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Been using Affinity Photo for a year now. I love it. I feel confident with the tool and can make some pretty cool things. No other tool has made me feel that wa

by xs 6y ago

Been using Affinity Photo for a year now. I love it. I feel confident with the tool and can make some pretty cool things. No other tool has made me feel that way. I've spent 10 years on and off using gimp and photoshop. Never could get it. I tried Krita and Pixlr. They were buggy and had shortcomings. Affinity Photo has a great price and absolutely rocks. One thing I still think is clunky though is the Color Picker Tool. I have to select my paint brush, then click and drag the color picker to the color I want, then click the color I want again to get it on my paint brush. I think other tools simply let me hold alt+click on the color to get that color on my brush. But Affinity is like a 5 step deal which slows me down a lot.

brianpgordon 6y ago
I'm a Photo (and Designer) user too, just for casual use. The only features I really miss from GIMP are animated gif editing, a "crop to selection" function, and to a lesser extent a click-and-drag perspective transform. The Affinity forums have helpful information for working around missing features, but it seems like some people there have a weirdly defensive attitude about how there are good reasons for every missing thing... Designer was a bigger win for me because I've always found the Inkscape UI baffling.
- PunksATawnyFill 6y ago
  Agree on the defensive attitude of the forums AND, occasionally, the developers. Not that this is specific to Affinity; Adobe apologists are some of the Web's most obnoxious... far worse than Affinity's. The eyedropper function is BACKWARD from every other one I've used. You click on the eyedropper, and suddenly the color of the current object changes... but you haven't even sampled a color yet. To sample a color, you don't click on the eyedropper... you click on a dot next to it, and drag that onto a color. Then, the next time you select an object and open the Fill panel... the color you just sampled is gone. Another WTF. The lack of cropping is baffling. I asked for this too. This is a version 1.0 feature. Also... inability to change the background color. What if I want to see what my design looks like against various backgrounds? What if I'm printing on colored paper? You're stuck making a big-ass rectangle under your drawing and filling it with a color, then remembering to hide it or disable it if you print. LAME.

by xs 6y ago

brianpgordon 6y ago

I'm a Photo (and Designer) user too, just for casual use. The only features I really miss from GIMP are animated gif editing, a "crop to selection" function, and to a lesser extent a click-and-drag perspective transform. The Affinity forums have helpful information for working around missing features, but it seems like some people there have a weirdly defensive attitude about how there are good reasons for every missing thing... Designer was a bigger win for me because I've always found the Inkscape UI baffling.

PunksATawnyFill 6y ago
Agree on the defensive attitude of the forums AND, occasionally, the developers. Not that this is specific to Affinity; Adobe apologists are some of the Web's most obnoxious... far worse than Affinity's. The eyedropper function is BACKWARD from every other one I've used. You click on the eyedropper, and suddenly the color of the current object changes... but you haven't even sampled a color yet. To sample a color, you don't click on the eyedropper... you click on a dot next to it, and drag that onto a color. Then, the next time you select an object and open the Fill panel... the color you just sampled is gone. Another WTF. The lack of cropping is baffling. I asked for this too. This is a version 1.0 feature. Also... inability to change the background color. What if I want to see what my design looks like against various backgrounds? What if I'm printing on colored paper? You're stuck making a big-ass rectangle under your drawing and filling it with a color, then remembering to hide it or disable it if you print. LAME.