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No it would not The same is passable for single layers already

The developers have made clear several times that gpu is not very useful for photo manipulation mainly because the data is not just calculated once but has to be shifted between cpu and gpu and they can not create fixed processing pipelines like games can. Sorry kirk but that is how it is Maybe get the new AMD ryzen cause cpu matters most for affinity photo

this is just a curves adjustment tool for ansel adams fans you just have to understand curves once and you have even more options, but you can also stick to just this one workflow of course levels adjustment gives you better control over white and black point and you et clipping indicators as well by holding down the alt key you also have RGB and luma options in Affinity Photo as well btw. and of course you have many options to make local adjustments, the easiest way is to just mask it with a brush but you can use refinement tools or vector paths as well curves a re a bit tough to understand at first but once you get your head wrapped around it there is just no going back (as natalia taffarel says, she just needs curves and can a photo make to look like anything she wants) btw Ansel Adams is pretty mich dead nowadays digital cameras have so much dynamic range and you just expose to the right using your clipping indictors in the liveview and you have the perfekt spot (the point I want to make is - sometimes one has to adapt to new technology/ workflow) Levels and curves can then easily be tweaked in post. although it is fair to argue that curves in AP are not really finished yet EDIT: same topic, further explanations: cheers

yeah that is like a more robust workflow for sure or use export persona for different resolutions at the same time

..or just use export > PSD I´ve set cmd e as a shortcut in apple preferences will let you decide where to save the PSD/ with another filename cheers

No I don´t think there is a command for doing so but if macros could select multiple layers it would really easy Merge visible Select one below current Select all until last layer Delete Andy? Can you hear me *blink* That is how it should have been at release Cheers

You loose most of your information when you scale down anyway so might just as well flatten Or do a merge visible Cmd alt Shift e

you can cmd+ click on the mask and then press q to enter quick mask mode but this doers not really help much I guess because your are modifying the selection of the mask but not the mask itself cheers

you can alt klick the mask to only show it and you can shift click to disable/ enable it cheers

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here is a macro that shifts the RGB channels, maybe this helps, you can go in an manually move them around...only shift one or... hm...just tested on another image which came out pretty distorted macros are still sort of beta so you have to go in and stretch/ move the layers yourself cheers RGB shift.afmacro.zip

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Well I checked the google plugins but decided to delete them again. Not a big fan of plugins at all. But if I were to use it I would do a merge visible (cmd shift alt e) after stage 5 or 6 Cheers

Sometimes all that is left is the "take it again" filter, available in every software ;) But in this case it is at least worth to use a douplicate layer and HDR persona to extract some details, mask the layer and paint some details back in. Cheers

I would just not convert to greyscale at all and I would in most cases also not creategreysfale layers from the channels I´ve done a BW Macro but as my macro library is broken and no Dev wanted to fix it yet I can´t upload :D My workflow would be something like 1 Add levels adjustment to set white and black point and play a bit with the gamma 2 Add curves adjustment and see if I need it now or later down the road (this are my standard two things in every image) 3 Add a white balance adjustment and don´t use it 4 Add a black an white conversion layer and adjust the dominance of the channels to get a contrasty or whatever result 5 Play with the whitebalance and the curves layers to see how they impact the BW image 6 Add recolour adjustment or use curves or shadow highlight tone adjustment to give some Color if you want to 7 Add noise, sharpening or denoising adjustment depending on the taste and mood All other kind of things like a layer in overlay mode to adjust contrast or a exposure adjustment combined with blend if can be used but in most cases I don't think that will actually be necessary And in most cases you are just fine to develope into 16 bit because I don´t expect you to screw up your raw developement completely. Hope that helps and makes sense to you as well Anyway Cheers

No but you can use clipping and then apply a gradient ranging from opaque to transparent, you can then adjust the gradient over and over again without having to redo it like on a normal mask And this can also be done to pixel layers which the transparency can not (only image but not Raster layers if I remember correctly) https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/32113-how-to-crop-destructively-and-how-to-clip-mask/?p=155890 Cheers

1. there is no best channel as such there are criteria such as contrast and noise that may influence the decision but there is no definite answer - you can also mix and match the channels to get other results depending on your needs 2. it is not like the raw file a 16bit development looses details compared to raw as shown here it is much like a raw file if you develop into 32bit, but it is not RAW because it has gone through demosaicing, you can not actually alter the real whitebalance anymore I´d keep the color information and then add a BW layer on top because e.g. using a white balance adjustment you can really nicely shift tones around based on actual color information

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if you cropped the document before, which is non destructive, and expand the area again, the document is not revealed until you apply the "crop" which extends the picture again that is most definitely a bug at least I can definitely see manus point in that it may be desirable in most cases to actually crop and not expand the document by accident - quite stunning how long this has survived in AP cheers

There is no way The new file may contain features that the old version of affinity designer can not handle and thus it refuses to open the new files all together You have to update affinity designer it you have serious bugs in the new version you have to report them even if this may take some time .... Cheers

I did not anticipate that you were a serif official but just pointed to you a resource some posts earlier I linked to which clearly says that a light UI will come in the near future and already shows the working light UI as a preview for what's coming Cheers

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It is actually not the same reason for f 20 and f 0.95 At higher f stops the light bends at the narrow hole of the aperture and thus resolution is not good At low f stops most of the Glas of the lens is used and imperfections in the whole surface add up to bad results except if you have extremely high quality glass Just take your tripod and shoot every f stop and compare results PS maybe try out freelensing to get a tilt shift look, get a shifted depth of field focus pane so that a snowflake is in focus from front to end although it is not parallel to your lens (might be a bit tricky in macro shots but either take many pictures or build something that helps you) Cheers