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  1. I need to go back and check out the latest Affinity Photo to see what's improved in this area. I am still using PS in Adobe CC 19 since I got too frustrated with Affinity Photo as it was when I last posted on Feb 2016. Sheesh, where does the time go?
  2. Still no working batch conversion for me with beta 9. Is anyone able to save a batch of images as for example native Affinity Photo files? It goes through the motions but creates no files. I could swear this worked on a much earlier Beta for me. This on 2013 new 6 core Mac Pro running macOS 10.12.2 (16C32f).
  3. Is this as to be expected or just my set up? I don't know if this is because I am running macOS 10.12 beta (macOS 10.12.1 (16B2555) to be exact) but batch mode used to open several very large layered Photoshop documents and saved as Affinity Photo documents shows all the signs of working right down to the time taken and green ticks appearing one after the other but no files appear, neither in the original folder nor if an alternative destination folder is selected. This on a new Mac Pro 6 Core. Tested on external RAID 0 via Thunderbolt as well as on internal SSD.
  4. It was a shame Affinity were not at the Keynote for the new MacBook Pro rather than Adobe!
  5. Batch works great on this beta Photo 1.5 (beta 6), except it doesn't work if files reside on a RAID zero external drive. Coincidently my Adobe Photoshop CC crashes accessing RAID zero volumes. I have three different RAID systems and can run in USB3 or Thunderbolt, it makes no difference. I have tried Apple RAID drivers and SoftRAID® 5.5.5. drivers too, all to no avail. I am running mac OS 10.12.4 (developer) but same issue with GM of 10.12. I am using a Mac Pro six core. By the way, I am seeing a 50% drop (and far more in some cases) in file size of the exact same layered image between .psd file and .afphoto file format! How are you achieving this? Given many of my files are >200MB this is truly awesome. Edit: One way I can see this is occurring (but not all it really is making any image's file smaller) is any layers are reduced to the size they are in the image, in .psd they retain their full potential size which if resizing in the future maybe crucial. So this is good to reduce file size but dangerous if you don't know about this. Is this selectable in preferences somewhere or baked in? One other small thing... for some reason if this beta is running and you use Finder to 'open with' and select the same beta it opens a second iteration of the application rather than a second document in the one running.
  6. Is there an update to this. I'd really love to use my On 1 filters in Photo
  7. To honest I am waiting to hear more about Affinity DAM as most of my plug-in needs revolve around image work rather than manipulation, hence the demise of Aperture worries me a lot as I do not like LM and Capture One 9 seemed the only option till this news of a DAM from Affinity.
  8. Agreed , not to mention a host of Plug Ins I use a lot such as Photomatix HDR. The Plug In situation seems to be confusing with claims here on this forum that 'it is up to the Plug in maker' on one side and 'up to Affinity' on the other but one would think, these days, there should be some kind of defined architecture for maximum compatibility both software makers and plug in makers should agree upon. That said, writing a specific Photoshop compatible plug acceptance module was the first thing the software company I owned did back in the 90's for our high end color separation software. It was deemed essential by our clients and here we are 30 years later having the same discussion. It seems odd Affinity didn't, unless Adobe have now made using their specs impossible for some reason.
  9. Agreed. That would be extremely useful especially if it could remain on a rasterized image but I assume that isn't possible since even Photoshop can't do that?
  10. I hope plug-ins can be resolved too. The possibility of Affinity DAM also raises the same issue. My work flow for certain clients is dependent on Photomatix HDR which although can work in Photoshop makes far more sense for me in Aperture since that is where I can make stacks that auto group the bracketed exposures. That also raises the point of how important timed stacks are too in a DAM.
  11. Do you mean a persistent effect? I didn't try returning to the test I did, so I didn't test see if it was still there. I am not able to at the moment but yes, if that's what you mean then that would be very useful if the mesh remained until turned off by choice..
  12. OMG that's great news. If Affinity need beta testers I am retired CEO of a software company and avid Photographer Canon + L lenses with new Mac Pro. I have TB sized Aperture Libraries with RAW. Affinity don't need to worry about Light Room or copying that POS, they need to copy and improve on Aperture IMHO. :)
  13. Haha ... totally missed how to use that. It is exactly what I needed! It its even better than Photoshop's equivalent! Thank you.
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