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Uncle Mez

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  1. Hello @AdamW as promised here is my impressions on this release of APub. My experience in 12 steps : 1- APub .162 loads really faster than the previous builds which is better but i still think you can improve it even more. 2- I've loaded a project created with ADesigner weeks ago (business card project) and APub did the loading very fast even rendered the fonts, layers, blending, adjustment with ease and love 3- the pencil tool works well but I've found it lagging more than in previous version (here i did a test on empty project), please make smooth 4- The use of the sculpt tool is still a bit of misery while i know it"s of a good help, please share us a best practice video tuto so we can understand it. 5- But i noticed this when i check show bleeds then export the project in any format you may want it comes with a large squared white zone that i couldn't understand, my fix was to disabled show the bleed and un-check export with bleed for it to disappear; maybe i'm doing something wrong but i still need to figure it out. 6- I like the fact that the pages studio is hidden from loading the software it makes it better to the eyes and gives me choice to show or hide it only when I want. 7- APub is still lacking of a dedicated Export persona/Assistant and i have to go to the menu which is a lot of clicks if i compare with ADesigner and APhoto which makes it 1 click closer 8- APub still have the Margins checked by default when creating a new documents and it's set to 25mm, it's annoying because i then have to do another step to either remove it or set another margin, please fix it by disabling the default 25mm. 9- To me, there is no need of Ellipse frame tool in the toolbox, the squared frame tool corners can be rounded from the top menu if set to 50% rounding its become a circle/ellipse so ! 10- i really like the new tool that appears when placing an image into a picture frame, it's refined and works like a charm, very helpful; allow fast zooming 11- Picture frame tool is not yet content aware and main subject is not yet detectable when doing that which leaves it manual only, allow us to have it Auto subject fit then if we want to re-position or skip the subject then we can do it manually. 12- Now my best one, the snapping works much much much better, because i don't often use guides, snapping is actually what i rely on for perfect alignments.
  2. Hello @AdamW thank you for this update. Will download that new version as soon as I have free time. It looks better while .157 was already a good one. Blessings to Y'all
  3. Today i want to just share with you a quick video of what i believe and think Serif Team should take in consideration and make available into the Affinity Range. Well the product they will choose that will have this ... is something i can't point out now but with the coming kind of enforced collaboration between all three products i really believe we should be able to make this kind of things with ease and not jump to other software's just to generate it knowing the portability and sometime compatibility is not properly working. Less words, now check in 1min what i'am referring to ! Requested_functions1.mp4
  4. @AdamW i finally got the last APub update downloaded and installed on my Mac and it's simply okay by it's first run. 1- Takes less time to load 2- Find out the pencil tool is even fast and presents less lag when drawing with stabilizer activated 3- The Pen tool react like a charm, i never such feeling when using the same tool with ADesigner (on MacOS i'm still stuck on 1.6.1) 4- The Rubber band mode is getting better and makes life easier when using the Pen Tool 5- i've noticed the presence of the sculp tool as a subfunction of the pencil tool and really appreciate it (i asked for that one without even knowing what it was for ) 6- the interface is better than the previous one, much polished and refined, still using the same colors but when i looked twice i saw a difference in the polishment (Good job) i know APub is not dedicated to vector drawing but it has some capacities to do that and i really appreciate what you have put together here but still... 1- to me there is no need of rounded picture frame tool if i consider the fact that you made the squared one roundable (corners can be rounded easily) so i wouls say no to that onoe but another inventive tool instead. 2- Eye drop tool is still unable to select a full gradient but only a pixel composing that gradient which is ... 3- Why is the Offset tool only present in the tabbed Fx studio and not in the layer effect dialog box/window, personally i tend to make more use of the window that result from clicking on Fx than the tabbed Fx studio itself. that tool itself makes it easier to create better shadows. Maybe this is too much but didn't wanted to miss a thing, see you in the next Beta release. Blessings !
  5. Hello @AdamW thank you so much for this updated info. Previous version of Publisher beta (.145) was already a great tool on my side despite this or that i may wanted to see but it was so great. Now i'll download this one and give it a test run to see how it differs and better my workflow. Blessings !
  6. Hello everyone, today i want to share this achieved milestone from my channel. After 2 published videos (short and really fast) you guys are still giving us your attention, so, THANK YOU so Much ! Also big thanks to Affinity Team @MattP @MEB @Patrick Connor and other guy from Serif. The Product you develop enabled me to reach this and make better stuffs: Snapping being the real deal that help me do great stuffs !
  7. Hello dear Friends. After couple of days off i'm back with another New but fast vidéo. Now, showing simple Affinity photo moves..., 2 tools + 5 simple opérations/functions to make it 100% okay. Hope you will enjoy it. Do notre forget to like and subscribe as it will help but also i will upload more and more content, each one increasing in level of complexity and sophistication (can't believe i wrote this) Enough words now, content is here: -Elementary Strakes with Affinity Photo- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWxwbY1tDrU
  8. Asked the same similar function in another thread ... i'm just happy to see that it's picking up. We shoudl be able to add our own subscriptions like pixabay etc or even other paid stock sites, i've tried the one proposed in ADesigner and they work very well and make it kind of fun. Serif Team should consider to make it possible for us to also register to those stocks sites as we all don't know them, we should be able throught an assistant to register and even pay (secure payment) and even buy or register Affinity from themselves because sometimes i personaly am lazy enough to open another page/tab on my web browser to do so ...
  9. i really believe the flood selection tool needs a lot (not a bit) of refinement and even an overhaul. Guys (talking to Devs), at this stage you should come up with something like subject or area selection that will help us to quickly select a precise area on a picture (cloud, sky, a person etc.) with great ease and intelligently calculated by the software then we can just move on masking or deleting or simply undoing the selection (for fun). Blessings.
  10. Well @Mithferion wasn't coming agaisnt you at all. Dear all i invite you to look at this video from my dear friend Tom Cargill from Satori Graphics he did on the new Gradient thing. I believe we can all learn from this (even Serif Devs and Tech), please guys (talking to Devs) if you have planned to deliver a similar tool on coming releases, make sure we don't fall into the trap we see in the linked video.
  11. +1 for the Collaborative cloud based system. This is something i thought about for days; don't want to add another software to my toolbox but in the same time other software have a kind of collaborative thing already present. With SketchApp yuo can collaborate on project (even if their model kind of confusing) With inVision it's all about collaboration with Gravit Designer you can do some collaboration. So... making it possible for us to have something similar but even better even if Serif could charge small amount of money for those who need to have access it would be great. We would then be able to work with designers located overseas but uses Affinity by Serif on projects and see our values and experience increasing on many aspects.
  12. Hi @Mithferion ... just to have it; that's actually what most of peoples here wants and care about. having ADesigner or even photo to open stuffs from Adobe gradient concept or works is really something else which can be considered as a work arround or possibility released in an update of our tool but... as i said and i believe many will agree with me on this (even you) ... Just having a revolutionary Gradient Mesh or Free thing gradient that works and enable us all to do amazing stuffs is what we all need here (just talking about this tool).
  13. Hello @I'm Ant two of your pics where so inspiring to me i actually tried to do some HDR tricks with it. My first idea was to try do some color restoration close to natural look ... i don't know your weather but i just guessed taking reference to object colorization. Hope you will like and i really hope your photography course is going well.
  14. @Whistler possible you wait until the coming 1.7 passes the beta phase (which we are going to be real time contributors) then decide if you stay or move? Honestly, out there I see That many Design softwares Such as SketchApp will struggle a lot and at a higher level With tools like XD which does really impressive work. The new adobe toy kit is not a joke at all despite the evident bugs that designers who migratedmigrated can now see and experience but still, the weather is bad out there. Let's come together and help Serif to deliver that life saving toolkit we all dream about. I'm also expecting things such as a fresh new Ui that rocks and shake the boat and tons of new tools but I do understand this: we have made a choice to stand with king David... So let it be despite King Saul assault and Goliath roaring, let's stand firm. Blessing
  15. i have a question here and would like an answer from one Dev if possible. I have a small Acer Aspire with an AMD A4 1250 Dual Core Processor + 4096GB RAM + AMD Radeon HD 8210. Do you honestly this can run Affinity suite for "even" projects? What settings do you recommand for such small config? i personaly want to use it for my on-the-go work because it has a touch screen and it's simply small but cool. Blessings.
  16. Can you please share your export settings dear? Maybe by having a look at that we can figure out how to help you even better. Just share a capture of the "More setting" of your export dialogue
  17. This is where portability for stuffs such as annotations and comment on files created with affinity would be of a great help ro simply even ... an Affinity Reader that allows clients to make their comment or anotations on the shared file for us to make necessary changes. That small thing can be even small sized (no need for a massive reader) but will only serve for annotation or comment added on projects. Ain't this a good idea ?
  18. this is so good to read. The last weeks have been busy with massive release and conferences etc... now i personally can't breath on the internet ... Adobe is everywhere ! Really guys, make that great thing you have been working on to surface. Please note this: 1- Web Design is made with vector software's so Affinity Designer must be able and matured enough to allow us making even better stuffs for web. look at the way XD actually defeated Sketch App and almost appears like it's the only tool around now. 2- Bring some new way to do prototyping but also make possible for Affinity users to do collaborative work in a proper way 3- Make it possible for us to add our already existing subscription from stock and font websites 4- Open or allow us here to officially become Serif Affinity Evangelists/Specialists and trainer ... i mean official recognition of Affinity is a must and will make our community even stronger. 5- Make more Live Keynotes i really loved the first one 6- Make it possible for us to log on tickets for specific issues we may have, this will avoid us having the frustration that happen when writing on the forum and not receiving answers for days or weeks. 7- Add more things and gadget on the store than just the books and the software's, also add T-Shirts etc. (we can them on our own but it's always better to buy one from the product creator himself). 8- Edit a Student-Teacher reference book for those who may want to learn and teach to others in return (in case Serif maintain there will be no official cursus at all) 9- help us Love affinity even more by simply building it great and great again ! Blessings.
  19. Hope you will enjoy the thing behind the link ! https://blog.fps.hu/274-vector-solid-icons-for-free/
  20. Hello @IsabelAracama well personaly i'm a big fan of gradient and the way they can make a composition even dreamy or simply good enough but never get my hand to it with Adobe products, it was frustrating but then came Affinity where i actually got to the point of gradient and how to create them and the color theory thing. That was a bit of story ... Now ! that new tool is just great and very useful when we consider it is always a nightmare to create and abstract background (we're not all Mozart nor Pablo Picasso ) i suggest Affinity to come up with something even better, why would you ask? Simply because i perceive a bit of Styles thing we have in ADesigner mixed with the already existing Ai Mesh tool. To me Serif need to bring a real Nec-PLus-Ultra : Free Gradient, Blend/interpolate Tool, Shape builder and keep improving the snapping in the products we use. Reall it's pure merveille to work with APub for printing projects (i've done few personal things and they just made young peoples go crazy around me) but keep making the product even professional. in the same time, Chapeau to Adobe for the way they improve their interface and it's whole actions (flipping menus ... they also got inspired by Serif for iPad for this and simply ported it to desktop ... ... my joke to world). Well ... let's improve !
  21. Thank you so much @GarryP i have more content coming in fews weeks ... was overthinking all this but came to the point of sharing what i already had. Really, Big Thanks to you for watching !
  22. Hello Everyone, I'm happy to share this with all of You today. Well i'm really sorry for sending this so late but i wasn't sure i could share it here but i hope you will take 4min to watch as our 1st video demo there was done with Affinity Designer MacOs. Your comments will be of great help to me making the Chan better, there is still more to come and be published but let's first see how to make this one even better. https://goo.gl/wrJFn3 Blessings.
  23. Wait and see, many here where about to leave the boat or simply pack their bag and go back to their old wife because they expected too much and far above what Serif they would do ... i strongly advice you to expect but make the best with and of what you already have available because in the same time patent kills
  24. Hello @jctremblay i really would like to help and be the one helping but i'm not physically in Montreal as this request fits with what i am now but ... i can only trust you to fidn the right person. Please feel free to share any kind or level of video content showing that meetup or even make it possible for people out of Canada to attend through the internet (skype, Youtube live, etc.) Blessings !
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