Celsys Studio Tool
Benita Vandervoort
Are you 100% positive about that ? My print to pdf option says Microsoft Office pdf.... on my old pc I didn't have an Adobe sub and it let me print to pdf all the time. I'd test now but I caved and got a sub so not sure- hope that is a free option still
CSP rolled out a new update that includes auto save function, GREAT! But my biggest concern is if I was to install this new update, would it overwrite my old update and thus, make me lose all my shortcut, brush setting, downloaded asset on my current CSP? I don't see an option to safely update the program like any other program, but CSP seems to ask you to download an entirely new installer. I'm worried haha ;_;
Ah, no! It won't delete anything. At least I didn't seem to lose anything while updating, all my shortcuts + 3rd party brushes, assets etc were exactly the same after updating it today. It doesn't uninstall the previous version ( i think) just overwrites / adds some stuff.
You need to open the program through that for update to finish. I also had to delete my old icon I had docked and switch it to the new one that opened. I have EX version too, so that at least isn't the issue. You can check your version by Help -> Version information. This is what mine says about the version number.
When your update is successful, your interface will look slightly different from before too, making it easy to identify.
Yes. So I go to the Clip Studio, then I click Paint and it opens up the same CSP. Under help version info it still says version 1.6.2 If I try to download and install the new version again, my computer tells me I've already installed the latest version. There seems to be some other issue. I even had my husband who works for Windows do it too incase I was doing something wrong and he couldn't figure it out either.
I contacted CELSYS so hopefully they can help me out.
I went to my 'delete programs' and uninstalled the OLD clip studio (light colored icon) because there is a clip studio for the old version and a clip studio for the update. Edit looking back i don't think i needed to do this
Ok this helped!!! Thanks so much
My husband said the reason it didn't work was because the original version I had was an English version, but the new update was a non-language specific version, apparently that made problems. I don't really understand but it works now, so yay!
Debating on getting EX- I'm not sure if they do the upgrade anymore...my only issue is that I DON'T want to have to reload all my brushes. Any way that I can upgrade or get the full version of EX and not have to reload all my brushes?
You can create a texture (or brush) out of any image by going to Edit -> Register Material -> Image, which makes this pop up:
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Then the image should be available to use as a texture or a brush shape.
Just to add! You can look for free brushes in the Asset shop. I usually browse there when I'm having art block to find some new tools and stuff and there are a lot of premade brushes that people are sharing that are AWESOME.
They claimed that they do not and will not share user data with the AI, but SD already has and uses a library of data sourced and scraped from artists across the web, without their consent or approval. As a result of this, they are 'getting they ass beat in the QRTs' and many users - myself included - are looking at competing products.
Does Serif already have such tools, or have any plans to incorporate similar features in the Affinity suite at any point in the future? I don't want to invest in a new product only for it to do the same shit I'm leaving Celsys/Clip over. Artistic integrity is a huge deal for many creatives, and having our and others' work sampled/scraped/stolen to amalgamate into some techbro's latest AI 'artwork' isn't something we want to be a part of in any way.
Hmm, I saw the same post as you today. I'm apparently not keeping up with the ethical issues you've described. I had no idea about the SD situation as far as data scraping ? I just know that increasingly more people clamor for AI features and know people have used them to create new works with prompts. Though, I think the AI features that are generally requested relating to image restoration, preexisting data the user possesses. I've not seen it suggested for creating brand new media or pulling from a library? I don't see Serif being the type of company to add anything like you've described here either. It doesn't sound like something they'd consider. I'm not a fan of AI, personally, except in limited usecases such as restoration. I just don't see the point otherwise. I'm not against people using it in their work. I just prefer a handmade feel is all. However, I do agree data scraping of any kind crosses major ethical lines.
Yeah the way AI image generator work is kinda exploiting artists and it was weird controversial addition considering their userbase.
but I'm glad celsys at least listen to them, (and also to prevent ruining their reputation even more with their subscription things)
Sorry for bringing back that older topic but implementing Ai assistant tools could be a life changing thing. I mean it could make things like background removal or specific selection a painless activity in our workflow and let us focus on creating than doing little repeatable and soulless tasks like background removal.
It can also help by upscaling stupid little graphics that are sent from our clients and even making great image trace vectors. Or making object selection a reality, or improving the healing brush. or automatic levels between 2 layers or anyway just imagine all the tools that can do a little bit more than what they actually do now or that their auto part actually is working or going beyond what it can do now.
There are so many ways that can make use of AI without touching the copyright mess of image creation right now. I just imagine that I could give a command to Designer AI to populate the space withing a object with the letters from the text I provide. Telling it to use different fonts and sizes and rotations for each letter or something. That could be great!
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