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Achim63

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    Achim63 got a reaction from ober in Draw a Grid in Designer   
    I'd define the snap grid according to my needs. Then turn snapping on. Draw first horizontal line, alt-shift-drag to next grid line and then press cmd+j as often as needed. Repeat for the vertical lines. It's faster done than written down.
    Though I'd also like to see a grid tool somewhere down the line, I see more important things on the roadmap.
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    Achim63 reacted to LilleG in The 500th thread about GUI …   
    If you have perfect vision, or even very good vision, then you have no means of determining how "bad" it is for those of us with older less-effective vision.  I, for one, cannot tell which of the tools in the first post is the active one and I've made all the adjustments in Preferences that we are allowed to make to compensate.  
     
    And like Ronnyb, I don't understand why Affinity is so reluctant to accommodate us by offering the option of a light or dark UI.  We can't change our vision; they can, if they are willing, offer us something we desperately need.  
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    Achim63 got a reaction from LilleG in The 500th thread about GUI …   
    I agree wholeheartedly - dark grey on a little bit less dark grey makes it really difficult to see selections. Some more contrast would do the GUI good. Or drawing a white (rounded) rectangle around the selected tool.
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    Achim63 reacted to chrisA in Document Units   
    First thing: If you select New Document - Photo all sizes are in Inches. Nothing else. You only have a choice for "Print" documents.
     
    Why do you offer to change the units after selecting the document, when you expect that the user will work with the units of the preset? This is inconsistent.
     
    Even if I have to work with a format, which was originally defined in inches, I would prefer to with metric units, because I think this way. And my real world tools are that way. I don't want to use a calculator to get from my understanding of the world to something the program forces me to use.
     
    BTW. There were satellites lost, because some people still don't use metric units.
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    Achim63 got a reaction from peter in The 500th thread about GUI …   
    I agree wholeheartedly - dark grey on a little bit less dark grey makes it really difficult to see selections. Some more contrast would do the GUI good. Or drawing a white (rounded) rectangle around the selected tool.
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    Achim63 got a reaction from jojje in Import RAW from Photos   
    To find your RAW images, do a right click on your Photo library file (usually located in ~/Pictures/), select "Show package contents". In there there's a "Masters" folder which contains the JPG and RAW files next to each other in the subfolders which are ordered by date.
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    Achim63 reacted to colbatzk in UI labels hard to read   
    Independent of factors such as age and eyesight, it is my perspective that a user interface should be optimized for readability and ease of usage. White or (worse) grey letters or pictograms on a dark/black background do not fulfill this request. Not even colorful pictograms do.
     
    As a user one should have at least the possibility to select which user interface suits her/him best. The reduction of the UI Gamma is no sufficient or satisfying "solution".
     
    Therefore, I ask the developers at Affinity, please come up  with a UI which is directed at readability. Thanks!
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    Achim63 reacted to catlover in UI labels hard to read   
    I totally agree with the above posts.
    I for one, am an oldy (70+) and of course my eyesight is not what it used to be.
     
    I realize that in this industry the target consumers are the young ones, but hey, there are a lot of older people out there using computers nowadays.
     
    And I presume that the development of this suite of programs is not just done for a short number of years only.
    With  that in mind, it might be an idea to keep the future customers (and who will be, by that time, long term users) in mind as well.
     
    So, pretty please, developers, jack up the contrast settings in preferences.
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    Achim63 reacted to keithrt in UI labels hard to read   
    One thing I've noticed while using Affinity Photo is despite using two 27" monitors, I find myself leaning in and squinting to read labels on tabs, particularly dimmed labels on inactive tabs. This might be alleviated somewhat by going to an 18% grey background instead of black and increasing the font size slightly. My eyesight close-in is still very good, but the constant squinting makes the interface uncomfortable to use.
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    Achim63 got a reaction from anon1 in Vectorize pixel graphics   
    A feature that works awesome in Silhouette Studio (cutting plotter software, get it here for free: http://www.silhouetteamerica.com/software/silhouette-studio/) - take some drawing and make paths from it. It's just a few steps to get really good results: select a part of the image, then adjust high and/or low pass filters, threshold and scaling to your liking.
    I attached some pictures from that program to show the process involved. Notice the few anchors and nice curves that can be produced even with the rather low resolution jpg that I used.
     
    I use the Designer edition of Silhouette Studio which can import SVG, so I can switch to it for the features missing in AD - but it would be great to have it in AD directly, since Silhouette cannot export SVG.
     
    And while I'm at it: scanning directly in AD, so you can have a complete workflow inside AD after making a sketch with "real" media (something that Silhouette also can do).
     



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    Achim63 reacted to Petar Petrenko in Affinity is NOT Adobe!   
    It is absolutelly wrong. No one designer uses only one kind of app. Everyone needs something from all these 3 apps. And so it will be absolute need for only one app that will merge all the three of them. It is very irritating to jump from one to another app just to do a portion of the job and then to continue to the third one, and so on.
    I completelly agree with Achim63, and I have posted this same question a month or two, ago.
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    Achim63 got a reaction from Petar Petrenko in Affinity is NOT Adobe!   
    That's how Adobe does it - why should that be the best approach? The three have much code in common - e.g. the prepress and printing capabilities are a necessity for all of them, as are typography features. So what I'm thinking of is more of a publishing framework, where you can switch to the specialized part whenever needed. Remember the OpenDoc philosophy Apple introduced years ago? It resembles the personae approach we see in AD. So I really don't see the necessity to have three programs when the transitions between them are so fluent.
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    Achim63 got a reaction from Petar Petrenko in Affinity is NOT Adobe!   
    Unfortunately Affinity is already doing the same - instead of putting the Liquify and Development personae into AD, they made it AP, so you'll have a second app to pay for. I'd rather pay twice the price for AD and have it all in one package.
    What will be next? Maybe an Affinity Painter app - instead of giving us custom brushes and full Wacom support in AD with a "natural media" persona, they might put it in even one more extra package. I hope I'm not giving them ideas here ...
    But maybe the planned layout app will make my wish come true and include all personae under one roof - they could even make the different personae available as in-app purchases, so they'll be kind of "plug-ins".
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    Achim63 got a reaction from wehpet in We need a German Forum here!   
    No, please don't. Then we'd need Spanish and French and Japanese and Russian etc. as well - and the developers would maybe miss important issues.
    How about opening your own German Affinity blog or something similar if you want to discuss the apps in German?
     
    Everybody should have at least basic knowledge of English by now, it's taught in school and you wont get far in any job without it anyways. It's such an easy language to learn (I find e.g. Spanish much more demanding regarding grammar and vocabulary).
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    Achim63 reacted to Dams in Windows 7 Version of Affinity Products?   
    @Ulrich Schroeder
     
    Apple users in 2000s: "Why don't you port this software to Mac? I don't want to run Windows. Please support OSX."
    Microsoft user in 2000s: "Well you bought a Mac. Deal with it, you shouldn't have buy one."
     
    Microsoft user in 2015: :crying:  :crying: "It's so unfair, no new cool App are available for Windows 7/8, WP or Surfaces"  :crying: :crying:
    Apple users in 2015: "Deal with it"  B)
     
    Enjoy your own medicine folks !
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    Achim63 got a reaction from Adrian_M in Fill space between curves   
    Draw the three big triangles, convert to curves (if you used the triangle tool), copy all three and paste, then select Divide from Operations in the toolbar - voilà, there are your new triangles that you can color differently.
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    Achim63 got a reaction from MattP in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.2.0.24498)   
    Very welcome additions, thank you! Especially important for me personally: backward compatibility and "new from clipboard".
    The gamma adjustment seems quite effective as well, it will probably be used a lot by web "pixel pushers".
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    Achim63 got a reaction from A_B_C in We need a German Forum here!   
    No, please don't. Then we'd need Spanish and French and Japanese and Russian etc. as well - and the developers would maybe miss important issues.
    How about opening your own German Affinity blog or something similar if you want to discuss the apps in German?
     
    Everybody should have at least basic knowledge of English by now, it's taught in school and you wont get far in any job without it anyways. It's such an easy language to learn (I find e.g. Spanish much more demanding regarding grammar and vocabulary).
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