Clau_S
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5 hours ago, LeeThorpe said:
Hi Clau_S,
Could you post your brush or send in a DM if you prefer. If you could provide your document resolution and performance details in preferences too that would be extremely helpful in trying to recreate your issue.
Lee
Hi LeeThorpe
I made some new tests after your message. I'd say that resolution is not relevant. I usually work on 2500 x 3500px documents. The document in my video was 1990 x 2480px but I reduced it to 650 x 850px (rasterizing all pixel layers immediately after) and the issue was still there.
You'll find my performance settings in the screenshot below, but I need to point out that I've tried with hardware acceleration both on and off. Also my CPU and RAM always run pretty low (CPU never exceeds 23% and RAM is fixed at 23-24%) despite the brush sluggishness (that increases up to the unbearable if all groups are expanded in Layers panel) and the fan spinning faster. The more layers are visible in Layers panel, the more the brush becomes sluggish and the easier it seems to occur to me, but this may be just an impression.
About the brush it was a simple 16px round brush with 99% hardness, 10% spacing and 100% size jitter based on pressure. The last setting may be involved in the issue. With a simple round brush from basic category I only had it occur once (in several attempts) and after many many many strokes, whereas forcing pressure (activating the button next to "More" in the tool bar) 'caused it multiple times.
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38 minutes ago, MikeTO said:
One long shot idea - try starting the app while holding down Ctrl. Then clear the most recent documents. Then open a document, go back to New Document > Recents and pin it, and see if it sticks then.
There's no such a command, however I managed to clear the list with the one inside the program and... nothing changed.
If I pin the document while it's open, I'll find it in the pinned section the next time, but opening again will remove the pin. Pinning a document every time I'm working on it cannot be the proper way for this feature to work.
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25 minutes ago, MikeTO said:
Hi, I can't see your screen recording (it's completely blank for me).
This new feature is referring to the Recent tab in the New Document dialog. You can hover over a thumbnail to pin it. I can't duplicate any problem with those pins. Is this the feature you are referring to?
I think there was a problem with my video or codecs. I could see it correctly on my pc but the bottom half was completely green on my iPad. I re-uploaded it.
Anyway, I know how to pin a document (and I do it in the video) or I couldn't tell "once the pinned document is opened" (i.e. the document has been pinned). What I was showing in fact is that after a pinned document is opened, it is removed from the Pinned section of Recent tab (i.e. it loses the pin), whereas it should stay there permanently. -
Even though Reveal is enabled, the portion of the image outside the canvas is not revealed when Crop tool is active.
- Affinity Photo 2.10 (and earlier) on 6th gen iPad
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38 minutes ago, Return said:
Perhaps trying the other options.
low precision or windows ink.
I seem to recall that windows ink should be set to off in the tablet(wacom) settings.As I already wrote, Windows Ink and Low Precision are not affected by the issue.
I've always set Wacom preferences according to the Input Method in AP, i.e. Windows Ink must be enabled in Wacom preferences only when it's the chosen input method in AP, otherwise pen pressure won't work.
Windows Ink disengages pen's side buttons, so I don't want to rely on it. I've set AP to Low Precision, but I don't know what's the real deal shifting from High to Low as the help guide is only generic about it.
Nonetheless I just wanted to report an issue.
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When painting quick strokes with my Wacom (Intuos 3) I experience some unwanted straight strokes (as if shift button was pressed in between) and after a few ones the pointer gets stuck on the brush circle and the full interface, except the canvas where I can keep painting, becomes unresponsive. Keyboard shortcuts seem to work. Some times pressing Alt button "revive" the app, otherwise I have to make AP windows inactive some way.
Conditions for this to occur seem to be:
- There are plenty of layers in the document (or at least the more the easier)
- Tablet Input Method is set to High Precision
The problem doesn't occur setting input method to Low Precision and Windows Ink.
Affinity Photo 2.10 (and previous versions) on Windows 10.
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According to Affinity Photo 2 Help
QuoteRecent—shows recently opened documents, which can be pinned to make them permanently available.
but once the pinned document has been opened, the pin gets removed, making pinning pretty useless.
Affinity Photo v 2.10 (but I've seen this behaviour before) on Windows 10
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37 minutes ago, stokerg said:
Hi @Clau_S,
I must be missing something, as i can replicate it yet. If you attach a screen recording, that will be a big help
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I've already seen other bug reports about the transform origin (so I think this is related and you already know), but none on Windows or reporting specifically this.
I've met this bug both on Photo and Publisher. Right after resizing an object (be it a vector shape, a pixel layer or a placed image), the transform origin starts to be affected by a fixed offset that makes impossible to put it where you need. I can't screen record my pc now, but it's really that easy to reproduce. To workaround it you need to unselect and reselect the object again. Then the origin point starts to behave properly until a new resize will make it go crazy again.Affinity 2.0.4 on a Windows 10 machine
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I can confirm and to me it happens as soon as I bring the slider back to zero. I've noticed that this happens with other filters too and that strangely sliders can have a negative value if you keep swiping down below zero. That makes many filters crash the app immediately as you reach zero or as soon as you go negative. I've opened another thread to report this.
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Another user reported a crash using Dust and Scratches filter that I can confirm, but I'm opening another thread because the report should not be related only to that specific filter. It seems to affect many of them.
I've experienced a consistent crash while using Unsharp Mask filter, both in live and normal mode. I've noticed it always happened when bringing the radius down to zero. I investigated further and noticed that sliders can strangely have a negative value applied with even stranger results (e.g. Threshold in Unsharp Mask can go negative making the layer transparent). I've tested other filters (not all of them). All sliders could go negative and eventually (which happens easily when you simply want to bring a value down to zero), many of them made the app crash immediately or very soon.
AP 2.0.3
IpadOs 16
6th generation iPad
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3 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:
I think you are seeing the issue reported today on Photo macOS, I have bumped the developer report
Sorry and thanks. I don't have a Mac, so I went straight here on the iPad section and found no reports.
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Not too much to add to the title. I select a layer and open Develop Persona. I enable white balance, but as soon as I touch a slider (either temperature or tint) the app crashes. I've tried both on a previously edited image (with some adjustments layers) and on a newly imported one. I'm on 2.0.3.321 (never used Develop Persona before, so I don't know if it ever worked) on iPadOS 16 on a 6th generation iPad.
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23 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
3 months later... (two and half years ago)
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36 minutes ago, hobbytobiz said:
Sounds like the 2 apps you use may not be a good candidate for me to consider.
I only talked about one, anyway, out of curiosity, could you tell me why?
I tried other DAMs in the past and Expression Media 2 (I bought it when it was owned by Microsoft) was the most convincing for me back then. It was also the DAM of choice of Peter Krogh's The DAM Book, that was a sort of Bible of DAM. I think that now he may be most geared towards Lightroom, but I passed to Affinity suite to get away from Adobe subscriptions.I stuck with Media Pro because of the integration with Capture One, that got lost when Phase One implemented cataloging functions directly into the raw converter.
Recently I just tried DigiKam discarding it almost immediately. Affinity files are the only reason I'd have to move to another manager, but in all those years other apps may have introduced features that I'm not taking into account and you could help me reconsider my needs. Thank you in advance.
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The lack of a DAM able to manage properly Affinity's file(s) (beyond the simple thumbnail preview) is frustrating.
I've been using Phase One Media Pro (formerly Microsoft Expression Media and iView Media Pro) for the last 12 years and I'm still pretty happy with it.
Media Pro could be configured to accept new file types but being limited to 4 digit extensions prevents Affinity's files to be imported. Having to rely on multi-layered Tiffs is the only workaround (only for pictures) at the moment, but at the expense of a huge waste of disk space.
Since Phase One discontinued Media Pro a few years ago, my most cherished dream would be that Serif buys it up improving it only where needed, replacing Quick Time functions with a solid integration with Affinity's features and a full support to their proprietary file types. Reviving a robust software with a good reputation could be a good solution for them too if, despite the statements, they haven't been able (or didn't have resources) to develop one from scratch in at least 5 years or more.
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15 hours ago, Old Bruce said:
Can you not have the 90 labels on one Publisher Page?
Place the Photo document in a Publisher document then merge the labels onto the photo document?
As an aside: I am thinking in terms of 31 Languages and or 31 Cities.
With Data Marge Layout Tool I can make them on a single page, but they would need more further edits 'cause I cannot take advantage of Master Pages flexibility to differentiate backgrounds. I also could place my old empty labels in a grid and use Data Merge Layout Tool to create only text layers, but then I should move any text layer in the corresponding label group. This process would almost take as much time as copy-pasting and I don't know if I could speed it up with a macro.
Almost there: 1 Language, 31 different maps.
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7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Are all the labels the same for each board? If so, perhaps Symbols (Designer, or Designer Persona of Publisher) would be a good approach.
Unfortunately, as I wrote in my opening post, they are 2790 different labels. The structure is pretty the same for every labels set, but the text is different. I made a template for labels last year and for every board I edited it adding the texts manually before importing, but copying/pasting 2790 texts would be a suicide. Looking for a solution, I found that Data Merge feature was added to Pub and it's a real bless to me. I just hoped to find a way just as effective to quickly import the labels in my document. At this point I will rely on one of the methods that I said earlier and eventually will ask for a new feature in the proper forum.
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4 minutes ago, R C-R said:
I don't understand. Are you saying that you want all 90 labels on each of the 90 pages of the document or something else?
Regardless, can you explain why you need to do whatever it is that you want to do in AP instead of in APub?
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I have to make 31 boards (they are 31 different versions of the same board game). Each board will be made in a dedicated afphoto document. All of these will be single page documents and I need to place the respective 90 labels (coming from a publisher file -this is the 90 pages document) on any document. So there will be 2790 labels for 31 boards in total. 90 labels for each board.
I work in AP because it's an artistic/graphic job and I need Photo tools. Also I know Photo pretty well compared to Publisher. Anyway, working in Publisher (with the integrated Photo persona) wouldn't change the situation since I should still find a way to have all the labels laid out in a single page avoiding as much as possible time consuming tasks or the need for further edits.
I already made the same job last year but working on a few boards, one board at a time and with a lot of time for each. So I did the labels manually (also data merge wasn't a feature in Publisher yet). This time I have many boards and I need to hurry up. So I was looking for the fastest way. If Publisher had the ability to export any page individually as an affinity file or there was a way to load pages as individual groups (or if there is a way in publisher to copy all layers, from all pages, at once) my job would be easier.
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Just now, walt.farrell said:
I'm not sure I understand what you're doing, but Photo can Open a .afpub file. True, you can only see one page at a time, but you can navigate from page to page using the page selector on the left edge of the Status Bar at the bottom of the workspace. Wouldn't that accomplish what you need?
Thanks for your reply, but I already knew that. I'll try to be more specific. I'll create the labels in Publisher with the help of data merge that will output a new 90 pages document (one page for any label). In my Photo document I need to place and distribute all the 90 labels, so all the 90 pages. As I said, If I import the afpub (basically all Affinity formats are the same if I recall correctly) into Photo, I should duplicate the embedded document 89 times and set each of the layers to show a different page to have all the 90 different labels on my board. That's pretty time consuming considering I should repeat it 2759 times to complete all my boards.
Another approach would be to use the Data Merge Layout Tool to create all the labels in a single page, but since their background will change too (I have 6 different colors) I should edit them nonetheless. Maybe faster but not as much as I'd like. With the other method I could set 6 master pages to differentiate the background.
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Hi everybody,
I've searched for a similar question but I haven't found it. It's even difficult to express the topic exactly in a title. I hope I did nothing wrong and that I'll make myself clear as this is not my language.
I'm painting some boards in Affinity Photo. I have to make 31 and I have to put 90 different labels on each for a total of 2790 different labels. Data merge feature in Publisher will help me populate the labels quickly. The problem is that I can't find a way to import them in Photo (and I'm not that much into Publisher yet). Actually I have found several ways but not the practical one I'm looking for, since Publisher cannot export pages separately in Affinity format, while importing an .afpub into Photo won't give you the chance to separate pages as you can do with PDFs. I came up with this:
- Dragging/placing the .afpub file in Photo document will show only one page. To have all the 90 labels displayed I should duplicate the layer 89 times and select the right page for each. Too long to repeat 2790 times.
- Copying/pasting every page in a new group in Photo would be at last as long as the previous method.
- Exporting every page in a raster format would prevent any further edit. It's not that I really need it, but if I'd need I should go back to Publisher and export/import again. Also I'd prefer to deal with text and shapes until the end.
- A more viable approach would be to export every single page in PSD format, but having to rely on an external file type instead of the proprietary one sounds cumbersome to me. Also there could be inconsistencies too.
Any ideas on how to import quickly all Publisher document's pages into Photo as individual embedded documents or groups?
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30 minutes ago, Chita said:
Sorry, solved - must make group and mask must not be cliped but over the masked layer......alchemy...:/
Ok. In my workaround I had taken into account a mask nested inside a layer and in that case I sepcified that the Levels Adjustment need to be nested above the mask to affect it (below it's masked too), but I wasn't sure you were talking about this. Check if this was the case. You could avoid to make groups, otherwise you already have the solution to your problem.
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7 minutes ago, Chita said:
Other problem - this is not possible for mask under specific layer (cliped mask) - mask affect all layers under....:/
Could you please send a file or post a screenshot to show what you mean?
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24 minutes ago, AlainP said:
Ah.... you're talking about the "Quick Mask" function that Adobe took over 30 years to come out with.... Well of Phtoshop is so good why wasting your time here...
And if you just need to be sarcastic, out of point and not constructive why wasting your time here?
I don't care how many years Adobe have taken to come out with it. Other programs have it and it's simply a useful tool (at least for me and all the others that are requesting it). If you don't need it or believe otherwise, move on. There's no need to mark territory. Your workflow won't change if Affinity will add something that other users need.
Also, if I'm wasting my time here, is because I think that Affinity Photo is a very good program (and it's almost one year that I've left PS for it), but needs some improvements nonetheless. There are basic features that are a standard (for a reason!) over editing apps and, as you could see by reading my very few posts, you will notice that all of them are to ask features that will improve Photo and/or try to share workarounds in the meanwhile. So I'm here because I'm a proactive and helpful user. Are you too?
High Precision Input Method oddities
in V2 Bugs found on Windows
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A little update just to report that yesterday I've experienced the unwanted straight strokes issue with Low Precision too, but the cursor didn't stuck.