Affinity V1 or V2

[Pšenda]

I'm sorry, but I would still be interested in an example of a tutorial for "absolute beginners", which will not be easily adapted to V2 due to the mentioned changes in the "quite different" UI.

[Ron P.]

4 hours ago, jsampson45 said:

but to adapt tutorials for v.2  one will need a good knowledge of v.1 to start with.

So you're saying it's difficult to adapt the tutorials from V1 to V2? What tutorials, where are you finding this?

Affinity Photo, Official Tutorials-Listed on this Forum

Affinity Photo Version 1 Tutorials-Listed on Forum

YouTube has a boatload of tutorials for Affinity apps. There's also a lot of 1 vs 2 videos. So I'm not sure why or what specific tutorial would lead you to believe adapting is so difficult.

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, jsampson45 said:

The UI has been changed, which means that things have been moved about.

I have not given it much thought but I think the only things of significance that have been moved are menu items like those to show/hide the Studio panel windows. They are now in the Windows menu while in V1 they were in the View > Studio submenu.

[walt.farrell]

Just now, R C-R said:

I have not given it much thought but I think the only things of significance that have been moved are menu items like those to show/hide the Studio panel windows. They are now in the Windows menu while in V1 they were in the View > Studio submenu.

And they have also been restructured, so it may take a little bit of looking in the menu to find what you need.

But other than that, and the different icons for Tools, the V2 UI is more similar to the V1 UI than it is dissimilar, I think.

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

And they have also been restructured, so it may take a little bit of looking in the menu to find what you need.

One thing that changed in that respect is the addition of a Window > Text submenu with the show/hide options for the Character, Glyph Browser, Paragraph, & Text Styles Studios. In V1 they were in the Text menu ... & Text Styles appeared redundantly both in the Text & in the View > Studio submenu.

So I guess it is fair to say that more than a few menu items have been moved & reorganized in V2 vs. in V1.

[Ron P.]

3 hours ago, R C-R said:

So I guess it is fair to say that more than a few menu items have been moved & reorganized in V2 vs. in V1.

While I'll agree with this, I find it hard to accept people don't look, click around in the apps to learn them. For instance, the Studio Menus. They just moved them next door, under the Windows menu. Not finding that on your own, appears to be lacking the desire to learn, and or laziness. Are people afraid they will destroy their computers by clicking around? I once was, (Win 3.0) and learned from a PC tech, not to be. While the OS may crash, the PC is not going to explode.

Perhaps Serif needs to include as about the first instruction we see after installing, is Please explore the complete interface. Click on everything you can to see what happens. If it freezes up, don't worry, there's a Reset function for that.....

I must be weird, when I forget or don't know, where a specific menu item is, I'll click on a main menu, then read the sub-menu line by line looking. Going through all if need be. Sometimes I'm still blind to it, so will try again.

 

[R C-R]

35 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

While I'll agree with this, I find it hard to accept people don't look, click around in the apps to learn them. For instance, the Studio Menus. They just moved them next door, under the Windows menu. Not finding that on your own, appears to be lacking the desire to learn, and or laziness.

While it is something I do when new to an app, I can't really agree with the idea that not doing so is just laziness or a lack of desire to learn. For instance, when a tutorial video doesn't match what the app shows, it can make one think there is something wrong with the app installation or how one is trying to use it.

[Old Bruce]

59 minutes ago, R C-R said:

While it is something I do when new to an app, I can't really agree with the idea that not doing so is just laziness or a lack of desire to learn. For instance, when a tutorial video doesn't match what the app shows, it can make one think there is something wrong with the app installation or how one is trying to use it.

And there are a lot of tutorials out there that will misleadingly use Affinity instead of Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher in their titles. This can cause confusion when you are looking for information for Publisher and are watching a tutorial named "How to use Affinity to ...." and the tutorial is about using Designer.

[Alfred]

7 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

And there are a lot of tutorials out there that will misleadingly use Affinity instead of Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher in their titles. This can cause confusion when you are looking for information for Publisher and are watching a tutorial named "How to use Affinity to ...." and the tutorial is about using Designer.

It seems rather odd to me that this happens so often. Users of Serif's legacy software products would often post to the support forums about 'using Serif' or something like that, but I don't recall seeing tutorials that failed to specify PagePlus, DrawPlus, or whatever.