KipV
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Mike, the LR like products are still very new (about 10 years old) where the layout tools are closer to 30. There is still a lot of ground to cover in this area. It is interesting to me how Apple scrapped both of their photo catalog tools in favor of a new one (Aperture and iPhoto which got replaced by Photos.) This shows in part that the pace of development in this area is moving quite quickly with a lot of innovation still in the pipeline. I haven't used Ventura so I can't comment on that. Jens, as far as all the internet development tools I am wondering what the demand is for doing that in tool like ID and Quark over using apps that are specifically made for web design? Perhaps Affinity's persona feature would make this workflow significantly better? (A persona for web development, print, and ebook?)
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I am curious to what areas you would think Affinity would do much better then Quark and/or ID? Having a single file format would be nice and could provide an new interesting way to work but beyond that it is hard for me to think of features that Serif would come out with that the other two couldn't just immediately copy with a vastly larger feature set.
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Over the last couple of days I have been trying out the latest version of Quark that I have been really enjoying using (2017 is the only version I have used.) To me it seems like this is going to be a very hard area for Serif to compete in given that there are two products that many are happy with that have been advancing since the 1980s (or at least there are people that are happy with one of those two options.) Even if Publisher was out today it would still have a massive challenge in competing with these two options especially at Quark's new low $400 entry price (and yes that is low for a product of that level.) To me it seems like Lightroom like products would be so much easier to compete with due to the fact that it is a field that is only about ten years old and still has a lot of room to grow. I still have several major grips with LR and also the way that Affinity Photo interacts with catalog software like Apple Photos. It just seems like the more logical step to me. I think the fact that LR is the one app that hasn't not yet been subscription only shows that Adobe is aware that customers could easily move off this product to a competitor more easily then many other more well established products.
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I keep getting this error when I save a file from within affinity that was opened in Apple Photos. When this comes up it deletes all the work I did in my edit! Why does this happen? It is a very frequent error. It says it failed to save since it was already open in another app but opening the photo in Apple Photos is the only way to get to the editing extension. I am very confused as to why this keeps happening.
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Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 2.1)
KipV replied to MattP's topic in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on macOS threads
Yes Alex, thanks for pointing out the differences. I do reminder seeing icons that were quite blurry and pixelated. I hope larger icons are come soon since both my Macs are now retina so they could really use the support! -
Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 2.1)
KipV replied to MattP's topic in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on macOS threads
I can see the change now, it's the difference of maybe a 0% grey to perhaps a 10%-15% grey on the side tool bar. What I was mainly looking at was the buttons across the top that to my eyes look extremely close. Glad to see progress in this area though! -
Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 2.1)
KipV replied to MattP's topic in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on macOS threads
I am not sure I see the difference with light UI. I have beta 1 and beta 2 side by side and it looks about the same. -
I didn't realize that clicking "separated mode" again would bring all the panels back together. It took me a couple of days to figure that out. I thought that merge and seperate where two opposing functions.
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I needed to go into separated mode today and was surprised to find that I couldn't get back to the normal view later. If I select merge under the window menu the checkmark remains on separated mode. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? I don't use separated mode enough to know if this behavior is unusual. Seems like it should just snap back into the view that is just windows in front of a blank background rather then seeing all my other app windows behind me.
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Affinity Publisher - Markdown Support
KipV replied to Gebnar's topic in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts
I have never heard of a feature like that. Can other programs do that like InDesign? -
There is already a feature that shows outlines of your design (command-y.) That is what I want except in print form rather then on my screen. If Serif already has a similar feature it seems like it wouldn't be much more work to implement it to print. I'll try your way to do it, thanks for the suggestion.
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Making the fills white (or non) would be my preferred option so I could print right from my office and hang things up. I think if Serif added an option to skip this step that would be really helpful. There is an option to print color posters as black and white in the print settings but I would use the outline only feature even more it they added it. Thanks for the suggestion.
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I would like to print a poster on my printer that uses expensive ink to be able to see what it looks like at full scale in my print out. There will be several tweeks before the finished posters so I would like to not waste ink. Is there any way to do this? I didn't see the option in the print dialog box.
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I am glad to see more layout features coming to Affinity 1.6! :) I am currently finishing a typography class and the software has been doing quite well for most of my assignments. The new font features are greatly appreciated.
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MEB What is the easiest way to make a clipping path around an object that has a solid color background? Use the pen tool to draw around it?
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That's too bad since it is a very basic operation I usually rely on for doing clipping paths for a very long time now. If I have a solid background around an object it is usually quickest to just use the wand tool to select the background to select most of what I want then use the brush to do detail around the part , do an inverse selection and then convert that to paths. Is this on the to do list?
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I don't think someone has already asked this but is there a way to to go from a quick mask to to a clipping mask? In PS I usually that is the way I usually do it rather then using the pen tool.
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Designer 1.6 Beta – when?
KipV replied to Matthias's topic in [ARCHIVE] Designer beta on macOS threads
I don't have any problem with doing a paid update at this point either. 1.0 was missing a number of important features so all these free updates made sense but now that 1.5 is quite good I don't see why there needs to be another long line of free updates without putting a paid release in there somewhere. It's much more important to me that Serif can expand their staff and product line then for me to keep getting updates at no charge. Maybe just roll a couple of updates into one (like 1.6 and 1.7) and then call it 2 and make it paid. I know one of the staff since getting more employees is not a matter of where they are financially but I also got a newsletter saying just about the opposite of that. It said that they rely on the customers to advertise the product since all the money was getting put into developing it and there were not funds left to go into other areas. -
I am beginning to think that Serif needs to rise their prices so that they can bring on board more developers. More concerned with getting new graphics apps then with low prices.
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It seems like there would be at least a few people at Adobe who are not happy with the direction of illustrator who would want to bring their expertise to a product they believe in. I realize many of those people might not know all the Apple technologies that have sprouted up in the last few years though.
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A couple months ago I was asking for help from the community on technical issues around designing the book (thanks for that!) and since then the book was published and now available for purchase. I used both apps for designing the cover and back cover but used Lightroom for editing the black and white photos on the inside. Affinity probably would have done well on the inside was well. Generally quite pleased with the programs for layout and am looking forward to future versions! https://www.amazon.com/Changed-Forever-Jimbo-Bailey-Story/dp/B01MS1D4A7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484346928&sr=8-1&keywords=jimbo+bailey
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I want to back track I little on what I posted this July about extensions working great. As much as a love AP as a Photoshop replacement the combination of AP and Apple Photos can't touch LR. There are just too many issues between the two apps: - Photos will get flattened if over a certain size. - Files sometimes don't get saved. This caused me to end up saving my Affinity work in the Finder but unfortunately photos of a certain size don't seem to give previews either. In my opinion AP most needed feature is to make it catch up with LR more then with Photoshop. I noticed that this is by far my highest viewed topic so clearly this issue matters to most people. Hopefully improvements in this area will get moved up Serif's list of priorities.
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Lee this feature doesn't seem to work anymore. First of all when I export an image it isn't called 3D LUT anymore it is just called LUT and when I go to import the information the image just turns blue. I don't understand why it is blue since the settings on the original image where not blue.
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I used to use Apple Mail as my default mail app and love the steps that were saved by using the share feature from within the Affinity apps. Since I moved to Postbox I have lost that feature. Email sharing works in Finder, Photos, Safari, etc to Postbox but will not work in Affinity to Postbox. I talked to the Affinity developers and I think they said that sharing works differently with Affinity? I would love it if someone could get this sorted out so I could share from Affinity to Postbox like could used to do with Apple Mail.
