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I was just wondering. Who else find it slightly annoying that V2 files are not compatible with V1? Though I have V2 of the Suite, I'm still working in V1 because of several issues (freezes, get to use to the different interface, etc). But sometimes I would like to do small things in V2. However, because these files are not compatible with V1 I just stick to the V1 apps. Is there any chance that in a V2 update this incompatibility between V1 and V2 will be resolved?

Non-destructive feather option for layer masks +1

Feathering option for brushes +1

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I have the same problem after I upgraded my macOS from Catalina to Big Sur. The Affinity apps really take a long time to startup (each time after a restart of the machine). After closing and opening the app again, the Affinity apps start very quickly. FYI: I'm working on an iMac Pro (8-core, RAM 32GB, Radeon Pro Vega 56 8GB) with macOS Big Sur 11.4, and the Affinity suite (Photo, Designer, Publisher) version 1.9.3. With Catalina, I observed the long startup times only once after a fresh install of the apps.

Hi Affinity by Serif, For black and white conversions it would be great when we could use the channel mixer, set to monochrome, and adjust each RGB channel separately like in PS. I am aware of the other BW adjustment options in AP, but an option where we could use the channel mixer for black and white adjustments as in PS would be a great asset. Currently, I really miss this feature and - alas - installed PS again only for this feature 😞

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Just my 5 cents. I also upgraded to macOS Big Sur and the latest Affinity versions. I'm working with an iMac Pro (octa-core, 32GB RAM and 8GB GPU). Big Sur is buggy. Latency, airdrop, but it also affected my Affinity Suite. Presets are gone, plugins does not work, latency, live preview of fonts does not work properly (tried different things), etc. I should have known. I was a bit too eager. My solution will be a downgrade to macOS Catalina this evening. About Photoshop it is even more slower, but I can still work with Exposure and the Nik collection. That was not affected by the upgrade to Big Sur.

Hi Lee D. Thank you for your answer. That is where I made a mistake. The document was only automatically saved internally. Not to a specified location. So when I closed the document it was gone because I forgot to save it to this specified location. I learned from my mistake. But perhaps a feature for the iPad app could be developed so that the document is automatically saved to a prespecified location. Kind regards

Okay. I just lost some detailed work when I closed a document in Affinity Designer on the Ipad. Apparently, I never saved it and when I closed the document it was gone. It is not your fault. I should have saved it. But as I worked on it for many hours over several days I just forgot because I thought I already saved the latest version. But when the doc is open in the app and you do not save it, it is not automatically saved (as far as I know). What about an automatic saving feature? So when you open a new document in Affinity Designer (iPad version) it will be automatically saved when this feature is enabled when e.g. the app is closed and/ or after X minutes. Thank you.

That was a fun test. On my iMac Pro (Xeon W 3.2Ghz base 8-core/ 16 threads, 32GB RAM, Radeon Vega Pro 56 8GB) the file opened fairly quickly. It was responsive, and obviously very snappy when the dot-gradient layer was unselected. Zooming in was okay, bit sluggish. I went to 11754943.0%. Whilst zooming in Affinity Designer used around 35 threads (CPU tab in Activity Monitor) and consumed around 2GB RAM. The machine remained quiet and cool. Though I was not able to select one of the single dots in the dot-gradient layer. Ps: I wanted to share a screenshot of the zoomed in file at 11754943.0%. But got a -200 error from the website.

Hi @MEB That would be a really nice feature to rearrange by hand on the iPad versions and in some other intuitive way on the desktop versions. I have some more suggestions for iPad/ desktop versions. Should collect them and send them over to Affinity. Kind regards, Bastiaan

Sounds like the transparency tool from AD which is ‘missing’ in AP.

You can reset brushes individually. Just select brush and keep selecting it. Then a window will appear with options like reset. But fully agree to have a feature which allows to reset all brushes.

Hi Affinity By Serif, I'm using Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. I noticed that once I have imported new brushes, I cannot re-order brush categories or sort the brush categories by name. The most recent imported brushes are at the bottom of the scroll down menu in the brushes panel. Would it be possible to add such an ordering or sorting feature so that users can actually order the brush categories according to their own preferences? < I could not find such a feature/ functionality in Photo or Designer. > Would be nice. With kind regards, Bastiaan