What I DON'T like about Affinity Photo, and hope they change soon!
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- Last week I talked about about 10 things that I love about Affinity Photo that I struggled with in Adobe PhotoShop, but Affinity Photo isn't all sunshine and roses.
I struggle with some things in Affinity Photo, and this time I'm talking about 10 things that frustrate me about the program and I hope they change as soon as possible.
If you're a graphic designer, photographer, or digital illustrator, and you're thinking of making the switch from Adobe to Affinity, you may want to watch this video first.
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Hi Dave, thanks for the video! Just a few replies to the points you've raised:
Channels Panel: yes, it does behave differently! The main pitfall for people is clicking on a composite channel (which isolates that channel for both viewing and editing) then not realising you can click the Reset icon to get back to editing all channels.
Channel isolation allows you to use tools (e.g. painting) and destructive filters on particular channels.
The second section of the Channels panel changes depending on the layer you have selected. In your video, you've got the Black & White adjustment layer selected. Adjustment and filter layers have their own layer masks, so this would enable you to invert, clear or fill that mask, plus you could save it as a greyscale layer or spare selection. To do any of these, just right click "Layer Name Alpha" to see those options.
If you were using Black & White plus maybe Threshold to create a mask of the tree, what I would do is Merge Visible (Layer>Merge Visible) to create a merged pixel layer. You can then right click this layer or go to the Layer menu and choose Rasterise to Mask, which will create a mask layer ready for you to drop in to any other layer.
Similarly, with Protect Alpha, why not use layer clipping instead? You can either drop a mask layer into your pixel layer that you intend to paint on, or alternatively if you have a cutout layer with just the tree information on, drop a pixel layer into that and paint on it--the contents will then be clipped to the tree.
Following on from the above, dragging layers into other layers has two distinct behaviours, clipping and masking--I did a video on the difference which hopefully clears it up: czcams.com/video/CBl20YGZRTk/video.html
Smart objects: we import PSD smart objects, but in Affinity you don't need them per se. Many behaviours in the app are non-destructive. E.g. the Move Tool (V) is used to move, rotate, scale and shear layers, but it never asks you to commit your transformation. Need to alter the perspective? Use a live Perspective filter (Layer>New Live Filter Layer>Distort>Perspective). Need to add motion blur, radial blur, unsharp mask? Check out the other live filter layers. As you've discovered, the shape tools are all vector based, as is the Pen Tool, so those all scale infinitely.
You can also drop in embedded documents, other .afphoto files for example. You can do this via File>Place or by drag-dropping the file directly over your document. It then becomes an embedded document--you can double click the thumbnail or, with the Move Tool (V) selected, go to the context toolbar at the top left and click Edit document. It will then open up in a separate tab.
Also just worth pointing out--adjustment and live filter layers don't need a mask clipping to them, they already have a mask (the white thumbnail). Just select the layer and you can begin painting on/off its mask, or go to Layer>Invert to flip the mask.
Twirl and other filters: we typically restrict the kernel value (Radius) to 1024px for performance reasons since everything displays in real time on your document, but there is a little trick here--just type a value above 1024 to go higher. E.g. with twirl you can make the twirl much bigger by using 4096.
Deform: it's like Puppet Warp, you click on your layer/image to create constraint points then drag them around.
Affine: it's the technically correct name for what happens with, say, the Offset filter. E.g. you might use the Offset filter to create seamless textures or 360 panoramas.
Stock panel: not sure here, there was an API issue with Pexels for a while I believe, but that appears to be fixed now. We have had issues with people on Windows using VPNs or proxies, not sure if you have anything like that configured?
Transform tool: as mentioned earlier, you can do your moving, scaling, rotating and shearing with this tool. I know you found the Perspective tool on the left, but try the live Perspective filter instead (Layer>New Live Filter Layer>Distort>Perspective). Same thing except you can do it non-destructively. I like to bind this to Ctrl+T! To find this in the shortcuts, click the second dropdown which mirrors your top menu options and choose Layer, then find the New Live Filter Layer > Perspective entry.
Don't forget that we work hard to maintain the in-app help which is searchable! There's also an online version that is searchable and allows you to add favourites: affinity.help -- everything is separated into logical categories and you can also search for filter names to get a clear idea of what they do, how to use them etc. I don't think people are used to having this old-school style help where everything is documented because nobody realises it's even there ;)
Thanks again and hope the above is helpful to you,
James
James Ritson thanks James. I will review these. I appreciate it.
James, Good for you. It confirms the saying ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.’
Is there a shortcut to change the with and hardness of the brush? I used to do that in Photoshop with ALT + Drag with right click...
James Ritson awesome. Thanks for your tips.
nice, i love that you guys are ON IT and listen to your people (us), and improve constantly!
Default font - Open a new file, select your text tool but don't click on the page, Go to the toolbar and click on the spin-down arrow next to "Ariel" and choose the font you want as your default, then click Edit-->Defaults-->Save
I'm Helping!! :)
David Macauley thank you very much.
Neat. Although i have never once worried about the default font being Arial, this is hardly something worth worrying about. Have you EVER typed text in without wanting to select the actual font you will use in the document?
Tim Beaton have you ever typed a comment that wasn’t contrary in nature. But to answer your question, I use Helvetica, a lot. It would be nice if I had that at the ready.
@@DaveConrey I have typed many comments that were neither contrary, or negative, as it happens.
And my standby is Optima, FWIW!
@@DaveConrey Wikipedia says it's also called (Helvetica or Neue Haas Grotesk) which is in AP.
Thanks man, both your cons and pros vids help me make my switch, great how most of your cons got answered in the comments confirming my choice. 👍
Yeah, love this community for stuff like that.
Just be glad the default font isn’t Comic Sans.
This is true
🤣That would have been worse!
Brush not working, if you accidentally press B, it toggles between 3 other brush type tools, so you gotta keep pressing B till you get to the normal brush. Had this happen to me to lol
You can toggle this behaviour and assign it to a Shift key modifier, which prevents you from accidentally cycling tools in a group! czcams.com/video/pIMJVVdvdCk/video.html
I found that out the hard way, but that wasn't the problem in my situation. It was something in regards to the channels palette, but I figured it out after the fact
A testament to the credibility of AF is the fact that the default font is an issue. It must be that good.
I take personal umbrage to Arial. 😂
@@DaveConrey I hear ya'..
dave, i smiled when you were talking about your machine, i was having the same problem, what i did was get a ipad pro 12.5 and bam, everything works great
Yeah, I finally upgraded to a new MacBook, so it’s all good in the hood now.
As a webdesigner who often works with small images and JPG format there are two things thats really annoy me.
(1) Photo always zooms small images to fit the screen and you're forced to CMD+1 / CTRL+1 to show them at 100%. If you work with small stuff you end up with a huge pixelated "thing" that covers the entire working area. And that also happens every time you resize the image: if you open a 300x300 pixel photo it will auto-fill the entire screen. Zoom it to 100%, resize to 150x150px and it will -again- go to fullscreen, in a glorious pixel mess. any image that is smaller than your working area should be opened at 100%. Huge images should instead be resized to fit the working area, for the sake of my eyes...
(2) If you open a JPG image, edit it an CMD+S / CTRL+S to save and overwrite it, Photo will automatically choose 100% quality. The only way to save it in a compressed format is by going to "Export" and do a couple more clicks every-single-time. And of course the "Export" tool will NOT choose the same destination folder as the original image, for some weird reason. There should be an option to let Photo save an image the way YOU want it. Just add a warning "hey, remember you're losing quality here..." if you really want to be verbose. But let me choose.
P.S. Think about doing some Photo/Design tutorials, if you have some spare time. The web needs them, let's all ride the Affinity wave by offering more tutorials, more content and more tricks!
Lu thanks so much. The design tutorials are coming next. 😉
I've had a roblem where the brushes stop working. It seems to happen if Affinity is left open and someone logs onto another account (the computer is shared), and when I switch back, the brushes don't work. If I save it before quitting, when I reopen, I can see that the brushes did work, but it was invisible before quitting.
That’s interesting. It’s a weird glitch. I usually just close out and restart.
What is your screen resolution on that mac? I have a pc with a 1080p FHD screen and my protect alpha is visible and not even close to the right edge of my screen!
I have a new machine, and the new resolution fixed the problem.
@@DaveConrey Wow, you really must have had an old machine :) Glad it worked out for you! I love Affinity!
In the Twirl filter the angle can be adjusted from -720 to +720. To adjust the radius more than the amount indicated in the slider (default max = 1024), click the input box of the amount and type in whatever excess amount you want. This works for almost ALL input box fields like Opacity or font size choices or zoom levels.
Shahrzaad Parekh good to know, thanks.
Have seen this solution in many other designer software I have used. Often the default min/max values are not enough. Took a while to figure out.
I am using version 1.8.3.641 on Win10, and it reverts back to 720 if I type 1000 in the Angle input box.
Fun! Clearly so much more to learn.
That's what I always liked about Photoshop: always so much more to learn!
Yeah, it come ls quick though, especially with people on CZcams who are willing to help expose secrets. I’d be lost without this place.
I have had similar issues on the iPad version, sometimes both designer and photo applications closes in the middle of working on a project. I thought it was the iPad that had an issue. I am using an iPad pro 2018 ( that is 9 months old). I have not found an effective way to wrap images in affinity photo.
When you say “wrap” images, what do mean? I’m not sure I understand.
The "Protect Alpha" thing is easy.
Drag a layer onto another one in your layer list, that will make that layer only able to draw where the "master" layer is.
If you're using a jpeg and everything's on the same layer, I prefer to do a magic wand selection with high tolerance, copy paste that, so you've got a new layer, and do it with that.
That’s masking, and can work for some things, but not all. Great idea though.
Thank You Dave for your informative, uplifting, and funny videos! You are a help and a blessing for those finding ways around the Corporate BS, of the Adobe Avarice! ..... Peace! XOXOXOXO
Avarice is such a great word. Thanks for sharing yours. I appreciate it.
Hi! I'm also considering to use Affinity programs!
Just wanna ask if you have tried Krita?
Nope, no idea what that is, to be honest.
@@DaveConrey it's a free designing software, you might wanna check it out too
Hi Dave great video. I just wanted you to know that you don't need "Smart Objects" with Affinity.
According to Digitally Fearless Affinity with Richard Spezzano
(another channel here on CZcams that I also follow)
4 weeks ago (edited)
"Photoshop calls it a smart object but In Affinity, if you import a photo it's already a "smart object" without having to do anything. You can scale it up or down without losing image quality. In Photoshop if you import and scale it you lose quality unless you first change it into a smart object. I used Photoshop for more than 20 years, but now Affinity is my go-to photo editor."
That is really good to know. Thanks so much.
Can you change things to "smart objects" (or whatever they'd call it) without importing? Like a group of layers? Thanks!
As for the smart object question you can place in affinity photo (through the file menu) any affinity document as a smart object, even a publication. And for selection from a channel right mouse click on a channel and add to selection.
Awesome, noted. Thanks.
Points is the default size... We should be able to set it to the one we need as default.
You can if you set it before you start a new document.
yep LOL and I have a 3440 x 1440 screen when I make a new document that size and use the flood tool to change the color it never fills all the way to the left I have to drag expand the layer to fill it.
That's interesting. I personally haven't seen that myself. Strange glitch, but maybe you can take that one to the Affinity Forums to see if anyone else knows what's up.
If you're looking to flood a whole layer solid (not just the art itself) there's the "Add Fill Layer" option under the Layer menu.
How much RAM do you have in your machine?
Upgraded machine now. 16gb.
The only thing I'm finding strange at the moment is the way the layers work - I'm OK creating multi layered work but if I have to move anything up a layer or down whole layers will disappear and I've no idea why yet. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually.
It might be that you're adding them as masks on accident. Hard to say for sure, but I do know that there are key commands in the app that allow you to use the arrows to move the layers up and down on the fly. I did it once by accident.
@@DaveConrey I figured it out - I'm a newbie - I was nesting the layer instead of making sure the layer was on its own by making sure it was on a new top layer. It's the way you drag and drop the layer - it's different from PS. Ive cracked it now. 😁👍
RAW. Developing RAW doesn't create sidecar xmp or saves the changes inside the DNG, instead creating an .afphoto file that is 10 times (!) larger than the original. Am I missing something?
You’re basically speaking a foreign language to me there. I’m not a photographer or photo editor, so I don’t work in RAW ever.
Hey Dave, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on AP as I just purchased it and although I have about 15 years of experience with PS, I am struggling with some operations you’ve mentioned and others. I do have a question for you though. Can you please point me to someone who sells banana guns? I have a tree in my back yard and since I’m sick of eating them, I’d have a shitload of ammo. Thanks!
I have yet to find one, but the search continues. Thanks for watching.
Thanks dor the protect alpha tips.
You bet
I love my suite, but yeah needs a few things
It does need better font importing and an option to install missing fonts or replace them. It wont even identify the missing font, which pisses me off a bit. It just rasterizes the fonts.
Photo needs a gif animation panel about as much as Designer need a raster to vector converter feature (convert to curves)
I use an app called RightFont for font management. It’s simple yet powerful, and inexpensive.
i have the version of iPad and is amazing app but same issues. cannot complete my work with one hour straight up. always have crash and freeze my whole iPad not only the APP! i use iPad Pro 2018 12.9. is amazing app but is disappointed at same time. hopefully the improve and fix the bugs in future.
I think they will only continue to make it better and better, and still for way less than Adobe. ;)
To create the pixel selection do as you did duplicate and then convert to black and white and then select sample colour to give you the mask.
Good idea, thanks.
I missed Photoshop's Transparency Lock at first. Then I discovered in Affinity you can go to Select>Alpha Range>Select Totally Transparent -- Invert Pixel Selection (also under Select) and your transparency is locked and you can apply paint at will and never touch the transparent areas. I agree it's not as handy as Photoshop but it works.
Simply check the "Protect Alpha" in the context toolbar of the paint brush tool and then you won't affect the transparent areas of the layer. Much easier.
Interesting work around. As David shared here though, Protect Alpha is definitely quicker (I still think it should be layer dependent though).
agreed
There is a more effective way. Go to the Channels panel, find the Composite Alpha, and click on the pen icon on the right. If it is grey it will lock the alpha on all layers at the same time and vice versa. This works with all channels, so you can even paint alphas with no RGB colours, just paint in the red/grenn/blue channels, etc.
The font thing drives me nuts too. Surely it would be a 10 minute change to put a default font option in the preferences and add a checkbox that says "Keep last used font"
I’ve heard from other that if you choose the type tool before applying it to anything in the page, and then select the typeface you want, that will then change the default. So that’s not such a bad deal.
@@DaveConrey Doesn't work on Windows version
Fonts in Designer in the character section menu there is a 'favourites' option, not sure how it works though
The Creative Hog it’s the same with all Affinity Apps. When selecting fonts from the main list, you can ❤️the ones you like.
Great!
thanks
I totally agree with everything you said but the thing I realllly miss in photoshop is the red overlay preview.. I hate that affinity doesn’t have that feature..it’s so helpful when masking, compositing, etc... the other thing I hate about affinity is how they have a setup frequency separation “filter” and you can’t manually make your own. It messes me up.. also the mixer brush sucks and Affinity needs to add “clean brush after each stroke” to the mixer brush.. it’s a pain in the A! I do portrait photography if you couldn’t tell lol😋
Affinity has this. Make your selection and then hit "Q". The mask overlay will show up.
If you want to create a mask from a black and white conversion of the colour image, you ought to create / have a Black and white pixel layer (which you could do combining downwards a Black and White not destructive filter with a duplicate of the image layer if being beneath it, or just converting to monochrome a duplicate of the image pixel layer, or whatever) and then, you have to apply a “Rasterise to Mask” (which you can find in the Layer menu). How the rasterize function works is explained in the Manual, though not specifically for creating a mask from a white and black image, but this command does it.
I personally am not one of those that cares about destructive layers. I like merging layers for my work because it creates a texture that you can't get with masking everything.
Re Protect Alpha... on my 5k iMac screen it appears just to the left of centre of the contextual toolbar. in plain sight! Maybe your retina settings need to be changed?
Does seem as if *some* of your pet peeves re Photo, are really "It doesn't work exactly the same as Photoshop"
Yep. it's NOT Photoshop! :-)
Tim Beaton that screen is considerably larger than my MacBook Pro. I just don’t have the real estate. On your machine the toolbar probably only goes halfway across the screen, but mine takes up the entire screen. If I go any smaller, my old man eyes won’t be able to see anything.
Tim Beaton and the point being, that if someone was debating about whether to jump to affinity from Adobe these are some of the things that they might want to know first. Context is everything, Tim.
People want a smooth transition. I do a bit of 3D so I use programs like Blender, Maya, ZBrush etc. They all have different tools (that do similar things) and different keybinds for pretty much everything (moving camera, zoom, transformation) etc. Its driving me insane until I set everything up to be as similar as possible.
One thing Affinity Photo does a bit differently is that every new image brought into a document is automatically a Smart Object. While Photoshop does this if you drag and drop a new image into a document, in Affinity Photo all images are smart objects by default.
blueknight that’s what I’ve found out completely accident.
why they don't have the shortcut option/ command space bar for the sizing up and down, like in photoshop I can't not understand!? This is my number #1 pet peeve: the shortcuts!
When you say "sizing up and down," what specifically are you looking for? I'm not familiar with the Option+Cmnd+Space key command.
It’s the zoom in. Zoom out , then space bar to move around... I dug around. Turns out it’s very fussy in the order you press the keys, space bar first then modifiers. I slammed them so fast I do modifiers first.
Great stuff on yer channel affinity photo brought me here but you made me subscribe! Love the work
As a photographer, the thing that Photo lacks is decent Raw processing. Adobe Camera Raw is great and is my preference over Lightroom, which I only use for Negative Lab Pro (I still shoot film and have a large archive I’m scanning/digitising). Sure, Photo has some basic Raw tools and the Adjustments panel can do a lot of corrections, but I much prefer having the small sidecar file with the Raw adjustments instead of a large Affinity Photo file. Fingers crossed that Affinity will develop something like Lightroom in the future to really win over the photography community. I know there are other affordable Lightroom alternatives out there, but something with Affinity’s price point and suite integration would be awesome.
RAW support is definitely something the app needs.
Oh my goodness, I am rolling on the floor laughing, I'm new to Affinity and just about died when Arial popped up when I started typing. Why? Nope, it's nota deal breaker but just WHY. So glad I caught this and read the comments to change. I'm still laughing.Thanks for this
Happy to help. 😉
Hey how do you change it.it bothered me too
Cool vid, fam. Here's what cheeses me off a year later; I can not use plugins. i went to the help menu, and got even more confused. Do I "Open default folder" and drop 'em in? Do I have to "Authorize Global" something? Who knows? After noodling around, some of them showed up. 2 Topaz filters don't seem to do anything, and the other one crashed AP. Luminar AI says it's opening, but doesn't. I heard that Filter Forge was cool....Nope! I had to force quit FF & AP. Don't even get me started on the Unknown/Working status. Otherwise I love AP and had no prob dumping PS. So, to quote Devo; Duty Now For the Future! There's always hope. Gracias, amigo.
Yeah, plugin support would be awesome, but it's touch and go to get them to work.
@@DaveConrey Dig it. "Coding Now for the Future". De-Evolution.
Sometime got a blank page when saving as PDF
That's weird. Maybe tell them in the forums.
Long Beach, huh? My step-father moved there from Des Moines in the 1920's. Everyone there called it Little Iowa.
I’ve heard that nickname before.
I'd like to see you mess around with Pixelmator… or have you done that already?
I've heard it mentioned, but I haven't tried it yet.
@@DaveConrey You should check it out. I think it is more "photo-shoppy" than Affinity.
As I beginner to Affinity Photo, (an not used Photoshop much), some things I'd change:
Save / Save As... I'm used to different behaviours (in different apps):
- Save sometimes saves destructively to the original JPG or similar, and sometimes to the .afphoto. In both cases there are no prompts, and it is not obvious to me what has happened. Suggestion: provide a "This is going to happen. Are you sure?" maybe only the first time for a particular original file.
Save As.... seems to default to .afphoto, with no option to save in original format (have to go to Export for that). Suggestion: change "Save As...." to "Save As.(afphoto)..." or maybe group Save, Save As... and Export together on the menu.
Have option to make things not on the canvas be visible. What happened to me was that I dragged several JPGs into AP (one at a time) and I could only see one of them, even though they all showed up in Layers. I re-arranged them in Layers with no visible change in the work area. I have found messages in forums giving unsatisfactory work-arounds, but no simple "Show stuff not on Canvas" option. My solution is to have what I call the Arrow tool selected, and scroll around.
Suggestion: have a simple "Show stuff not on Canvas" option.
These are things which probably trip up a lot of beginners.
I'm not sure why your version is saving over jpg without giving you a prompt. Mine has always prompted me first. Maybe check your preferences, but that isn't normal.
Channels pallet is a fail. Unusable to me until they simplify it, I recal Photopaint from Corel having a very similar channels pallet (granted that was 25 years ago ;-). Appreciate James' comment but their channels pallet ideology is convoluted and keeps me from doing anything serious in Affinity Photo other than basic color adjustments... I'd LOVE to tell Adobe to stick it...
The channels palette is still a sticking point for me too. I used to use them religiously in Photoshop, but it's not as fluid in AffPhoto, so I figured out a work around with selections instead.
Cheers Dave, I'm an old dude like you. I was using Photoshop pre layers. So exciting when 'Painter' rolled those out circa 95' I'm guessing!
There are a few things that Affinity does which make it totally unusable for the kind of editing I do.
1. Raw edits in the Develop persona are Destructive. No way to go back and tweak once you click that develop button.
2. Relates to #1 in that there is no way to easily sync a raw edit across multiple raw files. So it takes twice as long if not more to tonally match raw edits for things like focus stacking.
3. No Fill adjustment for the special 8 blend modes making stuff like Hard Mix totally useless when in reality it is a very powerful blend mode for color grading in photoshop.
It is a real shame because some of it's features are real game changers. To make the switch I would really have to abandon some techniques I really love which is kind of hard to swallow.
Understandable. Photoshop has had 35 years to fine tune (and over-stuff) it's app with features, so there's a little something for everyone. Affinity might not be able to do all that yet, but based on what I'm seeing, they are going to be making a big change when the next major revision comes out. That said, it still won't have everything that Photoshop does, but I believe they are catering to the wide majority right now, and as things develop, will incorporate more controls and features.
Hello, I did not read all the comment, but here is my little help.
For saving the font you want, Edit, defaults, save.
For the selection, go to the channel you want to select, right clic, add selection pixel selection, then clic on the layer mask.
On my screen, the protect alpha is visible directly. But it's true, it should be a layer option.
For the filter, you can choose the "center point" by draging the center with your mouse. You can always go further, just type it or use the arrow key (for radius I was at 4000).
You can use the left clic with all the filters.
Hi, thanks. Someone did share that with me, but I appreciate you looking out for me and the peeps in the comments. Thank you!!
@@DaveConrey ha internet efficiency. So now we know what the next video will be ^^
Any of these fixed?
I honestly don't remember the entire list, but my guess is no.
Adobe is headquartered in California, Affinity's creators are in Europe. If you like to support local-ish businesses.
Adobe is a global corporation. I support small businesses that support small businesses. Adobe's main concern is revenue. Making software for designers is merely a means to an end for them.
@@DaveConrey I don't know how small or profitable they are but that would be a point for What I DO like about Affinity Photo.
Channel palettes is a pain.
I vow to tackle them someday... today is not that day.
Pro tip: When using something new to do something old, DO NOT focus on the technical function name of the old tool. Focus on the specific task that you want to accomplish, say it out loud if necessary.
For example, Smart Objects. That's not a task, it's a thing. You cannot do a thing, you do a task. Why do you need a Smart Object? Oh, you'd like to resize something without losing the object's integrity making it pixelated... Well you CAN do that in Affinity, just do it, converting necessary.
I know this was a oversimplefied example, but so many people get hung up on terminology that not everyone or every software package uses. Identify what specific thing you need to accomplish and that may give you a hint into where to look for the solution.
C Monster Nomenclature comes with the territory, especially when you’ve been using it for decades.
@@DaveConrey I get that, but we now live in a time where words are misused or reused to mean things that aren't very accurate. When was the last time you asked someone to Xerox a document for you and they understood what you meant? WAY easier to just ask them to make copy (most of the time).
- I don’t have issues with RAM or brushes not working.
- Arial is FAR better looking than Myriad Pro. Photoshop defaults to Myriad Pro every time I open it. It does not stay at the font I previously selected. In fact, EVERY Adobe app does this. Talk about annoying. I freakin’ hate Myriad Pro.
- Instead of painting with protect alpha, it is much better to create a new layer, paint on that, and then drag it into the layer you want to color to mask it within that layer. That way you workin a non-destructive way and you can change the color whenever you want in the future without affecting anything else in the image.
What I’ve noticed over the years is that people want new software to work like older software so that they don’t have to spend any time learning anything, even if it could improve your process and make it faster. I particularly noticed this with Adobe Illustrator users trying to use Macromedia Freehand. Freehand was far more elegant, especially the way the pen tool and selection tool worked. Yet Adobe people always struggled with it. I could draw pretty much anything in Freehand twice as fast as someone using Illustrator just because they thought it should work exactly like Illustrator instead of learning how it does work.
Myriad is better than Arial, and I've used it in the past, but I usually switch from Myriad to Helvetica right away too.
Boy, I'm just about worn out. Set your favourite font, sizes etc. Go to Edit, Defaults and Save. Hey presto it will come back that way when you restart. Now I'm going for a whiskey.
John
Someone also already brought this up in the comments. No need to wear yourself out.
I miss ctrl+t so much
You don’t really need it though. All you do is click the element and the transform nodes come up automatic.
It's been a year since you upload this video, I just bought the trio a month ago and I love it yes, the jump was Affinity Photo instead of photoshop, Publisher instead of Canvas (well this not yet, I still using Canvas) this Publisher, starting makes me sick all the templates, I feel like a stupid who doesn't know how to set the size for a new project, the ruler on Publisher markings are way too small, Affinity thinks I wear magnifiers instead of eyeglasses, I center everything the best I can and it prints off center, Canvas still better. Designer takes over Quark, no complaints here.
Affinity is great yes, but not all the way yet. It takes too much time for me to finish a simple design.
Affinity Publisher, cut, delete, remove those templates from start, make bigger markings on ruler with a larger marker for 1/4, 1/2, 3/4.
Anyway your videos been great help.
Thank you Dave
I totally feel you on the small type and icons. Old dudes like me struggle to hang.
You are hilarious mate. For me working purely with photos all I need is Photo Mechanic, Affinity photo and Luminar 4. Phuck Adobe
Thanks. Happy to entertain.
Still partway through. I'm not a designer so 'smart objects' don't concern me. Have a look here. czcams.com/users/results?search_query=smart+objects+in+affinity+photo
Thanks. Someone brought it up that it’s already a thing Affinity does natively.
I hat the fact it keeps crashing
Perhaps you need to reinstalls a fresh copy, or it might be time for a RAM upgrade perhaps?
I'm only partway through this video and there's a pretty obvious problem. You're using the CMYK channels instead of RGB. Switch to RGB and you'll have a lot more success with that image. Once you've adjusted your levels right click the channel and select "load to pixel selection" EASY.
JOhn
Still easier in Photoshop. Also, I work in CMYK because I work in print design mostly.
I have a question.. is there any shortcut to shot my face with a banana gun? I want to try 😂
Qasim Majidi unfortunately no shortcuts. I do recommend over-ripe bananas though-softer.
@@DaveConrey and decrease opacity 😎😁
Better Pantone management
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Ram can always be a problem which sounds more a problem on your end. I have a 10 year old Mac tower with 16 gigs of ram which isn’t nearly enough for all the ram hogs. I run into weirdness in all my programs when ram runs out and even using another program to reclaim the ram they become unstable. Quit out and reopen. Works again. Solution? Buy more Ram. Lol. Ram is cheap. No reason not to own more. Another thing that speeds things up is having an SDD startup drive. Makes things Much more responsive.
I've since corrected that issue. Brand new machine.
Dave Conrey lol. Well a brand new machine will certainly fix things.
OMG, you are so right. I have been using Affinity for a few years now, and have wondered the same thing about many subjects you talked about.
Like the other day, my eraser wouldn’t erase.... “like what is that #%&@!” I had to restart my machine to get it working again.
Just wondering if you figured out any work around to these issues?
BTW, I thought that was hilarious you said that line about shooting yourself in the face with a Banana gun, because I actually am allergic to them 😂.
I'm slowly finding the real ways to do things. it just takes some digging, and trial and error.
@@DaveConrey keep up the good work. Love the tutorials :)
I’ve noticed that the Eraser only erases about 50% even though it says 100%. I just don’t understand
Keys aren´t working like they should.. yeah dude that´s why nice software´s have customizable keys so the devs don´t need to be mind readers to magically know your workflow and everybody has different preferences.
Mikko Sinisalo Guess what, “dude”. Affinity has that. It’s what I ended up doing to set myself up.
That said, there are industry standards that are almost universal across all apps, and Affinity misses some of those.
I almost abandon photoshop for affinity photo.
Come to the dark side. ;)
Photoshop 2020 is so slow.
Thankfully I haven’t been able to experience that.
I have to say, Affinity is not perfect, but 'bro, seriously :) , you are making like Adobe has never had bugs or worked flawlessly out of the box. Don't get me wrong, there has been times when Affinity has needed to be restarted or crashed. Affinity works very well, and does a lot of things Adobe doesn't or only added recently. Again, I'm annoyed with a few "bugs" in Affinity as well BUT...no subscription ;-p ...and their suite of software works intuitively across the board making it very easy to switch to and fro. There are a surprising number of Affinity videos on CZcams and they also have a forum with very knowledgeable users where I'm sure you will find answers to some of your issues.
Cheers,
Finished watching :-p
Good to hear you found work-arounds to your issues, I'm sure Affinity will become a lot better quickly, the improvements I have seen since I started using it in November 2018, have made it by far the most bang for buck software I "own"..pun intended :-p . I must confess, I am only a hobbyist not a work professional as you may be, in saying that, I do value my time and understand the need for a better workflow in a paid situation.
Cheers,
You have to see my other video for this to make more sense, but I tear into Adobe a lot in that other one.
I own a graphics company and always had Adobe Products. (You couldn't really run a business without Adobe). I couldn't stand it when they went to subscription base as we would upgrade every "Other" year. When I found Affinity, we cut the cord and dropped Adobe and never looked back. We still use CS6 from time-to-time, but I OWN IT. I don't have to rent it out as you do with Adobe CC. The one thing we found that we HAD to use PS for was lager, (2.5g tif files). Affinity Photo couldn't handle it. I agree there are things that Affinity is weird about, (Layers we struggle with), but for what we do 99.9% of the time, Affinity products can handle it.
Tom Ritchie Nice to heat, Tom.
Are you Jesse James' cousin?
evtonic3 yes
Develop persona has`t (C)CW90 Rotate tools =) It`s stupid thing! ))
Don’t even know what this means
@@DaveConrey this means that the portrait photo will lie on its side. Press shortcut ctr+[ in Adobe. Can you find same tool in Affinity Develop?
Yeah, Arial is the worst in the universe. I really like Roboto, but Helvetica is only available in Apple computers, right?
Well, it’s available on Apple natively, but you can buy it yourself. However, that’s costs about $30-$40 per weight.
You should get photoshop and and new computer.
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I have to admit, I really couldn’t listen to more than halfway through this video, so don’t know, but did you try going on the Affinity forum? I’m guessing some of your issues had a simple fix, if you had just taken the time to research it.
Also, something Affinity does better than Adobe is listen to its customers. They have an improvement/what you would like to
see implemented section on their forum which, given enough people saying the same thing, then include it in a future update. They also have people who check the comments made and will often then respond.
thanks for sharing
I hate Arial rant lol
I'm on a quest
Are you Jazza's father?? xD
No, but he can call me daddy if he wants. 😂
@@DaveConrey 😂😂😂
You need to learn the program first
IDWIW
Find it quite an annoying program... Well frustrating to use.. Personally I achieve better results using free programs...
Thanks for watching
@@DaveConrey No problem, Keep going back to that program practicing. But I have been struggling with making a selection. Like PS' you could go into channel setting, Click the icon ''Selection'' Then paste that what color you wanted into a new layer. But I couldn't do it tried flood brush all that stuff couldn't get it to work. Can use it but because certain things are different. Always that frustrating starting I guess with any program I do know work arounds to most things I TRY on there.
So I found out two things. First, you can type any number in the box next to the slider to go larger than the slider goes. Second, you can click on the picture where you want to move your blur. I hope you see this.
Thanks, I appreciate those tips.
Madcap shouts at Me... turned Off quickly... A Hat indoors?
Steve Foster I don’t even know what this means
u talk to much. Straight to the point boo
I do what I want. If you want more concise info, i invite you to go make your own videos.
A lot of your problems are your hardware.
Some, yes, but not many. New computer now, so no longer a problem.
You talk toooooooo slowly and Helvetica sucks 😂
Thanks for your thoughts.
You're wrong, but thanks.
Affinity Photo has crappy RAW mode - at least when not using DNG. Nothing even close to Adobe's Camera Raw quality
I'm not a photographer. I don't work in RAW ever. Not a concern for most graphic designers.
@@DaveConrey Perhaps, but a huge concerns for the other category of people using Photoshop and looking for a replacement: photographers