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    • M Offline
      MtnArch
      last edited by

      Long-time Serif user here too - bought Affinity Designer and Photo as well. Haven't had time to get into both yet but looking forward to using both soon!

      Highest Regards,

      Alan T. Hendry, RA
      Architect

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      • PixeroP Offline
        Pixero
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        I have both Affinity Photo and Designer for both Windows and Mac.
        Finally a great alternative to Adobe.

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        • S Offline
          samnorth
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          Hey Pixero

          Do you know if Affinity can work with Thea 16/32bit PSD images?

          Cheers

          Sam

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            Rich O Brien Moderator
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            @samnorth said:

            Hey Pixero

            Do you know if Affinity can work with Thea 16/32bit PSD images?

            Cheers

            Sam

            It does open 32bit PSD files and you can write back to the PSD file too

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              samnorth
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              Thanks, for the info - Affinity Photo looks spot on.

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              • Rich O BrienR Online
                Rich O Brien Moderator
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                Yeah, I purchased it recently after using Designer for awhile.

                Don't think I'll renew my PS subscription. Photo does what I need and more.

                Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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                • JQLJ Offline
                  JQL
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                  I'm using AP too and it's great for 32bit renders from Thea. Want a trick for Relight in Affinity Photo?

                  Hit Relight before your render and save as EXR with all channels... You'll see all lights separated in full glory 32bit channels and you can use them as layers and relight in AP.

                  Sweet but it will require disk space. My latest required 3.5Gb.

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                  • Rich O BrienR Online
                    Rich O Brien Moderator
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                    @jql said:

                    Hit Relight before your render and save as EXR with all channels... You'll see all lights separated in full glory 32bit channels and you can use them as layers and relight in AP.

                    That is very clever. 👍

                    Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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                    • soloS Offline
                      solo
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                      I must be living under a rock, I never heard of this amazing tool, I just bought the new Paintshop x9 (I'm a Corel guy) damn! I certainly will be looking at this next.

                      http://www.solos-art.com

                      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                      • Rich O BrienR Online
                        Rich O Brien Moderator
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                        it's stellar. and very affordable

                        never thought i would have to ditch PS but this plus designer covers my ass

                        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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                        • soloS Offline
                          solo
                          last edited by

                          @rich o brien said:

                          it's stellar. and very affordable

                          never thought I would have to ditch PS but this plus designer covers my ass

                          What is the difference between Affinity photo and designer? or why need both?

                          http://www.solos-art.com

                          If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                            samnorth
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                            @jql said:

                            Hit Relight before your render and save as EXR with all channels...

                            Sweet indeed - presumably this is just TR1/2??

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                            • Rich O BrienR Online
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
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                              @solo said:

                              @rich o brien said:

                              it's stellar. and very affordable

                              never thought I would have to ditch PS but this plus designer covers my ass

                              What is the difference between Affinity photo and designer? or why need both?

                              Designer is the same as Adobe Illustrator.

                              I use it for dealing with EPS, SVG files etc.

                              If you don't deal with those then you don't need it.

                              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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                                pilou
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                                Aff Designer / Aff Photo = Vectorials / Pixels 😉
                                (you have some basic pixels functions inside AFF Designer! 😉
                                pixel_function.jpg

                                Frenchy Pilou
                                Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                My Little site :)

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                                  samnorth
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                                  Has anyone tried the spherical 360 editor in Affinity Photo - it looks incredible !

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                                    ntxdave
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                                    Kind of a dumb question (I think I am getting good at that) but what does CA stand for in the pricing? What is the US price (in the video I saw $49)?

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                                    • M Offline
                                      MtnArch
                                      last edited by

                                      I think the CA might be Canadian - someone else may know more than my guess? US pricing is $49.99 each. Well worth the cost!

                                      I'm also looking forward to when they roll out the Affinity DTP (the upgrade from Serif PagePlus)!

                                      Highest Regards,

                                      Alan T. Hendry, RA
                                      Architect

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                                        ntxdave
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                                        Thanks for the quick reply......

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                                        • PixeroP Offline
                                          Pixero
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                                          @solo said:

                                          What is the difference between Affinity photo and designer? or why need both?

                                          Designer is more like illustrator but have also pixel painting and editing. They are also working on a competitor to Adobe InDesign so then they will have a full suite of tools all sharing the same file format.
                                          Another very cool thing is that Photo supports most photoshop plugins and can open and save psd files.
                                          My only problem is that I have been working with Photoshop for so long that it will take a while to adapt to the differences.
                                          We recently upgraded from CS6 to CC at work so it will be a mix of apps for me when working from home or the office.

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                                            JQL
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                                            @samnorth said:

                                            @jql said:

                                            Hit Relight before your render and save as EXR with all channels...

                                            Sweet indeed - presumably this is just TR1/2??

                                            nay,

                                            you can use presto too, it's even more intuitive, go to channels and enable "pass per light" along with all the plaethora of other useful channels you'll need.

                                            The beauty is that later, you can turn off all lighting and only re-render the lights you need. You can then replace your light channels on the final image. A single light pass is very fast to render and works very well with denoising too.

                                            Take a look at this:

                                            http://i.imgur.com/nmd1pNw.jpg

                                            http://i.imgur.com/DuMNSy2.jpg

                                            http://i.imgur.com/0ve12iu.jpg

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