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Agreed. I find Gimps UI not just bad, but actively user hostile. I bought Affinity Photo just so I wouldnt have to deal with Gimp-- something that took 7-8 ste

Agreed. I find Gimps UI not just bad, but actively user hostile. I bought Affinity Photo just so I wouldnt have to deal with Gimp-- something that took 7-8 steps in Gimp could be done in one. Affinity tools are great-- unlike Adobe, they are a one time purchase, and really polished and easy to use.

throwaddzuzxd 4y ago
As a beginner I really want to like Affinity, I even bought Photo and Designer, but it's just so hard to find tutorials with the same UI! For every single tutorial I follow I'm like "ok click here, click here and... wtf where is this button? Why doesn't it work?". Even the window to create a new project doesn't look the same between my version and what's in the tutorial, some options don't even seem to exist anymore The other day I was trying to apply a mask on a layer and in the tutorial they painted it with a black brush to hide some parts of the changes on the layer. I failed miserably because: 1. The toolbar has like 5 different tools with a brush icon, I had no idea which one to choose 2. I tried them all, and the result was always the same: I paint with the black paint, see the changes, release my click, and 1 second later the changes are cancelled for no apparent reason I feel like having a global command palette would help keep tutorials relevant for a longer period of time, because if I don't find an icon I could just global search it by name...
- mkr-hn 4y ago
  Something like Reaper's action search. I can't find anything 99% of the time, but I don't have to since everything is one Shift+? away.
virtualritz 4y ago
I bought Affinity Photo and it's not a PS replacement for many common tasks in the latter. Particularly working with masks/alpha channels is sub par. The developers are aware but a fix has not been release in years. Users request about this regularly but nothing happens.[1] 1 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/109734-feature-request-alpha-channels-again/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/109734-fea...

throwaddzuzxd 4y ago

As a beginner I really want to like Affinity, I even bought Photo and Designer, but it's just so hard to find tutorials with the same UI! For every single tutorial I follow I'm like "ok click here, click here and... wtf where is this button? Why doesn't it work?". Even the window to create a new project doesn't look the same between my version and what's in the tutorial, some options don't even seem to exist anymore The other day I was trying to apply a mask on a layer and in the tutorial they painted it with a black brush to hide some parts of the changes on the layer. I failed miserably because: 1. The toolbar has like 5 different tools with a brush icon, I had no idea which one to choose 2. I tried them all, and the result was always the same: I paint with the black paint, see the changes, release my click, and 1 second later the changes are cancelled for no apparent reason I feel like having a global command palette would help keep tutorials relevant for a longer period of time, because if I don't find an icon I could just global search it by name...

mkr-hn 4y ago
Something like Reaper's action search. I can't find anything 99% of the time, but I don't have to since everything is one Shift+? away.

virtualritz 4y ago

I bought Affinity Photo and it's not a PS replacement for many common tasks in the latter. Particularly working with masks/alpha channels is sub par. The developers are aware but a fix has not been release in years. Users request about this regularly but nothing happens.[1] 1 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/109734-feature-request-alpha-channels-again/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/109734-fea...