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>Actually, version 1 was released several years ago, Actually, you can write sentences without using actually or making random words bold. Although in seriousness, it is commendable what the project has been...so far. >Why do you think that version 3 will be released as a yearly update? They changed the model to require login. It reduces friction for iPad OS crossover, but what it does best is restrict access based on login just like Adobe. You've been primed to be drained like a pay pig after being adopted by selling under market to kill all competitors possible to Adobe on the Mac side. There's a lot of patents, personnel, and brute dev time required to make a huge project like this. The best I saw was Art Studio, but they waited far too long to pivot to MacOS and to support pros. MacOS is also drifting to the you own nothing model. While I conclude this time suck thread, I suggest anyone who reads this in the future give Louis Rossmann a follow on YT. This pivot ties in nicely to right to repair, and diversity initiatives that collapse the US banking system today. Serif seems to have thrown a man on CS. Most businesses utilize a majority of women for these roles to massage male egos, but this time it's a reversal, although I wouldn't be offended if you said I was being a bitch. Wishing still the best to the devs who write the code. You deserve to be paid, and I'm willing to pay. I'm just not willing to be abused.
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emmrecs01 reacted to a post in a topic: Upgrade Trouble and Poor Customer Service
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emmrecs01 reacted to a post in a topic: Upgrade Trouble and Poor Customer Service
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emmrecs01 reacted to a post in a topic: Upgrade Trouble and Poor Customer Service
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He didn't apologize, he used an cockheaded tone to rub it in. No idea why CS doesn't just use ChatGPT, or better, just automate replies with your own implementation of AI and flag certain ones for human followup. The arrogance of westerners I guess? >I've no doubt there will be discounts again in the future as we do from time to time, and to ensure that you do not miss out you could keep an eye on our social media channels. As soon as any discounts go live, you can be certain that we will announce them there first. I work for a living. I don't use social media. The failure to understand this is probably why you have me pissed off. I don't even check email. It's something that is a waste of life, much like this conversation. I reply because it's BS, and someone has to fight back against this culture. I'm sure there has been great turnover and the people I loved 5 years ago are no longer with Serif. That's the sad fact of the game. Brands are constantly changing now, and you can't expect something good will last forever. I'm going to spend a day setting up an airgapped mac mini so nobody can ever update anything on it again. Sure, I will buy on a sale maybe someday.
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specworkfan reacted to a post in a topic: Upgrade Trouble and Poor Customer Service
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Totally forgot, and thanks for now reminding me why I forgot, and making me twice as angry. Two versions is a terrible way to do this. Adobe does that and I always open the wrong year. Now I have 8 different years. > it's hard to see why you think you are being “treated like crap” or “hustled”—especially when there is now a 25% discount offer available. You mean after a price increase. It's not a discount if it's above what they are willing to sell it at. >In the US, that equates to a whopping $27.50 Or 25% more. The cost is not the point. >You say “you might return to Adobe if this is never resolved”. That makes perfect sense, as they definitely won't disrespect you with their forever software rental plan that’s oh-so-affordable. I mean in workflow. I subscribe still to adobe photography for scripting. It's worth it as another data backup alone. It's cheaper now than Affinity who I assume is going on yearly update pushes. They probably are reacting to user response, which makes it very curious why you would talk trash to me if you hate the subscription of Adobe so much (which all of us hate this you own nothing model). Think twice before you spout off. Capitulating over $27 and not questioning something that massively disfavors the consumer is how we will have no choice in the future.
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I've been here since the beginning reporting bugs, and spreading the word of Affinity. I didn't know there was a new version out already. I switch off updates when I get something stable that works, and doubly true for my work software. I got an M1 mac and noticed a huge slowdown in big files in Photo with vectors. So I looked to see if there was an update or what could be causing the problem. Ahh, there's version 2 finally. Cool, I'll buy it. I search my email for news (everything goes to spam that isn't approved), and I see there's a 40% discount offered to existing users. When I log in to upgrade, it's only offering 25%. That's BS, and less than the discount that will be for Black Friday. With the economy going to absolute crap, I'm not about to pay rack rate, so I emailed support about not getting the proper discount and got this terse one line response: I'm not about to be hustled on 15%, and have someone talk trash to me in this tone, so I'm downgrading back to Intel and never updating again. I will eventually miss out on new features, and iPad compatibility, but I don't care, it works. I might return to Adobe if this is never resolved. Maybe I will stew and buy on the next sale, but I think an apology is due to me, and long time customers who are willing to pay for innovation, but not willing to get treated like crap. What's most frustrating is I tried the trial of the new version, and the same slowdown bug seems to occur, so it didn't necessarily solve my problem, though I didn't bother testing again today after the email I got in reply. I think that it starts with a situation like this, then slowly everything returns to homeostasis of the customer being treated like a wallet as with every online only company. Edit: I did update version 1 to the latest version. I was some versions behind. Doesn't solve the issue, has to be M1/Rosetta related. I think I can just stay calm and wait for the sale. Maybe it's something that will be worked out until the next one.
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The price for an upgrade is more than fair, but the problem is that it isn't much of an update. What is happening is that I now have to bloat my phone and computer with two versions (Photoshop I have 7 different versions for compatibility). Now all my workflow is broken to Spine in v2, and eventually Spine will break my v1 workflow to stay compatible. This shouldn't be a separate install. Secondly, how does the universal system work? With a login and IAP which is hugely buggy, and can cause big problems in the future if the company ever dissolves. This is also an Apple problem. What would I like? V2 updates in the existing app. I don't want two installs. I will pay gladly for this not to happen. As it stands now I'm uninstalling. It is hard to call continued development of a great product being ripped off, that's not the word, I'm being disrespected. My time and workflow are being shat on. Doesn't seem like there is a way to make this right. Serif has already committed to wasting my time and breaking compatibility permanently. It makes Adobe much more attractive again for a pro like me. I still subscribe to Adobe CS, but I think this is going to push me back to the Adobe way of doing things, and this won't end well. It sucks the App Store is terrible and stifles the idea of upgrades without making the total mess this is. I get it, you need money, and you deserve money, but this was...botched. Please at the very least provide bug fixes on v1 for a couple years. I don't need new features, but I do need my workflow unimpacted. That's the bare minimum of good faith here.
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Apple doesn't let you tweak the pressure curve on pencil because they make it a states rights issue and leave it to developers to implement. Fair play. However, the default pressure sensitivity really sucks, and may encourage people to damage their iPads by drawing too hard. The default setting needs to be about 8x as sensitive, but there is no way to adjust this now. We really need a pressure sensitivity adjustment slider for the desktop version.
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Set pressure curve of apple pencil
specworkfan replied to postmadesign's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on iPad
Bump. This absolutely needs to happen for Catalina too as you can't expect Apple to sort this out. You have to press way too hard by default. A simple slider to adjust sensitivity would be amazing. I would like to make it about 8x as sensitive. -
I just got done testing out Affinity Photo/Designer on a 10.5" iPad pro. It's a solid 2224x1668 display. However, the default normal size UI gets bumped to @2x for retina, which cuts that in half, and makes things unusable except in a pinch. 1112x834 is not good. I definitely wouldn't replace my cintiq because of this annoyance, even though I like the drawing experience on iPad. It would be nice to force affinity to display at native resolution, even if Apple is forcing Affinity into @2x. I tried a couple screen resolution changing apps, and the most popular paid solution, SwitchResX has already released a Catalina friendly beta version. Unfortunately, SIP locks it down, and I'm too lazy to test it now for custom resolutions, but I think that might be a work around. Having a toggle within Affinity though would be a better workaround. Super tiny UI is not a problem, lack of space is.
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lumaluke reacted to a post in a topic: Delete Selection [Affinity Photo]
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Seems to be more stable! 1) On the brush UI, I think "More" should be moved to the next tab after you press the arrow. There is also no need to put "Stabilizer" on a tab by itself, and "Continue Last" and "Pick Color" on a third tab. "Pick Color" is by far the most important setting besides the brush size. It should be second, and arguably first. I have no idea why it is relegated to the last tab where nobody can find. You seldom need to go to the "More" menu, and if you are adding unwieldily arrows to break up the UI elements (spacing I guess), then "More" definitely shouldn't be on the first tab. I thought at first there was no included color picker. The color setting only opens the color wheel, which is fairly useless for art or photo work. I think you are using the picker much more often (photo and painting), and if you are not, you are typing in a hex value for a specific color (designers). Hitting the "I" key brings up a picker, but it doesn't change the color, only "Pick Color" works intuitively. 2) I am not sure if it worked before, can't remember, but brackets should change the brush size on the keyboard. The keyboard map is pretty illogical after using desktop version. It should just be the same. 3) I would add tool tips when pressing help for the three wet edges, pressure sensitivity, and alpha region icons on the brush (and to similar UI elements). It's not obvious what these icons mean if you have never used the app before.
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Seconded, but mainly for iOS. In iOS you can manipulate the histogram with Pixelmator in a similar way, though you wouldn't be able to automate it. It's a missing feature from every iOS app. In windows, just use Photoshop, even an old version. The word to describe this is normalization. It's very important to be able to do it by channel exactly when preparing for print. I need it for normalizing depth maps. Auto is a great place to start, but depending on the composition you might want to do manual slider adjustments.
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By the dyanmic range present. You can use the color picker to see the values. It will work the same in 16, 24, or 32 bit. Auto-level is normalizing the values of the image. Think of warping a sound in Ableton to fit the beat, or time stretching a clip in Final Cut Pro. These are using similar alogrithms. I was dissappointed today to find out Affinity doesn’t have a good way of adjusting levels mathematically like Photoshop. I paint depth maps, but it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to paint a depth map with the full dynamic range. You simply need colors relative to each other, and that is feel. For certain uses though, these relative values might only be 1/3 of the dynamic range possible, so being able to drag the levels around or hit auto for max range is very useful.
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I'm excited for the future, but the iPad version is really time consuming and annoying to use as an artist versus photoshop. Don't get me wrong, I was thankful to have it today flying for 32 hours, but it takes 3x as long to work versus the desktop version. 1) There in no keyboard shortcut for brush size. You have to use the slider, only the slider is not a slider but a weird circle that misbehaves. In addition to that there is currently a bug where if you change brushes it resets to the default size, forcing you to have to deal with the weird UI. 2) There is no keyboard shortcut for the color picker. You have to click around 3-4 times to get the color instead of just pressing alt and working from the painting so you never have to even go to a color wheel. This is a workflow killer, and makes you want to smash your iPad. The workaround for me was to just use less colors in the work today. It's definitely a creative bottleneck. 3) There's no easy way to cut to layer. This is also very time consuming to workaround. If you could just program shortcuts, then this would solve this issue. There doesn't need to be a specific UI element as long as you could do this. 4) No opacity shortcuts also waste a lot of time. Sigh. I really hope these keyboard shortcuts are added as soon as possible. I hope with everyone else to have custom shortcuts someday to, but the brush size/opacity/color UI looks pretty, but isn't very functional when you are used to being fast.
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specworkfan reacted to a post in a topic: Designer iOS Beta
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Thanks! I participated in the AD beta for OSX, and that was much easier to distribute. I will look into this. Currently badly need AD for iPad as flying 20 hours, and Alienware + Cintiq takes a small nuclear reactor to power. The Windows version of AD and AP, and the iPad version of Affinity Designer is what got me to get an iPad Pro. I had to switch to Windows in 2015 since Apple refuses to make a laptop powerful enough for CC, ZBrush and Blendering. It's great to be back to the Affinity world!