Thomas_Photo
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I am honestly not happy with this announcement. As others have said before, these kind of announcements and promises have been done before and it always ended up as a subscription service in the end and customers lost their ability to purchase perpetual licenses.
I gave Affinity Photo a chance in 2017 while looking for an alternative to Adobe Cloud. It was great and I also learned to appreciate Designer and Publisher over the years. But let's be clear, the major reason for choosing Affinity over other companies was and is the perpetual license. I am absolutely willing to pay for an application and support its developers and to be honest Affinity was always on the cheap side of things for me. I would have purchased the program for 2-3x the amount as well. But I want to own the software and decide on my own if and when I'll upgrade to a new major version and pay again.
I am giving you the benefit of the doubt and sincerely hope you will keep your promise to keep perpetual licenses.
- jmwellborn, Jens Krebs, Compositor K and 1 other
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Thanks for the great update!
Any more infos, what exactly has been changed in regards to "Huge macro and batch processing improvements."? Thanks.
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Interesting theory @walt.farrell
I think that the two Personas, might just open the current selection in either Photo or Designer.
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It's the initial release. They cannot pack everything into the first release. It's a very solid foundation and I am happy they bring it out of beta.
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I tried again, and it got fixed. Pre-ordered! \o/
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I received the mail now, but I cannot redeem the code, I get an error message in the browser, telling me " Das Zahlungslimit des von Ihnen eingegebenen Gutscheincodes ist überschritten" (The payment limit of the voucher code you entered has been exceeded). What can I do?
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I also haven't received an e-mail yet. Can anyone please just post a screenshot what's inside?
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Remember, that you paid 54€ once for this software (or even less during a sale).
I bought Affinity Photo in 2017, and 2 lears later still get free updates with a lot of new features, performance improvements, new camera support... With Adobe I'd already paid more than 240€ and not even own the software. Please remember this, before saying that "we don't have xy yet" or "development is slow".
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For reference, I experience the same Issue with the Fujifilm X-T3 on Windows, with the Serif engine. The black stripe is on the right, or on the bottom of the image, depending on whether the image is landscape or portrait orientation.
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Are you on the latest Mac beta?
I experience the same issue on Windows. See here:
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I hope there will be a new Windows beta soon, I just checked the Mac log of fixes, and would like to test the fix for Fuji raw files.
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The develop time got faster with the .209 beta, but still not as fast as 1.6 has been for me.
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I sent an e-mail to Mr. Bronger from Lensfun in November about the X-T3 support, but got no answer yet.
What about Serif allocating some more ressources on camera support? I know that Lensfun is an external library, but that doesn't make it impossible for you to fix. I have contributed code to open source software for several years, and sometimes you just have to take a look at an external dependency, and send them a pull request with a fix/addition, in order to resolve a bug that affects your customers.
RAW development is an essential part of Affinity Photo. The X-T3 won several "Camera of the year" awards, and is mentioned as one of the best APS-C cameras on the market. Not supporting it is disaapointing and converting the RAW files with an external program is time consuming.
I have taken a look into Lensfun code and it seems that for a new camera, you only have to add the crop factor into this file: https://github.com/lensfun/lensfun/blob/4dd189fda265cd26baccf430470482d7f2528d3c/data/db/mil-fujifilm.xml
I am not sure which exact value the X-T3 has (approx 1.5), and not sure if that would fix the issue already but the lenses I use are supported and work fine in Affinity in combination with my X-T20 so it must be something missing for the X-T3.
Please try to resolve this issue.
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The lens is not the problem, it works fine in Affinity when the image is taken with X-T20.
I see that the X-T3 is not supported yet. I will check on LensFun and see if I can contribute.
Thank you for your time and support Mark!
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Hi Chris B,
thanks for your quick answer. I am aware of the official list, but in the 1.7 announcement thread it says: " A large number of new cameras are supported for RAW development ", so I thought I post it here, in case it's relevant for the developers.
Fingers crossed this will be fixed / supported.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Tested with compressed .raf Files from Fujifilm X-T20:
Affinity 1.6.5.123
Loading: 28s
Develop: 3s
Affinity 1.7.0.188
Loading: 16s
Develop: 22s
=> Loading is much faster, develop (no changes applied) much slower.
System: Windows 10, Intel i5 6200U, 8GB RAM.
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Hi,
I am not sure if the Fujifilm X-T3 is officially supported, as there is no list yet with newly supported cameras.
Nevertheless, I get a strange black border either on top or bottom of my pictures, when loading in the newly 188 beta. This is with compressed .raf files. Haven't tested uncompressed.
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I have issues as well with my X-T3 files, I hope for a proper support soon!
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Thanks for the great update and new features!
Is the Fujifilm X-T3 supported now?
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in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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That's indeed promising and a clear statement. Thank you!