GrahamHCB

For reference I just opened a 30.9MB shot in camera DNG from my Pentax K3 in 6 seconds in Photo 1.5.1. Late 2013 iMac i7 3.5 GHZ, 16GB Ram, 3TB Fusion Drive

Thanks Asha, I'll try it out.

Thanks for the suggestion Asha. I just had a look at both colour balance and selective colour adjustment layers but didn't get anywhere with them. Could you give me a rundown of the procedure you had in mind please?

Yes I tried the Clone tool first and managed to remove some of the flare but couldn't replicate the texture, hence the idea of using Frequency Separation.

Thanks Madame, That was a clever trick. :) I totally forgot to use the url function so thanks again for that. Any ideas how to get rid of lens flare in AP? Graham

Great so I can't post a link to YouTube here for some reason.

For some reason the link to the tutorial didn't show up. Here it is again:

Any ideas on how to remove the lens flare from the attached photo, which I've cropped drastically only to hide the person's identity? I tried this tutorial using Frequency Separation in PS, but can't make it work in AP. Thanks in advance Graham

I just tried this too with my Pentax K3. I attempted to send 25 tifs (all together about 3.50 GB) directly from "Edit in AP" in Lightroom and managed to totally crash my iMac for the first time ever :rolleyes: Of course I should have exported the photos from Lightroom first and simply opened them in the Stacking dialogue in AP, but I didn't think of that at the time. Anyway, eventually, the noise reduction was very good, although I'm not sure when I would want to use this purely for noise reduction, as Lightroom does a fairly good job on a single photo without having to create such a large file.

Hi jmac, I just tried out exactly what you wrote here, but even when I click on an item in the drop down list all I get is the spinning wheel. So whether I type in a word and click Search or choose from the drop down and then click makes no difference. It just doesn't do anything.

Thanks jmac I'll check out the ibook option. @MEB I'm not running any anti-virus or security software. @smadell yes as you say search doesn't work, clicking on a topic on the left works as expected.

I've used the MAS versions including now 1.4, and all the AD and AP Betas but the search function under Help< Affinity Photo/Designer Help< Search Help has never worked for me. I type in a word, click search and the wheel just spins and no results ever appear. I'm on a late 2013 27" iMac 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB, 16GB Ram running 10.9.5 if that helps at all. Anyone got any ideas what the problem might be? Graham

I had the same problem on my 2013 27" iMac running 10.9.5, all images opening black from LR 6.1. Your fix here solved the problem so thanks for that Matt.

Thanks MEB now I know how, that works great. Graham

I was watching this excellent video and when it came to 1'18" he said to hold the Shift+cmd keys and click on Background in the Layers Panel to make a Luminance Selection. https://vimeo.com/143990072 On my German keyboard this doesn't do anything and I couldn't find it in the Select drop down menu either, is there some other way of doing this? Graham

Thanks for these excellent new videos. I've learnt so much from them and look forward to using them soon. Graham

Thanks J Your solution works well and is certainly easier and quicker than the one shown in the video I linked to. Graham

I'd like to use the technique shown in this linked video to clean up line drawn scans and photocopies. The Channel Mixer in AD and AP is totally different to the PS one shown in the video, what is the best way to do this in AD or AP? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HR3IgftbDw Graham

Hi crabtrem, I really like this and thanks for showing how you did it. Did you create the watercolor splash in AP/AD? If so could you share your procedure with us? Graham

Hi MEB, The file is over the max. 20MB size, how do I upload it here? I just tried again to export it and could only get slices and not the whole document to export, here is a screenshot. I had this problem with another file today in both 1.3.5.5. and the MAS version am I doing something wrong? Graham

Great all clear now, thanks again Leigh.

Thanks for your help Leigh. Yes that makes it clearer for me. What's not clear is Moo's instruction to "Delete the artwork guideline group layer before saving", I haven't created a guideline group layer as I don't really know what it is. :( Any thoughts on that? I think AD and AP are really great programs I just need to learn them more. Thanks again. Graham

Just discovered these really good AD tutorials on envatotuts. https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/courses/affinity-designer-quick-start You have to register to see the whole hour's worth but it's free and I found them very informative. Graham

Really should it MBd? Then I don't know what the problem was with the first export. The only thing I changed in the second one was to export the photo from AP as a jpeg instead of an afphoto, and it worked out fine. Maybe it is a bug after all. Graham

Sorry not a bug just me missing the obvious. I embedded the photo as a .afphoto file instead of a .jpeg that's why the export was corrupted. Just exported it with an embedded .jpeg and it was fine. Export is very slow in this Beta though. Graham