Dieter Vanhalst

Nice improvements already and what a pace! Keep them coming and Adobe has some serious competition.

In my current workflow I seem to struggle with Affinity Photo compared to Adobe Photoshop: - pen tool selection and getting the path selection (CMD + click on layer?) - colour in general isn't clear to me. It's very hard and unnatural to me to get and add the colour I want for usage. - CMD or ALT + BACKSPACE for filling selection doesn't work - ALT + clicking for selecting the pipet tool for a quick colour reference? - select with the marquee tool and reposition its begin point while holding SPACEBAR? ps: Some shortcuts are different in Adobe Photoshop and I struggle each time, I hope to get used to them at some point...

Are plugins running through Adobe Extension Manager supported in any way? I suppose not but better to ask...

If we work in a custom page setup and want to print it out as a quick reference on paper, the image is just printed but falls of the paper and we have no guidance on what actually will be printed? Why don't we see an A4 or whatever media setup for output and see it on the paper as a reference, with options like horizontal/vertical and ie. fit to page? Now we need to manually do these kind of things each time we need a quick handout?

To be honest, a shortcut mapping that is the equivalent of what Adobe Photoshop uses, would be a huge timesaver for Adobe power users, considering the jump to Affinity. Maybe if this could be a file someone at Affinity created and that's updated with every new release and extra features, whereas it can then be imported as the custom shortcut usage (ie. Adobe preset). In this way the switch would be less annoying and all users wouldn't have to go through the hassle themselves to get their shortcuts the equivalent of software they used for more than a decade...

Isn't it possible to use your own keyboard shortcuts in Affinity? I for one like to use keyboard shortcuts for brushing while increasing/decreasing brushes, opacity, and softness/hardness. Ideal and heavily depending for painting of any kind. Opening panels and extra adjusting via sliders is kind of contra productive. Adobe has a panel to adjust all this. This is kind of the first thing I do after a clean install because of it's massive time saving. Shortcut users know what I mean...

I'm a photoshop user as well and to be honest I hoped Affinity would be be a bit more intuitive compared to Adobe but I might need to dig in the help files a bit more to get a grip on it. Creating a mask and painting doesn't seem to work and doesn't let you see a miniature of the mask being created with shades and so to give you an idea about the amount of opacity used. Addressing a mask to a layer or a group isn't even intuitive to my liking for now. I'm guilty in inverting masks as well from time to time...

In Adobe Photoshop, you can attach this to a specific layer or group (the one immediate underneath). ie. while alt dragging. (this places a visual marker before the layer in the "Layers Palette") in a way that only that will be manipulated. Easy for adjusting let's say the "white" in a certain area to blend in with the rest. How do we achieve this in Affinity Photo?

I'm following the reason of JesseHam. I'm a professional designer (with an Adobe CC susbscription) and willing to consider Affinity for professional usage. A replacement for the Adobe Design Standard would be quite handy to me. However, Smart Objects are very useful: non destructive and ideal for referencing. Think of mockup design where a reference is made and can be switched instantly with a final object. As a sidenote and please read this as a kind suggestion... I'm quite happy with the way Affinity is going to deliver incredible software but I would like to emphasize to be crystal clear what Affinity can en can not do compared to the Adobe counterparts. If you're aiming towards professional clients that might be your early adapters, be sure not to throw them into ignorance. As long as people know what to expect, we know how to deal with things. psd's for one are not equally the same. Smart Objects for one are not supported and opening files in Affinity Photo and exporting back again, destroys them for later usage in Adobe Photoshop (as already stated by Jesse as well)! Disregarding features from photoshop, and not knowing this can have delicate consequences in ruining your files. Think of people who want to open and work on files from clients when they used Adobe before... Maybe Affinity can run a test while saving and/or opening, letting you know what features will be neglected (and ruined)? In this way the user is completely responsible for further decision making in the right context. This would be a huge timesaver in figuring out where things went wrong. In its current Beta state, this is completely normal, but in a final release, people won't be as forgiving I suppose. Thanks...