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I never liked XP1/2, much preferred FP3/4, HPS, Tri X generally developed in ID11. I dumped all of my darkroom stuff except the enlarger which is a pre-war Focomat and a thing of beauty Anyway, back to the scan, as a confirmed Luddite I check the channels on scans and choose the one with best contrast, in this case the red Then create a greyscale layer and apply a curve adjustment

From Help "Preferences Preferences comprise a series of miscellaneous options that are applied across your application. They can be used to set up your own way of working. General options <snip> For automatic RAW lens correction, include lens profile updates for new cameras. Place the downloaded Lensfun XML file or Adobe Lens Correction Profile (LCP) in the opened folder."

I suggest you try both, lcp files can be used with Photo. Whenever I have compared them in the past the lensfun profiles came out better although it's subtle. Good luck

You can do this the proper way per Alfred's link or you can cheat and borrow a similar profile Try attached xml in the Lens Profiles Folder - see Help if you're unfamiliar with this. I see a reduction in barrel distortion, comments in xml show what I did Sigma35mmf1-4dgdnFaux.xml

I would suggest updating the graphics driver first as it's free. I don't have any Affinity results to share but using PhotoLab v7.2.0 to export 42 images 5134x3888 down to 600 high took 2h 1m 20s with the old driver, it now takes 0h 28m 25s Just created an image in V1 per your numbers 7086 x 10629, 32bit ROMM RGB and the performance is fine using paintbrush, clone stamp, smudge, erase brush 1000px diameter, this is a pretty mediocre spec pc as you can see below

Here's a pdf exported from Inkscape 1.3 (0e150ed6c4, 2023-07-21), seems to open ok in Publisher V1 Breadcrumbs2-ink.pdf

Resizing canvas is a pita in a macro. Transforms are hopeless, Duplicate and Equations are useful but although equations can increase an object's size it will be clipped by the canvas so that needs to be increased first. You can use John's advice to resize to a large number but here is another way. If you duplicate a pixel layer rotate 90° around its centre unclip canvas you will generate a square canvas Then use a fill layer rasterise rotate 45° unclip canvas you will generate a canvas increased by a bit less than x root2 so it's greater than your 20% (Do that step again and the canvas will be almost double the original etc.) The attached macro does this but I'm a bit foxed. The resized fill layer will have partial transparent pixels at the edges I tried a procedural texture of =ROUND(A/255)*255 for the Alpha but that failed I tried applying a curves layer to boost the alpha and that worked a couple of times but fails in the macro So, you can resize, for example, an 800x600 image to either 958 (x1.1975) or 962 (x1.2025) wide, I can't get it to be exactly x1.2 ResizeCanvas120pc.afmacro

This is my effort using Document/ Add Pages from File Windows V1.10.6 00Goldsetterintromasterclass-recovered.zip

After creating the preset it should appear in the Adjustment panel so it can be reused Have a look here re. suggestions https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feedback-suggestions/

The file doesn't open properly in Chrome either. I didn't understand shape-inside: url(#rect4); so I deleted it. That showed the text positions same as Chrome so delete the tspan styles as below. Do File/Clean Up Document, Save from Inkscape and it will now load properly into Chrome and Affinity CRShirtsTest-APout.svg

Load an image and make the level adjustment layer as required Select the adjustment layer and Copy With the Macro panel start recording Paste Stop recording Add macro to library Use New Batch Job to apply the macro to multiple selected images If you're new to macros and batch jobs then the built in help is pretty good

You can change the transparent areas to any colour by defining a matte

I did this in Publisher V1, hope it's useful

Photo V2 is supposed to open heif files so you could try renaming file.hif to file.heif Otherwise you can use ImageMagick eg magick file.hif file.tif which works for V1, good luck

@Xamora I've used the lensfun data but changed the crop factor to 1. The vignette no longer occcurs and the correction matches Photolab very well. Hope it's of use CanonEosR_EF-S_55-250f4-5.6IS-II.xml IMGL3385dxo.zip

Harsh but justified, I gave up after the msi/msix debacle As someone who spent a working life in heavy engineering where document revision control can be the difference between life and death I found this amusing https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/191874-220-prompt-still-appearing/ Now no one will die because of a few wobbly pixels but it reflects the company's attitude. Good luck to you

It's not too difficult to modify these files so that they can be opened/placed in Publisher or opened in a browser with copying enabled but this stuff is copyrighted and that should be respected, so no hints from me

If you copy mil-canon.xml into the lens profile folder then the lens will not be auto selected when you open a raw file The xml file I posted has been modified <model>Canon RF 16mm F2.8 STM 288</model><!-- needs 288 for Affinity Photo V1 --> so that V1 auto detects it, I cannot comment on V2 as I don't use it

RF lens data are in https://github.com/lensfun/lensfun/blob/master/data/db/mil-canon.xml

I posted one earlier, see this

Bug? What bug? Using V1 I just exported an oversize image to png and opened an .afphoto file (66.9MB 6000x4000px) while that was happening It took a couple of minutes to produce a 408MB png and open the new one. No crash, no problem Maybe it's a V2 mac issue

My go BestIcanDo.afphoto

The screenshot shows the V1 interface so I presume both versions are installed If you right click on the file in Explorer, choose 'Open With' you should be able to go through the options and reset it to V2

Some are, the list is here

Yep, same in V1 however all is not lost providing you have a sense of humour If I need a column width of 497px, change the units to mm, dig out Excel, calculate 42.07933333mm @300dpi and enter that Change the units back to pixels and confirm, don't touch the cell widths when units are pixels Hard to believe that this is, "By Design"