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  1. Hi, 

    So I wasn't sure where exactly to post this; I'm a novice with as far as illustrations are concerned and I'm currently tracing images to currrently better understand shapes.

    Currently, I'm working with on tracing a house and I'm trying to search for the appropriate method people use to build brick patterns that do have various sizes aside from being super symmetrical. I just like that organic touch that real picture has in which no two bricks are exactly the same.

    I don't mind painstakingly doing it by hand, but would like to see if I could gain any insight from you guys.

    Also - I'm using a traditional mouse, but I'm quite patient.





     

  2. 21 hours ago, PaoloT said:

    Serif is probably trying not to make an "inferior product". Even if this results in many of us having to wait still for long.

    Paolo

     

    Yes, well, in the unlikely event that common sense or discerning nuances of what is being said is lacking:

    One is not asking for an "inferior product" to be made but referencing them to make a case in which a superior product is lacking.

    I take your note on Mac's limitations. Thank you for that. 




     

  3. I'm going to side with the idea that this indeed a lack of foresight.

    Gentlemen, it's in the word "Graphic Design". The core marketing theme of the entire suite is that the suite was made by DESIGNERS.

    And what do graphic designers do? They communicate a message through visual representation. It is truly a self-defeating paradox when you profess to understand a segment you're catering to, but offer a product that can't fulfill the most basic requirement - their ability to express themselves in their language. These "DESIGNERS" that "DESIGNERS" are catering to in an era where companies are supposed to champion inclusivity and ease of expression have every right to be offended by it. 

    And what really salts the wound is the availability of far inferior products who simply take advantage of a few components native to Windows & MAC which makes the ordeal a lot easier. It is, by no means, perfect. But it is there and it's more than usable.

    The irony of it all is just depressing - and loving the product is what makes it all the more disheartening. 










     

  4. First of all, congratulations are in order for everyone on Affinity 2. Love it.

    Affinity 2 works just fine on my workstation, however, on my Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5, the software won't even boot.

    Initially, I managed to register all three, but now I can't get them to open a second try.  And what's weird is that I don't get any error messages, it just freezes in looping limbo and clicking anything will give me the dreaded (Not Responding)

    Made sure that windows is updated. 

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  5. They've made it painfully clear that this way down the road map. 

    As in waaaaaay down.


    Which is disappointing, to be honest.

    Us designers are supposed to communicate a MESSAGE in what we design and not having the ability to properly use languages is just utterly crippling.

    It took Adobe years before they finally brought in. Serif does NOT have to do the same.

    I made a thread on this ages ago:
     

     

  6. As someone who has used Photoshop extensively and had been complaining about its clunkiness, Affinity Photo (And Designer no less) was a welcomed breath of fresh air. I have been a vocal supporter of the Adobe To Affinity migration ever since I started using product. It runs like butter. It feels like made by designers as advertised.


    However, one can't help but feel an overwhelming disappointment, if not a bit of humiliation when talking about Affinity to other designers when they pop the question "does it support Right To Left Languages."

    I live in the UAE; a majority of the designers and artists that work here are Indians, many of whom barely speak a scrab of Arabic, let alone know how to read the language, and yet their biggest concern is being able to go RTL because the market demands it and its kind of awkward when speaking to a client why a simple copy/paste procedure doesn't always work for them

    When I expanded my work to FNB menu designs,  that's when it hit me hard the most. The amount of time spent to implement these insane work arounds just to get arabic written properly on an AF file made me see their point.

    Any designer worth his salt will know that his main job is to communicate a message; if I'm indeed speaking to designers involved in developing this product, I'll begin my extending my utmost respect to a fine product you guys have going. But I can't help but ask: if we're here to communicate messages through visuals, how can something as crucial as Right-To-Left language support be placed so far down the priority list?! Arabs amount to almost 386 million and the language stands in the top 5 most spoken in the world. 


    This goes without mentioning Hebrew/Cyrillic/Azeri...

    I mean no disrespect, but I just needed to convey my frustration. I won't pretend to understand how hard development is.

  7. Hi,

     

    this is freezing that happens to me from the times it was a beta.

    Everything works smooth but as the complexity of the document is going up the nonobvious lagging starts to appear .. now lags takes around 30s .. it feels like it happens randomly.

     

    This freezing forced me to look for a solution or walkaround how I can live with this problem until it will be maybe some day fixed or reduced.

     

    I started to use shapshots and it made things a lot worse. I also have an AMD R9 card .. 

     

    It lags in average every few minutes sometimes even few seconds and it takes up to 30s now .. so you can imagine it's on the edge of usability and it's extremely annoying. The CPU and RAM usage is not spiking or anything .. its just freezed. 

     

    I love Affinity Designer. This happens in all my documents / projects. I tried to play with performance settings but no change, but to be honest I didn't tried to change the renderer to "Warp" since I was guessing that it will make use of CPU rendering instead of GPU which will make it a lot slower in general. 

     

    Please do something with this !

     

    Thank you.

    ​On the contrary, it won't.

     

    ​GPU acceleration still isn't utilized properly by software algorithms, whether by Affinity or Adobe. You'd really have to look for the results to see a massive difference, no matter how beefy the card is. Most of the performance is drawn from your computer's cores. This is also true for far more intense softwares, like Adobe After Effects.

     

    GPU really shines during the process of a 3D Modeling, but that's another debate altogether.

     

    ​I highly recommend that you go for the Warp setting. It is a temporary solution, and you really won't notice a massive difference, other then a relief.

     

    ​It looks like we won't be seeing anything further until Affinity introduces support for AMD technologies in a later patch or version.

     

     

  8. Hi all!

    So, in my bid to help the community of Affinity, I'd like to make some videos address certain issues. It's not a perfect product, but there's no shame in trying to help make it perfect :)

    I've noticed that with AMD Graphic cards, Affinity will produce some considerable lag spikes during heavy duty work. This was noted on two different workstations out of three. The third housing less ram & processing power in the other, but virtually no issues. But when I changed the Renderer to WARP, (i.e, removed the GPU acceleration), the results were improved.

    So this is one performance tip I have (i'm sure others have discovered this but hey! It's still help, right?)

    Are there any other performance tips or problems that you've rectified on your end that you'd like to share?  Please note that it has to be performance related.


    Would like to involve you.

  9. Hi.

    Yes. All. And to make matters worse, I took Affinity to my laptop to work in a coffee shop.

    To insure that I don't face these problems, i decided it would be smart to first develop the raw photo. Export it as JPEG. Then import it into designer so I can work on a banner.

    The result?

    A lag spike so bad that made me remember Pentium 2 Models with those supposed "Turbo" buttons that don't do jack! lol Note, the laptop has 8 GB ram, so while its a lenovo laptop meant for work, it should not go through this experience. My Photoshop CC on it was perfectly fine.

    And yes, sure.  Would you like the Affinity project files or the images themselves? 

     

  10. HI all,

    I should start off by saying I love Affinity. Even while it can be felt that it requires a few enchancements, it's none the less a polished software package. (I have both.)


    Secondly, my workstation is quite high-end. 32GB's of RAM. Current generation i7 processor. 

    Unfortunately, I have experienced some ridiculous lag overtime. So much so, that it seemed if I were to so much as sneeze, I'd have to wait it out.

    I've noticed some improvement once I switched the Renderer during the Performance tab from my R9 AMD Card to Warp. A considerable one, but never the less, there are times when the lag spikes just keep coming back.

    Has anyone experienced these delays?

    Again, I'm not talking about some short intervals expected from a new software. I'm talking about long, almost painful freezes while editing developed raw photos. Sometimes, simply by moving them.

     


     

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