Filo63

All this seems very strange to me. I am a very old Adobe user and I only recently discovered Affinity. Obviously the approach is different from that of Adobe ... say it is a copy of Illustrator seems wrong! If it were true, everything would be easier but damn useless if not to save money. It's different, it takes awareness of learning. If you want to find the same things in the same place, maybe you should continue to use Illustrator. There's everything you want ... I'm too old to believe in fairy tales. There are things you can hardly understand ... it's normal. The boys are not in a hurry ... I remember one of my professors telling me to reread the theme well before handing it over to him. What I love most about AD is the fact that I can take my Cintiq pen to draw on the same software, make sketches, modify them and then realize the executive in vector. To create logotype is the maximum and is the oldest thing a graphic designer can do. There are no delays in the use of brushes, indeed. Before I used SketchBook because Photoshop was not very responsive. Making writings on AD, aging them with brushes is extremely fast and intuitive. What makes me nervous is that I have some customers who want the files in .ai to be able to change colors or other things ... this fact is boring but it is not Affinity's fault !!!

Jet_Affinity is a pleasure to read what you write ... about the success of Adobe I can say that (since I lived everything from the first version) the power comes from the PostScript. Often with other software, like Freehand, you got excellent results, but unfortunately many times these generated errors in rip software and you could not get good print films! As for the speech of technical drawings, isonometric etc ... I add that even for packaging design all this is damn interesting. Often when you need to represent a package, in addition to more useful 3D renderings for a photorealistic and marketing representation, an axonometric drawing for assembly instructions is useful. However, all that up to now shown by Ben is extraordinary. Ciao Fabio

I decided to buy Affinity Photo because I am very satisfied with Affinity Designer. I immediately tried to understand if I could satisfy the exigency of managing multiple channels but I did not find a solution. Obviously it's all soon !!! I still have to study it well but it seems to me, in this case, different from the logic of Photoshop. I just wanted to know if you can do what you put in the movie, or not. I have however discovered that tiffs in CMYK with more than one Alpha channel open them in RGB without the Alpha channels. I also tried with the beta version. Thank you Fabio Multichannel.mp4

Ok... Thanks!!! Ciao Fabio

I needed an information. Multiple image channels can be managed on Affinity Photo. Often I have to prepare the executives of my projects to be printed on plotters with ceramic inks for the glass industry. To improve the quality I have to reimport the tiff images from the Caldera rip and reassign the names of the additional channels after the change. The printer works four-color process with 6 CMYKWG colors ... White and Green are additional channels as you can see from the Photoshop image. Thanks Fabio P.S. Unfortunately I have expired the trial version of the program and I have not done so to verify it !!!

Obviously Adobe has a good suite of programs, very complete. But there are some things that are not really good. Until the CC a graphic designer had the opportunity to buy a part of the suite dedicated to him, Illustrator, Photoshop, in design and Acrobat pro. This could keep it since a designer could choose other products for video, for example Final cut, or for web graphics other applications that you like more ... today you are forced to use only Adobe because you already pay for it !!! Often the main updates bring little news, I understand that they are mature products but if you ask me for the money I have to have something in return. too often Adobe products are slow. Affinity products are young and do not yet have all the features of Adobe but they are very fast. For example, AD allows you to draw directly within the program, for the construction of the graphics is a very important thing and you do not have to go from one application to another. For many designers AD can be almost a unique application. Seeing the three icons on the Publisher I have the feeling that tomorrow we could create a unique creative work without ever leaving our program ... this is an old dream of almost 30 years of graphic work!

Grazie a te

I downloaded your new brushes ... you are a great resource for us all !!! When Affinity Designer will also be on iPad, will all your brushes work or will it need a different format? Grande Paolo!!!

Apparently some tools are related to the CAD world, but I am convinced that for a good creative work in graphic design the possibility of precision in drawing are an added value !!! For Affinity it could be a distinctive value. In my product design activity I use fusion 360 of Autodesk ... the 2D sketch work is much more productive than Adobe Illustrator and I would like to find some of its peculiarities on Affinity Design !!! Fabio

Thanks Fabio

I really like the magnet effect on the geometry of the object. It would be interesting to have an indication of the tangency to the curve ... a bit like in the CAD. It would be a useful function for precision work Fabio

Designer compatibility is excellent ... my memory goes to the transition from XPress to InDesign !!! Works with many pages can be more complex ... or not

all this is very exciting !!! The only real concern is "compatibility" with InDesign files ... having a historical archive and having to rebuild it all is frustrating

all this is very exciting !!! The only real concern is "compatibility" with InDesign files ... having a historical archive and having to rebuild it all is frustrating