Danel
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2 hours ago, Dan C said:
Welcome to the forums @Silverback_47
Please see the post I have linked above regarding a timescale for this release.
I can confirm that the introductory offer will be available until December 14th, and will not be extended if the .MSI version is not available before then, my apologies.
I hope this clears things up!
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.- R C-R, Thorsten Zimmermann and Keith Reeder
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Il y a 19 heures, Steel Rat a dit :
Thank you Mark, and the rest of the staff!
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. -
11 hours ago, Dangerous said:
I do not have formal IT training, I am self-taught, built my computer and had no issues installing affinity. I had no end of issues with adobe installations & updates but got them sorted. At one point even adobe support was close to giving up.
As for it doesn't install. A few have issues compared to the many that don't.
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.- RosomakPL, Keith Reeder, GenewalDesign and 1 other
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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!
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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.
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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...
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Does anyone have the same problem as me?
Opening a 24mpx RAW :
affinity 2 = 25 sec
affinity 1 = almost instantaneousJust after opening with affinity 2: (RAW)
any slider = effective after 7 sec(Recent PC 16GB RAM SSD etc...)
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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.
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1 hour ago, Alex M said:
@Danel could tell us how the export from Faststone was made exactly? Are any extra-settings or options were involved?
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.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks Telemax,
I'm afraid I didn't explain myself well: we decided to compress at 50% because it's an acceptable compromise to have smaller files while keeping a correct quality.
It should not be forgotten that as there are many of us, and as each one proposes between 5 and 10 photos depending on the case, the volume of the transfers becomes very important.
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Thank you for your answers,
We are a photo club and following the pandemic, we use Skype instead of our local meetings.
Our facilitator receives our images, and show them to us online.
The criticism and exchanges can begin.
This works perfectly for over a year.
For the display and file size adjustments, we found it reasonable to decrease the size of our photos, and to increase the file compression when sending our images.
After several tries, it turned out that the 2048 pixel format with 50% quality allowed us to keep a lot of details of the photo and to stay in a very acceptable weight range, between 200 and 400Kb depending on the type of image.
It is here that we discovered a difference in results, quite small between most of the software, but strong with Affinity, which has a combination of sharpness and moiréing problems. -
Hello ,
I recently did a comparison of resizing a 6000x4000 photo to 2048x1365: 50% quality with 6 different programs.
It turns out that Affinity is far behind the other five because of a very bad management of the moiréing and the definition.
It's a shame because I have to use another software for this specific operation.I use "Document/Resize".
Is there any way to improve this?(PS we have to do this work on many photos)
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Thanks a lot !
I'l trying quikly.
tks again
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Sorry, I don't know how to "rasterize" and I couldn't find the command.
I know a bit about gimp and I know how to copy a BW image into a mask and apply a threshold in order to create a new selective mask, I just can't do it with affinity.I'm just able to use a brush... -
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How do I copy an image into a mask in order to merge two images according to the densities of the image contained in the mask?
I can't create this mask despite a lot of time.
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Ah!
Bad news, I had understood that Affinity was now working with wine.
So I'm going to stick with very old PC and win7TKS
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Ok thanks.
I've the "affinity key" is it enought ? (I've no longer the email nor login you said.)
I 've Win7 and I plan to use WIN10 and wine in order to run under Linux Mint. Any problem ?
TKS
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All right!
So I understand that I have no chance of seeing a Linux version of affinity coming...
So I'll look for other solutions.
That's just what I wanted to know when I asked my questions: how do I structure my next computer system...Tks Bye
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Extremely disappointed that this installs as an "App" and not regular software program
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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🐑 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. 😝