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I am seeking to replicate a procedure in APhoto that I have done for years in PS. Being 76 my tremors interfere with a nice signature, so I want to insert a digital file that is my signature. 1. Create a file that is blank but white background. Sign my signature in black hand written with my Wacom. Drop out the white and have just the signature. 2. Create a white "canvas" as I do in PS of say 11x14 that is white filled. 3. Import a photo that is 10 x 13 and center it initially but have the option to shift it's position within the 11x14 canvas. 4. Import the digital signature, place it where the text only comes over on top of the 10 x 13 photo, lower right corner. 5. Save the file flattened and read for print. I have spent part of my day trying to do it in APhoto but no luck. Hope someone had figured this out. Thanks, Jack

I currently have 1.9.3 release and checking it shows I have the latest release. Thanks for the update as I have not opened the program since I started this post. A link to securing the "beta" would be appreciated however as much as I dislike the "Library" logic in C1, it's RAW developer is excellent!

I am getting GREAT results from Capture One's latest release that is now free with the GFX100S! I hate the lack of intelligence in C1's "Library" so I use their software strictly as a RIP, and it is the best RIP I have found for Fuji GFX files. Just wish the balance of their product Library was far less over complicated for landscape photography.

Would be respectful to keep posts on this thread in the same language it was started in.

Looks like the "take away" is that AP will open in HDR mode but washed out - implies they need to link up with Fuji and improve their RAW routine OR I just open with C1 and then export to Affinity - prefer their tools actually at Affinity.

Changed a few of the variables in APhoto - got a file as below - opened it up as an HDR this time. AP image is washed out looking and not at all what the true RAW file is but at least it opened up this time. Here is AP screen shot first, then second is Capture One RAW open - on target with the LCD on the camera back.

Just shot this file in my living room - 16 bit uncompressed. Only program that opens it correctly is Capture One's lates release. Even PS- CC opens it as an 8 bit file only. DXO fails, etc. DSCF0143_16_bit_uncompressed,_GFX100S.RAF

LOL!! I must be really sloooowww thinking today! Thanks

I would be amazed if they posted a real RAW of 16 bits with no compression on their site. I took German back in High School but have forgotten it. :-) Have been to German as a adult many times but can't translate your settings from your post. Again, here is mine. I see no USA choice under Map Settings, interesting - did we fall off the edge of our "flat world" map?

These are my settings - but I always shoot uncompressed in the camera.

I had the GFX 100 and traded in for the 100S. The 100S will produce a 16 bit raw file and I believe APhoto is screwing up on the fact they are full 16 bits - that is how the image looks to me.

I had the GFX 100 and traded in for the 100S. The 100S will produce a 16 bit raw file and I believe APhoto is screwing up on the fact they are full 16 bits - that is how the image looks to me. Thanks for the links! I found Dev. Asst. and it is already set to RAW Engine: "Serif", so that is not the problem.

Weeks ago I stated a post asking is there was a way to import Fuji GFX 100S, 16 bit RAW files. No real solutions - but got this from Affinity - " March 31, 2021 Hi John, Can you please update to the new 1.9.2 version of Affinity Photo and if you are using Windows then your camera RAW files will be supported, if you are using a Mac you will need to open the Develop Assistant and change the RAW engine from Apple Core to Serif Labs to support the RAW files. Many thanks, Darren @ Affinity Support ---------------- I wrote back days ago asking: How and where is "Develop Assistant" found on a Mac as it relates to Affinity. Never heard back from Affinity - does anyone know how to solve this - I am running 1.9.2 on Mac Pro with Big Sur OS. Jack

I shoot 100% RAW only, no jpegs, so the issue that I know about is only RAW. A standard RAW from the 100S is generally 16 bits, that may be what AP is not reading as that is the impression from looking at what it gives me. A single 16 bit file in RAF is 209.9MB. Does AF have a drop box? I'll upload one. I am also getting some outstanding results from Pixel Shift but those files are huge, but outstanding IF no wind. About 1.47 to 2.44GB! I had the GFX50S previously and never had any problems but they are only 14 bits and no Pixel Shift. PShop Cloud opens them quickly and perfectly as RAW and also from Pixel Shift, ditto for Capture One and Aurora HDR, Luminar. DXO and RAW Digger chokes on all of them from the GFX100, but I expected that.. Jack Here is a screen grab of what AP gave me of the 16 bit RAW. Will try upload here of full RAW also next - looks like the 209.9MB did upload here and can be downloaded. DSCF0097.RAF

Last weekend I purchase the new Fuji GFX100S - love the camera BUT finding Photo does not perform a proper RAW open on it. Anyone else having this issue?

Sincerely appreciate suggestions. Yes, I use MacPro - will look at both. Thanks, Jack

Sent an email to Affinity - go my answer - Publisher is not designed to interface with the eBook opportunities those that want to follow the part of print then into eBook. Sorry to bother this forums members, Jack

It's call Affinity Publisher? Today, the publishing market embraces eBooks. As a publishing tool, I have seen nothing in Affinity marketing that implies not for use in producing an eBook. If I am incorrect, I hope a moderator will so advise. To my way of thinking, a users forum is all inclusive of the use of a given product in the with the "walls" of the software as well as the before and after pipes it can connect to.

I just finished my first book using Affinity Pub. and found it to be excellent. Have output it in PDF and now passed inspection at BookBaby for proofs - expect to see in 11 days. Given: Hardcover, 100 pages, 7" high x 9" wide pages, 50% of spreads are both pages poetry - some pages have 2 short poems on the. Balance is a spread where left side one or two poems, right page is always a photograph. Alternates both pages poetry then next spread poem/s and photo. Just finishing build the website myself in WPress for the book. Now JUST trying to get up to speed as quickly as possible on eBooks for mixed poetry and photography. Many questions, but I'll start with just a few: 1. As I want to keep as much of the book sales price as possible - what is the best way? Just have a link on my website to download directly? If so, how to I restrict the buyer from distributing to all of their friends "free" copies? I have filed copyright on the book with Feds. 2. Is Kindle Create actually the best way to distribute due to the market presence, forget trying to squeeze every penny out of sales as they will accelerate sales? Has anyone taken a poetry & photography book into Kindle Create? (FYI: BookBaby took the Affinity Pub. PDF file with no problem.) 3. There are 6 of the poems that have been translated into Chinese by a close friend of mine and in the print book. Thus my book is mixed languages. Will this create serious problems on trying to do an eBook? 4. What are other eBook distribution paths for such a book as mine? Any help is of course greatly appreciated. Jack

Greetings Walt, I work on a Mac Pro, I've played with it and found no correlation. Both PS and also DXO show it as 300 dpi but Publisher insists it's 299. As I just finished my poetry and photography book, after 9 weeks of working on my first and I expect my last book I decided to just change the Minimum DPI to 298 and it worked. As all of the image are copyrighted already, I'd rather not share a Tiff file of them, but appreciate your interest. Jack

Thank you GarryP!! Exactly what I was trying to locate again! Jack

With my initial setup just 2 months ago of Publisher, I stumbled across a dialog box to set the minimum and maximum DPI for image files/photographs to be imported and used in Publisher. Out of about 35 images in my book, I am getting a PreFlight Error message that 5 of the images are 299 dpi, not 300. Photoshop does not agree, all of the images in PS show being 300 dpi! I want to go back to the initial dialog box and change the minimum value to say 295 to get rid of the error message BUT I have not been able to find that dialog again! Need help as to where it is hidden and how to get to it. Thanks, Jack

Thanks for your message - I finally figured it out - the tutorial left out a couple of key steps that were necessary to understand the logic and work flow, like what is a "Rule" would have helped, LOL! Really.

Doing the final work of finishing my poetry and photography book - first book I have ever done. I thought I was basically done BUT I learned this morning that you can set up "Column Rules" for Text. So, I watched the tutorial and found it helpful to a degree. I did set up a Column Rule: Columns Columns: 2 Preserve Width: checked Width 3.62 and 3.62 Gutter: 0.25 Column Rules Stroke: 2 pt Gap: Top .28 Bottom: .75 Now, following the tutorial I rebuilt the first page in the book that I had previously done by "linking" two columns. I cleared the page then build my first "Text Column" using the above rules. Inserted the text and I had a nice vertical rule between the two columns. Great, went to the next dozen or so pages to rework them and I found that when I did as before, cleared a page of all text and columns, that when I clicked on "Text Frame" on the left vertical tools bar IT CARRIED OVER ALL of the perimeters I had set for my first page!! Loved it! However, all of a sudden when I want to about page 13 or so, it no longer is "remembering" the Column Rule perimeters under the "Text Frame" settings and applying them. I am just getting a single column with NONE of my rules applied. What changed and how do I get back to what was working - apply the first set of column rules that I built that had been applied to the original page and the subsequent 11 pages???? Last, after doing the first dozen pages with the "Column Rules" I decided I would like to change the "Bottom" setting from .75 to .25 FOR ALL OF THE PAGES. Is there an easy way to do that, such as "Apply to all Columns" tab? Thanks in advance - Jack

Sorry, I didn't mention. I am located in North Carolina, USA. My buddy says it will sell and wants me to print 1,000 books - No way, I'll test the waters with 100. I do have close friends in China that have had works published and printed there BUT no way to make this holiday season done in China. Will consider in the future but prefer to keep everything here in the states.