2.1? End of the line for me.

[Antricion]

I have been happy to use AffinityPhoto now for some time. But with 2.1, all my standard workflows have been made harder, longer, aggravating. E.g. the Crop/Rotate tool with the new auto-size, which is wrong for me in 99% of all cases. But it seems to be great, since I'm shown how to get the old behavior with at least 6 additional steps.

But now, I just wanted to do a 1-minute fix of one JPEG, just copying one section and then cropping it. But the copy part always insisted to paste the copied part behind the current image, regardless of what I did. I spent 15 minutes without any success. Then I started the old AffinityPhoto 1, and after 30 seconds, the task was done.

And it seems to be that way with about everything I do. While some things, especially some filters, are really improved, the whole new workflow needed for that is just a no-go. I want to work on my pictures efficiently, not take 1000 detours to reach the desired result.

So while in the beginning, AffinityPhoto was a great tool for me, it now has taken a way I just won't go along with it any more. So I'm searching now for a working alternative, where I can continue working for my pictures, not for the program.

[GarryP]

13 hours ago, Antricion said:

E.g. the Crop/Rotate tool with the new auto-size, which is wrong for me in 99% of all cases. But it seems to be great, since I'm shown how to get the old behavior with at least 6 additional steps.

Can you show us, in a full-screen video so we can see what you are doing, which part of the process you are having trouble with?

13 hours ago, Antricion said:

But now, I just wanted to do a 1-minute fix of one JPEG, just copying one section and then cropping it. But the copy part always insisted to paste the copied part behind the current image, regardless of what I did.

The process to copy and paste part of a pixel layer, as far as can understand from what you have said, seems to be exactly the same for me in 2.1.1 as it was in 1.10.6. Can you give some details about what you are trying to do and how you were/are doing it?

13 hours ago, Antricion said:

And it seems to be that way with about everything I do. While some things, especially some filters, are really improved, the whole new workflow needed for that is just a no-go.

What, specifically, is different to how you used to like it?