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Hello. Have been using the Affinity suite for years, so V2 was an instabuy for me, working great so far! Now to the topic. When using Topaz Plugins there seems to be an issue with upscaling images from Topaz. The plugin says that upscaling not supported by Affinity. Also Gigapixel doesn't work (probably, as upscaling is not supported?) All other functions (in Photo AI) and plugins from Topaz (Sharpen, Denoise and Photo AI) work perfect! Is this something that can be updated so upscaling can be supported with this plugin (using Gigapixel and Photo AI)? Keep up the good work! Not possible to use Gigapixel: Upscaling not supported in Photo AI:

Thank you for the explanation and a possible solution to this issue James. On a other note / off topic.. I just want to thank you for making such excellent tutorials / videos with so much useful information. Always on point, great tips and tricks and with your personal touch and input too that i find fantastic. I have watch soo many hours 🙂 I use AP och a daily basis thanks to them. Hope you have a great day and all the best to you! 🎉

Hi @v_kyr. I don't know if you want to come across as a bully or as a generally not nice person, but you do. You also write your opinions / beliefs as facts and by doing so spreading miss information. I really don't understand what you wanted with your comment, why would you even take time to write it? However, i will entertain the conversation for now. First off, i was being ironic, i don't think Nikon reads this forum, i understad with text it is hard to tell sometimes. Lol? Why not? If i had a camera company, i would see to it that all my cameras and lenses had industry support everywhere and help developers doing so. It's just smart buisiness i think. Have a public library like lensfun or similar would work but Nikon makes it? No? I don't know exactly how advanced it is but we can use plugins. When you say it like this, it seems you have intimate knowledge of AP code wise, but somehow you don't know that AP already have support for different RAW engines in the develop persona. Well, this is not true. https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Raw/raw.html?title=Developing a raw image If you have a mac you can develop using the Apple RAW engine (i do), that supports more lenses than the Affinity built in. So adding "Nikon RAW engine" would be "trivial" i guess, and that would now support everything Nikon in the Develop Persona. Now you are just contradicting yourself. First you LOL in your post, and then add a link to a library that can be implemented to support Nikon in AP so AP can do it themselfs. So why on earth would you write your comment then if you clearly don't know but also write as you do? So, my comment was ironic (as i know Nikon might not red this forum), but at the same time i meant it, and it would be perfectly possible to support Nikon in AP. So, please consider this in the future before posting: "Is my comment contributing to this conversation in a meaningful way?" Have a nice day.

Hi @ArieV Hmm, yeah different brand lenses is difficult when developing Nikons NX studio do a great job too developing with accuracy, but as you say with DPP, NX is slooooooooowwwww, as in: not usable (compared to ex Affinity). I can't really believe that NX is so slow, it must be on purpose? Developing it in Affinity is instant and performance is fantastic. How can the big camera companies do such a poor job of making image software? Leaves a bad taste for me. I take the not optimal vignetting handling using Apple RAW in Affinity and work around it (adjust manually) so i just use Affinity. Working in different softwares kills the flow for me. Nikon if you are listening 🙂 , please make a Plugin for Affinity that we can buy that supports the lenses and cameras and integrates with the develop persona! We would happily buy that, you can make money from this! Happy easter!

Hi @ArieV As you work on PC well, i could try to develop a RAW file for you (and see if it works ( lens is supported in Apple RAW) if you wold like to convert to Mac 🙂 Im in the same boat, Nikons software is TERRIBLE! (performance and functions) and i only want to work in Affinity. I also agree that manufacturers should provide the lens data (with defringe etc), especially when their programs are free and can't do 5% of what a dedicated editing software can. It would be a win win. Hopefully we can get that in the future. Have a nice day!

Hi @ArieV If you use a Mac, try to use Apple Core Image RAW instead and see if the 24-240 is supported. Helped me when the new Nikon Z lenses came out and still today as the for example the Z14-30 is supported by Apple RAW (but not in Affinity) Good luck.

Hi. First, thanks for making Affinity Photo and Publisher such fantastic programs! (The two i use) A feature request: I tried to use the Luminar Neo Plugin (For photoshop) in Affinity Photo on Mac (Latest versions) AP finds the plugin and i can select it in the plugin menu, but i doesn't start. Is this something that Affinity can fix or is it a Luminar thing? Best regards.

Hi. To people waiting for lens corrections, and have a Mac. Try to use Apple (Core Image Raw) instead. This Raw engine had many lenses before "Affinity" had them (Nikon Z 24-70 F4, Z 14-30 F4) for example, works great. Tested and verified with Nikon software, images where 100% correct when overlaying 2 files developed in Affinity and Nikon software. Good luck.

@erfarenheit I think your problem was that you have used the wrong settings for your textboxes (not that the dictionary was missing) I had the same issue as you until I figured out (actually in this post) that my settings where off. @WideCircle had the answer all along, (I saw the Language text box setting and figured I check that) Thanks! This was my default textbox setting. See the (en-SE) dictionary that its looking for? Change the spelling to Svenska and your problems are gone. Posting here because I went the route of downloading dictionaries, settings etc etc, but the issue was the settings, so maybe someone else can be helped with this. Have a nice day!

Ok, so are you saying that this will not be looked at as it "works" as intended? If the colors from a patch differ so we get defects in color, use a different method? Just so i understand how we work around it. My personal experience from the issue however is that it even though i patch from a similar area the patch sometimes gets a lot of colorshift but move a couple of pixels and the issue is not all that big. Maybe there is room for some improvement or perhaps a setting for the patch tool with "Sensitivity" option so we can tweak it? From just a clean image patch 0% Sensitivity (cut and paste basically) to 100% Sensitivity using the blending modes that is built in the tool. That would help a lot!

Thank you for looking in to this! There is always something that needs to be fixed so it is a hassle to not be able to use this (and other) tools see below. For further information, it's not limited to the patch tool, this is an image from the Healing tool that shows the same discolouration. And this is from the blemish removal tool.

You are welcome to Temview to try it for yourself if you want to. Tried now with Open GL (not basic) Tried with Serif engine also (both 32 and 16 bit) same result (with fog like distortion). Result using 32 bit Apple RAW engine. With 16 Bit Apple i don't get the crazy colors but they are different like a fog over the image:

Using the patch tool (on a RAW file developed) it adds color that are not there to the patch. It copies from the area selected but changes the colors. Using 32t Apple engine RAW it adds colors like in picture 1 and 2. Using 32+16 bit Affinity engine RAW (Or Apple 16 bit RAW) it adds shadows/lights or hues like in picture 3. Nr 1 is from trying to patch the grass next to the patch. Nr 2 is trying a different area up in a tree. Nr 3 shows added shadow and hue. Nr 4 Video (crappy) but shows how it's not consistent but can change relative to mouse position. Images: 1 2 3 4 Nr 4.mov Affinity 1.7.1 OSX Mojave 10.14.5, Macbook pro 15 Retina 2014, Geforce GT 750M + Iris pro Open a RAW file, develop it, use the patch tool, depending on placement of mouse in the picture the colors are distorted more or less. Using external monitor 4k through thunderbolt -> DP cable

Thank you for this piece of information!!! This made my day as Nikons software is (to say the least) not fantastic to work with compared to Affinity and now i can use Affinity directly! Spent hours trying to make lens profiles, (or changing perspective with the jpg to match), but its just a nightmare :-) This with another post that had problems opening RAW files (changing engine in the inspector) got me in the right path and where to change it natevly. Hopefully support for Z camera and lenses (in file raw lens profile support) will come in the future to all Affinity products. Again, thank you!

Hello. I posted this in the feature request for desktop, but as i also have the iPad app this is a feature i really would like in the iPad as well. If this is considered a double post please delete this post, but it said to specifically post in iPad suggestions for iPad so well then here it is! Request: Support for in file RAW les profiles (Ex Nikon Z series and lenses) Allt the best!