Jowday
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1 hour ago, csp said:
hi jowday,
fully agree !
I think the core issue is that the developers don’t understand or ignore the need that for some user working on more than one image at the same time is important. so with no surprise there is not even an elegant way to display more than one image, not to talk about the option to apply the last used adjustments settings as in PS but the most crazy thing for me is that the warp tool starts with bilinear instead of bicubic. all this is a clear indicator that they do not listen or talk to professional user or see them as an important audience and I think this is sad because AP does a lot of things much better than adobe.
Yep - Serif won't realize a lot of the potential in Affinity - and they already miss the mark for professionals.
Developers are not supposed to make decisions about how the software looks and how workflows should work. If they do it is so 1990. And a huge mistake. This is what user experience designers and such specialists do. They involve users and professionals. They "own" the user interface with the responsibility for it. That is how professional companies work now - 30 years from 1990. Layers of specialists working closely together with deep respect for each others specialty.
Take it from one who knows it: it is just so rewarding and fascinating to work together that way - to see the product grow, mature and shine with the help of experts in each field. I am at a loss to understand why Serif insists on working like companies did 25 years ago. It is a fascinating to read about how Google solved the ui issues in a gigantic company - Apple and Microsoft kind of did it too - a microscopic company like Serif could do it without internal battles.
But the decision must come from above. Leadership. The absolute top.
Otherwise we will drown in posts with people begging for usability fixes of this and that for years and:
“When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.”
― Confucius
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On 10/3/2019 at 11:31 AM, btribble said:
Great, thanks Dan.
C'mon product team, get the basics! Not everyone has the time to push a mouse around and double click to rename things. Not to mention you're making life twice as hard for users with sight impairment. Yes, you do have them.
Agreed.
On 11/4/2019 at 5:50 PM, LibOne said:And workflow is the main thing for professional use.
Agreed.
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On 2/6/2021 at 10:52 AM, csp said:
I know this has been brought up since the very first beta and it is sad to see that no real progress has been made now over a long time. when you work hours, weeks retouching images as i do it is total frustrating that tool settings are still not sticky. the same is true for filters and raw develop settings. another issue for me are macros which still do not offer equal functionality as actions in ps. i really hope this fields which negatively impact work experience for user doing commercial retouching get some attention.
Indeed. The most clever career move I made - out of pure interest - was to focus on optimizing workflows. Whatever workflow. My pay check reflects this. The most important thing involved in optimizing workflows is involving those... involved. Done right it can be a peaceful process that in the end makes people work faster with fewer annoyances and it simply generates happier more participating co-workers. It is an ever ongoing proces that requires some effort but is much more rewarding. It is simply part of work life and what professional companies do. I love working worth it because when we succeed - we can focus more on complex issues or tasks. In the end we just make better high-quality products this way. This is why I adore SCRUM retrospective in IT-companies as well.
Doing things the wrong way again and again ... well, do I need to explain who would do that and what's wrong with it.
That Serif has so little focus on user friendly, fluid and optimized workflows in especially Photo amazes me without end. And I can't honestly believe they are truly targeting professionals with their heavy use of the term professional in their marketing. That is just a strategy for selling software to the crowd. They have their eyes fixed on a lucrative segment of the market not really served by Adobe or Corel. Probably a clever move for Serif. If they intend to serve the professional segment then these workflow issues must be addressed and ironed out. It will require a lot of effort. And... it must involve true professionals.
It is some of the most rewarding and interesting work there is - so I will never understand anyone who skips it.
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I am not sure .NET is to blame. Fixing .NET is just the first point on any support check list I have learned.
I would ignore the .NET related tips in the following thread - otherwise any help there? The tips from @Dan C about running with parameters? Any luck?
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On 1/27/2021 at 2:42 PM, Chris B said:
Thank you Jowday, this has been logged. I've also split it from the announcement so I can add the bug report number and it stops everyone else getting spammed etc.
Maybe this thread has some clues for the developer - the DPI issues while passting as new from clipboard. Maybe DPI is involved. Maybe not.
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4 hours ago, RavenMoon said:
Wait.... a vector illustration app used RASTER brushes? Why????
I have years' worth of painstakingly created vector brushes that I use constantly. Film, chain, borders, rope... hundreds of things that are vector based art that will follow a path, closed or open. You're telling me no such thing exists in Affinity Designer?
EDIT: I am seeing that there is no way to designate a piece of vector art as a fill, either? No way to fill an area with an automatically repeating pattern?
Serif should answer the 'whys'.
The short input I have is that Affinity Designer has surprisingly few vector tools, had issues with Booleans for years (and still has) and we saw few sign that anything is about to change in the (near) future. Personally I don't think we will see radical or medium changes. Long term? Same feeling. This is not Illustrator/CorelDRAW light for vector illustrators on a budget. Many hope(d) it is. To me at least it is obvious that Serif is not intending going into a head to head competition with competing vector programs. It is also not a company housing several vector specialists. Never did.
I observed Designer for 4-5 years and then pulled the plug. Purchased CorelDRAW for my hobby work on a private laptop - use Adobe Illustrator CC 2021 on my work machine for professional work. Waiting in vain is one of the most damaging things I experienced in life. Time is precious in every aspect of life and work.
If your workflow is to work on top of a complete (paper) draft, tracing and digitizing it then adding color and effects... Designer is okay. If you actually make advanced vector drawings from scratch and expect the software to help create, manipulate and reuse vector elements in different perspectives etc. There is nothing.
I use it as a niche program for some posters I make in my spare time to stay sharp - and I like using it very much for that - but for advanced vector work Designer is incomplete, inflexible, buggy and static.
The funny thing is that I learned to completely ignore the annoyances of Illustrator and CorelDRAW after trying to use Designer for years. Because I just LOVE THEM for the features they do have that make so much of my work possible in minutes, not hours or not at all. Let us see in 5 years what happened to Designer in reality. Meanwhile I create in Illustrator and CorelDRAW.
Take care out there.
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3 hours ago, Lagarto said:
So here's the solution:
After having told the system that Affinity apps are the kind of dumb apps that are not genuinely DPI-aware (= do not bother to provide true -- and mostly useless -- 4K resources, as the recommended system app scaling simply just duplicating pixels at 2x without needing to apply any interpolation at all, works perfectly) then everything behaves normally also within Affinity apps, no matter if they are run in environment where app scaling is done, or not:
These settings do not alter the behavior or resolve the issues I observed in the above posts, though.
I would just like Photo not to have bugs and issues like this in core functionality - like the rest of the programs I have installed. Well, I was just fiddling with this to battle lockdown boredom.
Still curious about what @Mark Ingram has to say about my issues while pasting. I have a feeling it is related to the export preview issues we investigated.
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And this is the file saved from Photo, then re-opened in Photo. Still 1333 x 1333 pixels but no jagged edges.
Sounds familiar? I disabled screen scaling and all related - I should be running with plain vanilla Windows 10 screen settings now.
The still not resolved issues we had with export preview before release .. is it related to dpi? 96 vs 72.
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It doesn't just involve PS. I only see issues in Photo. Lets try another professional program than Photoshop as source.
Test image from an image created from scratch in Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2020 with same size and dpi. Saved to jpg, reopened as flat bitmap, copied.
Pasted into Photo:
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Could you share an example?
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Lets skip theory and jump directly to practice, performance and actual output. And no, I do not have display scaling enabled anymore.
@Sean P Bug or feature?
I have the issue here that an image in Photoshop made for this purpse - 1000 x 1000 pixels @ 72 DPI is scaled upon pasting it into Photo 1.9.0.
No other programs handled the clipboard image like Photo did - so lets just call it a bug.
Original in PS 2021
Paste as new from clipboard in Photo 1.9
What?
Created new image in Photo 1.9 at 72 dpi and pasted the same clipboard content into it:
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12 minutes ago, AndyQ said:
Linked Layers sounds sweet, although aren't these really instances or references with selective inheritance? The term "linked" makes me think of layers being independent but connected for transform operations, whereas the sample video shows adjustment layers being instanced (so would it be clearer to call them instances?). This is a great feature, but you also need to be able to link non-contiguous layers for transform operations - I'd be calling that "linked" and calling this new system "instanced".
It is not easy to know what the majority of customers think of when seeing the term 'linked'. With technical insight in software you probably think of something very specific from that world, I do, while Joe and Joeline Average probably find the term meaningful.
No one would understand 'instanced'. I use a CMS where the term clone is used (and it really is in this case). That is not understood by anyone either.
There is knowledge in the head. And knowledge in the world.
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2 minutes ago, Mann Artt said:
From a workflow standpoint (I guess I'm used to the Photoshop tool from many years of use), NOT having a destructive capability actually makes my job harder.
There ARE times you want to cut away the stuff you don't need!
Yes, and in my case almost every time.
All we need is this little fellow:
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16 hours ago, dmstraker said:
As an example, while the astrophotography section looks brilliant, I do wonder how many customers are likely to use this
Both of them are thrilled, @dmstraker 😄
Just kidding, the feature itself looks interesting. It is just not my field of photography.- Patrick Connor, SrPx, Mithferion and 3 others
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I disabled it in Publisher - shortcuts with and without mouse now makes total sense.
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Rasterizing vectors in Photo is certainly not a solution. I need 100% vector.
We need to export vector output in vector format files.
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5 minutes ago, edwardsson said:
Thanks!
Mitt nöje 🙂
Hilsner fra Danmark!
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Just now, tersmuse said:
Great, thank you! So I have to add it manually. If you know, it works.
You shouldn't have to. Can you see it here when selecting View -> Customize tools?
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Just now, tersmuse said:
Sorry, I just edit my post. There is nothing below the Node Tool, next is the the round corner tool. Is missing, exists only in the help
Also missing from view -> Customize tools?
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1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:
In Publisher, File > New, click on Templates, look in Affinity Store category.
And it will look like this:
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6 minutes ago, tersmuse said:
Am I blind, I can't find the offset tool? The help page: Tool shortcut key: O. Nothing happens when I select the O. There is no "offset tool" entry in the menu, not in the windows. Am I blind, where is the tool?
Are you sure you are using 1.9? 🙂
There is no shortcut for it - it looks like this on the toolbar (called tools):
If yes and "I can't see it" try adding it yourself:
- View -> Customize tools
- Find it, drag it to tools
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2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
This topic is in the Questions forum, not the Feature Requests forum. Bumping doesn't do much here, as this isn't where Serif looks for enhancement suggestions.
Scream 😄
@Patrick Connor pretty please? 🙂
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It must be a Mac issue. At least I get the 'Down in the toilet icon' on Windows.
Designer 1.9.0 crashes on launch
in V1 Bugs found on Windows
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The tip from @Dan C about running Affinity with the parameter - any help?