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    hifred reacted to Medical Officer Bones in Ohhhh..... what a great Tool ... wouldnt it be nice ...   
    For those who want to try this out for themselves, the upcoming Blender 2.8 (beta can be downloaded) includes Cryptomatte as well - for free! And with the built-in compositor it is easy to convert these cryptomattes to masks.
    Download the 2.8 beta here: https://www.blender.org/2-8/
     
     
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    hifred reacted to lepr in Affinity lost match against Luminar... again !   
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    hifred got a reaction from Steps in Choppy performance Issues with PC Photo   
    Your screen rendering looks better. That gif is obviously at just 15 frames but it shows those missing chunks (they are indeed as large as in your screenshot) and how the software can't keep up with redrawing. And yes, I don't want to look at such defects, already on the most trivial vector entity. Even Xara with a 35 years old Assembler code base does this (a lot) better. And as stated – I see these issues in every tool which needs to refresh the screen quickly.

    My graphics-settings are fine and I have considerably better card than you – but it seems to sit idle :o)
    That's broadly known and got posted numerous times. Here's one (inofficial) statement I found – the thread is older but the issue is still open. Others might be able to provide an official statement.
     
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    hifred got a reaction from Steps in Choppy performance Issues with PC Photo   
    Just to be clear: I have no intentions to bash Affinity Photo – I would not spend my time with feedback if I would not see potential. 
    I believe we all should accept that there's still quite a few shortcomings in this still young suite of programs – even it works nicely on your end. What I usually see when such complaints come up is that fellow users suggest labour intense tests (check how many fonts you have installed / use a fonts manager,  download and run an array of diagnosis software...).

    While it's sure meant as a help, such tipps often imply that the user has used / set up things wrongly or that something is fundamentally broken with their hardware (and they only haven't realized yet). Usually however,  these people already have a perfectly valid benchmark: Exactly the same thing works a lot smoother, with comparable software on the same hardware – otherwise they would not speak up.
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    hifred got a reaction from jmwellborn in Choppy performance Issues with PC Photo   
    Just to be clear: I have no intentions to bash Affinity Photo – I would not spend my time with feedback if I would not see potential. 
    I believe we all should accept that there's still quite a few shortcomings in this still young suite of programs – even it works nicely on your end. What I usually see when such complaints come up is that fellow users suggest labour intense tests (check how many fonts you have installed / use a fonts manager,  download and run an array of diagnosis software...).

    While it's sure meant as a help, such tipps often imply that the user has used / set up things wrongly or that something is fundamentally broken with their hardware (and they only haven't realized yet). Usually however,  these people already have a perfectly valid benchmark: Exactly the same thing works a lot smoother, with comparable software on the same hardware – otherwise they would not speak up.
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    hifred got a reaction from lepr in Choppy performance Issues with PC Photo   
    Just to be clear: I have no intentions to bash Affinity Photo – I would not spend my time with feedback if I would not see potential. 
    I believe we all should accept that there's still quite a few shortcomings in this still young suite of programs – even it works nicely on your end. What I usually see when such complaints come up is that fellow users suggest labour intense tests (check how many fonts you have installed / use a fonts manager,  download and run an array of diagnosis software...).

    While it's sure meant as a help, such tipps often imply that the user has used / set up things wrongly or that something is fundamentally broken with their hardware (and they only haven't realized yet). Usually however,  these people already have a perfectly valid benchmark: Exactly the same thing works a lot smoother, with comparable software on the same hardware – otherwise they would not speak up.
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    hifred got a reaction from Steps in Affinity lost match against Luminar... again !   
    Well, that's not feature overlap. While you might see familiar tools in Aftershot or other DAMs with RAW-editing capabilies you only here are working on the full (raw) data. An exported .tif isn't the same thing. Also you seem not to consider working with vast amounts of images. In DAMs which work as RAW editors one can easily apply the same base corrections to hundreds of images at once. That's 100% impossible with APhoto's Develop Persona.
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    hifred got a reaction from Frozen Death Knight in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    Hi @Mark Ingram
    thanks for your answer :o) I think I understand the intended behaviours, but I'm convinced that they are not as userfriendly as they could.

    Grouped similar tools, calling them with a single key and cycling through them is efficient, no question. But the current implementation lacks a protection from ending up with the wrong tool. In speed editing sessions under time pressure the user realistically makes a lot of little mistakes. It sure happens  a lot that I press B a second or third time, although I still have the Brush tool active. Maybe there was a phone call or one of my other screens had focus and I can't see the Brush cursor. Photoshop groups similar tools in the same way and allows cycling through them – but I can be sure that the last used brush tool is still active even after pressing B ten times in a row. The cure to unwanted tool change is dead-simple – one has to hold Shift to cycle – this automatically makes tool change a -still quick- but deliberate action.

    My issue with your jump back to previous tool behaviour is not the bug you found but the feature implementation itself (even in its corrected form). What you do here is unconventional without discernible good justification, + one can't turn this pretty impactful feature off + there's established  much stronger implementations of Toggles between  two tools. The alternative implementation I described doesn't only give the user more control, it is also impossible that the feature gets in the way.  Just give yourself a nudge and hook this up properly ;o).
     
    I described the functionality here: 

     
     
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    hifred reacted to Gunny in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    I understand your intention but it doesn't really work for me. =(
    While I'm sketching I usually place my left hand on hotkeys for Brush and Erase and I am totally focused on the picture. From time to time I take a short break to analyze the latest changes and then I'm not sure what tool is selected. Instead of looking at tools I just press B and I start painting - only to find out that I am actually erasing. It might not sound like a big problem but it happens to me quite often and it's really distracting.
    Please make this behaviour optional - I'm sure there are more people who would be pleased with such change. (I have seen several threads discussing this feature.)
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    hifred got a reaction from Jowday in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    Hmm, Photoshop already in CS6 from 2012 that I'm still using gave you all Filters as Live Filters on Smart Objects.
    Yeah, that might be useful with weak hardware, but it really should not be required on modern hardware. It makes me scratch my head when I read recommendations to collapse all nondestructive Image Modifiers when happy with the result. This may be valid as a workaround for as long as performance problems exist – but this by no means should get called best practice.
    I also avoid subscription –I buy and test Affinity products + give feedback.
    For  work I stick to what performs best. That's for the time being my last perpetual license of Photoshop / the Creative Suite.
    Hopefully this will change at some point.
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    hifred got a reaction from Jowday in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    This is understood by likely everyone and a statements that's getting stale. The issue in this particular case is that you lose something in principle very good when removing the default hotkey from the brush group. Consolidated similar tools and cycling through them generally makes sense, you'll have to spend more hotkeys for no proper reason. Also when you remove the default mapping and hit the B-key a second time (with the Brush still active) you'll now run into into another oddity, as Affinity  switches to other tools, seemingly at random (with no way to turn this behaviour off). There's broadly used conventions for temporary tool switching (keeping a hotkey pressed) but it's again not utilized by Serif.
    Let's get real: These are not crazy deep tools like say Houdini, which make even experienced computer-users feel humble and silly – we are discussing 2D graphics programs with rather conventional and broadly understood GUI and interaction concepts. I at least have not yet seen any aspect in Serifs interaction scheme which differed from Photoshop deliberately and in a way that I could appreciate as a necessary consequence of a consistent and clearly deviating paradigm. I rather discover a lot of stuff, which likely hasn't been on the radar of the programmer, at implementation time: Omissions.

    Simple as that and certainly worth a nudge or two.
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    hifred got a reaction from PaulAffinity in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    Hi @Mark Ingram
    thanks for your answer :o) I think I understand the intended behaviours, but I'm convinced that they are not as userfriendly as they could.

    Grouped similar tools, calling them with a single key and cycling through them is efficient, no question. But the current implementation lacks a protection from ending up with the wrong tool. In speed editing sessions under time pressure the user realistically makes a lot of little mistakes. It sure happens  a lot that I press B a second or third time, although I still have the Brush tool active. Maybe there was a phone call or one of my other screens had focus and I can't see the Brush cursor. Photoshop groups similar tools in the same way and allows cycling through them – but I can be sure that the last used brush tool is still active even after pressing B ten times in a row. The cure to unwanted tool change is dead-simple – one has to hold Shift to cycle – this automatically makes tool change a -still quick- but deliberate action.

    My issue with your jump back to previous tool behaviour is not the bug you found but the feature implementation itself (even in its corrected form). What you do here is unconventional without discernible good justification, + one can't turn this pretty impactful feature off + there's established  much stronger implementations of Toggles between  two tools. The alternative implementation I described doesn't only give the user more control, it is also impossible that the feature gets in the way.  Just give yourself a nudge and hook this up properly ;o).
     
    I described the functionality here: 

     
     
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    hifred reacted to Mark Ingram in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    @hifred, just to let you know, we've started work on optionally allowing SHIFT to be reserved as a tool cycle modifier. We will probably default this behaviour to Off, so that it won't change the experience for existing customers, but it should be easy enough to switch it on in Preferences.
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    hifred got a reaction from Tripack Droned in Adding Notes to an image   
    Adobe uses it's pdf-Notes in Photoshop (which also appear in pdfs exported from Photoshop). I utilize that feature a lot, e.g. with E-commerce images I process (to collect preliminary product data along with the stack of images). It would be very helpful if Serif hooked up a similar feature + there's a variety of 3rd party pdf editors which read and write such comments.
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    hifred reacted to Tripack Droned in Adding Notes to an image   
    Good Evening to all! I'm trying to transfer away from Adobe and solely use Affinity. I do a lot of restoration and always include notes found on the back of the image and other relevant history, is that possible on Affinity Photo?
    Thanks for any replies in advance!
    Tripack
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    hifred got a reaction from SrPx in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    Hi @Mark Ingram
    thanks for your answer :o) I think I understand the intended behaviours, but I'm convinced that they are not as userfriendly as they could.

    Grouped similar tools, calling them with a single key and cycling through them is efficient, no question. But the current implementation lacks a protection from ending up with the wrong tool. In speed editing sessions under time pressure the user realistically makes a lot of little mistakes. It sure happens  a lot that I press B a second or third time, although I still have the Brush tool active. Maybe there was a phone call or one of my other screens had focus and I can't see the Brush cursor. Photoshop groups similar tools in the same way and allows cycling through them – but I can be sure that the last used brush tool is still active even after pressing B ten times in a row. The cure to unwanted tool change is dead-simple – one has to hold Shift to cycle – this automatically makes tool change a -still quick- but deliberate action.

    My issue with your jump back to previous tool behaviour is not the bug you found but the feature implementation itself (even in its corrected form). What you do here is unconventional without discernible good justification, + one can't turn this pretty impactful feature off + there's established  much stronger implementations of Toggles between  two tools. The alternative implementation I described doesn't only give the user more control, it is also impossible that the feature gets in the way.  Just give yourself a nudge and hook this up properly ;o).
     
    I described the functionality here: 

     
     
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    hifred reacted to MEB in My first attempt (at photo retouching)   
    The problem of using plugins as these is they artificialise the images too much if not used carefully/properly. Not sure they provide the best reference for portrait retouching.
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    hifred got a reaction from DarkClown in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    Hmm, Photoshop already in CS6 from 2012 that I'm still using gave you all Filters as Live Filters on Smart Objects.
    Yeah, that might be useful with weak hardware, but it really should not be required on modern hardware. It makes me scratch my head when I read recommendations to collapse all nondestructive Image Modifiers when happy with the result. This may be valid as a workaround for as long as performance problems exist – but this by no means should get called best practice.
    I also avoid subscription –I buy and test Affinity products + give feedback.
    For  work I stick to what performs best. That's for the time being my last perpetual license of Photoshop / the Creative Suite.
    Hopefully this will change at some point.
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    hifred got a reaction from Steps in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    This is understood by likely everyone and a statements that's getting stale. The issue in this particular case is that you lose something in principle very good when removing the default hotkey from the brush group. Consolidated similar tools and cycling through them generally makes sense, you'll have to spend more hotkeys for no proper reason. Also when you remove the default mapping and hit the B-key a second time (with the Brush still active) you'll now run into into another oddity, as Affinity  switches to other tools, seemingly at random (with no way to turn this behaviour off). There's broadly used conventions for temporary tool switching (keeping a hotkey pressed) but it's again not utilized by Serif.
    Let's get real: These are not crazy deep tools like say Houdini, which make even experienced computer-users feel humble and silly – we are discussing 2D graphics programs with rather conventional and broadly understood GUI and interaction concepts. I at least have not yet seen any aspect in Serifs interaction scheme which differed from Photoshop deliberately and in a way that I could appreciate as a necessary consequence of a consistent and clearly deviating paradigm. I rather discover a lot of stuff, which likely hasn't been on the radar of the programmer, at implementation time: Omissions.

    Simple as that and certainly worth a nudge or two.
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    hifred got a reaction from Steps in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    It's fantastic that Affinity (likely on Mac) gives you everything you need.
    But it certainly doesn't help anyone to call all users with complaints morons, who are only stuck in old conventions and unable to see these apps' pure awesomeness.
     
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    hifred reacted to nezumi in Great software, but why the odd workflow choices?   
    I used "professional, industry standard, oh-oh-so-the-best" Photoshop and Illustrator for over 20 effing years. All my grown up life I am making a living designing stuff. So if this is not professional use of software then I don't know what is
    I tried Affinity as soon as beta showed for Windows. I bought it soon after. After month of working on it I ditched Photoshop and Illustrator. I dont need it, simple as that. Designer and Photo fully replaced both of these ow-so-perfect-if-you-are-not-using-these-youre-not-a-pro aplications. And when I hear people crying about such silly little things as a shortcut then I think to myself - youre shouldn't be allowed to even mention professionalism if default shortcut is stopping you from working. Some people are just unable to switch, looking for excuses, giving some silly explanations. You dont want to use Affinity software? Then don't. But by claiming that Affinity isn't pro enough you are making YOURSELF look silly. I am immediately starting to think about this old saying "a bad workman blames his tools". It sounds like "I cant hammer this nail because look at this - my hammer is blue now. Can you imagine? How it can be blue? I had pink one for years and it worked perfectly. Plus this one has a rounded head! Not squared! This is ridiculous, such luck of professionalism! Give me back my pink, square headed hammer, I cant deal with it".
    Silly, ridiculous nonsense. Sorry had to say that. Crack on
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    hifred reacted to Kerwin in How do you dismiss sub-tools (Picker, Straighten, etc.) without closing the parent tool?   
    Hi all,
    I'm assuming I'm missing something really simple, but how do you dismiss, or let go of certain sub-tools?
    Two examples:
    If I activate the Crop tool, then choose its Straighten tool, then decide that a don't want the Straighten tool after all (for example, I decide to just straighten the image by grabbing a corner and rotating manually), I can't (or surely don't see how to) un-choose the Straighten tool. It seems like the only thing I can do is to cancel the entire operation. Same thing with the Picker in a Curves adjustment layer. Once I've clicked on the Picker, I can't get rid of it without closing the layer completely. I've tried re-clicking the sub-tool, hitting the Escape key, hitting the Delete key (don't do that)...
    What am I missing? How do you "let go" of these sub-tools without closing the parent tool?
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    hifred reacted to AXK in Move the Crop Tool boundary with keyboard arrows and make special keys available during Crop   
    I really want to move from PS to Photo because of the amazing price and features, but there's so many small details in PS that Photo and other apps don't have.
    It's really strange that we can't move the crop boundary with the arrows.
    Also, in PS you can modify the behavior of most tools with Ctrl, Alt, and Shift. In Photo, those keys do nothing with the Crop tool. We should be able to resize from center with Alt and constrain proportions with Shift.
    For the Brush tool, we should be able to modify size and hardness with Ctrl and Alt. Again, make the keyboard as useful as the mouse. That's one reason why PS is where it is. Thanks.
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    hifred reacted to yoli in Save/Export without blocking the UI   
    I would like to be able to save/export a document without blocking the whole UI so I can work on another document while one is being saved. This is possible with Photoshop, please implement it the same way.
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    hifred reacted to Stephen_H in Creating Animated GIFs?   
    I've just made an animated GIF to explain a comment in this forum and I realised how simple it is to do in PhotoShop. Unfortunately... I had to go to PhotoShop to do it.
     
    I know animated GIFs probably fall into the animation category, but it would be great to able to export layers as frames in the same way Illustrator does when it exports an animated SVG. No massive feature set, just a few simple settings at export stage.
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