nomad Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 As someone looking to get out of the CS universe after 20 years, this beta is by far the best attempt yet to replace Photoshop. I opened up a Nikon NEF file and am impressed with how much you have gotten right so far. That being said, once I committed to my development parameters, the whole photo turned purplish. In other words, it didn't do what I told it to do. That's one issue. The second is that Command-Z or "Undo" did NOT work. That's another big issue. I'm confident you folks will eventually right that stuff and I'd be willing to report bugs and give feedback along the way. I'll tell you the deal breaker right now with me eventually using this software in favor of Photoshop or not. Three things, off the top of my head: 1. I need the equivalent of the Transform tools - skew, warp, etc. that are found in Photoshop. Nobody else has been able to duplicate this so far. You do that, you have me. 2. I will not sign on for a rental model, a la CS. If you do that, I'll stay with Adobe, much as I loathe them. 3. You always stay up-to-date on RAW formats. Keep up the good work and I'll keep trying to make it work with Affinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted February 14, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 14, 2015 Hi, The Develop Persona is fairly raw at the moment (if you will pardon the pun) - expect significant improvements to it with each weekly beta update. 1.) Our "Move" tool had integrated skew, etc - just hover away from the side handles and the cursor will change to skew. We have perspective warp and mesh warp as tool near the bottom of the palette. 2.) Photo will be a one-off $50 in the App Store - probably with a 20% discount for the launch week as a thanks to the people who have helped us with the beta :) 3.) We aim to do this. Thanks, Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff acapstick Posted February 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 18, 2015 Hi Nomad, If you're interested in finding out more - search for 'Rotating and shearing', mesh warp, and perspective in the Help. Cheers Andy Capstick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeFromMesa Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 1.) Our "Move" tool had integrated skew, etc - just hover away from the side handles and the cursor will change to skew. We have perspective warp and mesh warp as tool near the bottom of the palette. I was surprised by this post because I had never noticed any skew built into the Move Tool so I opened the latest beta, loaded an image and tried what you suggested. I clicked on the Move Tool (the arrow head icon) second from the top in the tool box and a frame appeared around the image with little "x" characters at the corners and in the middle of each side. However no matter how long I "hovered" outside the frame near the "x" marks (which I assume to be the "handles" you mentioned I never saw any change in the cursor indicating that there was a skew function. My automatic assumption is that you are right and I am doing something wrong, but I don't know what I need to do to get this to provide skew functionality. I know there is a rotate function built into the crop tool but I do not think that is what you are referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Justin Posted February 19, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 19, 2015 The x's indicate that the layer is locked. If you look at the layers panel you will see a padlock symbol on the layer. Click this to unlock the layer. The x's will be replaced by more useful handles. Cheers Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted February 19, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 19, 2015 Yes, often people want the initial layer to be locked so they don't accidentally move it.. I personally hate this, so I added an option in preferences so you can turn it off, if you want :) Thanks, Andy. SkeletonPete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeFromMesa Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 The x's indicate that the layer is locked. If you look at the layers panel you will see a padlock symbol on the layer. Click this to unlock the layer. The x's will be replaced by more useful handles. Cheers Justin Ah. Thank you. Unchecked the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkeletonPete Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Yes, often people want the initial layer to be locked so they don't accidentally move it.. I personally hate this, so I added an option in preferences so you can turn it off, if you want :) Thanks, Andy. Thanks for this one. Mac Pro (early 2009) 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon w/8GB http://www.skeletonpete.com "It's Stuff I Like, You Might Too..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomM1 Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Yes, often people want the initial layer to be locked so they don't accidentally move it.. I personally hate this, so I added an option in preferences so you can turn it off, if you want :) Thanks, Andy. Very good. website Mac mini (2018) 3.2 GHz Intel Core i7 64 GB • Radeon Pro 580 8 GB • macOS Monterey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Thanks Andy, I hate that about PS as well... 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Ventura 13.6 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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