rafaelartioli Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 I'd like to be able to copy and paste shapes from AD to Pixelmator. Currently, if you do this, all you get is a text box with codes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joost Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 hmm, AD's image is a vector drawing, Pixelmator creates images with pixels - copying from AD to pixelmator would imply that the vector drawing will need to be rasterized at some point. That burden would need to be on Pixelmator's side (the receiving side of a copy-paste would know what format it needs). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted May 30, 2015 Staff Share Posted May 30, 2015 Hi rafaelartioli, Affinity Designer Beta has an option in the Preferences to copy items from Affinity Designer as SVG, but seems it doesn't work either :( @joost, Pixelmator does work with vectors too. They created a specific workspace for it called Vectormator: press shift+cmd+v to switch to it. anon1 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joost Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 @MEB, ah didn't know that. Not likely I will use (pixel/vector) - mator now that we have AP & AD :-) I never understood the love for Pixelmator, can't stand that UI, happy Serif has a much better option... BTW. I've also gone cold turkey on the Adobe stuff, my CC license was due in May and I have not renewed. The only fall back option I have are old copies of Photoshop and Illustrator. I know I am missing a bunch comparing AD/AP to Adobe but I am willing to wait it out and see what you guys are doing. billtils 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafaelartioli Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 The love for Pixelmator comes from a simple factor: performance. It's really fast. Compare the Repair Tool in Pixelmator and the Impainting Brush Tool in Affinity Photo. It's like 3x faster. I know AP is still in beta, and I expect it to get better over time. I do plan to switch. But right now it's just not as fast and reliable as Pixelmator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted June 1, 2015 Staff Share Posted June 1, 2015 The love for Pixelmator comes from a simple factor: performance. It's really fast. Compare the Repair Tool in Pixelmator and the Impainting Brush Tool in Affinity Photo. It's like 3x faster. I know AP is still in beta, and I expect it to get better over time. I do plan to switch. But right now it's just not as fast and reliable as Pixelmator. Hi rafaelartioli, Can you give us an in-painting example and we can have a look? :) We didn't think there was much in it performance-wise and we thought our results were more pleasing, so we'll gladly take a look if you've a specific case showing up these problems? Thanks! Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafaelartioli Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 Hi Matt, I'm attaching an example. APhoto took about 5 sec. to complete the task. Pixelmator took about 2 sec. As you can see, the result in Pixelmator is more seamless than AP. I used 100 px. brushes in both apps. I'm using a 2014 13" Macbook Pro Retina. Thanks! MattP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilleG Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Rafael, was that in Pixelmator 3.1 or 3.3? I have 3.1 in Mountain Lion and 3.3 in Yosemite and it does seem much faster in Yosemite. Wish I liked Yosemite better, sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafaelartioli Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Hi LilleG, I'm running Pixelmator 3.3.2 Limestone on OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilleG Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I figured it must 3.3. The healing brush in 3.1 is not very good at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilleG Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I just went into my Yosemite partition and compared Pixelmator 3.3.2's Healing Brush and Affinity Photo's Inpainting tool on the same rather complex area of a photograph. Affinity did a very much better job of removing and replacing the object. I won't be lusting to use Pixelmator in future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted June 3, 2015 Staff Share Posted June 3, 2015 It really does just depend on the exact image and your exact selection. All algorithms will work better on some images and worse on others. I think that all the solutions I've tried (Affinity Photo, PhotoShop and the updated tool in Pixelmator) do a good enough job to get you most of the way there 95% of the time - and that's pretty exciting in my opinion :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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