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Devs (programmers) making the UI design and decisions = design decisions like this ^ and lost hours of precious life. And all what @Barksley said. User experience designers making the decision after consulting design professionals + customers and performing extensive user tests = something much, much better, perhaps even something wonderful It is not just a shit-happens-it-may-be-improved-later-scenario... it can affect hundreds of thousands of users worldwide daily for years... besides affecting sales and brand value. The poor design may even never die for many reasons. Getting it right early in development using proper design strategies and UI specialists is a win-win. OP Barksley? He left the forum in december 2019.

Export preview is awesome now guys and girls!

My fault. Control + shift + i is also reverse selection in Photoshop. Obviously I work more with masks than selections. 😕

Kind of a bug - but a usability issue so big I will post it as a bug here. Load an image Create an exposure (A) layer with the setting -1 Make a linked duplicate of A called B Make a linked duplicate of A called C Adjust layer A to +1 Result: Now A, B and C all makes a +1 adjustment to the exposure, each Imagine later in the day deleting A by accident or deliberately - after many edits you are satisfied with. Observed: B + C reverts to the original setting (from the time of linked layer creation) of -1 (not the last used setting from A - this is as good as a bug) They are still linked (this is okay, I assume) Expected B + C has the last used setting from A ... -1 (whatever A was before deleting it) Perhaps even a confirmation dialog with the question "You are about to delete a linked layer. Keep or remove the links" something something. Perhaps. I just assume that if you are adding linked layers to an document you also want a warning before messing with them, removing them) Macros should assume yes. BTW the reverting to the original value happens also when you then after A delete B... etc. etc. ___ ___ ___ For reference: Photoshop behavior (I just looked it up - never used linked layers before) Delete layer A and all links are removed from B and C without confirmation or warning (hm...) but adjustments originally inherited from A preserved (yes please) Link symbol is still shown but adjusting B or C does not affect the other linked layer - bug in PS I guess. Delete layer B or C and only this layer is removed with no confirmation (fine)

I agree with this observation from @VectorVonDoom NOW the shield looks great - yeah drawing the fringes by hand would require patience I rarely have - even during lock down here. Just remember that details and gradients that look great zoomed in will indeed appear grey to the eye zoomed out. In the big version they look just great. Thats why I mentioned clarity. Better micro contrast or whatever. Minor problem. Never mind. 🙂 No wait perhaps the same problem could affect the font... too light perhaps? Scaled down that could fade as well.

I did. Thank you for your post and advice! But... I didn't use mask layers at all but masks on the adjustment layers: In this case with no dedicated mask layer - how do I copy mask from the adjustment layer itself copied to another adjustment layer? Easily? If it requires multi-step channel operations I am not really interested (but curious still) - I was looking for something easy peasy like this: But I understand that using dedicated layer masks is probably more clever. I just prefer the one line layer approach in Photoshop. And better thumbnails (full thumbnails, not crops).

Correct. Linked mask layers are required. Or that bit of helpful brain activity I got later... where I grouped the adjustment layers and used a mask on THAT! 😄

Being Danish I love it. Great work. My input: The shield doesn't for me at all - almost. 🙂 The bevel part of the shield looks like any other bevel I have seen and the style of the entire shield should be in greater harmony with rest of the content. I would make it look a lot more like the original. 2D and simple. Now it has a moderne sterile style that doesn't match the excellent flags and stuff you masterfully recreated in the background. It is also a shame the original details on the border of the shield were lost in the process. The shield is the focus point and centre after all. And the original shield is beautiful! No bevel can compete with it. Experiment with more clarity on the ropes - perhaps not as much as the originals but closer to that. Unless you observe the coat of arms on a big screen / big print it will just look like think strokes. Replacing the original Swedish "mix of crowns and lions" with just Tre Kronor is fine. Easier to decode for the eyes - I guess swedes will accept it too. Fascinating stuff to work with, eh? 🙂

I had no mask layer! I had drawn the mask on the adjustment layer itself. Notice... no mask layer. But if I use the new linked layers in Photo (Layers -> Duplicate Linked)... I can create and update one mask layer and the linked duplicates of this layer will update automatically to reflect those updates! Notice the link symbol. In this case I could just use the mask on the group itself only - it was a theoretical question though. It confused me that I could draw masks on the adjustment layer itself - I thought THAT was the only mask option I had. 🙂

When I activate outline mode it is mostly to select a single object that I find it hard if not impossible to see and select in normal view mode (in a drawing with hundreds of overlapping objects), so I am very grateful that this difference between normal and outline mode exist. I think it is deliberate.

I need top copy the layer mask effect from one layer to another. I didn’t figure out how to do that on adjustment layers themselves. Adding a layer mask to the adjustment layer instead allows me to duplicate that layer mask layer. So that did the trick. ... or hey... use linked mask layers instead? First some sleep.

I think the poster meant this: The accuracy of the selection brush algorithm(s) is not up to par with the selection brush in Adobe Photoshop Using control + i should inverse the active selection (we all have it muscle memory) instead of control + shift + i (I agree) @minta you can customize keyboard shortcuts here: Edit -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts

Worked for me after a few attempts directly from Marks post just clicking the link.

Allright like this... Just totally confusing I can also use the layer itself as a layer mask?

Searched and found nothing of real use. Nothing that worked. I do this a thousand times on a yearly basis in Photoshop so it must be possible and easy in Photo? I need to copy a mask to another layer. Again and again. Here you can see how I can just drag a layer mask to another layer in Photoshop. This is my test file: Image Live gaussian blur with mask Contrast - brightness layer that needs the exact same layer mask

Credit where credit is due: Thanks @Chris J! Display scaling is good and necessary stuff for aging eyes - so Affinity fully supporting it is wonderful! 🙂

Fix verified with 110% scaling in beta build 943.

Yeah! Verified with 110% scaling. Thanks, Mark!

And just because I am procrastinating - avoiding reading up on EU Law before meeting Monday - these steps to reproduce GIF. Imagine me doing the exact same thing in every other professional program I have - many - Affinity does the same, no matter the source of the clipboard content. And now. Back to law!

Phew sigh gasp scream, I would much prefer only to communicate directly with Serif when reporting errors. This thread is evidence enough that wild guesses and opinions does not resolve any issue. Any relevant feedback drowns in tons of noise. I can't add everybody to my ignore list to filter out crazy noise. No, there is nothing wrong with Photoshop or other programs I use. They do not need to be updated. We do not need to upload files for every forum user to investigate. There is an obvious issue with Affinity. Reporting it to Serif should be enough. @Mark Ingram now clearly understands that there is an issue with create from clipboard that must be investigated. I have also seen reports here for some time Serif should have acted upon a long time ago but lets take it from here. Counting on you now, Mark. But Monday. Still weekend for you.

Sorry about that mate. I think you should wait for Serif to continue the support thread here. Ah, and you returned to the previous version. I am not a big fan of the update notice (you cannot turn off) the moment you start an older version of the software - because first movers are the first to get burned. And sometimes stuck. In the beta phase I had a similar problem because I am running Windows 10 enterprise N - which means "No media player". Installing the media player solved the issue because a video codec were a prerequisite for the program running. A classic dependency issue. That issue should be solved now. But interesting to know what version you are running. I don't think it is a related issue because in that case the program terminated before the splash screen was ever shown. Instantly.

I don't know. They do add features to it that are for photographers with ambitions. The RAW editor for example and ON PAPER the product has some pretty impressive features. They are just not tied together professionally. IN REALITY the product is hard and clumsy to use and it is pretty old school. I can't imagine professionals choosing such a workflow killer. A damn shame. The features are there! It is like someone is throwing features into the box - blindfolded. Old school photo editing for personal use will probably die within not too long. I have met quite a few hobby photographers that use iPad apps instead of the hard and slow programs on desktop computers. And no they do not use Photo for iPad. They use apps with ridiculously easy workflows and features. It makes them happy and no salespeople can talk them into more.

Yeah - or running the program with parameter that does the same.

Hoho. In 2022 you will still make +1 posts in this thread.

Feelings are not involved. A development team has a finite number of hours and a growing backlog with bugs and architecture and feature stories. They are all estimated and prioritized into the sprint/week/month. So the priorities are what matters here; and mind you we are talking about business priorities! Fixing all bugs on the backlog would delay the next release as well as optimizations of the "technical platform" - the product core. Unless you hire additional developers and specialists (or hire people temporarily for just a project) with all that follows - good and bad. Serifs software products are cheap. I think we are all paying another price for the model though; Serif (naturally) wants to move forward with (unfortunately) a few tiny development teams and thus they can only fix a portion of the bugs on the backlog in each release. So either we get features or several bugfixes. Or some features with some bugfixes. I don't know their ratio. It is the result of the business strategy and a staffing strategy made by management in Serif. Be very aware of this. Once I was in a major product that had to wait forever for legal clearance of some major features in the backlog. We had to keep the developers busy so we simply asked them to fix almost every bug in the backlog and made what I called a service release. It was a bizarrely boring release where I had to arrange entertainment and teambuilding to keep the spirits high but boy did it make people (end users) happy for years. Our releases were quite big at the time (in man hours as well) so we fixed an incredible number of bugs in one go. The effect was bigger than I thought. Many thorns were removed from many peoples workflows and everyday work. After this we understood even better how much pain bugs causes. Even though we are in daily contact with our end users. Many users are just being nice. But their pain is real.