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Lescot

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  1. Thanx peter and Chris B))) Just started testing the latest Beta. Did I mention I´m so happy you guys developed Affinity? ;)
  2. :) Thanx for sharing.
  3. After more than 18 months CTS is cured and tons of sketches have piled up. Happy to use Affinity again :)
  4. So much progress!! Totally impressive! Sorry for not having been around for ages - Doc insisted to not even touch a mouse for over 2 month, otherwise CTS ( no more mouse use ever...). Anyway I have been able to do a lot of sketching (lefty) and will give both apps a spin to do some finished illustrations ;) Cheers, Les.
  5. Thank you Matt, lol Ben !! Just some more ideas about performance / functions ( please don't kill me for bringing up another idea ). Right now AD really juvenated my 'old' Macbook Air (late 2012) which means great use of ressources. So, here it comes: your roadmap told us to expect AD Photo in step 2 and AD Layout (or whatever the name might be then) in step 3. Right now I am totally happy and I love this idea and function of the personas. For the future and the Layout app: Don't you think it would be a cool idea not only to have the layout thingy but a second persona to use the designs made for print also for a Webpage? Not only a resizing/webcolor-function but a true implemented website builder? ( I can hear your programmer gods loading their pumpguns already, lol )... The idea came this afternoon. I am still holding on to another Air and another Macbook, both with older OS versions so I can run iWeb. I know, the code was sometimes messy but it was and still is the most intuitive website builder ever made. And I tried MANY others and wasted enough time and money. My dream is simple: sketching and illustrating with AD, polishing my photos with your photo app, taking it all to the layout app for print and more sophisticated stuff and then using all this creative impact to throw it on a website, made with the same bundle via a persona. The market is huge and there are still so many folks out there who are looking for something great. Great like in Affinity: supereasy to use, reliable, great functions, slick and silky coding. O.K., that was long but I thought I'd rather write it down now, even when it's way to early, than to forget it completely due to brain-overload. Cheers, L.
  6. Downloaded the newest Beta yesterday, so right now no deep testing yet,BUT: Client sent me a PSD file today. Format 400 x 150 cm, 150 dpi, 580mb. Double clicked and it opened in PS Elements. Took ages to open, when arranging some pics program told me `not enough disk space`(5,6 Gb free). Adding a filter was a nightmare. (History:0, 90% RAM available). Closed it, opened it in AD. Opened in a sec. Everything smooth, live preview of filters worked like a charm. Job done. LOVE IT. While I tend to use AD mainly for illustration that was a nice surprise. Cant wait to see what your Photo app will bring us ;) One little wish: when I open the document settings (or any other menu) the active window is not in the foreground. When I have a brushes palette or anything similar it will stay in front. Would be nice when the ACTIVE window would be always in front. Just a little thing for convenience :)
  7. After many dark days I am waiting for spring. Started this with a ballpen drawing (attached) and finished it in Affinity. Many layer fx and gradients used. I really like the possibility to insert different markers in the gradient panel - very helpful. The idea was she is waking up from a deep sleep, the bird with her. Winter hasn't left yet but the little color-glows are already pointing towards spring. Used a mix of muted colors and fresher accents.
  8. ok,here some things I found out: @lenogre: Yes, same here-unable to open AD beta file in AD. Sometimes unable to use cmd-S/ Saving in general. For both find attached screenshots. Crash when trying to create a new text layer. Happened thrice, then it stopped. Had to restart the computer. Lucky me: Autosave works like a charm, phew ;) Was unable to reproduce it, though I had the text problem again. Solution here was to copy a text layer (even from another AD file) and then to edit it: worked. Still unable to duplicate layer via drag&drop. Really like the new layer FX with the new light settings. Would be great to have a slider to adjust the smoothness of the pen-tool (also with autofill).
  9. Merry X-Mas to the great Affinity Team and all the great people in the forum who helped me to get started!! Here my first illustration with Beta 1, finished in Beta 2 with the now working gradients :)
  10. Lol, many serious ideas and some fun stuff too. I do tell people about AD because it is great value for money. Any software that will help me to finish a project quicker and better will be my best friend. I do not expect any silly stuff ( though the toaster sounded tempting ), but I just love the direct contact with the dev. Team. I still would love to see my intelligent gradient vectors ( hear me Matt !! ;) ) but AD is on the right track. In our world we do get plenty of offers every day - free! Free! FREEEE!... Nope. Good work needs money, and if you are serious about your job/hobby you are willing to pay for it. As I posted earlier: I do have a lot of licences for a zillion of apps for iOS/OS/ and android. I got many of them for free, many others I did pay for. It all started with the first iPhone, a whole new world of creativity. And I am very happy to see that mobile creativity is pushing the borders. AD is an important step, at least for me. Slick, stable, no fuzz, great results. AD is the basic Swiss Army Knife - when you really are in trouble it will do the job. And that's what counts.
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