Would love to see point level width/size control for points in a stroke, like Moho 12 has. Also segment hiding would be very useful!
See video example attached.
segment-stroke-size-by-point.mp4
Would love to see point level width/size control for points in a stroke, like Moho 12 has. Also segment hiding would be very useful!
See video example attached.
segment-stroke-size-by-point.mp4
I know this feature has been requested before (macros/actions), but it's not quite there yet for my needs. With the 1.5 update, Affinity Photo does have a basic macro recording function now, but it still does not eliminate the need for Photoshop from my workflow until I can assign custom keyboard shortcuts to the macros for rapid playback! I've been very impressed with Affinity Photo so far, and I really want to see it become a "Photoshop Killer"! I work in entertainment press photography, and we typically edit around 100-200 photos a night from an average movie premiere/event, or up to 1000 photos from a major awards show. We work at a rapid pace and on very tight deadlines, so speed is critical.
My typical workflow in Photoshop ...
- I need to be able to eyeball every single photo in a set and make rapid corrections with a series of keyboard shortcuts. Batch processing might work for some jobs, but looking at every single photo to make adjustments quickly is also frequently needed.
- I usually open 200 photos in Photoshop at a time (Photoshop's limit) in a cascading stack, then do corrections to levels, sharpness, and maybe slight color correction if needed.
- Save/close the file as JPEG 8, 300dpi at 3000x2000 px (Saved while closing the file with COMMAND-W on Mac)
- Repeat until I'm done with all 200, and then work on an addition 200 files if needed
- Then caption all the photos with the name of the person/people using Photo Mechanic
What I would love to see in Affinity Photo is the same rapid editing ability that Photoshop has.
For example, I would love to be able to assign a keyboard shortcut to macros/actions that do something like the following:
CTRL-ALT-L - Last Used Level Adjustment
CTRL-ALT-C - Last Used Color Correction
CTRL-ALT-U - Last Used Sharpness Adjustment
I think you get the idea :-)
Another feature I would love to see is IPTC data creation/editing (or even basic awareness, passthrough). It's not an absolute must for me, since I use Photo Mechanic, which does an amazing job. However, I would not like to have a situation pop up where maybe I need to go back and do a quick edit to a file that has already been captioned in Photo Mechanic, but Affinity Photo doesn't save the existing IPTC data that's already in the file (ie. strips that info out). That would be "no bueno"!