Tom Schülke

ah... NVidea Quadro M4000

Well the performance is not bad, but as i have seen visual slower but the comparable scene in Photoshop

Hi Callum, i use Windows 7 , with 32gb ram, a intel core i7-677 cpu with 3.4 ghz . Dont know my grafik Bord but i use a wide screen monitor... its a usual middle fast configuration over all .. Tom

Hi everyone, I just got a 12000 pix x 12000pix Psd file from some colleques from Berlin, that do big 3D Rendercompositions, to fulfill the wishes of our architectural company. This psd file has about 3.55 GB, while the saved affinity photo has got about 1.8 GB. So in the computermemory after opening , Photohop uses about 20 GB while affinity uses 6.8 GB.. the opening in PHotoshop takes abut 100 Secounds, while opening the affinity file in affinity, takes about 6 sec. only thing, where Photoshop seeems to win is Viewport speed.. In Photoshop for example i can zoom in and pan fast and smooth... But affinity seems to struggle.. The new areas that come into place at your Viewport are somewhat .. " low resolution rasteriszed" and have to be redrawn first.. so paning around , affinity seems to behave more.. hmm.. slow... because it has to redraw / reconstruct the new immage areas at first... while photoshop handles it fast and smooth even with this szize of Immage and with about 50 to 70 Layer in use... So what did you see here ? Is affinity realy more slow than Photoshop with big documentes, ore can i use some adjustments somewheere in the interface to speed it up ?

nice idea.. but i tried it with the other idea and it seems to be a real fast workflow. open one of the pfd-s and delete the pfd.. now your docuament has allready the right size used in the plotted pdf depending on the dpi settings you have used.. now switch in your snap settings to only snap to document.. drag and drop your first pdf on the document and use the move tool to snap to the document center (by the way i use xnviewmp with ghostscript to see immages and pdfs ore ai´s like with bridge) now apply th layer effects... color and after this thin line using the same color of your color-layer effect.. strg + j duplicate the layer in place as often as needed... use for the embedded docs the replace option to load all of your other layers. if i had a wish.. i would like to use my external image browser and drag and drop it on top of my layers which would give me the option to replace the layer.. that would even be faster as the replace button. greetings... this workaround... welll works well..

I use a tool to have a visual feedback of our footage and have optimised it to be able to right click open it in affinity. also i use it to drag and drop footage to the canvas or to oopen it as a seperated object.. We could need the option to drag it over an existing layer to replace it ! would be handy.. maybe togethe with a shortcut to replace it and in the same time use the new one as a linked Object (when this feature will arrive for affinity ) When dragging en external file to the canvas i would like a shortcut option to first popup an option window , where to drop it .. left , right, in the middle, wich scale or so... heres a short screenshot what i mean...

i use in windows xnview mp... just for viewing and ddrag and drop... and organising

Hi A_B_C i dont understand the question . The difference to what ? the stroke fills the tiny gaps you can see after importing pdfs that are produced, because the embedded file remains a vector format and the gaps com from antialiasing differences between the lines of the filling... Well you can ad the layereffect to the embedded object by opening it or aftwerwords on the embedded layer you see in your whole document. In the first case you dont have to care about the coller because in the composed document you still ad a color overlay, but when you for example replace the layer of ... the street or the ground .... wiith an newer version, the thin stroke gets lost. When you add a stroke in the compound object on the embbeded layer, you have to be aware of the filling color to make it invisible and you loos the abillity of adding another stroke surrounding the embedded layer (ok you could nest it in another group to make it... ) Both solutions are far more effective but copying the whole embedded layer and moving it pixelwise or... as suggested to make a bolean object of it.. never the less, i would suggest to Affinity, to look at their import solution. Adobe can import a pdf without worring about thin gaps and even if this means to first convert it to pixel, affinity should give an option to do this . greetings Tom

Hi everyone, I encountered the same problem which is far more important if you are an architect, who has to deal all the time with imported pdf files for producing flor plans for competitions and so on.. Here´s the link to the thread and the solution that came around for me.. Its still a fix.. but much more efficient thant MEB´s i think...

Oh i for got to show the result as jpg... here it comes..

Ok Everyone... there´s a far faster workaround... for the thin lines Problem.. (but only if you dont need the "Outline Layer Effect" for other purposes but the workaround of this...). First Workaround: Just use the layer effects and produce a very thin Outlline of about 0.1 pixel.. to get the correct color, you have to use the eyedroper in the outlines color settings and use the color of the color overlay. Secound Workaround: If you need the Possibillity to use the outline layereffect for other purposes but for the thin lines problem , then you can open the embedded PDF file itselve, and use on the whole group the Layer Effect "thin line" . This has the advantage, that you dont have to care about the color in my case, because the whole embeded Layer gets recolored never the less . This workaround of course fails if i have to replace the embedded pdf, because the layereffect will be removed.. But Please Dear Affinity Staff members.. You do a great job and in the face of the reality that this is a 1.5 version Affinity is allready an impressive product. But embedded linked Objects pdfs.. the abillity to just Click Add a Layermask kummulative ... and the perfect import of pdfs or other vector files like adobe does... should be on top of your list. and. of course if there are other or better workarounds for example some setting changges inside the programm... Please tell us..

Hallo Fixx. Cad Software can´t compete, when it comes to layouts and the need to also produce beautiful Plans, when you are heavy involved into competitions. And my company at first place is producing Competitionwork in worldwide architectural competitions. So Adobe Products do have a much to big financial footprint, and thats of course the reason, why we now look into affinity and planed to switch over as soon as possible. But the problem now is, that there are some essential workflows that streamline day to day work enormously. So when the implemented funktions and possiblilities are not far enough develloped for our needs, the advantage of one time low costs get eaten by workflow performance lost, which would be very sad. As you can see in the third of the Adobe workflow jpg´s, Photoshop can import the pdfs without any problem. Well it seems to rasterize the layers to pixels, but that s abolutely nothing, i would worry about. I trust, that affinity with "publlisher" will emplement also the very much needed linked external files funktionality into affinity photo and affinity designer. A_B_C ´s workarounds does work, but from a work performance view, they are no real solutions. You have to be aware of, that a architectural Plan consists usualy of two ore three dozens of layers with embedded linked layer-objects. And an Architectural Plan in the Process of a Competition Changes several times. That makes up to how many hours of tackling with unnessesair lines in solid colours ? and how many hours of hand work, to relink the changed pdfs from the ongoing Architectural competition ? So the lines inside the solid colored object are a real killer for this funktion.. the call goes out again... " Affinity... where are you ? Whats the real solution ?" maybe eps import ? Look at Photoshop.. it does the Job without any Problem. Why not affinity Photo without timeconsuming workarounds ? never the less for your ideas and workarounds

Hi Everyone, I have some Questions about the perfect Workflow for Architects, Working with affinity Photo at first. We are a big Architectural Company, using untill now Photoshop and CAD Programms like Autocad and Revit, to produce Plans for Architectural presentations. A well established Workflow exists, Printing PDF Files from Autocad, with the used Layers, that later on can be refined in Photoshop thinking of colors, effects ore retouching things. 1. We export the needed PDF´s to a folder 2. We use Photoshop , using the PdF´s as linked embeded Smart Objects (and Photoshop gives an option to place them pecisely as i will show in my screenshots...) 3 Whenever the Plan changes, and beleave me the Plan can change a dozen times :-( , we only have to print the changed plans, replacing to older pdfs with new ones, and ......... bang... the Phhotoshop document updates because the linked smart objects now use the changed pdfs. Well i know linked smart objects do not allready exist in affinity PHoto, but i can place embeded pdf´s which fullfills my wishes half the way... this has to come in later releases of affinity Photo... now, i reproduced this workflow in affinity which we wish to switch to in the future as far as i could.. First Problem: How can i tell the placed pdf´s, to get imported exactly where i wish them to... (as i can in photoshop using the dialog box while importing and as i show in the screenshots ) ? Scound Problem: If theres no way to place the embedded pdf file.... is the way, using snaps as i show in the screenshots of my affinity workflow the only and best way ? What would you suggest to streamline this workflow ? Third Problem: When i dont Change the embedded pdfs, and i Plot them , everything seems fine. But when i use a Layer Effect (color overlay) which the architects use to change the Colores of the layer to the exact Color without thinking of it in the CAD Program, I Can see, that the embedded PDF in Affinity gets visible lines inside the Colored areas... And they get printed Too.... thats a real big Problem. When i open the embedded Pdf, i still can see its not a pixellayer, but a group of very many colored vector shapes.. but never the less. I dont mind , what affinity uses in the embedded Object, but when theres a colored area, there shouldnt be lines in there in any way.. it makes it unsuable. Is there a Workaround ? maybe instead of importing pdf´s, better to use eps files from the cad programm ? any ideas ? This is realy important, it has to be a smart workflow, because if not, my company using some hundred of Photoshop licenses will not be able to switch to affinity. So pleas give us a solution.. greetings from Hamburg, Tom The attached Images show the workflow in PHotoshop, and the workflow in affinity and one immage showing the jagged lines inside the solid color, using the color overlay effect on one of the embedded objects. I could also send you an eample of the used footage if this helps. gruen_500.pdf

using Windows i found that the freewaretool XnViewMp does a good job for my company.. (architects)

I secound this....

Yes i want this too.. its very very helpful... one of the top wishes for next features

Hi R C-R It´s a Workflow that our Architects often use, when tey produce a Siteplan and for example have a layer with abstract trees.. Its much more handy to copy many of the elements using the marqueee without producing hundreds of new layers for each tree or treegroup... of course there´s also the Clone Brush... it just was a feature request from the architectural team... greetings.. Tom

Well As a Workaround, ive installed the free App " XnViewMp" works fine for me...

Hi there is this allready possible ? Can i embedd an external Object, for example an pdf file plotted by a cad programm, combine several of them into my Affinity Photo document, and use these embedded Objects still linked to the original objects, so when i change my cad plan, i just have to plot out my new pdf´s, and the affinity document gets actualised instantly ? would be sooooooo sweeet... greetings Tom

We all still need this feature... another must have as well as a faster additive selection of masks , wen working in the layer manager... Our Architectural company produces Floorplans for example that in the devellopementprocess often change.. So the CAD programm writes out on a regular basis the changes and overwrites the old elements we then used in Photoshop.. And in Photoshop the document used "embedded" smart objects.. so you only had to print your Cad elements out and your Photoshop Floorplan updated instant ... We neeeeeeed lined embedded Files.... Please please..... pleasee... greetings from Hamburg

Hallo , Some People in my company asked me of a feature they knew from photoshop, and if theres a way to easy reproduce it in Affinity Photo.. When they have a Pixellayer, often they just use a in Photohop the marquee tool, and then i think press the alt button or the alt button Plus shift (cant remember exactly at the moment). this way they can move the selecte Pixel of the pixellayer and in the same time copy them to a new place but on the Same layer !!! i cant reproduce this in affinity photo.. using the marquee tool + strg, i can move the selected pixel to a new place in the same layer, but i cant move+copy them is there anoter way to reproduce this fast way but without producing a new layer of the selected Pixels ? Any ideas ?

Hi.. Me personal didn't use this feature too much.. But right now i am responsible to make my 500 people architectural company to switch their licences over to affinity Photo.. Andxaquick first research from some more exessive photoshop users brought up your request very soon.. So .. i seee many people would use this feature.. and also.. drag and dropblayers from one document to another.. coloring layers and groups inbthe stack and stg + shift click layers to additive use several layermasks easy and fast as additive selections as you can do in photoshop

You are absolutely right.. If you only deal with small projects and a few immage improvements.. the aktual workflow does work .. But when you work for example for architectural companies relying on renderings, you need to deal with sometime dozenz ond dozens of seperated masks and immage areas you need to tackle all at once.. copying them one after another to a sparechannel and later addig them to the aktual mask is.. sorry to say a real pain .. especial when you know photoshops easy shortcuts in layers to add masks ore to substrackt them.. So please please dear serif people add this smal but on a professional level totaly nessesair shortcuts to your next feature update

Yes.. especially something like the cataloque persona is agood idea.. some sort of data management and viewing tool with possibilities to massedit footage using AP 's scrip abilities for example?

Hi Everyone, my name is Tom Schülke, I am from Hamburg in the north of Germany and i ´ve been long years the lead 3d Artist of a big german architectural Company that is develloping big Projects all over the the World mainly in China. I Was responsible for the 3D Renderings using 3ds max , Vray, Adobe Photoshop, premiere and aftereffects. Now my next responsibilty is to introduce affinity Photo as a great alternative to our company to switch from our adobe licences for their 500 employees to a better alternative. While i feel that Affinity is allready a great Product i see some parts that could be improved in respect to workflowenhancements in our company and i think others could benefit from our ideas too.. So while i am still in the learning process (after watching all 200 tutorial videos ...) my next step is to develop workflows for my company to avoid those minor missing funktionalitys, Affinity Photo still has. never the less. I hope the voice of us useres will have an effect on your developement roadmap, so that Affinity Photo will convince the last Photoshop Neards in my company to switch over to your Software.. greetings from Hamburg gmp architekten Tom