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@stokerg yes it looks as though everything is working as it should with apologies for misspelling your name. Thanks to @DM1 for spelling lesson and @walt.farrell for technical advice.

Hey stoker could you please let me know how to address you “@stoker”

The black thumbnails occurred when the camera software was version 1. After updating to version 2, there has been no problem. I just imported uncompressed files with no difficulty to Photos and imported into AP both ways.

I am using the iPad Pro third edition, an old one. The photo of the airplane was imported on May 24, however any images that I import now show thumbnails. There has been an update since then. The image of the duck and ducklings that are recent is a larger file and the thumbnails are visible. I am going to take some uncompressed full frame shots to see if their thumbnails are visible. Perhaps all of this has been resolved. You will notice that the Apple Photo shows all the thumbnails, however when I use the import form camera, the thumbnails are blacked out (video 1), but when I drag and drop they are visible. It was that process that I was curious about. Even though the thumbnails are not visible, a long press would reveal the image but it was kind of hit and miss and annoying. Initially I had no way to view my files. AP would import them easily but it was hit and miss to view the images just in a file. The library app I was using did not recognize images from my camera so I scrambled to find one that I would use. Hopefully at some point serif will be able to incorporate a library system. More investigation to come. Just an aside, the image of the trees and their reflection was a pano stitch (thumbnails were not visible) one on the raws files and it did it with perfection. It was 3 handheld shots. AP is awesome.. 😁

iPadOS 16.5 which is up to date. Using the latest version of Affinity Photo 2 beta 2.1.0(1799) and Affinity Photo 2 v 2.1.0 I just discovered something that should be of interest. In one set of photos I used full frame, In the 2nd set I used the crop sensor function. In Apple photos both set show up but when using import from camera the full frame thumbnails are still blacked out. I still think that this lies inside AP V2 _DSC2913.arw _DSC2569.arw

I have noticed this topic has been mentioned and found a topic that had degenerated into bashing Apple. I was not able to view thumbnails from my Sony Ar7M5 cameras but was able to import them into Affinity Photo. Today I noticed that the thumbnails are now visible in Photo. However what I noticed when in Affinity V.2 (latest version) as well as the beta version, there is an interesting quirk. When importing thru the ‘Open’ icon in Affinity Photo and ‘Import from Photos’, the image thumbnails are still blacked out. However when I drag and drop from Photos, the thumbnails are visible. I noticed with use of ‘Open’ icon, a long press on the blacked out thumbnail produces a fly out where the image is visible. I called Apple today but with the way that Photos is working today, this appears that it could be a bug in Affinity Photo RPReplay_Final1686158783.mov

Pretty rude don't you think. Have you tried viewing some of the new tutorials?

Thanks MEB

Thanks MEB, I am still using the first iPad Pro with 1T of memory and I do have a keyboard but often remove the iPad when I am using Photo. Much more convent when doing fine work. Was the removal of the gesture for deselect by design?

Not sure why I was not getting the overlays on my first try but now I am getting everything working as it should. I don’t think that I was using a tiff but if I happened to grab one by mistake would that cause a problem. Also, is there a gesture to ‘deselect’. I know that there is a deselect in the ‘square box’ in the left top.

After selecting an area then pressing refine the overlays don't appear. Don't have anyway to see what is being worked on. Very flawed at this moment.

Thanks Chris B. yes I have the latest beta and it is working as you have described.

Three finger tap used to generate a redo action. In the new beta, the redo now appears in the popup menu which is opened with the three finger tap. Neither seem to be working for me. Am I missing a trick or something? RPReplay_Final1634022343.mov

Yes !!!!!!! 😸😃👍

I am assuming that this is the issue that I have been telling you about. I don’t believe that it has been fixed, made a bit better. It is sort of a mixed bag now. Please see video below. RPReplay_Final1626807392.mov

Thank you for all your hard work to improve this awesome software. Slowing but surely. Don’t want to be a nag but do want to highlight an improvement that i noticed with the latest update with regard to the adjustments to levels, curves, procedural textures, or anything that use an adjustment menu. What I have noticed is that for examples Levels, by using the left-right arrows the operations work properly. However, the pop-up menu do not. IMG_1499.MOV

Was playing around with Procedural texture and found some very strange behaviour. Two ways to use the menu, as a pop-up, and with the left-right arrows. There seems to be some function to the latter, but the pop-up menu is very strange. Please see video. Hope you can reproduce this issue. IPad Pro 12.5”, latest iPadOS IMG_1492.MOV RPReplay_Final1625808964.mp4

I believe you can buy the app without the iPad. Just don't download it until you get it. I actually gifted AP to a friend. She received it then downloaded it to her new iPad. As long as you have an Apple account don't think it will be a problem. DM1 has a great suggestion. Thank you for all your videos, love them, I don't have a YouTube account so can't 'like' you.

Just one more thing. Capture One is coming to iPad. They are working on the beta as I type. No it doesn’t stitch Panos or do stacking but wow does it do a job on all things other. I want serif software to be extremely successful, especially on iPad but right now AP had forced me to do my work on on my desktop computers. Rarely am I using my iPad any more. I am 😪

Hi walt.farrell I guess that you are correct but these two adjustments are pretty important. If you watched tutorials these are pretty much go to adjustments, curves in particular. There are other adjustments that nobody really cares if they work or not but I would say this is not the case for these two. To have the intricacies of them not functioning correctly for such an extended period of time, first noticed early 2021, makes this software less then professional as it has gone thru several iterations of release and beta formats. Maybe nobody uses any more then adjusting the master curve but why then include all the professional technique? I am annoyed and I guess they are also annoyed. Sorry but please fix.

Gabe, this is not a duplicate. The issue was logged in the last release as not operating properly. Please log it as still not fixed in this new beta as a reminder for the developers to look at. The Levels and Curves adjustment that I have been following for a long time are still not fixed in this new beta. The scroll menu is still behaving irrationally, not displaying the correct properties for colour type and/or incomplete. If necessary I will make a video but I think that I have shown this issue well in other posts.

Sorry for the length of this video but I hope this may help you as well. All of the adjustment have their own mask. If you want to affect only a portion of your image you can invert the adjustment as shown in the video (make sure to activate it) then paint in with a white brush the area you want affected. Notice you can toggle the mask to see it. Hope this makes sense. IMG_1476.MOV

Hi BAGraphics, check out this video tutorial for iPad? https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/ipad/category/creative-tools/ It shows your how to use masking to get a good selection. Check it out and I hope it is what you are looking for.

Just wondering if there is a new beta version of Affinity Photo coming for iPad.

Thanks for responding Patrick, and to be honest I have been reporting this issue for four months. I don’t really remember when I thought that it was fixed, it quite possibly wasn’t. This issue is very erratic, in that the first colour space that is selected often works well, but then when switching to another, it retains the last colour space settings. This may be the reason that I thought it was fixed. But if you view my latest screen capture that I posted in the locked post in bug on iPad, you will see just how it is responding. I think that these, Levels and Curves are rather important adjustments but I have not known exactly whether anybody has noticed because of the inappropriate way that my posts have been treated. So that you know, I was the one that was hounding you about the issue with the View tool with respect to the fact that long-press was not bringing up the menu and therefore we were not able to deselect without changing to another tool. Please note that the same moderator also removed the post to duplicate: by design. This issue has now been fixed. I am hoping that this issue will be fixed soon. Thanks for responding.