Ok, just finished taking an asset through the painting process. Everything works, I can paint, bake and make custom materials. You can have 16k in viewport if your card supports it (Substance is 4k displayed max). And that alone is awesome as I can make my trim-sheets in the 1k x 8k size. Coming from V4 to latest, I can…
For UI elements the combo Affinity Photo + Designer might be interesting. As myclay mentioned you can pass data back and forth between vector and pixel graphics pretty seamlessly. Come to think of another thing Affinity is sorely missing but Photoshop has had since time immemorial is animation capabilities (timeline…
They raised the price of the Photoshop subscription from $10/month to $15/month. Apparently they sent out emails on this a few months ago, but I only realized it had happened when I examined my last couple bills from them. An amount I can still afford, but I'm no longer willing if I have a choice. I've left and come back…
Affinity Photo /designer lacks an ability to work with packed RGBA files .If alpha is zero Affinity opens it as a black hole in RGB channels. Also I miss pattern preview from Photoshop . You can construct the same in Designer using symbols. But it would be a mess of layers . Brushes and layer system are both more advanced…