Ruben Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 +1 There should be a couple of presets to choose from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nezumi Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 +1 to that, I just ran into problem. Hope this will get some attention rather sooner then later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod74 Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Hello, I now worked way over 200 hours with AD, great Tool for UI Design. But one thing that really could be improved is the font rendering, especially for UI Design. Most of my Designs are for WPF Applications. It would be really great if the developers would improve the rendering. The fonts in AD just look very blury. I really would wish some presets. The "Curve-Tool" is in my opinion useless, I was not able to get any satisfying results. See the attachment with the comparison of WPF Rendering, Photoshop and Affinity Designer. Best regards Nod JDW, telemax and BatteriesInc 3 Quote UI Designer from Germany Currently switching from PS and Ai to Affinity Designer@https://twitter.com/thecircularcale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenJondrew Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 I'm going to apply the same philosophy I have to other software jumps and I'm going to go "all in for an extended period." What I mean is that my Adobe subscription agreement is up next month and I'm going to cancel and just give AP a fair try. The anti alias feature is something that almost had me not doing this. It's such an integral part that's been around in designer's for years that I'm really surprised there's not just an easy toggle, especially on text. I hope this feature gets added soon as my limited experimenting has made me very intrigued with AP (I purchased right away). However, imo the handling of Anti Aliasing is going to be a feature that will be make or break for many (and I would love it to make). ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDW Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 The only reason I can see that Serif is NOT yet catering to users of Adobe apps as much as they should be (in terms of filling much needed feature requests that would enable the bulk of Adobe users to finally make the switch) is that Serif is juggling too many balls at once. They apparently are trying to kick out the equivalent of InDesign (a publishing app), and as we saw at WWDC, they've clearly spent a lot of time on iOS apps too. I think it's great they are trying to be a complete replacement for Adobe, and even exceeded Adobe in terms of being the first company to come out with a really decent iOS app -- seriously, Affinity Photo on iPad is shockingly good and doesn't foolishly dummy down the feature set like just about every other iOS app out there does. But at the same time, there are still many Adobe users on the fence waiting. Once Serif has committed itself to kicking out the feature requests of Adobe users in this forum, they will surely see a tsunami wave of switchers, happy to rid themselves of that hated Adobe subscription model once and for all. With that said, today's news said this... "Adobe Systems Inc (ADBE.O) reported a profit that topped market expectations for the ninth straight quarter on strong subscriber growth..." I simply cannot believe that growth includes "happy customers." I think it includes people who feel "there's no better option right now." Serif needs to continue to work hard on making its software "the better option." And for some people, it is right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 +1 Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 On 14.07.2015 at 9:18 AM, MattP said: Let us know if that gives you enough control over your text rendering Ability to turn off anti-aliasing for text is very important. This is important for sharp text, small signatures, ui elements. For example: Upper text from Photoshop (without Anti-aliasing) Bottom text from Affinity lepr 1 Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 On 14.07.2015 at 9:18 AM, MattP said: You can choose your own blend gamma and antialiasing ramp on a per-object basis by clicking the little cog icon in the Layers panel with your object selected. You should be able to get any effect you desire through there, but I appreciate it might be nice to have some presets available from a dropdown for the sake of ease of use? Thanks! But i did not achieve a good result with Coverage Map. You can try it yourself. The .afphoto file is attached: Text_Antialiasing.afphoto Upper text from Photoshop (without Anti-aliasing)Bottom text from Affinity Upper font - Microsoft Sans Serif lepr 1 Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voidsea Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 +1 A pain in ass. Quote The Boss is watching you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 12 hours ago, telemax said: Thanks! But i did not achieve a good result with Coverage Map. You can try it yourself. The .afphoto file is attached: Text_Antialiasing.afphoto Toyed around for 15 mins or so, and could achieve nothing that was remotely acceptable! Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 This is the best I can get using the Coverage Map. Not sure if there are any other settings, elsewhere, that can improve it. (Bottom text is Affinity) Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 . telemax and Aammppaa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapunahelewong Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Yes, please add these. I've spent the last half hour trying to get something out the door that was perfect except for the way the fonts are rendering. Never got it satisfactory. For anyone running into this when trying to save for use in browsers, try saving as an svg. That improved my images considerably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaC Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Me too: I would just LOVE to use Affinity Photo! I am exploring the trial version right now. But I really miss these pre-sets for Font-Antialiasing... None Sharp Crisp Strong Smooth I will continue to use Photoshop until this presets are implemented. Hope soon... Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telemax Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Quote Non-destructive Mask https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/150439-non-destructive-mask/Image layer & Pixel layer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/146720-image-layer-and-pixel-layer/Brushes | Stars https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/135202-brushes-stars/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anderss Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Designing UI's on small displays i desperately need to control anti-aliasing or at least to able to turn it off on type.....any new on this? I really neat feature would be able to specify the number of levels... fex to the 16 steps of grey (4 bit) that is available on a OLED displays....or any other user specifiable number from 2 levels (mono) rgds anders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 On 1/19/2019 at 7:30 AM, anderss said: Designing UI's on small displays i desperately need to control anti-aliasing or at least to able to turn it off on type.....any new on this? I really neat feature would be able to specify the number of levels... fex to the 16 steps of grey (4 bit) that is available on a OLED displays....or any other user specifiable number from 2 levels (mono) rgds anders What fonts are you using for the design? OTF-TT font files have smoothing settings within the font. These control Standard vs. Cleartype, and Gridfitting, Grayscale, and Smoothing. In looking at the Segoe UI examples above by zooming way in to see the pixels ... It appears that Photoshop Crisp is Standard, Gridfitting, and Grayscale. I am not sure what ADesigner is doing but it looks like just Grayscale and Smoothing, not full Cleartype. The Windows 10 app example looks like the full color Cleartype with Smoothing. So I am wondering if the font settings could be changed to display just Gridfitting at smaller sizes. That should be the same as no anti-aliasing. This would assume that ADesigner is following the settings in the font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCFC_4Heatons Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 still no text anti-aliasing in the latest beta of designer ... seems a glaring ommission to me??? Any particular reason why this feature doesn't seem to get any attention from the developers? Oval 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 On 14. Juli 2015 at 9:01 AM, Andy Somerfield said: that ramp is useful - but the blend gamma slider to the left is probably the simplest way to control sharpness of text So after some time has passed now, how exactly can we achieve sharp text? Can we get examples where small text does not lose so much more quality than in other apps? … Please? … Only theory? In practice, we and Affinity couldn’t even get close to PSE: (something for hobbyists) 42× :-( mfarooqi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denoise Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 it's a shame that Serif is concentrating all efforts in ipad apps than resolving basic feature lack in Affinity Photo. I guess Ipad apps are quick money for now, but it's a shame that the real PS replacement dream seems to fade away when important features are missing for such a long time. so, no text anti aliasing options in Affinity Photo ;( JDW and m.vlad 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessrain Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 I want to give anti-aliasing effect to the exterior shadow effect. What should I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 @blessrain Welcome to the forum. It is probably better to start a new thread about you question, because it is a different issue than all of the preceding discussion. That said, it looks to me like you have antialiasing on the shadow because you have increased the Intensity right up towards 100%. In my experience values greater than ~80% create hard edges which are, in most cases, unusable. Perhaps there is another approach that will get the end result that you are looking for, without using the Outer Shadow effect? Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessrain Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 On 2019. 4. 17. at 오전 10시 35분, blessrain said: The image below is what I worked on in Photoshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eph Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 +1! Also, when zooming the blend gamma + ramp doesn't seem to stick. This makes it impossible to check pixel perfection in detail... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDW Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 The recent posts made me read through this poor multi-year old thread today from start to finish. I must say I don't know whether to laugh or shed tears at Serif's continued cold shoulder toward us who purchased Affinity apps and had some meager expectation of "ongoing software development." Perhaps if we asked for the world it would be unreasonable to expect Serif to accommodate, but we are talking about a Text Anti-aliasing popup menu. Serif, hire a programmer for a week to implement this popup menu so we can end this thread and your users can rejoice worldwide. Consider this post the much needed kick in your fanny to get that ball rolling. Thanks. Sebmo and CLC 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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