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Tried again this morning and it's gone through.

I tried numerous times last night to purchase Photo v2 for windows but every time I tried I got a message saying the payment was declined. I contacted my bank and after a lot of messing about they said it wasn’t them. I tried different cards with the same bank, a credit card from another bank, I even tried a different browser….. same every time.

Since I've installed 1.9.2.1035 all my customisations have disappeared, twice. After it happened the first time I put some back, like customising the tools and adding the library view to my workspace, plus adding some plugins. But today it's happened again, everything has gone back to factory defaults. Is there a way to recover this?

I'm not a gamer so I know little about GPUs, but I use AP a lot and for some operations like inpainting and HDR stacking it's quite slow. It can also get a bit slow to react sometimes when I'm manipulating adjustment layers. I'm running Windows 10, have 16GB RAM which rarely goes above 60% use even when AP is at it's maximum churning and have an SSD installed. With the 1.9 update is it worth me investing in a GPU, say <£100. ??

Thank you

I have made an HDR merge of 5 raw files and done a number of changes in tone Mapping. I'm now in the photo persona and making some additional changes, but every time I try to apply the Haze Removal filter AP crashes. I have attached my saved .afphoto file and I can re-create this problem by simply loading this file and applying the haze removal filter to my pixel layer . Bang, gone. I'm on Windows 10.0 Build 19041 AF Version 1.8.5.703 Thank You snowscape.afphoto

In the Develop persona I use "Detail Refinement" to increase the sharpness of my photo, but when I switch to the Photo persona much of this sharpness seems to disappear and I end up using the "Unsharp Mask" to bring it back up again. Am I doing something wrong?