[[DAM] Affinity Lightroom Killer Request]

We are going to make a professional Affinity DAM application - stay tuned in 2016 for more information ;)

 

Thanks,

 

Andy.

 

Fantastic. Aperture's eventual collapse has me worried as I'm packing more and more photos in. Tried Lightroom every year but hate it's rigid "modes".

 

For a photography DAM app, these are the killer features (excluding fast, stable, non-crap UI):

• Referenced files: let me choose where to store the RAW files (so many apps can use it), and the DAM generates previews for fast display that it stores within itself
• Easy backup: love this feature from Aperture, but it only works for managed libraries.
• Easily navigate a chronological library: three decades of digital photos and counting
• Smart albums (by any metadata just like Aperture)
• Mapping: I geotag everything and love exploring my map (please allow it to go fullscreen, not tiny windowed like Aperture)
• Stacks: for marking a set of photos as related (ex: to remember to make a panorama)
• Versions: unlimited versions from non-destructive edits

Importing all my work from Aperture would be nice, but honestly it's just a viewer for me. I'd be very happy with a tool that just makes enjoying my photos and managing thousands of them a breeze.

[New Preference: default resampling]

I noticed in Affinity Photo 1.4, the preferences pane changed a lot.

 

I track all my custom preferences on my site here in case of meltdown and to share with others:

http://manuals.gravitydept.com/workspace/mac-apps/affinity-photo

 

When exporting or resizing the canvas, I was never sure which resampling method to use. It seems odd that the one which produces the worst quality (but is fastest) is the default. I finally decided to lookup and document what they all do. They all seem fast enough to me, so I always want the one with the best quality.

 

I think it'd be nice to set the resampling mode as a user preference so I don't have to remember to switch it every time I export.

[Blurry EPS/SVG in PDF export]

Trying to export to PDF to get business cards printed. I imported a PSD template from moo.com with the right color spaces / etc. 

 

Tried importing my logo in EPS and SVG, which looks fine on screen. But when exporting to PDF it rasterizes. Afraid it's going to print terribly and considering just exporting a massive PNG instead.

 

Disclaimer: I basically never do print work and have used Photoshop for under 3 hours in my life. Affinity Photo is a totally different app for me (Fireworks to Sketch user).