Affinity Photo Workbook and Affinity Publisher

[mistertimman]

Just a query. Is it still planned to publish an Affinity Photo Workbook ? If so when is this likely to happen?

 

Is there any news on the beta release of Affinity Publisher? Or has it happened and I missed it?

 

Regards,

 

Tim

[MEB]

Hi Tim,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Yes, the Affinity Photo Workbook will still be published. As far as i know there's no eta at this point.

Affinity Publisher Beta wasn't released yet. We will announce it here and in social media as soon as there's some news.

[mistertimman]

HI MEB,

 

Thanks for your response. Has the Workbook been started yet? It would be so useful to have. I use to love all the resource books for theSerif Plus series.

 

Regards,

 

Tim

[Patrick Connor]

Yes, the Affinity Photo Workbook is well underway. We regularly review chapters as they are submitted and some are ready for German localisation.

 

We actually use PagePlus X9 (via BookPlus) to create and compile it to PDF.

[rgcn]

This is great news. The Designer workbook is fantastic, I know The Photo book will be as well.

 

Rob

[AdrianR]

Hi, first post here but I'm also interested in the Photo Workbook, once ready (having received an email today with the offer for the Designer book but that I don't have a need for...). My suggestion is that it would be a good idea to send out an email inviting people to register for notification at the time when the Photo book approaches publication. That'd save me needing to keep searching this forum occasionally for news!

[mistertimman]

Has anyone got a date yet for the Affinity Photo Workbook publish release date?

[MEB]

Hi mistertimman,

There's no eta yet. We will announce it here and in the social media as soon as there's news.

[AdrianR]

Hi Men, thanks. Is it possible for you to allow people to sign up for email notification, specific to this book being released? That would be the most reliable method, especially if you announce the list being set up via your current email distribution list.

[InfoCentral]

Perhaps a sticky thread as these topics keep being asked regularly.

[MikeW]

20 minutes ago, InfoCentral said:

Perhaps a sticky thread as these topics keep being asked regularly.

Please, no more stickies. Come here using a mobile device and you'll see what I mean. Even with the desktop browser it's a pita.

[InfoCentral]

Perhaps adding a FAQ forum instead.

[mistertimman]

4 hours ago, InfoCentral said:

Perhaps adding a FAQ forum instead.

I think that's a great idea.

[rgcn]

Please can we get this book soon?

 

Rob

[furtonb]

It's shipping.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/workbook/

 

[rgcn]

Ordered my photo workbook this morning.  

 

Rob

[mistertimman]

I have ordered mine as well. I hope it has it has a glossary of graphical terms, such as chromatic aberration and other such mind-bogglers. That's the only thing I found lacking in the Affinity Designer Workbook. Not having an understanding of the nomenclature used is one heck of a drawback when studying.

 

Tim

[mistertimman]

Can anyone in Serif throw any light on the release of Affinity Publisher. Any chance of that anytime soon?

[MEB]

Hi mistertimman,

It should be available as a Public Beta next year.

[mistertimman]

Thanks for your reply MEB. Next Year is only about 5 weeks away. Any idea when next year?

Tim

[Alfred]

11 minutes ago, mistertimman said:

I hope it has it has a glossary of graphical terms, such as chromatic aberration and other such mind-bogglers.

 

The program Help goes into quite a bit of detail about such things. Here's the online version of the (English) help on that topic: Chromatic Aberration.

[MEB]

Hi Tim,

We already missed a deadline before and as you may guess quite a few users weren't happy with it, so we are trying to avoid to be much specific regarding eta's.

Hope you understand.

[Toomas]

On 23.11.2017 at 7:20 PM, MEB said:

Hi mistertimman,

It should be available as a Public Beta next year.

What about an alpha version for eager enthusiasts?

[furtonb]

That would be awesome! +1 for APu alpha!:)

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, furtonb said:

That would be awesome! +1 for APu alpha!:)

Alpha versions of software apps typically are incomplete & unstable. They often have only placeholder code for as yet unimplemented features that does nothing or code that causes app crashes, serious memory leaks, or file corruption when called.

 

In other words, that are not usable even for casual, non-criticals work. So why would you want to try running one if you were not a developer working on the code?