sense, since it's a bigger market as some people might think. Nowadays pretty every household has/uses tablets and most kids do grow up with these (iPhones/iPads etc.) instead of desktop computers.

 

Another point might be, that a lot of designers, artists etc. nowadays also use tablet devices, since the iPad pro models do support a quite good pen usage, which in turn somehow resembles for them a more flexible way than using instead a common graphics tablet (Wacom like device etc.). Also the competitors in this field of the market do all try to support that tablet segment too, so it's common usage to also support that fast growing market in parallel.

 

And from a developers view, it should be interesting too to see, if your backend code works equally good for these devices once you have a working and for a wider range sharable code base.

[Opening other graphic formats]

Yeah down the memory lane ... once upon a time when I worked for a NeXTcomputer subsidiary (those days called a NeXTcenter) what is known today as Freehand was initially called Altsys Virtuoso. Altsys was once the creator of that fine peace of vector graphics software, which they later licensed to Aldus. Aldus in turn then renamed Virtuoso into Freehand and so on ... you can just read this to see the whole story!

 

Virtuoso (aka Freehand) was a nice vector software under NeXTstep/OpenStep, even it was much more expensive in contrast to Appsoft Draw, Stone Design Create and some other promising vector oriented software for NeXTstep. Adobe with it's Illustrator followed some time later after Virtuoso, but when it came out got fast popular under NeXTstep/OpenStep. All in all those former days a lot of conceptual new and very creative software was build, due to NeXT's neat DisplayPostscript and ObjC programming API capabilities. - Well todays Mac users still do live in that slightly modernized and inherited NeXtstep ecosystem! :)

[Using NIK Tools with Affinity Photo]

@Megan

 

See and read >>this<< in the Google NIK Collection forum!

 

Sadly the NIK Collection hasn't been updated for a long time now since Google bought "NIK Software" and I pretty much doubt that Google nowadays has much interest in any further development efforts for it. Otherwise they probably wouldn't have made it freely available and would instead still charging money for it. So you can't bet on any future compatibility here, at least not from Google's side. - Another point is, that NIK Software once has build this software mainly for PS(E), Lightroom and Aperture plugin integration and thus not explicitely for supporting AP too. Hence it's hard to tell, if maybe on the other side, the Affinity dev team might can do something here for a smoother full working plugin integration.

[Flyer and newyear card the fast way]

Had made these for the recently past newyear in AD, a flyer template for a girlfriend who is a dancer (the lady with the hat) and a new year greeting card pic.

 

 

 

 

[Vignette Shape]

For those interested in origins and definitions see also Vignette (graphic design) and photography!

 

BTW the NIK plug-ins destructive behaviour might be here due to the way how it integrates/communicates with AP, since when used with PS/PSE for example, it always creates an additional non-destructive layer and a corresponding layer mask for fine tuning. So it always also depends on how external .8fb plugins (tools & filters) communicate via some sort of host integration API.

 

Anyway, YES it is generally good advice and practise to work on some pixel layer copy when performing effects like these!

[Is it possible to create animated logos?]

You can create your designs in AD and then use for the animation parts some other third party software.

 

See for example:

• Logo Stylizing and Animating in Affinity Designer and Apple Motion
• A tutorial based on Affinity Designer, Motion & FCPX

Also take a look at this forum entry.

[Newbie having problem creating an asset.]

Hi,

 

in this AD video about Assets both methods are shown (aka via drag'n'drop too), however maybe there are still some little glitches/bugs in the Windows version and thus it has to be fixed or to be adapted there to work the same way (?).

[Introduce Yourself]

Hi there,

 

I'm Valentino a Software Engineer and developer who -from time to time- also has to work around with bitmap and vector graphics. For some custom projects I recently got an old iMac in order to do some OSX and iOS programming and Windows software portings etc. - Since I was missing an overall capable and fast vector program on OSX, I recently bought Affinity Designer for that purpose.

 

Valentino

[Fuji-specific metadata fields in Affinity Photo?]

@mizuhito

 

Nowadays most camera vendors do write their own additional metadata as vendor specific "MakerNotes" sections into the EXIF data and so these informations do vary between cam vendors. In order to see the full list of included EXIF metadata, with all vendor specific MakerNotes here, you will need some tool which can display those additional informations.

 

One such tool is "ExifTool" for example, which offers very powerful EXIF information support. Though it's usually a Perl based tool, ExifTool is also available as a stand-alone Windows executable and as a Macintosh OS X package. There are also a bunch of other third party frontend GUI tools etc. available which do use ExifTool. - But in order to make any use of it from inside of Affinity Photo you would need it as some sort of in AP working Photoshop compatible plugin. Note that there is a "Proxel EXIF Tool" PS plugin available, but that relies on the ExifTool Perl version and probably needs some manual setup, installation and tryouts!