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  1. Uncle Mez
    Thank you @Andy Somerfield i'm really enjoying this new release which i found quite faster then the previous one but also more organized. still i need to work few more projects with this new beta and maybe i will come back here to share what i've found. i've worked on a quick project that involved the used of this beta version, it is here Hope it will indicate you where i'm standing with this great product, Blessings !
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    Hello Peoples ! I'm back with this quick project i've done for a seasonal accessories reseller in my town. Please check it as the previous one and tell me what you find not okay and how you would make it better. This project was done with : Affinity Photo Public Beta 1.7.0.110 (For everything Pixels) Affinity Designer beta 1.7.0.4 (for everything Vector) Affinity Designer 1.7.0.238 (For everything layout and export) + Luminar 3 was used for its good capability to export in JPEG for social networks (Whatsapp + Facebook) Color + Luminance Boost was done using Luminar 3 Ai enhancer preset at 85% with Clarity Boosted at 3%, i've added this details for more informations, i know few of the team members often look at this topic so this can help them understand my actual process and help bring corrections if needed, Blessings !
  3. Uncle Mez
    Hi @AdamW please let's take it easy. i'm not blaming you or the devs team or anyone in fact i'm raising something that seems logical if we consider the way of software usage. That's why i quoted about the philosophy because it may be a deliberate choice and that also is good but just sometime there are leftovers in the kind of work you do which is massive and really respectable. the case i raised is not like: You do it now ... or ... You do it ! but it is more like: Guys, it is normal that we have no Save As ??? @Seneca i appreciate your intervention and it is of good mean. Please take it like i'm also sharing my experience, i don't know how to test a software beta or not without putting it in front line and pushing hard against the wall and see how deos it react. Maybe there is a different way of doing that but i don't know that other way. I take everything beta (designer - Photo and Publisher) and i do my daily work with it and try to make my client happy, i'm not saying i don't find bugs or non satisfying stuffs but the fact of working with the tool everyday makes me sensitive of how the software have changed and also how it can be changed for good but also sometime the way i express it is not that accurate and i'm sorry for that. Maybe i just made you or other people here in an uncomfortable position with my writings ... will try to make better content ! Blessings !
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    Hello @AdamW Thank you so much for this and also for the server you uploaded the software to. I'm sure it won't make me trouble downloading. Well Dear, we don't all upgrade even when we know we go through a Beta cycle, so i suggest you include into the Save As a possibility to save project as old supported file format similar to what Microsoft office does or you can add an additional tab into the export so we can export as ... old file format. Just in case i may forget about it ! Please you should consider to make it possible (for those doing book edition) to organize pages according to its nature/importance but also it should be possible for us to add separators between different sections of the same document, here i mean APub should allow us to edit very large document and when a document (book, report etc.) get very large we should be able to organize into sections and even we should be able reorganize an entire section by selecting then drag and drop where we want it to be. I mean this will make APub a real challenger to already established solutions but also will bring ease of use. I will develop this (if i have time) into the suggestion topics for APub but for not i drop it here so that i don't forget about. Blessings !
  5. Uncle Mez
    Are you a Super Hero? I ask Because you are so quick to come with answers that bring particular peace.
  6. Uncle Mez
    +1 I like this one but ... why a line if like you said one pixel is sometimes hard to distinguish. A rounded or square would be more visible. And this look like the one from Adobe but much thinner though I like it's gradient color which is inovative. Good idea
  7. Uncle Mez
    Hello People Hello teams. I know you are busy with top notch stuff but it seems like you have forgotten to add the Close All into Affinity Publisher. Yet if I have more than one project file open I can't close them all at once but need to close one by one. This is good but can get anoying if I have 15 tab to close. I've noticed there is no Close All implemented into the recent beta of APhoto and ADesigner so... maybe it is time to correct it or to explain the philosophy behind such choice (if it one and if there is a philosophy) Note that projects are often more about compositions with objects copied from many sources and when finished (we often leave tabs open just in case) then comes the time to close the software in a non brutal way (the brutal way often leads to crash or bugs) So please implement that and tweak it more than what it should be. Blessings
  8. Uncle Mez
    Hello Peoples ! I've been working on a photo project and needed to remove some blemish then ... found that the dedicated tool for that have some limitations that needs to improved. Okay ! let's compare it with the inPainting tool menu and we will see that for manual work there are really missing stuffs in there, exemple: - BRT can't process Non-Destructively yet (which is not a good thing if we work out of develop persona) - BRT doesn't offer pen presure in order to control the thing - BRT is not that area/content aware as it should be - BRT in the develop persona always display Blemish: None, which is not true considering i've loaded a photo with blemishes so the automatic blemish detection is not working as expected here and should be improved. in fact, in the develop personal the operation should be more automated with the possibility to fine tune it, it should auto-detect all blemishes then point them and allow us to fine tuning it by removing points that we know are not blemishes but a misinterpretation of the software detection process. on the other hand it should be possible in the Photo persona to create a blank/empty pixel layer and do the work from that layer with appropriate settings like Pen Presure control, hardness, flow, opacity and width ... only to list that. it is actually not a suggestion but a request for tool improvement ... BTW i invite the entire community to bring up some ideas on how each one feels it could be improved because i may be missing things here or simply not understanding the Serif philosophy regarding that same tool. Blessings !
  9. Uncle Mez
    Hello @Clanks we are not close yet ! So i would recommend you contact the sales team of Serif to know more. I believe if they will direct you on how to buy, look like if you go for the perpetual license you have more flexibility on releases. i just don't know if 1.6 license will work for 1.7, 1.8 or even v2 ... but it should if i consider the meaning of perpetual So go the sales team route and ask, they will tell you what to do !
  10. Uncle Mez
    Hello Peoples, Hello Team ! Well today i want to raise a point that we often skip as we move on to more cool and nice Affinity stuffs and that point is: Layer color setup ! Yes often want to make better organization of our layers and marking them with appropriated colors (personal way to code this and that) is often what we tend to do but ! The actual way to do that is a bit of ... not as bad but ... too long and too burried/hidden : Right Click on the layer - scroll down to properties then proceed ! Now let's think of it in a different way. (that's the purpose of this suggestion). I believe that putting a clickable square or round button in front of the layer (blank in the beginning) that we can just click to reveal the same drop down thing which i think should eventually show more options than just color and name). After we do what necessary, that button or square thing would then switch from its blank/empty display to the selected color and the layer name would also update when we close it by clicking out of that drop down stuff. Being able to lock it should be great too ! Also i see that function to mark a layer with a color is missing on APhoto (recent beta) while it is something important. Well that what i drop here as suggestion and i believe some other have though or asked the same. Please guys may you think this is important or just useful please drop your comment with more details or even a drawing of how you think it could look like (to help the dev team) or just click and like this topic. Blessings !
  11. Uncle Mez
    Hello Team ! Wanted to know if it is possible to make it possible for us to make simple or easy mask/Layer copy within the layer studio by simply holding CMD+Drag to the needed/desired layer. This is a missing functionality that will help a lot. Actually the only way to make that is to right click-Copy then paste ... which is ... too much work ! By making it possible to click on the mask/layer (i'm more thinking about mask here) then drag it above or below but in the place we want it to be copied and just drop it where we want to see it duplicated and auto pasted, we would save a lot of time and avoid too much click, right click etc. How many of us here want so badly to make their workflow more quicker/smoother then it is right now ? Please drop a Like or +1 and even tell here how you would want the Dev's to actually implement it (maybe I've missed some other aspects of how this could be) Blessings !
  12. Uncle Mez
    Well thanks i can see that ! it is not a problem, my channel too is outdated for 3months now. Still need to learn more about video montage and get some nice ideas to put on video. Will watch your contents from now dear ! Blessings
  13. Uncle Mez
    dear @Allan Thompson your work is great and i appreciate this but still need to figure it out a bit more ! BTW your Youtube channel is not existing ... are you sure you put the right url ? Blessings !
  14. Uncle Mez
    Hello @Wosven Could not expect less than what you put together in your comment. Really helpful ! As i told you, the project is still open and the requester said nothing yet but surely will do so very soon. the idea behind this type of business cards is simply to unveil the person or personality behind, to reveal that nice person to others. it has more meaning than this simple one i gave you but at least you the idea. i will try to put your advises in practice and propose some new revamps and which one the guy takes. Thank you for your input.
  15. Uncle Mez
    Hello Peoples ! Don't you think it is time for Serif to implement a learning mode into Affinity software ? i mean the learning more is very useful for new comers who may want learn the software by themselves for basic and complex operations. This can be backed up with official tutorials etc... but the real change would be for those offline to be directed in an interactive mode one they activate the learning mode. it can droping the learning curve as many are coming from PS or Ai and uses quite different terminology than we do and learning mode can help make the switch even better and easier. i don't know how useful you think this can be for Affinity users but i just put it here may it be of any help. Blessings :
  16. Uncle Mez
    Nice topic ! I also found the magnetic selection tool to not work as expected and it seems the tool decides what is good to be selected even if i force it to select what i wanted. Well i skipped the report and switched to polygonal selection tool that does a better work and you can refine the sharp corner by using the smooth selection in the Selection menu and just increase percentage/pixels and you will get something much better. But Magnetic should become more intelligent and ore usable, far more then what we actually have. Blessings !
  17. Uncle Mez
    Thank You for bringing this light. Please make the develop persona to also handle both destructive and non destructive operations. Letting Destructive operations only may push people to not make use of it thus dropping the interest down. Personally i like the Dev Pers. but i every time need to be careful with it and it is painful and i often make use of tons of filters or adjust. layer which often leads to excessive tuning. Bring some possibility to work non destructive into the develop persona and i promise you will see the interest for APhoto increase like never before among all Photograph and Photo retoucher and even more peoples. Blessings !
  18. Uncle Mez
    Hello @Andy Somerfield Really Happy about this new beta version, was just about to go off but i think i will stay a little bit and update then integrate it later. This is surely one of the first thing i will try. This is great, i just though about asking if at some stage you will make it happen and Boom you did it ! So nice ... can't wait to check this up and enjoy it ! Can't understand this but surely i will check this up and see how productive i become with. Any chance to get content aware fill and crop implemented ? won't ask more but download and enjoy this one ! Blessings.
  19. Uncle Mez
    Hello Peoples, Hello Friends ! Today find a new one i'm working on. Well it took it to share this one prior i close with the requester because your advises are valuable to me. Again a Business card, peoples seems to like this concept. Tell me what you like and what you think can make it even better vs what you dislike and think i should change or remove completely. But first i want to have your inputs in order to better this. This other one was made with 100% beta version of Affinity Suite. Blessings !
  20. Uncle Mez
    Dear ! That doesn't matter at all; the most important thing is where you are now and the right choice you have made ! Also added the joy that procure your presence in this community. Blessings !
  21. Uncle Mez
    depending on your config and the amount of time you plan to invest into learning or doing videos i would advice you go for : Filmora 9 or Filmora Pro. Personally i like Filmora Pro it is still new but most of things you can do with premiere you can do with it and not only that Filmora Pro uses less resources on both plateform while you may not easily run or work with Premiere which may lead you to buy another computer (i don't think that what you want). Camtasia is also another good software but only if you plan to deliver educational contents such tutorials, courses etc... that really rocks i use for educational content delivery and it is a really good piece of software. Another point is Filmora Pro and Camtasia are not so expensive and you have tons of pre-made stuffs both free and paid that you can use to start with and learn from. Blessings !
  22. Uncle Mez
    Hello @Wosven As always, it is a pleasure to read from you as you deliver good advises. Well the requester picked the one in the wallet already, he preferred that one but i like really like all points you brought to the light and they are very useful. I have another concept coming in few days and will surely take your advises into account. Well for the picture ... he said: i don't like photos too much so just work on this one ! i agree its not the mood we have when talking about wedding etc. Thank you so much and to everyone looking at this topic and giving advises that help me grow even more. Blessings !
  23. Uncle Mez
    Hello Peoples ! Just want to know if it is possible to do a content aware crop or/and content aware fill with Affinity. if No ! did someone achieve something similar using one of the available tools ? Please share if you succeeded with this so can learn and apply. in case of 100% then it would be a great functionality to add. Blessings !
  24. Uncle Mez
    Hello Peoples! Happy to read this. Well i would advice you better go crowdfund AKIRA which is targeting to be the first Linux Design software (100% dedicated) and then from that act ask the dev team of AKIRA to make it possible to work on multiple file format including Affinity file format and make their format readable and usable with Affinity thus making AKIRA a good mate. You can learn more about AKIRA here : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alecaddd/akira-the-linux-design-tool Blessing !
  25. Uncle Mez
    in fact, this is all good. Separator on one side and Favorite on the other, they both work for the best according to me ! Well yes @fde101 it is possible to make it fit. In this case i would suggest the add of a top search bar when it comes to filters/blending modes etc. and this can also be a basis for fonts too. Yet we can search by typing in it's originate field but personally i often forget about hopefully there Serif place categories which help a lot. So a bit of recap ! Top search bar for Blending modes/Filter in the below shortcut: the search must be able to find a filter/blend mode both by its name and its description (synonym) Revamp of the categorization of font: make the category field more flipping menu recognizable by it icons which auto switch from one category to another by a click Font menu could see the add for search bar which would similar to the other requested search bar, able to find a font by it name or family but also from its description (if there is !) Separator to make blending mode and filters to be more organized and make things easy in the global workflow. Maybe there is other stuff peoples would like to add to this request that will help @Chris B to make better documentation of this but please guys MAKE IT GO INTO the SAME DIRECTION as already discussed and asked. later i will drop a video capture that may help with the understanding of the favorite menu and search bar. Let's help Devs to clearly understand what we ask and let's ear what they have to tell us. Also devs should gives some quick drawing (if possible) of how they think it could work vs what we asked and think it could work; but this is optional and must be linked to what they are allowed to share or talk about. Blessings !
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