Buell8abe

Hi Pete, here's a quick breakdown, hope it helps:
 
The Develop persona is non-destructive. All tonal operations are done in an unbounded colour space (so no tonal information is clipped). When you click Develop, you then process the image destructively.However, if you open the develop assistant (that little suit/tuxedo icon at the top), you can change from 16-bit to 32-bit output. This still "destructively" develops the image, but tonal ranges aren't clipped, so you can alter the exposure at any point without losing shadow or highlight information. Yes, adjustment layers are non-destructive unless you merge them down. Yes. live filter layers are non-destructive. Any filters applied from the top Filter menu are destructive. I would suggest duplicating any pixel layers you want to apply those filters to if you want a non-destructive way of using them. You can create "snapshots" of your work that are stored in the saved document. This allows you to jump between a series of edits and store your progress if you want. See this video on Snapshots for more information. Regarding the .afphoto document format:You have the option of saving a full undo history (File>Save History with Document). This allows you to re-open a document at any time and step back through all the operations you've performed. The format saves uncompressed raster information, so yes, it's definitely not a sidecar file  ;) . It's worth noting that Photo develops raw images to 16-bit by default, which can produce big file sizes with uncompressed image data. For example, a typical 16MP 16-bit image can be around 120MB in size. When you first develop a raw image, Photo also stores an initial snapshot so you have a clean copy of your image (again, see the video linked above for more information). This also increase file size. You can delete this before you save your document if you don't need it.  
Hope that helps,
James

Hehehe - no I'm sure it's me Gary! As in the 'please would you peel half of the potatoes' request joke (example attached). A perfectly logical response, the question was wrong! I will gather my logic cells together and give it another shot later. xx

Hehehe - no I'm sure it's me Gary! As in the 'please would you peel half of the potatoes' request joke (example attached). A perfectly logical response, the question was wrong! I will gather my logic cells together and give it another shot later. xx

It may be clear to many other people who read this; it’s probably just me not 'getting it' properly (definitely not the first mistake I’ve made today).
I hope someone else sees this and can help.

I’m still not entirely sure what you are trying to achieve.
It sounds like you want to place multiple images into the document and then:
1. Resize them all to the same size of one of the layers;
2. Align them all to be centred horizontally and vertically on top of each other;
3. Rotate them all somehow.
Assuming that is correct (and it’s probably not the full picture) then:
1. You can’t do this in Photo but it might be possible with Picture Frames in Publisher;
2. This should be possible using the existing functionality (if I have understood properly);
3. I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve via rotation.
Even if all of this could be done I’m not sure why you would want to do it as you would have multiple images on top of each other and only the top one would be visible.
Maybe someone else would be able to help better.

Here here. Resizing the whole file, with or without layers, by percentage is an essential production and housekeeping tool. Currently requires finding a 3rd party software to perform this task. If it could be built into the 'Resize Document' dialog box that would be a great addition! Tx. xx

Hi,
This is following this thread, open by believing this was a bug and not by design:
When recording an action in the Resize Document dialog, I would like any value entered as a percentage to be recorded as is.
At the moment, the result of the percentage scaling is recorded. That is, if you start recording with a document 100px wide, and you enter a 110% increase, the macro records a width of 110px, and not an increment of 110%.
This is useful for repeated increases of a document while resampling it.
Paolo
 

Please add the ability to the, "Resize Document" and "Resize Canvas" using a percent (eg: 50%, etc.).

An alternative to creating a rectangle, as in the above post, would be to make the initial selection and then enter Quick Mask Mode (button on Toolbar or key "Q"), and selecting the Move Tool.
You can then resize the selection and use the Transform Panel as shown above.
Important: When manipulating the selection via Quick Mask, the previous pixel-selected area is squeezed/stretched so the edges might get a bit ‘faded/blurred’ by that squeezing/stretching. Probably not ideal for what you want in this case but it’s worth keeping in mind and might be useful to others.

The cursor coordinates x, y respectively width & height get displayed in the Info Panel while dragging the selection rectangle.
Workaround: Create a Rectangle vector object. This allows you to switch the anchor point between the 4 corners in the Transform Panel and get the 4 coordinates displayed accordingly. To generate a pixel selection from this rectangle use cmd- /ctrl-click on its layer's thumbnail.

Hi @Buell8abe,
With your Pixel Selection active, the Transform Studio will show the X&Y coordinates of the selection and the H&W, meaning you can infer all 4 points of the selection from this information:

I hope this helps!

Excellent, thanks very much. Got it. xx

Oh okay thanks. The penultimate Beta release seems to have fixed the problem so I'm very happy about that. xx

Thanks Pauls. Also an update - I downloaded the latest Beta for AD (email received this afternoon) ... and the problem seems to have been worked on. The white flower font on the white background is no longer showing an outline. xx

Thanks so much, Buell8abe, for the tip about the beta version. It fixed the reordering of layers freeze that I got on with the main release. Cheers!

Hi Pete, Yes, very. However, I have just installed the latest Beta version and it solved the problem!  It does not quite fit itself onto my tablet screen - a couple of tools missing from the bottom of the column. But as there are keyboard shortcuts it's no big deal. The very big deal is that I can work again! Yaaay - as smooth as a baby's bottom. (I still have the original installation, but I will run the Beta now until the patches are formally released.) I downloaded the Beta s/w from the Beta forum: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/61-affinity-photo-beta-forums/   ...   Good Luck!! xx