gabriel_komorov

IMO it should be one app - Affinity Something. At purchase time you decide what modules you want, and then they are available in Studio Link. If you change your mind after purchase - no problem, just buy module you want

Well, you can paint directly on pixel layer too, yet...

See video it will explain what I mean better. In V1 adding mask to adjustments layers worked same way as with pixel layer. In V2 mask is added on top of adjustment. Can we pls get back to V1 behavior? screenshot_20230309_151532.mp4

In V1 I could simply toggle grid visibility with shortcut - it worked for all images. But in V2 toggling doesn't work for newly opened files - I must first open grid dialog, select preset and then toggling works. Why this extra step? This is stupid, massively counterproductive, annoying and unintuitive. 99% of times I just want deafult preset to be loaded. Can this be done or is it again Serif being Serif?

I believe I have everything set-up correctly. I'm on Windows though, maybe that's the problem

They don't even show up for me. I've added folder from Topaz, also copied files from there to default Affinity plugins and still nothing. How you manage to get them in Photo?

I'm working on little program that will handle backing up and also syncing workspaces (from standalone apps to Publisher). Will post about it on forums when it's ready

Exactly. Special snowflakes whine because they are treated equal. Only thing that I totally get is if someone bought V1 in past ~three months now can be a bit bummed. I guess Serif to be totally fair, could offer for those customers refund for V1 if they're willing to upgrade. But even without this... it's still about $200 for full suite of semi-pro apps. Show me a better deal.

Sure thing, we should discuss! It wasn't directed at you, just general reaction to recent amounts of bullshit

CorelDraw have (had?) export to ttf, but it was so basic and broken that I don't know anyone who would use it. People are ridiculous in their demnads. We had video editing, 3d software, website builder, font editor. What next? Torrent client, media player?

So... you're complaining about 60% increase in 6+ years time span?

Exactly, why even bother with adding measure if it's nonpersistent. 90% times when you need to measure something is to show the client / contractor what exactly they dealing with. So far it's the biggest dissapointment in 2.0

@Stokestack What you even argue with dude? You have similar tools with slightly different purpose, use right one for your task and be done with it.

No matter where you install C:\ProgramData\Roaming\Affinity will be used to store, well... program data. That is user prefernces, temp files etc.

Honestly it looks like edit of original posted by OP. If he got them staright from iPad in Apple Store I doubt if "original" original floats around the web

First three are essential. If we speak strictly about Affinity Photo you can consider Colour Balance and Selective Colour, also Split Toning may come handy. Vibrance likely won't be useful. Remember that depending of your source photos, there may be some areas which require individual adjustment - that's where masks and brushes will be needed. Genarlly speaking - editing a photo is so much more than applying predefined setting with single click. While basics are easy to grasp, mastering the skill can take months if not years.

Ok, I feel thre's a lot of confusion here. I try to clear things up, and keep it as simple as possible. First of all what you asking for is impossible to answer (what combination of adjustment is needed to make photo look certain way) if we only have "after" photos. Second, there's no magic LUT, adjustment, effect, plugin, whatever, which once applied will give your photos desired feel. That's because each photo needs indivdual treatment - simple as that. Each photo has unique set of values which must be corrected in specified unique way to produce consistent output. And that bring us to third point - your best option is manual editing. Take photo you want to change and play with adjustments - HSL, curves, shadows / contrast. Do it enough times and you'll start to intuitively feel what needs to be done to particular photo for desired effect.

That's the problem with most of Affinity tools - their setting won't stick

And that's the correct answer, maybe add to it embeded document, image layer and mask - bacuse they are neither of former. Rest are derivatives of those

No, it isn't justified by anything. Even some basic image viewers can scan directly, 32-bit or 64-bit, doesn't matter

Duh... yes, I'm aware. Still they choose to create separate app instead put more feauters in Designer - what bring us to my argument about compromises. I get aura of fanboism from you, but we're all here for reason - to discuss features, wishes, improvements and even voice our disappointments(!). It's not "all or nothing", you can aprreciate software and use it exclusively and sitll be disapointed with some decisions.

This can't be defined obviously, but if you work in graphic design (or make a product targeted for graphic designers) some features are common sense. Beacuse otherwise why not restrict Bold and Italics modifiers just to Publisher? Are they "basic"? Yeah, I get it but read my paragraph above. Let's revert this argument - take paint brush in Photo for example. It makes perfect sense in context of this app, not so much in Publisher. But if you could do all sorts of edits to bitmap in Publisher, excluding paint brush, what would you say? As side note - I think that separating Publisher and Designer, while it has it's benefits, isn't best startegy - due to weird compromises we talk right now.

When you create / place / paste any object - before making any changes to it - these dimesnions are original. So I don't see a problem in applying this logic to any layer. Corel Draw does exactly this from... 20? years. So it's not hard concept to grasp and implement. As posted above - Publisher has neat button for this (again difference for sake of difference). And there's always settings where anyone can tune behavior for his/her liking.

Yeah, some choices does'nt make much sense in Affinity. This is one of such examples. All three apps allow you to work with text, so it's perfectly logical to include such basic feature in all of them, but... restricting features to one product just for sake of difference?

Also - current scaling by percent could get some upgarde, specifically Affinity should remember initial dimensions. Let's take bitmap 100x100px, scale width by 200% - we get 200x100px, so far so good. But now Affinity thinks that 200px is 100%, and entering 100% will do nothing. Wrong! In fact it should scale back to initial dimensions - 100x100px Current implementation is destructive and doesn't give an easy way to revert to original dimensions