Affinity V2.0

[Boldlinedesign]

52 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

I was already worried that your ubiquitous marketing campaign would be missing from this thread.

The new updates will give me plenty of new material in affinity to test and talk about after years of almost no updates. So you might get less  VS talk.. Maybe... I don't want to let you down and stop discussing VS entirely 😂

[cookepuss]

I've been doing CG for about 33 years now. I try not to get too excited about upgrade hype anymore. Too easy to get burnt if you do. These upgrades can't be everything to everybody. If only one or two of my wish list features gets added then I'll be happy. I'm one of those people who knows how to accomplish what I want with as few "shiny" features as possible.

TBH, I could still happily chug along with Photoshop v7 if somebody asked me to. When I request a feature, it's usually to fill a preexisting gap and avoid me having to add another program to the mix. Bells & whistles? Meh.

U2 fans will get this. For me, I try to live and work according to one basic motto: The only baggage you can bring is all that you can't leave behind.

[Johannes]

DAM

[wuren]

"One more thing" — my personal immediate assumption was a video editing solution.

Though, I would buy whatever that would be right away, anyway.

[Patrick Connor]

27 minutes ago, wuren said:

my personal immediate assumption was a video editing solution.

sorry....

 

[Stepaan]

14 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

 

@Patrick Connor You must be super excited to see our "predictions" here, and super proud to be a part of the team preparing the surprise.

[rsim]

My prediction is a motion graphics tool to compete with Adobe After Effects - hence the over-the-top motion graphics used in the teaser trailer. Super excited if that's it!!!

[Stepaan]

1 minute ago, rsim said:

My prediction is a motion graphics tool to compete with Adobe After Effects - hence the over-the-top motion graphics used in the teaser trailer. Super excited if that's it!!!

See previous three posts  😄

 

[Matzeeee]

My prediction is definitely v2.0 (and i‘m so super excited about it; absolutely ready) and Publisher for iPad (apple typically one more thing)

 

[Graphite Addict]

My prediction is next Wednesday I shall be rebinding mousewheel to zoom, as is tradition.

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, Johannes said:

DAM

That would make me very happy. But I'm afraid it will only be the promised and long-awaited APublisher for iPad.

[Dangerous]

17 minutes ago, Graphite Addict said:

My prediction is next Wednesday I shall be rebinding mousewheel to zoom, as is tradition.

I zoom with my mouse wheel, a quick & simple setting!

 

[Graphite Addict]

6 minutes ago, Dangerous said:

I zoom with my mouse wheel, a quick & simple setting!

 

Yep. Apart from that, setting the Corner Tool in Designer to C because I can click the Contour tool on the rare occasions I need it.

I am hoping Designer 2 gets Vector Blend and Vector Free transform (plus all the other things everyone else wants, of course). I don't know what to expect from Photo 2, I found Photo 1 confusing with its lack of silver halide emulsion and waiting two hours for Boots the chemist to mess up a perfectly good photo shoot. I jest, of course.

[Dangerous]

15 minutes ago, Graphite Addict said:

waiting two hours for Boots the chemist to mess up a perfectly good photo shoot. I jest, of course.

I had no problem with boots the times I used them but max spielmann, now they were crap (and still are)/ 

[Old Bruce]

My idea for Something Big:
    Designer:
All vector all the time. Printed pages will be able to have video and/or audio play, plus they will be stretchable in all three dimensions. From postcard size to billboard size just by tugging on the corners of the paper.
    Photo:
The artificial intelligence engine will allow us to ask the application to generate a photograph of "my parents when they were in their twenties coming out of a movie theatre that is showing "The Lady Killers" in London in 1955" This will be in colour or Black and White.
    Publisher:
We will be able to make a new Publisher file and ask for a second (or third) novel by Alain-Fournier to be written (and translated into any existing or extinct language). Or an annual report could be generated by just saying out loud "Adobe, Annual Report, 2024".
    And finally, I can load that Photo document of my parents into any 3D printer and get a life-size statue made. Or I could load the Alain-Fournier novel into it and get a book that is produced using 1920's technology, right down to the ink and the fibres in the paper.

All of this running on a Raspberry Pi. 

[Pšenda]

5 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

All of this running on a Raspberry Pi. 

Everything else can be expected from Serif next week, but I think the Raspberry is already a little impossible (that will only happen with the first free update).

[N.P.M.]

Hope your prostate is in working order to take such a p at it.

6 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

My idea for Something Big:
    Designer:
All vector all the time. Printed pages will be able to have video and/or audio play, plus they will be stretchable in all three dimensions. From postcard size to billboard size just by tugging on the corners of the paper.
    Photo:
The artificial intelligence engine will allow us to ask the application to generate a photograph of "my parents when they were in their twenties coming out of a movie theatre that is showing "The Lady Killers" in London in 1955" This will be in colour or Black and White.
    Publisher:
We will be able to make a new Publisher file and ask for a second (or third) novel by Alain-Fournier to be written (and translated into any existing or extinct language). Or an annual report could be generated by just saying out loud "Adobe, Annual Report, 2024".
    And finally, I can load that Photo document of my parents into any 3D printer and get a life-size statue made. Or I could load the Alain-Fournier novel into it and get a book that is produced using 1920's technology, right down to the ink and the fibres in the paper.

All of this running on a Raspberry Pi. 

 

[Dangerous]

I have Apub but don't really need or use it so unsure as to whether I will get ver 2.

Will defo get AP & AD so I'm hoping the studio link in ver 1 APub will work with ver 2 of AP & AD.

Let's hope the sales/download system doesn't crash from being overloaded as judging from the posts I've seen there is a virtual queue building up already.

 

[Graphite Addict]

I fear, Old Bruce, your dalliances with AI and the phrases "my parents when they were in their twenties" and "The Lady Killers" might result in some terrible time paradox.

Is your last name Wayne? And what are your feelings on bats?

[iMatt]

In the presentation, there was mention of Affinity as a suite of programs. Could we see a unified installer a la Office or CorelDraw? Purchase Affinity Suite V 2.0 for say $120/£120. Or buy each separate prog, Designer, Photo and Publisher for $50/£50 each. I would also like to see something lie 'Affinity Web'. A web design prog based on the graphics capabilities of Designer and Photo. With the page layout abilities of Publisher.

[CM0]

1 minute ago, iMatt said:

In the presentation, there was mention of Affinity as a suite of programs.

I'm really hoping for greater integration.  I use Publisher for almost everything simply because of the better integration.

What would be ideal is being able to create a custom perspective with all the tools you want from any of the 3 programs.

[Patrick Connor]

5 minutes ago, iMatt said:

Purchase Affinity Suite V 2.0 for say $120/£120. Or buy each separate prog, Designer, Photo and Publisher for $50/£50 each.

👀 interesting

[Dangerous]

1 minute ago, iMatt said:

In the presentation, there was mention of Affinity as a suite of programs. Could we see a unified installer a la Office or CorelDraw? Purchase Affinity Suite V 2.0 for say $120/£120. Or buy each separate prog, Designer, Photo and Publisher for $50/£50 each. 

Affinity is already classed as a suite but only sold as 3 individual programs. While what you say can't be ruled out there is a big market for just AP (photographers) and just AD (budding designers) and a big market for all 3. Serif offers are already good value & I can't see them giving further discounts if you buy all 3 in a 'half price sale'

[R C-R]

6 minutes ago, Dangerous said:

Affinity is already classed as a suite but only sold as 3 individual programs

Actually, there are currently 5 V1 apps, 3 each for Windows & Mac, & 2 for iPad....

[Old Bruce]

26 minutes ago, Graphite Addict said:

Is your last name Wayne? And what are your feelings on bats?

Not Wayne even though I truly loved Adam West, Burt Ward et al's version of the show. 

The only bats I know are the ones residing in my belfry, they are from Walt Kelly's Pogo. I like them a lot.

Huge fan of Kato from the Green Hornet. Played by the late great Bruce Lee.