Jump to content
You must now use your email address to sign in [click for more info] ×

KipV

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    775

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by KipV

  1. KipV
    I restored my Apple Photos Library from Time Machine and everything worked fine. Now it looks like I just need to export those files out to the Finder and work on them form there.
  2. KipV
    I ended up just exporting the files out to the Finder and then opened those photos up in Affinity from there. I may just export all those large files from Photos to the Finder. I hope at some point Affinity adds Lightroom like photo navigation so I don't have to depend on the Finder to search for photos since it doesn't do that great of a job at it. The Finder is ok for the time being I suppose.
  3. KipV
    Usually all my Affinity changes show up in Apple Photos but when I go to make further edits in Affinity all the changes get lost. Is this happening to anyone else? Is this a bug? It almost seems like I should just edit all my photos from the Finder since it doesn't look like the Apple Photo to Affinity Photo "edit in" feature is working. Frustrating. The layers usually get flattened when exiting from Affinity but does that mean I can't go back and keep the look of the edits I just did? That doesn't make sense to me.
  4. KipV
    Most of these photos have exceeded the 16 MB change limit so that might have something to do with it too.
  5. KipV
    Also I am on Apple Photos 1.5 could that be part of the problem. I don't know if 2.0 is better.
  6. KipV
    Another problem is that when I try to open an edited file in Affinity the changes sometimes won't get brought across to Affinity. Fortunately the changes will often stay in Apple's Photo app.
  7. KipV
    Today I went to Apple Photo to try to edit a photo I had been working on in Affinity but when it opened up all my changes were gone. Then the photo changed to a different photo in Apple Photo. In other words the same photo is showing up Apple Photo twice and one photo disappeared almost entirely. I would go to Time Machine to restore that old version of photo that somehow got messed up. But I don't know how to do that. I can't find that option in Apple Photos. Please help!
  8. KipV
    I bought LR 6 without the subscription and it works fine. Did you know that you can use Apple Photos with Affinity Photo? This way you can view several photos at once and then let Affinity handle the editing. You can't copy adjustments from photo to photo I don't think, or at least not as easily as with LR.
  9. KipV
    Affinity said they were making a DAM app I am wondering if that is something similar to LR? If they already have many of the features of LR inside of photo it doesn't seems like such an app would be all that hard to do.
  10. KipV
    I think they are moving in the direction of a very large iPad screen with pencil but they are just getting there at a slower rate then MS. Like I said previously iPad has a lot of ground to make up just to catch up to today's Mac, or even last decade's Mac (Time Machine, tagging, fast user switching, etc.) I think Apple's focus is on providing software updates for their current hardware before unloading even more iOS hardware that is now made up of multiple iPhones and multiple iPads. I know some with get frustrated at Apple for pushing the release of a desktop iPad off but in the long run it just makes sense to focus on the current product line before expanding to more hardware.
  11. KipV
    I was having this problem a lot in previous version betas and with the MAS versions. The current betas work fine for me in El Capitan.
  12. KipV
    What is interesting about this design is that it is a bit reminisce to the iMac G4. It was an idea that Apple killed off way to soon (only about 2 or 3 years on the market) where the current iMac design has been on the market for about 12 years in varying degrees of thickness. The main difference here being that the iMac could swivel from side to side and the Surface has more up and down movement range. I have thought prior to seeing the Surface that it would be interesting to have an iMac G4 like system that runs iOS instead of MacOS and has drawing abilities (sorry an iOS / MacOS hybrid isn't going to happen.) I guess I would be ok with a system like this as long as I spend most of my time with the pen instead of the my finger. In an interview from yesterday Craig Federighi said that Apple had working prototypes of touchscreen Macs but didn't release it. I think after they kept having to clean the large displays this was one of the problems. Another possible problem was that they didn't have the pencil available at the time (most likely) so they couldn't consider that as a possible solution. And of course they are focused getting iOS caught up to where the Mac is today (and even to where the Mac was a decade ago.)
  13. KipV
    I have no doubt that a large iOS screen like that will come out at some point but I think Apple is still trying to take advantage of the 13" screen with iOS. The Mac is still so much more feature rich which is why they can justify the use of 27". When iOS has expose and a dock and a notification sidebar like the Mac it starts to get a lot more compelling to increase that screen size.
  14. KipV
    The single USB port has worked fine for me. Whenever I look around at the coffee shop or library. People hardly ever plug anything into their laptops whenever they are out and about. The hubs they make these days are super small so if I really need those ports I can always slip a small hub into my pack without making any bulk. Like it or not the iPad is Apple's touchscreen computer. It lacks a lot of the Mac's features but at this point I can't see Apple making a touchscreen Mac in a hundred years now. There are advantages to not having a touchscreen. Not having to clean the screen 10 times a day is nice and keeping the touch strip within close proximity the other keys is another.
  15. KipV
    I am actually not a huge fan of touch screen due to having to constantly clean the finger prints off the monitor. This was one reason I went with the MacBook over an iPad or tablet. Sierra has pretty much all the iPad features at this point so the constant screen cleaning seems unnecessary to the way I work.
  16. KipV
    Yeah, the "tech from yesterday" part didn't make sense to me either. They just dumped all the old ports and replaced it with USB-C, put in 2TB drives and replaced the function keys. If you want to say that some of Apple's desktops are tech from yesterday that would make some sense.
  17. KipV
    I don't understand what you mean. I have been using Affinity for a year or two so I have a pretty good idea where it's features are.
  18. KipV
    I don't care if the feature has been in FreeHand or Illustrator. The fact that it is in FreeHand or Illustrator doesn't justify it's existence. Adobe is not this perfect developer that nails every decision that they make. What I meant by adding in all the layout features was adding stuff like master pages, linked text boxes, etc as people are wanting them to do that makes no sense.
  19. KipV
    Then bring that feature to the layout program; don't bring all the layout features to a program that is not designed for doing layouts. That should be an obvious solution.
  20. KipV
    Just do it from within a layout program; no need to use a drawing program for that.
  21. KipV
    I still mainly use Adobe for Lightroom. I wonder how much Serif if going to compete with that product? They have a raw editor and are going to come out with an asset manager so I wonder if they are moving in that direction?
  22. KipV
    That is exactly what happened with me in the 2000s. FreeHand kept adding enough layout features that I moved off of PageMaker. In that case it worked ok because at the time PageMaker was problematic and InDesign was immature and buggy but there is no need to add complex layout features to Photos and Designer today. The thing about the argument "well they added these features in the past" is that we don't live in the past anymore. We have a different landscape of design software today so we need to take all the modern considerations into account.
  23. KipV
    That comment wasn't directed to the staff at Serif (who have proved you are focused on innovating) it was directed at those who are wanting to bring all the Adobe workflows over to Serif. I am very glad the company is coming up with ways to improve the workflows that don't work well as there are plenty of problem spots that need to be fixed.
  24. KipV
    This entire sentence doesn't make any sense. I don't know what you are trying to say at all.
  25. KipV
    I agree with everything in your comment except I don't think price should dictate what features make it into an app. That is the problem with Adobe they have to justify the price of their upgrades or subscription service by pilling on more and more features whether or not it makes sense to add particular features or not. There may be a point where it makes sense for Adobe to slow down development of a product and move onto to another since it will have most the features it needs.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Guidelines | We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

 Accept Cookies  Reject Cookies