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    lineweight got a reaction from IAmMatt in Canva   
    It's a bit hard to understand what's in it for Canva.
    Surely they haven't paid an enormous amount of money, to enable you to carry on making upgrades for existing users for free.
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    lineweight reacted to Ash in Affinity is joining the Canva family   
    Hi All,

    I am thrilled to announce that Affinity is joining the Canva family.
    This is a moment of great excitement, anticipation, and profound gratitude for all of you who have been part of our story so far. 
    We know that those of you who’ve put your faith in Affinity, some since we launched our very first Mac app, will have questions about what this means for the future of our products. Since the inception of Affinity, our mission has been to empower creatives with tools that unleash their full potential, fostering a community where innovation and artistry flourish. We've worked tirelessly to challenge the status quo, delivering professional-grade creative software that is both accessible and affordable. 
    None of that changes today.
    In Canva, we’ve found a kindred spirit who can help us take Affinity to new levels. Their extra resources will mean we can deliver much more, much faster. Beyond that, we can forge new horizons for Affinity products, opening up a world of possibilities which previously would never have been achievable. 
    Canva’s revolutionary approach to design democratisation and commitment to empowering everyone to create aligns perfectly with our core values and vision. This union is a testament to what can be achieved when two companies that share a common goal of making design accessible and enjoyable for everyone come together. 
    I want to express my deepest gratitude to our incredible Affinity team. Your passion, dedication, and relentless pursuit of excellence have been the driving force behind our success so far, and I can’t wait to continue this journey with you all. 
    To our loyal users and the creative community, your support and feedback have been invaluable. You’ve inspired us to push boundaries and continuously improve, and we’re excited to embark on this new chapter together. 
    The future is bright, and I am incredibly excited to continue our story together and create a world where design is within everyone's reach.
    With heartfelt thanks,
    Ash
    For more information...
    We have made four pledges to the Affinity community which you can read here. We have included some FAQs at the bottom of the announcement article here. A video message from me with some more background is on YouTube here. This announcement post is locked, but I have included a duplicate of it in the questions forum here which you can respond to.
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    lineweight got a reaction from Display in Why are there three Affinity apps?   
    Forgive me if this is something that is asked/discussed frequently.
    Sporadic user of both Photo and Designer here (haven't really tried Publisher yet).
    It's taken me a while to realise that the functionality of the apps overlaps quite a bit, and that you can shuffle files between them.
    I also kind of get the concept of "personas" - different workspaces that are focused on doing different things to the same basic file, which you can switch between.
    So each app is composed of a group of personas, and yet each app is in itself a kind of persona, because again they seem to really be different workspaces focused on doing different things to the same basic filetype.
    This makes things more confusing than they need to be, I think. Certainly to new or occasional users. For example is the 'pixel' persona in Designer sort of the same as the 'photo' persona in Photo? If I want to start out on making a drawing I have to try and decide if I'm going to do so in Designer or Photo. Does the decision at this stage determine what I can do later? I'm never quite sure but I don't think it does.
    Why not just have one big application, with multiple personas? So if I want to do RAW photo stuff, there's a persona for that. If I want to do pixel based drawing, there's a persona for that (saving me trying to work out which app is best to use). And so on.
    Maybe this is to do with the history of the way the software has been developed?
    I think the software would be more attractive to new users (and also people like me who don't use it every day, and have to remind themselves of how things work in between sessions of using it)  if there was just one application - Affinity Something - that did everything. If splitting into three is to do with pricing, then give people the option to purchase different packages of personas.
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    lineweight got a reaction from John Rostron in Best way to consistently convert multiple images to B&W in Publisher?   
    Thanks. I actually was looking at that thread before starting this one.
    These are the methods listed there
    1) Go to Document > Colour Format > Greyscale.  Although I never use this as it's destructive and removes the colour information permanently
    2) Go to Layer > New Fill Layer, fill it with white and set the layer blend mode to 'Colour'
    3) Add a Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer and change the Output Channel to 'Grey'
    4) Add a Curves Adjustment Layer, set the layer blend mode to 'Colour', then drag the bottom-left corner point of the curve to the top-left corner (so that it's a horizontal line)
    5) Add a HSL Adjustment Layer and drag the 'Saturation Shift' slider all the way to the left (-100%)
    6) Add a Black & White Adjustment Layer
    7) Add a Black & White Adjustment Layer, and change the default values from 100%, to the following values to mimic method 3 (adding a Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer).  R=29.8%, Y=88.5%, G=58.9%, C=69.9%, B=11.4%, M=41.2% (for RGB 8-bit images only, the values will be different for RGB 16-bit images).  You can record this as a macro.
    😎 Add a Soft Proof Adjustment Layer and set the Proof Profile to 'Greyscale D50'.  This will mimic method 1 (Document > Colour Format > Greyscale)
    9) To do it via 'Layer Effects' for a layer or group.  Open the 'Layer Effects' settings.  Go to 'Colour Overlay' and set Blend Mode to Colour, Opacity to 100% and Colour to white or black.
     
    Method 1 wouldn't work for me as I don't want to change the whole document, just certain images.
    Methods 2-4 and 7-9 would be rather laborious to do individually for each image.
    Method 5  doesn't seem to work for me. I can do this on two images and they don't end up the same tonally.
     
    Method 6 does work. However, it does something to the image that I need to fix by adjusting levels. That's OK but it worries me it's introducing changes that don't need to happen. So, am wondering if there are any better approaches. If not, I'll go with this.
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    lineweight reacted to thomaso in Exporting PDFs for booklet printing: "File>Export" vs "Print>Save as PDF"   
    Great! Sorry if I was unclear with my "If I would not want or be able to use the export option that includes crop-/printmarks".
    Also this may sound unclear: "I never experienced one who would prefer spreads over single pages or a pre-press workflow without included correct page imposition." It was meant to say that I never experienced a print service that would demand imposed 2-page spreads or that would not be able to do the imposition from a single pages PDF in its layout page order 1, 2, 3, etc.
    With other words: None of your concerns should matter with a professional print provider and you should keep your document & PDF pages in their 'natural' order without moving them around as shown in your second screenshot of imposed pages.
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    lineweight reacted to PaulEC in Can Publisher convert a single-pages PDF to one with double-spread pages?   
    Easiest way: create a new blank document, with the layout you want, then place the individual pages, in the right order, from version 2.
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    lineweight got a reaction from NotMyFault in Preview what an image will look like on a monitor with different colour gamut?   
    Thanks for trying anyway!
     
    This stuff is quite complicated and I'm on a steep learning curve trying to get my head around it...
    One thing that I've discovered so far is that many applications don't actually do their colour management properly, especially once you are dealing with things outside of sRGB.
     
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    lineweight got a reaction from Alfred in Techniques for sketch-like "colouring in" in vector format   
    Thanks - this is useful.
    This setting seems to be remembered when I use "synchronise with defaults" to pick up attributes from already existing objects, so it seems that it would not be too tricky to manage a drawing such that the 'linework' curves did not 'scale with object' but the fill ones would.
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    lineweight got a reaction from jmwellborn in Mac M1 users - does RAM amount make a difference?   
    Thanks.
    Of course, it might be that it would also have been fine with 8gb!
    In any case...I have decided to go for 16gb to be safe.
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    lineweight got a reaction from emmrecs01 in Trying to fix a 43 yr old   
    Not very impressive at all, as you can see it's got lots of colours completely wrong, and made a right mess of several bits of the photo.
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    lineweight reacted to BarKeegan in Can I have "stroke presets" in Affinity Designer   
    Hmmm, this may not solve your problem entirely 😬 (thought it saved width information too...)
    but it may be useful to some degree

    FullSizeRender.mov
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    lineweight reacted to BarKeegan in Can I have "stroke presets" in Affinity Designer   
    When I get to my desktop, I’ll upload a sample and see if that helps
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    lineweight reacted to Polygonius in Brushes (organize, find, get access...)   
    The WHOLE brush-concept is suboptimal. The functionality is almost great, but all aspects of access and the handling is... could be much more better
     
    1. View of brushes
    With hundreds of brushes in dozens of categories... you will become some problems to find which you want. The only possible preview-view is this stroke-view. This view is complete useless if you search for eg. a texture, or if the size is set to a small or extra-big value... There is absolute no option to show/order the brush just as big quader-view, showing the "texture", sort by size, sort by name.. BTW: when doing any other action, and going back to brush-panel... the highlight is disappeared, so what brush im currently use???
    2. Fast access to standard or similar brushes overall
    However in which category i am, which tool i use...  There a lot of situations i need a standard-brush during the situation i use other ones. Same by changing the tool. Its nice that last brsuh for this tool is remembered... in maybe 60% thats a good choice.  But as said often i need a standard-one. The way to panal-brush, hamburger to simple, choose one is very very long windowed, the way back is even more complicated, if do not remember, which category, which item...
    The solution: Right-click: Besides other context-options, each brush-like-tool offers a right-context and here are in the first divide-area some entries like this "use standard 1,2,3..."  (i have defined 5 standard brushes); "go to favorite" (here i have maybe 7 favorite brushes... in maybe different categorys, the brsuh-panel will automatically react to this); and "go back"...here are my last 5 brushes (except the standard ones). 
    Another right-menu- (better context-bar) should be: "Use current size" and "do not use tool"  Each brush has its own size, and some ones special tools.This is often a big advantage, but often not. If i just searching for TEMPORALLY POSSIBLE brush... i almost want the candidates in a equal chosen size, with same opacity... and of course i do not want wet edges or another tool, when just searhing for this job. This checkboxes, will narcotic the special UNIQUE brush-settings and call them in the most familiar way as the current one. This is only valid as long the check is active!
    3. Edit a brush TEMPORALLY or as automic "OVER-WRITTEN"
    There is absolutely no way to temporally change a brush, when using the brush panel. ALL settings there will immediately "stored" without asking. But in 90% i just want this changes just temporally...  There should be a "Save/Overwrite" button, if i want this changes PERMANENTLY,  otherwise all done settings are just temporally, just for this current job and only valid as soon i change to another brush! If i want this settings PERMANENT., i have several options: Overwrite, Save as (= duplicate+++, below the original), Save as in category....  save as VARIATION (later more)
    As said before: A context-right for brush-tools would be great. Here could also be the entry "open further settings". This will popup  the brsuh-setting-panel  from above, but directly here. And this panel gets automatically closed if the mouse get outside the panel. EXCEPT: i hit the button: Stay in front, or so. Otherwise its a one or maybe 3 edit window, as long visible as the mouse is inside. 
    As said before, all settings here are just temporally, if i change the brush, all is forgotten, except i EXPLICIT save as/overwrite... 
    4. Do we need so much brushes? The Power of VARIATIONS!
    What is a brush? Except the standard ones, a brush is just a HOLDER of a single- or several images... with special settings, how to repeat this images. I would say all "brushes" which use the same image(s) are one brush, but different variotions. Well the settings can be so extrem different, i would not say its a family, even if the definition above is valid. But for lot of brushes we could put them together as just "variation". Grunge-Edgy-brushes for example. We need this brushes as top, left, above, right... edges in maybe different sizes... Or texture brushes with the same images in different sizes/rotations/opacity/flow...This will grow up our librarys, lot of SAME brushes will appear as single-ones. With VARIATIONS that would be much more easy, faster, smarter... 
    If i right-click of on a VARITION-brush i get all its "Variations" (size, rotation, flow, opacity... dynamics... and combinings)... as one-click-selection! This would, save lot of same brsuhes with just different soizes...rotations... organize all brushes in a significant better, very fast and really smart way. A piano-sound keeps a piano sound, even with different play-wise and lot of FX. Well, if i do a lot work, it maybe can sound like a contrabass... but why not use the contrabass as first element???? And if my piano-fx sounds like a saxophon... i will take this sample as new "parent" for new variations... The "family-idea" keeps under all circumtances the same. 
    And yeah, normaly 0-1 sets the opacity for a brush... if i option, why not use this numbers instead for my dedicated, more precise VARIATIONS???? (i can use normal behavior or say: for this BRUSH use the fisrt 10 variations...)
    5. Creating new brushes/behaviors/dynamics...
    Why can i not rightclick a layer and say "create new brush from it"?  This longwindow via save and search in the brush dialog... ist sooooo unsmart!
    Why not "repeating" part of the image but in front and end there will be take other parts of the images, like an audio- sample, its repeats just only the "middle" but will fade in/out... 
    Why not using special-keys for special dynamics? With shift all dynamics will pressured and with command all dynamics will multiply by 2..... or control will change the size, even if sizedynamic = zero.... and so on...
    6. Presets
    Well ALL of the AP-Preset-SystemS (yes plural) in AP lacks of lot things. Some are rename, but not moveable, some one  can organzied inside a category, but the categorys not moved... and so on... It seems, dozens of single-people, without any ideas of concept and "anticipate user wishes; unslave them from lot of long-windowed" could try their luck! ALL this systems are inconsistent, each other, and long-windowed and i would say Semi-semi-semi-professionell. My 7 years old daughter would this better "concept", cause she knows, its better to have ALL colored pencils in separate boxes , not in the whole flat, room, garden... AND she knows sometimes its better to reorganize ALL pencils to project-ones... But even than, after each projekt, she is going back to her normally order... she likes most lexibility WITH basic-structure and she is very, very lazy... maybe thats the reason, she does not like to do things twice or long-windowed, or over-complicated... she is FLEXIBLE-PRAGMATIC, before doing anything, lets get an overview... is this the best way? who says???? what would be, if...!!!  
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    lineweight got a reaction from Patrick Connor in Why are there three Affinity apps?   
    It would be a funny old style of cooking, where you put stuff in the kettle, heated it up a bit, put it in the blender, blended it a bit, put it back in the kettle, heated it a bit, then stuck it in the microwave. Then back in the blender for a bit. Then the kettle for the final touches.
     
     
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    lineweight got a reaction from Move Along People in Why are there three Affinity apps?   
    This is not what I am suggesting, though. I'm suggesting one application with a number of personas. Not all of the tools available simultaneously.
    Then when I want to do a particular task, I just need to understand which persona is the best one. At the moment I need to make a two-level choice; first which application, then which persona in that application. This means I might be choosing between two personas whose functions overlap significantly with one another. To me this is more confusing, and unnecessary.
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    lineweight got a reaction from Peternel in Slice export presets are very confusing!   
    Trying to use the Export persona in Affinity Photo and I find the various presets monumentally confusing; there seem to be two types of preset the names of which are too similar.
    If I've got my head around it, there are both "Export Options presets" and also "Export Setup presets".
    An "Export Setup Preset" is applied per slice, and it can call on (multiple?) "Export Options presets" for the exports from that slice.
    I think the names need to be more distinct and clearer about what they actually do.
    To add further to the confusion, the "expert setup preset" is chosen from a dropdown that's simply labelled "export preset", so it's really confusing, what you're actually choosing in there.
    I don't know if it's just me but it completely does my head in!
     
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