JeffH Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Am I correct in thinking that Affinity represents an entire line of products for the Macintosh? Not to promote your competition, but only as an example, is Affinity to Designer as Adobe is to Illustrator? Taking this further, will we see another product such as Affinity "Page" (as Adobe is to InDesign) or Affinity "Photo" (as Adobe is to Photoshop)? if so, I will soon be a very happy Macintosh user! Your PagePlus application is extraordinarily useful to me but, alas, it runs only in Windows (not at all a favorite OS) so a product line such as this, built solely for the Mac, will be greeted with open arms! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted July 7, 2014 Staff Share Posted July 7, 2014 Yes, Affinity is a new range of applications for the Mac. Affinity Designer will be our first release and we will then following with Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. JeffH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macCesar Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Eager to see Photo and Publisher! Keep up the good work!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 As well as sharing a liking for speed, accuracy, and pro colour, Affinity titles will also share a common file format. You'll be able to work in a seamless mixed discipline workflow, editing the same projects in Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher. Quote Twitter: @Writer_DaleAffinity apps run on: Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, GTX1650 Super Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Now this sounds promising! You mean I can draw an illustration in Designer and then open the very document in Publisher where I build an ad or a brochure around it and eventually go back to Designer to add another vector element? Does this imply that all three applications will understand multipage documents – even Photo, (though I don’t see the advantage here)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted July 30, 2014 Staff Share Posted July 30, 2014 matthias, Yes, that is correct. AndyS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted July 30, 2014 Staff Share Posted July 30, 2014 All our apps use exactly the same base file format. Not only that, we have a quick one-button (or menu item) method to pass open documents between our apps. Your system will know which Affinity apps you have installed, and offer you the option of editing an open document in one of your other installed Affinity apps. So, you could have a document open in Designer then pass it over to Photo to make some raster changes and back again to Designer to do some more vector work. Best of all, when doing this it will preserve your command history, remembering where you were in the history, and include any autosave state, so you can even undo or redo a change while working in Designer that you made while working in Photo. It's all about workflow! Dale 1 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHart Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Awesome, can't wait till photo and publisher are released. Quote Using an 2009 Imac with OSX 10.8.6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abelincolnjr Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 yeah this is very promising! I cant wait to see more :D Are your plans for workflow in design studios that you'll export your vectors as eps or pdf files for now? I'm pretty excited it will be nice to see if I can get off the adobe rent-a-app carousel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Abe I believe the intent for launch is to support accurate import and export of PDF, AI, PSD, EPS, and SVG files, plus import of FH files. One of the Devs may want to correct me if I've sold Designer short there. Quote Twitter: @Writer_DaleAffinity apps run on: Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, GTX1650 Super Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted August 2, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 2, 2014 We will import AI(PDF and EPS streams) but not export. Illustrator should be able to import our PDF files though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacGizmo Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 There are dozens upon dozens of photo editors available as alternatives to Photoshop. If you really want to make a splash, an InDesign replacement is your best bet. That being said, I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted August 3, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 3, 2014 Affinity Publisher will come but Photo will be something very special. We hope that when you use all three Affinity products together then you will see that all other alternatives are toys in comparison. Dale and rui_mac 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Is there a forum for Affinity Photo yet? Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted August 3, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 3, 2014 We haven't started the Affinity Photo beta yet. We will start the beta when Designer launches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Thanks TonyB, thought as much as I couldn't find anything on it. Count me in when you do. I am hoping there will be some digital art aspect to it along with the photo side of things. Cheers. Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rui_mac Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 As much as I appreciate vector graphics (I do, I do!!! I even coded my own vector engines, vectorial fonts, auto-tracing programs, etc, back in the old ZX Spectrum days, all in assembler), I will be a bigger tester for Affinity Photo. Photoshop is one of me tools of trade, ever since version 1.0 And, if you guys decided to create a 3D application, I would be the biggest tester and contributer of sugestions for it. My main work is 3D and I even code my own plugins (python and C++) :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 rui_mac are you a Blender user per chance? Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rui_mac Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Nope. I'm a Cinema 4D user. I tried Blender several times. It hás amazing tools and it is free (and you can't beat free!! ;-) ) But is looks like it was made by engineers, to be used by engineers ;-) It is not easy to use and is overly too complex. Well, at least when compared with the ease of use of Cinema 4D. But it is an amazing tool. And... did I mentioned it is free? ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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