William Overington

I remember that back in the 1950s and early 1960s one could buy, I think from railway station newsagents shops, badges of railway locomotives, most of which had wording saying which locomotive, which badges were, if I remember correctly, a bit more than an inch long and about a third of an inch high. They had a brooch fitting on the back, with a pin about an inch long. So boys and sometimes railway staff would wear one or more on their jacket lapel or their tie. Mostly badges of mainline express passenger locomotives, though some of historical locomotives suck as Rocket and Caledonian 123. How does someone wear one if there are just points like on "thumb tacks" (are they what we in England are known as drawing pins?)? Do you need to order quite a lot or is there a service where you can order just one? William

Welcome. Are these like Doll's House size art? One inch to the foot scale. William

What was the context of that please? Here is a thread that has a link to a thread that has a link to a thread that has an image generated by AI that includes an elephant, the link in this forum having been added before the ban on doing so was introduced. William

Carl's picture inspired me to produce this picture. William

I am not asking Canva Affinity to commit to not using AI. I am asking them to consider please pledging not to use it in the three existing Affinity products, but if they use AI to use it in separate products. Affinity programs can be linked if one wants to do so, so it seems to me that keeping AI facilities clearly separate would be a good approach. This post takes a view about AI. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/201820-ai-discussion-split-from-canva-thread/page/5/#comment-1232792 I am thinking that in the future artists and designers may be faced with a client that says as follows. "I accept that you have not knowingly used any AI in the work you are doing for us, but how can you be sure that the software that you are using does not use some AI behind the scenes, notwithstanding if it has a button to purportedly turn the AI features off. Our legal advisers say we must have certainty on this issue to avoid possible future legal actions against us." It would be good if the future artists and designers could explain that they use Affinity programs and the ones they use have no AI in them and that Canva Affinity does produce programs that use AI but there are none of them installed on the computer that is used to produce artwork for the client. William

The Help feature link to a page, but I cannot find it. Is it under a different name or in a cascading menu somewhere please? I have not used Affinity Photo apart from a quick look once or twice, so I may have missed something basic. I saw Alfred's post and thought I would have a try. William

Is this in Version 1 of Affinity Photo, and if so, where please? William

It is intended to be a left hand, showing the back of the hand, William

Have they? A forever pledge? Or is it just not declaring doing it at the present time? Not intended as rhetorical questions, genuinely asking. William

Will the Canva Affinity management team consider please stating a Pledge to not include any AI in Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and if Canva Affinity introduces any AI into Affinity that it is done in separate products that can be accessed from Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo. This would keep any AI features entirely separate and would provide provenance for artists who would be required by their clients to guarantee that AI has not been involved in the production of their artwork, required for both artistic and legal reasons. Making such a pledge now would provide great reassurance to those who would welcome such reassurance, yet not restrict the possibility of providing AI features for those who would like to have them available. Indeed, some artists might choose to use AI in some projects yet not in others. I write to ask about this as a result of a post in another thread, my reply and the reply by @Alfred to my reply, and my reply to that post.

Well, @Alfred I consider that my proposed solution is the better solution. I shall try to start a thread in the Feedback forum to ask Canva Affinity to consider please a Pledge to not include any AI in Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and if Canva Affinity introduces any AI into Affinity that it is done in separate products. Clearly the Affinity team are employed so that effort can be made to produce and maintain Affinity products. Whether it is a niche market or not I do not know. If Affinity does nothing at all about AI then it could be seen s a wonderful situation by some artists, or it could be that Affinity products would be seen by many people as severely lacking in by that time up to date facilities. I cannot say which way it will go. I cannot do it myself so I am not going to purport how much effort separate products would take as compared with full integration into existing products. But is the way to start to make a copy of the source code of each of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo and go from there? William

Welcome to the forums. Affinity has three programs at present, which one can use separately, or linked. So if Affinity were to have AI features, and it is a big IF, it seems to me, on the face of it, but I am not expert in AI, or Affinity products, that there could be two additional, separate products, Affinity Adjustment AI and Affinity Generative AI. That way, those people who wanted to use AI could do so, and those people who want nothing to do with AI would be able to avoid it and also not pay for the features either. William

It was about being out of work, not knowing when, or if, one could get another job. Applying for anything one thinks one can do. Trying to grasp at opportunities that are not really there. that seem to be a possibility but never realistically are. Being enthusiastic about the possibility of an art show as in the two threads, one in the Feedback forum and one in the Share your work forum met with no enthusiasm, no interest. So is it me grasping at a straw? Or has the Affinity team not yet considered the suggestion and no decision made yet? Looking back I suppose it is almost unbelievable that in 1977 I was allowed to broadcast some software on a teletext page. That was, at the time, far more of an amazing thing to ask. William

Altered as requested. But has it lost the sense of anxiety of the original? William

Two threads about AI were started recently and were locked with the posters directed to existing AI threads. For the content of those two threads, here are links. These links included here as just a matter of archiving. William

When you state "we" ... ?

Well, as a result of your suggestion, I have written a story. -- It was a summer morning when at around half past eight several cars arrived at the village hall. People got out of the cars, they all knew each other well as they all worked together at a local software company. Already at the village hall, waiting for them to arrive, is Mrs Jones, the Secretary of the Village Hall Committee, ready to welcome them and assist them in finding their way around. From the boots of cars, and the rear seats of cars, framed pictures were carefully carried into the village hall. The people looked at the various tables and chairs in the function room where the art show is due to take place and quickly decided how to set them out around the room so that the pictures could be set out on them. After a time all was ready for the art show opening, due to happen at ten o'clock. So now is the time to start making a video of the art show, before the visitors - if indeed any - arrive. Entry is free and a colourful trifold brochure has been sent to various publications together with a letter inviting them to send people to view the art show and perhaps choose to write about it in their publication. But will anyone come? Ten o'clock arrives and there is no queue. The people are a bit concerned - is this going to be it? It is 10:15 and a lady arrives. "I saw your advertisement in our Village News magazine, so I've come along - am I the first?" "Indeed yes," replies a lady, "Would you like me to show you around?" "That's kind of you - but can we meet up later for a chat perhaps, I'd like to just go and form my own impressions of the pictures if that's alright." "Yes, certainly." After a while a few more visitors arrive. It is just after 2 pm when a lady arrives, and announces that she is from Arts Magazine and the Editor received the invitation and asked her to visit an write an article for the magazine. She adds that she started last week, having finished at University a few weeks ago. "So, it looks like we might get some publicity as a result of this art show. Arts Magazine is a well-regarded, serious publication, with quite a good circulation for that type of publication." As the afternoon progresses more visitors arrive, it is an afternoon out. The art show is busy, people are asking the staff about the software products used to produce the art.

Well, it is like the space below a picture in a picture frame should be taller than the space above the picture. William