Nickfranken

Good one! Maybe adjust it for full exr support incl linear acescg workflow!

Good one! Maybe adjust it for full exr support incl linear acescg workflow!

Good one! Maybe adjust it for full exr support incl linear acescg workflow!

First of all, thanks alot for updates
It would be really awesome to implement cryptomatte support in near future. Something like this: automatic generation of selection mask layers based on cryptomatte data in OpenEXR files as well as filtering of cryptomatte data layers when opening files.

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When rendering an image in 3d software (Modo in my case) you can render a depth map instead of adding dof in the 3d software. This is a workaround to save a lot of rendering time.
Normaly you apply the depth map in Photoshop in the lens blur filter so you can add real depth of field. In affinity I miss this option. 
 
Also in Photoshop it is possible to generate bump and normal maps. This is not a complex alchoritm. I think you can get a whole lot more users (3d market) to integrate these options in Photo. 

When rendering an image in 3d software (Modo in my case) you can render a depth map instead of adding dof in the 3d software. This is a workaround to save a lot of rendering time.
Normaly you apply the depth map in Photoshop in the lens blur filter so you can add real depth of field. In affinity I miss this option. 
 
Also in Photoshop it is possible to generate bump and normal maps. This is not a complex alchoritm. I think you can get a whole lot more users (3d market) to integrate these options in Photo. 

I'm so excited on the Synology forum someone recommended File Browser.  I was trying to browse my Synology NAS and drop files directly onto a Focus stack.  Just couldn't do it.  Had to use a PC and go NAS to iCloud... wait.....iCloud to iPad..... wait...... iCloud to Affinity Photo iPad wait......
 
With FileBrowser I just browsed to the files location directly on the NAS and used IOS11 drag and drop straight into an Affinity Photo Focus stack. Boom done.  I have also connected my Mac, PC, iCloud too.   
 
The App is just epic and will be even more useful when Affinity Designer Drops.
 
https://www.stratospherix.com/products/filebrowser/

I absolutely agree. This would make a progound difference

I'm using Photo for iPad a couple of months now. And the last few weeks also for bigger projects. I only used the desktop version for color correction.
 
With all the masking and matte painting I think it is really annoying I can't reach some functions with my left hand (thumb). If I mask I switch a lot between foreground and background colors. On a keyboard I use X (and D te reset them to black and white). I miss this completely in Photo for iPad. I always have to select a color by using the color selecter. That's nog so good for a fast workflow. So I prefer the button on the left at the ui. Also transferring the undo button to the left would me sooooooo great.
 
And maybe, you can set this as an option for the left hand users...

When rendering an image in 3d software (Modo in my case) you can render a depth map instead of adding dof in the 3d software. This is a workaround to save a lot of rendering time.
Normaly you apply the depth map in Photoshop in the lens blur filter so you can add real depth of field. In affinity I miss this option. 
 
Also in Photoshop it is possible to generate bump and normal maps. This is not a complex alchoritm. I think you can get a whole lot more users (3d market) to integrate these options in Photo. 

Congrats, this is so great. I'm feeling guilty.... I paid to less... your apps are sooooo good (after working with photoshop since '96) I would pay much more for it! I'm going to buy Designer, just to support you guys. I really hope Affinity gets more popular so you business can grow and develop more! Again, thumbs up! You make my job more fun and easier (really I just edited a portrait composition with a lot of layers on y couch!!!)

My hero!!!!

My hero!!!!

Undo by tapping two fingers on screen instead of zooming - It's not optimal having to go to the opposite corner of screen for undoing every time.

Hello everyone, hello Affinity team,
 
first of all, I love your software - its awesome! Using it for Mac and the iPad
 
Their is a small thing, that would improve your software  - its about the freehand selection tool.    Can you "steal" the idea from  the ProCrate app for the iPad?  How their freehand selection tool works? 
 
Their selection tool is pretty cool. You can stop the selection if you lift of the pen, BUT if you put the pen again on the iPad, then it connects the points where you ended and were you started again. If you are ready with the selection, you can double tip on a little circle on the beginning of the selection, so its closes the selection.
 
So the hole selection part becomes very easily. 
 
I´m not an native speaker, so I hope I could make the idea clear- in my opinion this is the perfect freehand selection tool, because you can take breaks and don't have to do the hole selection in one hand gesture or to refine it the hole time with selection/selection again and again.
 
Maybe you could look at the ProCreate App to understand what I mean. I think this little feature would be a big improvement.
 
Have a nice day - you guys and girls are doing great work!!!! <3
 
 
Oh and their is one last thing- could you change that you have so save the selections on the iPad version on an extra channel? That is pretty unwieldy . 
I would love it, if you just can do a thing like "command+click" like on the desktop version. Or just tip on the layer and hold for a sec. to make a selection- that would be pretty cool.

The current setup is pretty unusable... holding down a modifier on the bottom centre of the screen is completely unnatural and it makes you have to switch between panes to access the other settings.
 
The modifiers need to be on the left or right side depending on what had you use.
 
The only thing I disagree on is the need for a spacebar modifier. I just enable that setting so that your fingers don't activate the tool your using, so your fingers always do panning and zooming, works great. 

In this latest beta, modifier keys have been added to certain tools. While it's a good try, it's not ideal. First, let's take the brush tool as an example. You can now use the pick color button while dragging the pencil to select a color. The problem is, when doing things like frequency separation where you need to constantly change color and size of brush, it gets pretty cumbersome switching through the menus each time. What we need are permanent command keys that work with any tool as they would on the desktop. Let's stay with the brush tool. If there was a space key, we could quickly switch to pan/hand mode while working. If we had an option key, we could easily drag to get the color picker as it works on the desktop. This would simplify the menus and allow those keys to be used with multiple tools, as they do on the desktop when using a wacom or similar. I'd suggest space, option, command, control, and shift keys. And see below for my suggestion for placement, although it would be cool to swap placement for lefties. I love that you guys are so responsive.

Uhmmmmmmm. This is photo photo for ipad.....

Can someone please explain simply what the stabilizer option does, and the difference between rope and window stabilizer?? I cannot understand the help documentation about it....can someone explain it in simple terms? 
Thank you very much! 

Hi toxotis70,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
No, Affinity Photo doesn't support RAW + XMP sidecar files (nor DNG's with XMP data). You can only keep the edits adjustments/edits done in Photo Persona saving the file in our native file format (changes made in Develop Persona are baked up to the image when switched to Photo Persona). To save the file in our native file format tap the document icon on the top of the iPad interface and select Save a Copy. Note that Affinity is not a DAM software like Lightroom, Aperture and similar - it doesn't use sidecar files nor databases to keep the RAW's adjustments or apply adjustments to multiple images from the same set. It doesn't manage libraries on any kind. It's a RAW converter/developer and photo editing app similar to Adobe Photoshop + Adobe Camera RAW. We do have plans to develop a DAM software later.

Hi,
We are pleased to announce the App Store release of Affinity Photo for iPad, version 1.6.3.
The change-list is as follows:
 
- Portrait mode implementation
- Native resolution support for 10.5-inch iPad Pro
- New chooser for Photos - supports multi selection, indicates RAW
- Panoramas can now be created from RAW files.
- HDR Merge can now be performed on RAW files.
- Improved pencil / gestures support.
- Improved iCloud folder support.
- A new sample (“The Hotel” by Neil Ladkin).
- Improved help - including new FR, DE, EN-US localisations. More to come!
- More tutorials!
- Fixed panorama crash after using transform tool.
- Fixed crashes when adding many items from Photos library at once.
- Wet edges setting now works properly in the brush editor.
- Fixed a selection brush crash in 32bit RGB colour mode.
- Stopped the refine selection tool post-processing twice.
- Improved icons and images in the welcome screen.
- Improve performance with complicated documents.
- Improve selection brush stability.
- Improve selection refinement stability.
- Don’t allow HDR merge with less than 2 images.
- Made studios more useful when the software keyboard is showing.
- Fixed tooltip positioning in left handed mode.
- Fixed issue when starting a new document whilst another document is still saving.
- Small PDF import tweaks.
- Make adding multiple files from Photos more reliable and show progress.
- Numerous other small improvements / fixes.
- Improved brush performance on large layers.
- Canvas rotation will snap to 90 degree increments if within 5 degrees.
- Improved RAW metadata support and reliability.
- Further HDR stability improvements.
- Fixed incorrect zoom level readout in navigator studio when canvas is rotated.
- Fixed inability to correctly disable colour overlay layer effect.
- Fixed crash when using the Interactive Introduction.
- Fixed red artefacts when using inpainting tool.
- Undo / redo buttons available in full-screen mode.
- Support pasting of images from other applications.
- Ability to duplicate open documents from the home screen.
- Panorama stability improvements.
- Can now choose font face - not just family.
- Inpainting improvements and stability fixes.
- Improved performance in documents with lots of masks / adjustments.
- Fixed export crashes.
- Cancel split screen preview when converting filters to live filters.
- Develop UI improvements / fixes.
- Fixed “Date Shot” metadata issue with RAW.
- Font stability improvements.
- Fixed Post-Crop Vignette in develop.
- Fixed weird highlights issue in develop.
- Ability to turn off spelling red underlines.
- Some pretty animations in the document manager.
- Fixed failure to obey RAW tone curve, output depth preferences.
- Numerous other small stability fixes.
- Transformed / portrait develop fixes.
- Selections persona should have canvas rotation tool.
- Fix Share button.
- Fix panorama-from-photos stitch bug.
- Fixed share to Flickr, AirDrop, etc.
- Better text for Place menu items.
- Fixed “Save Affinity Layers” in TIFF export.
- Pixel tool improvements - erase and other alternate modes.
- Show the build number in the preferences panel.
- Fixed flip document flipping in the wrong axis.
- Fixed HSV mode of HSL adjustment.
- Fixed shadows, clarity sliders being dodgy in develop persona.
- Fixed problems loading PSD files made by Procreate.
- Curves tool should refresh the channels list if the colour space changes.
- Fixed adjustments which can be applied in any colour space.
- Shear filter fixes and improvements.
- Fixed failure to load anything if photo library contains RAW but user has “Optimise iPad storage” enabled.
- Preference option to limit touch to gestures.
- Fixed some broken LAB blend modes.
- Further efforts to make inpainting, panorama more stable.
- Improved layers studio - you can now see / select into 2 masks / adjustments without expanding a layer.
- Attempts to mitigate crashes with weird fonts.
- Fixed issues where documents would become “Unable to load” until an app was restarted.
- Numerous other small improvements and fixes.
- Localisation improvements.

Hi All!
 
My name is Jorge De Silva, and I'm a Portuguese photographer & filmmaker based in Switzerland.
I am (soon: was) an adobe user for years, but now I decided to simplify my life, and go away from all the adobe suite. Not only dropping Photoshop, but also premiere, lightroom, illustrator, etc...
I discovered Affinity Photo a couple weeks ago, and I was super impressed, so I decided to ask serif for a test program,/ partnership!
It turned out that now is my main photo editing / manipulator software.
There are a lot of things that I still need to test, and a lot of things that I will probably request, but this is looking pretty good already.
 
Feel free to join me on my social media networks and check my website also :)
 
All the best,
Jorge De Silva

As a long time pro photographer and designer, the iPad version is not just 'nice to have'. It's fantastic! Feature equal versions for my iPad Pro and MBP is one of the best features ever and insures that Affinity Photo will be one of my primary tools. I can do lots of paying work primarily on the iPad and drawing and editing is really sweet with the iPad Pro 12.9" + Apple Pencil. They did a fantastic job on the GUI! I sure hope Affinity is planning an iPad version of Designer!

I never introduced my self. I'm a photographer/retoucher/film maker and cg artist from the Netherlands. You can find my work at www.nickfranken.com
Since 1997 I'm a notorious photoshop user :). And since the 1st beta a Lightroom user. I lover multimedia and I love computers. Since two months I use Affinity Photo and since two weeks I don't even have a Creative Cloud subscription any more. I also switched from LR to DXO and Phocus for my Raw conversion. And from Adobe premiere to Davinci Resolve. After Effects is switched to Motion 5. 
 
Affinity woke me up from a Adobe dream, because of switching to Affinity I had to find other software too. And I discovered that Adobe isn't the best creative software maker! DXO is so much better compared to LR, and Davinci Resolve is heaven compared to Premiere Pro. So people of Serif, thanks. No I have better software for less money!
 
Keep up the good work!