What's coming to Affinity 2.6 Beta After 7 months?

[@evtonic3]

I agree that I don't know what direction Affinity is going. I don't see that they really want to grasp illustrating. I don't think they do enough in Photo (just now getting a very basic smart selection, a very bad one from what I see) I see them focusing a lot on Publisher and giving them lots of resources it seems. I'm with you, I don't see them being relevant any time soon as far as getting more users to switch. Plus now we have Apple/Pixelmator entering the game, they will totally do something and probably a lot more than Affinity can do in a short amount of time. I don't know how being acquired by Canva has helped anything. That's also a mystery. Why acquire a company if you're not going to pump major resources into R&D? I don't get it.

[@jhon.vectorize]

I agree with you in all terms. it's been hard to understand the main purpose and direction of the app, in which fields it will be more focused (vector / graphics / illustrations). so in my daily job I just need the basics, painting and vector, but in long term and industry standards requires more complete and dedicated app.

[@jhon.vectorize]

Hi lovely friends, comment what you think 😊

[@CarolusChess]

Listening to your whole video, I use affinity designer in combination with Inkscape. That contains the tools I miss. And that solved my frustration, with designer. In Inkscape I can make quickly flow diagrams, for instance. Then I can combine lines in one layer and then copy to affinity designer. In that workflow there are several steps affinity designer cannot make. Inkscape comes at no costs, but has a lot of possibilities. In my workflow, the last step is PowerPoint. What I use for technical presentations. In short I love affinity, where all the tools are combined, thanks for your videos. I like them a lot.

[@zeemon9623]

I don't need any in-depth stuff so I'm more than fine with what Affinity offers. I actually use Publisher a lot because it can edit PDF files.

[@jhon.vectorize]

I use basic things too, but things like Vector Symmetry is an important feature that should be considered a long time ago

[@CarolusChess]

Affinity is unique that it does not doing retraining. I find that more important than a better selection tool. For my use de ai is already good, I will use it for background removal, of easy to select background, for webshop photography.

[@Tehedes]

After watching your video i'm also wondering witch direction affinity will go (btw i'm also missing the vector symmetry 😞 specialy when i'm designing characters for animation in Moho Pro). Atm i'm thinking avout pixeomator pro and its vector possibilities

[@jhon.vectorize]

nice to hear that! It's important to keep learning new tools, having options for each good solution, obviously we want one app that solve our problems. but some basic tools like Vector symmetry and Real Vector brush, I miss a lot.

[@PlaylistMasters]

What software you using for the mind map?

[@ThisKittyCatOfficial]

It looks like Xmind

[@jhon.vectorize]

xMind

[@cgarcia1326]

Do you know how many features PHOTOSHOP 2.0 had when they first started? Don't hate.🤔🤔

[@jhon.vectorize]

did you watched the entire video? it's not hate, I think you've misunderstood the discussion 😀

[@lucasdutra67]

That's not how it works. Photoshop had this privilege because it was pioneer. Or your product is an alternative in the current state or it's not

[@cgarcia1326]

What I'm saying is that AFFINITY PHOTO is compared to Photoshop is a new mighty app👍

[@oknoprawdy]

Adobe Photoshop, 11 years after the release of version 1, far surpasses the capabilities of AffinityPhoto, and since version 7.01 has an Adobe Camera RAW plug-in. In 11 years Serif has not added such a basic feature as Blend Tool to Affinity Designer - even free Inkscape has this tool, and in 11 years of user requests they couldn't add such a basic tool? It's a shame, although the previous software Draw Plus had this feature, Draw Plus had many gradient and color swatches, in Affinity you have to do everything yourself. I have been working with Affinity software for over 4 years, but I am seriously considering going back to Adobe.

[@benjfischer]

It seems like Publisher has gotten the lion's share of the development time over the past year. It's surprising. I'd have thought that Designer and Photo had way more active users but I guess they feel that Publisher is farther behind the competition? Or Canva really wants Publisher to shine? But the result is that Designer feels stagnant and Photo actually feels like it's getting worse as the competition gets better ML models for background removal, object selection, etc. Even Canva has better selection models. 2.6 is kind of a dud but there are some quality of life improvements like searchable brushes and line style for pen/pencil tools. And I'm hopeful the models will improve for object and subject selection.

[@jhon.vectorize]

yes, there are significant improvements, in each new version we always expect to get something new, maybe we will have exciting things in version 3.0

[@Paul_anderson_creative]

Hey perhaps say PUBLISHER as I start watching expected Photo 2.6...🤷‍♂️

[@jhon.vectorize]

sry my friend:/

[@dakara4877]

Yes, another disappointing release in terms of feature delivery. I'm really getting tired of subpar features. The innovative Affinity that used to deliver useful features that nobody had seems long gone. Now they are just playing catchup with their own versions that aren't as good as everyone else. The only positive viewpoint is that we probably aren't yet seeing the effect of the Canva acquisition. It typically takes 6 months to a year to ramp up developers on complex projects before they can become productive. We should expect to see accelerated development in the next release, but if we don't by then, it won't be coming.

[@rogersilveira08]

Br?

[@jhon.vectorize]

sim 🫡