David in Яuislip
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Photo V1 I just used the Art text tool for the 59 Switched to the quick shape tool which happened to be a rectangle Deleted the fill, added a stroke The eps is fine and the original stays editable in terms of characters and font face fifty9.afphoto -
Yes, you can link a pdf file in the data merge spreadsheet with a Picture Frame Rectangle but the result will always show page 1 of a multi page pdf, there is no way to select a page from the linked pdf If you then create a pdf from the generated file, the Picture Frame will display selectable text In fairness to Serif, this is undocumented
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It's just a means to differentiate between Adjustment layers and Live filter layers, it doesn't rasterise as you've discovered I'm not sure that it's worth it and the wording is a bit odd but not as odd as the entry after Placing an image, "Set text stylesheet" which also shows in the History panel At least, "Redo from start" sort of made a bit of sense, "Set text stylesheet" is just twaddle
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Nice job carl123 especially restoring the top right of the picture
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Nice job firstdefence The wall shadow was too hard for me so I concentrated on what I found most distracting ie the skin highlights - blemish removal tool lady on the right, specs, her right eye retouched and copied/flipped over to her left - mainly small clone brush with alignment off the couch highlights were recovered by painting a close colour on a pixel layer above, blend mode darken, opacity 64%, blur jpeg attached in the zip so it doesn't get mangled FlashShadow.zip
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I used to have a D70, whether that could do B&W I don't know I still have a D300, whether that can do B&W I don't know as I've never read the book But this discussion is about cameras so I don't see the relevance of the comment about scanners
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First post However, when I opened them in Affinity 2, all the images appear in black and white. Second post However, in Affinity all the images are color. Can you clarify this? It's a colour sensor and the raw data is a dump from the sensor. It's likely that the raw file contains metadata indicating that a B&W filter was used and the only software that can use that is Nikon's. If you'd like to upload a raw file I'll try it in Photolab but I'll bet it comes out in colour. The only way to get a B&W raw is to use a camera like Leica M Monochrom
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You may like to look at https://calibre-ebook.com/ which is free and can produce ebooks in various formats from docx files. Presentation varies depending on file format, document can be edited using calibre but you'll need to know some html & css
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What I found with a quick check on an A4 doc with 25.4mm margins all round was the docx file is placed at ¼ size so with the Text box selected Lock aspect ratio Enter 210-50.8 into the W box and click <enter> There was some unwanted hyphenation across the image so I turned hyphenation off, this will be dependent on the wrap setting but my Image is wrapped Tight The Word margins around the image are not carried across so these need setting But even with this extra work it must be miles quicker than importing text then all the images individually
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That's correct. The fill layer will have the colour that was originally recorded, a subsequent Edit/Fill... command in the macro will show a colour dialog but the chosen colour sets the opacity of the fill depending on the greyness of the colour chosen using the colour patch. Hence my klungy workaround using a white pixel layer with Colour Overlay fx which I described above and provide the FoxFill macro to illustrate the point Edit: Well the charcoal is looking good so that'me finished for no
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No it's not. It's a computer program and it does the same thing every time as it adheres to strict rules which, errr, haven't been published I admire your 'at this point' optimism, Affinity macros are no match for PS Actions and they are not really macros ie the recorder doesn't store keystrokes, look at the farce with the clipboard where you can copy/paste an image and the macro ends up containing the image. Hours of fun but not really if you are trying to get a job done Anyway, good luck again, I have a barbecue to light
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I don't understand your term nesting. What I described was a means to salvage a hypothetical 65 step macro which had an error at step2 You can't edit macros, all you can do is disable steps with the checkboxes and append commands to the end by recording new steps So in that case, the defective macro is replaced by a new front end which then calls the old first macro with the first two steps disabled ie one defective macro becomes two. It's not elegant and I don't do it, I prefer to get all the steps correct and re-record it completely. However, this clunkiness can help if you're trying to perfect a long macro as you can keep trying different approaches at the end knowing that the first part is ok I believe it's possible to construct macros as sort of modules which you can then use in various SupremeCommanderMacros™©® where the modules can be called however and in what order you want but I don't do that either I've already pointed to the problem with selecting layers, the clipboard is next to useless, resizing stuff is a nightmare best avoided, there's no file saving other than what New Batch Job can do Good luck with your quest, you'll probably hit the same wall that many of us have, sometimes you'll get a lightbulb moment, sometimes it's best to give up
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LUT problem Affinity Photo
David in Яuislip replied to BernardB's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Could it be this, nested adjustment layers are not included when exporting LUT?
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David in Яuislip replied to Trev B's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Here are a few possibilities, it depends on what standard you require and how much time you have, it's always a tradeoff but a low Gaussian blur as NotMyFault notes is quick and pretty good I have attached a tiff as the forum software will mangle the jpeg StatueCrop.tiff
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Hmm, thomaso seems to have a winner, maybe I misunderstood the brief but here goes It's 800x600px with a 40px border <ctrl>A New Pattern Layer from Selection Click Mirror on the Context bar Transform panel: X=40, Y=40, Width = 720, Height = 520 Merge visible On merged layer use fx per the image Note I've copied the fx to the Pattern layer so that you can see the values but it has no effect there hence the need to work with a raster layer
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From V1 Help Leading Leading determines the distance from one text baseline (the line on which a line of text appears to sit) to the next. The main leading control is in the Paragraph panel, and on the context toolbar. Using this is recommended, because it can be applied to the entire paragraph and so keeps the paragraph consistent. Leading Override can be used when you have a handful of characters that need special handling, for example, because they use a different font with a size that looks visually different.
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No, it's not that bad Just turn off the first two steps and save to Library as Part2 Record a new macro step 1 Same as the old one step 2 The correct step 2 step 3 Call Part2 Have a look at this https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/182995-functionality-no-longer-in-photo-v2/#comment-1061879 and the url link, it might explain your problems with recording the selection of a particular layer. I have not investigated child layers, I lost the will to live The secret to retaining your sanity when using macros is being able to outthink the Serif programmers and realising when to give up
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I'm a bit short of time at the moment, hopefully this picture tells a story. Editing macros is not possible and the workarounds are woeful, it is what it is
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If you always want the same fill colour then do carl123's method To allow colour change then the best I've come up with is this which uses Colour Overlay fx on a white pixel layer When you run the macro and click on the colour panel to change it, the sliders don't work (I'm using RGB Hex) and you have to sort of stab at the colour bar or else type or paste in the hex value FoxFill.afmacro
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No, I asked for an svg as I only have V1 programs. There's a possibilty with Inkscape but I cannot work with your V2 afpub file
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PRESS eSCAPE AFTER , whoops, finishing a line then the next line will be on a new layer
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Not for me as I still use V1 plus I would guess that the OP will use an svg to communicate with the laser I thought so as well but I can't get it to work with Affinity, Inkscape or VectorStyler
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I used to do that but it's a pain in the bum as you can't see under the shape so what I now do is create a marquee then add a fill layer and use that shape to clip the original. It's still positionable and sizeable like a quick shape
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Can you please upload an svg file with the problem? I presume you need to remove the green line which may be above or below the red
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Quick and dirty Marquee around the reflection HSL layer, select yellow then use colour picker Pull down saturation and luminosity Deal with the greyish tinge by Sampling a relevant colour Add a pixel layer, blend mode set to colour Paint over the grey Attack what looks like ripples on the lake with a blur brush As noted by NathanC above, it would be preferable to provide a full res image even if it's just the same crop, I'd recommend a tiff though so that the forum software doesn't mangle it
