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The UI was fine.
I'd love to switch to Affinity from Adobe Illustrator, but there's one feature I just can't live without: In illustrator you can make a dashed line that nicely lines up with the corners of a square (putting one dash in each corner). Nothing else seems to handle this case. [1] I use Illustrator to make stitching patterns and lining up the corners in this way is absolutely essential, otherwise the stitches come out loo…
I use two Adobe apps routinely: - Illustrator (for making PDF maps from OSM data). - Lightroom. It'll take a bit of work to move my workflow to Affinity, but I think I've got a solid plan for that. (No, Affinity Designer does not open AIs properly... It does funky things with lines.) But, I can't find a solid replacement for Lightroom. All I need is basic DAM (digital asset management) and crop/rotate/color. Can any…
> All I need is basic DAM (digital asset management) and crop/rotate/color. Can any of you suggest a GOOD alternative? Check out digikam. I'm using it as DAM only and Affinity Photo for RAW development and image manipulation (but digikam can handle that as well).
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TLDR; lies. Kindly substantiate your claims. DT has a clone tool. It's part of the retouch tool.[1] Which is very powerful and allows way more than just cloning. It is also non-destructive, like anything in DT. DT has camera profiles, new cameras get added regularly. You can also create them yourself if you have access to a color checker using a built-in tool.[2] DT has tons of lens correction profiles. Basically any…
I'll substantiate regarding UI: On a Mac it has no items in the menu bar. The default cursor is changed to a low-resolution raster image instead of the default OS cursor. The image metadata pop-ups keep appearing even though darktable is in the background and I'm typing in a textbox in my browser. Something's really off with the UI toolkit they rely on. I agree with the GP that the UI makes it practically unusable. P…
Adding: Even though my Fujifilm X-T4 is listed as supported on https://www.darktable.org/resources/camera-support/, and the preview images in grid mode appear, opening a single image displays two visually overlapping error messages about not being able to open the raw file. (One message is about switching to lighttable, the other about not being able to read white balance info. The image is not displayed.)
All the apps are "free" with in-app purchase. I did the in-app bundle purchase for Designer 2. Now it won't let me apply that to Photo 2, without "activating" (requires registration with serif) or re-buying. Purchasing the bundle again asks for authentication which I didn't complete because I don't want to get charged twice. I was hoping it would recognize my previous purchase and just be a pass-through. I suppose because it's an in-app purchase, it will happily purchase as many times as I click. (As opposed to straight-up app purchases, which you can only do once per apple id.)
"Restore purchase" link is completely unresponsive.
One of the selling points of app store is that I don't give any info to the developer. So even though I could (and always do) use a one-time generated email address, they can still link that to my apple id. bah.
If I had known this in advance I would have paid the extra $20 to buy each individually, rather than the bundle. So maybe this will help a scant few others.
The mac app store can have bundles, so either serif chose not to create such bundle, or the app store simply didn't show that to me. Indeed search doesn't find any of these apps at all. I had to follow a deep link I got from I don't know where. That part also is very mysterious. I believe https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/serif-labs/id536107177 to be the link to all serif apps on the app store.
I'm very tempted to get Affinity 2 for that price but lately I've found that most Mac apps tend to release major versions weirdly often and in that case there's not a lot of difference between having yearly subscription and paying to update once a year.
I had shifted to Affinity photo from Photoshop few years ago. I need to use it once in a while so Affinity photo does the job for me. It has its own quirks but I can live with them. There is still no real alternative for Lightroom unfortunately for bulk RAW photo processing.
Serif's Affinity suite has probably the greatest value for money in the whole software industry. I mean 119 bucks ONE-TIME for three pretty comprehensive graphics apps which are polished and get constant updates is very hard to beat. For people making their living with graphical work (designers, photographers, etc.) Adobe is probably still the way to go (even if just to keep using the muscle memory). However for the…
As an infrequent image editor/designer/publisher I'm just casual enough that there is no way to justify an Adobe subscription (even if I'd want to have one).
Affinity occupy a wonderful niche for people like me in that they provide comprehensive, professional, and bullshit-free software options. It's an incredible value for this day and age and I love using their software. I have zero complaints about the company or their products.
Upgrading when they have a release like this is a no-brainer. Even if I don't really need the upgrade I'm eager to support them for doing such a fine job.