Add me to the (long) list of Mac users who have no idea what the tool buttons are due to the ridiculously small size of the buttons. It’s a lottery when using Affinity to select the correct tool and a surgical procedure to align the cursor over it. It’s all very well saying that it is a lot of work to redesign the interface but if you stack that against the number of users who are finding it a lot of work to use the interface then it pales into insignificance. Stop whinging and get the job done.
Forums are largely ineffective. Manufacturers measure product success by sales quantity and user quality; low-end or high-end users, and they will have a target audience in mind which is monitored against revenue. They might use forums to judge the latter but mostly they are just talk with little action. Which is why I rarely come on them.
When sales figures drop a manufacturer must make the choice of either improving the product or moving on to something else. So far Serif have responded with small improvements but nothing significant which suggests sales figures are up to their expectation. The crunch will come when these figures fall and they have to make the big decision to either inject some serious development or to invent something entirely new. Serif's track record is to do the latter.
With this post I'm kind of hoping they will wake up and go all out for a full-blown Photoshop alternative, it is something that is badly needed. They obviously have the support and they have produced in a short time a pretty remarkable platform from which to achieve this, but I can't help but wonder if they will to go the full distance. Time will tell.
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