Danel

🐑 Yes, of course; I'm the black sheep out of the flock, and wondering why they're all going in the same direction... towards the cliff. 😝

It couldn't be clearer: a little shot of fire extinguisher to put out the fire...just a little shot. After the 14th, we'll do as we please. God Mickey, master of the App, we bow down at your feet, but take no notice of the beggars who hinder our steps towards you, we will make them bend.

Our future is in the hands of big business, which uses its monopoly to submit us as they to they pleases. It is a gentle descent into a trap . In the long run, it is likely that most software creators will impose subscriptions on customers. The alternatives are free software, of which Linux is one of the engines. Affinity is riding the consensual wave because of the too small Linux market; it's a pity; it would be the beginning of a dike bursting. But one can dream... There are many people who use gimp because they have nothing else. The low price of affinity is a serious asset. In the meantime, let's not have too much tenderness towards our supplier, it's only a company that exists to earn money with its products and to support its employees. It has no feelings; only interests... and that's normal.

Of course, it's a good thing that the affinity staff reacted and corrected the situation... I say thank you of course, but to the lip service... We have been confronted with ideas that are gradually taking hold in everyone's mind and that tend to lead people to believe that companies can make our machines into conquered lands and that they can do whatever they want with them.

Hello, When you buy a tool of any kind... camera for example, you don't ask the customer to be an expert in electronics and optics to assist the design shortcuts of the manufacturers. The problem with computers is the tradition that comes from the origins of this tool and that forces us to think that a customer must also be a geek or at least comfortable with the intricacies of this technology. Affinity is a tool and nothing else, no more than Win11 or OS thingy: you buy, you install, you use the tool. The expertise lies in the handling of the tool and not in circumventing the inadequacies of designers who still think that it is the clients who must adapt to their whims and not the other way round. Mickey Mouse has instilled in people's heads that it's normal to buy buggy, poorly designed products...and this idea persists.

I have installed the .bat file system for launching the software and it works fine with Faststone. IHowever, I am not happy with this workaround because of the risk of future problems and also for ethical reasons: you don't treat customers this way. I'll wait the 14 days to see if Affinity offers an exe solution, otherwise I'll ask for a refund, because effectively for my non-professional level, this version 2 doesn't bring me much other than anger.

Oh dear! I had forgotten that to use Affinity products, there were prerequisites: To be a computer engineer with a specialization in Mikey11, to study the specialized Affinity forums and not to have any contraindications for benzodiazepines! 😥

I talked about security, trust, companies towards adobe : I just wanted to say that big companies prefer to deal with other big companies that are well established than with a small creator that tries to join the market, even if the quality of the products does not follow... A good example is the blind accreditation of the first ibm PCs by the systems men in the big computer rooms, even though this PC was far inferior to what was being done elsewhere. The downstream was a large group with strong backbone

Boff, it seems to me that most of the big professionals prefer the experience, guarantee and security of a big company like adobe, rather than a "start-up" company. This is probably why affinity is targeting the amateur and small business world. The app. system then leaves total control to Mikey and the software creator, which makes life easier for users. It is also possible that Mikey will make financial licensing arrangements to help his struggling system get off the ground ? may be...

Does anyone have the same problem as me? Opening a 24mpx RAW : affinity 2 = 25 sec affinity 1 = almost instantaneous Just after opening with affinity 2: (RAW) any slider = effective after 7 sec (Recent PC 16GB RAM SSD etc...)

Well, the solution of creating a .bat file with the app launch in text works well for switching a raw from Faststone to Affinity... However, there is no indication that the raw is actually being processed and this processing takes a long time. Overall, in my initial tests, I found this version to be very unresponsive to settings. No need to make so much cinema for a badly finished product. Where is the time when IT was serious and it would never have occurred to a company to present an unfinished job.

I have the same problem: I can't switch a raw from Faststone to affinity 2. This is a very big problem for my workflow. I will now advise my club not to migrate to this version until we have an exe. Is it possible to cancel this sale and get a refund?

No, nothing: The original 6000x4000 photo was loaded into Faststone, then directly reduced with the reduction tool to 2048 and then saved to my desktop at 50% quality. I think everyone could try it for themselves as Faststone is free, not heavy software and can be uninstalled quickly.

Thank you David for this information. Thomaso will also find an example below. Attached is a comparison of the same "JPG 100%" photo, reduced to a comparable size: On the left Affinity: 70% size 511KB, on the right Faststone 50% size 501KB. I used faststone, but I could have shown Rawtherapee (which is a bit better), or Gimp or Daktable, Lightroom. Finally, the purpose of my post was not really to compare different software, but only to know if there was a setting on Affinity that I didn't know about and that would allow my friends to get a good display quality during our Skype sessions: that's all. I thank you all, for the attention you have given to my message.

Of course, software developers do not indicate the algorithms they use.... Finally, what interests us at the club is to have images that are correct enough to be displayed but that are not much larger than 400Kb, regardless of the process used, (which is what most other software allows us to do). So we use Faststone but it is a shame that those of us (as me) who use Affinity cannot directly process their files like other software. I'm afraid I don't have a simple solution for this little problem. Thanks to all