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Just updated to 2.5.0 and now I can't get Photo to open. It gets to the 'Loading fonts...' message on the loading screen and then crashes. I tried clearing user data and hardware acceleration as suggested above, but no luck. I've also tried turning off any installed fonts. Anyone else getting this issue or have any other solutions? I can only imagine that this will happen to Designer and Publisher as well if I update. Running Windows 11 23H2 OS build 22631.3593 Thanks!
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To add to the discussion here. The Assets gallery functionality does not seem to be something that was intended to be used with adjustment layers. It does seem to work with single layers from some adjustments for example if I use a single curves layer I can drag it out onto my image and it works fine. For most of the other adjustments however it just makes the entire image go black or it does nothing at all. I've been editing a lot of renders in the ACES color space and I use the same two adjustment layers to convert the image back to sRGB in order to export a final PNG (Image attached). OCIO and or the LUT adjustment layers do not work with the Assets system. If I try to apply them from the Assets panel individually they make the image go black and if I try to add them to the Assets panel as a group they have no affect on the image once added. I get that this feature was added as a way to support interface designers by providing a repository for their most used UI elements, but it would be great if it could be extended to fully support adjustment layers as well. Finally, even if this was only intended as a system for pixel or vector layer elements, it's still confusing and seems more like a bug than intended functionality that you have to select 'Show As List' from the parent submenu in order to see any assets that have been added. Additionally the fact that you can't drag and drop layers onto this list is also confusing. Maybe I'm missing something and there's a system that's intended to be used to save adjustment layer sets, if so I'd love to learn where that is and or how to use it. Edit: I figured out how to add the adjustment layers individually as presets which helps, but it would be great to be able to save out stacks / groups of adjustment layers that could be added as an entire group. Best / Travis
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Update to OCIO v2.0
travisrogers replied to theartofsaul's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
+1 Here as well. Would love any update from the Affinity team on the planned or in progress support for v2. -
Hi, I just wanted to mention that I'm also experiencing this. My second display is also a 4K TV and I don't always have it turned on. It's listed as display 2 in my Windows system so it shouldn't take priority over display 1, however if the 2nd display is off when I launch AP or AD, neither apps will display. They show the interface thumbnails if I hover over the icon in the task bar, however. If I then turn on the 2nd display then the UI will show up on my main display. Turning off the 2nd display doesn't cause any change as the apps are open. Clearly this isn't a huge issue, but now in order to open either app I have to turn on my 2nd display. Best / Travis Update: I managed to get AD to reset to display 1. Just moving it to D1 and exiting didn't solve the issue. I had to create a new document (the document creation dialog opened on D2 which I moved back) save the doc and exit AD. This seemed to do the trick.
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I’d like to promote that the Align tool set be made available in the Selection tool’s contextual tool bar at the bottom of the screen when items are selected. Currently it’s buried several levels deep in the main tool bar and is cumbersome to access when performing multiple different alignments. This functionality is readily available in the top bar on desktop and should be promoted on iOS. Additionally it would be amazing if we could use keyboard shortcuts to quickly align to top, bottom, left and right. Thanks!
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I don’t believe this feature is working in the latest version of the app v1.8.6.1. Sliding the Background Grey Level to either side does not change the background in the app.. it’s always a light grey. It would be great to be able to darken the background, especially when working in low light conditions. Has anyone else experienced this or is it working as expected?
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Keyboard shortcuts
travisrogers replied to SZTR's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
I second the need for a keyboard shortcut to delete. Having to tap the trash can icon when I want to delete something is cumbersome and breaks my flow. It’s also a different behavior from the desktop app so as a Pro user who uses both I have to pause each time I want to delete some element in Designer on my iPad and will always hit the Delete key several times before I realize that I have to tap the icon. If you’re worried about people accidentally pressing delete as you would on desktop and.. deleting something, maybe you could add a switch in the preferences to enable this function for those of us who just want to get our work done -
Loading OCIO configs on iPad
travisrogers replied to alexfry's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
Ok, it's Sept. 2020 and unfortunately this still doesn't seem to be working 3 years later. Regardless of whether or not this worked in-house when originally implemented, it's a temporary workflow that should not rely on unknown iOS file app processes that can and do change without notice. I've tried to get a folder to covert to a package using the description in the help files several times from my MacBook Pro and there is no conversion happening, it's still a folder. I'd love to see a real solution to be able to edit OCIO / ACES files in AP on iOS. @Lee D Is there any new progress on this or are there new tricks to get this to convert? Has anyone been able to get this to work? Thanks / Travis -
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I'm not exactly sure how to recreate this issue and it may be an artifact of Affinity crashing while working on this document, but either way I'm not able to create a new artboard in this document that was started without initially adding an artboard via the document creation dialog. When clicking on the artboard tool the tool bar options are greyed out and if I attempt to draw out an artboard I get the following error message: "Artboards cannot be added to a document with multiple pages or master pages." As far as I know pages and or master pages are not capabilities available in Designer. Is there some mix up here with Publisher (which is not installed on my machine)? As mentioned, I haven't been able to recreate this issue as new documents seem to work as expected whether I create the artboard on document initialization or after. Attached is the error message, the tool states and the Designer document. no-artboards.afdesign
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iPad colour calibration
travisrogers replied to Jason Holt's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
@Dan C and @Blende21 thanks for the updates. I appreciate it! Looking forward to this feature in iOS. -
Attempting to print either via the keyboard shortcut or the File menu causes Designer to immediately crash repeatedly. I'm running v1.8.3.641 on Windows 10 x64 (Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362) and also just attempted to repair Designer via the most recent installer with no luck. Please let me know if you need any further information. Best / Travis
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iPad colour calibration
travisrogers replied to Jason Holt's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
Hi @Dan C, I'm currently looking to set up my photographic workflow on my iPad using Affinity Photo and was researching how I could color calibrate my iPad display. Is this functionality discussed in this thread implemented currently and if not, is it currently being planned for implementation? Thanks in advance! Travis -
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How to add ALPHA CHANNEL
travisrogers replied to hl24a3's topic in Tutorials (Staff and Customer Created Tutorials)
Hi, I'm currently trying to achieve the same thing here in April of 2020 and it seems it's still not yet possible, or I can't for the life of me figure it out. I want to make a 1024 x 1024 PNG image with an alpha area in a particular position. If I export the layer with the area I want to keep and I specify in the export dialog that I want to export the selected layer without the background it works as expected (I get a PNG that's transparent except for the area my selected layer occupied), however, the image is now cropped to the area of the selection and is no longer 1024. Ultimately I want to keep my image 1024 so that when I map it in the 3D app I'm using I don't have to guess at the correct scaling and positioning of the image as the 3D app is assuming it to be a square format. I've played with every combination I can think of in the Layers and Channels menus, but I can't seem to achieve what I'm looking for. In Photoshop I can create a 1024x1024 canvas add a layer with the graphic I want, position it how I want, delete the background layer and export with transparency which gives still gives me a 1024x1024 image. Is this possible in Affinity without the use of a third party app? Thanks in advance! -------------------------------------------- Edit: I think I figured out how to do this using the Export Persona. If you select the layer you want to be opaque and then create a slice for that layer, you can expand the slice to take up the entire canvas and when you export that slice it will retain the scale of the canvas and layers / layer position and alpha out the background. I'm happy to see that this is possible for my workflow as I would prefer to us AP vs PS. It would be great and so much easier however if there were an option in the regular export dialog Area pull-down to export 'Selection without background full canvas' or something to that effect.. Maybe it's a checkbox below the dialog 'Export full canvas size'. Please let me know if there's a more efficient way of doing this. Thx! -
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Adding to selection
travisrogers replied to matthias.linsbauer's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
I'm surprised that this is still an issue. I've been a graphic designer for over 20 years and I had to research how to add to a selection in AP. Then I had to get my head around how that would actually work (clicking left, clicking right, dragging).. and then it took me several tries to actually get it to work as the first 4 tries it would cancel my existing selection in favor of the new selection instead of adding. Seems that the order you release the left and right mouse buttons has to be specific. I'm all for innovating and I've switched to AP as I believe that Serif is a much better company than Adobe, but some of the choices for interface interaction still baffle me. @MEB is a fix, or a user select-able modifier for this functionality at all in the works? Best / Travis