CALDesign Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 The Affinity suite is superb and I think you have huge support from professionals. All we really need now is an application, a 'bank', to contain all the images, sound, video, text, etc., that we inevitably need in order to make use of Designer, Photo and Publisher. We can do nothing with any Affinity application without being able to draw on audio/visual resources. We can no longer rely on Adobe's classic Lightroom and most of us deeply dislike Adobe's subscription approach. PLEASE give us an Affinity MediaBank in which we can store and organise multimedia that can be easily imported into Affinity applications. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 39 minutes ago, CALDesign said: We can do nothing with any Affinity application without being able to draw on audio/visual resources. I'm curious to learn how audio files are important in the Affinity Photo or Designer workflows. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDesign Posted September 28, 2018 Author Share Posted September 28, 2018 Think Publisher... think app design... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Publisher is not for designing apps. It is for books and other printed materials. Loosely, I suppose that it is possible that one one might want to embed an audio file within an epub, when Publisher supports them, but that is about the only potential connection for audio that I see with any of the Affinity applications. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDesign Posted September 28, 2018 Author Share Posted September 28, 2018 You seem a bit stuck in the world of print! We’re looking at now and tomorrow... Publisher’s options allow for mobile device designs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 You may be looking there. But I believe you'll find that Serif intends Publisher for books (and eventually ebooks). And they have been pretty clear that they're not interested (at least at this point) in apps that will do web design, video editing, and several other kinds of design that are common requests of them here in the forums. So it seems reasonable to assume that they're also not looking at applications that will help design mobile apps. (I cannot, of course, speak for Serif, but I have read a number of responses they've made which have informed my beliefs about what they're looking at.) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif Ottosson Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 IMO it doesn't have to be a Lightroom replacement, something like Bridge would do just fine for me. Guess that would be a lot easier to build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDesign Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 Agreed. Just feel a Lightroom equivalent media bank might be more profitable product for AS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 11 minutes ago, CALDesign said: more profitable product for AS What's AS? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDesign Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 17 hours ago, walt.farrell said: So it seems reasonable to assume that they're also not looking at applications that will help design mobile apps. Well... have a look at Publisher's page presets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDesign Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: What's AS? Affinity Serif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Those aren't for designing apps, but for 1 minute ago, CALDesign said: Affinity Serif Thanks. I've never seen that term or abbreviation. Affinity is an application brand from the Serif company. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDesign Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 Affinity Serif is a British software development company of which most of us are very proud... and which regards very highly indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 4 minutes ago, CALDesign said: Well... have a look at Publisher's page presets I think you'll find those are intended for creating book page sizes for books or other publications to be displayed on those devices. Not for designing applications to run on them. S Still a bit of a stretch to needing a manager for audio files, in my opinion. But only the Serif team knows what they're planning for their eventual DAM (Digital Asset Manager). Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 5 minutes ago, CALDesign said: Affinity Serif is a British software development company of which most of us are very proud... and which regards very highly indeed. According to their website the company is Serif (Europe) Ltd, not Affinity Serif. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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