Lescot
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Thanx peter and Chris B))) Just started testing the latest Beta. Did I mention I´m so happy you guys developed Affinity? ;)
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Thank you jmac, flavioteca and MEB :)
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:) Thanx for sharing.
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After more than 18 months CTS is cured and tons of sketches have piled up. Happy to use Affinity again :)
- Brett Stebbins, peter, MattP and 4 others
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Lovely. :)
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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.
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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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Cool style :)
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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).
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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 :)
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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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Cool style.
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@edge07 @MEB
Hmmm, ok, we should keep in mind it's a Beta...
For the price of a business lunch we here get an incredible piece of software...
Nope, I do not work for Serif, just thought I try to set things back in the right perspective.
Just try to get an answer from Adobe (apart from the pricing), still waiting for answers to questions I asked in 2012.... ;)
Btw: I legally own and have tested about 12000 apps for iOS/Android and another 450 for OS - yes, call me a Pro.
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@MEB:
Ty, I'll do a backup of the font and it should be ok. Maybe something for a later version one day.
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Ty MEB,
yes, found one with technical symbols. Do I have to remove it or is there a way to set max. display length?
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I was lucky, had only one crash and autosave got everything back except the last step.
I discovered a bug with the color-picker: wanted to insert an element to fill a gap in a drawing and the applied color is about 20 percent lighter. The selector field shows the right color. See attached screenshot. The other screenshot shows the gradient bug where it only lets you choose black to white though the selector field shows orange.
Regarding brushes in persona: there is a button to protect alpha channel. Made some strokes, hit the button and wanted to paint parts over in a different color - nothing happened. Is there something I am missing?
Features: I was hoping for a mirror tool when drawing with the pen-tool/brushes. Right now I have to draw half of an element, then copy and flip it vertical to get the final shape. This is really helpful for technical elements as well as concept art when using brushes in Persona. :)
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Two more:
When exporting a drawing to PNG I see a significant change of colors ( check pic, left original- right png ).
Especially reds and blues.
Second: when using the Pen tool with autofill I have artefacts/ jagged edges while drawing. This is only on screen- the final shape is crisp clear as expected. Had this with the Appstore Version too, might be worth checking.
The fonts are loading MUCH faster now, in general I have the feeling everything is even more snappy than before :)
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Lol, two more:
When opening text window ( scrolling my fonts ) the panel has now double width, right side blank.
So it's no more possible to check the new font directly in your drawing.
Layers: no more possible to drag a layer onto the new layer symbol to duplicate it.
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Another minor bug:
Created a rounded rectangle and wanted a gradient fill.
It will give me all options except color ( yes, all variations/ sliders/ wheels are shown) - only black to white.
Colorpicker will display the correct color but again not apply.
After multiple attempts the button greyed out.
Clicking the layer, not the object, will bring it back but it's still not working.
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Fantastic news and features. Installed it an hour ago and started a new illustration.
Rectangle to curves worked for me, also multi-selecting layers and delete: no problems, neither blanks nor reduced performance.
One thing I found out: don't know if it is a new feature or a bug, sometimes it is possible to autoselect objects on layers.
This can work very smooth, some other time only once or twice or not at all.
I am using a Macbook Air, late 2012, 4gb RAM, 10.9.5.
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Ty retrograde,
tons of work before Xmas and still totally happy I
found Affinity :)
Used the layer blends again and toned it with an overlay, set to 'soft light'.
More to come...;)
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well done.