Not using photoshop commands, lack of tooltips and lack of context sensitive help is an act of cruelty

[3d illusions]

Considering photoshop is the most used photo editing software on the planet, and affinity does most of the same tasks, and baring in mind that most new users will be coming from photoshop, would it not make sense to have all the controls/shortcuts and behaviour of tools match?  Or at least have an option to select the photoshop keymap template in the preferences.

It's a nightmare having to google every single command. 

At the absolute least, add context sensitive help so you can press f1 to get info on the tool hovered over, and maybe have the popup info extend further if the mouse is left hovered for more than 2 seconds, to show all the available functions and accompanying shortcut keys that can be used with the tool.

Not to mention, non of the options in the toolbars have any tooltip popups!  It's really bad.

Making it immediately intuitive to new users should be high on the list of priorities if you want the product to be instantly appealing.

[Joachim_L]

7 minutes ago, 3d illusions said:

Or at least have an option to select the photoshop keymap template in the preferences.

What if there is no AP equivalent? Wouldn't it mean, that this shortcut is now blocked for nothing? Maybe this could be worth a community project? Perhaps someone did this already and want to share the shortcut file?

[3d illusions]

if there's no equivalent, then use the standard AP shortcut.  I mean, having to hold alt and left click drag to sample a colour for example is ridiculously unintuitive.  I bought the entire suite, and the lack of intuitiveness and tooltips is really making me regret my purchase.  The learning curve is avoidable, but has been made necessary by lack of UI information, and non industry standard keymaps.

[3d illusions]

Another thing that bothers me is the lack of context sensitive menus.  For example, if you select two layers and then right click, you get an option to merge visible, but not merge selected, instead you have to dig through the menus.  Having the most likely operations in the right click menu based on the selection seems to make more sense.

if len(selected_layers) > 1:

    context_menu.append('merge selected')