Not quite there yet

[Raymondo]

I'm posting this just to update on where I feel AP is for me using it on a fairly regular basis and to give feedback to the team . As a creative designer, my work is mostly concentrated on image manipilation, page layout and creative topography. Although mostly I can achieve AP what I set out to do, there are some creative drawbacks at the moment because of some limitations within the FX structure. Also I find the lack of not being able to " lock transparency " a bit of an issue. I have Photoshop CS6 so I don't need to subscribe to Adobe to fall back on Photoshop to get round things for now. However, I have listed below some issues which have cropped up for me which I would hope will be addressed sooner rather than later although I am aware that you (Affinity) are under pressure from lack of development staff.

 

1) FX panel

a) No Satin effect

b) No Pattern overlay

c) No Contour or texture within Bevel and Emboss

    Serous lack of profiles, no way to import or save own profiles

d) Effects generally seem a bit on the light side in comparison the Photoshop

 

I have also discovered that you cannot seem to access your own gradients that you have created within the main colour panel from anywhere else in the program i.e within FX etc, not sure why this is, is it an oversight maybe? I also find it a drawback that I cannot import anything that has a pattern as the program still does not have this facility. I do have many type effects that I could copy and paste from Photoshop but because the AP program cannot yet handle patterns I can only get the type to import with some effects but without the pattern which makes it a no no for now. So on this point I will have to continue rasterising the type effects, if I need them in Photoshop in order to bring it into my AP design but then it means I don't have any further control over the typeface within AP.

 

Overall I have found the program quite useful in my daily tasks but as I have said in my post title, not quite there yet. Keep up the good work though everyone.

[Alfred]

I'm posting this just to update on where I feel AP is for me using it on a fairly regular basis and to give feedback to the team

 

a) Doesn’t this topic belong in the Questions & Feedback section?

b​) Isn’t it annoying how a 'b' followed by a ')' gets turned into a smiley!

[anon1]

d) yeah would be really cool if that could be improved

[Raymondo]

Yes probably Alfred.