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Here is a very informative thread about your question
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Can you provide the source image?
I highly doubt that this is because of affinity photo.
Seems like you either messed up something about rasterisation or used nearest neighbour algorithm for something.
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I know that but I am asking specifically if it is possible to apply a "(Curves Adjustment)" to a "(Mask)" layer.
Earlier, Alex_M asked, "How do I see how the B&W mask changes when I make curves adjustments to it?" verysame replied that this is not possible, but right-clicking on a "(Curves Adjustment)" or a "(Mask)" layer offers an edit option that shows the mask in the same way, with the alpha represented as a grayscale image. It is also possible to refine both types of layers in the same way or to "paint" on them with a brush just by selecting them, thus allowing the user to see the changes doing that makes.
This is why I am confused & asking about applying a "(Curves Adjustment)" to a "(Mask)" layer.
sure just apply it in the same way as if the lower curves layer was a mask layer, which it actually is :P partially
preview/ review using alt key is not possible because it only shows the mask without the effect of the adjustment layer alpha modification
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Your second gif seems to be showing two Curves Adjustment layers applied to a Background layer. Nowhere in either one do I see a mask layer -- all have the half filled circle icon badge indicating adjustment layers, not the slashed square one indicating a mask layer.
every adjustment layer inherits a mask and so does the curved adjustment
he modifies the mask of the lower curves adjustment using the alpha channel of the upper curves adjustment
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It has been a whileHey @MBd that makes sense, the stacking features's "success" is a function of the quality of the source images AND the number of images to average. If the source images are low quality - as they would be in burst mode for night sky images - then we're introducing more noise. I still wonder if running something ridiculous like 100 or 200 burst images thru the stacking features would yield enough data to average out the high ISO noise in the sky while keeping the stars. How many images have you tried it with?
I think between 20 and 30 but I really doubt that the ISO regions which you would have to enter to get 200 shots would give you anything than black an white image tonaly :D
I was at around ISO 12 000 on an aps-c body I think.
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Andy, I don't know if this is a bug but I just got a new 15" MacBook Pro 512 SSD with the Touch Pad. I have been seeing that when I am using the Brush Tool, Clone Tool, Inpainting Tool that the Touch Pad and the software are not co-ordinating with the Opacity setting.
The Touch Pad slider is setting the opacity but it is not changing on the screen. It seems that the slider once used is setting the rules.
Flow, Brush Size, etc are all working perfectly.
Hope this is not a redundant post but would you please check this out.
Thanks for all the great work you all are doing.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/35573-touch-bar/?p=175049
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Well ronnyb I don't agree
I actually tried this approach
Is it better to expose correctly in camera and then tweak afterwards or is it better to bump the ISO and shoot more pictures in the same timeframe (which is limited because of star trails occurring).
My result was that the in camera version was quite a bit ahead of the stacked version in noise and color.
A high ISO limits the dynamic range of the camera, at least this would explain my results.
Maybe there is some sweet spot in between which I have not found yet.
Afterall it is easy to just try it for yourself.
Anyway
If time does not matter and you can use the same optimal low ISO settings and shoot more pictures and then stack then, it's perfekt.
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you can just .zip the file
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If anyone is wanting to play with the new Touchbar features as implemented in Affinity Apps (as well as any other Mac OS apps), download Touché and it will pull up a software Touchbar on your screen...
finally got a hardware version of it :D :P
I really think Dave Harris nailed it.
@VIP about the MagSafe VS USB C, I thought just the same as you but USB C is actually really rugged and it is comfortable that you can plug in from both sides now depending on where you're located. And a friend could now charge his Lenovo Thinkpad with my cable, first time this kind of compatibility happens :D :D
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you should better press the remove chromatic aberration/ fringing button in AP, as it is currently shown, AP is worse than ID and On1 as I see it, look at the fringing at the transition between wood and snow and the needles at the top left
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yeah - read that.
so someone of the marketing people have to talk to those others finally and tell them what they have promised!! :blink:
this is an issue in several places at Serif, but not only at Serif for sure :D :P
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just had a quick look at the touch bar features but not very satisfied,
using a graphic tablet and modifying the opacity while drawing works e.g. but the UI field on the top does not update
or using the inpainting brush you just have the normal brush hardness etc. controls. I'd want to have the option to choose "sample from below" in there as well.
(reminds me of how I asked about if it was possible to get a non destructive smudge tool, please :ph34r: )
and I don't think the icons. are intuitive. Look at PDF Expert, they have great icons for the touchbar and really good and useful features. (notice how beautiful their scaling indicator for the pencil width is, not just a boring strip but a real ruler so to say)
- please improve the look of your sliders
the text tool has no useful features whatsoever, just duplicates of keyboard shortcuts, again you could take at least some inspiration from PDF Expert
and also an option to have a persistent touchbar with customizable quick selection tool where you could put some macros for quick selection or an export button which triggers a specific export preset
or a history slider/ buttons or some of the buttons that are currently in the "pointer" view like adding a mask, but as an option to have them persistently
I think you know most of the things already but if you did not I hope you agree to some points.
for anyone considering upgrading to a new macbook:
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there also was/ is an error in the affinity designer workbook where it is said/ says that AD supports 16bit CMYK so the marketing people were thinking just as you do :D :P
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I interviewed a development guy in about 2005 who had worked on a new rewrite of Quark. I was told Quark had moved it's development from the US to Mohali in India and had about 300 people working on the new project. It was initially supposed be take 2-3 years to complete but ended up taking double that. During the development they had to release new updates on the old codebase to keep things ticking over. The guy was very knowledgeable but we couldn't afford him at the time. I found one of the articles about the move here. The Quark guy told me they were trying to double the development team but struggled to find experienced people. I'm not sure how many people ended up working on Quark 7 but it's over 100 times as many that we have working on Publisher.
Sorry I don't get this comparison st all
If it takes 300 people 6 years and they are 100 times more than yours
Then it would take your people 600 years?
So your product is most definitely of another kind than theirs or what is the case?
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Anyway it is propably offtopic at this point and better to create a separate topic or join an existing one (I am pretty sure there have been some already)
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Open the Affinity Photo Complete Feature List web page. Type "core" into your browser's search field. Can you guess what the first result is? ;)
well he was right about one and wrong about another thing, no need for harsh comments
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Well where is Metal and CoreImage for example? From the speed of filters in APhoto clearly not used 8(
guess metal is indeed not used as MattP stated here
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/9997-metal/?p=82403
MikeW, I honestly don't see any rabbit whole nearby.
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any statement from dev side possible?
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/13646-feature-request-cmyk-16-bit/?p=60314
yes
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Work started on Publisher 6 years ago with the team now being larger than the Photo and Designer teams.
It just takes that long to write good applications.
roger that
may I have to update this post then?
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Depending on how you want to count things, there are at most 8 devs working on OS X at present (6 contributing to Affinity up-to 1.5, 2 working on future things), 4 working on Windows and 1 running and improving our regression testing suite. So we have at most 13 devs at this point. In all honesty, increasing the number of devs we have would be unlikely to make a positive effect on our productivity (from experience) so we're very happy as we are - we all have areas of expertise and we rely on each other to be passionate and effective about what we're doing and it seems to be working
https://affinity.ser...ssues/?p=113170
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any news on the vanished macro libraries?
welcome back, so to say :lol:
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Don't define using the same word
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Good point
I remember times where I did not even know what shadows midtones and highlight means
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