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Just saw the preview video for Affinity Photo on the iPad! Looks great and can't wait to try the beta (wink wink). Says all features of the desktop version so I assume RAW persona and frequency separation? http://www.dpreview.com/news/0176552052/affinity-photo-for-ipad-early-build-showcased-at-apple-s-wwdc-2016

There are lots of reasons to add an awesome PDF viewer/editer application to the suite. Here are a few off the top of my head in under 5 minutes: Add interactivity like buttons and multimedia files Colour separation previews to check over print & spot colours and other pre-press proofing Minor text changes without re-creating the whole PDF, especially if it's a long document or it uses fonts you don't have loaded on your computer Define bleed, trim and type-safe areas for auto-processing applications that some newspaper publishers have for artwork submission Preview/add/remove colour profiles Optimise or recompress PDFs to make them smaller Add security to limit the use of the document. Eg: a print-disabled proof to a client for sign-off that hasn't paid their final invoice. Text & image extraction (copy and paste entire paragraphs rather than opening it into Designer where the words might be broken up into letters) Advanced printing features without converting the PDF (eg: auto pagenated booklet printing) Because the Affinity suite is catering to the print industry, PDFs should really be taken VERY seriously. Just opening PDFs and exporting PDFs is just not enough. Also, opening a PDF into Designer and to make changes, then exporting it again creates a whole new document. I don't know how many jobs have gone bad by printers opening my print-ready PDFs into Corel Draw and printing separations from it when they should be printing the separations straight from a PDF workflow application. Printers who would usually have used Corel Draw, might be tempted to move over to Affinity's PDF application for better quality integration. I'd put a standalone PDF tool way ahead of all the calls for a Lightroom/Aperture alternative. It would instantly stamp Affinity's authority on the print industry. It might even become a tool that Adobe users would add to their set of designer tools – a complimentary tool, not a competing tool. Think of all the new Apple Mac users who were convinced to change from Windows because they got an iPhone and fell in love with it. (There was no way Apple could convince Windows users to move based on iWork and expensive aluminium bodies because the competion was too stiff for a head-to-head fight). Perhaps a PDF tool could be Affinity's iPhone to sit alongside every copy of Illustrator, InDesign and Corel Draw out there?

Hi all. Maybe this is too much to ask at this time, and I know I've already mentioned this earlier, but I've been testing Affinity Designer periodically for proper spot colour gradient support (sometimes I miss a beta or two and I may skip the one that finally brings that feature to the table, hence my method). I cobbled up two similar files in Affinity and Illustrator, with gradients from spot colour to spot colour, spot colour to white, and spot colour to 0% opacity spot colour, and exported them to .PDF. For good measure, I also threw in a 50% opacity spot colour as a control swatch. After opening both files on Acrobat Pro and checking the Output [separation] Preview, I was a bit disheartened to see that Affinity still supports flat spot colour transparency only, whereas gradients are all converted/flattened into CMYK. For now, I can accept this omission, and the fact that it may be due to technical limitations in Affinity's engine or something, but I'm obviously expecting much more from it in the future (and that may include Affinity Photo duo/multitone support too, perhaps?), especially for colour-critical work like in logos, where tight budgets for print production more often than not call for the use of spot colours (and, yes, that also includes spot colour gradients). Though this would be fairly easy to correct (especially for simpler artwork) via a small trip through Illustrator before sending my work to the printing shop, I would really love to ditch it altogether from my workflow, and this would be yet another proverbial nail in its coffin. Can you comment on the feasibility of such a feature and maybe give us a rough ETA? Thanks guys. Once again, kudos for your great work! Pantone test.afdesign Pantone Test-AD.pdf Pantone Test-AI.pdf

I bought this app yesterday. Not blindly. I've been looking at it for a long time and passing on it. But I bought it yesterday. I used it a lot at work yesterday to see how much of what I normally would do in Photoshop could be done with this app and how easily. I think that if there's anything that has any possibility, or even intention of making inroads on Photoshop domination, this is probably it. But, using this app does leave me kind of amazed at how many of the details Adobe has managed to notice and cater to in Photoshop. So many things that are just done right, only in Photoshop and nowhere else. Affinity Photo manages to do somethings better than Photoshop. Seems like the HSL filter achieves a better result when doing exactly the same thing, but it's really quirky. Photoshop has that simple preview checkbox that you take for granted. AF doesn't have it. It's nice to click it over and over to see before/after/before/after. I found that I could simulate this by going over to the layer and turning the checkbox on and off but it's not as smooth or smart. Speaking of that layer checkbox. Why put it on the far right of the layer? Is the eye symbol used by many other programs not better than a checkbox. The checkbox says to me that it's selected, not on or off. After using it for a couple days, I still find that I don't know if a layer is on or off and suddenly realize, Oh, it's the checkbox that determines on or off. And there's that blank space to the left of the layer that your mind tells you, something is supposed to be there. LOL. I'm sure that it's just a matter of time, but the current way really does seem to be unintuitive. Pop up boxes and dialog boxes. They pup up in the bottom right corner...and I don't even notice when they do. Very strange. And when I reposition it to where my eyes actually are, they continue to pop up in the bottom right corner later. It would be good if they remembered where they were positioned. Custom key commands is on the roadmap. I remember now, that's one of the reasons I initially totally disregarded this app. Without that, it's difficult to think it's for professionals. The Select Color range tool is lacking some important options. Photoshop and also Serif PhotoPlus I believe allows for selection of Yellow, Red, Green, Cyan, in addition to Sampled Color. For whatever reason, Affinity Photo only Reds, Greens, Blues. I tried to use this app today for a complex color separation job and I needed that option. So I ended up going back to Photoshop to do it. Also, it's not possible to hold shift and select additional colors. No right click options. Right clicking on the document offers nothing. Copy/Paste in Photoshop is a lot better. If I copy art from Illustrator for example that has vectors, and a 300ppi image, I can flip over to Photoshop, create a new document. Photoshop will notice the dimensions of the document, then allow me to decide all about the rest of the details. In this example, I would make it 300ppi. I could choose rgb or CMYK, etc. Afinity Photo just grabs whatever is on the clipboard and makes it into a 96ppi image. There are no options for printing color separations or halftones. I see that "halftone filter" or something is on the roadmap, but I don't think that will suffice for print work. Pantone and spot color support is also on the roadmap. Hopefully that means spot color and pantone channel separations. It's a good program so far. There's plenty missing that would be needed for print work but the roadmap is encouraging. Oh, and it crashed yesterday within an hour of first running it. Actually, it crashed in the background while I wasn't using it.

I've just been using this beta and did a frequency separation on a photo and it looks great but when i open the exported jpeg or png in preview or lightroom the tone is way off what i am looking at in affinity photo beta? Am i doing something wrong in the export?

Well, if the png is within Affinity Photo, then, of course, it's transparent. But, if I use the Separation Mode technique, and drag the layer over the PoserPro Window, then, yes, the little dots that represent transparency are there and obscure my seeing the head in the Poser window. The same thing happens if I save the png layer out, and open it in Preview, and drag it over the PoserPro Window. It's only within Affinity Photo that the layer is transparent. So, I'm hoping there's some way that only the colored markings I've made on the painted layer will show, and that those can be transposed over the 3D head I'm modeling in PoserPro. That would really make my workflow much more convenient. Is there a way to make that happen?

Hello, I'm not sure if I'm getting it, It seem like I can't find "Overprint", "Separation Preview" in the application? I also find it very hard to work with colour, I am totally lost if working without a list of colour swatch. I have no idea what colour is being used in an artwork, was is CMYK colour, Spot colour or RGB colour ... Regards,

Great work guys! Here are some of my feature request that maybe you guys want to take into consideration. -Support for native Adobe Illustrator Internal format .eps -Good colour management module and also supporting cxf3 and cxf4 format -Support colour / channel mapping -Support spot colour -Support separation preview -Support L.A.B for colour Regards, Jeno