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Edison Wrzosek Photography

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  1. Hello, I am forced to chime in here, because after having just purchased AP via the Mac App Store, I was hoping at least the New Stack functionality of AP would mimic the abilities of Auto Align Layers from Photoshop. Sadly, it is totally different and falls far short... I am starting in professional exterior and interior real estate photography, and as such, I need to be able to bring in multiple brackets of the same image taken on a tripod, and apply various hand-drawn masked blends in between the images to create custom composites. However, the images must first be aligned, as I do not use a Cam Ranger (and no I have no interest in purchasing one), and there is slight movement of the camera in between the bracket shots. When the individual files are opened and aligned in AP, they go into a Live Stack Group, that is governed by Stack Operators. These operators render the masked blends to come out completely useless, regardless of the operator that is selected. When the aligned layers are removed from the Live Stack Group, they lose their alignment, again making the image useless. I have spent time going thru the AP help system, and searching online to see if there are any tutorials to overcome this limitation, but as of yet I have not found anything. This is incredibly frustrating, as I was hoping Affinity Photo, combined with Capture One Pro, would finally provide me the ability to leave behind Adobe, but because of this, Affinity Photo won't be getting much use from me until a proper Auto Align Layers function is added that does not depend on any sort of algorithmic operators that interfere with blended masking operations. This is, IMHO, one of those MUST HAVE features if Affinity Photo is to become a true PS replacement. Hopefully this is prioritized for a release in the near future, like for v1.8 or so...
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