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Hi,
in this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show how to create a calm and idyllic mood with these boathouses on the lake.
And this despite the fact that it is a tourist hotspot that is always well attended.
I wish you fun with the video.
Ciao Jack
 

Hi everyone,
I wanted to let existing customers know that I have unpublished all of my Affinity Photo for the desktop and iPad courses at Udemy. Today's release of version 2.0 is a very exciting time! But I had promised myself that if the interface and features change beyond a certain point, I'd stop updating the existing courses and start again.
Any existing enrolees will still be able to access the courses and ask questions, but they should not be appearing in the Udemy search engine - basically, I don't want new people coming to my courses and being confused/disappointed that what they are looking at is not what I am showing. It would have been nice to have a new course in place ready for the 2.0 launch. But even if I was on the beta team, I don't release tutorials based off beta versions.
I will be starting the Affinity Photo 2.x Solid Foundations course as soon as possible.
Thanks for your time,
Simon
*4th Dec Update* - I found that I couldn't communicate with any enrolees on unpublished courses. So I've had to republish so I can inform people about updates/special offers. But I'm pressing on with updating courses before I continue with the new AP 2.x course.

And Adobe always fixed the horrible bugs in their products ? And with each new versions, they care about the older ones? 

I switched from Adobe to Affinity a few years ago, after I was locked out from my Adobe stuff for 3 weeks because Internet problems after moving to a new house.
Customer service was horrible and no help at all. 
Frustrated and angry as hell, I was looking for another solution and find Affinity. I really like it a lot. Sure I miss a few things from Adobe PS , but there is always a workaround. 
Have all 3 Affinity products and will update them as soon as the new version is out. Even at the full price.
No, I do not think Affinity is dead. 
 

And Adobe always fixed the horrible bugs in their products ? And with each new versions, they care about the older ones? 

"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious."
This thread keeps reminding of that quote for some reason. 😁

I switched from Adobe to Affinity a few years ago, after I was locked out from my Adobe stuff for 3 weeks because Internet problems after moving to a new house.
Customer service was horrible and no help at all. 
Frustrated and angry as hell, I was looking for another solution and find Affinity. I really like it a lot. Sure I miss a few things from Adobe PS , but there is always a workaround. 
Have all 3 Affinity products and will update them as soon as the new version is out. Even at the full price.
No, I do not think Affinity is dead. 
 

As long as enough people are willing to buy the Affinity apps, whether v1, V2, or whatever, for Serif to turn a profit, then Affinity will not be dead.

Well let's ask someone who will probably know what the future will bring ...

... oops the damned crystal ball slipped from her desk, thus she couldn't tell me for sure! 😉

I gladly will pay an affordable monthly subscription fee for using Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher if that brings a reliable future to the Affinity range. All  those years of free updates, I could not understand how Serif could make profits.
My concern with the delay of version 2 was not the features but about the revenue which comes in. It is still a mistery for me how they could manage so many years developing on free updates.
So will I pay for a monthly subscription if that saves the future of Serif. I surely will!
Chris

I keep thinking about this and wonder where Serif would even set a subscription price at.  They only have three applications and, from what I recall, there aren't any additional ones that have been publicly announced.  So, three apps.  Do you charge $9.95/mo. per app?  If you use three apps, that's about $30 per month.  For $25 more, you could switch to Adobe and have access to all their apps.  If you only need one Affinity app, do you want to pay $9.95/mo. when the more full-featured Adobe alternative is only $21/mo.?  And, if Serif goes for $4.95/mo. for all three apps, they'd be further ahead to sell each app at $54 and include a full year of updates.  Release a new version each year of each app people can choose whether or not to upgrade.
When Adobe still sold software, you might pay $600 to $800 per application.  I don't remember the numbers, but I think the Creative Suites were around $1200 and the Master Collection around $2000?  And people bought them.
I have all three Affinity apps.  And they were like $49 each and probably many people, like me, got them during a Black Friday or other sale when they were around $29 or something.  And that was one-time for each.  People I know that switched to Affinity didn't do it because the apps were $49 but because they didn't want to be locked into a subscription.  A good number would probably have paid $99, $199 or whatever (if the apps were more on par with Adobe).
I would imagine they could go to $99 per app and still do well.  Possibly they could do the regular versions at $54 each and the pro versions at $99 each.  Or more.
I tend to think they could do better by not going down the subscription route and raise prices and release new paid versions more often (with a discount for existing users).  I think a subscription might just send more people back to Adobe.  If I were to no longer have a choice but to subscribe to software, why wouldn't I go back to what the majority of people are using?

There sure are a lot of people wanting to see these products dead and buried, aren't there? What's with that? While it may not work for some, it certainly works rather well for the likes of me - and many others.

We think that this time you should give Serif the time to work, and the time to deliver a thorough and important update. Probably more thorough than Serif is aware of.
Remember, too, that quality takes time. And it costs. And it's good that it costs.
Our impression of the Affinity trio is that the programs are made by too few, too busy and sometimes not competent enough programmers (vector algorithms come to mind, but also Photo which we can't use at all).
In particular, the number and type of staff may become Serif's biggest problem. And probably already is. For our part, we don't have the time or the business case to wait so many years for bug fixes or features, as has been the case since 2014. But we are only starting to evaluate now, so we hope the future is not like the past is described here in the forum (and in the release notes).
But beyond that, the programs are incredibly unevenly developed, and the order in which functionality is developed doesn't make much sense to us either.
Overall:
- Designer is an exciting program for bitmap artists, while it's an immensely thin cup of tea for vector designers. There is SO much missing that the program cannot replace real vector programs for professional needs. At all. What does Serif really want with this program?
- Photo is the most messy and mediocre program - we took it out of the evaluation after few days. My staff simply could not achieve the desired quality. Besides, the program is a sinful mess. The user interface, menus and panels have to be completely rebuilt from scratch. Tell us, are there no real usability specialists employed in Serif?
- Publisher is clearly the program Serif is most interested in developing, but it also lacks features that need to come soon, and come in good implementations. And there are serious signs that the user interface is not thought through from the start - the program risks drowning in panels and complexity year after year.
We're also speechless at the lack of accessibility features for PDF and ebook support. It's as if Publisher was designed in 1995. And what type of customer is it really designed for and for what needs - exactly?
So all in all, we hope that this time Serif steps back ten steps again, and fixes the mistakes and bad choices made along the way, and safeguards the architecture of the programs for the long term. And in the process employ expertise where they are on thin ice. This can be done on a project basis.
There is plenty for Serif to do - it will take time, and it must take time. Please don't push them into delivering more hacks. You're all going to pay for that.
/Eddie and co.

Can't be. I just used it an hour ago.

Das neue Heft ist da!
SPEZIAL - Buchgestaltung mit dem Affinity Publisher
Sie planen ein Workbook (Arbeitsbuch) oder ein normales Buch? Sie suchen Anregungen für unterschiedliche Dokumentenseiten? Sie möchten ein Inhaltsverzeichnis, eine Willkommensseite, eine Inhaltsseite oder einen Wochenplan gestalten? All das finden Sie in meinem neuen Heft. Im Heft können Sie auch nachlesen, wie Word und der Publisher zusammenarbeiten, wie man ein Seitenlayout definiert und wie man Marginalien einsetzt. Abgerundet wird der Inhalt mit Tipps zu grafischen Elementen, wie man schöne Textkästen anlegt und wie man für ein Projekt die richtigen Farben findet.

https://magazin62.de/magazin

EXTRA: Workbook-Datei und ein passendes Asset Zum Magazin Heft Nr. 10 gibt es eine extra Workbook-Datei und ein Asset, passend zum Thema.

All my own work from scratch. Most of them can be re-coloured by changing the stroke colour. There is only one bat brush. Which way up the bats are depends on whether you draw from left to right or right to left. Free for personal and professional use. Have fun!


Ginettes Witchy Brushes.afbrushes

I have the same problem. Have a huge collection of brushes from my Adobe time and import my most used in Affinity. Incredible mess.
Would really love to have the possibility to sort them better.

I second, third and fourth the above comments. This is definitely still a bit of a housekeeping weak point in the Affinity suite for anyone spending any amount of time using the brushes in Designer or Photo.
Would love to see a new or improved Brush Management panel or an overall workflow re-visit where the Affinity team takes another look at the brushes system and tackles:
- a way to display brush names in the brushes panel...
- a breadcrumb, history or favourites feature to track or store your most used brushes...
- an easier way to duplicate or move brushes around, say into new or existing collections. Generally the ability to move, organize and name brushes in a more user friendly process. 
For example, when a brush is copied or moved into a different brushes panel, it should retain its name, currently it gets renamed as 'brush copy', which is not helpful. This is because to duplicate a brush to use in a different brush panel you first have duplicate it, it then gets renamed 'brush copy' then you have to move it to the desired panel. If you just want to move it, it will retain its name but it will be removed from the current panel. One solution to this might be to have the ability to have a second brush panel open at the same time so that you could move or duplicate, by dragging and dropping your selected brushes to it... 
- a solution to when a selected brush is resized and its highlight in the brushes panel disappears.
Better usability stuff like that. Please, please can we get a little more love in this area guys. 🙂  Cheers!

I have the same problem. Have a huge collection of brushes from my Adobe time and import my most used in Affinity. Incredible mess.
Would really love to have the possibility to sort them better.

Just installed the new versions from Affinity .(All three) All goes well .
Amazing update. So happy with this Software suit. 

I replaced for now my Lightroom with Darktable. Free and open source. I really love it.The learning curve is a bit rough, because a lot of possibilities to refine your images, but it does really a fantastic and professional work.
When Serif come up with a Lightroom replacement, it will be for me an instant buy. *cross fingers* Even when I like Darktable, but a working pipeline between Affinity products would be a big plus for me.

Hi
Had a look around some of my older vector brushes to see if I could get one to match up...but no luck!...There is a 'blob' type brush in the linear vector set but in no way matches what you are looking for...So!
I had a go at this one this afternoon....It's not perfect..  It would have been better to have a linear rather than circular brush sample....
As attached (There are 12 variations on the set). As lee has suggested you can tweak the position of the 'blob' for effect (to exclude from stretch effects!)
 
 


Jims Brush.zip

I suggest this painless workaround: select the two objects from the art board, group them and immediately ungroup.  You will see that the two objects are now next to each other in the layer hierarchy. You can then go ahead and clip. 

I'd love to be able to select multiple categories or brushes in the dropdown to delete or move all at one time.  It is an incredibly tedious process to select and delete brushes and brush categories.

Hi guys,
As for Digital painting, it would be great to have several features. So far, drawing/painting with AP is quite a pain in the a.. when it comes to select/ change a brush often. I believe it would be good for AP to improve that aspect of the software. So far, I feel it's more made for photographers than for digital artists per se.
I'm talking about these simple features  (not meaning easy to implement. Let's give credit to the development team):
- Context menu (right clic or customizable) when using the brush tool, allowing access to all the brushes in the selected category, at least . All the brushes would be even better. The context menu would provide access to the size of the brush as well.
- In the side bar, Brush window, previewing the strokes should be an option. It would be possible to see the brushes in a grid rather than in a list. The size of the pictures in that grid would be chosen from the option menu (small/ medium/big).