Bob11746

Greetings, With the latest version released, I would have expected to see the tiling of windows made possible. I often work on multiple images at one time, and I often use Affinity to compare documents side by side (in a technical imaging capacity, not creative). This is so elementary. And, when I float everything, trying to tile docs myself, if you bring a window near an edge, it automatically snaps to full screen. I don't don't know if you can turn this off, but I couldn't find it. In the end I waste so much time just trying to get a pair of windows side by side, and at the same size. And that's for two windows, I don't even try for four. Annoying. PLEASE fix this, it is a badly needed feature. Also, in this latest version (1.9.1.979), with two windows side by side, you can't tell which window is active. Normally you click on a window and the frame color "saturates", indicating it is the active window. In Affinity, nothing. Am I missing something? Also, now in adjustments, I used to click on the bar to popup an adjustment, now I have to click on the "default" thumbnail below the bar. What is the rational of this change? Also, there is no way to examine a previous adjustment. There is nothing that allows you to pop up the old curves to see what you have invoked previously, or maybe I am missing something? In photoshop, I could stack one curve adjustment on top of the other. In Affinity, it seems I have to merge the curves into the image before I can implement another curve. It kills my history. I am new to Affinity, so maybe I am missing some of the basics, but certainly the windows tiling and stacking of adjustments is something that needs to be addressed. Thanks, Bob

Thank you for the input. I will copy my post to the forum that was suggested.

What does "+1" mean?

Ruzeen, I have tried this and maybe I am just not that bright, but I could not get it to work. Can you be more specific when you say create canvas and then create spare channel, on which canvas, the new one, or the old one? When you say create new canvas, then go to channels, then right click Pixel gray/red, am I creating an RGB canvas, and then why would it say gray/red? Nothing seems to work as you say. When are you creating this video? Thanks, Bob

I am having similar issues with the color channels. I am also doing an astrophotography application, and I find the manipulation of channels non-intuitive. I deselect the other colors, and edit only a single channel. I can paste something in, and it will paste across all channels. I even take a monochrome grayscale image, and copy that into a single channel but it appears across all channels. If I do curves, unless I select a particular color, the curves affect all channels, regardless of the edit lock. It should not be so complicated to copy something to a single channel, it should not be so complicated to lock a channel, it should be straight forward. Simply put, it doesn't work and needs to be fixed. With curves, I cannot apply another curve over a previous one without merging first. The old one pops up and resets. If I want history, and if I merge each curve input, I end up having a gazillion pixels layers, taking up unnecessary hard drive space. In another case, I started with a new canvas, and took out a paint brush. For some reason, it would not paint. I did a simple screen capture and pasted it in. The screen capture was smaller than the canvas. The paint brush would only paint over the pasted in screen shot. What gives? What am I doing wrong?? All this is non-intuitive. I thought this was a good alternative to Photoshop. If these simple things aren't fixed, I may have to go back to Photoshop. Bob

Greetings, With the latest version released, I would have expected to see the tiling of windows made possible. I often work on multiple images at one time, and I often use Affinity to compare documents side by side (in a technical imaging capacity, not creative). This is so elementary. And, when I float everything, trying to tile docs myself, if you bring a window near an edge, it automatically snaps to full screen. I don't don't know if you can turn this off, but I couldn't find it. In the end I waste so much time just trying to get a pair of windows side by side, and at the same size. And that's for two windows, I don't even try for four. Annoying. PLEASE fix this, it is a badly needed feature. Also, in this latest version, with two windows side by side, you can't tell which window is active. Normally you click on a window and the frame color "saturates", indicating it is the active window. In Affinity, nothing. Am I missing something? Also, now in adjustments, I used to click on the bar to popup an adjustment, now I have to click on the "default" thumbnail below the bar. What is the rational of this change? Also, there is no way to examine a previous adjustment. There is nothing that allows you to pop up the old curves to see what you have invoked previously, or maybe I am missing something? I am new to Affinity, so maybe I am missing some of the basics, but certainly the windows tiling is something that needs to be addressed. Thanks, Bob

Thank you! I am surprised the "live stack group" is not in between "group" and "ungroup" in the right click menu in the layers pallet. I combed that and the layer menu and was striking out. Yet, "new group" is in the layers menu, not the arrange menu (or vica versa). Also, the alternate method for live stack was not in the help section. Thanks again, Bob

Hi, I am new to Affinity, having been an ex-photoshop7 user. I am trying to stack some astro photos and I understand the concept when creating a new stack from file images. But in the case you have half a dozen layers, you can group them, but the "median" operator does not seem to be available unless you created the stack from the start ("File>New Stack"). Also, you can create a new stack, then you can ungroup it to adjust the alignment (two layers at a time, upper layer to difference, then repeat with other layers), but you cannot re-group and reproduce the previous stack layer with operators. I was lead to believe the grouping was similar to Photoshops' "smart object". Question: Simply, can I take several layers, group them, and turn them into a "stacked image" as if was created from "File>New Stack", and have access to those same layer operators (median)? Thanks, Bob