Adobe is horrible. So I tried the alternative

I'm not a graphic designer but it'd be dope if you painted the like button black

Charging any cancellation fee should be ILLEGAL !!

Just a head's up. Affinity just switched their 7-day free trial to a 6 MONTH free trial!

We are upon the downfall of Adobe, and I'm all here for it. What a time to be alive.

Another sore spot on Adobe's resume is that their forums are TERRIBLE. So many "senior" members will gaslight you into thinking you're in the wrong and they never genuinely want to improve the product or help you.

Next video: Adobe is horrible so I tried Davinci Resolve.

Adobe tried charging me $130 to cancel my photoshop/lightroom membership last week. I talked to support and I told them “cancel my plan without the fees unless you want a lawsuit for your scam” Sure enough they refunded me

The reason why the image is getting blurred is because of the performance of your PC and Affinity optimising your actions to give a smooth experience even on low end hardware. If you have enough power on your machine it simply won't become blurred. Also, you are running Photoshop at the same time, likely haven't activated GPU acceleration, and you haven't tinkered with the performance settings at all that include different canvas render optimisations. Opening the Task Manager will also give a clearer picture of what part of your machine is causing such the bottleneck to happen. 3:59 The Fill Layer is only available when you open up the Layer menu at the top of the screen. Sadly you can't add this directly in the Layers panel like you can in Photoshop, but the feature does exist. Alternatively (which is the method I prefer to use) you can use the vector shapes like a rectangle/square to fill my canvas and then locking the layer in case I don't want to select it while editing other layers. 4:14 Holding down alt without dragging does actually colour pick if you click your brush on the canvas. However, no colour picker icon appears despite this feature being available, which has been a big pet peeve for a lot of painters like myself. I'm used to it now, but I agree that the magnifying glass by dragging is insufficient and there should be an icon change whenever alt is held down. 5:31 You can just select the Fill Layer and change the colour using the Colour panel. I think the reason it didn't work when you opened up the swatch menu is because you did not have the layer selected in the Layers panel. Changing colours of fills, vectors, and gradients are a lot better and easier in Affinity once you unlearn the methods from Photoshop. 8:04 If you R click the mask icon on the Layers panel you will have more masking options such as creating mask booleans, which is a super powerful feature that does not exist in Photoshop. Also filter masks, which are incredibly handy. 8:59 There is an option to "Lock Children" in the upper toolbar for the Move Tool that will prevent anything being clipped to the layer to be transformed alongside it. There is also a keyboard shortcut by holding down Spacebar to toggle this setting on and off while transforming, so you don't have to manually click this checkbox. 15:35 Ctrl+alt+L click drag will allow you to resize and change hardness. If you hold ctrl+alt and then L click instead of dragging you can toggle different behaviours for this shortcut. To change other settings such as Opacity you can just type in numbers on your keyboard and holding shift if you want to change the Flow value. Works for other tools as well that don't have these specific settings like the Smudge Brush Tool for instance. 17:19 Your layer is an Image Layer, which doesn't take into account the alpha when you do a clipping mask. Rasterizing it to be a Pixel Layer will remove this limitation. 18:34 Yes, you can. It's the "Offset Tool" button for that specific effect. Interacting with it will allow you to adjust it with your mouse instead of just raw numbers. There are of course other tips and tricks, but these I wrote down I hope will be helpful! :)

I noticed lots of people make complaints about the Adobe cancellation fees. A random blog post I encountered suggested that you could 'change plan' instead of cancelling to effectively remove the fees. I put the suggestion to the test yesterday and confirmed it worked. For example, I was due £140 for cancelling my Adobe CC subscription. I changed to the lightroom plan free of charge, aside from the £5 that it billed me for the new plan. Then I immediately cancelled the new plan and Adobe automatically refunded the remainder of the term on my new plan, meaning I got my £5 back. Note that you can cancel a new plan wihtin 14 days for free, so there are no new cancellation fees. Unsure why Adobe leave such an easy workaround in place. If you were contractually obligated to pay the leaving fee, the above probably wouldn't exist. It does make it look more like a money grab tactic.

Dude, I'm not sure if you realize this, but your presentation style is heaven for UX designers. I would kill to get this kind of feedback for products I'm working on.

Go to Edit->Settings->Performance, set Retina Rendering to High Quality, and make sure hardware acceleration is turned on. If you have a fast enough PC, when you move an object or do things it shouldn't blur it anymore.

17:30 The reason you have to rasterize the imported image is so if you don't, you can scale it without losing quality (as you've discovered earlier in the video). Everytime you import an image into Photoshop, it rasterizes it once you hit enter, that's also why it loses quality after scaling it etc.

One thing I love about Affinity is that their file format can be used in all Affinity apps. So it's a mix of raster and vector. One thing I dislike about Affinity is that they are acquired by Canva, which has the potential to turn Affinity into another Adobe. I use Affinity for most of the basic graphic design stuff, but I missed some of the great functions that Illustrator or Photoshop has.

Shows how competition leads to innovation. Affinity managed to make it way better than Photoshop by having a lot of ideas on how to improve things and ACTUALLY implementing them. They really deserve a bigger userbase.

NOWAY there's a cancellation fee

Some useful tips: - At 9:00, if you want to be able to move the parent object without moving the child object, there's an easy to miss feature called "Lock Children" at the very end of the menu where you can change the color of the selected object (near the top). Be aware that this feature applies globally. - You can right click the bar where the personas are and add in missing button groups such as Distribute, Spacing, and Transform. I have personally also added in the Arrange, Enhancement, Selection, and Geometry groups to my toolbar. - The semicolon button (on Window version) turns on and off the snapping guides. This is especially good to turn off if you are doing freeform shapes.

Regarding the ability to paint visible but not invisible pixels, simply check the Protect Alpha box when painting on a selected layer.

I got an adobe ad before this video. You can't escape them

I also moved to Affinity software, I decided to buy the whole suite and no regrests honestly.

Holy moly, this guy has so much patience it's actually amazing. Not a single bit of frustration throughout the whole video.